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The construction of the reservoir mobilized people from seven villages. Anyone who participated in the construction of the reservoir would receive ten cents a day in wages and a meal.

It was just the first day, and there were constant problems, big and small, and Li Mengyue was busy all over.

Just after solving the problems of unclear division of labor and low efficiency, the village chief's wife came to her to talk about the problem of eating.

Even though she had asked people to make preparations beforehand, problems still arose during the actual implementation process.

She thought that providing food for thousands or tens of thousands of people would not be possible with only ten women in the village cooking, so she discussed with the seven village heads and decided to build a large public canteen in Xinghua Village.

Cooking also requires the women to divide the work and cooperate with each other, and the same is true for the villagers to eat.

However, it will take another two days for the public canteen to be completed and put into use. Before that, we have to make some accommodations.

But it is not easy for women to prepare meals for thousands of people at once.

Looking at her mother, Grandma Li, Beibei's mother, Goudan's mother and other aunts and uncles, they were all tired and sweating, and more than half of them still had no food to eat.

"Li Nian, notify the seven village heads to hold a meeting."

"Ok."

After the seven village heads agreed to build the reservoir, they all thought that there would be a lot of things to do, and they couldn't let Li Mengyue, a girl, run back and forth to find them.

Since they were not together and had something to discuss, they asked two smart young men to follow them, and they chose Li Nian and Wang Erniu.

In this way, whenever Li Mengyue has any problems, they can be notified and they can come over quickly.

In less than a quarter of an hour, all seven village chiefs gathered in the public canteen.

Some people are still building public canteens here, but although there are not many tables, chairs, benches, etc., there are still some.

After the seven village heads sat down, Li Mengyue didn't say anything more and went straight to the point about the problems that arose during the meal.

"Village leaders, you can see that it's been an hour since lunchtime, and many people still haven't had their meals. But everyone does physical labor, and skipping meals is not only bad for the body, but also means you don't have the energy to work."

"Yue girl, we know what you said and we are trying to find a solution, but we really can't think of any good solution."

"Yes, Miss Li, I wonder what you want to do?"

"It's very simple. Before the public canteen is built and officially put into operation, we will not provide meals for the time being. We will give each person an extra two cents for meals and let them go home to eat."

"Row."

"I think I can."

Six out of the seven village heads agreed with Li Mengyue's suggestion, but only Village Head Wang hesitated to speak.

"Village Chief Wang, if you have anything to say, just tell me."

Village Chief Wang said with a distressed look on his face: "Miss Li, it's not that I don't want to give out money, but at the end of the day, a lot of money will go out. If you add two cents for food, wouldn't that be another expense."

After Village Chief Wang said this, the other six village chiefs nodded in agreement.

Now all the money used by the seven villages to build reservoirs was borrowed from Li Mengyue. Even if Li Mengyue bears 20% of all the final expenses, the remaining 80% is still not a small amount.

But a few months ago, the seven villages were extremely poor. They only had a little money in recent months, and all the money added up was not enough to pay two days' wages, let alone support the construction of a large reservoir.

Although Li Mengyue had analyzed with them that as long as the market was built and then scaled up, the seven villages would have a lot of income from collecting stall fees, and they would not have to worry about having no money.

But they didn't believe it too much, or they had never seen any big bazaar that could pay off the debt of building a reservoir just by collecting stall fees.

But deep down in their hearts, they felt that Li Mengyue would not lie to them. And another very important point was that each of them wanted to change their fate of relying on luck for their livelihood.

Once the reservoir is really built, it will be just as Li Mengyue said, and their seven villages will no longer have to worry about droughts or floods.

If there is a drought, the gates can be opened to release water so that the fields can be irrigated. If there is a flood disaster, the river channel can also play a diversion role to prevent all the water from accumulating in one place and flooding the fields, and even the village cannot escape the fate of being flooded.

After discussing the public canteen, the seven village heads left immediately.

They have to leave, because each of them is responsible for coordinating the affairs of the entire village, which is not an easy task.

Especially Village Chief Wang, who is in charge of the money, dare not take it lightly, so he puts all his attention on accounting work.

But he knew that he couldn’t abandon other things in the village, so he handed it over to his eldest son.

Anyway, if nothing unexpected happens, his eldest son will take over from him. Asking him to be in charge now is just to give him some experience in advance and accumulate more prestige in the village so that he can take over more smoothly in the future.

Of course, Village Chief Wang doesn't just ignore everything. He makes the decisions on major issues, and his eldest son leads the people to carry out the tasks.

After dinner, the villagers rested for an hour. Without the need for the village chief to ring the gong to remind them, everyone consciously took their tools and went to work.

Because they know what the construction of the reservoir will be useful for.

You should know that after the decision to build the reservoir was finalized, the seven village chiefs each gathered the people in the village and talked about the importance of building the reservoir and what changes it would bring to everyone's lives.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. After all, several generations ago, people were able to live without building reservoirs, and they did not think it was necessary to build reservoirs.

When the village chief proposed that anyone who participated in the construction of the reservoir would receive ten cents a day in wages, this caused an uproar among the villagers.

When the village chief first said that, many villagers couldn't believe it. That was ten cents a day!

What does that mean? This year's autumn harvest has passed, there is nothing to do in the fields, and spring ploughing will have to wait until next spring.

It can be said that from now until the spring plowing season next year, there is nothing to do and the meals we eat every day are just wasted.

Many families will save on food so that the food stored at home can last until the autumn harvest next year.

As long as there is work to do in the fields and it requires physical effort, we will eat two meals a day.

Nowadays, we only have one meal a day, and it has to be eaten with wild vegetables. The more we can save, the better.

Many people are also looking forward to the arrival of spring, because spring is the season when all things come back to life, and many wild vegetables will grow in the fields and at the foot of the mountains.

At this time, every household would pick wild vegetables and barely get enough to eat. Unlike the winter when it is already very cold, people have to eat less to save food and just endure the hardship.

In fact, in order to earn more money, the strong laborers in the village would go to the town or county to find odd jobs in previous years. Ten copper coins a day would make them grateful.