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Seeing the seven village heads' faces turning red with excitement, Li Mengyue directly told them where the grain was stored.

"Village heads, the grain is there. In addition to the 110,000 kilograms purchased by the seven villages, I have 90,000 kilograms, a total of 200,000 kilograms of grain. Please find a way to get the grain back. Just remember not to attract other people's attention."

"Miss Li, you can rest assured. We all know that wealth should not be shown to others. Moreover, everyone is short of food now, so we must store the grain safely." said Village Chief Wang.

Then Village Chief Zhou made another promise to Li Mengyue.

"Miss Li, we will bring the food back tonight."

"Ah."

Li Mengyue believes that the seven village heads will be extremely cautious when it comes to matters related to food.

What she is worried about now is the extreme cold Little Ice Age, which is a natural disaster involving the entire northern Zhou Dynasty. Qingshan Prefecture happens to be at the junction of the south and the north.

In previous years, winters were not that cold, but many people still froze to death. We don’t know how cold it will be this year, so we must be prepared in advance.

The key point is that even though she knows in her heart that disaster is approaching them day by day, she cannot say it openly. She can only guide everyone and let them know that this winter will be colder and prepare winter supplies in advance.

"Village leaders, building a reservoir inevitably requires felling trees. Keep the trees that can be used, and take the branches and twigs down the mountain and store them for use in the winter."

"Girl Yue, you don't have to worry about this. Everyone knows that firewood is used for cooking every day, so it won't be wasted."

Seeing that Village Chief Li only mentioned lighting a fire and cooking, Li Mengyue had to mention it again.

"Grandpa Village Chief, I think this winter will be colder than previous years. If you want to survive the winter safely, you need to prepare a lot of firewood, otherwise it may be difficult to survive."

"Miss Li, what do you mean by saying this? Will this winter be even colder?" asked Zheng, the village chief of Meihua Village.

"It's not getting colder, it's getting very cold. Anyway, every household should try their best to prepare firewood from now on. The more the better."

Some village heads believed what Li Mengyue said, but some others thought she was exaggerating.

But even though he thought that what Li Mengyue said about the unusually cold winter was unlikely, he still wanted to go back and ask the villagers to store more firewood.

Anyway, every household needs to burn firewood on weekdays, so any amount of firewood is never too much.

In previous years, everyone would have gone out to find work and not been at home, so there would have been no time to get firewood.

But this year is different. With Li Mengyue's proposal to build a reservoir, villagers from seven villages have now taken action. They can earn ten cents a day working, and now they can earn two more cents when they go home to eat, making a total of twelve cents a day.

Of course, not all villagers can earn this money. Only strong laborers can do so. Children and the elderly are not included. They can collect firewood.

[Host, you asked the villagers to store firewood, so why not make honeycomb briquettes? ]

[Of course not. Honeycomb briquettes will continue to be made, but the finished honeycomb briquettes need to be sold. And the entire northern part of the Great Zhou is not small. The amount of honeycomb briquettes needed is estimated to be an astronomical figure. No matter how much we make, it will not be enough to sell.]

[Then what are you going to do, host? Aren't you going to ask the villagers to do the work? ]

After hearing this, Li Mengyue fell into deep thought. It was not that she didn't want the villagers to do it, but the construction of the reservoir was also very important.

No, there is also the market. These are urgent and important matters at the moment, and none of them can be delayed.

But her energy was limited, and it was impossible for her to do everything herself. She could only hand things over to the seven village heads and let them carry out the implementation.

Another key point is that all these things will incur expenses. The seven villages are extremely poor and cannot be relied upon. All the money used will come from her.

Although she is working hard to make money, she still has to earn money one penny at a time and there is no rush.

"Girl Yue, you don't have to worry about the food. We old guys will take care of it. We will also deliver your 90,000 kilograms of food. I will also notify the children and the elderly to collect firewood when they have nothing to do."

"Okay, Grandpa Village Chief, I feel relieved to leave it to you."

"Then Yue girl, do you have anything else to do? If not, we will get busy."

"Hey, wait, Grandpa Village Chief, can our village spare 50 strong laborers?"

After Li Mengyue finished speaking, Village Chief Li looked embarrassed. He didn't know what Li Mengyue was going to do, but he really couldn't spare anyone.

Not to mention building a reservoir, even digging a river is not a small project and requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

Now seven villages are acting together, and the daily progress is not very much.

If they work slowly like this, they are confident that they can complete the project in the spring of next year, but the deadline given by Li Mengyue is before winter.

But now it is only two months away from winter, and the construction period of four or five months has been shortened by more than half. This makes every village chief feel a sense of urgency, and they wish they could ask people to work at night.

But they knew that this idea was not feasible. Not to mention that felling trees, moving stones, and digging canals were all physical work, even the villagers who participated in the construction of the public canteen and the market had heavy tasks assigned to them every day.

If you work hard all day and cannot get a good rest at night, even a strong man will be exhausted. In this way, the construction of the reservoir will never be completed, let alone four or five months.

Since everyone is exhausted and no one is working, how can the reservoir be repaired?

Besides, the reason why they agreed to build the reservoir and do something that people have wanted to do but dared not do for thousands of years is to make future life better and to prevent future generations from being affected by drought and drought.

If the reservoir is not built, everyone will be exhausted and there will be no point in taking a break.

Another point is that all those who participated in the construction of the reservoir received ten cents of wages every day.

They knew that the reservoir would be built for the use of all the villagers in the seven villages and was closely related to them, so they were embarrassed to ask for wages.

But even if they know the answer, they still have to take the wages. After all, they need money to have a better life, and now there is an opportunity to make money right at their doorstep, so they will cherish it.

Under this contradictory dilemma, everyone worked very hard, not only the strong laborers in the village, but also some young women who spared no effort.

But the consequence of this was that everyone was extremely tired. Even after a night's rest, they could only barely recover. How could they spare fifty people?