Just one pregnancy and four babies, but the prince actually pledged his love to her

Although the money for building the reservoir and digging the canal was borrowed from Li Mengyue, it would be returned to Li Mengyue when money was earned from the market in the future.

But when it comes to buying food, he believes that as long as the seven village heads ask Li Mengyue for help, Li Mengyue will definitely buy them on credit and give them food first.

But Li Mengyue was willing, and they couldn't be ignorant. The money needed to build the reservoir was too much. Even if they took out all the money in the village, it would only be a drop in the bucket and would not solve much of the problem.

On the contrary, it would make the lives of the villagers in the seven villages more difficult. After weighing the pros and cons, they decided to use the money to buy food.

But the situation in each village is different, and the amount of grain they can buy is naturally different. Xinghua Village, Lianhua Village, and Guihua Village all asked for 20,000 kilograms, while his Taohua Village asked for a little less, 15,000 kilograms.

The food was nominally intended for forming patrols and serving as compensation for patrol members, but they all understood.

Each village selects fifty people to join the patrol team, and each person is given 20 kilograms of food per month, which means 1,000 kilograms of food per month.

The purpose of forming a patrol team is to prevent refugees from coming to the village to rob. Once the refugees are resettled by the government, the patrol team will naturally disband and no longer need to be given food.

Although more and more refugees are coming to Wuning County now, they have also heard that the government has taken action and has opened the granaries to release grain. The refugees can get free porridge every day and can survive for the time being.

In this way, the refugees will not come to the village to steal food because they are too hungry.

And according to the current situation, I believe it won’t take too long for the government to resettle the refugees.

To take a step back, even if it takes half a year, so what? The village only needs to give the patrol team 6,000 kilograms of food, and the village office will still have a lot of food left.

And these grains are life-saving food in times of crisis, and they value these grains more than their lives.

Ever since Li Mengyue said she would sell the grain to the villagers at a low price, they took this matter to heart and wondered every day whether Li Mengyue had prepared the grain.

Until two days ago, Li Mengyue said that the grain was stored in the town and asked them to take time to bring it back. The village was immediately in an uproar.

No one had the heart to work anymore and just wanted to go to the town to get food, but they were stopped by the village chief.

On the one hand, the construction of the reservoir cannot be stopped, and on the other hand, many villagers go to the town to collect grain, which will definitely attract other people's attention.

Nowadays, families that have food will find ways to store it. Why would they show off like this? Isn't this bringing disaster to the village?

So the seven villages decided to transport the grain at night, but as soon as the grain was transported back, someone started to covet it and came to the villages to force a sale.

Not to mention that Taohua Village was unwilling, even other villages were the same. No one would be willing to sell their grain, even if they were offered silver.

What's more, with these grains in the village, the villagers feel much more at ease and are no longer so worried.

Everyone thinks that as long as they work hard to make money, they don’t have to worry about not being able to buy food.

Because their Li Mengyue can get food, they just need to buy it with silver.

Where can I make money? Of course, I work hard to build a reservoir. Ten cents a day, and a meal is provided. Where can I find such a good job? If I don’t cherish it, I will be struck by lightning.

But when they were working so hard, they attracted people with bad intentions and took away their food. How could they tolerate this?

But they are just ordinary people, how dare they go against the King of Chen? Since the food is for the King of Chen, even if they are unwilling, they cannot say no.

Otherwise, this incident might bring a devastating disaster to the village.

They just wanted to live a better life and not go hungry, but they never thought that their village would be destroyed.

This was not the result they wanted, so when Master Liu said the word "King Chen", he knew that the food could not be saved.

But even so, he still didn't give up and wanted to try one more time.

In fact, when Wang Erniu went to Taohua Village and informed the villagers that people from Zhulin Village were coming to steal food, he knew the situation was serious.

Before asking the villagers to gather in Xinghua Village, he asked his son to harness a bullock cart and rush to the county to report to the authorities.

He didn't dare to guarantee whether County Magistrate Yang would send someone over, nor did he dare to imagine what they would do if County Magistrate Yang also asked them to pay grain.

Anyway, it's just a gamble, betting that County Magistrate Yang is a good official who will consider the people.

However, he did not give up everything. He thought that since County Magistrate Yang was able to open the granaries to release grain and provide relief to the refugees, it showed that County Magistrate Yang still cared about the people.

Who are the refugees? They are people from Guangping Prefecture and Yongkang Prefecture, not from Qingshan Prefecture or Wuning County. If County Magistrate Yang can provide relief, then he will care even more about these local people and will not just sit there and watch others steal their food.

Even if the person who came was from Prince Chen's side, County Magistrate Yang did not dare to confront him, so they just accepted it and considered themselves unlucky.

But if County Magistrate Yang is willing to take care of them, wouldn't that be better if they can keep their food?

With this idea in mind, he asked his son to report the case to the authorities, and now it seems that his bet was right.

"What's going on? Who came to Xinghua Village to force us to buy food? Do they think nothing of our county?"

The moment County Magistrate Yang arrived, Liu Quan put his head on the ground and dared not look up.

Zhu Lei was different. When he saw the police coming, he suddenly became enlightened and shouted, "Sir, please help me. The people from Xinghua Village killed my grandson Si Jin. We cannot let them off easily."

"Sir, look, my grandson died so tragically. My grandson and I depended on each other for survival. Now that he is gone, what is the point of me living?"

"Oh... Sir, you are the father and mother of the government, you must avenge my grandson and catch the murderer!"

"Wu... Sijin, my grandson, you died so tragically. How could you bear to leave your grandfather and go away alone? What should I do if you are gone?"

"Si Jin, Si Jin, my grandson, please don't leave your grandfather alone. Come back, come back soon."

"Woo..."

"Woo..."

"Woo..."

Zhu Lei hugged Zhu Sijin and cried, then he let go and crawled towards Yang Zhijin on his knees, crying silently as he crawled.

Zhu Lei looked so tearful and snotty that not only Yang Zhijin and the yamen runners were stunned, but even the villagers were dumbfounded.

They couldn't understand, they really couldn't understand, how someone who was still thinking about gaining benefits from his grandson's death the moment before could become like this in front of County Magistrate Yang.

The villagers looked at Zhu Lei with confusion, while Yang Zhijin looked at Zhu Lei, a grown man who had been crying while hugging a young man covered in blood with his eyes closed, and now had his hands around his legs.