The female doctor farmed the land, bought a husband and set up a separate household

Early the next morning, Grandpa Zhang drove his ox cart and brought some tools for making bricks to Liuyun Village.

A piece of flat land halfway up the mountain was where Jiang Sining planned to build a brick kiln for him.

Uncle Zhang has been making bricks for decades, and he could tell at a glance that the soil here is very suitable for making bricks and tiles.

"Miss Jiang," said Grandpa Zhang after looking at the place, "It's a good place. I'll go back and find someone to dig a brick kiln."

"You don't have to look for them. We have plenty of people in our village. All you have to do is tell them what to do."

"That's okay too."

Jiang Sining went there in person and visited the homes of Aunt Li and Aunt Zhang.

When they heard that her family had work to do and needed to hire someone, these families were very happy to do it.

After all, working for Jiang Sining's family not only means eating well every day, but also earning more than working outside. If I work for another half a month before the autumn harvest, I might be able to earn enough for the family expenses before the New Year.

"Ning girl," Aunt Li asked, "Do you only want men for the work you do? Can women do it?"

"No need, Aunt Li, I have something else for you to do."

"What else?"

"I plan to raise a few cows." Jiang Sining said, "But as you know, the grass on my mountain has been burned to death, so I need to ask someone to help cut grass to feed the cows."

"That's easy. We have plenty of grass in the mountains. We can cut as much as you want every day."

"It's not grass," Jiang Sining said, "I need silage."

"what is that?"

Jiang Sining pointed to the rice fields at the foot of the mountain that were about to mature and said, "That's the rice."

Aunt Li and the others didn't know how to respond.

That's food!

What’s more, the crops are not yet ripe, but they are cut and used to feed the cows?

"Ning girl, you're not wrong, are you?"

"You are right, auntie," Jiang Sining said, "I am going to buy some calves. If they are fed with ordinary grass, they will grow too slowly, so I have to feed them something good."

If someone else suggested feeding unripe rice to cows, they would probably be met with a thousand cold stares.

But now everyone knows that Jiang Sining has her own ideas. She will definitely not act recklessly or cheat others.

Aunt Li and the others thought about it and said, "How many of those do you want?"

"I want all the rice from your five fields." Jiang Sining said, "As for the price, I want to exchange rice with you directly, which is 30% more than the normal harvest. I can also give you food first and then harvest. I wonder if the aunts and uncles think it's appropriate?"

The fertile land in this world can only produce about 500 kilograms of dry rice per acre at most. If you add 30%, it will be 650 kilograms.

The five aunts have about 100 acres of land, which has only more than 60,000 kilograms of grain, which is a drop in the bucket for Jiang Sining now.

But for several aunts, it was enough to save their families.

The heavy rain will come in ten days at most. All the immature rice in the fields will be knocked down by the heavy rain and strong wind. The grains will fall to the ground and will sprout or rot after being soaked in water for a few days. It will be a great fortune to harvest 100 kilograms of good rice from one acre of land.

Not only do they have to keep the harvest for themselves, but they also have to pay land tax. According to the current county magistrate's style, he is very likely to ignore the lives of the people in order to complete the task of collecting grain.

The harvests of many people’s homes will be taken away.

"Okay, then let's do as you say. When do you want it?"

"The sooner the better."

So Uncle Li led the men from several families and went straight to the brick kiln. Under the command of Uncle Zhang, some started digging the foundation, and then went to the old brick kiln to carry bricks. Thus, the construction of the brick kiln in Liuyun Village began.

Aunt Li and her group came to the rice field with sickles.

Looking at the rice whose leaves have begun to turn yellow, everyone feels a little reluctant to let go. After all, this is a season's grain and the whole family has worked hard for half a year for it, and now it all has to be harvested.

"Let's start with my house."

Aunt Li knew that everyone was still a little worried, so she took the lead.

She believed Jiang Sining and would never lie to her.

So seven or eight women went down to the fields and began to cut the rice.

When the villagers saw this, almost everyone gathered around.

"Sister Li, what's wrong with you? The rice will be harvested in a month at most. Why are you cutting it now?"

"Cut it and exchange it for food."

"What kind of food can this be exchanged for?" someone asked, "Are you being cheated?"

“Who are you selling it to?”

Aunt Li was annoyed by the questions and said, "I won't hide it from you. I sold it to Ning's family. She wants to raise cattle."

"Raising cattle with rice? Are you crazy?"

"You must have been deceived by her. In this world, even the richest people would not be willing to use rice to feed cattle!"

"Yeah, stop cutting!"

……

Amid the chatter of the crowd, Jiang Sining came to the edge of the field.

Ever since her family built a "mansion", her status in the village has obviously changed.

Some people envy, some are jealous, and some hate.

The ones I hate are none other than the Jiang family.

Seeing her coming, Jiang Hua grabbed her pigtails and shouted, "You little bitch, how did you coax your aunts into cutting the rice? You are committing a sin! If I don't stop this today, you will destroy their families!"

Jiang Si Ning was too lazy to pay attention to her and said to the others, "We are all from the same village, so I won't be partial. I plan to raise a dozen calves, and I need a lot of fresh straw. If anyone is willing to harvest and sell it to me, I will pay them according to the previous year's harvest, plus an additional 10%. You can give them money or food."

"You're talking nonsense!"

Cao Cunzheng's voice came from behind the crowd, and soon he came in front of Jiang Sining with a dark face.

"Do you know that if they harvest the rice now and you don't give them food, what will happen to the land tax this year?"

Jiang Sining was also drunk.

As a village chief, it is normal to step in to stop such things when seeing them, but he is not worried about the livelihood of several families, but is worried about not paying enough land taxes. This is probably the wrong thing to do.

"Cao Cunzheng, you mean that as long as they pay enough land tax, they can harvest the rice as they please, right?"

Cao Cunzheng was slightly stunned and said, "That's natural."

"How about paying now?" Jiang Sining said, "I just bought a lot of grain for brewing wine recently. After you harvest one acre of land, you can go to my house to get the grain."

"Humph, they have about a hundred acres of land, and they need to harvest 50,000 kilograms of grain. Do you have that much?"

"It really does."

Everyone present gasped. That was 50,000 kilograms, or several hundred taels of silver!

Jiang Sining built such a nice brick house, so where did he get the money to store so much food?

"Well then," Cao Cunzheng said, "Everyone will just watch here today. If she can't deliver on her promise, don't blame us for seeking justice for the Li family!"

When Aunt Li and her family saw that everyone was targeting Jiang Sining, they felt indignant for her and danced with the sickles in their hands rapidly.

In less than an hour, all the rice in an acre of rice field was harvested.

Jiang Sining found Uncle Wu and asked him to use a bullock cart to help transport all the things back home and piled them up in a big pile in the yard.

"Now that one acre of land has been harvested, you should quickly bring out the grain."

Jiang Sining had already made preparations and asked his uncle-in-law to carry more than a dozen bags of rice to Aunt Li's family.

Seeing that her family really had food, the old village chief and Jiang Hua's faces turned as ugly as pig livers.

"A few hundred kilograms of food is nothing. She has to give a total of 50,000 kilograms!"

"It's okay," Jiang Sining said, "If Caocunzheng has time, just stand guard at my door. If everyone harvests one acre, I'll pay one acre."

Cao Cunzheng's face froze. He was Muramasa, why did he act like a gatekeeper?

"If she doesn't keep her promise, remember to come to me, Ben Muramasa, to seek justice for you!"

After saying this, Cao Cunzheng walked away angrily, leaving a group of villagers looking at each other. Finally, someone mustered up the courage to ask, "Ning girl, do you want some rice from our family?"

"I've already said it before. We want 550 kilograms of dry rice per acre."

"Okay, let's go cut it too!"

"go!"

Half of the villagers hurried home to harvest the rice, fearing that if they were too late, Jiang Sining would not be able to harvest it.

But Jiang Hua said angrily: "Go and harvest! Then I won't give you any food. You can just cry!"