After the evil sister took over, all the best went crazy

Su Rongrong's house is the largest and best house in the entire Sujia Village.

It is different from the fenced courtyards that most people in Sujia Village live in nowadays.

The walls around her yard, like the house, are made of blue bricks.

Da Hu drove the carriage directly to their door and saw that the door was open.

Su Rongrong poked her head out of the carriage and looked inside, and saw Tao Ya spreading a pile of slightly wet firewood on the ground to dry.

Hearing the noise, she looked up, and when she saw that it was Su Rongrong and the others returning, she ran out with a smile.

"Rongrong, you guys are back?"

Tao Ya has been helping Su Rongrong clean up the house these two days.

Not only that, whenever he has time, he will go to the mountain to chop firewood and send it over.

After the village chief came back yesterday, she went to ask specifically.

Knowing that they would be back today, she went up the mountain to chop firewood early in the morning.

After bringing back the firewood, I went home to eat.

Look, she came over shortly after dinner.

Seeing someone at this time, she was delighted and asked quickly:

"You guys have already eaten since you're back at this hour. How about I go back and make some noodles for you?"

After the carriage entered the yard and stopped, Su Rongrong was the first to get off.

"We have! Miaomiao specially made some extra pancakes this morning, and we ate them on the way back just now."

Then she said, "Tao Ya, wait for me."

Then he turned around and helped Su Jinhong down with Liu Miao.

After everyone stood firmly, she quickly called Su Qiaoqiao and Su Manman to come down.

Su Manman has been a very active person since she decided to help her elder sister share the housework.

Su Rongrong asked them to get off the car, and Su Qiaoqiao went down alone, and she asked Su Qiaoqiao to close the door.

Then he dragged everything in the carriage that he could carry onto the shaft.

As soon as she got off the car, she immediately moved all the things on the shaft down.

Seeing this, Da Hu asked them to step back and went up to hand the things out.

In just a few breaths, all the things in the carriage were moved out.

Da Hu hurried back, and before leaving, he pointed to the small gray cloth bag on the ground and said, "Miss Rongrong, there are a total of 20 kilograms of salt here.

The young master said he didn’t know whether you wanted pickled vegetables or not, and he didn’t know whether these were enough.

He lets you use it first, and if it's not enough later, he'll find a way to get you more."

When Su Rongrong got on the carriage before, there were so many things piled up that she didn't know exactly how much salt there was.

When they heard about the 20 kilograms of salt, they knew that even if it was used to pickle vegetables, it would be enough for their family of four to eat for more than a year.

I immediately heard her say, "Well, Brother Dahu, when you go back, please thank your young master for me.

There is one more thing, can I have a word with you for a moment? "

Da Hu didn't know what she was going to say, but nodded anyway.

When the two of them walked to an empty corner, Su Rongrong considered carefully before speaking:

“When I came back earlier, I heard you say that Brother Zheng had gone to the government office.

I don't know how they will solve the problem of the disaster victims, but I do have one.

I'll just tell you my personal opinion, and you can go back and tell your son the truth.

If he thinks it's feasible, then use it. If not, then just pretend I never said anything."

When Da Hu heard this, he immediately became excited: "Miss Rongrong, just keep talking, I will definitely pass on your message."

"Brother Dahu, I don't know if you've noticed that when we left the city, we found that most of the refugees were strong laborers.

There are not many people, regardless of gender, older or under ten years old.

Right now we have to conscript men for corvée labor because the task of digging canals and building dams is arduous.

In the past, each household would provide one person, but now it is based on the number of people.

A family with a large population will need to send two or three people.

If you don't want to, each person must pay five taels of silver.

The victims gathered outside the city with nothing to do, and relied on the porridge donated by the government every day.

It's cold, and it's easy to get into trouble when you're hungry or cold.

The government office could not open its granaries for them to use at will, so the amount of grain they could use was limited.

Therefore, it is impossible for these people to continue to be raised like this, right?"

When Su Rongrong said this, Da Hu already understood what she meant and immediately said:

"Miss Rongrong's idea is to let the disaster victims do the labor service instead of the common people, and then the common people will use silver or food in exchange?"

Su Rongrong nodded: "Yes! If the farmer gives silver, it will still be five taels of silver each.

If you want to give food, just one dan of coarse grains and coarse flour is enough.

As for the merchant families, the wealthier ones can be given more food.

If they are unwilling, send someone with a good tongue to lobby them.

They usually have stored grain, and people tell them that part of the grain is used to pay for corvee labor.

The remaining part will be donated to the disaster victims.

If the donation is large, the government can give appropriate praise.

For example, red notices were posted inside and outside the city walls to tell the victims and the people of Lanxia County who were kind people who could not bear to see the victims suffer and who had donated how much.

Although businessmen value profit, they also pay attention to reputation, especially those that benefit the people, which are helpful in improving their image.

The victims were promised that they could eat as much as they wanted for each meal during their labor service as long as they did not cause trouble.

In other words, try to make sure they are 70% full.

By the way, they were promised that after the corvée labor was over, those who performed well during the period could stay in Lanxia County.

At that time, the government will allocate land to them, allowing them to reclaim land and build houses themselves, and they can also move their household registration here.

If the disaster over there is over and they want to return home, the government will send someone to take them back.

In this way, the hidden danger of disaster victims causing trouble was solved, they were also taken away from the city gates, the people of Lanxia County were given freedom to travel, and finally the problem of local people performing corvee labor was solved.

It can be said that it kills three birds with one stone.

During this period, the government office was just dealing with these three parties, and didn’t put anything in, so it couldn’t completely solve these problems…”

The more Da Hu listened, the more he felt that this method was feasible, so he bowed to Su Rongrong.

"I will go back and tell you what Miss Rongrong said.

If the problem can really be solved, then the girl will have done the young master a great favor."

After he finished speaking, he said goodbye and hurried back.

Su Rongrong didn’t know whether it would work or not, she just expressed her thoughts.

Seeing Da Hu leave, Man Man and the others also moved their things back to the house. She stretched and then shouted:

"Qiaoqiao, Manman, come out for a moment!"

Su Qiaoqiao and Su Manman were packing up the things they brought back. When they heard the sound, they hurried out.

"Big sister, here I come!"

“I think it might rain today.

So, I'll give you half an hour to do the work. After half an hour, we'll go up the mountain to chop wood!"

Su Qiaoqiao didn't understand what he meant, so she asked, "Doing business, what business?"

Su Manman, who was quick-witted, glared at her and said, "With your brain, you still want to sneak into the backyard of a wealthy family all day long?

The eldest sister wanted us to wear the hair flowers and go find the girls in the village.

If any of them want it, they will have to help us chop wood soon."

Su Qiaoqiao reacted and said "oh", then she thought that if there were more people helping to chop wood, her elder sister probably wouldn't mind if she chopped less.

Thinking of this, when she left, she took her two hair flowers with her.

She must find more people so that the firewood at home can reach the amount her eldest sister wants in the shortest time.

That way, she wouldn't have to chop wood or use her hands too hard.

As for the head flowers, there are so many scraps of cloth at home anyway, so she can make two for herself later!