Space Food Storage: Daily Travel

Two days later.

Liu Yuhan and his group arrived in Changle County and met the county magistrate Zhu Rui.

Is this really the county magistrate? He has a full beard, and his age is hard to tell. He is covered in dirt, with a lot of dirt on his face and hair, but he doesn't seem to care.

As he spoke, his beard, which was covered with mud, trembled, and Liu Yuhan almost couldn't help laughing out loud.

The Chief Clerk Xu Yan was about forty years old, neither tall nor short, dressed neatly, with elegant features, looking like a middle-aged uncle.

At this moment, his fair face turned a little red.

Seeing his own county magistrate like this and the villagers' surprised faces, he felt a little embarrassed. Alas, the magistrate's first impression was ruined again...

"In that case, you can go to the Chief Clerk, Lord Xu, to re-register your household registration. He will explain everything to you. I will go to Fulai Village when I have time. You should go to Village Chief Lin to arrange accommodation first."

After saying this, County Magistrate Zhu hurried away.

Xu Zhubo brought a few people with him to help them re-register their household registration, and the address was initially unified as Fulai Village.

Tell them that there are only a few empty, somewhat dilapidated houses in Fulai Village, and if they want to live there, they have to build their own houses.

Take the documents and find the village chief Lin Changsheng. He will plan a place for them. If they want to borrow food and tools, they have to go to the county government to register.

It was roughly the same as what the government office had said. Each household was allocated land based on population, with each person receiving approximately five mu of land. There was less good farmland and more sandy land. The exact details were revealed only after arriving at the location.

It was winter now, but in the spring, you could go to the county government office and get free grain and seeds, depending on the size of your land. You would be exempt from taxes for three years. Besides the land you were allocated, you could also use silver to buy land and residential land.

Xu Zhubo had said everything he needed to say, and the village chief had almost understood what was going on. The village chief offered Xu Zhubo two taels of silver, but Xu Zhubo refused, telling them to hurry on while it was still daylight.

The group was led by two express yamen runners on horseback to Fulai Village. When they passed through the county town, a large group of people in the county town were surprised to see them and started talking in low voices.

Twenty miles is not far nor near, and it will take about an hour to walk there.

The bailiff led them to Lin Changsheng's house at the village entrance, and told Lin Changsheng the order from the county magistrate's chief clerk before leaving. Liu Yuhan stuffed two taels of silver into their hands.

"Thank you for your hard work, brothers. Take some tea. I'll have to trouble you again in the future."

The yamen runners never thought that they would receive silver for sending them here, at least two taels of silver, and they were very happy.

The two of them shared a month's salary for free, and after working hard for a month, they only earned a few taels of silver.

"Okay, okay. If you have any problems, you can come to the county government office to find us two brothers. His name is Zhu Wu and mine is Zhu Liu." After saying that, he rode away on a fast horse.

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At 3 p.m., at the home of the village chief Lin.

"Everyone, please sit down. I already know what's going on. Fulai Village has a lot of sand fields, but the output is not great. They've almost all been moved away. I admire you for coming all the way here to escape the famine. Sigh, I don't know why you, a bunch of people, chose this place..."

"It's getting late. You should first call the villagers to clean up the row of old houses in the village. There are eight empty courtyards there. There are also many at the end of the village. You can all clean up and stay there first." Lin Changsheng said.

"Thank you, village chief. This is the young man Liu Mang, his name is Li Si. We were all leading the others to escape the famine. If you need anything, you can call us. We will send someone to clean up first."

Village Chief Liu and Village Chief Li gathered the people waiting at the gate and told them to go and prepare their accommodations first and eat together in the house in the middle of the village that night. They were to learn about other matters first and then inform everyone in the evening.

Liu Mang, who lived in the middle of the village, told Xiao Shicun to stay there first while they went to the end of the village to clean up. Everyone moved their belongings and dispersed, first going to clean up the yard.

The two village chiefs and clan elders, Liu Daling and Liu Yuhan listened to Lin Changsheng continue.

"There are only about eighty people in this village. We, the older brothers and younger ones, only moved here in recent years. You can see that we are all missing limbs. We were injured and retired from the battlefield. We have no family, and some of us can't even go back... The old general arranged for us to be raised on his farm. We didn't want to bother the old general, so we voluntarily came to Fulai Village..."

"Although I'm the village chief, I'm also supported by these old guys. Now that you can flee the famine to the south with an entire village and a complete team, it shows that you are capable. I will greet the county magistrate, and the position of village chief will naturally be filled by a capable person who can lead everyone to make a living. My legs and feet are not good..."

"Village Chief Lin, please don't say anything..."

"Yeah, how can this be? We will follow the villagers' instructions..."

"Village Chief Lin, please don't underestimate yourself. You have fought on the battlefield and killed the enemy. You are true heroes and deserve our respect and admiration. The fact that you can lead these heroes shows that you are capable. We are willing to follow your instructions."

"Yes, yes, my granddaughter said exactly what we meant," Liu Daling said, and the others echoed him.

"granddaughter?"

Liu Yuhan stood up and bowed as a junior to Village Chief Lin and the people sitting next to him.

"My daughter Liu Han, please forgive me for my recklessness."

"Haha… I'm really relieved to hear what this kid said. He's a good kid, it's okay. We former soldiers are straightforward and don't go around in circles. It's just that your Uncle Lin always thinks too much," said the one-armed burly man sitting next to Village Chief Lin. Several people around him also praised Liu Yuhan.

Liu Yuhan felt embarrassed.

Everyone's relationship suddenly became much closer. They asked each other about their numbers and their situations. They casually talked about the village, the nearby villages, the situation in the county town, and so on. With everyone talking, Liu Yuhan and the others had a general understanding of everything.

Fu Lai Village is located on the east side of the sea and is backed by mountains on the north side. Four-fifths of the fields near Fu Lai Village in the south are sandy fields.

Many of the original villagers have relocated to the vicinity of the county seat. Now, there are 85 people left in Fulai Village. Besides the 50 who have retreated from the battlefield, there are 35 original residents from five families.

Those who retreated from the battlefield all lived in this row of houses at the entrance of the village, and they all cooked and ate together.

The other five households are scattered at the entrance and in the middle of the village. Most of them are honest and hardworking and are unwilling to move away.

Fulai Village is vast and sparsely populated, with mostly sandy fields. They are nearly a hundred miles from the coast, and are classified as Fulai Village and a small fishing village. However, it is all sandy land, estimated to be tens of thousands of acres, and in short, it is barren and no one is reclaiming it.

The small fishing villages in the east are equivalent to fishing villages. They are very close to the sea and most of them make a living by fishing.

According to the county government, they would count the number of people in each household and distribute land based on the number of people, with less fertile land and more sandy land. Homesteads had to be purchased with money.

They can now buy the place they live in after cleaning it, and they can also rebuild a house if the place is not suitable.

If you want to build a house, you can go to the north mountain to get yellow mud and make adobe bricks. If you have money, you can go to the town to buy tiles. If you don't have money, you can go to the mountain to cut straw and build a thatched house.

The location of Fulai Village is not bad and not very remote. Twenty miles to the northwest is Changle County. There is a road there, which is the road they walked on today.

Ten miles southwest, there's a small town called Yukou. You can buy anything you need there, or you can go further to the county seat.

It's about twenty miles from the small town to the county town, so those who go to the county town will start directly from the village which is closer.

You can buy farmland, but with so many households, if all the farmland is divided up, there will probably only be some sandy fields left. Who would bother buying sandy fields? It would be a waste of money and energy.

These retired soldiers, apart from planting rice on ten acres of fertile land, also went hunting in the north. They could make a living with the pensions given to them by the court and the help of the old general.

It was getting late, so everyone said goodbye.

I agreed to discuss this with the villagers and will give the village chief a reply tomorrow morning.

Village Chief Lin also said they should settle down first and then distribute the land according to household registration after the Lunar New Year. It's winter now and we can't farm. We should first get a good place to live and wait until the Lunar New Year is over. The weather is getting colder.