The two had been talking quietly, but now they were in the main hall. Zhou Yu approached slowly and asked in a gentle voice, "Master Chen Jiu, what happened? Do you need our help?"

"No need!" Uncle Chen Jiu immediately refused. "We can handle the problems in our own village ourselves!"

An An's eyes lit up, and she twisted her body and stretched out her hands towards Zhou Yu. Wow, what a great opportunity to get some energy!

Such a cute little baby, smiling sweetly at you, no one can refuse, right?

Zhou Yu unconsciously smiled and walked towards An An.

Qin Ying walked away a few steps cautiously, holding An An in her left hand and using her right hand to cover her eyes. She hurriedly said to Uncle Chen Jiu, "Then you should bring a few more people. It won't be helpful if you don't have enough. I'll go back first."

He quickly left the Chen family.

An An was furious. It happened again!

Why is it so difficult to get some energy?

Is she afraid that some handsome guy will snatch her away? No! I'm a very reasonable person!

Although she doesn't understand the complex emotions of human beings, she still understands public order and good customs.

Just because Qin Ying picked her up and raised her when the famine was so severe that people were eating each other, and because the Zhao family gave her delicious dried fruit porridge even when they were so hungry that they only had a thin meal for two days, she would not refuse to accept Pipa.

Eh? Is this how you use Pipa Don't Hold?

No matter what, that’s what I mean!

But! Why couldn't she take the free energy? She had tried, and the Koi bonus she had given Zhou Yu didn't dissipate at all!

He is also the father and mother of Qin County. The people he can help are the people of the entire Qin County! The merits he gets are for all the people of Qin County!

Just a small Tongshu Village can bring her 0.5 merit energy points, and there are more than a hundred villages in the entire Qin County!

If we calculate it as 0.5 per village, 50 villages would be 100. With just two collections, she can collect 100! Once she reaches , she can level up! This is no longer a frustrating beginner koi system!

Not to mention, now as long as she completes an accumulation of 5, she can enhance the functions that can be currently activated. Once she passes the 20th mark, she can activate a new function!

But to this day, she has not been able to break 5 again!

Qin Ying took away the hand that was blocking An An's eyes, held her in her arms and rocked her gently, then asked softly, "Which adult does An An like?

"My dear, he is of noble status and is not someone that ordinary people like us can mess with.

"This famine will soon be over, and our hard times will be over!

"Mom, grandma, and uncle will work hard to make money so that our An Baoer can live a good life!

"Mom will make you a beautiful tiger-head hat, and then ask your uncle to make you a small wooden horse, okay?

"Grandma isn't feeling well today. Go back and play with her for a while. Mom will make you some porridge..."

An An was originally planning to squeeze out some tears to gain sympathy. This was something she was good at. She knew that she was born beautiful, with big, round eyes with distinct black and white. If she shed tears, she would be even more pitiful. This had been proven many times on the Zhao family.

But after hearing what Qin Ying said, her pupils trembled slightly, and she was unable to use this trump card.

Life was hard for the Zhao family, but she had never suffered as much as she did. Aunt Zhao knew how to knit, but they hadn't made anything for her in the past, fearing she might cut her hands.

Later, when there was green grass, I used the tender grass stems to weave crickets, dragonflies, butterflies, grasshoppers, etc. for her to play with.

There was a circle of such straw insects on the edge of the large basket where she played every day.

Although the clothes she wore were all altered from Zhao Hu's old clothes, Qin Ying was good at sewing, with fine and even stitches. She even cut the patches into various lovely shapes of flowers, butterflies, etc.

The shoes and socks are also soft and comfortable...

Zhao Hu, who knew a little about carpentry, even asked the villagers for advice and made a cradle for her. Every part of it was polished smooth without a single burr.

All kinds of.

An An felt a sour and swollen feeling in her chest. She tilted her head. This unprecedented feeling must be the emotion that belongs to human beings, right?

When the mother and daughter returned home, An An had fallen asleep. Qin Ying handed her over to Aunt Zhao and went to cook.

Not long after, Uncle Chen Jiu came over with a few men carrying baskets.

Zhao Hu dropped his work and led them up the mountain.

The food in the cellar made Uncle Chen Jiu and others cry.

After crying, Uncle Chen Jiu arranged for people to carry the things down the mountain, and specifically instructed them: "Go to Zhao's house first. There are people from the government living at my house, and these things must not fall into their hands.

"I'll be guarding here, you guys carry the things back and weigh them first. Yingzi and I have already agreed to let her keep count.

"We'll divide it up right after we're done, based on the number of people, so everyone gets a share!"

By the time we had picked all the food, it was already midnight.

Uncle Chen Jiu returned to the Zhao family, ate the wild vegetable porridge prepared by Qin Ying, and listened to her report the bill, his mouth so wide open that it was crooked with smiles.

There were five hundred catties of corn, a thousand catties of potatoes, five hundred catties of unshelled corn, and four hundred and fifty catties of soybeans in pods.

The villagers who rushed over after hearing the news were all very excited. Without Uncle Chen Jiu's reminder, they all held their breath and concentrated, fearing that loud noises would alert the people in the yamen.

Today, Tongshu Village has a total of 39 households and 82 people.

Uncle Chen Jiu quickly calculated: each person would get six pounds of corn and millet, twelve pounds of potatoes, and five pounds of soybeans; a small amount of the remaining amount would be given to the Zhao family, and most of it would be used to bribe Zhou Yu and others.

The villagers had no objection. After all, if it weren't for the Zhao family, no one would have found so much food! Not to mention, Aunt Zhao was injured because of this.

There are wild animals in the mountains now, and going up the mountain is life-threatening.

At this moment, there was uncontrollable joy inside and outside the Zhao family courtyard. These heavy grains were their hope and motivation to survive!

Uncle Chen Jiu knocked on the Zhao family's broken wooden basin, signaling the villagers to be quiet.

He cleared his throat and said, "Fellow villagers, now that everyone has got them, you can see that these are better than the ones carefully selected for seeding in peaceful times.

"What I mean is, let's not eat these, save them for seeds.

"Take corn for example. One mu of land requires about six kilograms of seeds. Each household can plant at least one mu of land. Looking at the quality, we should be able to harvest more than 500 kilograms, right?

"That's over 500 kilograms! That's enough to last us for a long time! Not to mention we still have corn, potatoes, and soybeans!"

"Of course, next year, everyone can decide how much land to plant and how much seeds to keep. We won't force you.

"It doesn't mean that anyone who wants to satisfy their cravings is not allowed. I, an old man, don't do that kind of thing!

"Besides, I don't need to tell you, everyone knows that we should stock up on vegetables, whether they're homegrown or wild. We can dry them out and mix them with grain during the winter. Why can't we keep them until spring?"

The villagers discussed among themselves for a while, and finally said, "Uncle Jiu, you are old and wise, we will listen to you! When we go back, we will grind the corn, millet, and soybeans into kernels and save them for seeds. If we want to eat them, we can only have a little to satisfy our cravings during the New Year!"

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