Traveling through time as a peasant girl to turn things around

At daybreak, the village chief, beating a gong, walked and shouted, "Everyone has arrived at the square to receive their welfare benefits." "Ding-ding, ding-dong." "Tell each other!" "Bang! ding!" The village chief walked around the village and returned to the school [because it was the village square].

Seeing that many people had come, the village chief said, "Everyone, be quiet! This year, no one missed paying the public grain, and they were praised by the higher authorities. After the autumn, they also earned a little money by pulling up hemp stalks. Everyone worked actively and diligently. The village decided to give food to encourage everyone to work harder next year, say less inappropriate words, and work more. The New Year is coming soon. Several families in the village who are doing well have also pooled some money to buy food for the whole village. Today, they will distribute it to everyone, one share per household, no matter how many people there are." You can keep some seeds from some of the food, and you can plant them at home next spring!" "I'll call out the names and give them to each family. Let's call out the number of people. According to the head of the household: "Kong Ziwu." Old man Kong stepped forward, and Sun Quan helped to take out a bag of white flour, a bag of yellow flour, a bag of soybeans, a barrel of oil, and a bag of potatoes. He put them in front of Kong Ziwu, "Grandpa Kong, this is yours." Sun Quan looked at it and said, "Big head Kong, help your grandfather get it." " The boy came back to his senses, and happily carried his family away with a backpack, smiling. Everyone in the village looked over. "So many." "Have a good New Year this year. I heard my son say that other families eat well." "I will go to work next year too." "Look, there is another family!! "Qin Han's family." The family of three walked away smiling, carrying each other on their backs. "Mom, the food at the fourth child's house is so good. You should learn to cook. Ask Dad how delicious the food is." "I will also go with the fourth child to pull hemp stalks and make money." His father said to him, "You have such a small body." "Work and exercise!" "I'll go back, put the things down, and go find Ping An. My child, mother, you should also come with me to learn how to cook." The family walked away talking.

The village chief was distributing supplies, saying that everyone needed to be diligent and endure hardships to get better. Someone asked, "Sun Gui, my family has so many people, why is there only this small household?" The village chief glanced at him and said, "According to household registration rules, even with so many people, the household registration is still small." A woman was dissatisfied, but dared not speak out. Seeing the disgruntled woman, the village chief scolded her, saying, "You don't know how to make money, you're lazy, who can you blame? Don't cause trouble in the village. If I hear about it, I'll handle it according to village rules! Don't spread rumors."

The distribution was mostly finished in a day, with plenty left over. His family's wheat was taken away by Sun Quan. He also gave an extra bag of soybeans. He carried two bags of flour in baskets to two impoverished families. The two elderly people couldn't move, so their son and daughter-in-law worked, and their grandson was still young, so life was difficult. The village chief left a bag of flour and some welfare money. "Let's make do for now." "There's a doctor living at the Chai family's house. Carry your father to see him." With that, the village chief left. The son of this family had also earned two taels of silver by pulling hemp stalks with the others. He thought he'd take his father to see a doctor, have his wife do the laundry, and then change clothes and go see him tomorrow.

The village chief had noticed a few lazy and cunning individuals while distributing welfare benefits, so he had to keep an eye on them. After dinner, he visited several households and asked the villagers to keep an eye on them and report any issues to him. He was determined not to disrupt the village's tranquility.

In the afternoon, the fourth son, accompanied by an ox and a plow, went to a relative's house to plow the fields where crops were grown. He said, "Dad, if there's any heavy work, just tell me. It's so much, how long would it take you to plow the fields by yourself? Now that we have an ox, we won't have to plow the fields one by one." Li Guang was delighted. He felt it was the right decision to move the family here. He plowed the areas around him that couldn't be plowed. He built the pigpen and chicken coop, surrounded the east wall with sorghum stalks, and built a wooden fence on the south wall, along with the main gate. The main gate was usually not open, but a gate tied to a wooden stick was left open.