Stepmother in charge: Making a fortune through farming and raising her children to fight back

Other people in the village also came to help in their free time, and everyone was having a great time.

At the same time, the village chief was also called to the city for a meeting.

These days, the influenza epidemic around the county has been well controlled, the city gates are wide open, and there are basically no refugees to be seen along the way.

Suddenly, Yunding County has returned to its former tranquility and prosperity.

Dozens of village heads came to the gate of the county government office together, walked in in twos and threes, and waited for the arrival of the county magistrate.

"I've called everyone here again today mainly to discuss the resettlement of refugees." County Magistrate Wang sat on the high hall, with Lu Yunfeng, his legal advisor, and the chief clerk of the county government next to him.

"The number of refugees each village should receive has been distributed. You should also divide the areas for them according to the population. There should be enough farmland. If there is not enough, the county government will allocate some. The main problem now is food. Without food during the winter, it will not be easy to survive until the next spring plowing. We need the help of the village heads."

An unfamiliar village chief couldn't help but speak up: "Sir, that's true, but we in the village are still short of food. We have to help each other on a daily basis. How can we have extra food to feed others besides you..."

Their village is located at the very edge of Yunding County. The entire village has a small population and nothing valuable. Asking the villagers to take out their remaining food and distribute it to outsiders is almost impossible.

Another village chief echoed this, "It's the same in our village. Although everyone is not starving, they only have two thin meals a day. If we have to feed dozens of young and middle-aged people, it would be a lot of food."

"Everyone, be quiet. Isn't this matter still under discussion?" County Magistrate Wang continued, "We see your difficulties, and we certainly won't ignore you. After you take the refugees back and settle them down, you can come to the county government office to collect food. Five kilograms per person. Eat sparingly and find some other food to mix with. It won't be a problem to make it to the new year. When spring comes and everything revives, you can go to the mountains to get some wild vegetables. What's more, during the spring plowing season, you can also hire refugees to work and provide them with a few meals. This is a good thing of mutual benefit. If everyone supports each other, things will be fine soon..."

A village chief muttered, "We've been idle all winter. During the spring plowing season, everyone can finish the work by themselves. Why would we spend extra money to hire others..."

Only when someone has a lot of land and the whole family is too busy to handle it will they hire people to do the work.

But their village is so poor that each household has only a few pieces of land. Even the wasteland left in the village is few. How can they afford to hire people to work?

Seeing that everyone was complaining, County Magistrate Wang lost his friendly expression and said coldly, "This is a task assigned to each village. Some villages can complete it well. If anyone refuses, I believe there will always be someone in the village who can take on this task. I don't mind replacing the village chief."

Although the village chief is not a formal official, he is still the top leader in the village and his words are authoritative. No one wants to be replaced for no reason.

After this intimidation, the village chiefs finally quieted down.

County Magistrate Wang didn't waste any more words and stood up and said, "Let's put it this way. Everyone, according to the number of refugees each village has received, go to the county government office to register and receive food."

Each refugee is entitled to a fixed amount of ten kilograms of rice, but this ten kilograms of rice can be exchanged for twenty kilograms of brown rice or forty kilograms of black flour, depending on how the village chief wants to distribute it.

Except for Qinjia Village, each of the other villages only received an average of about 35 people, and the total number was about the same. Only Qinjia Village received more than 200 people, and today they took back several thousand kilograms of food.

Seeing this, the other village heads immediately became dissatisfied.

"We all took hundreds of kilograms of food. Why did Qinjia Village take so much food?"

"That's right, sir. We must be fair. We can't just go easy on the Ruyi'an people in Qin Village. That would be too hurtful."

"Yes, even if they have people, they can't be treated differently like this. All the refugees they are assigned are the same. Is there really any saying that one is more valuable than the other?"

"I also think it's unfair, sir. Go and call the adults out immediately. We need an explanation."

"That's right. We also took in refugees. Why did they take so much more food than us? We need an explanation."

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"Quiet!" The lawyer walked out of the gate and glanced at the group of people in front of him: "Don't you people ever ask questions before you speak? Don't just believe everything others say. Since you want an explanation, let me talk to you."

"Yunding County as a whole needs to resettle over a thousand refugees, and each village should have around fifty people. So why are you only accepting thirty-five now? It's because of Qinjia Village. They've selflessly taken in over two hundred refugees."

"Do you understand what this means? This represents 20% of the original population of Qinjia Village. This is what we call selfless. Do you think everyone is just shirking responsibility like you? They stepped forward when they were most needed, sharing the burden for the entire Yunding County. Can you do the same..."

As soon as these words came out, there was silence all around.

They were all shocked by what the master said, and even Village Chief Qin stood there in a daze.

They all accepted it, is it really that great?

Village Chief Qin couldn't help but straighten his back, feeling the gazes of all the other village chiefs.

At this moment, he felt that he had reached the peak of his life!

In this way, Village Chief Qin returned to Qinjia Village with several ox carts of food, looking very happy.

He stood at the village gate and informed the patrol team: "Go and gather all the villagers, including the newly arrived refugees. Hurry."

After hearing what was said, Erlangzi turned around and ran away, shouting at every household in his loud voice.

In less than half a minute, all the villagers came to the big locust tree at the entrance of the village one after another. Men, women, young and old all looked at the village chief above with questioning expressions.

Nothing happened, why did they call them all over again? Could something have happened?

The refugees who had just brought their families in were even more nervous. They had finally found a village willing to accept them, so why did they suddenly call a meeting and not invite them? Could it be that the village could not accommodate so many people and wanted to drive them away again?

At this moment, every refugee in the village felt a little uneasy.