At the very least, some girls also set their sights on the newly assigned male educated youth. When they heard that some of the male educated youth came from wealthy families, they became interested in them.

After all, those male educated youth could write poetry and speak, which was better than the village kids who did hard labor.

Ma Liuren suffered even more.

Seeing that Ma Hongying had listened, Ma Zefeng's wife touched Ma Hongying's hand.

"Sister, please help worry about it. I'm worried as long as the third child doesn't get married. An elder sister-in-law is like a mother. I also hope that the third child can marry a good wife. It will relieve our father and mother's worries!"

Ma Hongying nodded.

"Sister-in-law, I understand. I will definitely take care of things for the Third Brother. What does the Third Brother think? Has he told you?"

Ma Zefeng's wife sighed.

"What can he think? He must want to get married. He's already this old, what man doesn't want a woman? He just doesn't know how to say it. Sister, the third brother is too lazy. He eats so much and gets fat. Your eldest brother needs help to work in the fields."

"I'm just worried. Even if he gets a wife, will she be able to stay with him for long?"

Ma Hongying widened her eyes, perhaps she didn't expect Ma Zefeng's wife to say that.

"Sister-in-law, what you said..."

Ma Zefeng's wife realized that she had said the wrong thing and slapped her lips.

"Oh, I'm just worrying about this for no reason. Don't tell your eldest brother, or he'll definitely scold me."

"Sister, I'm really happy to see you living such a good life. Sister, does Hu Zi have a position in the village committee now?"

Ma Hongying shook her head.

"How could that be possible! The village committee has its own responsibilities, and he is just helping out there. Brother Yuan is the village chief now, and he's usually busy at the commune, so he might not be able to take care of some things in the village, so let Hu Zi go."

"Oh my, the village chief made our Hu Zi work for nothing? Sister, you have to explain this. No matter how close these two brothers are, they have to settle accounts! Won't you suffer if you don't follow through?"

Ma Hongying frowned when she heard this.

I always feel that Ma Zefeng's wife speaks in a sarcastic tone.

The help that Chen Yuan and his family gave to her and Hu Zi was like a life-saving grace, not to mention that Chen Yuan often took Hu Zi to make money. Even if he didn't take Hu Zi to make money, Ma Hongying and Hu Zi were extremely grateful to Chen Yuan.

Moreover, Chen Yuan also handed over all the wine business to Hu Zi alone.

Chen Yuan only took a small portion of the profits, the bulk of it went to Hu Zi. Even if Hu Zi didn't go to the black market, he could just supply wine to state-owned restaurants.

The money Hu Zi earns is enough to support his family and allow them to live a good life.

"Sister-in-law, Brother Yuan is not that kind of person. Besides, he has helped Hu Zi so much, and our family is grateful to him."

Ma Zefeng's wife rolled her eyes inwardly.

It was natural for Ma Weiguo, Ma Zefeng and their family to settle down in Hu Zi's home.

Chen Yuan and Hu Zi stayed on the river bank all night, waiting for the rain to stop and the river water to slowly drop. Only then did they drag their tired bodies back to their respective homes.

Sun Weiwei heated water for Chen Yuan and let him take a hot bath in the wooden tub.

Yiyi was waiting with a towel.

Chen Yuan waved to Yiyi.

"Yiyi, don't worry about Dad. Dad is fine."

Looking at the fatigue on Chen Yuan's face.

Yiyi felt very distressed.

"Dad, what were you doing? Why are you back so late? Mom said you were guarding the riverbank. Is the water rising?"

"It's okay, baby girl, the water won't come up, it's gone down, and we're safe now."

The rain has stopped.

Xu Guoqiang and Chen Yuan took turns visiting each household and calculated that one-third of the villagers in Chenjia Village were affected by the heavy rain.

Among this one-third of the villagers, half of their houses were severely damaged and almost uninhabitable. The village had to work together to help them repair their houses.

Most of them come from poor families, either the only labor force in the family is disabled, or they are elderly widows and widowers.

Chen Yuan and Xu Guoqiang discussed that since the situation of every household is so bad.

The village committee can contribute part of the money to the construction of disaster relief housing.

In addition to the damage to houses, most of the fields in Chenjia Village were flooded, which is not a good sign after spring planting.

The next day, Chen Yuan had almost no chance to rest. He just took a two-hour nap in bed and then rushed to the fields to check on the growth of crops.

Fortunately, the night before spring planting, Chen Yuan had already brought some key members of the village to dig drainage channels around the fields in advance.

Many people didn’t understand it at first, but this small action played a big role during this heavy rain.

The water in the fields has been almost drained.

Now we need to prop up the seedlings that have already grown.

This process requires the efforts of the entire village.

No matter what time everyone arrived to help with disaster relief last night, the next day, almost the entire village appeared next to the fields because they heard that some of the seedlings in the fields had fallen.

Regardless of the Zhou family members who had conflicts before, or the lazy lazy guys.

They all knew that the food in the fields was the hope of everyone in Chenjia Village.

There can't be any mistakes.

Chen Yuan didn't even go to call anyone, everyone was gathered together.

Even the educated youth who had come earlier had arrived.

The educated youth were better dressed than the villagers, wearing raincoats and rain boots, and some even wore leather gloves.

From the looks of it, they really look like a group of experts going to the countryside.

Chen Yuan didn't care about these details. The most important thing now was to save the seedlings.

Fortunately, Chen Yuan had already arranged for the villagers to dig ditches and drain canals in every piece of farmland to prevent floods.

The damage suffered by Chenjia Village was the least severe among the surrounding villages.

A whole day of intensive disaster relief work was carried out in Chenjia Village.

It was not until dark that Zhao Qingjian arrived at Chenjia Village from the neighboring village.

On the way to the countryside, Zhao Qingjian saw the disaster situation in various villages. He looked worried because the disaster situation in each village was extremely serious.

Not to mention that the crops in the fields have all fallen down.

Some were even washed away by the flood.

Even many of the villagers' houses were washed away.

When Zhao Qingjian walked into Chenjia Village, he saw that Chenjia Village had begun to renovate the flooded earthen houses.

Moreover, Chen Yuan was taking the lead in moving wood from the backyard of the village committee.

These woods were originally sorted out by Chen Yuan to build a playground and a cultural and sports room for the school.

But now we can only take it out as an emergency measure.

These are all good woods. It took Chen Yuan nearly a year to collect them.

Now the villagers are extremely grateful to Chen Yuan.

Zhao Qingjian heard that it was Chen Yuan who decided to provide these woods to the villagers for free without charging a penny.

He was also a little surprised.

"Chen Yuan has so much wood?"

Chen Yuan wiped the sweat from his forehead and nodded.

"There's a lot of wood. Luckily I stockpiled some beforehand, otherwise we'd be completely lost. The affected villagers will have to stay with fellow villagers for the next two days."

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