He was betrayed at the beginning, from a cake seller to a wealthy person

Lu Sheng held his breath for a long time, then approached Yang Biao and asked in a low voice: "At Senior Brother Zhang's age, isn't the family urging him to get married?"

Captain Yang sighed: "Where is it? Our master has been optimistic about it for several years. The young master is not willing to do anything, and has been delaying it until now. Before he was studying, the master let him go. This year, he issued a death order. This time he goes back. We have to make a decision for him.”

Lu Sheng beamed: "That's great."

"What's so good? The young master is not happy. He said that he doesn't like anyone." Yang Biaotou suddenly asked: "Hey, I think our young master is interested in your shopkeeper Lu, don't you know shopkeeper Lu?"

Lu Sheng's heart skipped a beat and he pretended to be calm and said: "It's impossible for him and Shopkeeper Lu. Shopkeeper Lu is only fifteen this year. She is now focused on business and has no plans to get married in the past three or four years. Senior Brother Zhang can't Can’t wait that long.”

Captain Yang thought for a while and thought that this was indeed the case. He had cooperated with Shopkeeper Lu so many times and treated her as a peer. He ignored the fact that Shopkeeper Lu was still young this year.

Lu Sheng felt much better and went home to pack his things.

After tidying up for a day, it was finally time to set off.

Lu Yan's mentality has always been to not bring anything she can buy, but to just bring the banknotes and buy them somewhere else. So when I finally left, I didn’t take too many things with me, just some daily necessities, clothes, Boss Lu’s tools, two dogs and five cats.

Yes, two dogs and five cats are all taken away.

Yinzi must go, and Xiaobai must go with Yinzi.

Two kittens also followed Ginzi.

The mother cat still has to feed her kittens, and she also has to go.

The civet flower never leaves Sanhua, and it has to go when Sanhua leaves.

The cow cat can go or not, but it’s not good for him to be left alone when everyone has gone, so he might as well take them away together.

Boss Lu made several large cages out of bamboo strips, and Xu also made cotton mats for the cages. Several small animals adapted well.

Lu Yan was originally afraid that the cat would be stressed when the environment changed, but then she thought that the animals she kept at home were in a semi-free range state and they went out to play casually every day. How could they cope with the stress?

The team headed south, mostly on flat and spacious official roads. The caravan will stop at every stopping point where there is a business opportunity. Occasionally when entering the boundary between the two states, there will be a long stretch of deserted road or village road.

It was finally time to leave Hengzhou. Lu Yan thought she would go out directly, but the caravan entered a run-down village on the edge of Hengzhou.

The village is at the junction of the two towns. It is sparsely populated and has a large area of ​​land. There is not even an archway at the entrance of the village. The children playing and playing at the entrance of the village saw the caravan coming, and immediately ran back to the village in surprise and shouted for people to come out.

Lu Yan noticed that the thickness of the clothes worn by these children was very different. Some were wearing thick cotton-padded jackets with holes in them exposing the cotton wool, while some were wearing thin jackets with patches on them.

Lu Yan knew that this situation was mainly because there were too few clothes at home, and there were no clothes that changed from season to season. Clothes were either thin or thick, so they could wear everything.

Lu Yan felt unspeakably uncomfortable in her heart.

The caravan was already very familiar with this place. He quickly dismounted and unloaded the goods, and quickly laid out the messy pots and pans of daily necessities and various candies for the children.

The villagers quickly gathered around, picking and choosing. Lu Yan found that the goods brought out by the caravan were sold at very low prices, so she turned around and asked Head Guard Yang: "Are these so cheap?"

Yang Biaotou lowered his voice and replied: "These are defective products that were given to them when we got the original products. They are very cheap, but we basically don't make much money. We give them whatever price we get."

Lu Yan felt a little sour: "Why?"

Yang Biaotou raised his head and glanced at the happily surrounding villagers, sighed and said nothing.

These villagers, even if the price is already very low, are still hesitant. Some are hesitating with a dozen five-cent plates, and some parents are hesitant to spare a penny to buy a piece of candy for their children.

Lu Yan understood. My heart became even more congested and panicked.

This time the Lu family went to Beijing with very few things and nothing to sell. Lu Yan didn't want to see this scene anymore, so she dragged Lu Sheng to walk the dog with her in the village.

Two people, each holding a dog, were walking in the village. As they walked, there were fewer and fewer people. When she reached the scattered farmland, Lu Yan was stunned.

Lu Yan asked Lu Sheng uncertainly: "What do you think of this place?"

Lu Sheng was also a little confused: "Why does this place feel white?"

Lu Yan went down to the ground, squatted on the ground, grabbed a handful of soil and looked at it. Only then did Lu Yan understand the reason why the village was sparsely populated and had vast wastelands. Most of this land is saline-alkali land.

Lu Yan couldn't explain what she felt in her heart. She walked around twice with the dog and then went back. She asked Mr. Yang who was the village chief.

Yang Biaotou pointed to an old man outside the shopping crowd: "This is the village chief."

Lu Yan went up to greet the village chief: "Old man, are you the chief of this village?"

The village chief slowly turned his head and nodded: "Yes."

"We went around the field just now and found that there is something wrong with the field." Lu Yan said, "This land is saline-alkali land, did you know?"

The village chief reacted and nodded: "It turns out that the land is called saline-alkali land. I knew this land was not good. The crop yields were very poor, and sometimes the seedlings were burned."

"That's right." Lu Yan said, "Doesn't the government care if your land is like this? How can we live here? We need to improve the land."

The village chief smiled bitterly and explained: "Our village is at the junction of two counties. Most of the people who come here are people who have fled from disasters in other places. Some of them don't even have household registration. The governments on both sides can do nothing."

Lu Yan opened her mouth and fell silent again. She wanted to say that the government could find a way to renovate the land on its own, but the first step in improving the saline-alkali land was to wash the salt with water. It was difficult for the village to use its own water, and there was not so much water to wash the land.

This matter was not her business, but since she saw it with her own eyes, she had to do something.

Lu Yan walked back to the car in silence and decided to write a letter to Liu Hongtu. The saline-alkali land cannot be improved because of the lack of water. If we can open waterways and divert water, everything will be fine.

Liu Hongtu will most likely leave at the end of the year, but the county magistrates who are close to him may not necessarily, and the new magistrates of Hengzhou are also trying to make some political achievements. Report this to Liu Hongtu and see who Liu Hongtu befriends and gives this favor to.

The caravan's items were almost sold, so the team packed up and set off again. Lu Yan looked at the village drifting away, feeling very complicated.