Chen Fuxi: "Dad, this group of people looks unusual. You see, they were dirty a few days ago, but now the children running around the village have been cleaned up. No one would suspect that they are city kids. And those tall bamboos, what are they? They look really nice."

Chen Dawei: "Who knows what it is? They have already built four bamboo houses. Why are they still building them? You don't take my words to heart at all. Look at how many bamboos and trees they have cut down recently. They have to pay for it." Our family has a lot of money, right?"

Chen Fuxi: "No, if you cut down ten trees in the village and cut down about twenty bamboos, that's thirty taels, right?"

Chen Dawei burst into laughter.

He wished that people in the village would chop more, so that they could collect money.

Chen Fuxi couldn't hold himself back: "Dad, when are we going to do it?"

Chen Dawei: "Don't worry, wait a minute, they will definitely not be enough to build four. I heard that they are coming to our village to recruit workers today. Ha, they are quite rich."

Chen Dawei was waiting for the day when the work was over to come and cause trouble for them, just to see Lin Shucheng and the others wasting their money.

*

Two days before the house was built, people from Linjia Village were all building the house together.

Lin Jinyue was dissatisfied that they were working too slowly, so she inquired about the labor costs for building a house nearby. It was not high. When she bought crabs in the morning, she asked Fatty Chen to ask how many people in the village were willing to come and help.

She thought that most of the people in the village were as xenophobic as Chen Dawei.

But she didn't expect that when the news about her spread, many people from Yunhe Village came over and wanted to sign up.

Lin Jinyue doesn't refuse anyone who comes. Anyway, with more people, the job can be finished a day earlier.

Lin Jinyue didn't treat them badly. She paid them wages and added meat dishes to every meal.

Fish is common on the seaside, but the meat is still more expensive.

It's not that Lin Jinyue is being blind and generous, but if the bacon sent by the people of Yunmeng County is not eaten, it will stink. The people in the village will probably be reluctant to throw it away if it smells bad.

Might as well finish it early.

As a result, the men in Yunhe Village worked harder, and Lin Jinyue became familiar with them.

Fatty Chen didn't even go fishing these two days, but came over to work in exchange for some money.

During the lunch break, while he was eating, Lin Jinyue came over.

Fatty Chen smiled happily, "Little girl, your food tastes good. When the house is built, I will give you crabs and small fish."

Seeing that he was in a good mood, Lin Jinyue asked about business: "Uncle, I just want to ask if anyone in the village is selling land? I don't know how much an acre of land costs. I want to buy some."

Fatty Chen immediately put away his smile and started to get into trouble.

After a while, he said:

"Girl, it's not that I'm xenophobic. Most of the people in our village still like you very much. You can get money to build a house and meat to eat. It's really not possible in this land. The main reason is that our village is by the sea, with a lot of wasteland and rice. What doesn’t come out is just growing vegetables.”

Lin Jinyue was surprised, "Then what do the people in your village eat?"

Fatty Chen then talked about the situation in their village.

A few of them were doing well and were allocated several acres of fertile farmland. Most of them fished and exchanged money to buy food in the town.

Speaking of this, Fatty Chen sighed: "Hey, I don't know what the situation is like in the north. Three years ago, before the war started, a pound of brown rice cost three cents. Now, it costs fifty cents a pound. Everyone has a hard time. It’s better than that, sometimes I have bad luck and have to go to the mountains to get some fruits to eat.”

"In fact, it is possible to open up wasteland, but it is very laborious. The land that is opened up will be taken back by the court."

When he said this, Fatty Chen's face was full of helplessness.

Lin Jinyue was surprised, "Then haven't you thought about moving somewhere else?"

Fatty Chen shook his head: "No, now we can still make a living by fishing. What if we move to another place and there is a war?"

Lin Jinyue thought about it too.

It seems that buying land here is out of the question.

Now that the price of food has increased more than ten times, it will only get higher if there is a war in the future. It seems that we have to stock up on more food while the price of food is not too outrageous now.

According to the current price of food, Lin Jinyue took out 150 taels to buy food, which could be exchanged for a total of 3,000 kilograms of brown rice. It looked like a lot, but there were also many people in their village.

It is estimated that it can only last for two months.

Lin Jinyue began to think about upgrading the farm again.

There are only about seventy of them, and it is definitely not cost-effective to go out to sea to find a piece of land to farm. The boat fee is expensive, and the safety of people passing by is not guaranteed.

Therefore, Lin Jinyue could only pray that the farm would be upgraded quickly and the potatoes or sweet potatoes could be produced quickly.

These two things are not as delicate as rice and can be grown on any piece of land.

But before unlocking the potatoes, the group still had to eat.

Lin Jinyue had to find ways to make money, and she also had to bring the people in the village to make money with her.

But it doesn't matter what they want here. She plans to go to Shawan County first, and after making a name for herself, she will let the villagers go to other towns and villages to sell.

Then this thing shouldn't be too expensive, and it should still be needed by everyone.

Lin Jinyue looked at the aunts around her. All of them were wearing long-sleeved cotton and linen clothes, with sweat on their foreheads.

Another aunt said: "Everything in Lingnan is good, but it's too hot. It's the hot season now, hey."

Not to mention, Lin Jinyue felt a little hot wearing silk and gauze clothes these days.

She missed the refrigerator and air conditioner in her previous life.

Lin Jinyue decided immediately that she wanted to start a cold drink business.

Everything from iced juice, mung bean paste, and ice cream are all arranged. This business is definitely profitable in Lingnan.

And most importantly, saltpeter can be used repeatedly.

In other words, you can make money by relying solely on labor.

This group of them has nothing but a lot of energy. They just want her to go to Shawan County to give it a try. If it works, when the house is completed, everyone can come together.

Lin Jinyue tiptoed to the school.

Among the children in the village, she is the only one who does not need to study.

Mainly because she has a good memory and is a history major. She knows the books she has read by heart when she has nothing to do.

Mr. Tan didn't embarrass her. After all, she was a girl and couldn't get any honors, so he just let her play around.

That is to say, Lin Jinyue didn't dare to write in front of Mr. Tan, otherwise Mr. Tan would have arrested her to practice calligraphy with the simplified Chinese characters that were missing arms and legs.

Just like Lin Xueqing now.

I was caught and went to work with the children in the village, and had to write big characters every day.

Recently, Lin Jinyue didn't dare to hang out in front of him, for fear that her brother would be unbalanced and drag her to write big characters together.

Lin Jinyue was confused when she saw those traditional Chinese characters. She could recognize them, but writing and memorizing them one by one was much more troublesome than someone who didn't know anything.

Lin Jinyue thought, why not just implement simplified Chinese characters in the village in the future?

Thinking like this all the way, Lin Jinyue quickly arrived at the school.

This was the first one to be built, with only a few pillars and a roof, and a layer of bamboo underneath. It looked very neat.

In fact, Lin Jinyue also wanted to hang light cyan gauze around it, but she had no money to buy it, so she could only do this first.

Lin Xueqing sat in the last row, took a charcoal pen and began to write traditional Chinese characters silently.

Lin Jinyue waved to him: "Brother, I need to go to Shawan County for something urgent."

Lin Xueqing immediately collected her things and took the opportunity to take three days off.

After graduating, who has to start from elementary school? Who can handle this?

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