allonlinenovel Chapter 266 Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, how many tomorrows there are!
Chapter 266 Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, how many tomorrows there are!
The farce temporarily came to an end with Mengze's face bruised and swollen.
Lin Xi watched Meng Ze's miserable state from the side and silently mourned for him.
Mengze was ultimately implicated by him.
Although Gao Mengli "betrayed" him, he still chose to hide behind her like a quail.
Because the sense of security Gao Mengli gives him is always that of someone 1.8 meters tall, something that these six- or seven-foot men can't match.
At this moment, Tao, the village chief of Tutao Village, led the villagers to the city gate.
Gao Mengli and Lin Xi took a look and quickly went over.
Seeing the oxcarts following behind, Gao Mengli asked curiously, "Village Chief Tao, what brings you here?"
"Oh, boss, you're here too!"
Upon seeing Gao Mengli, Village Chief Tao's face immediately lit up with a smile. He rushed forward, bowing slightly, his respectful demeanor comparable to that of someone who had just met their God of Wealth.
He raised his hand to wipe away non-existent sweat from his forehead and quickly explained, "Master, that kid Dou Weiyi came to the village yesterday and asked us to help him out!"
As you know, we don't have much land; we mainly use it for making porcelain, so we don't have much grain.
But this year we borrowed some wasteland from that kid, and we plan to plant rapeseed, so we didn't plant winter wheat.
We'll plant cabbages in the field first to help the soil mature, and then we can plant rapeseed after the snow melts!
So, we have plenty of cabbages in our village, so we're sending ten truckloads over for your disaster relief!
Dou Weiyi, who had run over after hearing the sound of the wind, happened to hear what Village Chief Tao said and excitedly led his people over to unload the goods!
"Uncle Tao, you're here!"
Village Chief Tao glared at Dou Weiyi: "I know you're having a hard time, so once you get through this period, remember to settle our village's 'debts'."
After all, only half of the box full of IOUs had been repaid.
Now every household is donating cabbages, and after spring arrives, they will still need to buy some daily necessities.
After all, this year there's an abundance of cabbage, so every household is raising three or four pigs.
This is not what Dou Weiyi said; he also mentioned that Wangyue Village might need to raise a large number of pigs for them to eat first.
Now that the cabbages have been donated, we'll need to buy vegetables to feed the pigs in the spring, which will cost money.
Upon hearing Village Chief Tao's words, Dou Weiyi blushed slightly, felt awkward for a moment, and hurriedly replied, "Don't worry, don't worry, I will definitely settle the accounts in the spring, I will definitely settle them!"
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, how many tomorrows there are!
We'll talk about it when we have the money, not now!
Thanks to the cabbages donated by Tutao Village, the disaster victims were able to eat vegetables during the winter.
Zhuangzhuang from Xingyu Village also brought his people over.
Yang Qiao'er was newly married, but her lively girlish nature remained unchanged, so she must not have suffered any grievances in her husband's family!
She arrived at the city gate and ran over with a beaming smile: "Big brother, sister-in-law!"
Gao Mengli and Lin Xi saw this and quickly waved to her.
Gao Mengli held Yang Qiao'er's frozen hands, rubbed them for her, and then pulled her next to the large stove to warm herself by the fire.
"Qiao'er, what brings you here?"
Yang Qiao'er brought her hand close to the stove, feeling the warmth seep into her skin, and replied crisply, "Sister-in-law, our village chief is too old to come over on a snowy day."
So I asked my husband and the villagers to come and donate some food from the village!
Gao Mengli gently tapped Yang Qiao'er's nose, doting on her like an elder sister: "Your village chief is so thoughtful, still thinking about the disaster victims in the city in this freezing weather."
Yang Qiao'er giggled, her cheeks flushed red in the firelight: "Sister-in-law, we raise pigs in our village, so we don't grow much grain, but we grow quite a lot of pumpkins. Please don't look down on them..."
She felt a little awkward at this point.
After all, they mainly grow pumpkins to feed pigs.
Every household was a large-scale pig farmer, so the cellars were mostly filled with pumpkins.
On weekdays, the pigs are fed with pig feed, pumpkin, rice bran, and tofu residue and fried dough from the Wangyue Village tofu workshop. As a result, the pigs grow to be fat and strong!
Seeing Yang Qiao'er's embarrassed expression, Lin Xi quickly patted her shoulder gently: "Qiao'er, what are you saying?"
In this year of famine, pumpkins are a valuable commodity.
The disaster victims are already grateful to have a hot meal; they wouldn't complain. You and your fellow villagers brought this from so far away; it's a godsend, and everyone is more than thankful.
Upon hearing this, Yang Qiao'er grinned happily again.
Gao Mengli smiled and looked up, only to see Dou Weiyi and Zhuangzhuang carrying down five slaughtered pigs.
Xingyu Village actually donated pigs!!
They're definitely big-scale breeders, they're really extravagant!
Aside from the poor living conditions, the food these disaster victims are eating is even better than what they ate before they fled the famine!
Who knows, after the snow melts and spring arrives next year, they might be willing to stay in Pingyao and not go back.
Other villages in Pingyao County also sent food one after another. The villagers of Wangyue Village donated quilts to every household, since the village mainly makes down quilts and down-filled quilts.
These can be donated to disaster victims.
Villagers would come to the city gate every day to help cook porridge, do odd jobs, and settle the disaster victims who came to Pingyao one after another.
The disaster victims who came to Pingyao originally intended to go south to the prosperous prefectural city to escape the disaster.
But Pingyao offered them so much, and it was so good, that they were reluctant to leave.
Some people think that if a small county like Pingyao can provide such good conditions, then the prefectural cities in the south must be even better.
Some people stayed for only a few days before continuing south.
Dou Weiyi didn't interfere either. He figured it was better to let go of those people who had benefited and wanted even better things.
Those who remained were all registered and given disaster victim badges.
After all, with good food, troublemakers from neighboring villages would always come over to freeload.
Disaster victim badges were issued, and people could come to collect food by showing their badges, which would prevent this group from being affected.
From the first day Da Niu asked for leave, Yu Mengmeng simply gave all the students a holiday.
After all, the city gate is crowded and the situation is complicated, and it is not safe for some "commuter" students to come to class.
When he had some free time, he took the two scholars to the city gate to help out.
However, he and Qin often quarreled.
Gao Mengli and Lin Xi watched the commotion from the sidelines, munching on sunflower seeds.
Seeing that there was an "audience," the two stopped arguing, and their relationship grew better day by day.
This made Gao Mengli and Lin Xi find it boring.
The snow fell for half a month and then stopped.
The sun shines every day, but it doesn't provide much warmth; it feels like the winter sun only serves to provide illumination.
By December, the snow had melted.
Dou Weiyi, full of vigor and high spirits, led the disaster victims to dig river channels and build docks!
He wanted to pave the road first, but buying bricks costs money, and he couldn't afford it for the time being!
He could only maximize his own interests by digging the riverbed while there were many people around.
After the snow began to melt, people from Nan Chang'an returned to Pingyao County from the prefectural city.
The carriage smoothly drove into Wangyue Village.
At the village entrance, a hunched-over couple with half their hair turned white stepped down from a horse-drawn carriage.
Nan Chang'an pointed to the canteen and said, "Your nephew should be in the canteen now. You can go ahead first. I need to go into the village workshop to load goods!"
The couple nodded slightly, their eyes filled with weariness and anticipation.
The husband tightened his somewhat worn cotton coat, took his wife's arm, and said softly, "Let's go!"