By the time Shen Shizhong and night began to fall, the Li family's small courtyard was filled with bursts of vegetable fragrance as usual, and the windows of the hall were wide open, bringing gusts of comfortable wind, which made the old village chief hum pleasantly.

"Hey, this weather, it's better at night, my old bones, it's really a little unbearable. The old village chief was still in the first place by everyone, and under the light of the candles on the side, Jinxiu actually found that the old village chief's sideburns had more white hair.

With a move in his heart, Jinxiu got up and picked up the wine jug and poured a full glass of wine for the old village chief, and persuaded in a low voice, "What do you need, just shout at me, I dried some mint leaves earlier, and cooked some sour plum soup, you add a little ice cube before drinking each time, you will be able to relieve the heat." ”

At the end, Jinxiu didn't forget to add a sentence "If you want ice cubes, there are all in the ice cellar in the backyard, you can always wronged yourself..."

The atmosphere in the room eased, Chen Jiangliu watched the rise of the excitement, ate three dinners in a row, drank two bowls of soup, and then breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Jinxiu and exclaimed

"Brother Jin, you are really good, this Surabaya City has changed a lot now, and now I am afraid that your words can make it tremble. ”

The fart obviously slapped the horse's leg, Jinxiu glanced at him, and changed the topic and said, "There are no outsiders in this house, as the parent official here, what do you think, do you want to report it or take measures directly? You can tell the rules and regulations, so that you can give an explanation to the people, right?"

Hearing this, Chen Jiangliu's expression suddenly turned solemn, and he nodded his fingers and said, "I haven't dealt with these things, and I haven't experienced them yet, but it's obvious that the ultimate thing I want for drought is water." ”

Seeing Jinxiu nodding, Chen Jiangliu breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "I want to organize people to dig the reservoir, well, each village will dig a few more, and when the time comes, even if there is a real drought, we can also strive for water to irrigate grain crops, so that the people will not really have a harvest." ”

When Chen Jiangliu looked up again, he saw that Jinxiu had already sat on the small table on the low kang and was writing with a pen, and at the same time he was smiling and adding a little confidence in his heart

"Then there is the scarcity of food, even so, but we can't buy wantonly, but we have to control the malicious price increase of rice merchants, we are sure of the west of Surabaya City, but otherwise, it is impossible to say...."

Hearing this, Jinxiu wrote while holding a pen, and suggested that "you can use wild vegetables and mountain delicacies instead, this game can be beaten and dried, and it can be stored for a long time after drying in the sun, and you can keep it for ...... to chew slowly."

The old village chief watched the two of them go back and forth, and the smile on the corner of his lips deepened, what he didn't know was that when he wasn't paying attention, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were slowly unfolding, and the white hair on his sideburns was slowly turning black.

The spirit of the whole person changed in an instant, if it weren't for the remarks of Chen Jiangliu and Jinxiu at this moment, which attracted most of everyone's attention, they would inevitably be discovered by everyone.

When night falls, the beating candles are reflected brighter and brighter, and the stone lanterns outside the window illuminate the world, which seems to be harmonious, but I don't know that it is the tranquility before the wind and rain?

At the table, Wuxian drank the soup one by one, but his gaze at Jinxiu became deeper and deeper.....

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Before dawn the next day, the gong sounded early in the village, Jinxiu frowned in her sleep, and only after a while did she reluctantly open her eyes, "There is a good saying, it's really self-inflicted...."

After dinner, Jinxiu and Wuxian pulled Chen Jiangliu and the old village chief to talk for a while, and confirmed a series of things needed to fight the drought before they went back to their rooms to rest.

After that, he dealt with Wuxian again, and arranged the next general trend of the imperial capital, so that he had a little free time to deal with the affairs of the Four Seas Teahouse and the Red-clothed Villa, and when she was busy lying on the bed, it was already past the time.

Looking at the sun hanging in the sky with golden edges at the beginning of the day, Jinxiu still struggled to get up, and watched through the window paper as everyone in the courtyard downstairs ran lightly down the slope. A smile slowly darkened Jinxiu's eyes.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this official ........ with the village chief last night" Chen Jiangliu's loud voice sounded in this silent village, bringing the villagers hope for vitality.

After washing up Jinxiu, she put on a plain simple suit, and after having breakfast in the hall, she went to the side room to find a lot of bamboo baskets and put them in the courtyard, and when she was almost busy, the courtyard door was just pushed open from the outside, and Jinxiu subconsciously looked up, and faced the old village chief's smiling face.

"Girl, do you see what's different about me?" The old village chief walked to Jinxiu with his hands behind his back, holding his head high and looking arrogant, without the anxiety of last night, the dazedness of the previous days, but he looked very lively, such an old village chief couldn't help but make Jinxiu a little stunned.

"Ah, you see. The panic was only for a moment, and Jinxiu, as the person concerned, could be said to understand the changes of the old village chief the best, but she still took great pains to walk up to the old village chief's uncle and said in surprise, "How can you sleep all night, grandpa, you are so young?

The original triumphant, when the last sentence of Jinxiu fell, it suddenly turned into crying and laughing, and when their grandfather and grandson were talking, the people who followed behind them had come and gone many times.

It was only at this time that Jinxiu noticed that the young people of Wuxian Junyi were all holding farm tools in their hands, and their clothes were tied tightly, looking like they were going to work, "This is going to work, what a fast movement....."

Jinxiu glanced obliquely at Chen Jiangliu, who had changed into a short shirt, and teased half-coolly.

"Don't dare to be unhappy, I'm afraid that your old man will be unhappy, so I won't even have to be this last official. Hearing the strange words of yin and yang, Jinxiu squinted, Chen Jiangliu accepted it when he saw the situation, and said with a flattering smile: "This man and young man are led by me, and the old and weak women and children are led by you." ”

Seeing that Jinxiu did not attack, but raised his eyebrows with interest, Chen Jiangliu said with a straight face, "We dig a reservoir at the bottom of the mountain, and you go to the mountain to pick wild fruits and dig traps to catch game."

Mangshan is unfathomable, I will choose some young and kung fu people to accompany you up the mountain, protect those who are untied, and tidy up those bamboo baskets by the way, it can also be faster. ”

Jinxiu shook her head when she heard this, "There are cable cars and Ah Da to transport things, you can get some people to protect those old and weak women and children, I can't do so many things with one person and two hands." ”

Hearing this, Chen Jiangliu was indispensable, smiling but unable to hide his gratitude, "Brother Jin, I won't say much polite words, gratitude is in my heart, this time, I just hope that everything goes well for us." ”

In this small courtyard, in this village of more than 100 households, everyone is struggling to live, and at that time, a storm was sweeping in the town outside Qingniu Village, which was enough to change people's livelihood and subvert the court.....