The female doctor farmed the land, bought a husband and set up a separate household

Chapter 120: Work in lieu of rescue

With Si Chenan helping with household chores, Jiang Sining felt much more relaxed.

Every day he would go to the brick kiln and use some of the fired bricks and cement to build houses and repair walls for the villagers, and store the rest in the space.

I teach the kids math in the afternoon and make some side dishes in the evening.

After a few days, she felt that this was the life she wanted.

If Mr. Liu hadn't sent someone to deliver the message, she might have continued to enjoy it like this.

Mr. Liu, a kind man, asked someone to tell her that people in several villages in Gaochuanji had already started preparing to flee the famine.

Logically speaking, since there was no harvest this season, the whole family wouldn't have to leave their homeland. But the abominable thing was that in order to collect enough food, County Magistrate Shen robbed many people of their stored grain.

Those families were already poor, and now they don’t have any food left at home, so they can only drag their families to other places to beg for food.

But Jiang Sining knew that the disaster caused by this heavy rain affected the entire Daxia, and it was the same no matter where you went. Perhaps there were places even worse than Gaochuanji.

After all, there are still many mountains and forests in Gaochuanji, and if there is no other way, you can go into the mountains to find something to eat.

In the plains, they can only eat wild grass roots.

When Si Chenan heard the news, a look of worry appeared on his face. Although he was not the kind of person who cared about the country and the people, he knew that Jiang Sining was.

So as her husband, he must help share her worries.

"Madam, why don't we open the warehouse and provide some relief."

Relief is definitely necessary, but it is not what Si Chenan said, that is, directly opening the warehouses to release grain.

This would be too conspicuous, and with so many people in Gaochuan County, the food she had would only be enough to last for half a month.

But what about half a month later?

Does everyone drink northwest wind?

"The best solution now is not to provide relief," Jiang Sining said, "but to provide relief through work."

The family members looked at each other, none of them quite understood.

They can understand the idea of ​​working in exchange for rescue, but where will the work come from?

The family needs people to burn bricks in the kiln, make wine, and farm. The villagers of Liuyun Village are already more than enough, so how can we arrange for people from other villages to come?

Besides, we don’t need so many bricks.

"We can do something else." At this point, Jiang Sining didn't plan to hide it anymore, and said, "I have some ideas that can be implemented now."

"doing what?"

"We make bamboo products, furniture, and farm tools," Jiang Sining said. "We make whatever we can."

"Who are you going to sell it to?" Mrs. Chen was a little confused when she heard it. "Si Ning, you have to think it over carefully before you decide."

As for this mother-in-law, since she came to our house, she basically did not interfere in anything. She took a maid to her few acres of land to grow vegetables every day. It was really rare.

So for all this time, the family has not had any disputes.

"Mother-in-law, don't worry about this. We will definitely be able to sell them." Jiang Sining said, "But mother-in-law is right. Let's each make a little bit first, and then increase the production to see which one sells better."

Jiang Sining entrusted the task of recruiting villagers to do the work to Mr. Liu, a kind man.

He asked people to guard the various intersections in Gaochuanji, and if they saw anyone trying to escape the famine, they should tell them that Liuyun Village needed helpers.

In just two days, more than a dozen families came to Liuyun Village.

Almost every rural person in this world can weave bamboo products, such as backpacks and baskets. Some have learned carpentry, but there are no master craftsmen.

Jiang Sining asked her uncle-in-law to take charge and make some simple things like small tables and stools.

As for the invited villagers, they were first asked to find a place at the foot of the mountain and build shacks.

In addition to two meals a day, those who help with the work are also paid on a piece-by-piece basis based on the work each person does.

Although the unit price is not high, as long as you are willing to work, you can earn money every day. These villagers are grateful to tears. Isn't this a hundred times better than begging with your family?

After half a month, the number of families coming to Liuyun Village to work has increased to more than 50 households, and the woven bamboo products and small furniture have piled up into a small mountain in Jiang Sining's space.

If we don’t sell it now, we will have too much silver piled up.

I don’t know what’s going on with Xia Shan. It’s been so long, and he still hasn’t climbed over those mountains?

As a result, Xia Shan sent a message the next day.

"Ma'am, we're here."

"Where are you?"

Xia Shan: "I don't know where this place is, but it looks like the locals are living well. There are really a lot of fruits I've never seen before. I asked around, and they said it only takes half a month to get here by car from the sea."

Life was good, there were plenty of fruits, and it was not far from the beach. Jiang Sining guessed that Xia Shan was probably in Thailand now.

"Xia Shan, I have a new task for you."

"Ma'am, please speak."

"Find a way to sell the things I put in your space."

Xia Shan, who was far away in a foreign country, soon got the hint and put a lot of things into the space.

When he checked, he found that they were all bamboo items and small furniture, and he was a little confused.

Can these things be sold here?

With the mentality of giving it a try, Xia Shan brought a group of his men to a larger market town and set up a large stall.

As a result, the locals, who had never seen these bamboo products before, came to buy them.

In less than half a day, he had sold almost all the goods.

Seeing such good sales, Jiang Sining felt relieved and asked Xia Shan to use all the money from selling bamboo products and furniture to buy food and various fruits.

And asked Xia Shan to investigate further what the local people lacked and what they liked, so that she could produce according to a plan.

“Iron deficiency.”

When Jiang Sining saw the two words Xia Shan replied, his face turned pale.

In such an era, where is there no shortage of iron?

The problem is that there are no iron mines in the provincial capital where Gaochuanji is located. In addition, due to government control, it is absolutely impossible to produce steel on a large scale in a short period of time.

How about letting Xiashan continue south and take a boat to Australia?

In the end, Jiang Sining gave up the idea. The timing was not right. Iron ore cannot be produced without coal mines. It would be better to make plans later.

The first priority now is to get enough food.

So she continued to purchase large quantities of bamboo products and small furniture based on the market conditions provided by Xia Shan, and even found a few old carpenters to make some large furniture such as wardrobes and chests of drawers under her guidance.

These things can be sold at a very high price, but the cost is pitifully low. The money earned is exchanged for cheap food and fruit. In just a month or so, more than 30,000 kilograms of food and fruit were earned.

Xia Shan did business along the way and finally came to the seaside.

It was the first time he saw the sea, and he was so shocked by the vastness of the water that he couldn't sleep for several days.

Jiang Sining also made a promise to him: "Make money well, and one day in the future, I will take you to see the other side of the sea."

"On the other side of the sea?" Xia Shan was instantly fascinated. "Madam, what is on the other side of the sea?"

"There are so many good things," Jiang Sining replied, "Spiders as big as fists, three-foot-long earth dragons, wild rabbits everywhere, and rats that are as tall as a person when they stand up and can fight with people."

"I will definitely make good money!"

Xia Shan was full of motivation, and he gathered many of his men locally, forming a caravan of several hundred people, which traveled almost all over Southeast Asia.

Just when his business was booming, good news finally came from Qingyu.

"Ma'am, I have arrived at a magical place."