If you keep making noise, I won’t stand it anymore!

Meixiang signaled with her eyes that Village Chief Wang should sit down and talk.

"Thank you, Miss Liu. Thanks to God, the baby was finally born and both mother and child are safe." Village Chief Wang replied happily while thanking her.

"That's great, congratulations on the new addition to your village."

"Yes, yes, congratulations."

The other village heads looked at Village Head Wang with envy and congratulated him.

"Hehe, thank you all, thank you all." Meixiang turned to look at everyone with a smile and asked, "I wonder what instructions Miss Liu has for me?"

Meixiang unconsciously turned the Buddhist beads on her left wrist, looked around at the people sitting there, and replied with a smile: "It's not a matter of giving orders. The potatoes that were trial-planted a few months ago were all picked today. The three acres of land produced a total of 1200 jin. This shows that the land and climate of Liuzhou Prefecture are very suitable for the growth of potatoes. Except for the 300 jin kept by the Liu Mansion for their own use, the rest will be handed over to the government office for processing." After saying that, she turned her head and looked at Chu Zeming and Feng Yizheng who were sitting next to them.

Chu Zeming looked at Feng Yizhen who nodded at him, then turned his head to look at the six village heads sitting opposite him and said, "Since Miss Liu has handed over the potato distribution to the government office, I will now talk about the principles of distribution. First of all, this batch of potatoes is used for seeds, so those who receive them can either plant them themselves or take them to Xiaoliu Village to trade the day after tomorrow. This point must be clearly communicated to the villagers in your own village."

The six village chiefs present all nodded repeatedly.

"Second, as the saying goes, 'the early bird catches the worm', people who are quick-witted and quick-moving will never suffer losses. Xiao Liu Village will not participate in the distribution of seeds this time, and will give it to other villages. However, this trading venue will be set in Xiao Liu Village in the future. Other villages are not allowed to organize transactions privately. The government will send people to assist in management. Can Village Chief Ou accept this?"

"I have no objection. Xiaoliu Village has potatoes that can be used for planting, and it is only right to give them to other villages." Village Chief Ou replied with a smile. The officials in the government office promised that the trading venue would be set up in Xiaoliu Mansion in the future. The benefits brought to Xiaoliu Village in the future would be more than just the potatoes now. Of course, he was very happy.

"What about you? Do you have any suggestions or better methods?" Chu Zeming turned and asked the other village chiefs.

"No, no, we will follow the adults' orders."

At this time, the head of Liujia Village, Liu, suddenly interrupted and said, "Sir, how should we divide the land among the five villages?"

Hearing this, Chu Zeming, Feng Yizheng and Situ Yidong all thought of the answer given by Village Chief Ou and Village Chief Liu about what they wanted to do after the village became rich. Meixiang was stunned for a moment and put down the tea bowl in her hand.

Chu Zeming looked at the shining eyes of Village Chief Liu and said, "Village Chief Liu, how many households are there in Liujia Village now?"

"One hundred and thirty households." Village chief Liu reported without hesitation.

"What about your four villages? How many households are there in each village?"

"Two hundred and ten households."

"Our village is relatively small, with only 80 households."

"There are 150 households in our village."

Village Chief Wang, who was sitting at the edge, finally replied: "Our village has a total of 320 households."

Chu Zeming took a look at the numbers calculated by Feng Yizhen and said to Meixiang with a smile: "What a coincidence, the total number of households from your five villages is 890, which is exactly one jin per household?"

"What a coincidence," Meixiang turned around and glanced at everyone sitting in the room and nodded, "I think it's great. Let's do as Mr. Chu said. I have no objection."

Seeing this, Chu Zeming turned around and handed the piece of paper that Feng Yizhen had counted to Chu Chen who was standing behind him: "See who is outside among Chen Da and the others, and ask them to distribute the numbers on this paper to the village heads of each village."

Then he turned to the village heads and smiled, "After you take the potato seeds back, make sure enough are distributed to each household. After you have distributed them, Village Head Liu, you must organize everyone to learn planting techniques and precautions as soon as possible."

After the other five village chiefs left, the last one left, Xiao Liu Village Chief Ou, asked Mei Xiang, "Ms. Liu, I want to expand the trading area. If there are villagers who want to sell other things, do you think it's okay?"

Meixiang looked at the village chief Ou in front of her and sighed again in her heart, "People are indeed different." Then she smiled and said, "We have built the stage for you. As for how to perform this play, it depends on your ability, village chief Ou. If you have any difficulties, you can come to Liu's house to find us at any time."

"Okay, with what the young lady said, I feel more confident. I will go back and prepare, and then go to the back mountain to dig potatoes after noon." Village Chief Ou replied with a smile.

Meixiang nodded and reminded him, "Remember not to dig the land in the back hill too clean, otherwise there will be no harvest next year."

"Okay, okay. I'll take my leave."

Watching Village Chief Ou leaving Liu's house in a hurry, Meixiang smiled and asked the three companions around her: "How are you? Is your brain very flexible?"

"He is very good at assessing the situation and knows how to sacrifice small gains for big ones." Chu Zeming commented.

"If we can set up this small trading market in their village, it could be useful."

Finally, Situ Yidong smiled and said, "Let's wait and see how Chen San's investigation goes before we decide."

Village chief Ou acted faster than expected. After noon, when Chu Zeming and Feng Yizheng went to the government office, Meixiang, Situ Yidong brought Xiaosan, Meiying and Xiaonuo to the back mountain of Xiaoliu Village. They saw a lively scene of all the villagers, young and old, digging potatoes together.

When Village Chief Ou left, Chen Da, Chen San and Xiao Er asked Meixiang to let them go back to Xiaoliu Village with him first. Now the three of them and the two young men who participated in digging potatoes in the morning, each of them brought three or five people to pull out the potato vines. Village Chief Ou was directing the strong men in the village to dig potatoes, the elderly and children were responsible for picking potatoes in the open space, and some of the women were responsible for helping to transport the dug potatoes to the open space in baskets, while some of them were checking at the back to see if there were any missed potatoes in the dug land, and occasionally burying one or two back.

As the pile of potatoes grew bigger, the chatter of people and the screams of children became louder.

“I didn’t expect this thing to be edible and have such a high yield?”

"Yes, yes, this thing has been growing on the hill behind for so many years and no one has discovered it. If it hadn't been dug up by Old Man Liu last time and recognized by Miss Liu next door, we wouldn't have known about it. In the future, you should be less likely to go hungry if you have this thing."

"Yeah, it seems that you still need to read more and be knowledgeable. Look at Miss Liu, she is different because she is knowledgeable. She not only knows how to grow crops, but also how to eat. When life gets better in the future, I will also send my children to school."

"Aunt, you are right. I want this."