Surviving the famine: I made my fortune by helping others

"Uncle Wang, the young lady said that we can just deal with it as we please. You can take me with you. I want to take a look too. I promise to be obedient and not make any trouble."

Du Jiayi smiled ingratiatingly. He couldn't even squeeze in when the people in front were being beaten. It was so miserable.

"If your parents agree, I'll take you."

Wang Chengde spoke the truth. He knew that the Du couple treated their youngest son like the apple of their eye, so he didn't dare to take anyone with him directly.

"Uncle Wang, how come you have learned bad things from them?"

Du Jia stamped his feet out of righteousness. His mother would definitely not let him go.

Wang Chengde ignored him and turned away silently.

"I heard that you guys caught someone. Don't you need to deal with him? I just came here like that."

Lian Yunxi greeted Ye Chuyi unwillingly.

"With Lao Wang and the others here, I don't need to worry about that. Let's talk about how to transform the village. Take a look at this new map I drew. What do you think?"

Ye Chu said this while smiling and spreading the notebook out on the table.

"I thought about it carefully again. The place we talked about last time was too small. I think it should be bigger, so I replanned it. Do you think it looks more upscale and classy now?"

Lian Yunxi didn't know what high-end and classy meant, but he knew that the people in the village had already started building according to what was said before. If anything was changed now, the construction would definitely be postponed and rebuilt.

This is such a waste of time.

"I think the previous one is good enough. Let's just stick with it. It will definitely be completed ahead of schedule. Let's talk about the new drawing later. What do you think, Miss?"

Even if we have food recently, we can't waste it like this. Physical work consumes a lot of food.

Especially their young lady, who is very generous and demands to eat a full meal at every meal. If this continues, the remaining food in their village will not be enough.

"You didn't even take a closer look, so why do you think this one isn't as good as the previous ones?"

Ye Chuyi pouted unhappily and pushed the notebook forward again.

"Based on the previous construction, we have added another wall on the periphery. This will serve as a line of defense for the village. If there is any danger, it will definitely buy enough time for the people in the village..."

Ye Chuyi kept talking, and Lian Yunxi had a splitting headache listening to him.

“Building a wall is not an easy task. The village does not have enough money to buy bricks and stones, nor does it have enough people to do the work.

Moreover, even if these are not a problem, it will take a long time to build the wall, and maybe everyone in the village will be gone.”

Lian Yunxi expressed his disapproval implicitly.

There was a sudden heavy rain some time ago, and he thought life would be better. However, he did not expect that the temperature has been rising recently. If it continues like this, the water source in the village might become a problem.

If they don't even have a chance to survive, how can they have the energy to do those things.

"The food in the village can last for several months, right? How could people suddenly disappear?"

Ye Chuyi muttered softly.

She also bought a lot of food in the space, so for now, this doesn’t seem to be a big problem.

"There are more refugees fleeing famine recently." Lian Yunxi said something irrelevant.

Although Lianshan Village is not on the main road, it is connected to the mountain after all. Some refugees who go to the mountain to try to find a way to survive will unconsciously enter Lianshan Village by mistake.

They have encountered several of them during their patrols recently.

Although the refugees I encountered recently were all lone refugees, what if?

What if someone with bad intentions breaks into the village, what if bandits come to kill us, what if...

Lian Yunxi hardly dared to think too deeply about it.

Perhaps even their mountain village was not far from being able to escape famine, which was why he did not quite support Ye Chuyi in building a village.

In his opinion, instead of spending so much money and energy on these things, it would be better to buy more food and prepare it.

If you really need to flee the famine, you won't leave in too embarrassing a situation.

The expression on Lian Yunxi's face was almost unconcealed, and combined with the meaning of his words, Ye Chuyi quickly guessed the reason.

"The village chief doesn't want to leave his home, right?"

"Of course I don't want to, but if it really comes to the point where I have no choice, I have to leave even if I don't want to."

As the leader of Lianshan Village, he has the mission to protect the entire village and cannot let the village be destroyed in his hands.

"What if I say we can stay?"

Ye Chuyi put away the smile on his face and looked at him seriously.

"You're not leaving?" Lian Yunxi was stunned for a moment, then a bitter smile appeared on his face. "The spring on the mountain doesn't produce much water anymore. It might dry up soon."

"Do you believe that there are gods in this world?" Ye Chuyi suddenly changed the subject and asked an irrelevant question.

"What are you talking about?" Lian Yunxi looked at her in confusion, not quite understanding how the topic had turned to this.

Ye Chuyi didn't say anything, but suddenly put his hand on the table.

As she opened her palm upwards, a transparent glass cup appeared in her hand.

Ye Chuyi seemed not to notice the surprise in his eyes. He gently shook the cup of water in his hand, put it to his lips, and took a sip.

"I want to build Lianshan Village into the safest, most beautiful place where we can go without worries. When do you think it's appropriate for us to start?"

Ye Chuyi smiled and shook the water cup.

"Now, we can start now, sir!" Lian Yunxi's eyes instantly lit up with a burning light.

It turns out that some things can only be solved more quickly by pretending to be cool.

"The things needed to build the house and the city wall will be prepared in the evening. I hope it can be completed as soon as possible."

Ye Chuyi still had a smile on her face. Although this man was not completely convinced by her, it didn’t matter. As long as she could achieve her goal, it was enough.

At worst, I can just exchange it for a few more pills.

[You are very courageous.]

"Thank you for the compliment." Ye Chuyi put the cup back into the space without much concern.

"By the way, where was the nearest county town you mentioned last time?"

"It's Lanlin County. If we walk there, it will take more than two days."

Lian Yunxi answered truthfully.

"I remember you said that the county was quite wealthy. How wealthy was it?"

Ye Chuyi looked at him curiously, his eyes focused.

Lian Yunxi thought for a moment before saying, "Lanlin County belongs to Qingling Prefecture. Although it is only a county, it is almost like a prefectural city. It is also adjacent to Qingling Prefecture, much closer than we are to Lanling County. There are many wealthy businessmen and officials in the city."

"A lot of officials?" Ye Chuyi looked over in confusion.

Even if there is an additional prefectural-type official position because it is adjacent to the provincial capital, and perhaps some retainers and officials or something, there is no need to use the word "many", right?