Surviving the famine: I made my fortune by helping others

After struggling and shirking responsibility for several times, an adult among them who was quite prestigious but had never spoken a word finally took a step forward.

"It is our duty to help Lianshan Village, but Miss knows that things are different now. It has been so long, and none of us knows what happened back then."

"I am just an ordinary country girl, I don't know so many great principles. If you have anything to say, why don't you just say it directly?"

Ye Chuyi looked at him with an innocent look.

This old guy actually wanted to set a trap for her and was determined to extort more money from her.

The gentleman was choked and his expression darkened, but he had to continue, "In that case, I will make my words clear."

"My Lord, I will listen carefully to what you have to say."

Ye Chuyi looked at him obediently.

"We were invited here today. We originally wanted to meet the new owner of Lianshan Village. Now that we have met him, it is time to put the past behind us."

"Sir, what are you talking about? Why don't I understand?"

Ye Chuyi blinked innocently.

I knew she was pretending, but I couldn't do anything about it, which really made me angry.

The gentleman took a deep breath, took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket, and threw them on the table with a snap.

"Since you have also said that Lianshan Village is in great difficulty now and needs our help, and you need silver, we will give it to you, which can be regarded as repaying our original kindness. Naturally, we will have no contact in the future. If you agree, we can sign a contract and we will definitely give you the silver."

As soon as he finished speaking, several people behind him nodded in agreement.

Although they felt bad about paying such a large sum of money, they would naturally agree if it would allow them to completely end the issue with Lianshan Village.

Lianshanzhai is now nothing more than a useless refugee village. There will certainly be many holes to be filled in the future, so it is better to get rid of it as soon as possible.

If Lian Yunxi had not already given her a general overview of the situation, she would have been fooled by this old man with just a few words.

Originally he was just a slave in Lianshan Village, but now that he has become rich, he is really shameless.

"Does this gentleman mean to sever ties with our Lianshan Village?"

Ye Chuyi pretended to be distressed, and after a while he said in great distress, "I have heard from my elders that if you want to buy off a favor, it is very expensive. Ten thousand taels is not enough. It will take at least thirty thousand taels."

The gentleman looked at her for a long time before he sneered, "30,000 taels, sign the contract, and don't mention the past anymore."

"Since you are so determined, sir, I agree. Give me the silver."

Ye Chuyi quickly put away his expression and stretched out his hand.

The man gnashed his teeth and said, "I didn't bring that much silver today. I'll have someone deliver it tomorrow."

"That won't work."

Ye Chuyi refused firmly, "Let's write an IOU, in case someone refuses to pay."

As Ye Chuyi spoke, he quickly took out a few IOUs from his sleeves.

She had long ago instructed Baizai to prepare it based on the IOUs of this era, just in case of emergency.

"Please write down the amount of the debt and the reason, then sign your name and stamp your fingerprints on it."

The adults looked at each other and walked forward to sign.

Ye Chuyi was already beaming with joy when he saw the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver that had just come out of the oven.

Get rich! Get rich!

"I hope you'll keep your promise."

"Of course, once you give us the silver, we will definitely fulfill our promise."

Ye Chuyi waved the IOU in his hand, with a smile on his face, looking extremely happy.

After everyone left, Lian Yunxi asked in confusion, "Miss, why did you do this today?"

"For money, of course."

Ye Chuyi shrugged nonchalantly, "They didn't come here sincerely anyway. Instead of torturing each other, it's better to get some money back, which can be useful to us."

With the money, she can purchase more supplies, and even the construction of the village should be put on the agenda early and completed as soon as possible.

Ye Chuyi was planning happily in her heart, as if she could already see a bright future beckoning to her.

[Host, you still have a mission to complete!]

"It's just a porridge distribution mission, it can be arranged tomorrow, why are you in such a hurry?"

Anyway, she has already bought the food, so all she needs to do when the time comes is to set up the pot and cook the porridge.

[Host, are you sure you don't want to find out how many refugees there are outside the city?]

Although it didn't know why it had to go outside the city to find out this, but since the Lord God said so, there must be a reason.

"Probably only a few hundred." She took another look when she entered the city.

Although there were many refugees passing through, most of them did not stay, and there were not many outside the city.

There were so many people cooking in the big pot when they were fleeing from the famine, so such a small number of refugees was really not a big deal.

[Host, you should go and take a look. There might be new refugees coming. It won’t take much time to take a look anyway.]

Baizai blinked his big eyes and tried to persuade him softly.

"Okay, let's go take a look."

It just so happened that she also wanted to find some craftsmen to build a house in Lianshan Village.

There were almost no people on the road towards the city gate, and the originally bustling vendors had closed their stalls early, so they still arrived at the school gate smoothly.

The people standing at the city gate were the same guards they met when they entered the city.

The two sides greeted each other in a friendly manner, and Ye Chuyi stood at the city gate and began to observe.

This time, I discovered something incredible: countless refugees had gathered outside the city gate without anyone noticing.

The area surrounding the city wall was almost packed with water.

“Why are there so many refugees outside this city?”

"We don't know what happened. They suddenly showed up today and refused to leave. We have been standing here all day to watch these refugees and didn't even have time to eat."

The guards also had their grievances undone.

In the past, when I was on duty, I could secretly take a break as long as there was nothing important. But today was different. I didn’t even dare to move, for fear that some refugees would sneak into the city during the chaos.

"Is there no one in charge?" Ye Chuyi was very confused.

According to its configuration, Qingling Prefecture can be regarded as a small imperial city. When faced with such a thing, it should not be completely inactive, right?

"There are just too many of them, and it's impossible to manage them."

If the big shots in the city don't speak up, others can't do anything even if they want to.

"Miss, please be kind and give me something to eat. Please give me something to eat..."

There were cries of grief and shouting coming from the crowd, and more and more people began to gather around Ye Chuyi.

Ye Chu instinctively touched the space bracelet on his wrist.

Lian Yunxi saw her movements and quickly grabbed her arm, "Now is not the time."