Chapter 427: A Good Start!

The change of the village chief surprised Li Yi, but at the same time it also made Li Yi relieved. read

To retreat is to advance, this is Li Yi's tactic.

Why did the village chief agree?

Because first, the current situation in Tongcang Village is indeed not optimistic.

The second is that Li Yi and the others also showed enough respect and sincerity by personally picking the grain into the mountains.

You don't need to think about it to know that the people who came here the past few times were all big bosses with delicate bodies and expensive bodies. They were out of breath just entering the mountain, let alone bringing anything with them.

What is the easiest thing to bring?

Of course it’s banknotes!

But are banknotes useful to these villagers?

It's no use at all!

They stay in the village all year round, and most of the villagers have never left the village in their lives. What's the use of asking for money?

These big bosses all have a fixed mindset, that is, everyone likes money!

But what they didn't consider was what the villagers needed!

Is it so easy to impress a village that has been closed for almost decades? For the villagers, does it make sense to build a school and how much money they can earn?

If you have that time, why not go over the land twice more!

It is precisely because of the conflict between these two ideas that the so-called philanthropists in the past few times were not popular.

Li Yi knew this, so he adopted the simplest and simplest method, which is to give you whatever you need, just like food. If you don't have food to eat, then I will transport food for you from outside!

Li Yi's only oversight was that the lack of food here was simply too serious!

Looking around the surroundings of the village, I saw that the amount of food that could be grown in this place was limited, let alone self-sufficient.

It was fine some time ago, after all, they have been here for so many years, but the last heavy rain and landslides really caught the villagers off guard.

Each family doesn't store a lot of food. When encountering such a ruthless natural disaster, they can only save food and dig wild vegetables and the like.

Moreover, this place can be said to have nothing to offer, and the villagers basically rely on themselves to explore it with their own hands.

There were originally a lot of piglets, but due to the wet and cold weather, almost half of them died. Now there are only three pigs left in the whole village. These three pigs are also malnourished, and how long they can live is a question.

The only nutritious thing is eggs. God knows how precious eggs are, and chickens are even more so. There are only a few chickens in more than a thousand households, only a few.

After roughly understanding the situation, everyone felt heavy.

The village chief who walked in front never said anything, but Gangzi, who had just walked out, introduced the current situation to everyone. He summed it up in two words: It's so miserable!

Li Yi also frowned and followed the crowd, observing the situation in the village from left to right, looking for countermeasures in his mind.

What can be done to improve the current situation? If you really want to make a change, you must first let the villagers have enough to eat!

In other words, the food problem must be solved first!

At this moment, the village chief stopped.

"This is our granary. The food in it is limited. I have gathered all the food in the village."

The small thatched house in front of us is the granary of the entire village.

Of course, this thatched house is actually just one of the granaries. There are five more granaries like this in the entire village, scattered around the village.

The climate and soil here are suitable for growing red rice and sweet potatoes, which are the two most common crops. There are also a lot of rice straws in the warehouse, which can be used to make straw sandals. This has always been the case in Tongxiang Village.

From Li Yi's point of view, although there is a lot of food in these warehouses, if you eat it freely, it will not last long, because if the nutrients ingested by the human body are too single, the body will definitely When something goes wrong, once something serious goes wrong, there is nothing you can do about it.

After taking everyone to see the granary, the village chief said helplessly: "We have grown potatoes before, but then some problems occurred, as you all know, that is landslides, and many potatoes were buried in the soil. It’s nowhere to be found in the pile.”

Chen Ruqing nodded when he heard this, and then expressed his doubts:

"After all these years, you have used up all the food you saved? It stands to reason that it is spring now, and there should be no problem with food supply for a few months, right?"

The middle-aged man sighed and said: "I know what you mean, the problem is here. We do have food in stock, but some people came from the mountain village a few days ago. They don't have much food there, so we divided some of it. I gave it to them, thinking that it would be the season for the crops to mature, so it would be no big deal, but they suddenly encountered a landslide!"

"Later, we asked people to go to Kaoshan Village to think of a way to solve the current problem, but Kaoshan Village was actually buried by a mudslide, and I was completely at a loss. Isn't this just trying to dig up the land with the villagers? While the weather is still warm, are you thinking of planting another batch of sweet potatoes..."

Li Yi sighed. Everyone wants to live well these days, but sometimes God just doesn't give him face or a way to live!

But now that I am here, I will try my best to help these villagers!

The middle-aged man wiped the rain off his body and said in a deep voice: "We know best how difficult the mountain road is. You don't have a day to go back and forth. It's not enough at all, let alone carrying so much food. Yes, we know our situation well, thank you for still thinking of us! But we have to solve the food problem ourselves!”

When Chen Ruqing heard this, her nose felt sour, but she had no way to refute.

That's right, what they can do is really limited, and there is no good way to change the current situation!

There are thousands of households in a village, what can this little food do?

Chen Ruqing patted the middle-aged man on the shoulder and said: "When I turn around, I will tell all the residents in the town to prepare food, even bags by bags, and we will make sure you have enough to eat!"

We have all come here, we have come to the village, and we have seen the current situation of the village. Why should Chen Ruqing just back down like this?

Absolutely impossible!

The village chief was immediately moved. This middle-aged man seemed to have some good senses about the people outside for the first time. There seemed to be a warm current flowing out of his heart. It seemed that the outside world had not forgotten the existence of such a Tong Village. !

Li Yi was very moved when he looked at the scene in front of him, but an idea flashed in his mind, and he had a solution!