Chapter 979 Buying the mountain
979 Buying the mountain Her family’s expression if possible only became even more puzzled, seeing this Yu Dong sighed and then said seriously, ” Grandma, everyone…have you forgotten? The last time we were attacked by the Big Stone Village—— they used the barren mountain to cross over to our village?”
Grandma Yu’s eyes narrowed as she said in an annoyed voice, ” How can we forget that, those people almost killed us all. They even tried to harm a few mers and children when their wives were taken away by Magistrate Li!”
After the New Year, Yu Dong went to the town and handed her testimony to the Yamen officer and because this matter was much bigger than the one that the head of the Yamen could suppress, she could only ignore the pleading of her sister-in-law who was the head of the Big Stone Village. n0𝑽𝔢𝓵𝐔𝑠𝚋.𝐜0𝔪
Once the matter was settled the women who joined their hands in cannibalistic activities in the Big Stone Village were taken away by the yamen officers, ever since then the mers and the elderlies of that village would try to attack their village something that annoyed the villagers of the Big River Village a lot.
But the barren mountains were not under the governance of anyone, not even Yu Dong who owned the entire land of their village. Which gave the villagers of the Big Stone Village a lot of courage and advantage while attacking their villagers!
“That’s exactly what I am trying to say,” Yu Dong had a serious expression on her face as she continued speaking, ” And the situation in the upcoming days will become even worse. As you already know because of the untimely flood, the crops of many villages were destroyed…some even lost their lands and had to move to another village. At the current moment when the imperial family is in turmoil, there is no way they will come to our aid, the situation if possible is going to become even worse.”
Her words caused the entire family to turn serious because what Yu Dong said was indeed right, the imperial city had yet to send any help to the villages who lost their livelihood. Because of the sudden onslaught of tragedies, many villagers had to move to another place and yet they were not allocated any land as the officials were busy in their own duties.
Though some honest officers like Magistrate Li tried to help the villagers who left their lands, it was a situation of trying to quench one’s thirst by drinking the morning dew.
A moment later, Ye Liu opened his mouth and then asked, ” I am not against raising our livestock on that mountain but even if that mountain is not as big as the one behind our house. It’s not that small either, If we raise a mountain worth of animals then how will we take care of those livestock? And what’s more, once we start selling our animals and plant products at such a large scale then we will end up standing out too much. What if someone eyes our business and tries to create problems for us?”
Ye Liu knew that there was something fishy going on, Yu Dong had closed the shop in the capital and never once brought up the matter of opening that shop again. She had completely pulled herself back from the capital and what’s more, Ye Liu had heard from the villagers that someone in the town was asking about the inventor of the rice bran oil. Because everyone’s benefits were attached to the mill that was running in their village no one dared to give out Yu Dong’s name but it was enough to let others know that Yu Dong was being targeted and thus Ye Liu did not wish for his wife to attract any more attention.
Yu Dong had indeed thought of this matter before but she had come up with a way to handle the matter which was why she calmly smiled and then replied, ” There is no need for you to worry about this, I have already told Magistrate Li about my plans and she has agreed to help me in hiding my identity. The shop though under my name will now be shown as a property that is owned by Marquis Qiao, I am sure even those who are trying to pry into our lives would think twice before trying to attack us.”
When the mers heard Yu Dong’s response they were still a bit worried but they knew that buying the barren mountain and making use of it was important and thus they softly sighed before Shen Li agreed with a gentle nod, ” If you have thought everything through then go ahead, Dong Dong. I will not stop you from buying that mountain.”
Ye Liu also nodded after carefully thinking and then said, “You have my support too but what are we going to do about butchers?”
At that moment, Chen Mi raised his hand and then said hurriedly, ” Ooh, Ooh! I can ask my mother to come with my sisters and start living in our village. You might not know this but my elder sister is very good with her butchering skills !”
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Tomorrow is my birthday and I will be taking two days off hehe.