"Pfft!" The village head's wife spat hard. "If you're a coward, just admit it. Why are you shifting the blame onto me? Fine, I'm done with you. You figure it out on your own! No one will be happy if their land is taken away. I'd like to see how you're going to explain this later!"
The village head was also worried about this. There was plenty of land in the village, but the size and specific location of each household's contracted land had been recorded for years.
Now that he had suddenly changed his mind, the village head really didn't know how to explain it to them.
"What else can we do?" The village head said with a rueful look as he put on his clothes and shoes, then followed his wife to the outer room. "We'll have to redraw the land for everyone in the village and say that the policy has changed. What else can we do?"
This was the only solution the village head could think of.
The village head's wife snorted. She wondered if this would really win people's hearts.
Some people might be happy, but others wouldn't. In the end, it would still be their family that would be in a bind.
The village head's wife angrily added firewood to the stove. "I think we should find someone who has always looked down on the Yun family and allocate the land to them. Even if the Yun family benefits, the other family won't be happy. Let them fight it out on their own. Why do you have to get involved?"
The village head had been worrying about how to solve this problem. But after his wife's suggestion, he suddenly had an epiphany.
Right! Why didn't he think of that? It was really hard to explain the land issue, and he was also reluctant to allocate the land to the Yun family.
But he would never accept letting them gain an advantage. His wife's idea was really good.
"You're so smart!" The village head exclaimed and slapped his wife's shoulder hard. "Wait for me. I'll go and handle this right away."
The village head's wife stood up. "I was just saying it casually. Are you really going to do it? They've always been so honest. Even if you do that, are you sure someone will have the nerve to bully them?"
"Don't worry about it." The village head waved his hand. "I have my own way to handle this."
The village head brought the people to the village branch office as promised and discussed it with the secretary. The secretary didn't have any objections to this. Anyway, he could see clearly that it was the village head's own idea whether to offend people or not. He just nodded and agreed.
If something went wrong later, it would be the village head who would take the responsibility. What did it have to do with him?
So the village head put the matter of re - dividing the land on the agenda. Since the Yun family was urging, he directly allocated a piece of land to them and told them to start working.
The three siblings were finally allocated the land. They were so happy that they didn't even eat breakfast and went directly to the fields to work.
The land they got this time was especially good. The soil was fertile, the crops grew vigorously, and it was convenient to cut pigweed. So the whole family started to work hard.
"I didn't expect you guys to really pull this off," Yun Yi said. "I thought the village head would kick you out."
Yun Jianzhou ruffled Yun Yi's hair. "We should really thank our little sister. If it weren't for her being so smart, we might not have gotten the land back."
The village head had a lot of nonsense to say. Yun Fujin was an honest man. Sometimes when someone retorted him, he couldn't say a word. And Yun Jianzhou only knew how to be tough and didn't know how to be flexible. So if it were just the two of them going there today, the village head might have succeeded.
But Yun Que'er didn't care about all this. She kept her head down and worked hard.
She had made great contributions to the family in the past few days and accumulated a lot of goodwill, which was enough for her to draw a lottery many times.
Yun Que'er thought about saving up for ten times and then drawing the lottery together. Maybe if she drew the lottery more times, she would be lucky enough to draw something really helpful to her.
"Little Que'er, stop working," Yun Fujin said. Seeing that Yun Que'er was so tired that her face was red and her forehead was covered with sweat, he lovingly wiped her face. "Look at you. You're getting sunburned. You might get heatstroke later. There's a shady place over there. Go and stay there. We'll take care of this."
"I'm not tired," Yun Que'er said stubbornly, waving her little hand. "My brother and sister are working. How can I not work?"
She had to seize the time to accumulate more goodwill, so she couldn't stop.
Yun Fujin looked at Yun Que'er, feeling both heart - ache and proud. He poured her some cold water, told her to drink it, wiped her little face clean, and then worked beside her.
Yun Yi was the fastest. In a blink of an eye, she had left the others far behind.
She turned around and shouted, "Can you guys hurry up? The land is much bigger than before. If you all work at this speed, how can you finish the work? If the village head sees this, he'll have something to say. He might even take back the land!"
Yun Jianzhou scoffed. "Your sickle is sharp. Don't you see what kind of junk we have?"
Yun Jianzhou showed the sickle in his hand. "It's all rusty. I can't sharpen it. I'd like to work faster, but can I?"
"Humph," Yun Yi said proudly, raising her head. "If you can't do it, just admit it. Why are you talking so much nonsense? If you want, you can use mine!"
As she said that, she wanted to throw the sickle over.
Yun Jianzhou dodged quickly. "Come on. Do you want to kill your second brother? Who throws a sickle around like that!"
Yun Que'er burst out laughing. "Second brother, you can actually use third sister's sickle. Third sister has another knife. Maybe she can cut even faster with it."
Yun Jianzhou glanced at Yun Yi and sneered.
"What can that small knife do? Forget it. Let her scold me. Let's see how much faster she can be!"
Since Yun Yi got the multi - functional knife, she had been carrying it in her pocket like a treasure. It was on her at the moment. She hadn't thought much about it before, but after hearing Yun Que'er's words, she suddenly saw a way. So she simply ran back and handed the sickle to Yun Jianzhou.
Yun Jianzhou was startled. "What? Are you mad at what I said? You really give me the knife?"
Yun Yi put her finger through the ring of the multi - functional knife and twirled it in her hand. She said proudly,
"Didn't you say your knife was no good? I'll give you my sickle. I'll use this one to cut. Let's see who can outdo the other. If you still can't beat me, then..."
Yun Yi rolled her eyes. "Then you'll buy me a new fountain pen!"
"You're asking for too much!" Yun Jianzhou said, wide - eyed. "Fountain pens are so expensive. Don't you already have one? Don't waste money!"
Yun Yi showed her fist to Yun Jianzhou. "Don't think I don't know that you've hidden some money from selling sweet potato chips. You'll just spend it on food and drinks anyway. Buying me a fountain pen is just a drop in the bucket. Are you really that stingy?"
Yun Que'er was surprised. "Second brother, you've been hiding a stash?"