Chapter 23 – The Wasteland South of the City

South of the city wasteland thing, the nanny gave Wei Ruo back to the letter, told Wei Ruo south of the city wasteland belongs to the owner of the land, the case law belongs to the government, the people want to reclaim, you have to get the government’s consent.

In the past, the county governor of Xingshan County in the ordinary wasteland reclamation this matter is not much stuck, the city south of the wasteland is generally do not want to land is even less stuck, someone is not afraid of suffering and not afraid of death want to take a piece of barren so poor that can not grow any crop land for planting, they have no reason not to agree.

However, nowadays is a special period, the Japanese invaders are raging. Although the south direction of the city is a hundred times better than the east due to the terrain outside and less likely to be disturbed by Japanese invaders, there are still some risks, and for this reason the government does not quite allow ordinary people to go out of the south city gate.

Ordinary people who want to take that land have no chance at all, the government doesn’t agree.

Ordinary people can’t, so if it’s the school captain’s house, isn’t that a possibility?

Although Wei Ruo didn’t want to get too involved with the School Captain’s Office in these matters, the thin and bony beggar he saw on the street that day floated in his mind from time to time.

There was also the situation in Xingshan County that she had inquired about and learned about over the past few days; natural and man-made disasters might not have had much of an impact on the school captain’s office, but those people living at the bottom of the hierarchy were already in dire straits.

She knew that if things came to fruition, she could help some of the people within her reach, not all, but at least one would be helped and one would live, and that was a live human life!

And she herself was really keen on completing her experiments in improving the saline soil.

Thinking about it again and again, Wei Ruo came to Cang Yun Yuan where the Yun Clan lived.

Yun had just finished working with the shopkeeper to reconcile last month’s account books.

The shopkeeper’s front foot went out, and Wei Ruo’s back foot came in.

“Why is Ruo’er here? You wait first, Mother will take care of these account books first.” Yun did not specifically avoid Wei Ruo, not knowing if it was because Wei Ruo was her daughter or because she felt that Wei Ruo could not read the account books.

Wei Ruo didn’t rush and stood by for a while looking at the account book in Yun’s hands.

After reading a few pages, Wei Ruo realized that the store was in a state of loss.

Visible in these two years Wei family’s economic situation is really bad, not only the grain harvest on the manor, even with the store’s revenue situation is not too good.

After a while, Yun finished reading the last of the ledgers as well and put them all away before pulling Wei Ruo to sit on a nearby tread.

“Did Ruo’er come to see Mother for something?” Yun inquired.

Wei Ruo returned to the Wei family for more than a month, or the second time he came to find himself, the first time because he wanted to go to the manor in the north of the city to see.

Therefore, Yun could conclude that Wei Ruo also had something to ask for when he came to find himself today.

“Mother, I heard that the harvest of the family’s manor has not been very good for the past two years, and the grain produced is not enough for the family to eat.” Wei Ruo inquired.

Upon hearing this Yun visibly froze for a moment, clearly not expecting Wei Ruo to say this.

Sighing slightly before saying, “This matter shouldn’t have been a concern for you, and I don’t know which underling had more mouths to feed, Mother will have to punish and penalize him.”

“It’s not that the subordinates are talkative, but I saw it when I went to the north of the city that time.” Wei Ruo said.

“Oh, that’s right, you should know about that.” Yun said.

The child grew up in the countryside, daily contact with the most is the matter of farming, than the general raised in the bosom of the young lady to know a little more is not understandable.

Yun explained, “It’s not a matter of our family, it’s the entire Xingshan County, and even the entire Taizhou Prefecture’s harvest for the past two years has not been very good, and our manor in Xingshan County is naturally not an exception.”

“But Ruo-er don’t worry too much, our family is not that bad, there is your father’s salary, there is also some savings at home, the days are a little bit hard, but not so bad that we can’t go on. It’s the people who are suffering, these years, the Japanese invaders are already not very good, plus the year is not good, it’s even worse, this day is more and more difficult day by day.”

Seeing that the padding was almost done, Wei Ruo asked about the saline land in the south of the city.

“Mother, that piece of barren land south of the city is still empty, if it can be planted, it should be able to solve the problem of feeding quite a few people.”

Yun smiled and shook her head, “Ruo’er it’s good that you’re thinking of your family, but that piece of wasteland outside of the city is so desolate that weeds can’t even grow a few, because the soil over there just doesn’t work, and you can’t grow anything to live.”

“Mother, an old woman over there when I was in Mojiajie taught me the way to grow crops on barren, desolate land, so maybe it’s feasible to use it on the wasteland south of the city.”

“This different barren land situation is not the same, Xing Shan County by the sea, the old man knows, by the sea of the land planting crops can not be planted to live, this is not the same as the land when you are in Mo Jiajie.”

“Maybe that method will work too? Mother, if we can grow crops on barren land, we can feed a lot more people, and it would be a meritorious deed to take, and be of great use to father’s career.”

At the mention of Wei Mingting’s career path, Yun’s expression changed.

But after thinking about it for a while I still don’t think it’s very feasible.

“Ruo’er your idea is good, but this matter really isn’t that simple ……”

“Indeed it’s not simple, but mother, even if it fails we have nothing to lose, it will also let everyone know that our Wei family is working hard for everyone to be able to eat, it’s not a loss for another gain.” Wei Ruo analyzed the pros and cons for Yun.

Yun thought carefully, it seems that it is indeed such a thing, for the Wei family, reputation is a very important thing, if you can get the love and support of the people, it will be extremely beneficial to the promotion of the husband.

What’s more, because there is not much progress in the fight against the Japanese, the court has been quite dissatisfied with the many generals of the Xingshan County, and recently there is even news of the dismissal of the generals of the Xingshan County.

This has led to her husband staying out of the house for the past few days, thinking day and night about ways to try to eradicate the Japanese problem.

Yun was somewhat spoken for.

After deep thought, Yun said to Wei Ruo, “Mother can’t make a decision on this matter, when your father comes back I’ll talk to your father and let him make up his mind.”

“Good.” Wei Ruo also knew that if this matter wanted to be carried out, it would still have to be Wei Mingting’s decision.

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Wei Mingting still didn’t show up at the evening meal, he hadn’t shared the evening meal with everyone for ten days in a row.

Counting the first time we met, Wei Ruo has only seen him four times so far, and each time she couldn’t say more than a few words.

Originally thought that today the thing in the wasteland south of the city still did not have the opportunity to talk to Wei Mingting, but the result is that before Wei Ru went to sleep, Cui Ping came to send a message for Yun, let her go to Cang Yun Yuan, said that her father wanted to see her.

Wei Ru re-dressed and went to Cang Yun Yuan and saw Wei Mingting, who she hadn’t seen for a long time.

Still serious and cold appearance, but compared to the initial meeting, more than a few points of fatigue, arm also has an additional wound, wrapped in white cloth, looking should be injured for a few days.

“I just heard your mother say that you have a way to grow crops on top of the wasteland south of the city, is that true?” Wei Mingting asked.