The road to wealth of a peasant widow

Chapter 106 The rain stops

On the seventh day, the rain suddenly stopped.

It was raining heavily in the morning, but it suddenly stopped during lunch and the sun came out.

People went out of their homes, walked through the mud, and rushed to the fields to check the situation.

There were even many people who went there directly with tools, using shovels to dig holes in the fields to drain the accumulated water to the roadside.

At this time, due to the recent heavy rains, the water levels in both rivers and roadside ditches have risen rapidly and are about to overflow.

Chen Cui carried Sui Sui and walked through the mud to the field. She found that the little water that had accumulated in her field had flowed away when the rain stopped. She then breathed a sigh of relief.

On the way home, she met Chen Meihua's family, who were carrying tools to drain water from the fields.

Although his family's three acres of corn land are fine, they still have several acres of beans. Beans are more afraid of waterlogging. If the water is not drained in time, they may grow too tall and not produce pods.

Just walking back and forth from home to the field, Chen Cui's shoes were covered with thick mud, which was bigger and heavier than the shoes themselves. It was very strenuous to walk.

Chen Cui scraped the mud off the soles of her shoes on a stone block at the gate before entering.

Suisui was so excited about seeing the sun just now that she fell asleep before we even got home after being carried all the way.

Chen Cui put her on the bed, made sure she was asleep, and then slipped into the space.

The corn in the field has just started to grow, but the corn in the space has already produced small corns, and it will be ready for another harvest in a while.

The growth of these peppers is a bit strange. Many of the pepper plants have begun to become woody and look like the legendary pepper trees.

She had seen it online before, saying that peppers are not actually annual herbs. In the warm areas of the south, peppers can survive the winter safely and will not die, and will continue to grow the next year.

From then on, as long as the temperature is right, the pepper can remain alive and live for many years.

Could it be that because the temperature in this space is relatively constant, neither too cold nor too hot, which is just what the pepper's temperament is, so they evolved into pepper trees?

Chen Cui didn't know whether to be happy or regretful.

She originally wanted to let the peppers reproduce two more generations in the space and keep some seeds to plant outside. If the peppers continued to grow so well, then she could pick them all the time.

But this land will always be occupied by peppers. Just because peppers can be intercropped with corn doesn’t mean they can be planted with other plants. Moreover, as the pepper plants grow bigger, one day there will be no space to plant anything else.

So, she will find a suitable opportunity to move these peppers out in the future.

Fortunately, the peppers planted in the backyard have produced a lot of fruit and can be picked and eaten now. However, many flowers have been blown down by the rain recently, and the yield of other vegetables has also been reduced to some extent due to the heavy rain recently, which makes Chen Cui feel a little distressed.

Not only the vegetables in Chen Cui's backyard suffered losses due to the heavy rain, but also the livelihoods of the people in the entire county. At this time, Magistrate Wang of Yinping County was worried about this matter.

He had just taken up his post in Yinping County this spring. Originally he was the county magistrate in a county in Guizhou. He passed two consecutive evaluations and was transferred to Yinping County as the county magistrate.

Even though there was no promotion in rank, he was still a county magistrate. However, the area of ​​Guizhou was really poor and mountainous, with many uncivilized ethnic minorities in the mountains. There were many conflicts between them and the Han people. The risk of being a county magistrate there was extremely high, and many people tried to transfer away before they could work for more than three years.

If Wang Zhengqing didn't have a good heart and a strong character, and if he didn't really want to do something for the people, he would not have been able to stay there, and he wouldn't have received excellent evaluations for two consecutive times.

When he was first transferred to Yinping County, he felt like he had fallen from one ditch into another.

Guizhou is mountainous, and Yinping is no less so, with 40% of the county being mountainous. Fortunately, the mountains here are not as steep as those in Guizhou, and there are rivers and lakes and many canals in the area, so the people have no worries about irrigation.

Moreover, he had read the county annals and knew that Yinping had always had good weather and a suitable climate for many years, and was known as the "Jiangnan on the Loess Plateau".

Although this statement is a bit exaggerated, Yinping cannot be compared with Jiangnan, but in the northwest, it is already a relatively good county.

Since he had such good innate conditions, after taking office, Wang Zhengqing was eager to work hard and make great efforts to achieve achievements and get promoted as soon as possible.

During the summer harvest, he took people to the countryside despite the heat and inspected the wheat harvest in several towns and villages.

He also visited local farmers incognito to inquire about the year's harvest. He then personally supervised taxation and investigated those tax officials who embezzled money.

After the new county magistrate dealt with a few people who had excessive greed, the administration of the entire Yinping County suddenly became clear. Although everyone still reached out for money, no one dared to go too far.

Because the master has made it known that if the people have any problems, they can go to the county government office and beat the drum at any time, and he will definitely handle it.

Although these low-level officials are all veterans from the local area, they are also afraid that if someone is stubborn enough to actually beat the drum, it will ruin their livelihood and that would be a loss.

No matter how strict the county magistrate is, it will only last for three years and they can just endure it.

When the time comes, the official will be replaced and they can go back to normal.

Therefore, they have been keeping a low profile during this period of time, not daring to easily provoke this young man named Wang.

Yes, they thought that County Magistrate Wang was a fool who relied on the fact that he married a rich wife and had plenty of money to spend, so he didn't care about money and wouldn't allow them to ask for it.

What's even more hateful is that he has been in the county for more than half a year, and he often goes to the countryside, to those remote villages, and often makes private visits. These people have to suffer with him, and they can't get any benefits like before. This is too much!

People in the county government office were full of complaints when they mentioned this magistrate, and few had anything good to say about him. That was why they spread the county magistrate's family affairs to everyone, just to make fun of him.

A poor scholar, after passing the imperial examination, really thinks of himself as a big shot.

All those who become officials are successful candidates in the imperial examination, and some even become runner-up or third place in the imperial examination. But they are not as serious as he is. He is the only one who is stupid. It is so damn unlucky for such a person to be the chief official!

Look, it has been raining for several days in a row. As soon as the rain stopped, this master couldn't sit still and went to investigate the people's conditions again.

County Magistrate Wang was going to the countryside to see how the crops were doing and whether any good fields were flooded, which would affect the autumn harvest.

As soon as the county magistrate opened his mouth, his subordinates would run themselves ragged. Once the order was given, all the three shifts and six offices in the yamen had to dispatch personnel to follow him.

Those who were picked were all complaining in their hearts: The ground is still full of mud and it's slippery to walk on. Can't you wait for two more days until the ground is drier before going?