Chapter 241 - Chapter 241: Chapter 241: The Next Door Village seeks Wei Ruos help_l (1/2)
Chapter 241: Chapter 241: The Next Door Village seeks Wei Ruo’s help_l
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Young Master Xu has not only helped them so much, but also gave them such a good opportunity. He must seize it properly.
“Hmm.” Wei Ruo nodded.
After speaking with Shi Dayou, Wei Ruo was ready to leave Stone Village.
However, when she arrived at the entrance of Stone Village, she encountered a large crowd of several dozen people, including men, women, the elderly, and children.
Wei Ruo did not recognize these people, but judging from their attire, they should be local farmers.
“Young Master Xu, please help us!”
As soon as they met, these people implored Wei Ruo and started to rush towards her.
Xiumei stepped forward to protect Wei Ruo: “Speak calmly! Don’t push forward!”
Shi Dayou also stepped forward and loudly addressed the crowd: “Everyone, calm down, let’s talk from a distance!”
Shi Dayou recognized those people as being from Xiaoxi Village, their neighbors, separated by a mountain. It only takes an hour to get there if you walk around the foot of the mountain.
The rebukes from Xiumei and Shi Dayou had some effect. The crowd finally stopped moving forward and retreated a few steps, creating some distance from Wei Ruo.
Then the crowd began to explain their intentions in a flurry of voices:
“We came to seek help from Young Master Xu. Our rice seedlings have all died, and it’s too late for the new crop!”
“Yes, yes, we heard that Young Master Xu can help us!”
“Young Master Xu, please have mercy on us and save us! We won’t have enough to eat this year!”
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Listening for a while, Wei Ruo managed to understand their requests. Their rice seedlings had died, and they came to ask for her help.
Although Wei Ruo didn’t remember their faces, she knew from their stories that these were the people she had tried to persuade before, but who had not listened to her.
Because when Wei Ruo had visited the surrounding farmlands, she discovered rice blight and tried to persuade the farmers to replant their rice.
Those who listened to Wei Ruo would have already replanted their seedlings. If they were still asking for her help now, they must have been those who did not listen to her advice.
Wei Ruo looked at these people and said loudly: “Be quiet.”
When Wei Ruo finished, the crowd quieted down and stared at her.
Seeing that the noise had subsided, Wei Ruo answered the crowd straight away:
“I have already told you what needed to be said. If you do not replant your seedlings, it would be too late when disaster strikes. So now that this has happened, it is useless for you to ask for my help.”
Upon hearing her words, the crowd burst into a flurry of rebuttals:
“How can there be no solution? We have heard that you gave Stone Village some excellent rice seeds that can also grow if planted late, and their yield is high too!”
“Yes, yes, you obviously have the rice seeds! You can help us!”
“Young Master Xu, if there’s no harvest this year, we will all starve to death! You can’t be so heartless as to ignore our life and death!”