Chapter 675: Five-Zero Motherhood System (32)

It was only today when he came to Shili Village that he learned Comrade Xie Yang had also discovered a cost-free method to fertilize fields, utilizing the grass-seed flowers found everywhere in the countryside; by planting them in fallow fields during the agricultural off-season, they could enrich the soil and increase grain yields.

With such a great contribution, is it not worth an "Advanced Individual" title?

While the Town Mayor was still sitting in the courtyard of Xie Yang's house, his mind had already flown to his office, pondering how to write a good work summary for his report to the county this year.

In the past, he worried about how to make his words substantial rather than just a few hollow slogans; this year, there was too much content to write, and every single item was important—which one should come first? Which one should be the finale? It worried him just the same!

The Village Secretary could not fathom the Town Mayor's urgent and distressed mood at this moment; the moment he heard his village had a chance to be rated as an Advanced Unit this year, his old face wrinkled up like a chrysanthemum with joy.

Oh my god! A county-level Advanced Unit!

In the past, he wouldn't have dared to even think about such a thing! Hongqi County had twelve towns! Each town had over a dozen villages under it. Moreover, the selection scope for Advanced Units didn't just include natural villages, but also various factories in the city; altogether, there were several hundred units.

Shili Village was remote and sparsely populated, always at the bottom of the list, and they never got a turn in any selection. In previous years, they couldn't even touch the threshold of a town-level Advanced Unit, yet this year they actually had a chance to vie for a county-level one!

Who else! Just ask, who else! Who else could lead Shili Village to such glory during their tenure as Village Secretary?

Ahem, alright! The Town Mayor only said he would recommend it, which doesn't mean it will definitely be awarded. But just being nominated by the town was like a bride getting into the sedan chair—a first! He was satisfied!

The Zhishu Xifu to the side understood and pulled the children into her arms, coaxing them to go home with her.

"Your godmother still needs to help supervise the construction of the house you will live in; for this period, you go live at my house first, and move over once the house is built."

The Zhishu Xifu knew Xie Yang surely still had matters to finalize with the town cadres, so she had the daughters-in-law go together, each leading a child to her house.

The two youngest were muddled and ignorant; once a piece of candy was stuffed into their hands, they obediently let the adults carry them away.

The older children were already sensible; as they walked out, they looked back at Xie Yang several times, their eyes filled with confusion and unease about the unknown environment.

Xie Yang smiled and nodded at them: "Be good, follow the older aunties and get settled first; I will come to see you in a while."

Eight-year-old Chen Xingguo gathered his courage and asked with a trembling voice: "Will you be our mother from now on?"

"Yes! You can call me godmother."

After the children were led to the Zhishu Xifu's house to be settled, the secretaries of the villages where these children were from had their rations brought out.

There was millet and wheat, but mostly coarse grains like corn, potato, and sorghum.

Moreover, the quality of the same type of grain varied; some appeared to be new grain harvested just before the year's end, while some were clearly like old grain.

They said it was donated by the villagers after the village cadres mobilized the whole village.

"Make do with this for now this year; starting next year, the villagers who take over their family's ration fields will send it over on time."

Xie Yang nodded.

Although she was not short of grain, she had to fight for what the children deserved.

Many hands make light work; with the town cadres taking the lead and the various villages responding, in just five or six days, a simplified Heyuan was built on flat ground.

With two rows of rooms in the front and back and a large courtyard in the middle, the open space between the back of the house and the foot of the mountain also belonged to the orphanage.

Considering the children's safety, it took another two days to enclose it with a courtyard wall.

Carpenters from various villages sent practical tables, chairs, benches, and bed frames, and women from the villages helped arrange door curtains and window curtains. Daily necessities like pots, bowls, basins, and bedding were brought from the children's homes.

It was fortunate that the town cadres were there to oversee things, otherwise these items would have long been taken away by those unscrupulous relatives.

As soon as Xie Yang saw the bedding, she knew it had been used for many years; the cotton batting inside had turned black and was no longer warm. Taking advantage of the fact that the town cadres were all there, she simply took sixty jin of cotton, one hundred and twenty jin of fine grain, one hundred and twenty jin of coarse grain, one hundred and twenty eggs, sixty jin of fruits and vegetables, and six ten-jin large grass carp from the Nongchang Warehouse and dropped them directly into the empty courtyard.

Ever since the Smart Breeding Farm was unlocked, the home's chicken coop was covered by the Smart Breeding Farm's coop; besides the original five laying hens producing 5-6 eggs daily, the two chicks unlocked by the farm grew into hens in twelve hours and started laying eggs, one every half hour, so the eggs in the Nongchang Warehouse had long reached 999.

"My heavens!"

"Town Mayor! Town Mayor, come look quickly! A miracle! There is a miracle here too!"

"Is, is, is this sent by the immortals?"

"It appeared with a 'whoosh'! The fish are still jumping around! If this isn't the power of an immortal, what is? Who among ordinary people has this ability!"

"I heard these good things appeared in these children's homes before too! After their relatives took them away, I heard they disappeared!"

"They were taken back by the immortals! If someone takes what the immortals designated for someone else, aren't they going against the immortals? Just taking them back is light; if the immortals get angry and send down punishment, their whole life is ruined!"

"..."

That made a lot of sense.

Everyone was greedy, but for a moment, not a single person dared to reach out and touch them. They were afraid of angering the immortals and being punished.

The Town Mayor had heard many people mention "miracles" when he went to the county for his year-end report before the new year, but this was his first time seeing it with his own eyes.

He looked at the grain piled up like a small hill, his mouth agape for a long time before he closed it, calmed down, and instructed:

"Everything here is in multiples of six, so it must be for the six children. Everyone, help out and move it all to the kitchen. And this fish, a water vat this size can't keep them; a few people come help kill them, rub them with salt, and it will be enough for the children to eat until the summer harvest."

At his call, a large crowd rushed forward to help move grain, move vegetables, collect eggs, and catch fish.

Some people were uneasy; while helping, they muttered: "Immortals, Bodhisattva, Heaven, I am helping do a good deed, I am not taking advantage! Really not taking advantage! I even brushed off the wheat grains that got stuck on my sleeve!"

Xie Yang: "..."

After thinking about it, she used her consciousness to control the Printing Integrated Machine in the Main System's space, printed a string of text, and dropped it onto the open ground along with one hundred jin of millet, one hundred jin of wheat, one hundred jin of off-season vegetables, one hundred eggs, twenty jin of tropical fruits, and ten large Crucian Carp.

Needless to say, it was met with another wave of excited reactions.

"This paper is so white and smooth! These characters are so beautiful! Just like they were printed!"

"Who is literate? Come read it!"

"The immortals say these are rewards for us! Telling us to have a sumptuous Warm Pot Banquet!"

"Three feet above our heads are the gods! So it's true! As long as we keep kindness in our hearts, the immortals will protect us! And reward us!"

"Town Mayor, then we..."

The Town Mayor carefully folded the snow-white printed paper and put it away; not only did he have an extra item for his report, but he even had physical evidence he had witnessed with his own eyes!