Chapter 161 Benefits
Pan Yingying stretched out her hand and twisted his ear, "That's all you can do! Can't you be a little more ambitious, man?"

Yu Chaosheng: “No.”

Pan Yingying sighed to the sky, feeling like she had returned to the miserable life she had before she traveled through time.

Yu Chaosheng threw down the game console, turned over and hugged her waist with a playful smile, "Unless you give me some benefits, I don't want to be so tired."

Pan Yingying raised her hand to push the rascal away, cursing as she pushed him away, "Get lost! You're greedier than Tyrant!"

Batian, who had just finished taking a shower, heard Pan Yingying mention his name. He rushed in like the wind, bursting open the door, and jumped onto the kang with a "wow wow". He was stopped by the two of them.

I don't know what this guy has eaten in the past few months. His weight is almost 200 pounds. When he lies on the kang, he makes a big puddle of weight. Now he is not allowed to go on the kang.

Otherwise, once it goes up, one of Pan Yingying and Yu Chaosheng will have to go down.

Fat Tiger sat on the carpet, feeling aggrieved like a 200-pound fool.

Pan Yingying had no choice but to reason with it, "My dear son, it's not that I don't love you anymore, it's just that I really can't afford to love you, do you understand?"

Batian let out two more "awws" and rubbed Pan Yingying's hand with his enlarged head.

Yu Chaosheng slapped him with a slap. "I told you to lose weight but you ate secretly every day. Now you can't sleep on the bed. You deserve it!"

Batian was so angry that he wanted to grab his sleeve and drag him off the kang.

"Hey hey hey! I'm warning you! If you tear my clothes again, I will pinch your flesh!" Yu Chaosheng quickly protected his sleeves and slapped Fat Tiger on the head.

Batian felt aggrieved, turned around and ran out whining, not knowing where to find comfort and secretly add food.

The two people on the kang looked at each other and burst out laughing, which after a while turned into a loud "hahahaha" laugh.

The next morning, Yu Chaosheng, feeling refreshed, went to the registration point in the main urban area to sign up for the high jump, and also signed up the four little girls for the events they mentioned in the letter. Then he went to the arsenal leisurely.

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Xiatian Village is a small village located on the edge of Ningyuan City.

The village chief's house is particularly lively today because it is the registration point for the sports meet.

A woman in her thirties signed her name crookedly, and the men next to her burst into laughter.

A long-faced man joked, "Damn it, the long-distance race is a full ten miles. Do you dare to sign up if you can run it?"

The woman took her number plate and carefully put it in her arms. Then she smiled and replied, "The newspaper said that participation is important. I will just go there to broaden my horizons."

The woman's name was Qing Ya, and she was a widow.

Her husband died at the hands of the Tartars a few years ago, leaving her and her daughter Caohua to depend on each other.

Caohua was in poor health and had to take medicine for years. The mother and daughter had a tight budget and had to worry about the Tartars all the time.

Fortunately, a high city wall has been built now, and the new city lord has sent teachers to teach everyone how to read and write and martial arts. He also distributed sweet potatoes and corn for free and taught them how to plant and cook them. They can just wait until the next spring to plant.

But even if there was enough food to survive the winter, there was still no money to buy Caohua and her medicine.

Having seen the news about the sports meet in the newspaper, she went to the village chief's house to sign up with the mentality of giving it a try.

You should know that the prize for the first place is 50 taels of silver, the second place is 30 taels, and the third place is 10 taels. Even if I get third place, I will have a source of medicine for my daughter.

Although she may not be good at other things, she has physical strength. When the Tartars entered the village and burned, killed and looted, she was the one who carried the six-year-old Caohua on her back and walked for a whole day and night to Ningyuan City, saving her life.

Several women pushed and shoved in, hesitated for a long time, and finally signed up. However, they were not as hardworking as Qing Ya and signed up for the long-distance running directly.

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Located in Heitu Village of Yaocheng.

Two dark and thin girls ran to the village chief's house hand in hand in the cover of night.

"Uncle village chief, we want to sign up for the sports meet."

the older girl gasped.

The village chief with a pair of triangular eyes looked her up and down and sneered, "Why would a girl participate in a sports meeting? You can't go out and embarrass yourself. You'd better stay at home."

The girl pursed her lips. Her parents had given birth to four daughters in a row, and they had never been able to hold their heads up in the village. Others laughed at her father behind his back, saying that he had no family line.

Grandma planned to sell my eldest sister, and use the money to help my father marry another girl so that he could have a son.

She thought that if she and San Ya could run fast and win prize money at the sports meet, her elder sister would not have to be sold to Tian Shazi as a wife.

"Uncle village chief, the city lord is also a girl. Do you mean that she is also embarrassing?" San Ya asked with a smile.

The village chief's scalp tightened. Although he really felt that letting a woman be the city lord was against the will of heaven, he did not have the courage to say it out loud.

The soldiers who had delivered food and good seeds to the village and the teacher who had come to teach the guests had said that being disrespectful to the city lord was against the law and the offender would be thrown into jail. If one person committed a crime, the whole village would be punished as well. The food and good seeds given to the village would be taken back and would not be given again in the future.

The village chief doesn't have the courage to criticize the new city lord.

"What are you talking about, girl?" The village chief frowned and took out two registration forms from the house, "Fill them out yourself."

San Ya took it with both hands and gave the village chief a look that seemed to be a smile.

Don't think she doesn't know that it was the village chief who arranged for grandma to sell her elder sister to Tian Shazi.

She had seen in the newspaper that the top three winners of the competition would be awarded by the city lord himself, so she had to get into the top three and meet the city lord to ask him to make the decision for her elder sister.

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In the next half month, Pan Yingying coordinated the overall situation and arranged various matters.

Honglian and Lumei, her secretaries, were very busy.

The first group to compete was the children's group. There were many children from Taoyuan City who signed up, and the competition lasted for three days in total. The first two days were for the boys' group, and the third day was for the girls' group.

Next is the elderly group. There are fewer people in this group, so they only need to compete for one day. In the morning, the old men compete, and in the afternoon, the old ladies compete.

Next is the junior group, which will last for four days in total.

There are even more people in the final adult group, and it will take six full days to complete!

By this calculation, the entire Taoyuan City will be bustling for at least half a month.

Merchants heard the news and rented stalls outside the competition venue early in order to make a fortune.

Pan Yingying once thought about whether she should vigorously develop the economy of Taoyuan City first. When she learned that many villages were still unable to get enough food, she decisively chose to develop farming first.

I can’t even fill my stomach, where do I get the money?
Next year, if we grow grain and sell it to her to support the army, the people will naturally have money to spend.

Fortunately, there are caravans that continuously send silver back, otherwise she, as the city lord, would be unable to make ends meet!
However, the news brought back by the caravan was not good. The war in Zhongzhou was at a stalemate and countless civilians were infected with the plague and died.

(End of this chapter)