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Xiao Ruo currently didn't have much silver on hand, and the County Government Office had no silver to supplement, so she could only ask Zhuang Guangfeng to use local materials and have the displaced people build themselves thatched cottages or wooden houses to live in for the time being.
Many hands make light work, and it didn't take many days to finish building the thatched cottages and wooden houses for shelter.
Even though the houses were rudimentary, for the displaced people who had been wandering for months, some even having lost both homes and family, it was like finally having a "home."
Xiao Ruo had Yuan Bao first settle the elderly and children, then instructed them to enclose a large open space. After that, she took chicks and ducklings from the space and had the elderly and children start raising them, while the men continued to build pens for the chickens and ducks and to dig fish ponds and divert water flows.