Chapter 89 Buying People's Hearts
Qin Shou sat on a temporary earthen bed. The simple wooden house built with wooden boards was ventilated everywhere. The wooden house was not big and only about fifty square meters. Except for a scattered and miscellaneous daily necessities of a muddy bed, it was basically empty, and life was very hard and sad.
Cheng Shanshan frowned and looked at the environment inside the house. This was the first time she saw the lives of poor people and the first time she experienced a different lifestyle of class. She had lived in a golden cage since she was a child and did not expect that such a place could live in, and it was so natural that it was so sour vinegar that Cheng Shanshan's fragile heart emerged.
Qin Yao and Qin Zu each stood on the side to protect Qin Shou at all times. After a series of tragic events, their vigilance improved greatly. Qin Guang and Qin Zong took the order to go out to do business. Before Qin Shou entered the house, he told them to go back. As the saying goes, it is better to act than to act to confirm their feelings.
The entire seemingly small wooden house was filled with a bunch of poor people, with fifty or sixty people, and the elderly, weak, sick, disabled women and children accounted for most of them. The remaining ones were basically the fifteen strong middle-aged people seen at the beginning. These people blinked at Qin Shou. At this moment, Qin Shou was their official parents for food and clothing.
The skinny children blinked their two pairs of black eyes, their faces full of fear and curiosity, and they looked at Qin Shou with curiosity. If it weren't for the warnings of parents, grandparents, and other words, they would have come forward curiously. The youngest among the sixteen children was seven or eight years old, and the oldest was about eleven or eleven or eleven years old.
Qin Shou looked at the group of children's minds running wildly. What he lacked the most now is to cultivate loyal servants from childhood, especially hidden underground passages. It is difficult for Zhou Xiong and Huang Bing to complete such a project. In addition, Qin Shou has other ideas to implement, and what he lacks is to cultivate loyal children from childhood. Qin Shou does not lack money and is people.
Yang Hui walked in with a broken plate, burning charcoal inside. These were bought by them at the vendors on the street. The officials came to appreciate their hardships. Even if they were poor, they had to raise money to buy charcoal. Yang Hui carefully placed it not far from Qin Shou.
Yang Hui rubbed the veteran hand that had dried and exploded with a sad expression on his face and said, "Sir, it's cold, the conditions here are limited. The villagers temporarily raised money to sell some charcoal. I can only give it a grudge. You can just give it a try. Sir, this is a villain. If you drink water, you will forgive me!"
An aunt in her forties was wearing a coarse linen that had been sewn and repaired for three years. She was wearing faded coarse cloth shoes in the cold weather. She could see her thin trousers trembling with fear of the cold. She heard her husband introduce her to her and nod her head honestly, and her dark skin squeezed out a simple and innocent smile.
Cheng Shanshan looked at this group of poor people, especially when she saw Yang Hui's wife's simple smile, and suddenly felt an inexplicable throbbing. This was the kindest and simple smile in the world. There was no hypocrisy from the bottom of her heart. Cheng Shanshan's eyes couldn't help but become a little wet. Although these simple people live in poverty, they are also very real.
Qin Shou didn't mind holding up the broken bowl handed by Yang Hui, looked at them with a bold look and said: "Haha, it's okay, don't worry, I keep my word. As long as you do your best to cultivate my land, I will not treat you badly. As long as I have meat to eat, the soup will definitely be indispensable!"
Yang Hui's wife was so moved that she cried and knelt on her knees with her knees on her face, saying with a look of worshipping Guanyin Bodhisattva: "Sir, we have occupied your land. You have not only driven us to jail. The civilian woman here thanks you. Thank you for your kindness and compassion for your hardships, and give us land to farm. Your kindness..."
Qin Shou quickly put down the broken bowl in his hand, and helped Yang Hui's wife up with both hands and said, "Hey, aunt, don't do this, don't do this, please get up quickly. I not only plant the fields for you, but also prepare a new house for you to live in. There is no need to be surprised or surprised. You have heard that everything I say is true. You will know later that what I say is true!"
When these poor people heard Qin Shou's words, they all showed surprise and shock. If what Qin Shou said was true, why should they be so kind to them for no reason? Even as a court official, you are not so generous, right? Could there be any conspiracy in it? Or...
Qin Shou looked at them with a confused expression, and Halxoul said in a strange way: "I know that you are very confused. Why are I so kind to you? Don't worry, I am worthy of my conscience in heaven and earth when doing things, and I am not afraid to tell you honestly. In fact, I am also a businessman, and the businessman values immediate value and interests. Forget it, I don't understand these things. If you don't believe me, you can go to the Qin Mansion to inquire about what the treatment of the servants in my mansion is!"
More than fifty poor people were talking in a low voice, almost in a different way, discussing what Qin Shou had just said. The pie that fell from the world was too thick, and they almost couldn't breathe. If Qin Shou hadn't been the ninth-rank sesame official, they would have thought Qin Shou was fooling them.
After discussing with a group of poor villagers, Yang Hui smacked his lips and said, "Sir, we also know the principle that no profit can get up early. If you have such generous conditions, you will definitely do something big. The villain is talking and daring to say, as long as the adults don't ask us to do bad things, we will do everything according to your wishes!"
Qin Shou smiled bitterly when he heard this. These guys were really whimsical! Qin Shou shook his head undeniably and said, "You, alas... don't worry, I just asked you to grow vegetables, and I'm not doing anything that hurts the world. You will know the benefits when the contract comes later!"
"Grow vegetables?!" Yang Hui and a group of poor villagers were stunned when they heard Qin Shou's words. This was the most ridiculous thing they had ever heard. Growing vegetables in the middle of winter was simply unheard of. If Qin Shou hadn't had a serious expression on his face, they would have thought Qin Shou was fooling them and making fun of it.
Qin Shou said with a serious expression: "That's right, it's just growing vegetables. You have heard it wrong. But my adult's method of growing vegetables is a bit special. In order to ensure that my adult's special vegetable leaks, you must keep it confidential. As long as you do this, I can ensure that you live a happy and well-off life!"
"Yes, yes, sir, don't worry, even if we beat you to death, we won't tell anyone!" Yang Hui and his fellow villagers nodded excitedly and responded, joking, having houses and land to farm, and the conditions are only for keeping their mouths as tight as a bottle, and not agreeing is a fool!
Qin Shou pointed to the farm tools erected outside the door and said, "See, I have taken action, and I have even prepared hoes and shovels. Of course, I have given such generous conditions. If someone dares to betray me, I will leak the secrets of my important vegetable planting process and find out that I don't blame me, you should know the consequences?"
It is related to his own technology to grow vegetables. Qin Shou does not want to miss any steps in the process of growing vegetables. Sometimes he should wake up. What is he trying to attract these people's loyalty at such a great price? It's not that he is leading in technology and makes money. This young master can provide vegetables to the rich and royal family in winter.
Want to eat vegetables? Simple, money, buy them at a high price! Don’t buy them? Well, slowly eat your chewy meat! It’s only four or five months before spring begins. You have to wait until the snow melts before you can plant them. When that time comes, you will be so greasy every day that you can’t get the chicken, duck, fish, and meat. When you see fresh thieves attracting people, you will buy them back for the black money for the dentist.
Yang Hui stood up and patted his chest and promised, "Sir, don't worry, we villagers are the most up-to-date words and will keep our mouths tight on what we promised. If anyone dares to leak any news about growing vegetables, you don't need to do it. We villagers personally stick to the traitors, are you right, fellow villagers?"
"Yes! Yes! Don't worry, sir, it's not easy for us to betray you!" Under the instigation of Yang Hui, these poor villagers, the elderly, weak, sick, disabled, elderly, women and children, responded, and they almost started to fight in internal conflict to inspect the guy beside him who looked a bit traitorous.
Qin Shou stood up and waved his hands to signal the quiet gesture, looking at them with a serious face and said, "Everyone, be quiet, be quiet for a while. I believe you. In fact, I have another goal. Of course, you can choose to volunteer, and I will not force you!"
Yang Hui stood up at the right time and helped Qin Shou comfort the excited villagers while saying, "My fellow villagers, let's listen to the words of the adults. If you have anything, just say that all of us villagers in the village are generous people!"
Cheng Shanshan suddenly pulled Qin Shou's clothes with one hand, pointed at the door with the other hand and said, "Husband, Qin Guang and Qin Zong are back and are walking towards this side!"
Qin Shou looked at Cheng Shanshan in shock when he heard this. He remembered Cheng Shanshan’s powerful martial arts. Qin Shou understood it. He turned his head and said to Qin Guang and Qin Zong behind him, "Qin Yao and Qin Zu, you two will help Qin Guang and Qin Zong. It must be a bit heavy to bring so many things. Go, it’s okay, it’s safe here!"
"Yes! Young Master!" Qin Guang and Qin Zong bowed and responded. As Qin Shou said, Qin Shou was indeed very safe with Cheng Shanshan, a man with a strong martial arts skills. If even Cheng Shanshan could not ensure Qin Shou's safety, let alone the two of them.
Qin Shou comforted the confused poor people and said, "Okay, I'm talking later, you all chose to follow me to do things. Some procedures are also formalities. Oh, please give up some of the seats. Today, I'll treat you to a good meal!"
Qin Guang walked in first with two food boxes in his hand. Qin Zong followed closely with a heavy cloth bag. Qin Yao and Qin Zu walked in with two food boxes in his hand. Five friends from Qin's restaurants were each carrying two food boxes in his hand. Yang Hui and their fellow villagers immediately smelled a fragrance of food.
Two graceful figures suddenly appeared in the corner of a house several hundred meters away from the wooden house. They secretly looked at a carriage outside the scattered wooden house. The carriage they were extremely familiar with was Qin Shou's carriage they were chasing closely. As for the two graceful figures, they happened to be two beauties, Zixuan and Park Soo-jin.
The new Zhongshan outfits of Qin Guang and Qin Zong were so conspicuous. They rushed to the Qin family restaurant in Dongcheng City and couldn't figure it out. In addition, when Zi Xuan kidnapped Qin Shou that day, the two servants were also present. Zi Xuan recognized Qin Guang and Qin Zong at a glance. She was puzzled and left the shop's business that had nothing to do with toothache and secretly followed her.
Park Soo-jin looked at the familiar carriage, and knew that Qin Shou was in the wooden house without guessing. Park Soo-jin said with full hatred: "Miss, what are the tricks of this dog official today? Look at him coming to this poor place, he must have no good intentions, Miss, Miss..."
Zixuan frowned with her eyebrows and said in a disorderly manner: "Ah? Oh, who knows? Anyway, there will be no good things. This time, you must not let the dog official run away. Hey, Xiuzhen, what are you doing? Watch out for the change, who knows what's going on? This dog official is cunning, be careful of fraud!"
Zixuan, who suffered losses several times, began to deal with it carefully and carefully. Qin Shou was always so lucky every time. He either survived death or helped by noble people. The most hateful thing was that he was extremely cunning. Zixuan, who had made progress, began to learn to think about problems calmly, and no longer did things based on his temperament as before.
Qin Shou took the fifteen contracts handed over by Qin Guang. Qin Shou always had these contracts when he was in charge of every business. Even if he went to a lawsuit in the future, he was not afraid of no evidence. He was not afraid of ten thousand in everything, even if he was afraid of something. He was better than saying nothing without saying anything, and this was also a precaution.
Qin Shou picked up the contract and stated carefully: "These are contracts. After signing, even if they are my special tenant, they will be given treatment and other things. By the way, do you have any literacy? You can take it and take a look. If you sign an autograph or something, you can't write and stamp it with a handprint or something!"
Yang Hui took the so-called contract from Qin Shou in compliment, nodded honestly and said sadly: "Sir, the villain has been to school for a year before. At that time, the war was raging, and the family was attacked by war. I know more about the words, and the villain can interpret it for the villagers..."
Yang Hui read out the so-called contract in public while reading it. While reading it, he stared at Guang Zongyaozu and the other four opened the food box. It was full of meat foods such as chicken, duck, geese, and mutton that they could not even imagine. Even if they were in the New Year, they would not be willing to eat.
Yang Hui held his eyes and saw a box of lush food opening. His whole heart couldn't bear it and said in a mess: "And... the smell of goose, the leaked news is like roast duck, and the serious offenders eat it in public, Guru~~ The profit of growing vegetables is obtained by the lamb..."
Sweat... Cold sweat... Yang Hui's villagers listened speechlessly as Yang Hui's reading voice. The information about punishment was said to be eaten by him, and the person who leaked the news was like roast duck? Damn~ Yang Hui's villagers couldn't help but curse Yang Hui in their hearts, and it was so embarrassing to read it!
Qin Shou looked at Yang Huishang with a dark face. Listening to his perplexed reading voice, he couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth. What was this guy intentional? Cheng Shanshan covered her mouth and laughed secretly. This old man who had been in a private school for a year was really funny enough.
Qin Shou completely convinced Yang Hui and urged him angrily: "Okay, okay, I am convinced you. If there is no problem, sign a letter and stamp it, and then come over for a good meal. I will teach you how to grow vegetables later!"
Yang Hui was relieved. Without saying a word, he first signed his name. Then the other fourteen middle-aged people were stamped with handprints, and they were illiterate! Yang Hui signed and stated that there was no problem. They also believed that Yang Hui would not cheat the villagers.
Qin Shou waved his hand to signal the poor people to come over, patted his chest and promised, "Okay, come and have a meal, cute and polite, I invite you this meal. As long as you do your best to help me do your best in the future, you can eat these meals in the future!"
Amid a series of sounds of kindness, these poor people were like starving ghosts, rushing forward to grab the food they liked to eat. Qin Shou rescued a roast duck and pulled Cheng Shanshan and the others to chew sweetly together. Looking at Qin Shou's lewd smile, the four of Guangzong Yaozu were embarrassed to go and see it.
Two quarters of an hour passed in the blink of an eye. Qin Shou took the handkerchief handed by Shanshan, and wiped his greasy mouth and said, "Okay, everyone should be full now. I will talk about what happened just now. I want to ask your children to help me do things. Of course, this is because you are willing. I will not force it. If I want to, Qin Guang!"
Qin Guang understood and took the heavy cloth bag, walked to the poor people who had eaten and had enough food and drink, and poured out strings of copper plates. Seeing that the amount was 200 guan, these poor people looked at Qin Shou with amazement, not knowing what Qin Shou meant.
Qin Shou pointed to the money on the ground and said, "There are 200 guan here. As long as you have children handed over to me for management, hey, don't worry, I am not asking you to sell children, I am just renting your children to help with work. Of course, these are just deposits. In the future, I will pay them monthly according to the price of long-term workers!"
Yang Hui looked at the 200 guan of money underground and bowed and said with a compliment: "Sir, your conditions are very attractive. I also believe that you really want to help us, but sir, you always have to explain why you rent our children? It's also a bit more at ease..."
Qin Shou shook his head and sighed, interrupting Yang Hui with a speech and said, "Oh... This is related to my secret. I can't tell you. If you don't want to, it would be fine. I won't force you. Don't worry, I won't take my anger. I have already stated it just now that this is voluntary. I have already arranged your house. Just now, you can move in at dusk in the house opposite your wooden house!"
Qin Shou was not forced to do anything, and they just didn't want to. At worst, they could go to the slave market to wander around for a few laps and find the number of children. As for why they were looking for children, Qin Shou thought about slowly cultivating some all-round spies. Information is his biggest disadvantage. Mastering information at the first time is his ideal of protecting himself.
Cheng Shanshan held Qin Shou's palm silently and gave him spiritual support. Although she didn't know what Qin Shou was going to do with such a child, she knew that Qin Shou must be doing something big. From the day she met him, Cheng Shanshan knew that her future husband was very human.
The sixteen children blinked their dark eyes. Although they were young, they did not mean that they were ignorant. They were born in poor people and had developed the brute force of farming at a young age. If it weren't for malnutrition, they would probably be little adults now, and they all knew that now was the time to make their future destiny.
Yang Hui was anxious when he heard Qin Shou's words and said with apology: "Sir, don't get me wrong. You have no other meaning. If you are not convenient, it's fine. Let's hand it over to you, the child is very at ease. As for the money, let's forget it. We villagers are all real people. I believe that adults will be nice to the children. What do you think, fellow villagers?"
Fifteen Yang Hui's fellow villagers stood up and bowed righteously and said, "Sir, thank you for your respect for our children and give us a place to rest. If we don't know the current affairs, we are too sorry for our conscience. Since you have a hidden secret, the villains are not harsh. You can just take it!"
These villagers are not fools. Who would like their children to live in a life of oppressed farming? Is it difficult to stay in the fields for the rest of their lives without having a good fortune? Yang Hui even regretted that he wanted to suck his mouth, and he would chew his tongue even more.
Qin Shou, who was in a village with dark flowers, was immediately surprised and said, "You are really saying this? OK, okay, thank you for giving up. Don't worry, I will never treat your children badly. Of course, I will recruit two of you from you to be responsible for the food of these children. You will slowly select two of you, and you will come out with me and start growing vegetables!"
Chapter completed!