"Uncle Bo, this..." Lin Zhu looked at the mess in that place speechlessly. There were broken walls and ruins everywhere on about three or four acres of land.
"What's going on?" Feng Yuanbo was also a little dumbfounded. The last time he came here, he only demolished a row of houses. Why are they all demolished now? "It wasn't like this a few days ago. I'll go find someone to ask.
"
Before Feng Yuanbo could go out, the villagers of Xiaolinzhuang, led by village chief Lin Youcai, all came cheering.
"Village Chief Lin, what's going on?" Feng Yuanbo asked, pointing to the mess behind him.
Lin Youcai frowned even more when he saw Feng Yuanbo driving an ordinary carriage and a little girl in her teens came out. "Steward Feng, we also want to ask you what's going on.
What?" the old man said angrily.
Feng Yuanbo was stunned. Didn't he say well before that he would tell them after he asked the owner of the land? Why is everyone looking so bitter and resentful now? "I don't quite understand what Village Chief Lin said.
, please tell me something."
"Will the rent for this land be increased?" Lin Youcai asked angrily.
Not only Feng Yuanbo, but also Lin Zhu who was standing aside, his face changed obviously after hearing this. Feng Yuanbo glanced at Lin Zhu and was about to say something to Lin Youcai. The villagers standing behind Lin Youcai started shouting,
"What else did the village chief ask him for? He won't let us live, and we can't make him feel better either. We'll beat him to death!"
When Feng Yuanbo saw that the situation was not good, he immediately protected Lin Zhu behind him. Minglu also protected Lin Zhu closely.
"Village Chief Lin, what are you doing? If you touch us, there will be no good fruits for you all." Feng Yuanbo was very angry. Before he could do anything, he wanted to shout and kill. He really shouldn't plead for them in front of the girl.
"Shut up!" Lin Youcai shouted behind him, then turned to Feng Yuanbo and said, "Steward Feng, what you are doing is really unethical. A few days ago you sent someone to ask for 60% of the land rent. Today
Ask me again why?”
"Rent at 60%?" Feng Yuanbo and Lin Zhu looked at each other, what's going on?
"Village Chief Lin, who told you to raise the land rent?" Feng Yuanbo asked with an unkind expression.
"Isn't he one of yours? Why are you pretending to be so pretentious?" A dissatisfied voice came from the crowd.
"Village Chief Lin, my people haven't been here since I left that day, and the reason why I came here today is because my girl heard about you, so she came here specifically to take a look." Feng Yuanbo said seriously. "And it's better.
Regarding land rent and the like, absolutely
It's unwarranted." Feng Yuanbo didn't say anything. In fact, because Lin Zhu felt they were pitiful, he wanted to reduce the land rent to help them tide over the difficulties, but he didn't expect them to want to beat people indiscriminately. Hmph. That's a nice word.
No need to tell them.
"Not yours?" Lin Youcai didn't believe it. "The person that day was the steward who had been repairing your house. He said so." Lin Youcai muttered in his heart again. Could it be that he was deceived again?
Bar.
The steward who repaired the house? Feng Yuanbo thought for a moment. The house had not been repaired before, and Mu Yue Trading Company had never done anything about it. Where did the steward come from? Could it be the steward who was driven away by Mu Yue Trading Company for irresponsibility?
"Is there someone in charge?" Feng Yuanbo asked.
"Yes, that's him." Lin Youcai nodded.
"Village Chief Lin, is it because of his words that you knocked down the house again?" Feng Yuanbo glanced at the collapsed walls and said, "I want to tell you something. He is not a servant of my family. He just started building the house.
When we were building the house, there was an overseer sent by others, but because he made the place a mess, he was kicked out."
The people of Xiaolin Village, including Lin Youcai, had expressions of disbelief in their eyes after listening to Feng Yuanbo's words.
"So, you have been deceived," Feng Yuanbo's conclusion made the people in Xiaolinzhuang look dejected. "Furthermore, my girl heard about your situation. She felt pity for you and wanted to help you."
, but the current situation is really disappointing." Feng Yuanbo shook his head.
"Steward Feng, this, this" Lin Youcai couldn't go on. When he pushed down the wall, others saw it. At that time, they didn't blame him, but now everyone believed the lie and completely razed his house to the ground.
, what else can be said in defense. Lin Youcai felt that he could not open his mouth. "I'm really sorry, we misunderstood."
"How are Village Chief Lin going to compensate me?" Lin Zhu walked out from behind Feng Yuanbo.
"Uh." Lin Youcai was stunned by the question. He couldn't afford compensation no matter what. The people in the forest had been tortured so much that they had nothing left.
"It seems that you haven't thought about it well. How about I think of one for you?" Lin Zhu looked at him and said softly.
Lin Youcai's old face was almost wrinkled into a bun, with more wrinkles than that bun. He was very embarrassed and did not dare to agree rashly. He looked at Lin Zhu pitifully.
"Is it okay to build my house before spring starts?" Lin Zhu said with a smile. "Fifty cash per day for strong workers, thirty cash per day for women, food included."
After Lin Zhu finished speaking, the scene was quiet. Everyone thought they were hallucinating. The facts shouldn't develop like this. Shouldn't they be angry and make them lose money? In the end, their work would be in vain.
How could it be, how could it be like this?
"Is everything you said true?" Lin Youcai was so excited that his hands were trembling. If what he just said was true, then the villagers would no longer worry about spring plowing.
"Village Chief Lin, my girl will not lie to you." Feng Yuanbo said.
"That's right, that's right," Lin Youcai was so happy that he didn't know what to say, "Thank you so much, girl, for your kindness." As he said this, he bowed to Lin Zhu.
"Village Chief Lin, you don't need to be too polite." Lin Zhu dodged and joked, asking an old man to salute her. She was afraid of losing her life, so she had better stay away. "What kind of courtyard is going to be built? Bring it over."
, then you just follow the foreman's instructions." Lin Zhu wants a yard similar to the one in Linjia Village, and it seems that it can be achieved here, with an area of three or four acres, which is quite spacious.
"You don't have to worry about materials or anything like that. I'll have someone send them over. But you must work hard and seriously. You can't just fall over like this." Lin Zhu gave them a rare smile.
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"Yes, yes, yes, don't worry, girl. If nothing else, the people working in the village are very honest, and they will definitely build it to your satisfaction." Lin Youcai immediately answered affirmatively.
"That's good, Village Chief Lin, remember the appearance of Butler Feng. He will be mainly responsible for things here from now on, but don't make the wrong mistake again." Lin Zhu's words made everyone in Xiaolin Village feel a little feverish on their faces.
, especially Lin Youcai, who has been deceived several times at his age, which is so embarrassing.
"I'm so ashamed," Lin Youcai lowered his head and sighed, "Girl, you've worked hard after coming here for so long, why don't you go to the old man's house to sit for a while and have a rest?" Lin Youcai invited Lin Zhu.
"Okay, I just have something I want to tell Village Chief Lin." Lin Zhu nodded obediently.
Soon we arrived at Lin Youcai's home. As the village chief, his home was pretty decent, with a spacious and solid brick house.
"Miss Lin, please sit down." Lin Youcai asked Lin Zhu's name along the way.
"Thank you very much, Chief Lin." Lin Zhu and Butler Feng were sitting in the yard of Village Chief Lin's house. Outside the yard of his house, many villagers came. However, no one entered the yard. They were all on the third floor and the third floor outside.
It's just surrounded by people.
"There is nothing to entertain in the countryside. I hope the girl won't dislike some wild tea from the countryside." Lin Youcai asked his family to boil a pot of water and make a cup of Xiaolinzhuang's unique wild tea.
The leaves of wild tea slowly unfolded in the hot water, and a faint fragrance of tea came out of the cup.
"It smells so good. Village Chief Lin's tea is good." Lin Zhu took a sip and praised. "Mr. Lin, I heard that all of your small villages were deceived, right?" Lin Zhu paused for a moment before asking.
"Alas, it's hard to explain in words." Lin Youcai lowered his head sadly. "I have been tricked by my own people." He sighed heavily, "Humph, such a person should be punished for taking money that ruins his conscience."
Beat him to death."
It was roughly the same as what Butler Feng said, except that he didn't tell Feng Yuanbo the identity of the deceiver. Now, Lin Zhu actually asked him out at once.
It turned out that people from the village who went to work outside did it after they came back. After working outside for a long time, people also learned to be cunning, so they came up with such a way to benefit themselves at the expense of others, and almost all the people in Xiaolin Village and Zhuangzi were killed.
If you are cheated, you will have to sell your son and daughter.
"No wonder you are so angry because someone lied to you and said that I want to raise the land rent." Lin Zhu nodded and said, "But the land rent does need to be changed."
Lin Zhu's words frightened Lin Youcai so much that he stared at Lin Zhu, "Girl, didn't you say you won't raise the land rent?"
"Yes," Lin Zhu nodded. The people in Xiaolinzhuang felt that their lifted hearts fell back into their stomachs.
"However, I didn't say we won't change the land rent." Lin Zhu's look made people want to slap her. Not being such a playful person, she would come up and go down at one time. Lin Youcai felt that she couldn't let go of Lin Zhu's rhythm.
Her words made her very confused.
"It used to be 50% of the land rent, right?" Lin Zhu just said that to Lin Youcai on purpose. Humph, he knocked down his own house. What does such a small punishment mean?
"Yes. That land used to belong to General Chang's Mansion, but later it was sold to an official, and the rent was raised to 50%." Lin Youcai wanted to say that General Chang only collected 45% of the land rent, but he didn't dare, for fear of offending him.
Lin Zhu was not happy.
"Oh, there's another thing." Lin Zhu didn't expect that this land has a lot of history. In the future, General Chang's Mansion won't send people to ask for the land. Lin Zhu looked at Feng Yuanbo with doubtful eyes. (To be continued.
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