Lin Zhu's new house in Wangcun was built thanks to the help of the people in Wangcun. She invited villagers who had nothing to do in Wangcun to come and build houses. They were given a lot of money and provided with good food, so
It left a very good impression on most people in Wangcun.
However, because Xiaolinzhuang and Wangcun are very close, there are always some in-laws between the two villages, so what happened in Xiaolinzhuang has also spread in Wangcun. Some people have become dissatisfied with Lin Zhu.
Wang Dashan is the village chief of Wang Village, and he and his two brothers all live in the same village. Because the family is prosperous, they are quite prestigious in Wang Village.
As soon as Lin Zhu arrived in Wangcun, he first met with the village chief Wang Dashan to discuss building a house, renting land, and hiring people. Of course, he also had to give Wang Dashan some favor gifts.
Wang Dashan knew that Xiaolin Village was taken back by General Chang's Mansion. Although he envied the good luck of the people in Xiaolin Village, he did not become dissatisfied with Lin Zhu because of it. This was mainly because the rent proposed by Lin Zhu was higher than that of General Chang.
The government should be less.
As the village chief, the situation of Wang Dashan's family is definitely better than that of ordinary farmers. However, the previous incident of fake seeds has also affected the people of Wang Village. Therefore, if his family wants to restore their previous living standards as soon as possible, it is necessary to share the land.
of.
So after discussing with his two younger brothers Wang Dachuan and Wang Dalin, he decided to rent Linzhu's field to plant them. However, they still didn't trust Linzhu's seeds. They would rather spend some money to buy some reliable ones from the food stores in the capital.
seed.
Under the leadership of Wang Dashan, half of the families in Wang Village decided to rent Linzhu's fields. Some families were in such a bad situation that they could not afford rice seeds. They boldly decided to use Linzhu's rice seeds. After all,
Her seeds can be returned after the autumn harvest, which gives them a chance to breathe.
However, Lin Zhu's approach made Wang Shiman, a wealthy family in Wangcun, very dissatisfied. His family had many people and they were all strong laborers, so they had a lot of land to farm. If the farm was under the name of General Chang's Mansion, then they would
The taxes to be paid may be less, so even though one of the two conditions for the land lease proposed by Lin Zhu is lower than the land rent collected by the General's Mansion, his family still does not find it suitable.
So Wang Shiman encouraged some villagers to come to the door of Lin Zhu's house.
Lin Zhu, who had just moved here, was instructing his servants to clean up the yard and arrange accommodation. However, he was interrupted by the noise outside the gate.
"Uncle Bo, go check what's going on outside?" Lin Zhu's home was built in the east of Wang Village, close to the slope. The arrangement of the courtyard is similar to that in Linjia Village, but there are more entrances to the courtyard.
There are more rooms.
Feng Yuanbo took two servants and opened the door. He saw many people from Wangcun coming outside, some of whom had helped build houses. However, their angry expressions made him very strange.
"Everyone, come to my door. Is there anything wrong?" Feng Yuanbo's appearance made the crowd quiet for a short time, so he asked first.
"Hey, let me ask you, is your family going to rent out the land?" An rude voice came from the front of the crowd.
Feng Yuanbo looked for the owner of the voice and found that he was a young man in his twenties. He was not very good-looking. He had a strong build, but was not very tall.
"What do you call this little brother?" Feng Yuanbo bowed his hand politely.
"My name is Wang Tianbao. Wang Shiman is my father." Wang Tianbao said his father's name with some arrogance, as if others would recognize him after hearing this name.
"Brother Wang asked if my family rents land. What's the matter? If I remember correctly, your father's name is not among the people who rent my family's land." Feng Yuanbo asked tepidly.
"Of course my father won't share your land. The rent you charge is so expensive, so we won't be fooled by you. Everyone, is that right?" Wang Tianbao said louder and louder, especially when he said
By the time he was fooled, it had already caused a lot of commotion in the crowd.
"Why can't Feng understand what little brother Wang said? Are you saying that the 40% rent of my house is too expensive?" Feng Yuanbo's eyes were a little dark. Who asked him to come here to cause trouble, and brought such a group of people with him?
Feng Yuanbo looked at the crowd in front, looking for suspicious people.
When Feng Yuanbo mentioned the 40% rent, the expressions of the people gathered around changed slightly.
"Didn't you say 45% of the rent at first?" Wang Tianbao pointed at Feng Yuanbo's nose, as if questioning.
"Forty and a half percent, that's for those who use my rice seeds. If you don't use my seeds, the rent is 40%." Feng Yuanbo said loudly to the crowd around him, "Do you think this rent is high?"
Although the voice is high-pitched, the tone is very calm.
He glanced at the crowd around him and saw that some people were already uneasy. Several of them were people who had come to build houses for Lin Zhu.
"Steward Feng, are you telling the truth?" asked a man who once worked at Lin Zhu's house.
"Of course it's true." Feng Yuanbo nodded.
There was noisy chatter in the crowd again.
"Everyone, don't listen to him. If he says this now, when there is a harvest in the future, the rent will definitely be much more expensive than the tenant rent of General Chang's Mansion. Moreover, the taxes paid on the farms under General Chang's Mansion are much lower than them.
." Wang Tianbao continued to yell.
"When the time comes, if the rent plus tax is included, how can we, the common people, afford it? They have to lower the rent for us, yes, we have to let them lower the rent." Finally Wang Tianbao revealed his purpose.
"That's right, that's right, lower the rent." There were several echoing voices in the crowd immediately, and they also incited those who were watching in the crowd. Many people were also encouraged to shout.
"I know you are a servant and can't make the decision. Call that little girl out and say something." Wang Tianbao said some careless words. "You are just a yellow-haired girl. How dare you charge such an expensive rent?"
, she doesn’t even look where she is?”
"If you feel that the rent is too expensive and your work will be in vain if you rent the land, you don't have to do it." Feng Yuanbo suppressed his anger, ignored these irritations, and said coldly. It seems that the girl's kindness is in vain, Feng Yuanbo is here
I thought to myself, these people are unreliable, it would be better to buy more people.
"Steward Feng, I am a tenant." The man who had worked at Lin Zhu's house who had just come out to ask questions quickly stood up after hearing Feng Yuanbo's words, saying to his heart that if he did not share the land, the whole family would be able to rely on his own land in the future.
, how come there is enough to eat?
One person was followed by a second and a third. However, there are always twenty or thirty people in this group, but only seven or eight immediately decided to share the land. The rest still said that if you don't lower the rent, I won't share the land.
Posture.
Feng Yuanbo frowned and looked at them. He was not only angry now, "Are you really not going to share the land?"
"Hmph." Wang Tianbao snorted with his nose turned upward, thinking that he didn't want to rent it. Your family has so much land, so it will remain empty unless the rent is lowered. He found out clearly that this family bought a total of five
One hundred acres of land, and of the fifty or sixty households in Wang Village, only more than thirty have their fields rented. There will definitely be a large number of fields left uncultivated, and he will have no choice but to lower the rent.
The more than twenty people following Wang Tianbao also had the same expression as him. They looked like the boss of heaven and the second child of others.
"Well, it just so happens that the remaining fields are only enough for these brothers to share, no matter how much we have, we won't have any more." Feng Yuanbo's angry expression changed and he said happily.
Now Wang Tianbao and the others were all dumbfounded.
"You're lying. We still have more than a hundred acres of land. Who are you trying to deceive?" Although Wang Tianbao still looked tough, it could be seen from his panicked eyes that things seemed to be different from what he imagined.
Too far.
"Brother Wang, I don't know who told you how much land my family has, but the owner has his own arrangements for those lands, so I won't bother." After Feng Yuanbo finished speaking, he discussed it with the few people just now.
The matter of going to the village chief's house to sign a contract for the land was settled, and then he turned back to the yard and ignored Wang Tianbao and his group who were standing there stupidly.
After telling Lin Zhu about the matter, Feng Yuanbo went to find Village Chief Wang Dashan.
"Village Chief Wang, I have to ask you to explain this to the village. Otherwise, some people will always misinterpret my girl's good intentions, which is really disappointing." Feng Yuanbo told Wang Tianbao that he brought people to make trouble in front of his house. 151
Ten told Wang Dashan.
After Wang Dashan heard this, his face turned very bad. He turned green and red for a while. The green color was because Wang Tianbao was angry, and the red color was because he was ashamed by Feng Yuanbo's words.
The conditions given by Lin Zhu were originally to take a breather this year due to the heavy losses before taking care of the people of Wang Village. Now some villagers who do not understand the truth are being encouraged by some thoughtful people to make trouble in front of other people's homes. Wang Dashan's response to Wang Shiman
Very angry.
Relying on Lin Youcai, the village chief of Xiaolinzhuang, as his in-laws, Wang Shiman was able to work as a tenant farmer from Xiaolinzhuang. His life has always been better than that of Wang Dashan and his family in Wang Village, so he won over some Wang Shiman.
villagers of the village.
Now he is doing this not only to take advantage of Lin Zhu's young age, but also to cause trouble for Wang Dashan. Wang Shiman's desire to be the village chief of Wang Village is not just a day or two. Wang Dashan also knows this.
Understand.
"We have caused trouble to Miss Lin. Please go back and say a few good words for us, Butler Feng." Wang Dashan was very polite to Butler Feng.
"It's easy for Village Chief Wang to say that as long as nothing big happens to me in Wang Village, some of my girl's plans will remain unchanged. But we don't want to give away good things to those white-eyed wolves in vain." Feng Yuanbo said pointedly.
He had already revealed to Wang Dashan that as long as Lin Zhu's rice seeds were used, she would give priority to purchasing the grain grown, which made Wang Dashan overjoyed.
"Thank you so much, Miss Lin. Please tell Miss Lin, Butler Feng, to rest assured that I can still keep my word here in Wangcun and I will definitely not cause her any more trouble." Wang Dashan said swornly.
Lin Zhu's troubles in Wangcun were finally solved, but it wasn't until the autumn that the people in Wangcun discovered that if they rented Lin Zhu's fields, they could not only get soup to drink, but also fish and eat meat.
Some of the people who made trouble before are almost regretting it. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)