After returning home, Lin Shan asked Xinghua to get off work, then locked the door and went to Lao Gen's place with two bottles of wine, several bags of cooked food and canned fish.
"Master Gen, let's have a drink." Lin Shan pulled up a stool and sat at the dining table as if he were at home.
Old Gen held his pipe and pot in his mouth, looked at Lin Shan doubtfully, and asked, "What's going on? Are you in a bad mood? Didn't you get things done?"
Lin Shan shook his head and said while opening the vacuum packaging bag: "Nothing, I just want to drink something."
"Have a drink! I've watched you grow up. Do I know if you have something on your mind? Tell me quickly, what's going on? Is there a problem with the farm project?" Old Gen said.
"It has nothing to do with this..." Lin Shan unscrewed the cap of the wine bottle, poured two glasses of wine, then picked up the glass to drink.
But Mr. Lao Gen stopped him with a cigarette pole, glared and said, "If you don't tell me, get out of here and don't look like this in front of me."
"Can you let me have a drink first?" Lin Shan said with a wry smile.
Mr. Gen stared at Lin Shan for a while, then slowly took away the cigarette rod.
Lin Shan raised his head and sipped a glass of wine, let out a sigh, and then said: "I fell in love with a woman from a city and had a relationship with her..."
"You kid..." Mr. Lao Gen jumped up immediately, waved his hand and slapped Lin Shan on the head. He said with hatred: "How can you do such a thing? Do you want to be held responsible?"
"It's not what you think, she did it voluntarily..." Lin Shan quickly explained, covering his head.
Mr. Lao Gen looked at Lin Shan with some confusion, sat down slowly, and said in a deep voice: "What is the situation? Please explain clearly."
Lin Shan picked up the wine bottle and filled it for himself, and then touched it with Mr. Lao Gen. The two drank a few sips, and then Lin Shan continued: "She wanted me to live in the county town, but I didn't want to go, so I refused her... I guess
We might be finished..."
"Are you stupid? I asked you to live in the county town, but you don't want to go? I'm really pissed off by you. How many people are trying to get into the city now, but you actually pushed out when you had this opportunity...
"Lao Gen immediately became so angry that he wanted to beat Lin Shan again.
Lin Shan quickly raised his hands to protect his head and said: "Master Gen, it's not like you don't understand me. I just like to stay in the village, otherwise I would have gone out to work with everyone back then. Besides, if I went to the city,
Who will carry out the farm project we just planned?"
"Are you willing to watch the village continue to be poor? In a village of more than 400 people, only about 200 people live permanently, and they are all old, young, women, children, sick and disabled. If things go on like this, when the children grow up, they will follow their parents.
We live in the city, and the elderly gradually die, and in the end there may be only a barren grave, and our village is completely finished."
"This is the way the world is now! If you want to get married, you have to go to the city to buy a house or a car. Who wants to marry in this poor valley? Shanzi, listen to my advice and go to the county town. It doesn't matter if you don't engage in breeding farms or anything like that.
Your life events are more important." Old Gen sighed, obviously a little confused.
Lin Shan pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Master Gen, you don't have to persuade me, I won't go to the county town! What's good there? The air is polluted, the water is polluted, and you don't have to worry about food and drink. I'll do it in the village.
I have succeeded in breeding and made a lot of money. Do I still have to worry about not having a wife? In the future, I will also build roads, sell our agricultural products, engage in tourism, and build farmhouses to attract people from the city to come to us.
By then our Xiaowa Village will be a good place that everyone yearns for."
"Shanzi, can what you said be realized?" Old Gen asked after a long silence.
Lin Shan nodded heavily and said confidently: "It can definitely be achieved! Our breeding farm will also be successful!"
"Okay! Be ambitious! Come on, just because of your words, I'll give you a toast!" Mr. Lao Gen slapped the table, picked up the wine glass, touched it with Lin Shan and drank it up.
"Shanzi, since you have made your decision, I will no longer advise you, so just work hard! As the saying goes, why should a good man have no wife? As long as you are good, there will naturally be a good woman willing to marry you!
"
Lin Shan seemed to have his heart cleared up, and he laughed easily and said, "That's what you always said! Then let's do a good job!"
This night, the two of them drank well, but not too much, because they spent most of the time talking about the farm.
Early the next morning, under the witness of the old village chief Lin Laogen, the village accountant Lao Cai Shu, and several village representatives, Lin Shan signed a mountain contract with the village committee and contracted the entire back mountain.
Because it is a closed forest area, trees cannot be cut down, and the land is barren and cannot be planted, so the rent is very cheap.
But you still have to pay a rental fee of 50,000 yuan every year. After all, the area is here, with a radius of dozens of miles.
Many villagers don't understand, what's the use of covering such a barren mountain?
The trees are not allowed to be cut down, and the land cannot be cultivated. If it were others, it would be free, and no one would want it.
But Lin Shan contracted it for 50,000 yuan. Many people said that Lin Shan was kicked in the head by a donkey.
Of course, Lin Shan also heard these rumors, but he was too lazy to pay attention to them. He still relied on the facts to speak for himself.
Once you make money, these rumors will naturally disappear.
After the contract was signed, Lin Shan first paid one year's rent, which was 50,000 yuan. From then on, at this time every year, Lin Shan had to pay the next year's rent, otherwise it would be treated as a breach of contract.
This is already the biggest discount given to Lin Shan. After all, it is a long-term contract of seventy years.
According to convention, it is only reasonable to pay rent for five or ten years in advance. There has never been any precedent for paying rent once a year.
All this is thanks to the strong support of the old village chief.
After the back mountain was contracted, Linshan began to carry out large-scale construction.
Select a site to build chicken coops, sheep pens, livestock sheds, pull fences around the edges, and build houses. After all, so many livestock must live here and be looked after.
There are many things to do, but luckily I have people like Lao Gen, Lao Cai Shu, Lao Pao Shu and others to help me.
Lin Shan didn't let them work in vain. He paid each of them a hundred yuan a day and asked them to look for someone to do the work. They were regarded as supervisors in charge of the affairs.
As for Lin Shan, he only needs to provide funds, purchase materials, and grasp the overall situation.
In fact, he does not understand the details as well as these elders.
Just like building a livestock shed, he didn't know what kind of building to build, how to build it, and how much material was needed, but Uncle Pao knew it very well.
Lin Shan only needs to buy building materials according to the figures given by Old Pao Shu.
Most of the craftsmen who worked on the work were hired by Mr. Lao Gen from all over the country based on his connections, and the prices were reasonable.
Generally, the small jobs in Nookangkang are left to the old, young, women and children in the village, which can also increase their income to some extent.
Lin Shan knew that people in the village had a hard time, so they worked for a day's pay.
Because the money was easy to give, everyone worked very enthusiastically, and even asked to go to Lin Shan's house to get a job.
This gave Lin Shan a headache. To refuse directly would offend others, but to accept them all was unrealistic.
In the end, it was Mr. Lao Gen who came forward to take over the problem, and this allowed Lin Shan to breathe a sigh of relief.