"Go to the meeting, notify all the villagers, and have to vote by the village committee." Cao Shujie heard these new words from Cao Jiangang and felt that it was too troublesome.
But he also knows that some things must go through a 'process' in order to reduce future troubles.
"Uncle, if nothing else, I will take over the whole mountain. The later planting, sorting, harvesting, etc. will all require people to work. When the time comes, I will give priority to finding people from our village to work, and the wages will be daily.
End." Cao Shujie added.
When Cao Jiangang heard what Cao Shujie said, he felt relieved: "Okay, Shujie, I've taken care of this. Can you have some drinks at my place tonight?"
Cao Shujie naturally refused.
Cao Jiangang sent Cao Shujie out. Looking at Cao Shujie's retreating figure, Cao Jiangang thought in his mind about Cao Shujie's plan to protect the mountain: "How can it be that you can't survive outside? A bunch of ignorant old women know how to beep all day long.
"
He has been the village party secretary for more than ten years, and he knows better than most people that growing fruits or breeding in Baoshan is not that simple.
The rent here is the lowest cost. The rest, such as fences, land repairs, transplanting seedlings, various later maintenance, and fertilizer investment, are the bulk of the cost, and are far more than the rent.
Otherwise, they have been growing kiwis and apples here for so many years, why would no one want to go to Baoshan?
"Is it a newborn calf that is not afraid of tigers, or is it a real tiger?" Cao Jiangang, the village party secretary who is over 60 years old, is a little confused.
…
When Cao Shujie returned home, his wife, daughter, sister, and his sister's classmate Deng Miaoshan were all back. They were chatting at home. Seeing that they were chatting enthusiastically, Cao Shujie did not disturb them.
Mengmeng suddenly saw her father coming back. She broke away from her mother's arms and ran over: "Dad, give me a hug."
"Mengmeng, did you enjoy playing?" Cao Shujie asked her.
"I'm happy!" Mengmeng said, "Auntie, I, the dog, took a photo."
Cao Shujie understood that it was Deng Miaoshan who took the photo of her and the two puppies.
"Brother, what were you busy with and why did you come back?" Cao Huifang stood up and asked.
Deng Miaoshan also stood up and called "Brother Jie".
Cheng Xiaolin knew that her husband had something serious to do, so she blinked at him and made eye contact, as if asking: "How are things going?"
Cao Shujie also winked at her: "OK, don't worry!"
"Brother, you and my sister-in-law are flirting with each other, have you ever considered my feelings?" Cao Huifang suddenly said something.
"..." Cao Shujie looked at his sister and was immediately speechless.
In the evening, her mother Wang Yuelan prepared a table of meat and vegetable dishes to entertain her guest Deng Miaoshan. Mengmeng was very excited about eating meat.
But she has a problem. She swallows chewy meat very quickly.
But she couldn't chew the hard-to-chew meat like lean meat, so she kept chewing it in her mouth without swallowing it, not even eating other meals.
night!
"Husband, I went to the mountain this afternoon. Fangfang, her classmate, said some ideas. Let me tell you." Cheng Xiaolin saw that the girl leaning against the wall was already asleep, and she carefully told her husband what Deng Miaoshan had mentioned.
A few ideas.
But before she finished speaking, she felt a hand moving back and forth under the quilt, touching, rubbing, and buttoning...
"What are you doing?" Cheng Xiaolin felt as if she had been electrocuted, and her whole body was exhausted.
Cao Shujie said matter-of-factly: "What kind of mountain are we talking about in the middle of the night? We are talking about life."
…
At around six o'clock the next morning, when most people were still sleeping, Cao Shujie got up.
He got dressed and was about to get out of bed when he heard the loudspeaker of the village committee blaring. It was Peking Opera. The babbling sound came. After a while, it was replaced by Cao Jiangang's voice: "Caojiazhuang's voice"
Young and old gentlemen, please pay attention. There will be a meeting at the village committee at ten o'clock this morning. There are important things to announce."
Then it was repeated again.
Cao Shujie suddenly had the feeling that this would be aimed at him regarding Baoshan.
When he came out of the room and heard Cao Jiangang still shouting on the loudspeaker, he stopped guessing and would find out later.
"Oh woo!"
The little husky who was sleeping might have been awakened by the noise of the loudspeaker. It was very irritable. After barking once, it heard that the loudspeaker was not finished yet. It barked again, and the other little husky also barked.
woke up.
This time it's okay, the two brothers are fighting among themselves. You shout, I shout, and we have to compete with each other to see who has the loudest voice.
Cao Shujie is annoyed, but his wife and daughter are still sleeping.
"Puff!"
He went over and patted the cardboard box twice. When the two Husky brothers heard the noise, they were thinking of giving a warning to the incoming person, but when Cao Shujie's hateful face came into the dog's eyes, the two Husky brothers immediately shut their mouths.
The blue-eyed husky shut up too quickly, biting his tongue before retracting it, causing his eyes to spin in pain, and he barked a few times.
When Cao Shujie saw this scene, he really hated the iron. He pointed at the blue-eyed husky and said: "You useless piece of shit, you can bite your own tongue, so what's the use of you?"
"Oh woo!"
The blue-eyed husky felt that he had been provoked, so he forgot about his fear of Cao Shujie and the pain in his tongue, and screamed at him, which shocked Cao Shujie.
"Oh, I'm so excited. You still want to chat on the south roof." Cao Shujie said this.
The clamoring blue-eyed husky shrank immediately. He remembered that this thing in front of him was worse than a dog!
After breakfast, Cao Huifang and Deng Miaoshan went out to play again. Deng Miaoshan wanted to see if there were any other beautiful scenery in Caojiazhuang. They were not at all curious about the village meeting.
However, Cao Shujie went with his daughter, his wife, and mother.
As expected, Cao Jiangang told everyone present that Cao Shujie wanted to contract a large area of mountain land, and also announced the results of their village committee discussion, rental income, and other related matters in front of the villagers.
"According to further communication between our Caojiazhuang Village Committee and villager Cao Shujie, he has contracted 78 acres of mountainous land in the past 30 years and needs to pay a total of 840,000 yuan. Considering that the initial investment and subsequent maintenance needs of the mountainous land are relatively large, our village committee held a meeting
Finally, it was unanimously passed that the rent should be collected every 10 years, divided into three installments, and all should be collected before April 10, 2031. Everyone knows about this."
"In addition, we will have a meeting later to discuss the subsequent use of the money, whether it will be used for public welfare construction in the village, or distributed equally." Cao Jiangang was very familiar with this, and he changed the subject without leaving a trace: "The next step
, we have invited Cao Shujie, the Yamada contractor, to come up and say a few words to everyone and applaud!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he applauded first, and then the village committee members and the people followed suit.
Cao Shujie never expected that he would be able to go on stage and speak in front of the whole village, which made him a little uncomfortable.
This is completely different from speaking in front of department employees at work. Those are his subordinates, but among the more than 100 people in front of him, many are related to him.
At this time, the people in Caojiazhuang were also in a state of confusion, especially when they heard Cao Jiangang say, "Cao Shujie spent more than 430,000 yuan to contract the mountainous land." Their minds were even more confused.
At this time, some people in the crowd who had previously discussed that he could not survive outside just dropped their heads. That was a contract fee of more than 400,000 yuan!
Just because they have made money, they may really want to develop the rural economy when they come back!
While the villagers below were still discussing in low voices, Cao Shujie had already walked to the stage. He cleared his throat: "Dear fellow villagers, I am Cao Shujie, and I am also a member of our Caojiazhuang."
"There are many people here who I have to call my grandparents, uncles and aunts. You are my elders. To be honest, standing here today, I feel a little hesitant..."
Cao Shujie expressed some emotion and finally said: "Here, I can guarantee you one thing in advance. The mountain will need to be leveled, seedlings transplanted, irrigated, fruits harvested, etc. When I look for people, I will give priority to them.
We'll find it in the village, and the wages will be paid daily."
For Cao Shujie, this is all he can do to help his fellow villagers.
He has no great ambition to lead the whole village to make a fortune. People's joys and sorrows are not connected with each other, and that kind of idea is not realistic.
But if he said "recruiting workers", the matter would be settled. Besides, they also knew that the investment cost in that mountain was huge, and few people in the village could afford it.
It's too troublesome to invest even if I can afford it, and I think it would be better to do other things to make money quickly.
