Chapter 4: Tea Mountain
Ye Chen didn't think about it anymore, played with his mobile phone, and fell asleep unconsciously.
When I woke up after two o'clock in the afternoon, I was about to get up when I heard a noise in the living room: "Dad, are you back?"
"Well, I brought you a boxed lunch. Dad Ye said outside.
Ye Chen hurriedly got up, found a shirt and cropped pants to put on, comfortable, and then washed his face and went out. Dad Ye is in his fifties, his body is very good, and he looks like he is in his forties.
"Dad, have you eaten it? Ye Chen opened the lunch box, and there was braised pork and pea tip ball soup.
"I've eaten it. Dad Ye lit a cigarette and looked at Ye Chen: "Why are you coming back so soon?" ”
"Resigned, came back early. How do you distribute the tea garden left by the master?"
"Divide it evenly, ten acres per person, and demarcate the line in a few days. Dad Ye frowned, the matter of dividing the tea garden dragged on until now last year, and it made the brothers and sisters very discordant.
"Do you think this will work, our family will pay for the tea garden to be assigned to my name?" Ye Chen followed his father out and discussed.
"If you have the money, you might as well buy a few bachelor apartments in the city and collect the rent. Dad Ye glanced back at Ye Chen.
"The national policy is now biased from the urban to the rural. Rural areas will have more opportunities for development in the future...... Perhaps, in a decade or twenty, the land of the country will be privatized. Indeed, this is also something that is difficult to say......
"How much money are you going to pay?"
"Within a million. Ye Chen said.
"You don't leave some money to get your wife. ”
"You're underestimating me. One million is still a very easy thing...... "Ye Chen doesn't plan to say how much money he has.
The money came from strangely.
The matter of the space bead is an absolute secret to Ye Chen, even if it is a close relative, Ye Chen intends to keep it a secret, and the more people who know, the more risks it takes. It's not about trust......
My hometown is in Qingshui Village, deep in the Mengshan Mountains.
It takes ten minutes to drive back.
The cement road turns around, driving around the mountain, without a certain level of proficiency, and it is really a bit weak to drive. The main thing is that the road is too narrow......
However, the scenery here is quite good.
Mengshan Mountain, which is more than 1,000 meters above sea level, has green mountains and clear spring water, and the air you breathe is sweet.
The mountains are sometimes steep and sometimes flat. From time to time, there are steep terraces, and you can see small orchards and tea plantations......
Life in the mountains is hard, not only young people are reluctant to come back, but even the fathers, who have worked hard all their lives, just want to buy a house in the city.
More and more people in the village are going out, and fewer and fewer are coming back.
After all, working outside is better than farming in the mountains.
Early the next morning, Ye Chen took his father's sign 3008 and went back to the village.
The people of the village live next to Qingshuigou. People here are particularly fond of houses, and there are more than a dozen houses of three or four storeys high.
Ye Chen is a bungalow in the village, which has been vacant for many years, but there is no water leakage, and people can still live in it.
I went back to take a look first, and then went to the fourth uncle's house.
"Ye Chen, when did you come back?" As soon as he walked to the door of the fourth uncle's house, the fourth aunt saw him.
"This morning. Ye Chen smiled: "Is the fourth uncle at home?"
"In. The fourth aunt brought a stool for Ye Chen and Ye Chen's father.
"Chenwa, have you had breakfast? The fourth uncle came out with a cigarette in his mouth and handed one to Ye Chen and Ye Chen's father.
"I've eaten it. Ye Chen took the cigarette and lit it.
"Fourth, come over today to talk about the matter of Chashan. Dad Ye brought something over, a cigarette, and then said: "Ye Chen won't go to the United States when he comes back this time...... Ye Chen's father told Ye Chen about what he wanted to Chashan to Ye Laosi: "The second, third and fourth sisters are easy to say, and they all agreed." What do you mean?"
The matter of dividing the tea mountain, which dragged on until now last year, is mainly the sister-in-law. There is a saying in the countryside that if the daughter who marries out spills the water, the sister-in-law's household registration will move out after more than ten years. Seeing that Chashan is worth money now, I found a lawyer......
Human.
Grandpa left suddenly, there was no clear will, legally speaking, sister-in-law has the right to inherit the estate.
At the end of the day, it's all about money.
"The 51 acres of tea plantations left by the old man (father), there are five of us, and one family is 10 acres and one point. The second and third sisters, the fourth sister, I called and asked, give the fourth sister 200,000, the second and third still have land in Chashan, according to 270,000. ”
The fourth uncle lit a cigarette and looked at Ye Chen: "Chenwa really wants to run a tea garden?"
"Now I have a little money on hand, and Chashan takes it to keep its value. Ye Chen said with a smile.
Chashan's output last year had a net profit of about 100,000. If it is operated, it is not a problem to double or even several times the profit. It cost more than one million points to get the land use right of the tea mountain and 51 acres of tea plantations, which is a good deal. It can't be said to be cost-effective, they have a lot of contracted land to grow tea, less than 20 yuan per mu. It's just a barren mountain, and it takes time and effort to reclaim it. It takes about 7,000 to 10,000 to reclaim an acre of new tea plantations.
What the old man left behind was the old tea garden, full of tea trees that were more than 50 years old, and a few tea trees that were more than 100 years old.
"Two hundred and seventy thousand?" the fourth uncle confirmed with some emotion.
"Hmm. ”
"Okay. Xingwazi played a girlfriend, and he had 270,000 yuan to buy him a house. The fourth uncle happily agreed. Ye Xing, the son of the fourth uncle, works outside, and Ye Xiao should come back this time when he gets married.
Early the next morning.
Ye Chen, the second uncle and the third uncle gathered at the township government and signed the land use transfer contract. 51 acres of tea plantations, about 50 acres of wasteland......
All the documents were processed in one day, and an application for building a house was written at the same time.
In the past, when building a house on the new land of the village, it was generally necessary to give the leader a little benefit if he wanted to get the approval. Ye Chen is considered a celebrity in their town, and the first one to go abroad is now considered a 'turtle'. The leaders of the township government did not embarrass him and directly gave him the approval. It made Ye Chen's father say in a weird way: "The one who went abroad is Niu ......"
Chashan is the northernmost part of Qingshui Village and is the highest Niubei Mountain in this area.
Oxback Mountain, which looks like the back of a cow. It looks high, but it's not steep.
Mengshan has a long history of growing tea.
Ye Chen, a tea mountain, was collectively planted in the era of eating big pot rice. Later, the contract system was implemented, and the tea mountain was in the hands of Ye Chen's grandfather. A single tea mountain does not look steep, but in fact, the elevation of the summit is 1,291 meters.
Mengshan mountain range, the mountain is undulating, gradually higher and higher, at the top of the mountain you can see a lot of ravines spitting out mist, the older generation called this is the dragon spitting fog.
To reach Chashan, you must pass through Qingshui Village, and the end of the cement road is still three or four thousand meters away from Chashan. A machine farming road that no one has walked for a long time, and it takes more than half an hour to walk to the tea mountain.
"You drive slowly, the car is scratched. "This road has not been walked for a long time, the weeds are knee-high, and some woody plants have grown, and all the way over, the car rattles. Ye Chen's father was distressed, this is a car of five or six hundred thousand......
"Hundreds of thousands of new cars, it's a bit of a waste to drive like this. The fourth father echoed.
"Dirt bikes, just drive. "The Wrangler is chosen to cope with the rough and difficult mountain roads, otherwise it would be better to choose an SUV.
The car can only drive under the tea mountain.
The three got out of the car and walked to the top of the mountain......