Chapter 17 Building Houses
The young man who came to beg for a life suddenly gathered everyone's attention on his face, and his angry face was still a little shy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
This is an honest scholar, with delicate eyebrows and eyes, a gentle appearance, tattered clothes, a vegetable-colored face, and calluses on his hands. Just such an honest man is still bullied as a tenant farmer? Some in the crowd were indignant.
"Tell me what's wrong with the Jiang family?" A middle-aged man in the crowd asked, his face was cold, and he seemed to be ready to fight.
Jiang Li also wanted to know what happened to the Jiang family, and let him claim that he couldn't stay in Meizhuang. Although she was grateful for the good of the faithful Mabel, she would not tolerate Maeber if he really did something out of the ordinary.
I heard the young man say: "Last year, we rented ten acres of land from the Jiang family, and in addition to paying forty percent of the rent, the rest could barely make ends meet for a family of three." Fortunately, my wife and my old mother-in-law did some embroidery work in their spare time, and saved some money for me to study. ”
Forty percent? Jiang Li remembered that everything in Meizhuang was twenty percent. Frowns and listens.
"Who knew that the rent and grain were handed over early this year, and soon after, the Jiang family inexplicably took back the land, saying that it would not be planted for us from now on, and let us find another way! You said, our family fled thousands of miles from the border to the capital, just to earn food with both hands, I thought that becoming a tenant farmer in Meizhuang can be regarded as a temporary home, even if I participate in the autumn examination of the imperial court in the future. Now that the Jiang family has suddenly taken back the fields, isn't this not giving us a way to live? The young man said.
Jiang Li heard some clues from it, and there were some eyebrows in his heart, thinking that he had just recovered two hectares of land not long ago.
"The Jiang family only took back your family's land? Isn't it because you don't have enough filial piety for Jiang Popi on weekdays? Someone in the crowd asked. It seems that they are all people from the same Zhuangzi.
Splashing? Jiang Li chuckled in his heart: In the last life, she was also called like this!
"How can you rub people, it's not enough 'filial piety'? Of the dozen or so tenant farmers in our village who came from other places, which one of them has not been detained by them?! Let's just talk about me, let's go later, only three or four acres of self-reserved land next to Jiang Tianci. I saw that the soil was fertile, sunnier than all the fields in the lodge, and it was a good place to produce crops. I also wondered how I could get my turn for the same rent in such a good land. Later, I found out why! The young man swallowed.
It turned out to be Jiang Tianci again, but it was not from Meizhuang. Jiang Li was relieved.
"Isn't the few acres of land I rented next to Jiang Popi's own land, every year when the spring planting and autumn harvest season, he is waiting for you in the field, and he asks you to do his family's land together when he sees what you do. We also collected heavy rent for renting his land, and this was a simple job of three or four acres of his family's self-reserved land, and it was miserable to do it, and he didn't do it, and he was afraid of annoying him, so he didn't even rent these dozen acres of land. You say that his family has several long-term workers on two acres of land, and don't long-term workers pay them? It's no cheaper than working long hours! I had long thought about not renting his land, but when I thought that the family's rations could barely make ends meet, I endured it, but I didn't want him to propose not to rent it first! ”
"If you don't rent, don't rent it, I heard that Jiang Popi's land is also rented from Meizhuang and then changed hands, he proposed not to rent, it is definitely not to take it back and plant, eighty percent is returned to Meizhuang, when you go to Meizhuang to ask for planting, isn't it cheaper, I heard that Meizhuang is rented to people and only charge 20% of the rent, and there is no distinction between outsiders and people in the village, all of them are treated equally."
These people who came back from running the boat have not heard of the lawsuit in Meizhuang that used the township covenant to protect the armor, but they are still eight or nine.
The young man had a bitter face and said: "What you said is right, he Jiang Tianci returned the land to Meizhuang, but he didn't take the initiative to return it, I heard that he also suffered a lawsuit and was forced to return it by Meizhuang." For this reason, he held his breath, and he didn't dare to trouble the genuine Jiang family on Meizhuang, but he thought that we were going to make the master of Meizhuang ugly! ”
Jiang Li had already put aside the matter of suing the official that day, and he didn't ask about the use of the land he got back, and he heard that some people were worried about this, and some people were ready to make themselves ugly, so he listened carefully to see how the prankster with the same surname as himself in their mouths would make himself ugly.
"What's the trick?" Someone in the crowd asked for her.
As soon as they came back from the yamen, they came to the door one by one to inform them, saying that the land of this Meizhuang is the three-room Jiang family in the house, but we outsiders live in the village that their ancestors of the Jiang family have passed down. said that since the master in the third room did not recognize his relatives, they would also break their faces, so that the Mei family's fields would not be rented from now on! Inform us, tenant farmers, that if anyone dares to rent land in Meizhuang to plant, they will let us outsiders get out of here, so that we don't even have a place to live! The young man let out a long sigh.
There are thousands of hectares of fertile land in Meizhuang, and there is no farmhouse in the middle, and a delicate garden has been built in the middle of more than ten acres of plum groves. It was the private house of a wealthy family, and the Jiang family also had masters who came out to live for a period of time from time to time. The Jiang family is not short of money, so it is impossible to rent the garden out. Even if someone is willing to plant the fields in the plum village, there must be a place to live.
The local indigenous villagers have their own fields, and it is impossible to risk offending the two bullies to come to the door to ask for rent, and these outsiders are only temporarily hiding from the war on the border, and may return to their hometown at any time.
Many people think so, so someone spoke up: "If Meizhuang is really willing to give these people a place to live, then everyone won't crowd to rent land." If you really want to let the outsiders have a place to live, who will go to farm the land for those two splashes. ”
Jiang Li got up when he heard this. Sixi paid for the tea and followed, one after the other with two tails out of the market.
Jiang Li sat in the car, and Sixi rode a horse.
Before getting into the car, Jiang Li said slowly: "Sixi, when you come back from the boat, I will find someone to go to Meizhuang to choose a piece of land outside Meizhuang to prepare to build a house, I think Meizhuang is too deserted, I want more people to live in a lively place." ”
"Huh?" Sixi's round face froze, his eyes blinked, and he didn't keep up with Jiang Li's whimsical thoughts.
"Dare you listen to it for a long time?" Jiang Li was furious, "Whoever asks you to clean up a scoundrel can't do anything, and people will provoke us again and again!" Hmph, fight with us? They take 40% of people, we take 20% of people, and fools will not give him any effort in vain. Isn't it just to give people a few broken houses to live in, and threaten people at the door! We have land in Meizhuang, and we can't find a piece of land to settle down for those tenant farmers. People eat with their hands, do they still need to look at the faces of those two bullies? Jiang Li was still muttering as he sat in the car.
"Master, aren't you serious? Don't listen to their blind break that you have to repair the house and build a house, have you ever calculated that this groundbreaking, Meizhuang's income in the past year or two will be gone. Sixi frowned and shouted, how could this master think that one is one out.
"Any business needs to be invested in advance, we invest in a year or two of income, the land is rented, and the rent is collected according to the number of months, even if those outsiders are gone, the house is still ours, the land is still in our hands, how to calculate it will not suffer. With a lot of tenant farmers on land like ours, we should have given a place to live, so as not to find no one in an emergency, and we can't let the land be vacant. "Jiang Li can always tell thousands of reasons when he has made up his mind.
And Sixi only needs one reason to be enough, he knows who is the master. "Then I have to come back alive from this boat, and you have to ask someone else to do it." Sixi thought of the fierce guy named Chen Yu, maybe they didn't agree on the river and got into a fight, so they really had to sink into the river to feed the fish.
Jiang Li wasn't worried about whether Sixi would fall into the river to feed the fish, she was worried about what kind of boat Sixi was looking for.
How to get rid of dozens of priceless treasures, along with the gang of bandits, was what worried her the most.