Chapter 111: The Whole Village Mobilizes
Ling'er listened to the tenants' words and took the matter very seriously, and she knew very well what the harvest meant to the farmer as she grew up in the countryside.
"That's great, please come with us." Several tenants listened to Ling'er's words and were very moved, almost all the people in the village were tenants of the land of large households, and none of the other landlords gave rent free. It's good to give a little subtraction, and some don't give any subtraction at all.
Ling'er took Zhao Kang and Yingyi to her family's hundred-acre land, this is the first time Ling'er has come, and it seems that she can't see the edge at a glance. It's just that what was supposed to be lush is now dilapidated, and there are rotten seedlings that have fallen to the ground everywhere, and almost none of them are alive. It's all rotten, not to mention the harvest, and the seeds can't be recovered.
"Keichi, how many places have been affected by such a disease?" Ling'er is not thinking about her own land now, but about all the farmers who have been affected by the disaster, if it is a small area, she can barely think of ideas, if it is a large area, then she will not be able to do anything.
"Yes, my subordinates will go." As soon as Ying finished speaking, he urged the horse away, and the tenants didn't understand why Ling'er did this, but they didn't dare to ask more, just followed behind Ling'er.
"Has this ever happened in this place before?" Ling'er found that the ground did contain a lot of water, and it didn't rain these days, how could this be?
"No, the terrain of our land is not high, but it is not low, and in previous years we sometimes had to bring water over. Who knows that this year will be like this, the old village chief said that even if the land goes down tomorrow, it will become hard, and it is not sure what it will be like then. The strong man who was choked up now calmed down and replied to Ling'er's words. It is not difficult to see that he is the leader among the four of them, Ling'er frowned when she heard his words, she is not good at farming at all. But even if you are stupid, you can understand that what he said makes sense, and it seems that the main thing now is to find the reason.
"I'd like to see where the ground is higher around here." Ling'er wants to see the panorama, but there are no mountains in this Fengtai County, and there are occasionally one or two small hills.
"We don't have too high ground here, and the girl can't see anything even if she goes." The man knew that Ling'er wanted to see the panorama.
"That's it, forget it." Ling'er looked at it and saw the yellowed vegetation, and her heart was also very dull.
Almost an hour later, Shadow returned, and when he saw Ling'er, he immediately jumped off his horse.
"Girl, I just inquired about all the villages near here, and in this case, there is only one piece of Lijia Village, which has almost more than 500 acres of land." Ying Yi's words made Ling'er frown slightly, it was still too much.
"Have you found out why?" This is what Ling'er cares about the most.
"I found out, because the river was blocked by the construction of the house of Feng Sanye's family upstream, and the river water spread from the edge of the hills over there to the land here." When Keichi heard about it, he went to the scene to see that the house was built not far from the river, blocking more than half of the river and diverting the river to his yard. The problem was that the river was well watered, so a large part of it overflowed from the other side of the riverbed, but fortunately there were no villages there, otherwise they would all have been flooded.
"You're saying it's all man-made?" Ling'er was angry after hearing this, what kind of Feng Sanye was too much.
"Yes, girl." Eichi answered truthfully.
"That Feng Sanye can't be provoked, he is the brother of Concubine Shu today, I heard that the two of them have been the closest since childhood." After hearing this, the tenants on one side hurriedly introduced the details of this Feng Sanye to Ling'er.
Ling'er's brows furrowed even more after hearing this, and she turned to look at Yingyi, and when she saw him nodding, she knew that it must be true, and she was another person who couldn't be provoked. I was going to wait for next year to start implementing the plan, but now the situation is that it must be advanced, and if you want to live well in this Dafeng Dynasty, you must stand at the top of society, otherwise you will have to be lifted off your head if someone sneezes.
"Several, I know everything here, this year's rent will naturally be free for you, I'll go back and think about it to see if I can remedy it." After Ling'er finished speaking, she didn't wait for them to react before she took the lead in returning to the carriage, and now she had to go back and make a good plan.
When Ling'er came home, it was already afternoon, and Min'er had been waiting for her with her heart, and when she saw that her face was not good, she knew that something was wrong.
"Ling'er, what's going on?" Min'er called Ling'er to the room and asked anxiously.
"Sister, don't panic first, listen to me tell you slowly." Ling'er explained the matter carefully, and Min'er said very worriedly after hearing it:
"Then won't our land be able to be planted in the future?" A year's harvest is nothing, they can last for two or three years now, but if this land is wasted, what will they do in the future?
"Of course we can't let the land be wasted, I have a way to drain the water, don't you forget that we still have my cousin's recipe, it's a big deal that we can implement the plan in advance." Ling'er behaved very relaxed, she didn't want Min'er to worry, in fact, now is not the best time, but the situation forced her to move forward.
"Yes, we still have that recipe, I'm getting more and more finished, and I don't care at all. Ever since you left, my heart has been jumping so fast that I almost didn't pop out of my mouth. (Take things: Northeast dialect, the meaning of poor mental endurance.) )
"I'm the same, if I hadn't touched my purse, I would have forgotten about it." After Ling'er finished speaking, she went to the study to plan, Min'er knew that things must not be as easy to solve as she said, so she hurriedly asked people to go to the kitchen to prepare food for Ling'er.
Although Ling'er had already thought about how to make use of her cousin's recipe in her heart, she had always wanted to wait for a few years, so she had it in her head a few times. Now it's suddenly ahead of schedule, and all aspects have to be considered, Ling'er wrote and painted for three days and three nights, and finally completed the plan on the morning of the fourth day. Min'er looked at Ling'er's dark eyes, not to mention the heartache, she blamed herself and said:
"Ling'er, it's all my sister's fault, otherwise why would you have to work so hard?"
"Sister, what do you say? What does this have to do with you? Isn't it all my fault? "Ling'er knows Min'er's heart knot, why doesn't she have a heart knot herself?
"Ling'er, you can just say what you need me to do." Min'er put away her tears, with a posture of going to the battlefield, Ling'er smiled:
"Sister, what you need most now is to take care of our little treasure, and I will be busy from tomorrow. It will be harvested in more than three months, and it will be up to you whether we can achieve it at that time. Ling'er said.
"Don't worry, it's my responsibility to take care of Xiaobao, I'll start practicing from now on, and I won't let you down when the time comes." Min'er was full of energy all of a sudden, Ling'er was very happy to see her appearance, hoping that she could come out earlier, although she didn't show anything, but as a younger sister who grew up together, Ling'er knew very well that Min'er had never come out of that incident.
"Then we will keep working hard, we will definitely succeed, and we will definitely settle the accounts after we make a comeback." Ling'er is full of fighting spirit.
The next day, Ling'er took Zhao Kang and Yingyi to Lijia Village, and those tenants heard that the owner was coming, and they all painted their souls in their hearts (Painting Souls: Northeast dialect, wondering, I can't understand the meaning. Wouldn't you regret being rent-free? Ling'er went directly to Li Er's house, and this Li Er was the strong man who was the leader of the four tenants.
"Why is the girl from the proprietor here in person, just send someone to inform you of something." Li Twenty was terrified, and in the hearts of the poor, he had a natural awe for the rich.
"Don't be restrained, I'm here to discuss." Ling'er sat on the upper seat of Li Er's house, and Li Er's wife, Li Lan, put a bowl of boiled water in front of Ling'er, and said a little crampedly:
"Girl from the owner, we don't have any decent tea."
"It's okay, Second Sister-in-law Li doesn't need to be polite, this white water will be done." Ling'er said and picked up the bowl and took a sip, in fact, she was not thirsty.
"If you have anything to say, the girl just said it." Li Er thought that Ling'er was going to talk about renting a child, but the girl must have been told by her family after she went back.
"We can't afford to mess with this Feng Sanye's family, but we can't throw this land like this, so I came up with a way to drain the water on the ground, and now I want to ask if you can work for someone you find? Although the salary is not much, but there is a lot of life, how can you make up for the subsidy. Ling'er knew that they must have misunderstood, or they wouldn't have acted so scared, or if they regretted it, they wouldn't have betrayed their sons and daughters.
"Huh?" Li Er obviously didn't expect Ling'er to say such a thing, and he was a little confused for a while, and he reacted when he was pinched by his mother-in-law, and hurriedly said:
"Girl, you are really a good person, at this time, the old and young masters of the whole village are idle at home, as long as you look for it, you have to come. I just don't know how many people you're going to use? Li Er's heart is really happy, although his family's rent is free, but the rest of the village still has to pay rent, otherwise there will be no land to plant next year. I thought that this year would be sad and starving to death, but I didn't expect my small owner to hire someone to work, which is a good thing to save lives.
"What kind of good man am I, and I don't give money for nothing, but I have to work." Ling'er saw their simple faces as if they had returned to Hongsongtun, they hadn't been back since they came out, I don't know how they were doing?
"I'm going to call someone, but how many should I call?" Li Er asked.
"Call all the men and women in the village who can work, and the more people there are, the better." Ling'er's words were like a shot in the arm, Li Er rushed out to shout one step at a time, and Ling'er was very happy to see him excited. (To be continued.) )