Chapter 198: Lin Zhu's Request
"Uncle Bo, this ......" Lin Zhu looked at the wolf in that place speechlessly, about three or four acres of land, there were broken walls and ruins everywhere.
"What's going on?" Feng Yuanbo was also a little dumbfounded, the last time he came, he only demolished a row of houses, why did he push them all now? "It wasn't like this a few days ago. I'll go find someone and ask. ”
Before Feng Yuanbo walked out of the city, all the villagers of Xiaolinzhuang came to Hulala under the leadership of the village chief Lin Youcai.
"Village Chief Lin, what's going on?" Feng Yuanbo asked, pointing to the wolf behind him.
Lin Youcai watched Feng Yuanbo driving an ordinary carriage, and a little girl who was only ten years old came out of it, and couldn't help frowning even tighter. "Steward Feng, we still want to ask you, what's going on?" The old man snorted.
Feng Yuanbo was stunned, didn't he say it before, and he would tell them after he asked the owner of the land? Why is it that everyone is bitter and hateful now. "Village Chief Lin's words, I don't understand them very well, please tell me one or two."
"Is this land going to raise the tenant rent?" Lin Youcai asked a little angrily.
Not only Feng Yuanbo, but even Lin Zhu, who was standing on the side, listened, and his face obviously changed. Feng Yuanbo glanced at Lin Zhu, and just wanted to say something to Lin Youcai. The villagers standing behind Lin Youcai shouted, "What else did the village chief ask him for?" He won't let us live, and we can't let him have a better time, beat him to death! ”
Feng Yuanbo saw that the situation was not good, and immediately protected Lin Zhu behind. Minglu also protects Lin Zhu.
"Village Chief Lin, what are you doing here? moved us. None of you have good fruit to eat. Feng Yuanbo was very angry, before he could do anything, he wanted to shout and kill, he really shouldn't have pleaded with them in front of the girl.
"Shut up!" Lin Youcai shouted behind him, turned his head to Feng Yuanbo and said, "Steward Feng, what you are doing is really not authentic. A few days ago, you sent someone to ask for a rent for Liuchengtian, and today you asked me what I was for? ”
"Rokunarita rent?" Feng Yuanbo and Lin Zhu looked at each other, what was going on?
"Village Chief Lin, I don't know who told you that you want to raise the land rent?" Feng Yuanbo asked with an unkind face.
"Isn't it your people? What else is pretending to be fake. A disgruntled voice came from the crowd.
"Village Chief Lin. Since that day gone. My people have never been here, and this time I came here today because my girl heard about you, so she came to see it. Feng Yuanbo said. And raise the rent and so on. Absolutely unwarranted. Feng Yuanbo didn't say something. In fact, because Lin Zhu felt that they were very pitiful, he also wanted to reduce some land rent, so that they could tide over the difficulties, and he didn't want them to beat people indiscriminately. Hmph, don't say good things to them.
"Not your people?" Lin Youcai was a little unconvinced, "The person who was the one who had been repairing your house that day was the one who said it." Lin Youcai muttered in his heart again, it wouldn't be that he would be deceived again.
The housekeeper? Feng Yuanbo thought about it for a while, this house was not repaired before and it was not done at all, and Muyue Commercial Bank never started again, where did he come from? Could it be the steward who was irresponsible and was driven away by the Kizuki Trading House?
"Is it a party steward?" Feng Yuanbo asked.
"Yes, that's him." Lin Youcai nodded.
"Village Chief Lin, is it because of his words that you have demolished the house again?" Feng Yuanbo glanced at the fallen walls, "One thing I want to tell you, he is not a descendant of my family, when he first started building the house, he was an overseer sent by others, but because he built this place in a mess, he was driven away." ”
The people of Xiaolin Zhuang, including Lin Youcai, listened to Feng Yuanbo's words, and their eyes showed a look of disbelief.
"So, you have been deceived," Feng Yuanbo's conclusion made the people of Xiaolinzhuang face a face of defeat, "Moreover, my girl heard about your situation, and she still took pity on you and wanted to help you, but the current situation is really disappointing." Feng Yuanbo shook his head.
"Steward Feng, this, this" Lin Youcai couldn't go on, when he knocked down the wall, he let the family see it, and they didn't blame him at the time, but now everyone has listened to the lie, and the house has been completely razed to the ground, what else is there to justify. Lin Youcai felt that he couldn't open his mouth. "I'm sorry, we misunderstood."
"How is Village Chief Lin going to compensate me?" Lin Zhu walked out from behind Feng Yuanbo.
"Ugh." Lin Youcai was asked all of a sudden, he couldn't afford to pay for it, the people in the forest were tossed and choked enough, and there was nothing left.
"It seems that you haven't thought about it, so how about I think of one for you?" Lin Zhu looked at him and said softly.
Lin Youcai's old face was about to wrinkle into a bun, and there were more pleats than the bun, he was very embarrassed, and he didn't dare to agree. Some looked at Lin Zhu pitifully.
"Before the beginning of spring, build my house, no problem, right?" Lin Zhu smiled and said his request, "Zhuanggong is fifty wen per person per day, and women are thirty wen per person per day, including food." ”
After Lin Zhu finished speaking, the scene was quiet, everyone thought that they were hallucinating, the fact shouldn't it be like this, shouldn't they be angry and let them lose money? Do you have to work for nothing at the last time? How so, how can it be?
"What you're saying is true?" Lin Youcai's hands trembled a little with excitement, if what he said just now was true, then the people in the village would no longer worry about spring ploughing.
"Village Chief Lin, my girl won't lie to you." Feng Yuanbo said.
"Yes, yes, yes," Lin Youcai was happy and didn't know what to say, "Thank you for your kindness." As he spoke, he gave Lin Zhu a look.
"Village Chief Lin doesn't need to be too polite." Lin Zhu dodged away, joking, and asked an old man to salute herself, she was afraid of losing her life, so it was better to flash away. "What kind of yard is going to be built, there will be a way to bring it, and when the time comes, you will follow the foreman's instructions to do it." Lin Zhu wants a yard similar to the village courtyard in Linjia Village, and it seems that it can be realized here, and the place of three or four acres is still quite spacious.
"You don't have to worry about it, I'll have someone send it over again, but be sure to do it seriously, you can't be like this, let people push it down." Lin Zhu rarely smiled at them.
"Yes, yes, don't worry, don't say anything else, the work in the village is very sincere, and it will definitely be built to your satisfaction." Lin Youcai immediately replied in the affirmative.
"That's good, Village Chief Lin, you have to remember Steward Feng's appearance, he will be mainly responsible for things here in the future, but don't make a mistake again." Lin Zhu's words made the faces of Xiaolinzhuang a little feverish, especially Lin Youcai, who was deceived several times when he was old, it was too embarrassing.
"I'm really ashamed," Lin Youcai lowered his head and sighed, "The girl has been here for so long and has worked hard, why don't you go to Xiao Lao'er's house and sit down for a while and take a rest?" Lin Youcai invited Lin Zhu.
"Okay, there is something I want to tell Village Chief Lin." Lin Zhu nodded kindly.
Soon arrived at Lin Youcai's house, as the village head, his family was okay, with a spacious and sturdy brick house.
"Miss Lin, please be seated." Along the way, Lin Youcai inquired about Lin Zhu's name.
"Thank you, Village Chief." Lin Zhu and Steward Feng sat in the courtyard of Village Chief Lin's house, and outside the courtyard of his house, there were many villagers with them. But no one entered the hospital, they were all surrounded by three layers outside and three layers outside.
"In the countryside, there is nothing to entertain, a little wild tea in the countryside, and I hope the girl will not dislike it." Lin Youcai asked his family to boil a pot of water and brewed a cup of wild tea unique to Xiaolinzhuang.
The leaves of wild tea slowly spread out in the hot water, and a faint tea fragrance came out of the cup.
"It's so fragrant, Village Chief Lin's tea is good." Lin Zhu took a sip and praised. "Village Chief Lin, I heard that all of you Xiaolin Zhuang have been deceived, right?" Lin Zhu paused for a moment before asking.
"Alas, it's hard to put it into words." Lin Youcai hung his head sadly. "I was pitted by my own people." He sighed heavily, "Hmph, if you take the money for losing your conscience, such a person should be hacked to death." ”
It was about the same as what Steward Feng said, but he didn't tell Feng Yuanbo about the identity of the person who lied to people, and now, Lin Zhu actually asked it out at once.
It turned out that it was the people in the village who went to work outside, and after coming back, they worked outside for a long time, and the people also learned to be treacherous, so they came up with such a trick to harm people and benefit themselves, and almost all the people in Xiaolinzhuang and Zhuangzi were pitted, and they were almost sold to sell their sons and daughters.
"No wonder, someone lied to you that I was going to raise the land rent, so I was so angry." Lin Zhu nodded and said, "But this land rent does have to be changed." ”
Lin Zhu's words frightened Lin Youcai's eyes, and he stared at Lin Zhu deadly, "Girl, didn't you say that you won't raise the land rent?" ”
"Yes," Lin Zhu nodded. The people of Kobayashiso felt that their hearts had fallen back into their stomachs.
"However, I didn't say that I wouldn't change the rent." Lin Zhu's appearance made people want to pump her, without such a playful person, coming up for a while, going down for a while, Lin Youcai felt that he couldn't let Lin Zhu's rhythm, and was very confused by her words.
"It used to be fifty percent of the land rent, right?" Lin Zhu deliberately said that to Lin Youcai just now, hmph, tearing down his house, what is such a small punishment?
"Yes. That land used to belong to General Chang's mansion, but it was later sold to an official and rose to fifty percent. Lin Youcai wanted to say that General Chang only collected forty and a half percent of the field rent, but he didn't dare, for fear of upsetting Lin Zhu.
"Oh, there's another thing." Lin Zhu didn't expect that this place still had a lot of origin, and in the future, General Chang's Mansion would not send someone to ask for land. Lin Zhu looked at Feng Yuanbo with puzzled eyes. (To be continued......)