"Lin Tao, I find that you are becoming more and more dishonest!"

Zhang Li saw Lin Tao's gaze peeking into the collar of her shirt intentionally or unintentionally, and suddenly her charming face flushed, and she said with a little shame in her eyes.

Lin Tao was very embarrassed, and said stupidly: "You can't blame me, the angle is just right, so ......"

Zhang Li stood up from the ground and said angrily: "Don't make excuses, I originally thought you were an upright person, but I didn't expect that, hum, men really don't have a good thing!" ”

Lin Tao sighed with a wry smile, feeling that no matter how much explanation he had at this time, it would be superfluous, after all, he peeked at other people's chests and was caught by others.

Seeing that Lin Tao was extremely embarrassed, Zhang Li felt that it was not good to say much about Lin Tao, so after glancing at Lin Tao, she deliberately diverted the topic and said: "There are at least hundreds of acres of land here, what is the annual rental price you give each household?" ”

Lin Tao was relieved to see Zhang Li change the topic, but he still felt embarrassed, so he didn't look at Zhang Li, his eyes deliberately looked elsewhere, and he said: "Give them 800 yuan per mu of land according to the market price." ”

"Well, almost, the price is reasonable." After a pause, Zhang Li reminded Lin Tao, "A big grower like you can apply for a subsidy from the government, and when the time comes, you rent the land, plant herbs, and then go to the city to find me, and I will help you apply." ”

Lin Tao became interested and asked, "How much subsidy can I apply for?" ”

Zhang Li smiled: "There should be tens of thousands." ”

Lin Tao: "......"

Tens of thousands of yuan is really unattractive to Lin Tao, he inherited the billions of Liu Yuanzong, and the interest every day is probably more than that, and he wastes his energy to apply for any subsidies.

"It's only tens of thousands of yuan, so forget it."

Zhang Li was angry and funny when she heard Lin Tao's words, rolled her eyes and said, "I know that you are a big boss, but you don't pick up the tens of thousands of yuan you picked up for nothing?" ”

Lin Tao raised his face extremely domineeringly and said, "Tens of thousands of yuan are not worth it for me to bend down to pick it up." ”

This time it was Zhang Li's turn to be speechless.

The two walked and chatted, walked around the field for nearly an hour, and when the two turned back and walked to the entrance of the village, they saw Li Huihui holding a stack of contracts in her hand, panting out of breath and walking out of the cable car.

"Mr. Lin, Director Zhang!"

Li Huihui wiped the shout on the tip of her nose and greeted the two with a smile.

Lin Tao walked over with a smile and said, "Sister Li, thank you for your hard work." ”

Li Huihui hurriedly waved her hand and said with a smile: "What's the hard work, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you." ”

Lin Tao said with a smile: "Then let's go to the village chief's house quickly, everyone is probably waiting for us to sign the contract." ”

……

It took about three hours to completely sign the contract of more than 30 households, and when the contract of the last household was signed, the sky was already dark, and the old village chief was in a very good mood, rubbed his hands, and said to Lin Tao, Zhang Li and Li Huihui with a smile: "You have worked hard today, this is about to be dinner, you stay and eat, I will let the old woman kill a hen and stew the old hen soup for you to drink." ”

Lin Tao smiled and refused: "Old village chief, don't toss, besides, there are only five hens in your house, you can't be distressed to die, keep the eggs." "Mr. Lin, you look down on my old man!" The old village chief kept a straight face and pretended to be angry and said, "Am I so stingy? You have brought such great economic benefits to our village, as the village chief of Yongquan Village, it is only natural for me to kill an old hen to entertain you, and you must stay for dinner at night! ”

Zhang Li smiled bitterly and helped Lin Tao speak, and said: "Old village chief, you misunderstood, Lin Tao didn't mean that you were stingy, but that I felt sorry for your hen, and I thought it was not easy for you two to be old!" ”

The old village chief smiled and said: "I know, joking with him, but seriously, you have to give me a face, stay and eat, in the past, our Yongquan Village mountain road was difficult to walk, it was indeed almost isolated from the world, there was no quality of life, but now it is good, Mr. Lin took a cable car for us, and also rented our land, and hired people from our village with high wages, and the life of our village will be better and better in the future, what is an old hen." ”

Seeing that the old village chief had been insisting, Lin Tao couldn't refuse anymore, so he nodded and said, "Since the old village chief has graciously invited, it would be too ignorant for me to excuse myself, so let's all stay at the old village chief's house and drink the old hen soup." ”

"That's right!" The old village chief said happily: "Today is the happiest day I have lived for most of my life, and I can see that the villagers of Yongquan Village are living a good life. Mr. Lin, you have to have a few more drinks with me in the evening! ”

Lin Tao smiled and said, "Yes, I must accompany you well, the old village chief." ”

It didn't take long for it to get completely dark, the old village chief's daughter-in-law was busy cooking in the kitchen, Li Huihui took the initiative to go to the kitchen to help, and Lin Tao and Zhang Li listened to the old village chief talk about the past of Yongquan Village in the hall.

It turned out that at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the first generation of villagers in Yongquan Village were too harsh in their taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and they could no longer hand over their grain to the imperial court, and many people in the village starved to death.

Generations have lived in Yongquan Village, and until now, it can be regarded as having escaped a catastrophe in the early Republic of China.

"Although our Yongquan village is a remote place, the living environment is very good, the air is fresh, the water we eat is also spring water from the mountains, and few villagers in the village get sick."

The old village chief smiled smugly and said to Lin Tao and Zhang Li.

Lin Tao said thoughtfully: "The land of Yongquan Village is so fertile, could it also be related to the spring water in this mountain?" ”

The old village chief smoked a dry cigarette, squinted his eyes and said, "There must be a certain relationship." After a pause, the old village chief suddenly thought of something, slapped his thigh, and said, "It's over, let's ignore an important big problem." ”

"What's the problem?" Lin Tao looked at the old village chief suspiciously.

The old village chief frowned and said: "If you want to plant herbs, I'm afraid that the mountain springs in Yongquan Village can't supply you for farming, there are some springs, after so many years of consumption, if the water temperature of the spring water is getting lower and lower, if you are using these springs to farm, I'm afraid it will be ......."

Lin Tao was stunned for a moment, and asked puzzledly: "Then where do you use the water for farming?" ”

The old village chief said with a wry smile: "Although our more than 30 households have more than 100 acres of land, but each family plants very little land, and the water we use for farming is specially reserved every time it rains, and the land planted is enough for each family to eat and drink, so the demand for water is not large, but you have cultivated more than 100 acres of land, I am afraid that rain alone is definitely not enough." ”

"What can I do? If there is no water source, I am afraid that this land will not be able to be planted. Lin Tao was sweating wildly, and he actually ignored such an important link.

The old village chief said: "However, there is a water storage tank in our village, which has a lot of water, but it can only solve the urgent need, and we can't always supply water to more than 100 acres of fields." ”

Lin Tao frowned and said, "How long can the water in this storage tank be maintained?" ”

"According to the calculation of 100 acres of land, it can be used for about a month."

Lin Tao said: "One month is enough, planting herbs does not need to be watered too much, as long as you can grow live, only the amount of water needed is very small, recently it is the rainy season, we plant while accumulating water in the storage tank, should be able to solve the water source problem." ”

"That's right." The old village chief nodded in agreement.

At this time, the shouts of the old village chief's daughter-in-law came from the kitchen, asking them to sit down to eat, and the wine and food were ready.

The old village chief's house is quite barren, the dining table is extremely shabby, the only hard dish on the table is the stewed old hen, and some home-grown vegetables, several people sat down around the table, the old village chief grinned and took out the liquor in plastic bottles, and said: "Let's drink some wine today, this wine is made by me with ginseng, which is very good for the body." ”

Lin Tao smiled and said, "Where did the ginseng come from?" ”

The old village chief said with a smile: "I dug it up in the back mountain, the year is quite good, it's a pity to use it to make wine, but who told me to take this mouthful, if you don't come to eat today, I am reluctant to take this wine out to drink." ”

The old village chief poured wine for Lin Tao, Zhang Li and Li Huihui respectively.

After some politeness, everyone chatted while eating and drinking, and after a few toasts, Zhang Li and Li Huihui's faces were already red, although the wine was brewed by the old village chief, but it was not much worse than the more than a thousand bottles of wine outside, the wine was fragrant, the taste was mellow, and a large bottle of wine had bottomed out.

Because this kind of liquor is relatively easy to eat, there is not much drunkenness when everyone drinks it casually.

After the meal was over, Lin Tao found that the stamina of this wine was very great, and he felt dizzy even when he heard a good amount of wine.

After eating, he sat for a while, and when he saw that it was not early, Lin Tao said goodbye to the old village chief, and the two girls around him were drunk, Lin Tao could only hold one on one side and hobbled towards the cable car.

Originally, it only took a few minutes to walk from the old village chief's house to the cable car, but Lin Tao supported the two drunk women and walked for more than ten minutes before walking to the position of the cable car.

After taking the cable car down the mountain, Lin Tao discovered an even more tragic thing, they didn't drive when they came to the foot of Yongquan Village from the guest house.

A few kilometers from the foot of the mountain in Yongquan Village to the hostel, if you help the two girls to walk back, you have to go to the second half of the night?

Just when Lin Tao was depressed and about to collapse, he accidentally saw a pickup truck parked not far away, and suddenly showed a look of surprise, estimating that it should be the pickup truck of the two cable car maintenance workers.

So he helped the two girls and walked towards the pickup truck.

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(End of chapter)