Chapter 279: Tenant Medicine Field
When Li Zhu's daughter-in-law heard this, she suddenly felt as if she had been struck by lightning, and she didn't slow down for a long time. Originally, I thought that the more than 200 acres of fields in the mountains belonged to the village. After the beginning of spring, it will be redistributed, and each family can at least share six or seven acres, and their family has not caught up this year, and they can't miss it next year. Who knew that all the land would become private property......
Li Zhu's parents died early, and before leaving, he asked the old village chief to take more care of this nephew. The old village chief couldn't bear to see his nephew's daughter-in-law's expression, so he pointed out a clear way for her: "The Gu family is definitely going back to Yancheng, and his family's more than 80 acres of medicinal land will either be planted by the villagers or invited by others to plant when the time comes." If you two really want to plant, you can go to Gu Lao Wu and ask. However, don't blame the uncle for talking too much, if you take the land, you must serve it well. The pillars, in particular, can't be so mixed. ”
Li Zhu's daughter-in-law regained her spirits, someone in her mother's village planted other people's land, and the grain collected was handed over to forty percent in addition to taxes, and the rest was her own. In the first three years, there is no need to pay taxes on the newly reclaimed wasteland, and you can earn 167 taels for planting 1 mu of medicine, and 8 or 9 taels per mu if you are 40 percent, which is much more cost-effective than growing grain.
The Gu family only has eighty acres of land, and the remaining dozen or so households in the village are waiting, so she can't let others take the lead. Li Zhu's daughter-in-law couldn't sit still, so she hurriedly said goodbye to the village chief's house, and went directly to Gu's house.
The Gu family had just finished busy at this time and was ready to eat. Li Zhu's daughter-in-law said her intentions during the period. She was really afraid that Gu Wuye would not give it to her, because she knew that her mouth was unpleasant, and she had inadvertently offended many people. In the past, she also used to talk about Gu Ye'er's brothers and sisters behind her back...... Thinking about it now, my face is panicked.
Unexpectedly, Gu Wuye agreed without saying a word, and said that he would give the fattest piece of land to her family. Li Zhu's daughter-in-law left with a thousand thanks, and she went home to tell the man about it. Li Zhudeng said: "Since Fifth Uncle Gu thinks so highly of us, then we have to plant the medicine well, so as not to live up to the good intentions of Fifth Uncle." ”
Although Li Zhu was a little confused, he didn't find what he thought was worth doing. Now, one acre of land can collect eight or nine taels of silver, and five acres of land can be harvested, and it is forty or fifty taels a year.
The next day, without the urging of his mother-in-law, he ran to the medicine field to volunteer to help. The medicinal herbs in the field, except for the perennial ones, have been collected in the storehouse. What needs to be done now is to clean up the medicine field and dig deep. Li Zhu is tall and big, has a lot of strength, and works extremely hard.
The rest of the village was amazed. You must know that Li Zhu has a bad reputation in the village, he works secretly and cheating, and often hooks some people to play money, to put it bluntly, he is not doing it properly. There must be a reason for this sudden increase in diligence.
As soon as I inquired, I learned that his family had tenanted five acres of medicine land from Gu Wuye's family, which was to brush up on the good impression in front of the Gu family. There was no one who planted medicinal herbs with the Gu family in the spring, and he had already regretted that his intestines were green. As soon as I heard that the Gu family was going to tenant the medicine field. I can get more than half of my annual income, and my mind is active.
The front of Gu's house began to be lively. The east family takes a few eggs, and the west family picks a basket of vegetables, all of which are close to the set. Even Gu Ye was stopped a few times by the aunt in the village to probe her tone. It annoys her.
Anyway, Yaotian's family doesn't have time to take care of it, so they all go out, so they don't have to worry about it. As soon as the Gu family spoke, the heads of the remaining dozen or so families in the village came to the door. Sit in the yard.
The final result was very happy, more than a dozen families each had five acres, and they were not biased. If there is a small family and cannot be served, they may discuss the distribution to those with a large population. However, who is willing to spit out the fat in his mouth, even if he doesn't plant it in the mountains at home, he must first serve the medicine field that lays golden eggs. If you have money, are you still worried about having no food?
Gu Xiao made a contract with every family, signed it once a year, and signed it again after a year if he was willing to continue planting. However, the ugly words are in the head, if anyone cheats and plays tricks, and the quality of the medicinal materials planted is not good, the Gu family will not accept it. And to recover the field, but also to compensate the Gu family for the loss.
When the villagers heard this, they immediately sounded the alarm bell in their hearts, reminding their family members to take care of the medicine field carefully and not to do stupid things. There are also some people who think that they have little land, and they are also secretly staring at other families to see who is lazy, and they will sue for a small complaint, maybe they can share an extra acre next year!
After Liu was suspended, he stayed in Qingshan Village. Her mother's brother didn't want to take care of her, she had nowhere to go, so she could only stay in Qingshan Village. Sometimes she is cheeky and does odd jobs in the Gu family's medicine field, or digs some wild vegetables and picks some mountain goods in the mountains to barely survive.
The Wu family's house, she lived in for a few days, and was kicked out by the villagers. The reason is that there is a family in the village who is ready to marry a daughter-in-law for their youngest son, and the family house is not enough. In addition, the children of this family worked in the Gu family's pharmaceutical factory, and earned more than a dozen taels in less than half a year. He spent money to buy the Wu family's house and gave it to his youngest son to marry his daughter-in-law.
Liu could only beg his grandfather to tell his grandmother, ask the villagers for help, built a grass shed next to Wu's house, and lived in it to barely survive. At this time, Liu's original round figure was so thin that she lost her appearance, her face was drooping, her hair was nearly half white, and she looked less than thirty years old, like an old woman in her fifties.
Today, she also licked her face and squeezed in, hoping that the Gu family would take pity on her and give her one or two acres of medicinal land.
The Gu family's medicine field is only more than eighty acres, and if she divides two acres, there will definitely be two acres less. The villagers were not happy, saying that she had been divorced, that she was not from Qingshan Village, and that she wanted to take advantage of Qingshan Village. There are also people who dug up all the things she did to the Gu family's brothers and sisters before, and how she poisoned the Gu family, scolding her for being faceless and skinless, and daring to go to the Gu family. That is, Gu Wuye is kind-hearted, and if she were someone else, she would have been beaten out a long time ago.
Gu Ye did not have the mind to repay grievances with virtue, so the Liu family naturally failed to get the land. Just when she was lying in the grass shed and crying silently, Gu Qiao came up and said that she could be given two acres of medicinal land to plant.
In the spring, Gu Qiao ignored Liu's obstruction and followed Gu Wuye to try to plant five acres of medicinal materials. He was not used to farm work, and although the quality and yield of the medicinal materials were average, the harvested medicinal materials were also sold for fifty or sixty taels of silver.
It's not that he cares about the relationship between husband and wife, but the five acres of medicinal fields, he really can't plant them alone, and he is afraid that the planting will be bad, and the five uncles will not accept the medicinal materials, so they want to let the Liu family share some of it. He gave the Liu family and received sixty percent of the rent, which was two percent higher than the Gu family.
There are two reasons why the Liu family lived in Qingshan Village, one is to see their youngest son often, and the other is to think about whether they can get back together with Gu Qiao. Although Gu Qiao's rent was high, she was still glad that he could give her hope of getting back on her feet when she was desperate.