Chapter 40: Betting
Got it, got it!
The new cicadas are calling in the trees, heralding the arrival of summer.
Fortunately, Jiangbian Village is a mountain village, and it is close to the river, with a pleasant climate, warm in winter and cool in summer. The people in the city have turned on the air conditioning, and they have to add thin quilts here at night.
A bunch of idlers gathered at the gate of the village committee compound, giggling and laughing.
"Don't run, wait for me!" Jiang Xiaolong immediately pointed at Jiang Xiaohu and said.
Jiang Xiaohu didn't know, and raised his chin at him: "Wait for you, come on." ”
He thought that his cousin was going to come up and fight, but the other party turned around and ran, running faster than a rabbit. caused the unwitting bystanders to laugh, and Jiang Xiaohu was annoyed and panicked. It doesn't matter what happens to the two of them, after all, it's his cousin.
"Cowardice, lose the face of your ancestors!" Jiang Xiaohu scolded.
After scolding, he regretted it a little, why did he get angry with Jiang Xiaolong? Let's put the notice back, so as not to delay the people who are really in need. Anyway, he doesn't want this piece of land, it's too barren.
Before he could post it back, Jiang Xiaohu heard a burst of angry scolding from behind him. He looked back curiously and saw that it was the old branch secretary.
The old branch secretary wore faded military trousers, held a rolling pin in his hand, and shouted as he ran: "Little rabbit, I can catch you! Don't run, I can't kill you!"
The idlers scattered in a hurry, and no one was far from poking the old branch secretary's eyelids.
Only Jiang Xiaohu, he felt that he didn't need to run, and he didn't do anything wrong. It's just that when he saw his cousin running behind the old branch secretary, he felt quite puzzled in his heart, what kind of ghost is this thing doing behind his back?
Seeing that the old branch secretary was running out of breath, Jiang Xiaohu was still very considerate to take a few steps forward.
"What's making you angry like this?, where is the rabbit cub?" Coming to the old branch secretary, Jiang Xiaohu turned his head and looked around.
Unexpectedly, the old branch secretary slapped him on the back: "It's you, don't pretend to be with me! Who made you bad and always tore off the notice I pasted?"
Jiang Xiaohu suddenly realized, oh, feelings are like this, no wonder Jiang Xiaolong ran like a rabbit just now, no wonder the old branch secretary was so angry that he blew his beard and glared. It must have been broken behind the scenes, it's really annoying!
Jiang Xiaolong dodged several meters away, left himself clean, smoked and chatted with Er Laizi, pretending to be fine.
In fact, he kept staring at Jiang Xiaohu, and thought gloating in his heart: "Aren't you kid capable? If you have the ability, you can be the village party secretary!
said that Jiang Xiaohu hurriedly took out a cigarette and handed it to the village party secretary. He didn't like to smoke before, but after taking 60,000 yuan, he had some money in his hand, so he thought about buying some cigarettes and learning to smoke, so that he could always use them for business in the future.
No, it will come in handy today, the old branch secretary is a well-known old smoking gun.
When the village party secretary saw that the cigarettes were a box of 'high' grade cigarettes of ten yuan, his face was not so ugly.
He took the cigarette and said to Jiang Xiaohu with hatred: "Huzi, Huzi, you are not too young, why do you do what these yellow-haired dolls do?
"Old branch secretary, you can wronged me, in fact, I ......" Jiang Xiaohu wanted to defend himself, but the old branch secretary didn't give him a chance at all.
"Do you know how poor our village is? I hurriedly rented out the land so that I could buy some seeds and fertilizer for the five guarantee households in the village. You said you tore up the notice for me, so what if someone who has the ability to rent land can't see it and misses it?"
The old branch secretary complained to him, and Jiang Xiaohu smiled and nodded yes. After the old branch secretary finished complaining, he said: "Don't worry, I rented this land." ”
If you don't steam steamed buns, you can fight for breath, besides, there are mountains and rivers in the soil, and how barren the land is, it can be turned into fertile soil.
"What?" the old branch secretary stared at him with a look of distrust.
It's not that he looks down on Jiang Xiaohu, it's that the Jiang family has been poor for too long. Not to mention two thousand yuan a year, even if it is two hundred yuan, I'm afraid Jiang Xiaohu can't afford to rent it.
"Little Huzi, this is more than ten acres of land, and it costs more than 2,000 a year. The old branch secretary said.
"Don't you believe me? I'll give you this year's rent. Jiang Xiaohu said.
The old branch secretary still couldn't believe it, shook his head and said, "You better go back and discuss with your parents." ”
"My family's affairs, I have the final say, you wait, I'll go home and get the money. Jiang Xiaohu stuffed the notice into the old branch secretary's arms, turned around and ran home.
Looking at his cousin's back, Jiang Xiaolong laughed and said to Er Laizi: "See, the soles of your feet are oiled, slip away! You still withdraw money, a poor family! Hmph, I think he will dare to brag to me in the future, I will go to his house at night and taunt him." ”
"It's not enough to just ridicule, you have to ask him to apologize to you and your mother. "Erlaizi added oil and vinegar.
"Well, yes, I have to let him kneel to my house to compensate my mother. Jiang Xiaolong nodded.
The two were chatting, but they saw Jiang Xiaohu running back like another gust of wind, still holding a red plastic bag in his hand, and the bag contained something heavy.
"Old branch secretary, let's go through the formalities!" Jiang Xiaohu ran to the old branch secretary and said to him.
The old branch secretary's eyes widened in surprise, and he looked Jiang Xiaohu up and down, feeling that he didn't know this young boy anymore.
Next to him, Jiang Xiaolong was also dumbfounded, he rubbed his eyes and looked carefully, making sure that in the red bag, there were indeed banknotes, fifty hundred and fifty hundred.
If you want to say that he has bad eyes, he can see everything wrong, he absolutely admits this. Although his family background is not good over the years, he has not pulled down the same as eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and his body has long been ruined. However, there is only one thing that Jiang Xiaolong definitely looks good at, and that is money.
He likes money so much! Now, seeing the pocket in Jiang Xiaohu's hand, Jiang Xiaolong's eyes were eager to prick out two small hands and snatch them directly.
"Mom, where did this kid get so much money?" he touched his chin and thought to himself, "His parents gave it? No, I don't know about my second uncle's person? You can't make it yourself, why can you make so much money all at once? It has to be thousands, right?"
Thousands of dollars, in the eyes of anyone in Jiangbian Village, it is definitely a huge amount of money.
The old branch secretary was stunned for a long time, and under the urging of Jiang Xiaohu, he led him into the office to go through the formalities and measure the land.
Jiang Xiaolong and Er Laizi were about to follow in, but they were stopped by Jiang Xiaohu: "Wait a minute, let's do business, why are you coming in? What's the matter with you? Doesn't it mean that I don't have the money to rent land? Now the master will rent it to you, what's the land? Not only rent these land, but I also want to make a fortune! Go and go, idle people can't wait to enter! Otherwise, I will lose my money, and I will settle accounts with you!"
Jiang Xiaolong's face turned red, and he was so angry that his neck was tall, but he was helpless. He watched Jiang Xiaohu close the door vividly,
After speaking, he gave Jiang Xiaolong a fierce look, and returned all the humiliation that the uncle's family had brought to them in this life.
Er Laizi grinned hehehe, just laughing and not speaking, which made Jiang Xiaolong angry, and raised his hand to slap him: "Idiot, what are you laughing at?"
"No, it's not ......" Er Laizi was slapped and stammered excitedly, he sneered, "I just think it's funny, your younger brother is like, like a stupid ~ fool." ”
Jiang Xiaolong was so angry that he was about to vomit blood: "Just you, and you still say that others are stupid?"
"But, isn't it, that, that, that piece of land is thrown, no one likes to ......" Er Laizi stammered more and more.
Inside the house, Jiang Xiaohu pressed his handprint and signature and paid the money.
He originally planned to pay it once a year, but the old branch secretary refused. This piece of wasteland is easy to rent out, and the village has a relatively stable income, so he can't let go of Jiang Xiaohu, a big fat fish.
"Xiaohuzi, since you want to rent, show some sincerity, how about we pay the contract every three years and sign it for fifteen years?"
In fact, he and Er Laizi had similar thoughts in their hearts, and they also felt that Jiang Xiaohu was a little stunned.
In these days, it is not easy to make money, especially for people with physical disabilities like Jiang Shizhu. What about two thousand, and give it to his son like this?
He had the heart to say hello to Wang Xifeng and Jiang Shizhu, to see if the two of them knew what their son had done. But after thinking about it, forget it, people don't kill the heavens and the earth for themselves. If he is a little selfish, it is tantamount to working for the welfare of the whole village?
Thinking like this, a cunning light flashed in the eyes of the old branch secretary, and it all fell into Jiang Xiaohu's eyes.
At this moment, Jiang Xiaohu didn't know if it was cost-effective for him to earn a breath. But with the guarantee of the mountains and rivers, he is a little more confident.
"Okay, but you'll have to give me a year's rent waiver. Jiang Xiaohu said, "I'll give you four thousand, how about three years?"
The old branch secretary blinked, "Hey, has this kid learned to bargain?"
"That's not good, more than 2,000 a year, that's too much. It says it's ten acres, but in fact, I think eleven acres is about the same. The old branch secretary shook his head.
Jiang Xiaohu picked up the plastic bag and was about to leave: "You are not sincere, old branch secretary, even if you are not sincere, I am not bad for your land, right?
He turned around and gestured to leave, thinking to himself, "If you go, you'll be gone, and this will not happen today." With this money, he pondered using it to buy a farm tricycle, and then he could pull vegetables and department stores to sell them at the market.
When the old branch secretary saw it, he panicked, this duck is going to fly, but it can't be!
He hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Jiang Xiaohu: "Why are you so impatient? Okay, it's up to you!"
"Hey, come on!" Jiang Xiaohu ordered four thousand to the old branch secretary, and the old branch secretary muttered very unhappily, took a ruler and went out with him to measure.
When measuring the land, someone ran to report to Wang Xifeng, and this person was Erlaizi. Needless to say, it must have been Jiang Xiaolong's instructions.
At the foot of the mountain, in the shade, even in summer, it is cold. Jiang Xiaohu looked at the river in the distance, and then looked at the barren land nearby, and his heart was a little drumming.
The old branch secretary measured the land at a glance, recorded the boundary, and said: "Hey, if you want me to say, you kid has vision." The old people say that there is gold in this ground!"
"Yes, I believe your mouth. Jiang Xiaohu leaned against a tree, grinned, touched his pocket, and a box of cigarettes, he simply took it out and threw it to the old branch secretary, "Here you go, there are more than a dozen." ”