Qi Ning followed everyone to the millstone at the entrance of the village and sat down, some people went to call the tenants who didn't come, and some people were busy going home to boil water and get tables, chairs and benches.

"Girl, do you really want to buy so much land?" Han Dong couldn't hold back and asked worriedly.

"Yes, the earth is the foundation of man, I actually have a crush on that mountain, and when the time comes, I will build a house here, and wait for the summer to bring you to escape the heat."

"Really, it's still a girl, and she thinks of me for all good things." Handong jumped up and down excitedly.

"Now you don't say I'm biased towards the Iron Bull?"

Because Tie Niu is young, Qi Ning is very loyal. So Qi Ning is really a little biased towards Tie Niu, he gives him some pocket money from time to time, and often buys him delicious food, and he is very grateful to these Tie Niu families, and the Zhao family is even more dedicated to the kitchen, which saves Qi Ning a lot of heart.

While the two were talking, everyone came one after another, carrying the bench and table, and one person carrying a large pot of mung bean soup. Qi Ning sat down a few old people first, and then drank half a bowl of mung bean soup with a bowl.

"If you have anything else to ask now, just ask." Qi Ning handed Han Dong a bowl before saying.

"The girl is a young lady from a big family in the city, right?" There was a woman in her forties sitting on a small bench and looking at Qi Ning from a distance and asked.

"I'm not a lady from a big family, I'm just like everyone else."

"This is Miss Qi, I am the village chief of this village, surnamed Zhu, called Zhu Wanfu." A man in his fifties and sixties hurried over and said to Qi Ning.

"Uncle Zhu is good." Qi Ning hurriedly stood up and bowed.

"Girl, please sit down, there are no good things to entertain in the countryside, I have wronged you."

"Uncle is polite. Are you here to rent land? ”

"Although I don't rent these lands, our village is a family, and there are no people with foreign surnames, so everyone is willing to call me when there is something big."

"Then if you have anything to say, just say it."

"That's right, since the girl bought these fields, she is the owner of the big guy, how to plant this land in the future, the girl will tell you a charter."

"Did you grow rice twice a year?"

"The paddy field is rented by the big guy and has been planting rice, and in a good year, one acre of land can harvest five stones of rice in two seasons a year, and in the dry land, Zhu Caidong hired long-term workers to grow some corn, soybeans, sweet potatoes and other miscellaneous grains."

One stone here is about two hundred catties, Qi Ning doesn't know how much one acre of land can produce in modern times, but modern seeds must be more harvested than here after improvement.

"Who rents and grows the paddy fields?" Qi Ning looked around.

"Me, my family rented fifteen acres."

"My house is twenty acres." Everyone reported the number.

"My family has eight acres."

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"Is there anything you don't plan to rent?"

"I don't rent anything to eat, my family is eating with this. We all want to continue renting. ”

"It's okay to rent, but there is one thing, I don't want grain when the harvest is over, just give me silver at a half percent lower than the market price when the time comes." In a good year, the rent will be collected according to the amount of five stones of rice a year, and if you do not beat enough, it will be counted as five stones. In the event of a bad year, the situation will be reduced. ”

Everyone agreed in a low voice, and it was one and a half percent lower than the market price, which was about the same price as the grain bank's purchase.

"Then I'm going to take some paper and pen, I'll take note of it in detail, let's sign an agreement, it's easy to talk in black and white."

Village Chief Zhu hurriedly instructed a boy who watched the excitement to go to his house to get pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

"I also want to rent out the forty acres of dry land, do you want to plant it?"

"Girl." Village Chief Zhu preemptively said: "Can I rent it?" ”

"As long as it's from your village."

"My eldest son has been studying for so many years, and he has not been admitted to the show. I'm going to rent it and let him go home and farm. Village Chief Zhu said embarrassedly.

"Does Uncle Zhu want to rent it all, or part of it?"

"All rent, all rent, my four grandchildren can eat more than the other, and they can all do the crops."

"Well, I'll rent all the dry land to you this year, but after the New Year, I'll leave five acres of land on the mountain for my own use. The dry land is also harvested at 50% rent, I don't care what you plant, I only need corn as rent. ”

"That girl, can you harvest less in the dry fields? Other people rent less dry land than paddy fields. ”

"In this way, then forty percent, it's not easy to farm. As long as the big guy serves well, I won't embarrass everyone. But if I cheat and cheat, I will take back the land and pay for my losses. ”

Zhu Wanfu was overjoyed, a few people who originally wanted to rent dry land didn't grab it, they were all complaining in a low voice, Qi Ning pretended not to hear, she didn't want to break the lawsuit for them, no matter who planted it, don't lose her rent, just serve her well, not to mention that a village chief has some authority to say anything, and it is easy to talk to him when there is something to say. Qi Ning took the pen and paper sent, counted them one by one, and the agreement was in duplicate, keeping one for himself and one for the tenant, all according to their handprints.

"Are there any ducks in the village?"

"A lot of people have it." Village Chief Zhu took the contract and carefully dried the ink and kicked it into his arms.

"That's right, I opened a restaurant in the city, and I need a lot of ducks every day, if you have one that you can raise, raise more every year, I will accept them."

"Really? I just see that you are not a mortal, you are really a woman who does not let you shave your eyebrows, and you have done such a big business. "Thousands of clothes are not worn, and Village Chief Zhu immediately changed his words and called the owner.

"I collect fifteen wen a pound from the duck dealer, and it is estimated that if he comes to collect it, it will be a few cents cheaper, and I will not compete with everyone for the profit of that few cents, so I will collect it according to fifteen wen a catty, I only need about five catties of white ducks, not more than two years."

"I thank the owner for everyone, the owner is really benevolent, I then told the people in the village, but I'm afraid that you won't be able to use it if you raise too much, so let's talk about the number, how much can you want in a year?"

"It's really not too much, about 1,300 or 400 a year, if you want more in the future, you can provide me with 5 or 600 in the next year, and I plan to raise some myself."

"The owner doesn't know that there are a total of 73 households in our village, and most of them have ducks, most of them are three or five, and there are only a dozen or twenty."

"It's okay, it's not enough, I'll figure it out myself, the reason why I say this is to give everyone a way to make more money. Uncle Trouble told everyone that those who are willing to sell ducks should raise more. After raising it, I will arrange for someone to collect it. ”

"Okay, I'll let you know tomorrow." Village Chief Zhu is now a tenant of Qi Ning, of course, he is very willing to run errands for her, and he also plans to raise dozens of ducks in his own heart, just let the children out every day, and it doesn't cost much food a day, and it will grow in more than five months.

At noon, everyone enthusiastically brought the meal, and Village Chief Zhu and a few old people sat at another table to accompany each other, and invited Qi Ning and Han Dong to have a hearty meal.

These vegetables are freshly picked from the vegetable field, and no chemical fertilizers and pesticides have been used, and the taste is very good. The hungry Qi Ning and Han Dong lowered their heads and ate the stuffy rice of the new rice. The food has begun to bitter summer, and Handong, who has no appetite for many days, has a strong hiccups.

He had just returned from dinner, and he helped a fat man in his fifties wearing a silk shirt from the car.

Qi Ning hurriedly stood up: "Uncle is back." ”

"Yes, yes, it's all done, this is Zhu Caidong."

"It's a hard day for you two." Qi Ning bowed to the rich man Zhu.

"The girl is polite, this is the deed." Zhu handed over three pieces of paper.

Qi Ning took it and looked at it carefully before giving him the rest of the silver. The rich man Zhu sold the ancestral property, and he was not in a good mood, so he took the silver ticket and inspected it, and said a few polite words before leaving and going home.

Qi Ning took out a silver ticket of fifty taels and gave it to Yayu: "Don't give this amount of silver to the uncle, in the future, we will often come and go, and I won't have to work for Uncle Labor to help me one day." ”

Yayu saw that it was fifty taels, and he saw the back molars when he smiled, and he had said that he would give it to the rich man Zhu, he thought that Qi Ning would give him ten taels or eight taels of errand money, but he didn't expect Qi Ning to be so generous when bargaining.

Rewrote the deed with the village renting land, pressed the fingerprint, Qi Ning said goodbye to the old and young people in the village and got into the carriage and returned to the city. After checking around the shop, Qi Ning went back to the backyard and took out a pen and paper to write and draw for two days.