Xu Ling chatted with Chen Sheng.

Maybe he hadn't talked about these things with anyone for too long, but as soon as Chen Sheng opened his mouth, he couldn't stop talking.

Their family used to be in the north, first suffered from drought, and then famine, the whole village starved to death, and his grandparents starved to death, so his father and his uncle separated, and each fled with the head of the family.

In order to survive, his father starved to death on the road, and his two younger sisters were sold, as was his youngest brother.

There was a wind outside, Xu Ling glanced at the river, only to feel that it was gloomy between heaven and earth, Chen Sheng's voice was not loud when he spoke, and he seemed to deliberately suppress his voice, so that his mother would not hear it.

He paused for a moment when he talked about his brother being sold, and no one knew what he was thinking.

After a while, Chen Shengcai continued: "My two younger sisters, one fourteen and one eight-year-old, my father was reluctant to sell them, my mother pushed them out like crazy, and if they didn't leave, they would starve to death in this family." ”

Half a bag of noodles, just like this, bought Chen Sheng's two younger sisters, and since the day he fought, he has never seen his two younger sisters again.

I don't know if they are dead or alive now.

His little brother, not yet five years old, was born for less than two years is a bad situation, with a big head and a small body, skin and bones on his body, no meat, but he is well-behaved like a cat, sitting on the cart when he escaped, smiling at Chen Sheng in the cart, wiping his sweat.

Later, Chen Sheng's father died, and their cart was robbed, so he hugged his younger brother, and his younger brother hung on him, as if he had no weight, and he was still so well-behaved.

His brother was dying of starvation, and a man and a woman approached his mother and offered to buy him.

Chen Sheng only remembered that his mother desperately drove the two of them out, not at all as crisp as when she sold her sister.

His mother cried so hard that she held him and her two younger brothers in her arms, and she didn't even have half a tear, and she howled vigorously, and his back was cold when he howled, and he was scared in his heart.

But later, his mother still went to the two people with her younger brother, and exchanged her younger brother for two pieces of bread and a small handful of fried soybeans.

"It's just such a big handful, it shouldn't be so much," Chen Sheng clasped his hands and bent his thumb to intercept his palm, "My brother was bought." ”

But they ran to the south alive with those two pieces of bread and a handful of soybeans, begging for food all the way, and after two years, his mother took him and Chen Ze to drink water and wash their faces by the big river outside the village, and asked a man who was fishing at random to ask for directions.

That man was Chen Sheng's stepfather, a widower who had died of his daughter-in-law.

He saw that Chen Sheng's mother and son were pitiful, so he took them in, and the two were not married, so they just made do with each other.

Later, the widower died, and their sons drove Chen Sheng's mother and son out, and they had nowhere to go, and they no longer wanted to live those wandering days, so they were on this black canopy boat, and it was several years at a time.

After hearing this, Xu Ling was full of emotion in his heart, and finally understood why the two brothers didn't leave here.

They have no land, and they have always been rootless duckweed, but the world is so big, where is their home?

It's just a mother to have a home.

Xu Ling took a sip of tea, and the tea was already a little cold.

"I came to you this time, in fact, I want to ask you for help."

Chen Sheng licked his tongue, feeling a little nervous.

Xu Ling bought land, and in the past few days, there has been a lot of rumors in the village, and even the two brothers have heard that Xu Ling has bought a lot of land, and he can't plant it, so he wants to find tenants.

Chen Sheng is not stupid, Xu Ling has no personal relationship with him, and when he suddenly came to the door, he must have other things to discuss.

"I have some fields ...... at home"

"I do!"

Chen Sheng didn't wait for Xu Ling to finish speaking, and immediately rushed ahead of him, "Xu Ling, I heard that you want to find someone to farm, and I don't ask for more, as long as we can let the three of us have a house to live in and a hot meal to eat!" ”

What they are asking for is not a field, but an opportunity to integrate into Lotus Bay.

Chen Sheng and Chen Ze brothers are hardworking and capable, but if there are empty houses in the village that no one wants, it will not be their turn. In the past, Xu Ling was a bastard who was shameless and sold land and houses, but he was a native of Lianhuawanzi, and the people in the village left a glimmer of affection.

Just because they are foreigners, they can't afford to put down roots here.

Even if the widower's two sons did something wrong, the people in the village were still towards them, not Chen Sheng.

If Chen Sheng and the others can be tenants for Xu Ling, life will definitely be better than on a canopy boat, and they will slowly save some money to buy a piece of land of their own, and they will really have a home.

Chen Sheng said that he was going to kneel down for Xu Ling.

Fortunately, there is not much space on board, and there is no room for implementation.

Xu Ling hurriedly stopped, "Okay, okay, I'm here today to talk to you about this, everything is easy to say." ”

Although they are eyeing the two Chen Sheng brothers, they really want to leave the two of them farming for Xu Ling, and they also have different identities.

Chen Sheng is now a free man, and if he becomes his tenant, according to the laws of the Yong Dynasty, Xu Ling has a certain right to control his personal freedom.

Although it is different from being a slave and a servant, in the end, there is a respectful master and a customer.

Xu Ling explained these things clearly to Chen Sheng in advance, but Chen Sheng didn't feel embarrassed at all, and said with a grateful face: "I know this, I am willing to believe in your character!" ”

The rent of tenants varies from place to place and from harvest to harvest, and some good-hearted landlords will also collect less rent to reduce the pressure on tenants.

Xu Ling didn't know what his spatial seed output was, and he couldn't set the score too high or too low.

discussed with Chen Sheng, the two were landlords and tenant farmers, but Xu Ling did not have control over the person of Chen Sheng's brothers, including the marriage of their children.

Xu Ling provided them with a place to live and seeds for the next year, and similarly, the rent for the next year was twenty-eight cents.

The two Chen Sheng brothers left two points, and Xu Ling took back eighty percent.

This ratio is basically only enough for Chen Sheng's family to eat and drink, but the following year depends on the yield of the field and whether there is a bumper harvest before the rent collection ratio.

Xu Ling didn't say anything to death, unlike other landlords who said that they would harvest eighty percent, no matter what the harvest was, they would have to collect eighty percent if they let the tenant farmers sell their sons and daughters.

After Chen Sheng listened, he immediately said, "Okay! ”

Xu Ling had a black line, "If you have any other ideas, you can also talk to me now, and I will consider satisfying you as appropriate." ”

"Nope!" Chen Sheng was determined, and then asked hesitantly: "When can I move?" ”

It is estimated that it will snow again in the next few days, and the canopy can't stop the wind, and his mother's health is getting worse and worse.

Xu Ling was dumbfounded, he always used the thinking of the social animals in his previous life to hate the capitalists and think about the current toiling masses.

But for a bottom layer like Chen Sheng who has been suffering, it is already a great thing to have a thigh that they can hold to keep them fed and warm.

After thinking about it, Xu Ling said: "Why don't you move to my old house today, and tomorrow I will take you to see the land and find someone to build two rooms on the ground for you to live in." What do you think? ”