"Don't worry, sister-in-law, whatever they said, they will have to eat it back in the future. I promise you, I am renting this land just to make money." Lu Fan promised swornly.
"How do you make money on that piece of wasteland? You just came back and you don't know much about that piece of land. Even weeds don't grow there, let alone crops or vegetables!" Liu Yun was a little anxious. She felt that Lu Fan must have been deceived.
"Besides, even good land is not worth 1,500 yuan per acre. The best land in the village is only 1,000 yuan per acre. The Wang family must have deliberately bullied you!"
The annual harvest of an acre of ordinary crop land is only a few thousand yuan, which is still a relatively good harvest. There are also losses in fertilizers, robots, labor, etc. If the contracting fee is too high, farming will really be a loss-making business.
And even if crops were planted in the wasteland in the back mountains, the harvest would never be good, and it would be a loss-making business.
That's why Liu Yun thought Wang Shouren was bullying Lu Fan.
"I understand some things even if I don't tell them." A sneer appeared at the corner of Lu Fan's mouth, "I just don't want to make the matter a big deal and waste time, but if some people get in trouble, I will definitely make it difficult for them to eat. Let’s go!”
"Don't do stupid things again!" Seeing that Lu Fan seemed a little angry, Liu Yun became worried again.
"You have to remember that no matter what happens, you must use appropriate means to solve it, and never do anything illegal again!"
She was very afraid that if her brother-in-law did something impulsively, her whole life would be ruined.
Lu Fan nodded and said nothing more.
It would be too easy for him to deal with the Wang family and his son, but his sister-in-law and sister would continue to live in Izumo Village, especially his sister-in-law. She would definitely stay here and wait for her eldest brother to come back.
The parents and eldest brother of the Lu family are not dead. They just left with the words "Wait until we come back!" more than three years ago, and there has been no news to this day.
But at least the Lu family firmly believed that they were still alive.
Therefore, Liu Yun never thought about leaving Izumo Village and going home, and Lu Fan decisively chose to go home when he could.
Although neither of them said it, they both knew that they were waiting for that day to come.
As long as they are still there, this family will still be there. When parents and elder brothers come back, there will still be a home.
But Lu Fan didn't expect that his contracting of the wasteland behind the village would cause such a big reaction in the village.
That night, Lu Fan's uncle came to their home.
The uncle's name is Xiong Weijun. He is a relative of Lu Fan's father who knows how many turns. He is also the person with the closest relationship between Izumo Village and the Lu family.
Xiong Weijun didn't have much ability, and he couldn't help with the various things the Lu family encountered.
But in recent years, every time the Lu family's aunt couldn't eat, he would send some grain and vegetables, which was pretty good to the Lu family.
This time he heard that Lu Fan actually spent 50,000 yuan to rent a piece of land on the hillside behind the village. He ran to the Lu family without even eating dinner.
"Xiao Erzi, why are you so confused? What can you do with money? Why do you have to throw it into the bottomless pit in the back mountain?" The uncle looked very angry.
"Don't worry, uncle. Since I've contracted that piece of land, I will naturally have a way to make money from that land." Lu Fan hoped to infect the uncle with his confidence.
"Niece-in-law, are you just going to watch the mistress act like this?" The uncle turned to look at Liu Yun again.
Liu Yun smiled bitterly: "If I had a way, how could this happen?"
"Hey! I'm old and can't care about you so much anymore!" Xiong Weijun sighed, stood up and walked out of the Lu family. When he reached the door, he stopped and said.
"The rice grown by my family this year is very good, but I can't eat it. I will send you two bags when the time comes."
After saying that, he left.
Lu Fan knew that the uncle was afraid that he would ruin the family's fortune, so he sent some food so that his family would not starve.
No matter what, he must remember this sentiment.
Xiong Weijun doesn't have any great skills, but if the Lu family is freezing in the snow, he can send a pot of charcoal fire over.
This can be regarded as caring about the Lu family, while the vast majority of people are prepared to watch the Lu family's jokes.
Early the next morning, when Lu Fan went out to work in the fields, he met several village women in the village enjoying the shade, and was laughed at.
"Hey, isn't this the second son of the Lu family? I heard that you found gold on the barren hill behind the village, and you took over the land to dig for gold?"
"The second son is awesome. Now that he is rich, he is really rich. He even spends so much money to contract the barren mountains!"
"Yes, your sister-in-law asked me to help you find a wife. I think there is probably no one from our villages who is worthy of you, so let's forget it!"
A group of women, spreading gossip in the village has always been their specialty. Now when they meet the person involved, they don't shy away from it. They even think it is more interesting to talk about it in front of others.
Lu Fan glanced at them and passed by them, treating them as nothing but air.
For these village women, if you want to talk to them, you will take advantage of them.
Ignoring them will make them feel lost.
However, Lu Fan's behavior also made the village women feel unhappy.
Isn't he just a fool who was just released? What's so awesome about him?
The village women reached a consensus about Lu Fan, and then spread bad words about Lu Fan and the Lu family even more unscrupulously.
And the rumors are constantly escalating in exaggeration.
According to rumors, Lu Fan turned into a heinous and evil person. His money came from an illegitimate way. He definitely got it through illegal crimes, and the land in the back mountain he leased also had an illegitimate purpose.
Anyway, you can do whatever you want to smear him. In just half a day, some people in the nearby villages were even saying that there was a big bad guy who had just been released in Izumo Village and wanted to do illegal things in the village.
Lu Fan didn't know anything about all this. He had already arrived at his own land and started planning.
According to his plan, he plans to use most of the thirty-five acres of land to grow medicinal materials, and then a small part to grow vegetables.
As for medicinal materials, the medicinal materials with relatively large market demand are Isatis root, Atractylodes, Platycodon, Bupleurum, etc.
Lu Fan finally chose to plant Atractylodes macrocephala because Atractylodes macrocephala can be regarded as medium-level among these medicinal materials in terms of yield per mu and price, but its growth cycle is the shortest.
In other words, it takes two years to harvest other medicinal materials, but Atractylodes macrocephala only takes less than one year. Coupled with Lu Fan's special methods, the harvest may arrive surprisingly early.
