Zhaojia Village, Wanghai Township, Yancheng County, Chuzhou.
A small village is located in the hilly area by the sea. Although it is close to the sea, there are no fishing boats to make a living in the sea. Instead, it struggles to survive in the hilly area.
Xu Yunyan and his party followed the muddy and difficult path to the head of Zhaojia Village. Under a big banyan tree, an old man was basking in the sun.
The arrival of Xu Yunyan and others aroused the curiosity of the old man, "What do these young people mean by coming to my Zhaojia Village?"
Xu Yunyan, an old man of such age, did not dare to drag him forward, so he hurriedly dismounted from his horse and saluted.
"So that I can let my father-in-law know that the people from Guanzhou here have purchased a piece of land here to settle down in order to avoid the war in the north."
Xu Yunyan said, taking out the land deed in his hand and showing it to the old man.
When the old man heard this, he couldn't help being surprised, "It turns out that Xu Guanren is here. We have been waiting here for a while. We didn't expect Xu Guanren to come today."
Xu Yunyan felt a little embarrassed at this time. After making a fuss for a while, it turned out that the news that he was coming had already been known to them, and this Zhaojia Village was so hospitable that there were always people waiting for him at the entrance of the village.
Xu Yunyan blushed and hurriedly gave them a fist.
"I'm sorry to have you waiting here. It's really my fault. I'll make amends for you first."
The old man burst out laughing. "Xu Guanren is joking. I am the head of Zhaojia Village, so I should be like this."
"It turns out that it was Village Chief Zhao who was disrespectful and disrespectful in person."
Xu Yunyan was talking politely, but Village Chief Zhao really shook his head.
"Why does Mr. Xu need to be so polite? From now on, we will have to count on Mr. Xu to give charity."
Xu Yunyan was curious at this moment, "I wonder what Village Chief Zhao means by this? If there is any difficulty in the village, it is absolutely my duty to help."
While Xu Yunyan was being polite to him, several more children ran out of the village and ran under the big tree. "Grandpa, are there any guests in the village?"
A young man with a tiger head and a brain about the same size as Yue'er asked here, while Village Chief Zhao touched his head.
"Hu'er, this is the master's house in the big courtyard in the north of our village. Let's take the master's house to see it together."
This moment made Monk Xu Yunyan Zhang Er confused even more.
The host’s house? How is this going?
However, Village Chief Zhao had already stood up and made an invitation gesture to Xu Yunyan, "Mr. Xu, please follow me. Your courtyard is in the north of the village. I will lead Mr. Xu there."
This is very curious. Xu Yunyan and the others originally came from the north and should have come to the village first. However, Zhaojia Village is in such a remote place and they have to go around in circles from the south of the village near the sea. This is what Xu Yunyan thought. Not expected.
"Then it's up to Village Chief Zhao. How about asking Village Chief Zhao to get in the car instead?"
After Xu Yunyan made this proposal, Village Chief Zhao was very satisfied, "I didn't expect Mr. Xu to be so polite. That old man would just drag it out and make a small profit."
"What did Village Chief Xu say?"
In the midst of this joyful rumbling, Xu Yunyan followed Village Chief Zhao across the entire Zhaojia Village to the door of his courtyard.
Looking at his own green brick house that is still suitable for people to live in, he entered the courtyard for the third time and looked at the one hundred and adobe houses in Zhaojia Village with great curiosity.
"This is your courtyard, am I mistaken? The residents of Zhaojia Village live in such a difficult situation, how could there be such a luxurious courtyard in Zhaojia Village?"
Xu Yunyan became curious about this apparently incompatible courtyard in Zhaojia Village, so Village Chief Zhao said something about it.
"This does not belong to the residents of this village, and our place was not originally called Zhaojiacun. It was built when a wealthy family from other places, the Liu family, came to settle here. We were just his employees before, and this Liu family seems to have a family background. After the high officials moved away, the place became free, and we became Zhaojiacun."
"I see, I didn't expect that it would be easier for me in the end."
Just as Xu Yunyan finished sighing, Village Chief Zhao continued.
"There are hundreds of acres of fertile land outside the village, which is considered official land. In the past, the Liu family rented the land and then leased it to us. Now that Liu Daguan has left, the superiors said that this has become Xu Daguan's land. We want to see what we can do with it. We can no longer rent this land.”
"So that's what happened." Xu Yunyan nodded after understanding what was going on. "Well, in that case, there is no problem in renting the fields as before. I can't help you when I first come out." You allocate it, who can plant as much as you like?"
As soon as Xu Yunyan finished speaking, Village Chief Zhao hurriedly clasped his fists, "Thank you so much, Mr. Xu. We will definitely pay you rent on time in the future."
Xu Yunyan didn't express much about the rent, but after Village Chief Zhao finished talking about the fields, Xu Yunyan suddenly became curious.
"Do the hundreds of households in Zhaojia Village rely on these 100 acres of land to make a living? No one goes to the beach to make a living?"
After Xu Yunyan asked this question, Village Chief Zhao shook his head, "That's not the case. It's a long story. Outside Zhaojia Village, this 100-acre grain field is close to a stream. It is a very convenient official field for irrigation. Others We all depend on God for food in this mountain, and the harvest is just enough to make ends meet.”
"I see."
Xu Yunyan couldn't help but lament the troubles caused by low productivity to the villagers.
However, now that he knew the situation in Zhaojia Village, Village Chief Zhao also led him to the courtyard. After discussing the fields, Village Chief Zhao was about to tell him to leave and hand over the key to the courtyard to Xu Yunyan.
However, Xu Yunyue unexpectedly mingled with Huzi, who was about his age, and other children at this moment, and shared some of the delicious food in the car with them.
This suddenly shocked the village chief: "How can this happen? This is precious food, how can you be willing to do this?"
Looking at Huzi and other children eating and drinking here, Village Chief Zhao said something and hurriedly raised his hands to Xu Yunyan and others.
"Little old man, I would like to thank Mr. Xu again."
Village Chief Zhao kept thanking Xu Yunyan here, and Xu Yunyan also politely said to him, "Why does Village Chief Zhao need to be so polite? We will be neighbors from now on. We should help each other and take care of each other. A little food and that's all?"
Village Chief Zhao heard what Xu Yunyan said and kept thanking him. Although he had repeated these words several times, Xu Yunyan did not feel annoyed.
Village Chief Zhao finally sighed, "Life at the seaside is not easy for us. I hope Mr. Xu will not be so extravagant and wasteful in the future."
have to!
He actually said this at the end. This is really a time when productivity is low, and there is nothing you can do to guard the sea.
But I'm here to change everything.
With this in mind, Xu Yunyan sent Village Chief Zhao and others off respectfully and entered his courtyard.
