These few questions in a row made Zhao Cuihua bow her head, and they seemed to make sense.
I owed money this time. Next time I make money, I still have to pay back the rent of the land. When I make money next time, I can rent oxen to plow the land, grain seeds, and hoe tools. All of them require money to rent. When will that happen?
"Yao Yao." Zhao Cuihua tugged on the sleeve of Yan Qingyao who was standing in front of her: "Forget it, we really can't afford to rent it."
But what she was thinking now was that she would not rent it today, and would wait a few more days. After a few more days, she would make two more trips to fish for shrimps and crabs to see if she could find the village chief to rent a piece of land.
She remembered that the village chief had a piece of land nearby, but she went to find him this morning and he was not there. She happened to meet Aunt Qian here, so she thought about renting the land.
Aunt Qian had sharp ears and heard what she said. She smiled and said, "You still have to listen to me, right? It's better to use this money to buy rice than to think about renting oxcarts and hoe tools later."
"However, my land is very cheap." Aunt Qian looked at the copper plate in Zhao Cuihua's hand: "If you really want to rent it but don't have enough money, you can borrow it from me first."
As soon as these words came out, everyone around them held their breath and wanted to hear what they would choose. Generally, the interest rate on this kind of rental is very high.
"No need." Yan Qingyao shook her head and thought for a while: "I think Aunt Qian is right, renting land all the time is not an option."
Aunt Qian snorted coldly, pretending to be reluctant to borrow money even if she had no money, and said she was right.
Before Aunt Qian could attack with cold words, Yan Qingyao continued: "Mom, let's just buy a piece of land!"
"Hmph! You can't afford to rent land and you still want to buy it?"
"We can borrow money to buy land!" Yan Qingyao's eyes were beautiful and ignorant, and she looked like she could easily be deceived.
Then he asked: "How much would it cost to sell your land?"
"My land is two acres." Aunt Qian couldn't help laughing when she heard that they wanted to borrow money from her to buy land. The interest alone was enough for them to buy another piece of land.
Borrowing money to buy this land means they have rice to eat, but it also means that all the wages they have earned from their life's work have to be used to repay the loan and wages.
It's definitely a sure-fire deal.
There was a hint of sincerity in Aunt Qian's happy words: "If you really want it, just give me twenty-eight taels of silver. If it were anyone else, I would sell it for thirty taels."
"How can this land be so expensive?"
"No matter how good other people's land is, no matter how high the price is, it only costs twenty-six taels of silver. Your land costs twenty-eight taels..."
"It's too expensive, it's too expensive!"
Those who have time to watch the excitement are all farm laborers. Wangjia Village itself is not rich. The richest person is a landlord. The second richest person is the village chief and Aunt Qian, two rich peasants. The rest are basically either people or have nothing to do with this meal. Next meal day.
The men in the family work hard and can still rent a piece of land, but they can't handle the large number of people in the family. The best brown rice can only produce more than 300 kilograms per mu at most, which is basically not enough to eat.
So these three people basically walked sideways in Chenjiacun, and no one dared to say anything even a little bit harsh.
But now I heard that she was going to lend a girl doll a high profit, and also raised the price of renting and buying land so high, I couldn't help but someone spoke up. The first one spoke, and the second one echoed, all with the intention of He was careful but couldn't help complaining about the fact that it was too expensive.
"As for you, you can say, do you have land? You don't know how hard it is for those of us who have land to pay taxes every month!"
Aunt Qian's words made everyone around her speechless. Anyway, she didn't expect another good thing to happen in this village. She borrowed high interest rates to buy land here.
"Can you buy it?" Aunt Qian said while squinting at Yan Qingyao in front of her. She had almost forgotten that she was going to marry the landlord of the next village in a while. If she had known that the price of the land would be higher, she might still be able to get it. Make two cows back.
Everyone looked at Yan Qingyao worriedly, fearing that she didn't understand the rules.
Zhao Cuihua also shook her head: "The price of buying land is too expensive. If we borrow money, we may never have our own money in this life."
Yan Qingyao nodded as if she couldn't hear or see anything: "The price of buying land is not expensive!"
"Hey, what you said made me think you were the daughter of some landowner!"
Aunt Qian sneered, and she didn't have a good look on the crowd. They actually said that she was overpriced. Did you see that she thought it was not expensive despite her crazy talk?
"what are you doing?"
A majestic voice came from behind, and the crowd subconsciously made way for him, allowing him to easily walk into the middle of the crowd with dignity.
"Village Chief." Everyone shouted subconsciously.
The sky is high and the emperor is far away, the village chief is the only local emperor in a village, and the village chief is elected as the most respected person in each village, so the people in the village are not only afraid of him, but more of awe and worship.
"Village Chief." Aunt Qian slowed down a bit, but also lost a little of her arrogance: "Zhao Cuihua's family wants to rent a piece of land from me to sow seeds, and we are discussing the price!"
Chen Chunsheng looked at the two taels of copper in Zhao Cuihua's hand and knew which piece of land she wanted to rent. She only had a piece of land here, which was exactly two acres.
"Why do people say there is a dispute here?"
Hearing this, Yan Qingyao glanced behind the village chief and saw Uncle Chen standing there silently. He must have heard what the aunt said and was afraid that the two of them would suffer, so he invited the village chief.
"How could..." Aunt Qian smiled, secretly relieved when the village chief didn't hear anything. She was about to say a few words to fool him, but was interrupted.
"Aunt Qian said that the rent for an acre of land costs one to two to five hundred yuan, and we can't afford it." Yan Qingyao is young and thin, and she has a sense of weakness when she says this.
When Chen Chunsheng heard this, his displeased eyes fell on Aunt Qian: "I understand that you want to increase the rent of the land, but after all, the overall situation of the village must be taken into consideration."
He worries about how to improve the village's economy every day. Some people in the village actually raise the rent here. On weekdays, he turns a blind eye when the rent goes up to fifty or one hundred cents. Now it goes up to five hundred cents. ?
I'm afraid that if this matter gets spread, it will be said that the rich farmers in the same village in Chenjia Village have starved to death the farm laborers in the same village due to the increase in rent, and where will he put his old face as the village chief?
"Yes." Aunt Qian nodded, appearing extraordinarily well-behaved in front of the village chief: "They don't plan to rent it anymore. We were discussing buying land just now, and Si Ya said it was cheap. Don't you think so?"
Aunt Qian's arrogant attitude had to be tempered in the face of the village chief. She would not allow Yan Qingyao to step on her head. She just made them write the loan in front of the village chief, and the land was sold at a high price.
She winked at Yan Qingyao, didn't she like to talk? Why don't you speak now?
