Zhu Ruiying was very satisfied with everyone's joy other than confusion when they saw the weapons, and there was a smile in her eyes.
It turns out that seeing her family happy makes her happy too.
The Lord God brought her into the human world, allowing her to feel more precious things, which she had never had before, and filled her heart with warmth, making her want to cherish them.
Zhu Ruiying thought that just because of this, she allowed Shenjun to die with dignity.
Zhu Ruiying watched boredly as her two brothers practiced martial arts in a sparring style, and her eyes suddenly froze.
She stood up and looked at the three people standing on the slope not far from their home, squinting her eyes slightly.
One of them is her apprentice.
Ji Yan obviously noticed her gaze, nodded to her, said something to the two people around him, and then the three of them turned and left.
Zhu Ruiying pursed her lips. She just now clearly saw the malice in one of the people's eyes. To be precise, it was murderous intent.
By the afternoon, the land for house repairs was almost complete. Everyone picked up their hoes and started planting. The first thing they planted was potatoes.
Potatoes are the most ripe and mature the fastest. Zhu Yingzhuo and Zhu Yingbo turned over the soil, while Shen and Xu spread the seeds behind. The division of labor was very clear.
Because of what the person said before, they don't plan to plant it on a large scale for the time being. They are just trying it in their own yard.
Although the scope of farming has been reduced, it still made everyone work hard. However, no one complained about being tired, and everyone worked enthusiastically.
The door of the Zhu family is open. Huaxiang Town is not a big place, but within one day, everyone knows that a new person has arrived, and the new person is very energetic.
Some people looked curiously at Zhu's house and saw that they were busy farming. They suddenly looked like they had seen a joke.
Everyone is like this, which inevitably makes Zhu's family feel a little unsure.
A little boy of eleven or twelve years old also ran over to watch the fun. When he saw that they were farming, he shouted outside the yard.
"Uncle, aunt, why are you farming?"
Zhu Yingzhuo smiled and said: "If you don't farm, what will you eat? Your family doesn't farm?"
The little boy was wearing patched clothes, dirty all over, with a hearty smile on his dark face. His family had been here for more than a year, and they had brought a lot of troubles, but this place had not worn away the old things. Some energy and kindness.
Instead of being an indifferent spectator like others, he chose to inform them of the situation in this place.
"Farm the land, but you can't plant it here. Nothing can be grown here."
Zhu Jiahuan asked curiously: "Why? Have you tried it?"
"Haha, of course it's true. How would you know if you haven't tried it? It is said that it was because the yin energy of this place was too strong. At first, this place should have been a sea of flowers. But later, Tan Ning was led by General Zhu to massacre the city, and this place was... It became a mass grave where corpses were placed, and no flower has bloomed in this place since. It is said that this place is barren of grass and harvest because the ghosts of the dead are still lingering and the yin energy is too strong."
After the boy finished speaking, Zhu's family fell into a brief silence.
In the end, little Zhu Ruiying ran over and asked something serious, pulling everyone back from their thoughts.
"So, where do you farm?"
The boy looked down and saw Zhu Ruiying who had walked up to him at some point. The child had his hands behind his back and his face was serious like a little adult, waiting for him to answer. His watery eyes made him forget to answer for a moment.
So clean and beautiful.
This is the cleanest and most beautiful child he has ever seen here.
Zhu Jiasheng frowned slightly: "What's wrong with him?"
Zhu Jiahuan had a look on his face: "I must have fallen in love with our sister's beauty."
Zhu Jiasheng frowned again after hearing this. Are the people here so vulgar? Becoming a disciple at a young age?
Zhu Jiasheng walked over and pulled his lovely sister behind him, and raised his voice: "I'm asking you, where do you farm?"
The boy came back to his senses and realized that he was being abrupt, so he scratched his head in embarrassment.
Zhu Yingbo: "Sheng'er, be polite."
"Ahem, well, we usually farm in Xiaoxi Town. There are no people in that place, it's just a big, big land, and the food grown is edible."
Shen: "Then let's stop working on it. If no one can plant the land, it means there is something wrong with the land. Let's go to Xiaoxi Town to plant."
Zhu Ruiying poked her head out from behind her elder brother and asked the boy, "If you have anything else, can you tell us?"
It's definitely not that simple, otherwise the people in this small town wouldn't be like this. If life was going as planned, at least people's hearts wouldn't become so numb.
The boy's heart softened at the look, and then he said: "You can't just farm the land in Xiaoxi Town. The land there needs to be rented. The rent is very expensive. The lowest price for one acre of land is fifty taels of silver. Every day Thirty percent of the year's harvest will be given to the owner."
Shen: "So expensive?"
Ordinary land only costs thirty or forty taels to buy, let alone rent it?
The reason for this is that the Shen family has some understanding of land prices, while the rest of the Zhu family, except the old lady, all look at a loss.
The only thing they think about is how many acres of land can their family’s money buy?
"There are also some other fees. A protection fee of ten taels of silver must be paid every quarter."
Only then did everyone realize the seriousness of the problem. The cost of such land was very high.
The expenses on the surface are already quite a lot. Looking at what the boy said, there are also some hidden expenses that are not obvious to outsiders. How much money will they have to spend after one year?
The final harvest is obviously impossible to earn back, and on this basis, 30% of the profit has to be given to the owner.
Isn't this a sure-fire deal?
Everyone was completely incomprehensible.
Mrs. Xu: "According to this, wouldn't it mean that as time goes by, we will become poorer?"
The boy shrugged: "There is no way. You must have been to the department store, right? Compared with farming, the goods in the department store are more expensive. If you don't have money to farm, you have to go to the department store to buy things. That's it. The cost is greater.”
Mrs. Xu was a little confused when she heard this: "Can't you go out of town to buy it?"
Speaking of this, the boy's face showed anger.
"The locals in Tanning don't buy food from us at all! They say that the people in Dachang are vicious at heart and are not worthy of eating their food, but they are also from Dachang now!"
These words successfully made everyone's hearts sink to the bottom.
"Except for the locals in Tanning, the rest of the people who came here to make a fortune look down on us and are not willing to help us at all. They just want to exploit us. Please, we are just a group of exiled people. Exploit us. The money is not enough for them to eat a few meals!"
Okay, now the news is basically all out, the locals are being squeezed out, and the non-locals and non-exiles are adding insult to injury.
There is no human touch at all, no wonder the people of Huaxiang Town are allowed to waste time in the city like this.
Ms. Shen: "How can this be forced? This is clearly denying a way to survive."
If they follow this path, even if they are rich now, they can only get in but not get out. How long will it take them to make money every year?
Everyone's hearts froze when they heard the boy's words, and they finally began to worry about the future of the family.
Zhu Ruiying: "Then, people without money can only go hungry?"
"Those who don't have money to rent land have to farm for those who have money to rent land. They also have to help with some small things at home. If they don't have money, they have to take care of three meals a day. However, even those who can afford to rent land, The burden on me is also very heavy, and I am about to collapse, that is... people starve to death every year, whether they have land to farm or have no land to farm."
Zhu Ruiying continued to ask: "Then if no one can afford to rent land, those owners will have no money to make."
The boy looked at Zhu Ruiying with some surprise. Every question this little sister asked was to the key point.
She is so smart.
"There are still some problems here, which I don't know very well, but Sister-in-law Li's family has always had an acre of land, but Sister-in-law Li's little daughter has not come back."
These words made everyone have some speculations.
This is equivalent to the maids and servants in their previous mansion, but what the boss gave them was not money, but land.
"Her little daughter was very cute. She was only five years old. Some people said she died."
After hearing this, the adults looked at each other, as if it was not that simple.
But what exactly this matter is like, they are not interested in knowing, anyway, they will not have this choice at all.
Zhu Ruiying sighed secretly.
High, really high.
Squeeze to the extreme, but still have some sense of proportion, leaving room for those who can pay.
No, why are there so many clones of the gods in this world?
The boy asked: "If you need someone to lead you to Xiaoxi Town, I can take you there."
Mrs. Shen: "Thank you, child, what is your name?"
"My name is Ning Xingyu. My home is on the east side. Go straight and you'll be there in less than a quarter of an hour."
"Xingyu, thank you. We have just come to this place and are not familiar with it. We really need your help."
Shen's gentle attitude made Ning Xingyu a little embarrassed. He smiled naively: "It's okay, it's just a little effort."
Mrs. Shen: "These children in our family are about the same age as you. If you don't mind, you can come over and play with them."
Zhu Jiasheng and Zhu Jiahuan nodded. What he said just now was really helpful to their family. Although they had only been here for one day, they both realized that the people here were different from the people they had come into contact with before. Not everyone would be kind enough to tell them this news.
Zhu Jiasheng took a step forward and raised his hand to grab Ning Xingyu's shoulder.
"We are practicing martial arts, come with us, we will call you."
"Practice martial arts? I'm also good at fighting!"
Zhu Jiahuan: "Really? Then let's have a competition. My eldest brother is great, and I'm not bad either!"
