Chapter 22: All I want is that you know how to farm the land
Xinmin Village, Huayang Town.
Tang Shu suddenly appeared outside his courtyard, startling his second aunt Wang Juxiang.
After the two girls were brought back to the county town by Tang Shu, Li Sande felt that Tang Wei'an was playing tricks on her. In the past ten days, she had come to the door several times to collect debts. She also noticed that there were several new young people in the village who were staring at them.
The family is definitely preventing them from escaping.
After this period of torment, Wang Juxiang felt that she was going crazy. She became frightened and mistook Tang Shu for the Li Sande gang who came to collect debts. This was a normal reaction.
It wasn't until Tang Shu called her second aunt twice that Wang Juxiang calmed down. If her eldest nephew didn't show up again, she would be ready to throw the stone into the Sanyang River.
Glancing at the small courtyard that had almost been moved to only four walls, Tang Shu sighed. Village bullies like Li Sande were really a cancer in society, but Tang Shu didn't worry about what would happen to people like them in the end.
After all, they only have less than half a month to allow them to cause harm to the countryside.
"Where's Uncle Xiaoqing? If you just put all the debt on your second uncle, where did he go?"
"What else can I do? I only have a younger brother in my family, how can I watch him not pay the money?" Wang Juxiang murmured a few words, but did not reveal the whereabouts of his younger brother. Tang Shu let out a long sigh.
Those plots about protecting the mother's family in later generations really exist, and art comes from life, which is true at all.
Now it is not a matter of tracing Wang Daohong's whereabouts. Even if he is here, it will not solve the problem. On the contrary, it may make the crisis in the second uncle's family more and more serious.
"Where is my second uncle? Where are they?"
Seeing that Tang Shu was not holding on to her little brother, Wang Juxiang instantly felt a lot more relaxed. She walked to the river beach not far behind the house and said, "Your second uncle is digging the ground. I will take you there."
Tang Shu had said before that he had to figure out a solution for the one thousand yuan issue. Now that he was back, he must have brought good news. Wang Juxiang felt that as long as he could settle the debt for the family, even if it was
It's okay to get angry with yourself sometimes, let alone treating her like an elder rather than a servant girl.
The two of them walked along the field ridge to the river beach one after another. Sure enough, they saw a slightly stooped figure wearing a straw hat and waving a hoe in his hand under the scorching sun not far away.
Hearing Wang Juxiang shouting, Tang Wei'an stopped what he was doing and turned around. He also saw Tang Shu, and immediately put down his work and came over. The uncle and nephew were squatting in the shadow of a willow tree. Tang Wei'an just smoked and said nothing.
No one asked.
He could already guess why Tang Shu came back this time, but he really couldn't ask.
"Did you go into town yesterday?"
"I just went to see the child."
Tang Shu smiled bitterly: "Don't talk nonsense. The second aunt said that Li Sande made trouble several times. He didn't do anything to you."
Tang Weiann said quietly: "Your aunt was very frightened, but they didn't do anything."
Tang Shu took out twenty unity sheets from his pocket and said: "There are two hundred here. Pay back some first, so that they can come to your house every day. But you have to let Li Sande create a new one, and the village cadres must be present."
Looking at the pile of slightly worn money in Tang Shu's hand, Tang Wei'an really wanted to give himself a slap in the face. He had always done things down-to-earth and lived his duty, how could he be so messed up that he needed help from the younger members of the family?
At this point, how could he stretch out his hands with this money?
"Just take it, and I'll figure out what to do with the rest." Seeing that his second uncle didn't answer, Tang Shu directly stuffed the money into his arms, "Besides, this money is not given to you for free. If you think
If you feel sorry for yourself, just pay me back when you have money later."
Tang Wei'an let out a long sigh, his face full of despair and helplessness: "How can you have money in a situation like your second uncle's?"
"Don't say it so absolutely. As the saying goes, Thirty Years of Hedong... Bah." Damn it, Tang Shu couldn't help but frothing at the mouth. The Internet articles of later generations are very harmful. He stood up and put up his right hand in front of his eyes.
He looked around and asked, "Are these the family's land?"
"No." Tang Wei'an shook his head, "This is the river beach land in the village. It used to be collectively owned. Later, the fields were divided into households. Because it was uneven, no one wanted it, so I thought about clearing it out to plant something to earn more income.
It’s a little bit.”
"Second uncle, you did it all by yourself?" Tang Shu was a little surprised. The terrain here is long and narrow, and uneven. When harvesting, you could sprain your feet if you step in a hole accidentally. Tang Wei'an actually dug out nearly three acres of land by himself.
, I have to admire his perseverance.
"Are you planning to grow some fruits and vegetables to sell in the city?"
Tang Wei'an scratched his head in embarrassment: "I don't have the ability. I just want to grow some potatoes and sweet potatoes to use as food for the family."
Farming these days requires paying public grain, and the remaining grain can be sold to the grain station after being eaten by oneself. This is almost the entire income of a family. Tang Wei'an plans to sell more surplus grain. If the family does not have enough food,
Just use the things grown in this land to cushion it.
This was the only way he could think of.
Just how much money can be saved by just living frugally like this? I'm afraid it's not enough to pay the tuition for the two girls.
After thinking briefly for a moment, Tang Shu pulled his second uncle's arm: "Second uncle, if you believe me, just listen to me. I guarantee that you will be able to pay back the money within three years at most."
"Three years? Don't fool me." Tang Wei'an obviously didn't believe Tang Shu's promise. He couldn't read a word, was from a rural area, and had no skills to support his family. How could he earn three hundred yuan a year in any profession?
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By the way, if you include the family's food and clothing expenses, this number is far more than that, at least four hundred.
The second uncle's attitude made Tang Shu want to laugh: "Uncle, what else do you have for me to deceive? Do I need to lie to you?"
Seeing that his nephew really didn't seem to be joking, Tang Wei'an still expressed his incomprehension: "But your uncle and I don't know anything except farming..."
"What I want is that you can farm."
"What?" If it's just farming, Tang Wei'an thinks it's fine. Farmers have such a lot of strength, but he can't figure out how to make money from growing in the ground.
"There are two things you have to do now. First, go to the village party secretary and report it to the village to allocate this piece of land on the river beach to you."
"This matter is easy to handle. This is an ownerless wasteland. I just go and say hello to the village chief."
"No, the village must issue a certificate and sign and seal it, otherwise there will definitely be trouble in the future."
The advantage of rural people is that they are simple and unpretentious, but the disadvantage is that they are small-minded. If those people find out that this land is profitable, they may even push down the wall of the second uncle's house.
Although he didn't know why, Tang Wei'an still nodded firmly: "Okay, I will go to the village committee compound to handle this matter when I get back."
"The second thing is to collect as many seeds as possible of fruits and vegetables. If you don't have them in the village, go to the seed station in the town to buy them. The more varieties, the better." Realizing that Tang Wei'an had no money, Tang Shu took out the seeds without hesitation.
Fifteen dollars.
"What are you going to do? Plant them and take them to the city to sell?"
Tang Wei'an was a little confused. Their Xinmin Village was nearly fifty miles away from the county seat, and there was a Sanyang River in the middle. It was very difficult to transport things out. Besides, there was already a farmer's market in the city, and the vendors there could easily make business.
Let them do it?
Tang Wei'an vaguely felt that Tang Shu's method would not work. What if all the vegetables rotted in the ground?
"Don't worry, just listen to what I have to say. Keep the seeds after you buy them. Don't plant them. Just wait until I notify you of the rest."
"What? You bought seeds, plowed the ground, and then refused to plant them? What's your reasoning?"
"It's not that I don't want to plant it, it's that I don't want to plant it now. I have to go back and find someone to ask about this." Tang Shu touched his chin thoughtfully, "I don't know if there is anything I need sold in Jiangcheng County.
, if it doesn’t work, you have to go to the city to look for it.”
Although Tang Wei'an could understand Tang Shu's words if separated word by word, but when they were put together, it would only make him feel confused, and he had no idea what his eldest nephew was up to.
Chapter completed!