slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 13
Hearing the chatter of the villagers, Cang Hai had a general understanding of the life in the village. These old men and women had no energy to cultivate the land, so they rented out the land in their town to others for farming, and after a year, they could earn a lot of money. A ration of money, although life is far better than ten years ago, but because of the weak foundation, everyone's life is now mixed to the level of just getting enough food and clothing, let's not talk about other things.

In their minds, the most profitable job for young people is to go out to work and work in factories. It is much better than digging in the ground for a year.

"Grandpa Hu, is there no one renting land here?" Cang Hai finally expressed the question in his heart after listening to everyone.

Cang Hai doesn’t know the situation in his hometown, but renting land in the south of the Yangtze River can be popular, and ordinary people may not be able to rent land for farming. Renting a large piece of land, and then mechanized and informationized planting is far more than a small-scale farmer’s economic model. The efficiency is much higher, and the higher the efficiency, the lower the cost, and the higher the income per mu of land.

Li Licheng took the last two puffs of his cigarette, holding the butt of his cigarette with some reluctance: "That's a good land, who will rent the land here? The country was planning to do it at that time, and then it's gone, let alone an individual!"

Cang Hai asked strangely: "Is the country still planning to do it?"

Li Liren replied: "That's right, but later I heard that experts estimated that it would cost tens of thousands of dollars per mu of land to improve it. There is no more text."

"It's not hundreds of billions, I heard that one mu is more than 100 million!" Qian Ximei also sat at the table at this time and said while eating peanuts.

Hearing Grandma Qian's words, Cang Hai just smiled and didn't go into it further. This matter may exist, but it's hard to say how much money was invested. Even if this matter was correct at the beginning, it spread to a few people. The taste is completely different.

"Is it easy to rent land now?" Cang Hai asked.

After all, it is the old village secretary. Although he is extremely poor in the local area, he has always been concerned about the policies of the central government. Hu Shijie thought for a while and said: "It is not difficult to rent land, but if you want to rent a good land But it’s difficult, not to mention anything else, even if it’s land in a town, people with nowhere to go don’t even think about renting it.”

Cang Hai smiled and said, "I don't want to rent the land there, I just want to rent the land in front of our village!"

Everyone has understood Cang Hai's madness just now, and now that the land at the entrance of Rent Village has appeared, everyone is a little immune.But even so, Cang Hai's words still attracted worried looks from several people.

"What kind of rent do you need for these few lands? If you want to grow them, you can just find a piece of land and plant them. We are all from the village, what can we say?" Hu Shijie said.

Cang Hai took out the cigarettes from his pocket again, scattered them one by one, and the pack was empty after two turns.Looking at the two or three packs of cigarettes left, Cang Hai simply turned around and went out, hid in a place where no one was seen, made a formula and drew three more packs from the space, and put them directly on the table after entering the kiln.

"By the way, Haiwazi, you can plant whatever you want. Anyway, it's all the land in the village. We are all your elders, can you still talk about it?" Li Liren smoked a cigarette from a box Cang Hai just opened and hung it on the on the ear.

Cang Hai replied: "I'm not going to plant the land in the village, I'm going to rent out everything from Fenghuanggou to Jiazituo."

"What are you renting such a large piece of land for?" Hu Shijie asked.

Li Liren thought for a while, then asked Cang Hai: "Cang Hai, tell me, is there a mine there?"

Hearing what Li Liren said, not to mention the old man at the table, even the old women sitting on the outer floor pricked up their ears. These days, hearing that there are mines means that they are rich.

Cang Hai couldn't laugh or cry when he was teased by Second Grandpa Li, he opened his mouth and asked, "You have lived here for so many years, have you ever seen a mine come out of it?"

"That's right!" Li Liren thought for a while and shook his head.

In Canghai’s hometown, the loess has a radius of hundreds of miles, and the deepest part is estimated to be hundreds of meters deep. Even if there is a mine, the loess on it must be shoveled. With such a workload, it is estimated that it is better to get a big ship to transport it abroad. It's cheap to come back.

"There is no mine, I just want to test my idea," Cang Hai said with a smile.

"What do you think?" Hu Shijie asked.

Cang Hai is not afraid to tell these people, as far as their knowledge structure is concerned, it is not too difficult for Cang Hai to fool him, so he opened his mouth and said, "I want to plant a special kind of tree, this tree grows fast and can absorb water. It can grow three to four meters high every year. During the rainy season, it absorbs rainwater. When the tree trunk is broken in the dry season, the water in the tree will flow out. Although the rainy season here is short, I think planting this tree is a good idea. It can't store much water, but it can also fix the soil."

This is the method that Cang Hai has pondered in his mind these days. As an architect, although he is not a master, he still knows some trees. Generally speaking, bottle trees are used as ornamental plants in China.This kind of tree is very good at storing water, and its root system is quite developed, which is very suitable for soil consolidation.

But now Canghai is going to build a plant network with the seed of life as the core and the bottle tree as the node.

Of course, these are just Cang Hai's thoughts based on the knowledge imparted by the shadow, and whether they can be realized depends on practice.

"Is there such a tree that likes to absorb water?" Hu Shijie expressed doubts.

Cang Hai nodded and said: "Yes, this tree is called a bottle tree, and it grows in arid areas. Although the temperature there is higher than ours, I still want to try it. Once the soil is fixed, it will actually stay in the soil. I live in a part of the water. If there is water, then maybe I can grow some grass and shrubs. I will wait for more and see if I can plant some other trees. Slowly, this ecology can’t say no. It will come back to life."

After listening to Hu Shijie and thinking about it for a while, everyone in Hu Shijie still felt that it was a bit unreliable. If it was as easy as Cang Hai said in their thinking, someone would have done it a long time ago, so there would be no talk about a brat like him.

"This is out of the question!" Li Licheng said.

Cang Hai didn't persuade him either. In fact, according to Cang Hai's plan, the first step is to rent the land, and the next step is to let the villagers rent the land, and then take the road of common prosperity.

Of course, this is just an idea now. If you want to realize Cang Hai, you must first make achievements. If you only rely on flamboyance, then these simple and unique farmers will not follow Cang Hai, let alone Rented land like Canghai.But on the other hand, once Cang Hai accomplishes this, even if they stop them from learning from Cang Hai, it probably won't work.

Cang Hai didn't explain it either, it's useless to talk about this matter, even if you say tens of thousands of this thing makes money, it's not as meaningful as selling this thing for one yuan.

Hu Shijie took a couple of puffs of cigarette sullenly, and began to give Cang Hai an idea: "Haiwazi, if you really want to rent, you can go to the township government in the town and ask. If you can’t, go to the county to ask, if you want to rent such a large piece of land, it’s probably not the village that can make a decision, at least you have to get the approval of the county to rent it.”

"Well, I'll drop by and ask when I get back," Cang Hai nodded in response.

After finishing asking the things that should be asked, Cang Hai changed the topic and asked some things about everyone's life.

After listening for a while, Cang Hai understood that at least life in the small village was the same as when he left. The only big change was that the village was connected to electricity. Too stable, but finally there is electricity.

After chatting until ten o'clock, a group of old men and old ladies became a little sleepy. For them, as soon as the sun goes down, they should go to bed after dinner. Now because Cang Hai came back, staying up until ten o'clock is considered a late bedtime up.

Seeing everyone's sleepy faces, Cang Hai ended the topic wisely, and let Grandpa Hu lead him to the kiln next door.

"You just made it one night, and the quilt and pillow are all sun-dried, which was used when your uncle and your aunt got married...".

Needless to say the old man, Cang Hai also saw it. There was a whole bed of red quilts and red blankets, except that there was no big red happy letter on the kiln, and there was a grain enclosure at the corner of the kiln, which looked like a new house.

"It's okay, it's good enough. If you want to say that you have to live comfortably in a kiln, I stayed at my third uncle's house in the town for one night. It was so hot that I was sweating all over after sleeping in the middle of the night." Cang Hai sat down on the bed with a smile He started to take off his shoes and pants.

Having lived in Shanghai for so many years, Cang Hai is not used to the climate of his hometown. He used to live in a cave dwelling, but now that he sleeps in a heated room, he suddenly feels uncomfortable all over his body, and his mouth is even dry when he wakes up early in the morning. Yes, it is estimated that I will be full of fire bubbles after staying for a few days.

"No matter how nice a heated house is, it's not as comfortable as living in a kiln that is warm in winter and cool in summer. It's a pity that the town can't dig kilns, and there is no place to dig kilns!"

Cang Hai's words reached Hu Shijie's heart. From their point of view, brick houses are far less comfortable than old cave dwellings. They are not only comfortable but also save money. They don't need to pay heating bills in winter, and they don't need electricity in summer, which is economical.

"Then go to sleep, you've been running all the way, it's hard to ride the motorcycle for a few hours, I'll close the door for you." After Hu Shige finished speaking, he turned and left Cang Hai's house, closing the door behind him.

Just when Cang Hai was about to take off his clothes, suddenly a human voice came from outside.

"Why don't you go to sleep?" Hu Shijie scolded.

"Grandpa, I want to stay with my second brother"

Hu Ping'an's voice was heard outside the door.

"Don't disturb your second brother Cang's sleep, go back to your own room honestly! You know how to play all day long."

"Oh!"

Soon the footsteps of the grandfather and grandson disappeared outside the door.

After taking off his clothes and getting into bed, Cang Hai put his head on the back of his head, and began to think about renting the land, probably because he really rode a motorcycle for several hours, not long after he touched the bed, Cang Hai sank fell asleep.

When I opened my eyes again, I found that the sky outside had already brightened, and a bright sunlight poured into the room through the windows of the kiln.

(End of this chapter)