Cute little peasant girl: Love me through the family group!

Chapter 108 Lease
The village chief looked at Bai Zhiqing but did not smile.

Even if he accepted the jerky, he wouldn't agree to it at will until he was sure what Bai Zhiqing wanted him to do.

Bai Zhiqing knew that the village chief was a human being, so he didn't care, and continued:

"I recently found someone to buy a lot of cottonseeds, and I plan to plant cotton. Since I don't have much land at home, I want to rent another four acres of land to plant.

I would like to ask the village chief to help me to find out if anyone in the village is willing to rent out the land.As for rent..."

The village chief heard that Bai Zhiqing's house had land, and asked, "Have you bought land? Where did you buy it?"

He has to know every move of the villagers, and only when he finds out the details of everyone can he be regarded as a village chief who deserves his name.

Being interrupted, Bai Zhiqing was not annoyed, and explained, "It's still the original six acres of land, and I bought it back again."

"It's good to buy it back, it's good to buy it back. The land in our clan can't be easily drained."

Previously, Bai Yaolang sold the land secretly behind the back of the whole village, but after being found out by the village chief, he cleaned up.

Only then did the commotion spread to the outer village.

What the village chief valued most was the glory of the Bai family. Before, he was so angry that he couldn't sleep for three days because of Bai Yaolang's sale of the land to a foreigner.

Now that the insight has returned to the hands of the Bai clan, my heart is relieved.

The village chief looked at Bai Zhiqing and nodded straight, feeling that Bai Zhiqing, who had been called by Xiangrui, was pleasing to the eye, and said repeatedly, "Okay, good, good."

Bai Zhiqing nodded in response: "The village chief said that I used to be ignorant."

Seeing that Bai Zhiqing nodded with satisfaction, the village chief asked, "Did you just say you wanted to rent land to grow cotton?"

"Yes, I heard that growing cotton can make money, so I thought about renting more land to grow it."

The village chief strongly disagrees. Cotton can't be grown in the north at all. Bai Zhiqing is not panicking because he has money to burn.

If others like to toss and toss, but the village chief has high hopes for Bai Zhiqing, hoping that he can revive the Bai family, and naturally he does not want him to suffer.

"Zhiqing, cotton can't be grown in our Dongcheng County. Although you have some money, you can't mess around and lose your family. I don't agree with this."

Bai Zhiqing thought that the village chief might refuse to help, but he did not expect that the reason for the refusal was for his sake, and persuaded:
"Thank you for your concern, I also know that cotton is difficult to grow. However, I accidentally read a "Farming Handbook" before, and I remembered that there was a method of cotton planting in it, so I wanted to give it a try. A lot of silver."

The saying that he learned planting techniques from books is something that Bai Zhiqing thought about in advance, so that if cotton is grown in the future, others will take it for granted and will not find the role of Yaya in it.

Bai Zhiqing thought for a while, and then said, "I have a lot of cottonseeds in my hands. If the village chief wants to plant them, I can give you some."

Seeing that Bai Zhiqing had a firm mind and knew that it would be difficult for him to change his mind, the village chief no longer discouraged him.But his family would never grow cotton, so he didn't have so much spare money to burn.

"My family doesn't plant it anymore, and I don't have the ability to make such a lot of money. Since your idea has been decided, I'm not disgusting, so I can plant it if I want. By the way, what did you say about the rent?"

"The rent of one acre of land is one tael a year."

Bai Zhiqing has researched that if one mu of land is planted with corn, the annual yield is generally less than two shi, and the market price of corn fluctuates around five hundred cents per shi.

The villagers can only earn one or two silvers at most when they work hard to cultivate one mu of land a year. Now if they rent the land to him, they can earn one or two silvers without working, which is higher than the single-mu income that the landlord rents to the tenants, so good. As long as he is not stupid, he will be willing to rent the land to him.

really.

As soon as he heard such a high rent, the village chief didn't have to mobilize the villagers. He could rent out four mu of land to Bai Zhiqing, and he thought that Bai Zhiqing wanted too little.

The village chief's eyes flashed, and he said reservedly: "This rent is reasonable, I wonder if four acres of land are enough?"

Bai Zhiqing laughed secretly in his heart, he knew that the village chief would definitely be moved.

The reason why he came to the village chief instead of directly renting land from other villagers was because the rent was high.If this kind of good thing finds other people, wouldn't it just offend the village chief.

Bai Zhiqing smiled and said, "Enough. After all, this is the first time to plant. If the method written in the book doesn't work, the more you plant, the more you will benefit. Let's try to plant ten acres first."

The village chief couldn't force Bai Zhiqing to rent more, so he could only say helplessly: "That's true. Let's just rent four acres of land, and you don't have to trouble the villagers. I'll give you four acres of rent to grow cotton with you."

Speaking of this, the village chief's eyes flashed, "But... there are still crops growing on the ground, and you can only use this land after the crops are mature and harvested."

After finishing speaking, the village chief was afraid that Bai Zhiqing would not rent and added: "Except for your family's land, all the land in the village is grown with grain, and the grain must not be wasted."

Bai Zhiqing nodded in agreement, "You're right. You really have to take good care of the grain. Now you are growing winter wheat, and you should be able to harvest it in May, right?"

The village head has a lot of land, half of which are wheat and corn. Winter wheat is planted in winter and harvested at the turn of spring and summer next year.

The village chief nodded, "It is indeed possible to harvest at the end of May, may you accept this condition?"

Bai Zhiqing asked Yaya and learned that the best time for cotton planting is early April, and the end of May is later, but it is not impossible, but it will affect the yield.

"Although it's a bit late, it doesn't have a big impact. But I want to rent the land for five years. The rent will be paid at the beginning of the year. This year's rent will be paid after the crops are harvested. Is it feasible?"

"Okay! This matter is settled like this!", the village head is eager to rent as long as possible, and it is best to rent for three years and pay the rent in advance in one lump sum.

"Okay, then let's sign a contract."

"That's right! A contract has to be drawn up." The village chief was afraid that Bai Zhiqing would regret it. The land doesn't need to be planted, and the annual net income of four taels of silver can't run away.

After the land lease was settled, Bai Zhiqing went to look for laborers under the big tree at the entrance of the village where the flow of people was most concentrated.

Before he left home to take the government exam, he had to level his six acres of land.

The villagers huddled together under the big tree.

Bai Zhiqing shouted, "If you want to hire someone to plow the land, the wages will be paid per mu, one hundred yuan per mu. Can anyone come?", and a large area of ​​villagers exploded in an instant.

The salary of [-] yuan is not low. For the villagers, the soil can be loosened in three days for one mu of land, and it can be done in two days for fast hands and feet.

"Zhiqing, is one acre of land really worth [-] cents? You didn't lie to us, right? The second day in the restaurant in the county town is only [-] cents a day."

In this way, the salary is higher than that of the second shopkeeper!
As soon as the man finished speaking, the villagers next to him ripped off his sleeve, secretly thinking that this man is really stupid, how can he say the latter sentence, what if Bai Zhiqing regrets it?

(End of this chapter)