Running with the ball in the lean years, the evil mother-in-law and the whole family regretted it

Chapter 62 Family love that goes both ways

Soon Li Zheng called a few villagers to come over and measure the large piece of wasteland next to Bai Taotao's house.

Bai Taotao's house was originally built at the end of the village, and the wasteland was right next to her house. This way, it would be easier for her to manage the workshop if it was built here. She could take care of her children at home and manage the workshop at the same time without any delay.

While Chen Demin was measuring, Bai Taotao looked at the barren hill next to the wasteland and asked, "Uncle Li Zheng, does this barren hill also belong to our village? And the bamboo forest next to it?"

"These all belong to the boundaries of our village. What's wrong?"

"Sell it then?"

"You still want to buy Barren Mountain?"

"Now that I have bought it, if this barren hilltop can be sold, then I might as well buy it together. I can slowly make plans in the future."

"The barren hilltop can be sold, but this bamboo forest cannot. This bamboo forest was planted with hard work by the older generation. This bamboo can support our folks in Shihe Village. This bamboo forest belongs to the entire Shihe Village folks."

At this time, many of the farm tools used by the folks were made of bamboo.

For example: backpacks, bamboo baskets, dustpans, etc.

The bamboo in this bamboo forest is the key to making these things.

When the farming is not busy, the villagers would go to the bamboo forest to cut some bamboo and go home to weave some bamboo baskets and other things to sell in the town. The money from the sales can also supplement the household income.

Therefore, it is impossible to sell the entire bamboo forest to an individual.

Bai Taotao understood the words and nodded: "Then how do you sell this barren hilltop?"

"This barren mountain..." Chen Demin was stunned by the question for a moment.

No matter whether it was since he could remember or since he was in office, no villager had ever directly bought a piece of barren hilltop. Basically, he bought a few acres of land.

This was the first time he encountered Buying Huangshan.

Those wealthy people in the city would not buy Huangshantou even if they bought Zhuangzi.

So he really didn't know how to sell this barren mountain.

Bai Taotao saw Li Zheng's embarrassment, so she smiled and said, "It's okay. You can ask the county magistrate when Uncle Li Zheng helps me apply for the title deed for this land and then tell me."

Li Zheng nodded quickly: "Sure, I'll ask you then."

After discussing the matter, the wasteland was measured to the foot of the barren mountain, totaling twelve and a half acres, which was exactly ten taels of silver. Baitaotao bought all of it.

After the wasteland matter is taken care of and the site is available, the construction of the food processing plant can begin.

The next step is to find people to open up the wasteland, so that it can be easily constructed after the land is cleared.

Before dinner, while it was still early, Bai Taotao asked Aunt Jin to bring a bowl of braised pork ribs, and then walked with her to the Chen family's main room.

"Uncle, uncle, you haven't eaten yet." As soon as Bai Taotao entered the yard, he saw Chen Defu and his wife weaving sacks with a simple folk knitting machine.

The ramie harvested in late July is dried and kneaded into twine, which can then be woven into sacks. These sacks can be sold for one or two cents each.

If you knit for a while every evening, you can knit three or two pieces, save them together, and then take them to the town or county and exchange them for money.

"Here comes Taotao." Mrs. Chen Wang heard Bai Taotao's voice and raised her head. Then she saw Aunt Jin behind Bai Taotao. Aunt Jin had a large bowl of braised pork ribs in her hand, so she said again: "You kid, just come here. Why do you bring such a big bowl of pork ribs?"

"You have a big belly now, which is when you need nutrition. You should eat more yourself and don't think about us all the time. We can't starve ourselves."

Seeing the filial piety of her nephew-in-law, Mrs. Chen felt so warm in her heart.

During this period, I went to help clean the pig sewage every day. I had to wash about five or six pairs every day. For three cents a pair, I had more than a dozen copper coins a day.

This is no worse than going to the town or county to work hard.

Obviously, this high price was given by the niece-in-law for the sake of their family. This was because the niece-in-law wanted to help their family.

Otherwise, getting three to five cents for such an easy job would be pretty good.

Therefore, the Chen Wang family is also very concerned about the niece's daughter-in-law.

They do everything very carefully every day. In the past, when Bai Taotao didn't have any workers, they would go to the backyard to help take care of her vegetable garden after finishing the work.

Sometimes when I see Bai Taotao's clothes, I will help her wash them and dry them.

People's efforts will only last long if they go in both directions.

"It's okay. When I went to the market to buy pork ribs today, I saw that the ribs were pretty good, so I bought a lot. Grandma Tan's craftsmanship is pretty good. I thought I would bring some for you to try. I happened to have something to do. I want to ask my uncle for help."

"Don't spend so much money next time." Mrs. Chen Wang took the ribs from Aunt Jin's hand, and then took them to the kitchen to change the bowls.

At this time, Bai Taotao looked at Chen Defu and said, "Uncle, today I asked Uncle Li Zheng to buy the large piece of wasteland next to my house. I want to build a food processing factory on that piece of land, so I want the uncle to buy it." Lead the team and help find some quick workers to help open up wasteland."

"There are more than twelve acres of land in total. Uncle, let's see how many people are needed to clear out the wasteland as soon as possible. Leave these to the uncle to handle. In addition, it will be harder for the uncle to lead the team. I will pay you thirty cents a day for the wages. , as for the villagers, we will give them twenty-five cents a day, but no food will be included. Do you think so?"

Working as a hard worker in a town or county usually costs fifteen to twenty-five cents a day.

Those who earn twenty-five cents a day usually do hard work without a meal.

Baitaotao's land reclamation work can be regarded as hard work, so he gave the villagers twenty-five cents a day and the villagers were able to work hard.

When Chen Defu heard this, he stopped what he was doing and said, "You kid, you don't need to pay me such a high wage, just be like them, and you'll save them gossiping later."

"What nonsense is there to talk about? You are my uncle, and you are the one who started to help me organize the reclamation of this wasteland. Thirty coins is not much, so if anyone has any objections, then let's not use them. If uncle agrees to this matter , then this matter is settled and will be left to the uncle to handle."

"You..." Chen Defu is a real down-to-earth person and wanted to say something more. At this time, Chen Wang came out of the kitchen and said: "Since the child has decided so, then you just listen to the child and find some tricks when the time comes. The quick and conscientious manpower who took care of the wasteland earlier is no better than the one who gave you a few cents less."

"Look at what you are saying, I don't like to hear it. What do you mean by finding a few people who are serious about the work? It's like if the child doesn't pay me this salary, I won't find someone properly."

"You old man, you can't even tell what's going on. It's not for the sake of our family that our children are doing this. Instead of pushing here and there, you might as well take advantage of the fact that it's still early and make a careful calculation. Work quickly, go talk to them, appoint people, and start work early tomorrow morning."

(End of this chapter)