Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

Chapter 112 Negotiation, do you think I'm a fool?

After dinner, Wang Haofeng took the money and wanted to go home immediately to hide it.

With these four hundred, his savings would exceed six hundred.

A truly huge sum of money.

I spend more than 200 yuan on the bride price to marry a wife, and I can buy a bicycle with the rest. Nowadays, everyone wants a bicycle when marrying a wife, so I have to buy one.

Yu Qiutang was in no hurry to let him go.

He took him and Yu Qiujiang to survey the surrounding environment.

The autumn harvest is basically over, and the previous things have also come to an end. I now have 1700 yuan in my hands. After selling the bear gall, I should have another five or six hundred yuan.

It's time to think about building a house.

According to the original idea, the location for building the house was chosen around Yu Qiujiang's home.

I took a general look at it last time and already had an impression. Today I asked Yu Qiujiang to get a rope, measured the length and width of the nearby land, and considered the specific implementation.

Most of the land here currently belongs to the wasteland of Production Team 3.

The team couldn't distribute the land, and didn't want the villagers to grow it in vain. If they said they would contract it out, the villagers felt that not much food could be grown on this kind of land.

It doesn't matter if we lose manpower and material resources, but we may even lose seeds and fertilizers.

No one has extra seeds or food, and no one wants to be taken advantage of.

Only Yu Qiutang would keep an eye on it.

"Tangtang, are you really planning to build a yard here?" Wang Haofeng was still a little uncertain.

People build yards in places where there are dense populations, so that they have neighbors and it gets lively and lively, and they can take care of each other if something happens.

No one would take the initiative to go to the foot of the mountain.

Brother Jiang, there is no other way. There are specific historical reasons. But you are not a pig that dislikes dogs. You should not look for such a place.

"Yes, this is it. Look how nice it is here, with picturesque scenery, singing birds and fragrant flowers. It's quiet and peaceful. There are only two or three brothers here, and no one else to disturb us. How comfortable is that?
You just say how troublesome it is to live in the village. Today one person says your leaves fell on his yard, and tomorrow another person says your cat ate his chickens. It's so annoying."

"That does make sense." Wang Haofeng thought it made sense.

"Then if you really move here, it would be nice to live next to Brother Jiang."

With the help of the two, Yu Qiutang made a rough plan.

What remains to be done is how to turn these lands into his contracted lands.

The village has delegated the right to distribute the contract to the production team, and the captain of the third team is Yu Daner.

As soon as he was reborn, he beat the other person up.

I don't know how much I hate him in my heart.

I encountered this once last time when I was doing business at Zhang Jiashen's house. Before I could say anything, Zhang Jiashen found an excuse to send him away.

If we want to get these lands now, we must think of some way.

If this guy is polite, then be polite to him and give him some benefits if necessary.

If he is not virtuous, then teach him how to behave.

I have to say that after his rebirth, Yu Qiutang is very confident and doesn't take village chiefs or team leaders seriously at all.
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In the evening, Yu Qiutang came to Yu Daner's house in the dark, carrying a bag of egg cakes and a can of oranges.

As soon as I arrived at the gate, I heard the howling of a woman in the yard, accompanied by Yu Daner's scolding.

"Fuck you, there's no point in me marrying you. You gave me four useless babies. How can you be so useless?

Okay, I won’t bother with you about this. What about your brothers from your mother’s side?

What does it have to do with me whether he gets married or not? Your Rui family is worried that there will be no one to take over the family business, so you are in a hurry to find a wife for your son. Then go ahead and marry him. If you have the ability, marry as many as you can.

Why did you steal my money?

Oh, I don't want to lend it to you in person, so I'm pointing fingers at you, a traitor who is trying to make trouble for my own family?
Just keep going over there no matter how much you bring back for me. Otherwise, see what else you have at home and send it all to your parents.

Anyway, I see that you don't want to live a good life, so why not just break up this family!"

"Dad, don't get angry first, just listen to what I have to say..."

"What the hell are you talking about? Unless you bring my money back, I won't listen to anything you say.

You said you stupid bitch! !
You really want to piss me off to death. The money in the family is for planting wheat and buying fertilizers. You said you're going to spend the money. How can I buy urea? Can we plant crops this year? Can the kids have food? How can we pay the public grain next year...

I really don't know what to say to you. No one can live like you. I, Yu Shanlin, am really unlucky for marrying someone like you!"

"Dad, don't hit my mom, don't hit my mom."

"father!"

There were several more children crying.

Yu Qiutang stood outside the door, feeling very embarrassed for a moment.

Yu Daner's family was obviously in the process of a family negotiation. The reason was very simple. It was heard that Yu Daner's wife secretly took Yu Daner's money and gave it to her brothers from her natal family.

Yu Daner was very angry and decided to let his wife experience the influence of husband and wife culture.

This kind of thing happens too often these days.

Originally.

According to local culture, the husband's family will give the daughter's family a relatively generous dowry, which is to buy out part of the close relationship between the daughter and her family.

Not to say this is stupid or insensitive, but this is the culture at the moment.

So, after a daughter gets married, the affairs of her parents' home basically have nothing to do with her, unless the elderly are sick, the daughter can go and take care of them, wait on them, do the laundry, cook, etc., there is no problem with that.

But when it comes to money matters, you must be clear.

Don't fool around.

What is even more unacceptable is that Yu Daner’s wife would secretly transfer money to her brother’s home without telling her husband.

This is bound to cause family conflict.

At the very least, they would quarrel, and at worst, men would beat them.

This phenomenon is certainly not right. After all, the husband and wife eat from the same pot. It is definitely excessive for them to use fists and kicks against each other at every turn.

but.

He actually has some rationality in this matter.

The main reason is that money is so hard to make these days.

The wife needs to be busy running around, and the husband also has to do everything he can to dig for food in the soil.

For farmers, work in the fields mainly requires physical effort, and men are naturally stronger than women, so the main work at home is done by men.

Therefore, economic status determines the superstructure.

Men have more say at home.

Yu Qiutang waited at the door for a while, and when he heard the noise inside had temporarily subsided, he knocked on the iron ring of the wooden door.

The wooden door of Yu Daner's house is far inferior to that of Zhang Jiashen's house.

There is a gatehouse above Zhang Jiashen. Even though it has carved corridors and painted buildings, it also demonstrates its elegance.

Yudan'er's house has no gatehouse and no threshold below. The main gate is just a space opened in the middle of the wall, and the door is installed inside.

It looks very casual and rough.

"Who!?"

Yu Daner shouted from inside.

"Captain, I have something to talk to you about. Please open the door."

Yu Qiutang didn't call Yu Daner. When he came to do business, he needed to be reserved and test the boy's attitude first.

"Where are you from? Why can't I tell who you are?"

"I am Yu Qiutang."

The room immediately fell silent, and then Yu Daner roared in a low voice: "Get inside, I'll deal with you later!"

After the door opened, Yu Daner stood inside.

His attire was incongruous, with bare arms but a thick cotton vest on top.

I don’t know whether it’s cold or hot when farming.

The weather here is like this, very cool in the morning and evening, and very hot at noon. It is impossible for people to change clothes all the time, so they often add clothes on top of the ones they wear during the day to cope with it.

Yu Daner was holding a willow branch in his hand, and it seemed that he had just used it to whip his wife.

He saw Yu Qiutang standing outside the door with canned food and egg cake in his hands, and he immediately realized that Yu Qiutang wanted to ask him for something. His previous anger towards Yu Qiutang, coupled with his anger at his wife, turned into mocking sneer.

"Isn't this my cousin Qiu? It's the middle of the night. Are you lost and running to our doorstep?"

Yu Qiutang shook the things in his hand and said with a smile, "Let's go in and talk?"

"Is there anything you can't talk about during the day?"

"Of course there are reasons why it's hard to say it during the day," Yu Qiutang looked around, "You don't want to be seen, so I'll stand at your door with my things."

"What? I didn't do anything."

"It doesn't matter what you did or didn't do. What matters is what our neighbors think of you."

Yu Qiutang said this and walked straight into the yard. Yu Daner hesitated for a moment, and seeing that Yu Qiutang had already come in, she hesitated but finally endured it and closed the door casually.

After Yu Qiutang entered, he saw a bicycle lying upside down at the door of the main hall. One of the tires had been removed and placed on the side, with the inner tube pulled out, and half a basin of water next to it.

"What about fixing the tire?"

Yu Qiutang put his things under the eaves at the door, and when he saw a stool, he pulled it over and sat down on it, pointing to the small stool next to the bicycle, "You can sit down too, I have something to talk to you about."

When Yu Daner saw it, he was furious.

how.

Whose house is this in?

Should I sit on my stool? When will it be your turn to say hello?

You really don't consider yourself an outsider.

Are you kidding me? You were rough with me over a month ago. Have you forgotten it so quickly?

I'm still going to pretend that never happened and just laugh it off with me.

"Just tell me what's going on. I'm still busy."

"You can continue to be busy," Yu Qiutang pointed at the bicycle, "You can continue to repair the bicycle, or..." He pointed inside with his backhand, "You can continue to beat your wife."

"Yu Qiutang, you f*cking...!!"

"Be careful with your words. Don't take my mother with you easily. My mother has been dead for more than ten years. Do you want her to take you away?"

No matter how impatient Yu Daner was, Yu Qiutang remained calm.

Today's matter is not suitable for action. Can we beat this guy up and forcefully take the land over there?

That means you're definitely going to go into the trading floor.

After much thought, I still need to think of other solutions.

In fact, when he heard the commotion inside and the issue of money was mentioned at the door just now, Yu Qiutang suddenly remembered an incident in his previous life, which seemed to have happened around this stage.

At that time, the team raised funds to bring water from the mountains to the team and build a small canal.

As a result, at the critical moment, the team leader Yu Daner, who was in charge of keeping the money, had his house robbed and all the money was stolen. Although he later managed to pay back half of the money himself, the team members still suffered losses and the construction of the canal was delayed.

This will affect the harvest of the year.

At that time, no one doubted the truth of this matter.

After all, there are indeed a lot of thieves and robbers these days, and houses in the village are often robbed. The money has been lost, and they are willing to take the initiative to pay half of the compensation, so no one cares too much.

A few people had doubts but didn't feel comfortable speaking them out. After all, they still had to stay on the team, and if they offended the captain, who knows how much trouble they would get into later.

So this incident caused some minor disturbances, but it didn't become a big deal.

Now it seems that the money was not stolen at all, but was secretly given to her brothers from her natal family by Yu Daner's wife. If this matter were to be made public, it would be quite explosive.

You know, the management is quite strict these days.

If someone is caught stealing something, he could be put in jail for years. People who blatantly encroach on public property can be jailed for a period of time on any pretext.

Yu Qiutang had this guess in his mind, but he was not in a hurry to say it directly. He thought he could keep it as a hidden trump card and play it out at the last critical moment.

If you had won the game directly from the beginning, you wouldn't need these.

After all, using this kind of information is not shameful in terms of means, but it is morally inferior.

If people cannot fight openly and squarely when doing things, but always take advantage of the opponent's weaknesses, they will be like the people of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. Even if they win the battle, they will still be called cowards thousands of years later.

Don't really respect them.

"Okay, okay," Yu Daner sat down on the stool.

Maybe he felt that he couldn't get rid of Yu Qiutang in a short time, so he didn't dare to say too harsh words to him, in case he got beaten up again.

He felt that Yu Qiutang today was a little more muscular and robust than when he saw him some time ago. He was still very thin some time ago, but he was taller. Standing in front of him, he looked like a telephone pole.

But today he felt like a strong and tall man.

When this guy was thin, I could handle him with one hand. Now that he is stronger, he must be stronger. I think he will have no problem dealing with me.

What's more, this is my own home.

If he is beaten in front of his children and wife until he can't take care of himself, what status will he have in the family in the future? The children probably won't listen to him.

He had no choice but to see what Yu Qiutang was going to do.

"I'm listening. What do you want to talk to me about?"

Yu Qiutang noticed that the door curtain of a small building opposite was opened, revealing the head of a little girl of four or five years old, who looked at him curiously with her big eyes.

Soon, the eyes were fixed on canned food and egg cakes.

He waved over there, "Come, bring this cake in and share it."

The little girl didn't move, just staring at the egg cake. Yu Qiutang simply stood up, carried the thing over and stuffed it into the little girl's hand.

The little girl disappeared behind the door curtain holding something.

Yu Daner muttered in a low voice: "It can make people greedy to death, what a useless thing."

"Don't talk about kids like that," Yu Qiutang walked back, moved the stool and sat down opposite Yu Daner, leaving less than half a meter between them.

"Children are young and like to eat sweet things. This is their nature. As adults, we should try our best to satisfy them. This is not an excessive or irregular request.

If we can’t afford to feed them, it’s because we don’t have the ability, and we can’t blame them for being greedy.”

Yu Daner sneered, "You make it sound like you've been married and have children."

"Not really, but I am with my brother and his two children, so I understand their thoughts a little bit...Okay, let's talk business, Captain. I am here today to help you."

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Yu Daner was a little confused after being tricked.

What's going on?

It seems that when you come to me in the middle of the night with something in your hand, you are either asking me to help you, or you are ready to help me.

There is such a good thing.

Why haven't I come into contact with it before?

He just stared at Yu Qiutang, waiting to see what he was going to say next.

"Look, Captain, I remember that land distribution has always been a big problem in our village, right?"

"So what?" Yu Daner was very depressed when his sore spot was touched. "What does this have to do with you?"

"Don't be impatient, just listen to me slowly.

Our team is located at the southernmost part, close to the foot of the mountain, right? There is some land there. Even if we let people plant it for free and not let the land go to waste, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find a partner, right?"

This was naturally another pain for Yu Daner.

no way.

The village is so big, and their third team is right next to the mountain.

When the land boundaries were being drawn, the experts didn't think carefully. Can those lands at the foot of the mountain be called land?
The trees absorb the water and block the sun, and the terrain is too high to retain water. It is definitely not a suitable location for farmland.

But it happened that it was included in the contracted land and belonged to their three teams.

Let him give it to someone.

The villagers are not fools, they are all capable elves. If you want to divide the land, you will have to put a gun to their heads.

If it weren't for these lands, it wouldn't have been so difficult for him to divide the land.

It is because of the problem of who will afford these lands that other lands cannot be allocated directly.

He thought about it halfway, if it didn't work, he would give him one acre of the best land and one acre of the worse land, but still no one gave him face.

So the land of several teams has been distributed, but the third team is still struggling. Villagers keep coming to the village to make trouble. The village chief gave him an ultimatum the day before yesterday, asking him to distribute the land within a week.

If you don’t change your thinking, then change people.

Let someone with greater abilities and the ability to get things done be the team leader.

He really has a lot of grievances.

Hearing Yu Qiutang say this, he felt something moving.

Even though I know that the other party is definitely not that simple and there must be some trap waiting for me, I still want to listen. Maybe there is a solution.

As long as the land can be distributed, the urgent problem can be solved.

"In that case, do you have a solution?"

Yu Qiutang shook his head and said with a smile: "I'm not sure if this is a solution, but I can help you make a sample first."

"What do you mean?"

"That is, I am willing to contract some land at the foot of the mountain."

"you……?"

Yu Daner was delighted at first, but he soon realized what was happening and his face darkened. “How can you contract the land? Your family doesn’t have any quota for land. Even your brother’s two kids already have land.”

"We can exchange our current good land for the land at the foot of the mountain..."

"Why? Is there something wrong with your brain?!"

Yu Daner was so surprised that she couldn't help but blurt out, "I remember that the land of your third brother was a good piece of land, and the lands of the other people were also good, not bad at all.

You told me that you wanted to trade the good land that everyone was fighting for for the bad land at the foot of the mountain. What were you trying to achieve? You even said you were just teasing me. Is that interesting?"

"Don't get excited," Yu Qiutang said, "I'm not that bored. If I say I'm here to help you, then it must be true."

"Okay, okay, then tell me how much you want to contract and how you want to contract. Now that there is contracted land, you are planning to pay for it yourself, right? The village hasn't said anything about opening up to private contracting yet."

"I know this. Even if there is no precedent, we can still set one. Let's not talk about this for now. Let me tell you my idea first, and then we can discuss it, okay?"

"Then... go ahead and talk. I'm listening."

"Look, you know, the land is divided into good and bad. The land to the west of the village is flat and easy to accumulate moisture, so it is definitely the best.

So tell me, if it is the same acre of land, how much difference do you think the harvest over there will be compared to the harvest at the foot of the mountain?
You have to think about it carefully. I am telling you seriously. I am not kidding. I believe you really want to contract out those bad lands.”

Yu Daner lowered his head and roughly calculated, then said hesitantly, "Probably two to three times."

"So is it more like double or triple?"

"Well...three times."

"it is good."

Yu Qiutang smiled slightly, "If that's the case, then if one acre is worth one acre, no one will want these broken plots of land, isn't that the truth?"

"Do you even need to tell me that? Everyone knows it. If someone wants it, I won't be so annoying."

"Okay, since we can reach a tacit understanding on the exchange of land, let me now put forward my idea. I now have four mu and three fen of land, of which two mu and three fen are in the west, and two mu are on the side of the big poplar tree.

My current idea is to exchange these four and a half acres of land for the eleven acres of land at the foot of the mountain..."

"What did you say, change land?!"

Yu Daner heard something she had never thought of before, and she was a little unresponsive for a moment.

"That's right. I have two and a half mu of good land. One mu of land at the foot of the mountain can be exchanged for three mu of land. That means I can get six and a half mu of land. The remaining two mu of land on the side of the big poplar tree may not be as good as the land in the west, but it is at least twice as good as the land at the foot of the mountain.

I won’t say much, just count it as double.

All in all, I will dedicate the best ones and only take the ones that are worse, but the proportion will be appropriately increased.

In this way, it is equivalent to helping you provide an idea to the villagers. If they are willing to accept the land at the foot of the mountain, they can divide the land three times...

But in fact, there are only a few dozen acres of land there, which will not affect the overall situation. You only need to take a little more land from the private plots left in the village to fill the gap."

Yu Qiutang looked at Yu Daner with a somewhat stiff look in his eyes. He knew that the other party's brain was boiling and he was temporarily unresponsive.

He laughed secretly and continued to explain:

"If you do this, you can allocate a portion of it, because there is a gap in the three-to-one ratio, and you can fill it with your own land...

If you still don't understand, let me explain it directly. It is equivalent to moving part of your private land to the foot of the mountain. Anyway, these lands are prepared for everyone to contract with money later. If you leave them at the foot of the mountain and no one contracts them, it cannot be blamed on you, right?

In this way, the land division problem will be perfectly solved. People who want good land will get less land, and people who want bad land will get more land. Each of them will take the initiative to choose, sign the contract, sign and put their fingerprints on it. When the time comes, it will be in black and white, and there will be no need to worry about anyone going back on their word.

Your mission is accomplished, isn't it?"

Yu Qiutang talked for a long time in one breath and felt his mouth was dry, so he unscrewed the can he brought with him and drank the juice in big gulps. It tasted so sweet.

(End of this chapter)