Rebirth Farmer Yaomei

Chapter 56
According to Ning Wan's later calculations, even if the newly purchased fields of Hu Dunru did not produce any harvests every year, his losses would not be much.In a small mountain village, the amount of grain on a few acres of real estate is limited, and the money to sell the grain is naturally small, and Hu Dunru doesn't have to pay taxes after being selected as a scholar.

At that time, more than half of the land of the Ning family's big house had already been sold one after another. The one sold to Hu Dunru was the one at the foot of the mountain. Later, due to years of water accumulation, a small pool was formed there.After the formation of this water pool, it happened to store water during floods and divert water during droughts, which could alleviate the natural disasters in Hujia Village and Sanjia Village.And the several acres of land next to the pond, the harvest is even higher than when the Ning family planted it before.

Later, Hu Dunru won the election, and his deeds were also praised by people. Many people said that good intentions are rewarded with good rewards. Because of this, he won the favor of Qian County Magistrate, and wrote this matter in the official document and reported it to the court. The imperial court issued a letter to praise the Quartet.Hu Dunru's official position was not high after being promoted, and he was not an official for a long time. He soon returned to Mayi Town to take over Mr. Xu's private school in Mayi Town, and held winter schools every slack time to teach farm children to read and write. , the reputation is growing.

Although some people say that Hu Dunru is trying to gain fame, Ning Wan, who was born in Sanjia Village, really admires him. Even if Hu Dunru is trying to gain fame, he has done a great thing for Hujia Village and Sanjia Village after all. of it?Back then, she also donated money and food to Dong Xueli on behalf of the Zhao family.

Right now, Ning Wan insists on coming to Hu's Village to discuss with her father, not so much to discuss with Village Chief Hu, but actually pins her hopes on Hu Dunru, and Hu Dunru really stands up and speaks out to help.

Compared with Sanjia Village, which has three surnames, all the people in Hujia Village belong to the same family, so they care more about seniority than Sanjia Village. Hu Dunru is not qualified to speak at his age, but he is the only scholar in the village after all. different.

If Hu Dunru's words had been spoken by his elder brothers, Village Chief Hu would have scolded them immediately, but for his youngest son who had read a lot of books, he pondered for a while, and then said to Ning Liang and Ning Wan: "If you follow me, In other words, what should we do now? What should we do when there is a drought?”

Although Ning Wan wanted to discuss with Hujiacun before coming, but in fact she didn't have a good idea.God gave the two villages different terrains, and they were flooded and droughted from time to time. How can people change it?
It is Hu Dunru, who is known as a sage and capable man. He saw the tragic situation when the two villages fought with his own eyes, and he was determined to solve the century-old feud, but there was no good way. Instead, he bought his own land and led the natural disaster there. It was only then that the situation was solved.At present, she can't give up her own land right now, even if she is willing, but father and mother will not nod.

So she heard her father say: "You take down the soil baskets, and you are not allowed to build water barriers when the water comes out again in the future, so that the water can flow down as soon as possible; and when there is a drought, our two villages will share the mountain and stream water equally."

Village head Hu's eyes lit up, and he immediately objected: "It's not fair to divide the mountain and stream water equally during a drought. The land in our village is more than twice that of yours. We will suffer if we divide the water equally."

Although Village Chief Hu is shrewd, Ningliang has also planted crops for many years, and he knows the situation of Sanjia Village in Hujia Village very well, so he immediately refuted: "If Village Chief Hu insists that you will suffer from the equal share of the stream, then drain the water At that time, the terrain of Hujia Village was high and most of the water flowed into Sanjia Village, so we were at a disadvantage!"

"As long as we don't block the water to your side, it's fair!"

"Then it's fair to give you half of the water!"

Seeing that both of them stood up, and their voices became louder and louder, Ning Wan quickly grabbed her father, "We didn't come to quarrel."

Hu Dunru had already stood in front of Village Chief Hu, and said at this time: "Let's discuss it carefully, it's useless to argue."

Ning Liang and Village Chief Hu glanced at each other, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed. As fathers, they were not as calm and self-restraining as children, so they each took a step back and sat down again.

At this time, Village Chief Hu's wife came in with two bowls of tea, and Hu Dunru stepped forward to take a bowl of tea and presented it respectfully to Ning Liang, which relieved most of Ning Liang's anger. He took the tea and smiled at Village Chief Hu. Said: "The village head Hu really made the decision to raise such a good son."

Who doesn't know that reading is the most expensive thing?Although Village Chief Hu's family has more land and lives better, it is still very difficult to support a scholar with a farm in a mountain village.Just looking at the clothes and household supplies of Village Chief Hu and his wife are the same as those of the original Ning family, one can tell that they are extremely frugal on weekdays.

But if you support and cultivate a scholar, you only need to be admitted to the lowest rank of the scholar, and the benefits you get are also extraordinary. The most affordable thing is that all the taxes and corvees in the family will be exempted, not to mention the face, a scholar You don't even have to worship the county magistrate.

Village head Hu always thought that the wisest decision in his life was to send his youngest son to study. Now that he heard people from Sanjia Village praise him, he couldn't help but smile so much that he narrowed his eyes, and said very modestly, "Where is that?" Why, he just knows a few words and reads a few books!" But the complacency in his voice was like bubbles popping up one after another in boiling water, which couldn't be suppressed.

When Ning Liangan saw such a gentle and gentle person as Hu Dunru, he naturally liked him, and he liked it even more when he helped him speak, so he asked him casually, "What can Mr. Xiao do?"

Hu Dunru took it seriously, "Let me think about it." Sure enough, he lowered his head and thought about it.

Ning Wan also took the tea from Aunt Hu at this time, her body was more than half wet, although it was summer, but she was a little chilly, so she ate the hot tea, and her body warmed up a lot .

After delivering the tea, Aunt Hu took Ning Wan's hand and said, "Miss Ning, come sit with me in the room over there for a while."

If you go to other people's house on weekdays, the man and the woman are naturally not in the same room.But today is different, Ning Wan is here with her father to discuss matters, so she only thinks of herself as a boy, just like in the dream before, she has no brothers and she has to take care of everything by herself.So she shook her head, "I still want to accompany my father."

Aunt Hu didn't leave either, and asked her in a low voice, "I just heard that you agreed to accept the wild vegetables picked by our Hujia Village?"

"Yes," Ning Wan nodded. It seems that she still underestimated the attraction of harvesting wild vegetables to the people of Hujia Village. Maybe because of this reason, their negotiation will be easier today?He smiled more affectionately and said: "If you have any, please send it to me, and it will be the same price as Sanjia Village."

Aunt Hu asked in detail, "What do you charge at home? How much is a catty?"

Ning Wan answered with a smile one by one, but kept watching Hu Dunru attentively. Seeing him silent for a while, she suddenly raised her head and said, "Our two villages have different terrains, so there is a dispute over water. fair."

"Also, I think that in the year of severe flood, if the river is rampant, the water situation in Sanjia Village can be relieved a little, but it will not help the situation. As for the year of severe drought, the mountain stream has less water, and even if Hujia Village distributes more water, it will not help. .”

"How about this, every year when Hujia Village needs to build dikes and waterproof, it will distribute [-]% of the harvest per mu to Sanjia Village; on the contrary, when Sanjia Village diverts mountains and streams, it will also distribute [-]% of the harvest per mu to Hujia Village , so that the two villages will not be starved of food in the most difficult years. As for normal years, everyone farms their own fields and harvests by themselves."

Such a way?
Ning Wan thought that Hu Dunru would buy her own land as in her dream, but she didn't want him to have another idea.This idea may sound naive at first glance, but the more you think about it, the more it makes sense.

The reason why Hu Dunru can become the person favored by Qian County Magistrate in the future, and also has a very high reputation in Mayi Town, is really talented.What's more valuable is that when he thought of a way, he didn't regard himself as a member of the Hujia Village at all, but stood on a higher position, placing Sanjia Village and Hujia Village on the same footing, taking advantage of one side to make up for the other's shortcomings ,vice versa.

Only in this way can the method be accepted by everyone.

And if you accept it sincerely, you can really implement it—in fact, it’s not that difficult. There are very few years of severe drought and flood. Not too difficult.

But there is another problem, that is, after all, Hujia Village has more land, while Sanjia Village has less land. If they all get [-]% of the harvest, Sanjia Village will take advantage of it.But how could the shrewd village head Hu not mention it, "In this case, our Hu family village will lose out if we have more people and more land."

Hu Dunru said firmly: "It is precisely because of the large number of people in our village that we have to suffer."

Everyone was discussing together, fearing that they would suffer losses, but Hu Dunru did the opposite, which moved Ning Liang and his daughter beyond words. Before Village Chief Hu said anything, Ning Liang brought it up. "Everyone's life is not easy. We must not let Hujia Village suffer. It is better to be fair."

Hu Dunru then said: "In that case, the two villages will set a certain amount of grain. If Hujia Village stops the water in the fields of Sanjia Village when the water is distributed, it will compensate for the grain. When the drought occurs, Sanjia Village will also compensate Hujia Village in the same way The food obtained by the two villages will be distributed to everyone in their respective villages.”

If this rule is set, it will actually be a good thing for the people in the two villages. Natural disasters are inevitable. If there is a small guarantee that is exactly the opposite of that in my own village, it will actually be very reassuring. When it's cheap, it's not too much to pay for some food.

After all, it was Hu Dunru, the youngest son that Village Chief Hu cared most about, who made the suggestion, so he had already made a half-promise in his heart.

And Ning Liang also thinks this suggestion is good. Although Hujia Village has more people and more land, each family gets less food when it is distributed, but Sanjia Village has fewer people and less land, and each family gets more when it distributes food!

The two thought about it again, and no one could find anything wrong, so Ning Liang said: "I'll go back to the village right now, discuss with everyone and come back to talk."

Village Chief Hu nodded and said, "If you agree, we will remove the soil baskets first this time, and the current situation is even worse than waterlogging."

According to Hu Dunru, no matter which side of the two villages is involved, as long as they take measures to compete for water, they will be responsible for compensating for food. Therefore, village head Hu immediately took the initiative to remove my soil basket that caused disputes between the two villages.

In fact, the water situation this year is not yet flooding. It is only because of the early actions of Hujia Village that the floods occurred in Sanjia Village. If they remove the soil baskets, the water situation in Sanjia Village will be relieved. Wait until tomorrow Once the rain stops, the crops will not be damaged at all.

Now that the discussion was made, Ning Wan and her father left Hujia Village. Just after crossing the mountain stream, they saw a group of people from Sanjia Village approaching fiercely carrying hoes and shovels. They hurried forward to stop them, "Go back to our house first, we I have something to say."

Letting the villagers back to the house, Mrs. Yu also woke up from the shock. Her husband was talking to everyone in the house. Are you going to fight?"

Ning Wan hurriedly comforted her, "Father and I just went to Hu's Village, and we made an agreement with their village chief that the two sides will not fight in the future, and now we are going to tell the villagers, mother, just rest assured."

Only then did Yu feel relieved, but complained to Ning Wan, "Your father went to Hujia Village, why did you follow him, and you got soaked like this!" Then he pushed Ning Wan, "Go back to the house and change into dry clothes, and I will cook Tea."

(End of this chapter)