newbobooks Chapter 874 You Have to Return It to Me
Chapter 874 You Have to Return It to Me
Zhou Guo held the document and said with a smile: "Where are these lands? You have to take me to see them. They will all be mine for the next year."
Mr. Wu really took her there. Two thousand acres of land was not a lot, but both acres were top-quality land, and such good land was not available in every place.
Fortunately, there is a solution.
Zhou Guo looked at the large piece of land, which was flat and covered with wheat stubble. He was envious and said greedily, "This piece of land is really big!"
He grabbed a handful of soil under his feet and said, "It's so fertile!"
Seeing her expression, Master Wu was afraid that he would throw meat buns at a dog and never come back, so he reminded her: "I'm lending it to you for only one year. You have to return it to me after the autumn harvest next year!"
Zhou Guo said perfunctorily: "I will return it to you. I will definitely return it to you. I am not a bandit, so why would I not return it to you?"
As he was talking, someone came up and said, "Boss, is this land really ours? We finally have such a large piece of land. It's much larger than the land we have on the mountain!!"
Zhou Guo smiled and nodded, "Yes, you plant well!"
The man went down excitedly to look at the land. It was so flat and fertile!
Well, this is a man who loves farming. Seeing how much he loves farming, Zhou Guo specially transferred him here to be the head of the farming village. For farming this year, she must use her own people.
Mr. Wu: “…”
After a while, he asked tremblingly: "He, he, he, what did he call you just now? And, what mountain? What mountain is that?"
"Huh?" Before Zhou Guo could react, he turned around and saw that Mr. Wu looked like he was about to faint.
She explained: "...No, you heard it wrong. I am the head of my family and the eldest of them, so they all like to call me the big boss. The reason for that is that a lot of our land is on the mountain."
Master Wu pointed at her and said bitterly, "You, you, you, why are you stuttering?"
Zhou Guo said confidently: "That's all because of you. How could I stutter if you didn't? You're affecting me!"
Master Wu stamped his feet in anger, "The saints are right, only women and villains are difficult to raise."
Zhou Guo rolled his eyes, "Girls are hard to raise? Weren't you raised by your mother? If children are so hard to raise, why didn't your mother say that only children are hard to raise? Besides, I wasn't raised by you, so don't flatter yourself. If I was born in your family, who knows who would raise whom?"
Mr. Wu choked and was speechless. Although he was very angry, he thought about it and found that there was some truth in it.
Looking at the land, he asked worriedly, "You're only going to plant it for one year, right? It won't become yours after a while, will it?"
Zhou Guo looked at him with amusement, "What a fool you are! It's just over 2,000 acres of land. Your Wu family is at least well-known in the North. These 2,000 acres of land is at most a large farm. Even if it's really gone, so what? You're so worried about gains and losses, which doesn't match your status."
Master Wu said, "How can that be possible? This is two thousand acres of top-quality land. It's hard to find land like this. You have to return it to me. It's not easy for my family to get it."
Zhou Guo waved his hands impatiently and said, "I know, I know. You've said it so many times that I don't want to take yours. Although I don't have much land, I won't rob it. I will return it to you. When have I ever broken my promise?"
"That's true." Master Wu felt relieved. As long as they didn't want to seize the land by force, it would be fine. It was just one year, and there were only 80,000 to 90,000 shi of grain. He could get 1,000 acres of new grain seeds, which really saved him a year's effort and earned him much more than the two thousand acres.
The two sides reached a very pleasant cooperation.
Zhou Guo pointed at the servants on his farm and said, "Take these people away. There can't be two groups of people on one farm."
Mr. Wu was more than happy to do so, but he only wanted to lend the land and not the people.
When the people from the Wu family come out, the manor will be truly empty.
Zhou Guo looked at the small farm and asked, "Why is there no one in this farm? Where are the farmers?"
Mr. Wu said, "There are no farmers. This piece of land is flat and in a good location. It is also top-quality land. I did not rent it out to any farmers. I hired permanent and temporary workers to do the work. It is not easy to find permanent workers here."
Zhou Guo nodded. This was a good idea. She had rented the land herself. If she rented it to tenants, she would make no money at all.
We have a head of the village, but we are still short of a farmhand.
But she lacks everything except people.
There are so many villages in Chengding and a lot of refugees.
After parting with Master Wu, he instructed Hu Zi: "I rented these lands from Master Wu for a year. You should transfer some of your own people to manage the farm. After the spring of next year, the farm will have to ferment fertilizer on its own. Two thousand acres of land is not small. It's too late to leave Chengding. Let them ferment fertilizer on their own.
Two thousand acres of land is not a lot, so we don’t need many people. We are also transferring some long-term workers. The salty and bitter land will only start to be cultivated next year, so we will temporarily transfer half of the workers here. There will be some work to do on this land in the spring next year.”
Hu Zi responded happily, looking at the large piece of land and said, "Master, this piece of land is really good, fertile, flat and large. Can't we ask Master Wu to buy it? We don't have a decent piece of land at home."
It's not that we don't have a decent piece of land, but the few acres in the village are almost nothing. With so many people in the family, we can't even have enough food to eat in a year with just that little.
The salty and bitter land is wide, but it is a salty and bitter land after all. Who would be interested in it?
After planting for a year, you can’t even harvest the seeds, it’s the same as having nothing.
Zhou Guo stroked his chin and said, "I do want to, but Mr. Wu regards this piece of land as his eyeball. If I really say this, he will definitely turn against me. Forget about it. Let's just focus on improving our own land. Our own land is much bigger than this one after improvement."
The salty and bitter lands in her hands, the largest one is over 400 hectares, the smallest one is 80 to 90 hectares, and the dozen or so pieces of land added up to about 2,000 to 3,000 hectares. Although it cannot be compared with that of the Wu family, it is not far behind.
Besides, the rice she has has a higher yield than wheat, so her annual harvest may not be less than that of the Wu family.
Then they will be the ones to envy her.
The government has begun to renovate all the remaining salty and bitter lands in the entire north. The people who are doing the renovation are refugees from the south. Once these lands are renovated, they will be distributed to the refugees for them to settle down.
It is absolutely impossible for wealthy families to get a piece of the pie.
Hu Zi nodded and said, "Yes, anyway, those plots of land in Song County will be able to grow crops next year, and they will be almost full the year after. We don't lack fertilizer or anything else. In a few years, those plots of land will be no worse than these plots of land."
Er Pang still didn't understand, "Master, our family has so much land, why do we have to rent the Wu family's land?"
Zhou Guo said: "Of course it's for growing wheat."
She couldn't ask the farmers down below to grow the wheat that Wang Jiaxin gave her, right?
The farmers don’t have much land to begin with, and one or two acres of land is related to their family’s food supply for a year. If she can’t harvest a single grain, how much grain will she have to lose?