Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 220
On the rice field at the entrance of the village, Zhang Shouxin led the opera troupe to sing hard.

The villagers in the audience were eating melon seeds and peanuts, watching with relish.

From time to time, villagers would take out dime coins from their pockets and throw them on the stage. Some villagers threw vegetables on the stage, and some villagers even went too far by tying up live chickens and throwing them on the stage.

This is not an insult to the actors, but a traditional custom in the forest area. If the opera troupe sings well and sings well, the folks who listen to the opera will reward them.

Caogou Village is an impoverished village, and all the money was thrown on the stage. In some rich villages, the villagers directly threw red pages and boxes of wine. I heard that someone even threw a live pig on the stage.

Big money and small money are all money, and big gifts and small gifts are all gifts.

Zhang Shouxin doesn't mind if the money is more or less, because this is the recognition of the troupe. Whenever someone loses money or offers a reward, he will come out from behind the scenes, pick up things, smile and say thanks.

The queen and his party walked into the rice field, and saw Wu Yaya villagers listening to the opera attentively, and saw someone throwing things on the stage, which was very interesting.

He got the custom of throwing things as rewards from the villagers. In order to get acquainted with the villagers, Fatty Ma took out a few hundred dollars and threw them on the stage.

That's a red page!
Zhang Shouxin picked up the money excitedly, smiled like a flower, and bowed his hands to thank him.

As for the villagers, they showed disdain.

If you have money to compare with Uncle Hongbing, what are you doing here.

Throwing money and throwing backfired, which made several people very bored. They left the rice field in embarrassment and walked under the persimmon tree. Several villagers squatted on the ground smoking and chatting.

Fatty Ma's face brightened, he took out a cigarette and moved towards him.

"My fellow, you're smoking!"

Li Daquan raised his head and glanced at Fatty Ma, and choked back, "This is not nonsense, don't smoke and wait to die!"

"Shulin, look at that woman, she looks really rare." Liu Changjun poked Li Shulin beside him.

Li Shulin was still sulking at Li Daquan, looking up listlessly.

In an instant, the whole person froze.

Others also looked over.

I have to say that the queen is like a fairy in the eyes of them, regardless of her appearance or figure, and she has never dreamed of such a rare woman.

Liu Changjun's huff even trickled down from the corner of his mouth.

The queen looked at the four of them in disgust, then turned her head and pulled Xu Dalang away.

Fatty Ma and Hou San chuckled, it's too easy to get clichés from this kind of people.

He took out a few packets of Huazi and handed them to several people.

"Fellow, try this smoke."

Hey!
Hua Zi.

Li Daquan's eyes lit up, and Li Hongqi got a few packs of Huazi from Li Hongbing, and he didn't smoke all day long, just to brag about them in front of them.

Now Grandpa has it too.

He reached for the cigarette and stuffed it into his pocket.

The other three were also polite, and each took a pack of cigarettes.

Li Daquan asked curiously, "Just saw you throwing money on the stage, big boss?"

"There, earn some money." Fatty Ma happily patted Hou San next to him, "This is my younger brother, and he accompanied his friends to the village to look for Dr. Li."

Looking for Li Hongbing?

Seeing Hou San's thin body, Liu Siping said, "Go to Li Hongbing to see a doctor. Then you came at a bad time. He only sees the doctor on Wednesdays."

Oh!
Judging from the tone of voice, these four people have grievances with Dr. Li.

Fatty Ma and Hou San have never met anyone before, and they can tell how deep each other is in a few words, except for Dr. Li.

If you have grievances, you can hear the truth.

Hou San deliberately pretended not to understand, "Is it expensive to see a doctor?"

laugh!
Li Daquan and the others sneered at the same time, and Liu Changjun thought it was for free cigarettes, "It's expensive, you don't charge for medical treatment, and you pay for it. I heard that a few days ago, I saved a child who was almost burned to death. Wild ginseng worth tens of thousands of dollars It’s useless, what a big donkey.”

"If you don't charge money, what will he eat and drink?" Fatty Ma pretended to be surprised.

What to eat!

Li Daquan sneered, pointing to the terraced fields outside the entrance of the village, "He is a big landlord now, and he has contracted out all the land in the village, what kind of vegetables he grows, and hired a bunch of old women to work for him. In this way, pull off the hat in minutes."

Land contract!

Grow vegetables!
Fatty Ma and Hou San glanced at each other secretly, seeing surprises in each other's eyes.

It seems to be taken out!
As Dr. Luo said, the soil in this village is good.

Fatty Ma hurriedly took out a few more packets of Huazi and handed them to Li Daquan and the others, and asked casually, "How much is this kind of vegetable worth? It's a few cents a catty outside, so it's not bad!"

Hey!
The four village slippers showed sly smiles, took Hua Zi, and looked up and down Fatty Ma and Hou San.

"You are asking about how Li Hongbing earns money!"

Oh!
With an embarrassing smile, Fatty Ma took out the lighter and lit a cigarette for Li Daquan, "To be honest, I really mean it, but if you are afraid of offending Dr. Li, just pretend I didn't ask and chat with a friend. "

"We're afraid that he'll ask for something. He's a big deal, isn't it?" Liu Siping cursed in a low voice.

"Shut up." Li Daquan glared, blocked Liu Siping's words, looked left and right, pointed to the weir pond below the slope, "There are many people here, if you want to change the place, let's go first."

Fatty Ma nodded knowingly, got up and led Hou San towards the Yantang.

Wait until the two are far away.

Li Shulin frowned, "Daquan, do you know how Li Hongbing makes money?"

"I know a request, but I know these two are the God of Wealth. I didn't see that I just threw a few hundred dollars on the stage without blinking." Li Daquan spat on the ground and narrowed his eyes.

"I don't know if I can ask you! They will give you the money. Say it first, I won't refund the cigarettes." Liu Siping pouted, and hurriedly stuffed the two packs of Huazi he had received into his trouser pocket.

"As cowardly as you are, you won't be able to eat four dishes until you die." Li Daquan, as the dog-headed military adviser among the four, "I don't know how to make it up. The fat man asked about Li Hongbing's land farming, so he probably fell in love with him." The land in the village also wants to have a hand."

Oh!
The remaining three nodded thoughtfully.

Li Daquan thought of something, and urged again. "Remember later, look at me later, just say it's good, don't say bad, say what's good, if you don't keep it all, you can get some money to spend."

By the weir pond.

The dense reeds are like a wall, blocking most eyes.

Fatty Ma and Hou San were also whispering.

"Fatty, I don't think these four people are reliable!"

"It's okay if you're not reliable. You've negotiated a contract with the queen. My project hasn't been settled yet. I didn't see people in the village seeing us as anti-thieves. We finally met Li Hongbing's opponent. It's good to ask about the situation." .”

"Anyway, take it easy, don't annoy Li Hongbing!"

As they spoke, Li Daquan walked over with three steps and three shakes, and the two of them immediately shut their mouths.

"Siping, go and watch on the slope, and cough twice if anyone comes."

"Understood!" Liu Siping stayed where he was.

Fatty Ma smiled, put on a harmless expression, went up to meet him and was about to speak, when Li Daquan raised his hand and said bluntly.

"Don't get involved. You want to know how Li Hongbing earns money. If you know, we will tell you. If you don't know, we can't do anything. Give 2000 yuan, and we will say anything."

"Fresh, I like to be friends with people like you." Fatty Ma took out his wallet, counted 20 pieces of money from a thick stack, and handed them over.

Made, the price is lowered!

Li Daquan felt remorse in his heart, reluctantly took the money, "What do you want to ask?"

After pondering for a moment, Fatty Ma asked the first question.

"How long has Dr. Li been back to the village?"

"It's probably March, isn't it!" Li Daquan thought for a while, then turned to look at Li Shulin and Liu Changjun.

"When did the vegetables start to grow?"

"Well, it's almost February. Changjun, you cleared the canals of Li's old house. Will Li Hongbing grow vegetables at home?" Li Daquan turned to look at Liu Changjun.

"Planted, then I heard Li Hongbing casually say that the vegetable seedlings were bought from the town." Liu Changjun nodded for confirmation.

"But why did I hear people say that this dish was cultivated by Dr. Li with herbs." Fatty Ma asked curiously.

At that time, after Xu Dalang bought a batch of vegetables from Li Hongbing, please eat them together and wait for the members of the dead group to taste them together. He also boasted that the vegetables were cultivated with various precious medicinal materials.

It does not appear to be the case.

"Cultivating a few hairs is fooling you outsiders. I have been planting for decades, and I have never heard that vegetables can be cultivated with medicinal materials. Have you heard of it?"

Li Daquan spit out a mouthful of old phlegm on the ground, and looked back at his two partners.

"No."

"Never heard of it."

Li Shulin and Liu Changjun shook their heads in cooperation. This is true. Although they are lazy and idle in the village, the title of peasant is well deserved, and it is true that they have never heard of using herbs to grow vegetables, and there have never been even rumors.

suddenly.

Fatty Ma checked it out and asked suddenly.

"How about the land in your village?"

"Okay! It's better to wait and see." Li Daquan had expected this question early, and blurted out without hesitation. He was afraid that the big boss would not believe it, and then said, "Boss, let me tell you that when there was chaos in the war, our village's ancestors ran away." There is a reason why we only choose this place so far away, it is because the land is good, and everything grows in the ground."

"No, our Yuanbao Mountain used to be called General Mountain. I heard that the emperor gave it to a general because of good geomantic omen and good soil. The general was buried under this mountain after his death." Liu Changjun hurriedly added.

Fatty Ma asked suspiciously, "Then why don't you grow it? You still want to rent it to Li Hongbing."

Li Daquan quickly denied, "Hey! Food doesn't make money, and moving bricks into the city is better than farming. However, the four of us don't rent the land. Li Hongbing has always wanted to rent it, so we said nothing."

"You also have land, can you show me?" Fatty Ma asked happily, and took out a few hundred dollars by the way.

Li Daquan was dumbfounded, and he talked so much that he looked at the land, the weeds in his own land were one meter deep.

But if you don't want the money you get, that's really intolerable.

Relentless, he took the money and said to Li Shulin, "Shulin, take the boss to your house."

Ah!
The rotten land of my house.

A few days ago, I dug treasures in the middle of the night and turned over the ground, and now the lala seedlings are almost growing into straw sheds.

The boss can't scold the dead after watching it.

But after the money was collected, Li Shulin could only bite the bullet and lead someone to his terraced fields.

Seeing the wanton vines growing in the field, Li Daquan and the others panicked. Their preparations were not right, so they immediately turned around and ran away, went to the town for a few days, and returned to the village after the boss left.

Fatty Ma stared at Tian for a while.

"This place is really good!!"

"I didn't run right, what did he say? Good place?" Li Daquan turned around halfway, and when he heard the second half of the sentence, he turned his head back again, lost his balance, bumped into a ball with the other three villagers, and rolled into the ditch .

When the four of them climbed up from the ditch in disgrace, the big boss pulled Li Daquan with a happy face.

"My fellow, it's exactly as you said. Everything grows in this land. Seeing how the grass grows like this, it's no wonder that the vegetables grown are delicious."

Ah!
The four of Li Daquan looked at the big boss with strange eyes.

Is he really stupid or pretending to be stupid.

Is this considered a good place?
The facts are so, Fatty Ma and Hou San know people well, and they are absolutely masters at clubbing and flirting with girls, but farming is really a professional crossover for rich second generations like them. It must be better too.

"Fellow townspeople, you said that your land was not rented to Li Hongbing, why?"

Li Daquan's eyes lit up, and he immediately thought of something, put on an angry look, clenched his fists, and said with red eyes.

"That Li Hongbing suppressed the price too hard. He only paid 600 yuan a year as a contract fee for such a good land. He relied on being a village tyrant and forced the villagers to sign the contract. He only paid 1000 yuan a month for farming. Agreed, Li Hongbing asked the villagers to isolate us, you just saw it, and I was not allowed to listen to the play."

Dr. Li is so unbearable?

In front of several of them, he looked gentle and refined.

However, Fatty Ma immediately felt relieved.

In their circle, they have been used to bullying the high and stepping down the low, and intrigues. Looking back at the style of the queen and Li Hongbing when they signed the contract, it is not surprising that there are two skins.

Then speak your mind directly.

"I'm going to rent your land. Li Hongbing will pay you 600 yuan per mu. How about it! I will pay 2000 yuan a year, and I also need to hire workers to farm the land. How about 2000 yuan for a month?"

The rent for one mu of land is 2000 yuan.

The monthly salary is 2000 yuan.

Be nice!

I'm going to get rich!

Li Daquan and the other three were shocked at first, then the corners of their mouths rose, they jumped up high, and then fell down again. They were so excited that they couldn't speak.

Immediately afterwards, Fatty Ma uttered another shocking word.

"If you can take back the land of other villagers and sublease it to me, the conditions are the same. If it involves breach of contract, I will handle it. If you can get back an acre of land, I will give 200 yuan as a commission and bring back a worker. I'll give you 100 yuan as a commission."

"Fatty!" Hou Sanyue heard more and more wrong, frowned and interrupted, pulled Fatty Ma aside, and said angrily in a low voice, "We are all friends, do you know what you are doing? Do you know the consequences of doing so?"

Fatty Ma smiled slightly.

"Friends belong to friends, business belongs to business. In the capital market, the highest price wins. We have not always played like this. And I don't think there is any problem. I will personally apologize to Dr. Li."

"You're crazy!" Hou San's eyes widened, not knowing what to say.

Now I just want to leave here, find the queen and Xu Dalang, tell them about this, and at the same time, prepare for Li Hongbing to turn his face.

Fatty Ma ignored Hou San's emotions, and asked Li Daquan cheerfully.

"Brother Daquan, do you know where the village chief Li Huaizhong lives? I want to pay a visit in person."

(End of this chapter)