nycdaug Chapter 156 Free Gift
Chapter 156 Free Gift
As soon as Master Qian left, Qin Huaisheng quickly gathered seven or eight strong villagers in the village to repair the house where Qin Zhengde and his family used to live.
After being struck by lightning last time, those houses were damaged to varying degrees and needed to be repaired and tidied up before they could be lived in.
He also found a few skillful women to help clean and tidy up a few rooms.
Master Qian told Qin Huaisheng that the agricultural official from Ganzhou would probably stay in Changhe Village for a period of time to facilitate their future work.
After all, it is not realistic to travel back and forth to Taihe County every day, so Qin Huaisheng was asked to arrange a place for the agricultural officials to rest in advance.
After Wang Lizheng fell from power, the bad guys were arrested one after another, and many houses in the village were suddenly vacant.
After Qin Zhengde and his gang left this time, there were even more empty houses.
It is naturally not a problem to arrange accommodation for several people. It can be lived in after some repairs and tidying up.
Speaking of the empty houses in the village, Qin Huaisheng did not waste any of them.
He was also a qualified village head. After meeting with the villagers and discussing the vacant houses, he decided to make them collective property of the village.
The houses were sold openly to villagers, and the money from the sale was used for daily public expenses in Changhe Village.
Because the prices of those empty houses were not high, villagers who had some savings and did not want to spend a lot of money to build houses bought half of them one after another.
The house of the previous head of the village was sold, and the person who bought the house of Wang Lizheng was the old Yang family who drove a donkey cart.
Although Wang Li's family is basically extinct, the house is excellent, with solid materials and a spacious area.
As for bad luck and concerns, Lao Yang doesn't care at all.
What's so scary about ghosts? Poverty is scary.
His family was large and the previous house had long since become unfit for them. Other villagers did not dare to take Wang Lizheng's house, but he did.
It just so happened that Lao Yang got a bargain.
All of the sons are in their prime and full of energy. After the Yang family moved in, they still live a good life.
Some villagers regretted not having the courage to buy the house.
Qin Huaisheng naturally had some intentions behind his plan to arrange those agricultural officials into the house where Qin Zhengde and others had lived before.
Among the remaining empty houses in the village, the one occupied by Qin Zhengde's family is the best and most spacious.
Secondly, the house was right in the center of the village, not far from the experimental field for planting new crops.
Qin Huaisheng has taken every aspect into consideration.
As the head of Changhe Village, he hoped to do a good job and leave a good impression on the officials who came from afar.
It is a great honor for an agricultural official to be stationed in Changhe Village.
Over the past few decades, in Changhe Village, let alone officials, even the runners were rarely seen unless there was something special.
The arrival of the agricultural officials this time will, if there is an opportunity, allow the villagers to ask them some questions about grain planting, which is definitely a good thing.
After cleaning up the house, Qin Huaisheng gathered all the villagers and announced the news.
At the same time, he also took this opportunity to warn the villagers, telling them to be careful about their daily words and deeds and not to bring shame to Changhe Village.
When the villagers heard that the agricultural official had come all the way from Ganzhou to see the new crops discovered by the Qin family, they were very excited.
It was not until this time that the villagers realized that the two acres of new crops planted by the Qin family were actually new crops that could be used as food.
Food is the lifeblood of farmers!
The agricultural official is about to arrive, which means that the new crop is already a sure thing.
When it comes to taking advantage of others, it turns out that the Zhou family is the one that gets the most attention.
The Zhou family, which had the best relationship with the Qin family, had already planted several acres of land with the seeds of those new crops after the New Year.
The fruit trees planted in the Qin family's orchard were also planted by the Zhou family.
When the villagers saw the unfamiliar seedlings in the fields, they asked curiously, but they never got a clear answer.
Now we know that these are seedlings of new crops that the Qin family got.
They all regretted for a moment, wondering why they had not established a good relationship with the Qin family like the Zhou family did.
At this time, the villagers surrounded Qin Huaisheng tightly, and now they had only one goal.
There is hope that Qin Huaisheng, the head of Changhe Village, can come forward to discuss with the Qin family and ask if they can share some seedlings so that they can plant some for their own family.
Of course, the seedlings are not free, the villagers said they would pay for them.
Villagers deal with crops all year round and are all farmers, so they naturally know how precious grain seeds are.
I have been farming for my whole life, and there are only a few kinds of staple food in the Great Sheng Dynasty. Every year I serve them like I am serving my ancestors, but the harvest is still not optimistic.
I just heard Qin Lizheng say that this new crop has a high probability of high yield, and everything is suddenly messed up.
Who wouldn’t want to grow crops that have the potential to be high-yielding?
The Qin family is really capable, they can even find such good things.
People who are blessed by gods are different. No wonder the Qin family became rich. This is what the villagers think.
Qin Huaisheng first asked the villagers to calm down, and then directed the tribesmen to take out a small bag of sweet potatoes to show the villagers.
Tell the villagers that these are the new crops they want to grow, and they can be eaten raw, steamed, boiled, or roasted in many ways.
The voices of the villagers, which had just quieted down, suddenly rang out again.
Is there anything more shocking than seeing it with your own eyes?
Qin Huaisheng and other villagers lowered their voices in discussion, and then told them that the Qin family had already made arrangements for the seedlings of this new crop.
Qin Huaisheng distributed a portion of sweet potato seedlings to every household in Changhe Village free of charge according to the list of villagers in Changhe Village.
Although the number is small, it can be used to plant several ridges of land.
The villagers were almost overwhelmed by this sudden good news.
I didn't expect the Qin family to be so generous and give away seedlings to the villagers for free, and they didn't even mention the money.
"I still say the same thing. The Qin family is willing to donate the seedlings of new crops for free. That's because they are kind and righteous. Since they are new crops, everything is possible. Folks, no matter what the results are after you plant them, you will have to bear them yourself. Even if there is really no harvest, it cannot be blamed on the Qin family."
"They have good intentions, and they just want the villagers to live a better life. You must not be ungrateful. These seedlings are hard to come by. If you want to try to grow them, come and sign up with me first. You must plant the seedlings well after receiving them. If I find that you have received the seedlings but don't plant them carefully, I'm sorry. In the future, you will not be able to pass the Qin family's test, and I will investigate you one by one."
Qin Huaisheng frowned and seriously knocked on the villager in front of him.
Most of the villagers could understand what Qin Huaisheng said. The Qin family's willingness to donate seedlings for free was already a pleasant surprise.
That was the blessing that Qin Ruo brought to Changhe Village.
In the past, they could only grow traditional crops year after year, with limited harvests and a hard life.
Having new crops means having new hope for life.
The villagers nodded in agreement, but a small number of them backed out.
Although it was donated free of charge, this thing has never been planted before. Even if the yield of the staple food planted in the past was low, some money can be recovered.
If this thing is really planted and there is no harvest, not only will the land be wasted, but the labor will also be in vain.
In the end, there were only seven or eight households that did not register to receive their benefits.
At the same time, there are also those villagers who did not participate in the cultivation of medicinal herbs.