Chapter 196 Selling Land
Fan Damu considered himself to be a government official, so he should be different from these idiots.
From now on, they will be the only ones asking for help, but they won't be able to help themselves at all.
Especially when he built a thatched house before, none of these people came to help him. He kept it in mind that they wouldn't expect anything from him in the future!
Thinking of something, he added: "Let me make it clear first, I will never sell it to Fan Jin's family."
That family member is not kind to him. He just wants his things back, so he will never cooperate with him.
Unexpectedly, things have changed, and now he is backed by Magistrate Wu, and he is already someone they can't reach.
Xu Laosan, who was scolded innocently, raised his hands timidly and asked weakly: "But if you don't sell it to Fan Jin's family, who else in our village can afford to buy your fields and forests?"
"Yes, go and look at the paddy fields. All the upper fertile soil has been washed away, leaving only the bottom layer of hard soil."
"Your mother was still crying yesterday morning. The fertile farmland has become sub-field. No, the sub-field is not as good as it is. I don't know how many years it will take to raise it back. Who will buy it?"
"Now that there is a flood, the harvest from the fields will be confiscated. The government and the court have not said about tax reductions or relief grains. Let alone our village, even people from other villages cannot buy fields at this time, right?"
There was a lot of noise, and people in the yard started discussing.
Don't say they don't have any money saved. Even if they have money, they definitely won't use it to buy land at this time!
Fan Damu was stunned.
When he came back, he saw the situation in the paddy fields on both sides of the road. At that time, he was only full of pride, proud of his decisiveness and wiseness in finding a way out.
I'm even more secretly happy that everyone else in the village has to suffer, and life is miserable.
He forgot about this.
He looked at the old village chief under the eaves, put away his previous arrogance, and asked: "Old village chief, you know my land. It is well located near the water source. Although there is only one mountain forest, it is flat and covers a large area. Buying it is Isn’t it cost-effective to pick up mushrooms and exchange them for rice?”
Wang Guifen glanced at her father-in-law, knowing that he had something hard to say at this time, so she took it and said with a sad face: "Last year was a year of good weather and good harvest, and the Bai family was willing to trade rice for mushrooms. Who would trade rice in this situation now? I'm afraid I won't be able to exchange it for anything in the future.
Our family's fields and forests are barely enough to manage. No matter how much we have, we don't have any animals. How about exhausting people to death? Besides, our family doesn’t have any money left to buy land. "
The family had more than thirty taels of silver saved, but when Chang Lin wanted to study and read, he had to pay for everything including paper, inkstones, pens, and ink, as well as Master's bundles.
Second, if a member of the family suffers from headaches, fever, and discomfort, especially if the father-in-law is old, the money must be set aside, otherwise who can borrow it from?
The complacency that Fan Damu felt when he first walked in completely dissipated.
This was something he didn't expect.
In the past, as long as people in the village saved a sum of money, they would think about buying a field. If they didn't want to open up a piece of land for farming, everyone would attach great importance to the field.
It can be said that there is no need to worry about selling the land.
Li Wen advised: "Why don't you sell it? In the future, if you pay the money to redeem the baby, you will have a place to come back to, right? It can also be used as a retreat."
Fan Damu glared at Li Wen fiercely and said coldly: "Are you cursing me for not doing well in the master's house?".
He heard yesterday that overt robberies had begun in Nandu, and many wealthy households had been robbed and their families destroyed.
Shanshui Village can't keep food, and the harvest in the fields will only make the refugees cheaper.
If the land is not sold, when Shanshui Village is looted by the refugees, there will be no money left!
Li Wen choked, opened his mouth for a long time to explain, and finally muttered "Forget it."
When the others saw Fan Damu looking like he wanted to eat people, they knew that he was a bastard who was determined to eat people.
No one tried to persuade me.
The old village chief sighed and asked Jinniu in the crowd: "Jinniu, does your family want to buy a field?"
His father lost a bet and owed a lot of debt. He sold his land to raise money. Some of Fan Damu's fields belonged to his family.
Zhang Jinniu scratched his head, not daring to decide, and said, "I'll go back and ask my mother."
He ran very fast, and soon Aunt Zhang followed him.
Aunt Zhang has always been obsessed with the fields. She always thinks about when she can buy her own fields back so that she can grow food so that her family will not have to worry about not having enough food every year.
Last year, she earned some money by supplying charcoal to Shui Qing's family. She originally planned to buy it no matter what if someone was willing to sell their land!
It’s just that the plan couldn’t keep up with the changes. The potato harvest was high and could be grown in the field. The potatoes were delicious. She suddenly felt that the field was not necessary.
Coupled with the flooding, it is not known when the fields will be fertilized, so it is safer to keep some savings on hand for emergencies.
But she still came over to see if the price was really cheap...
"Damu, how do you plan to sell it?"
Fan Damu gritted his teeth and reduced the price he originally prepared: "In the past, one acre of land cost at least four taels of silver. I only need four taels of silver for one acre, and seven acres of land cost 28 taels of silver."
Aunt Zhang took a breath of cold air.
The price is not much cheaper at all.
"There are eighteen acres of good land. It used to cost more than one tael per acre, but it was all calculated as one tael per acre. There are also a few acres of wasteland created by land reclamation. The people in the same village thought I gave it away."
Anyway, those few acres of wasteland are not fertile enough, so whatever you plant will not yield a good harvest, which is a waste of seeds and manpower.
As for fertilizing, we don’t have that much fertilizer at home, so we can’t raise it at all.
Aunt Zhang had already backed out, thinking that it was a wasted trip.
Her family had land, although it was reclaimed from wasteland, but Shuiqing taught her other ways to make fertilizer, and the land was much better than before.
But she still knew the yield of poor soil. Fan Damu said it was a gift, but it would be a waste of energy to plant it.
"My forest is probably the largest in the village! I don't want much, 15 taels of silver, no bargaining, how about it?"
Now even the others gasped.
The mountain above their village is a barren mountain, mostly with miscellaneous trees and wild fruits, which are useless except for cutting firewood and burning. Fan Damu is really bold to ask for it.
This was originally given by the village for free. He didn't spend money to buy it, and he didn't bargain. Who is he taking for a fool!
There are precedents for selling land in the past, but now there is a flood, and it is still sold at the previous price. Will Aunt Zhang buy it?
Aunt Zhang thinks she is poor, but not stupid.
At this price, why doesn't she wait until the paddy field is fertile before buying it? If you buy it now, you have to keep it for a few years.
Besides, she couldn't afford it.
She said bluntly: "Let alone 4 taels per mu, even 2 taels per mu, I can't afford it;
I have fields and forests, no need to buy, old village chief, I'd better go back first."
Zhang Jinniu also went back.
The other families in the yard said what they should say, and they also knew about Fan Damu's family. They couldn't buy the fields and forests, so they followed him home.
Their Shanshui Village was a village of mixed surnames, not of the same clan, and they would not interfere in other people's affairs.