Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

After the Chinese New Year, Zhang Xiuhua went back to work, and the children also returned to their own cities one after another.

Baolin left on the fifth day of the New Year, Jidong and Youcai left on the twelfth, Yaoyao and Jilin had to make up lessons and went to school on the tenth, leaving Zhuzhu alone at home.

When Zhang Xiuhua came back from a trip, she originally wanted to take a bus directly back to the county town, but she found many stalls selling vegetables in front of the factories. She felt something was wrong, so she went to the convenience store she had run.

When the salesperson saw her, he immediately showed her the latest performance report.

As expected, business was affected.

"There were people selling vegetables in front of the sugar factory early in the morning. Their prices were cheaper than ours, so our vegetable business was affected a little. But they mostly sold dried goods, and very few fresh vegetables. They didn't have as wide a range as we did."

This is a store, so the price is definitely high. After all, she has to pay the two salesmen, and those people don't need it. Zhang Xiuhua asked them, "Since when can we set up stalls in front of the factories?"

One of the salesmen thought for a while and said, "It's been a long time, right?! There were people setting up stalls during the Chinese New Year. Business was good."

"Didn't the patrol team come to chase us?" Zhang Xiuhua asked curiously.

"No."

Zhang Xiuhua felt it was strange, but she couldn't figure it out, so she just let the two of them go to work normally, "I'll think of a way to add some more variety later."

You still have to have something special, otherwise it’s easy to be replaced by others!

When she returned to the village, she happened to meet Xu Chunying and told her that she could set up a stall to sell vegetables in the county town.

Xu Chunying knew about this. Her husband went to the county town to deliver vegetables every day. "I heard that the factory gates and shopping mall gates were booked by someone."

Zhang Xiuhua frowned, "It's covered?"

"It's collusion between officials and businessmen. As long as they are hired by someone, they will receive a fixed amount of money every month, and the patrol team will not check on them." Xu Chunying also heard it from hearsay, "Those people have to pay for the stalls when they set up stalls. It's just like the market in our town."

Zhang Xiuhua suddenly realized. But the county is different from the market. The market has to be responsible for cleaning and maintaining order. How can it be done in front of factories and shopping malls?

"Has your store's business been affected?" Xu Chunying asked.

"Yes! But it's just after the Chinese New Year, and the fresh vegetables haven't grown yet, so the impact is not big. But it may not be the case after that." Zhang Xiuhua chatted with her for a few words and then went home.

She wanted to sell some lively fish in the store, but it seemed a bit difficult because the big river behind did not belong to any commune, and they could not go fishing one after another.

She went to the orchard and expressed her thoughts.

Li Jianguo supported it, and he also thought of a good idea, "Isn't there a ditch beside our mountain? We can dig it deeper and raise some fish in it. When they grow up, we can sell them."

Their village has paddy fields, and paddy fields need water. When the reservoir releases water, the ditch will be filled with water, and fish can be raised in it.

"Will it work? Will the fish escape?" Zhang Xiuhua was worried. When the reservoir was released, the water was so high that it broke the fishing nets and all the fish escaped. Everything was in vain.

She thought of a good idea. "The land west of the village is barren and has never been divided. I think we can dig it up and raise fish. We can divert the water from the river there, and it will become running water."

The land to the west of the village was actually reserved for people to build houses. But the threshing ground had not been allocated yet, so it was not their turn for the time being. Zhang Xiuhua thought that since it was idle anyway, she might as well use it to raise fish.

Li Jianguo thought she was being a bit fanciful. "Will the villagers agree? Five years later, when the threshing grounds are divided, it will be the turn of the land in the west of the village."

Zhang Xiuhua thought: In the future, all the children in Northeast China will go out to work, and it would be good if half of them can stay in the countryside.

But she couldn't say it, so she smiled and said, "It's okay. I'll let the villagers vote!"

Li Jianguo found it difficult, but looking at her confident eyes, he swallowed his doubts.

Zhang Xiuhua first went to persuade the old village head and his wife to contract the fish pond. This way, their vegetable wholesale company would have an additional live fish business.

The old village chief was indeed tempted, but he and Li Jianguo had the same idea, "Will the villagers agree?"

Zhang Xiuhua smiled and said, "That piece of land will not be divided for at least five years. But you should know very well how much money you can make from contracting it within five years."

The old village chief was not fooled. "It would cost a lot of money to organize people to dig it up."

"How can someone who does big things not have any capital?" Zhang Xiuhua laughed again, "Guoxiang makes a lot of money outside because he has capital. If he didn't have capital, he would just be working for others! Don't you agree?"

The old village chief was still hesitating. Song Lianhua was a little tempted because she knew how to raise fish. She pushed the old man and said, "Ask the villagers if it's feasible. Maybe everyone will agree."

The old village chief looked at Zhang Xiuhua and said, "Okay! If the villagers agree, our family can take over the contract."

It's not tiring to raise fish right at your doorstep. The old village chief will certainly not miss such a good thing.

Zhang Xiuhua did not deny it. "It is up to the villagers to decide who will be the contractor. I have no say in this."

The old village chief was very confident, because Zhang Xiuhua's family would definitely not include it, so the rest would be theirs.

When Zhang Xiuhua returned home, she asked Li Jianguo to call all the villagers to a meeting. Because it was a collective vote, more than half of the villagers over the age of 18 or representatives of more than two-thirds of the households in the village were required to participate, meeting the legal number of people, and the convening of the villagers' meeting was legal and valid.

Zhang Xiuhua stood on the platform with a loudspeaker and talked about her idea of ​​digging the land west of the village into a pond.

The villagers below were talking about it.

"How can that be? If that piece of land is dug into a pond, we won't have enough residential land to share in the future. What should we do?"

"Yes! Our child will be able to get married in ten years."

"I disagree!"

"Yes! I don't agree either!"

Li Jianguo looked at his wife helplessly and said, "Well, the villagers would never agree."

Zhang Xiuhua signaled everyone to calm down first, "We have already counted before, the threshing ground is enough for families who need homesteads within five years."

"What about five years later?" The villagers with young children were unhappy. What does that mean? The older children have it, but the younger ones don't?

"I calculated that the land in the west of the village is 20 mu. If each household is allocated 400 square meters of residential land, that means there are 33 households." Zhang Xiuhua smiled and said, "Five years later, when it is the turn of the families in the west of the village, part of the pond contract fee will be given to you. It can be considered as compensation for your residential land. If you don't want the money, you can exchange residential land with other families."

The audience below was stunned.

"We don't want compensation, we want residential land!" someone shouted at the top of his voice. They didn't think the land would be worth much if it was developed into a pond.

Zhang Xiuhua smiled and said, "Don't worry. You may be happy when it's your turn. Especially for the villagers whose children have good grades, your children may not settle down in their hometown. Maybe they work in the city and move their household registration, so they can get free welfare housing. Even if there is no welfare housing, they can buy commercial housing. They will not return to their hometown to settle down."

When this was said, many people looked at Xu Chunying and Li Jiandang, because their eldest son Hongwu had gone to the south and had no intention of coming back.

"Who can predict what will happen in the future! If they have jobs in the south, why do they still have to farm in the north? It's so hard!" Zhang Xiuhua continued to give them more incentives.

The villagers couldn't think of a good reason for a moment.

Li Jianguo thought about it and said something on behalf of his wife, "If everyone is more willing to have a homestead in five years, we will fill in the pond then!"

After this was said, the villagers had no objection. The land was idle anyway. If it could be turned into a pond to raise fish, it would also generate income for the village.

So when the vote was taken by raising hands, this proposal was supported by the majority.

Only Zhang Xiuhua began to murmur, "Five years later, if everyone disagrees, will you really fill it up?"

"Just fool them for now. They can't think of what you said for now, and they may not believe it. As for whether to fill it up in five years, we'll talk about it then." Li Jianguo had no choice but to take it one step at a time.

"I'm afraid that if the contract is only for five years, the old village chief will not be willing to pay." Zhang Xiuhua put herself in his shoes. If the fish pond can only raise five bags, she will definitely not be willing to pay. It takes at least ten years for a fish pond to raise big fish.

Li Jianguo had already thought about it, "Don't worry, the money for digging the pond will not be paid by the old village chief, and the villagers will do the labor voluntarily."

Zhang Xiuhua was stunned! But looking at his serious expression, she knew he was not faking it.

Li Jianguo saw her staring at him in disbelief with eyes wide open, and couldn't help but laugh, "The villagers think that labor is worthless. And the dug ponds can be contracted out, and they can also get a share of the profits, so they are willing to work hard."

After he finished talking to her, he asked each household to provide a strong laborer. The villagers had no objection and readily agreed.

Zhang Xiuhua looked strange because she thought these villagers were stupid. They could just sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor if the land was leased to the village chief for a long time, but now they had to work for free.

On the way back, Zhang Xiuhua sighed, "No wonder these people get cheated when they go out. They are so easily fooled."

The villagers don’t seem to realize that labor costs money.

Li Jianguo felt that the villagers were not stupid, but they just thought about things differently from Xiuhua. He broke down their ideas and said, "If you ask them to contract out the land in the west of the village, they will lose their homesteads, which is equivalent to damaging their interests. Of course they are not happy. Now let them dig a pond. They are the owners of the pond and are happy to do voluntary labor. You have to first figure out what is most important to them."

Zhang Xiuhua subconsciously feels that rural housing land is not valuable, so she thinks it is more cost-effective to raise fish than to leave the housing land idle, and it cannot be said that she is wrong.