Yipin Farmer

Many times, opportunities are hidden in unexpected places. See if you can discover them and act fast enough.

Last year's Lantern Festival caused a fire that turned Meng's family from rich to poor, and this year's Lantern Festival caused a fire. Ting Shuang wanted to turn the disaster into an opportunity and make this fire a turning point in revitalizing the family business.

Although Baoqi knew that Tingshuang often had strange thoughts, she couldn't figure out what it meant to buy garbage.Follow him closely to see what he does.

"Ping An, come with me, we must seize this opportunity." Ting Shuang's eyes glowed with excitement, a rare opportunity was in front of him, he must seize it, and move quickly.

Many people pawned things at the Hengshu pawnshop, and now the pawnshop has been burned to ruins. People who lost their property angrily gathered around the owner's residence in the county seat to demand compensation.Ping'an had worked in this pawn shop for several months, and knew the guys in this shop, so he got convenience to enter through the back door.

The owner of the pawnshop is surnamed Feng, who is from Anhui, and the only property here is this pawnshop. The fire caused serious property losses to the Feng family, and what was even more terrible was that Master Feng suffered a stroke after being frightened and anxious. The one who can make up his mind is the young master.

Ping An finds the head of the pawnshop, and Ting Shuang explains her intentions.

"What? You want to buy the garbage from my house fire?" The owner of the pawnshop opened his eyes wide in disbelief.

"Yes, I want to buy the ruined garbage from your shop." Ting Shuang nodded affirmatively. "If you want, I still want to buy your land. Now that the house is gone, but the land is still there, I am willing to buy this land. I wonder how much the young master is willing to pay?"

Young Master Feng hesitated.

"You don't want to sell this piece of land, do you want to continue to reopen the pawn shop?" Ting Shuang analyzed for him, "But think about it, so many people's things are pawned in your house, and now a fire has completely burned them. What should I do if I don’t have anything in my hand but they have a pawn in hand? If you continue to open the shop, you have to pay for other people’s things according to the price. Can your family afford it?”

Young Master Feng was in great pain. The pawn shop used more than 2 taels of silver, which was the hard-earned family business of two generations of his father and grandfather. His pawn shop put 3000 taels of silver, which is calculated as ten to five Calculation, that is to say, something worth at least 6000 taels of silver is bet on the pawnshop, and the compensation will be [-] to [-] taels of silver. Such a huge sum of money, even if he sells the land of his hometown in Anhui and his family, it will not be enough to make up the compensation. It's a fraction, so don't even think about opening a shop. Now that there are so many people around outside asking for compensation, it's impossible for his family to even gain a foothold in Changping County, so why do they need land?

Young Master Feng nodded, and agreed to sell the land, including the Sanjin House across the street behind the pawn shop.

Ting Shuang only had 20 taels of gold in his hand, and couldn't afford any more money. Young Master Feng was in a hurry to pack up his parcel and go back to his hometown, so he didn't care about it.

Ting Shuang seized the time to find the county yamen's house book office. The county magistrate Qi had already received the complaint and summoned Master Feng to ask about the situation of the Feng family. Not enough to pay.According to the precedent, the Feng family's remaining property will be auctioned off by the government, and the money obtained will be compensated to the lost customers in proportion, and these matters will be handled by the firm.

On the screen door of the second hall of the county government hangs a six-character plaque with the words "Heavenly Law, National Law, and Human Love". It is the magistrate's program for handling cases.According to national law, the Feng family must compensate customers for their losses, but throwing all their belongings in is not enough to compensate, and the Feng family still has seriously ill elderly people, so there is bound to be no way out.From the aspect of being human, the Feng family cannot be forced to death.

Qi Chongyu first consulted the book office for their opinions. The county office book office is often inherited from father to son, and is very familiar with the local conditions. Generally, it can save people's lives and try not to do business. He hinted that the Feng family's papers have slipped away, and they can still be a breadwinner. money.

Master Feng packed his things overnight, and rushed back to his hometown in Anhui with his seriously ill father and the 20 taels of gold paid by Ting Shuang.He gave Ting Shuang all the title deeds of the pawnshop and the three houses in the back.As the county magistrate, Qi Chongyu closed his eyes and pretended not to know. Seeing that Tingshuang was in a hurry to get the land of Feng's pawnshop, he helped him advance the contract date by a few days.

"The house is all burned down, what do you need the land for?" Qi Chongyu didn't quite understand, "Do you still have the money to clean up the ruins and rebuild the house?"

"I want to open a restaurant. It doesn't require much capital, and the turnover is fast. After clearing the ruins, I will have the money to rebuild the house." Ting Shuang is still full of confidence. "When the restaurant opens, please ask Di Weng to support it."

Qi Chongyu frowned slightly: "I asked you yesterday, do you want to develop in an official career, how do you think about it? Don't you want to? Being an official has fame, you can seal your wife's shadow, honor your ancestors, and it's better than living in the countryside Farm the land and open restaurants in the city.”

"I don't want to." Ting Shuang refused without hesitation, "I'm not that material, those ancient books are difficult to read."

"Well, you are good at doing practical work, and you are not good at making fuss." Qi Chongyu also understood that he thought about other ways out, "You can become an official without getting a good reputation, you can spend money to donate, donate to a county magistrate, chief bookkeeper, etc. Yes, you come and help me, with brother Meng's talent, we can do something in the county together with you."

Ting Shuang thought about it carefully, and said: "I don't like it and I'm not good at socializing. I don't know how to mediate civil disputes, settle cases, verify documents, etc. Cattle and horses, they don’t have complicated thoughts, and people don’t need to worry about it. My ideal is to revitalize the family business and make a lot of money. If I become an official, it will be inconvenient to make money. Not only the court prohibits officials from competing with the people for profit, but also, if I With an official position, even if you have a clear conscience after earning money, it is inevitable that people will poke your spine and scold corrupt officials, and even be played by the imperial censor, which is uncomfortable.

If I have money, I can also benefit the people of one side. At that time, my wife is in the officialdom and I am in the mall, so I can still do business. "

"Everyone has his own ambitions, and I won't force you." Qi Chongyu was a little disappointed, but respected his choice.Promised to help him transfer the Hengshu pawned land to his name as soon as possible. The Feng family's house was across a street behind the pawnshop. There were three rooms and three rooms, and the houses with back covers all belonged to Ting Shuang.He told those who suffered losses that the Feng family had disposed of the last remaining ruins and unlucky houses at a low price, and fled back to their hometown in Anhui overnight with the last bit of money. I'm sorry, I had to forget it.

The tenants who lost their items had no choice but to beat their chests and feel that they were unlucky.There are also people who saw the business opportunities, but they were one step too late, so they had to cry out regretfully.

The third day after the Lantern Festival is the rain in the solar terms. It is the time when the spring plowing begins. The villagers are busy selecting seeds and fertilizing. Seeing Tingshuang busy in the city, they don't understand.His family's foundation is in the countryside, and he doesn't live in the city, so why buy a house in the city?Moreover, the houses left by the people who suffered the disaster of returning home were very unlucky, and it was also unlucky to live in. Since Ting Shuang didn't mind the bad luck of Feng's house, it was fine to take the opportunity to buy property at a lower price, but it was nothing to accept the ruins.

That pile of garbage is still smoking.

However, after the rice planting incident, the villagers felt that Ting Shuang was unfathomable, and although they didn't understand him, they didn't complain about him.

Ting Shuang happily returned home with the land deed in her hands and was about to assign work to her family. Ting Hui first reported what happened at home.

The first thing is that the money pot hidden in the chicken coop was turned over, and the strange thing is that there is not a lot of money in it.

Another thing is that a thief broke into the house last night. There were several big men in the house, and they successfully captured the thief.Ting Shuang was very surprised. The folk customs in this village are simple and the people are very nice. How could there be thieves?

Of course, no matter how good a basket of millet is, it is inevitable that there will be a few grains of weeds mixed in.Ting Shuang immediately began to interrogate the thief.

The thief who broke into his house in the middle of the night was very unfamiliar, he didn't seem to be from the same village. After interrogation, he was found to be from Tongbai Village, a neighboring village. His surname was Fang, and his name was Fang Shi. He harvested a lot of rice, so he also wanted to grow rice, so he went to his house to steal rice seeds.

Ting Hui raised his fist: "Bastard, dare to steal my things."

Ting Shuang stopped him, and said to Fang Shi who had stolen the rice seeds: "Your family is poor, so you should be a good person. How could you do such a sneaky thing? Why don't you just tell me if you want rice seeds? It's not like I won't give them to you. Why bother?" To do something that makes people poke the spine?"

Fang Shi looked at him in disbelief: "You said you are willing to provide rice seeds?"

Xiaoye and the others were also surprised. He was the only rice farmer in several villages, so he gave up the benefits so readily to others?

"It's not a lifeline thing, why don't you want to?" Ting Shuang said very naturally, "Only my family can't guarantee that the whole county can eat rice, and it's not a bad thing for everyone to grow rice. You want rice seeds It’s to get more food to live a good life, and I’m naturally happy that you can live a good life, as long as you get rich through hard work with your own hands, I will support you.”

Fang Shi was moved, and rubbed his hands embarrassedly: "But I have no money, and I can't afford rice seeds."

Ting Shuang was very straightforward: "If you can't afford it, you owe it first. It's not a big deal, but you have to think carefully before doing things in the future, and don't do this kind of thing again."

Fang Shi was so touched that he wanted to kneel down and kowtow, but Ting Shuang hurriedly stopped him: "My family's rice is not a dry rice variety. It seems that there will be a spring drought this year, and it is not good to grow rice. You should go back to plant summer crops first, and wait for the summer harvest before planting the land. , you go back and repair the canal and retting the fertilizer first, and then talk about it when you are ready."

When Fang's mother heard that her son was caught as a thief, she ran over anxiously and knelt down to beg for mercy. Ting Shuang quickly supported her and comforted her.The mother and son left with a thousand thanks.

Ting Shuang sent Fang's mother and son away, and began to arrange tasks. He took Ting Hui and Bao Qi to clean up the ruins in the city safely.Xiaoye stayed at home with the others and started spring plowing.

Ting Shuang hired a few workers to clean up beams, pillars and bricks in the ruins. He and Bao Qi cleaned up the fine materials warehouse, Ting Hui was in charge of the leather goods warehouse, Ting Zhi cleaned up the clothes warehouse, and Ping An cleaned up the utensils and furniture warehouse.Several people split up to work.

Baoqi carried the burnt wood, beams, bricks and tiles, panting from exhaustion: "Why did you buy these rubbish and clean up the waste yourself?"

Ting Shuang rummaged through the rubbish in the ruins without looking up: "I can only find what I'm looking for by cleaning it up myself."

"What are you looking for? Haven't your pawned fur coat and mother's hairpin been redeemed in winter?"

"Why don't you understand? I'm looking for gold. Fire can burn wood, but it can't burn gold." Ting Shuang struggled to move a large section of wood, and threw the scraps aside. The trade unions took away the waste wood and bricks with bullock carts.

In order to save time, several people and day laborers lived in the courtyard of Feng's house across the street behind the pawn shop. When it was dark, they returned to the house and lit oil lamps to rummage through the things picked up from the ruins.

During the day, I cleaned up the rubbish in the ruins of the fire site, and at night I rummaged through the things pulled out of the fire site. Aunt Li was in charge of cooking. The chickens raised in the family were also moved here, and they undertook the work of cooking chickens in the middle of the night. After they were finished, they were delivered to Huiyuan Building.

After fighting day and night for nearly a month, the ruins and rubbish were finally cleaned up.

Sure enough, as Ting Shuang expected, there was gold in the ruins of the fire site. In his previous life, he had read abstracts and newspapers. In the 20s, the Qing Palace sold the garbage from the Jianfu Palace Garden Fire for tens of thousands of silver dollars, and those who cleared it got nearly [-] gold.The Americans invited bids to clean up the garbage from the Statue of Liberty. No one else was willing to do it. A businessman took over the job and got hundreds of thousands of dollars after processing the garbage.

Ting Shuang roughly estimated the pawnshop garbage, even if the income was not as good as the palace garbage, it would not be too bad compared to the garbage cleaned up by the Statue of Liberty.

Chen Guang stayed in the village to follow Xiaoye and the others to farm, and volunteered to turn over the yard to grow vegetables. After finishing, he took time to go to the city to find Baoqi, dragged him to a place where no one was around, and whispered, "Why did the master follow him to turn over the land again?" Garbage is here? It’s important to quickly find the things and return to Beijing.”

Baoqi was very helpless: "I can't find it. In winter, the whole house was tossed, panned, and dusted. This spring, I plowed the ground to grow vegetables. Even the house and the ground were turned upside down. Have you found it?"

Chen Guang was very depressed: "I stayed at home and turned the field to grow vegetables. I turned all the corners and corners, and there was nothing."

"Isn't that thing in his house?" Baoqi scratched her head thinking about this question.

"It's not in his house or in Chu Tianqing's grave, where else can it be?" Chen Guang flashed a ruthless look in his eyes, "Give that Meng family boy a little more power, and if he doesn't hand over his things, he will be tortured and served."

"What nonsense are you talking about? You dare to touch his hair." Baoqi scowled and scolded him without hesitation.

"I'm just trying to scare him." Chen Guang immediately changed his attitude according to the direction of the wind, "This kid is very timid and afraid of death. Last time I was ordered by my master to protect him when he went out for a long time. Woolen cloth."

"He was so frightened that he sifted through the chaff, but he didn't shrink behind others and hurt others, did he?"

"Huh? How did master know?" Chen Guang was a little surprised.

"Because I know him too well." Baoqi smiled, "Although he is timid and afraid of death, he will not lose his principles."

"The master is so honorable. It is not a problem to follow him to farm, harvest, dig wells and hunt, and now he is digging garbage here. Think of other ways." Chen Guang was very dissatisfied and did not understand.

Baoqi also felt incredible: "I think following him to do this and that, even if it's digging through the trash and eating dried radishes, it's a lot of fun."

"It's over, it's over." Chen Guang was about to cry, the smart and handsome master was brainwashed by some incompetent guy who was afraid of death.