The Notre Dame system is arrogant again

Chapter 182 The Boy in the Orchard
After listening to Mrs. Liu's explanation that she will go find the magic stick tomorrow, Zhang Xiaohua slipped out quietly, went out, and went straight to the place agreed with Zhang Daniu.

The grass pigs here are the favorite to eat and grow the most luxuriantly. After being occupied by Zhang Daniu and the three brothers of the Zhao family, it became the exclusive pig grass land for the children of Zhang and Zhao.

At this time, Zhang Daniu and Zhao Dahu were cutting pig grass.

"Where are Brother Two and Three Tigers?" Zhang Xiaohua greeted Zhao Dahu.

"The second tiger and the third tiger have let the donkey go." Zhao Dahu said.

Zhang Daniu knew that his sister was looking for me, so he looked at Da Hudao.

"I told Dumb all about it, so you don't need to hide it from him."

Du Hu looked at Zhang Xiaohua honestly and said.

"Sister Xiaohua, don't worry, we won't let that fool take you away, even if we take you away, we will take you back!"

Zhang Xiaohua was very moved when she heard that, if only she could do everything she could, but she is just like this, to be able to get external support, this child is really loyal!

"Thank you, Big Tiger." Zhang Xiaohua thanked him sincerely.

Zhao Dahu is old-fashioned and authentic.

"Don't be fooled, Daniel and I are brothers, you are Daniel's younger sister, you are my younger sister, I don't protect who you protect!"

Ha, this kid is quite good at talking too!

Zhang Xiaohua was happy in her heart, she nodded on her face, and said what she heard without being pretentious.

"Your uncle wants to rent an orchard?" Zhao Dahu's eyes widened, "He doesn't study anymore, how good it is to study!"

Look, things that children understand, why doesn't my uncle not understand?Zhang Xiaohua was very strange.

"Uncle is out now. If he chartered the orchard, he should go to the orchard. How about we go find him?"

"Why are you looking for him? Ask him directly?" Zhang Daniu said.

"Find it first and then talk."

Zhang Daniu agreed, and he and Zhao Dahu carried the cut grass, sent them home, slipped out to join Zhang Xiaohua, and went to the orchard together, still holding a sickle in their hands, and when someone asked, they said they were going to cut pigweed.

Zhang Qingshan said that the orchard that Uncle Zhang wanted to rent was on a hillside in the south of the village. It was all local varieties, including duck pears, apple pears, big white pears, apricots, sago, crabapple, shandingzi, plums and so on.

Although the variety is complete, but because the land is not good, the fruit trees are all malnourished, and no one in the village is willing to rent them.

Serving fruit trees is not as easy as serving crops. Catching insects, fertilizing, watering and grafting, and finding a market, especially the last point, is a hassle.

There are no preservatives in this era, and most of the preservatives are cooked naturally, and they are picked and sold, so they cannot be stored for a few days.

The fruit rots quickly and can easily cost you nothing!
Basically, the rent is at least three years, the investment is made in the first year, the capital is paid back in the second year, and the profit can only be made in the third year.

Now it's just due, and the family said nothing about renting it out, so they had no choice but to find another one.

By the way, every village has a person in charge. Officially, this person in charge is called Lizheng, which is equivalent to the modern village head. For convenience, he is called the village head here.

The village head is a grassroots cadre at the grassroots level, but in ancient times, he was not an official, not even an official. In short, it is a gathering place for human beings. There is a person with high morals, knowledge, and fairness who manages this gathering place.

The power of this manager is greater than that of an official. Isn't there a saying that the county magistrate is not as good as the current one!

Any policies from above are implemented by these grassroots managers, and they also respond to any situation below.

The strange thing is that the imperial court still doesn't pay them wages, it's completely asking them to give selflessly!
In fact, there are a few people like **, and the imperial court does not pay them, so they can only figure out their own way.

The wool comes from the sheep, and the wages are naturally paid from the one-third of an acre of land that I manage.

Of course, one-third of an acre of land is just a metaphor. In fact, the entire village and the area around the village are much larger than one-third of an acre of land.

The size of the area depends on the ability of the manager.

The village head of Zhangjia Village is quite capable, and through the efforts of successive dynasties, Zhangjia Village almost occupied all the hills outside the village.

By the way, as long as Lizheng does not make serious mistakes, the basic hereditary system is that the son will take over from Lao Tzu.

The current village chief Zhang is a good cadre and has far-sightedness.

He thinks, if you want to raid the villagers, you must first make the villagers rich, at least you can't be poor. After all, he has sold his sons and daughters, so what else can you get from him!
Ever since, he thought about how to develop the village's economy, and this orchard was the result of his thinking.

There is an orchard, which is contracted to the villagers, and the rent is collected by the villagers. The villagers have income, and he, too, has made money. He is also aboveboard and does not violate his conscience. It is a win-win situation!
But crops are planted in the good terrain, and fruit trees can only be planted in places where crops cannot be grown. As a result, the orchard has become such an embarrassing existence.

But this can't be blamed on Village Chief Zhang, he also tried his best.

Zhang Xiaohua complained in her heart and came to the orchard.

Most of the trees in the orchard are full of fruit, but they also look malnourished.

Although the handover is approaching, the family who originally chartered the orchard is still watching here, not to let the children in the village be harmed.

As soon as Zhang Xiaohua and the others came in, they heard a dog barking, and ran over with a thin boy.

He was older than Zhang Daniu, about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a thin body, but he was extremely handsome, which was considered top-notch in the countryside.

Even though he was wearing a patched short jacket that looked unclean, stained straw sandals, and holding a sheep whip in his hand, he couldn't hide his handsomeness!
Seeing him, Zhang Xiaohua thought of the shepherdess in the movie "Shaolin Temple". Of course, she brought in the image of this young man. In this orchard, there is that kind of poetic and picturesque emotion...

Speaking of the young man in front of him, I have to mention the Meng family couple who went to Fu'an Temple with Zhang Xiaohua to offer incense last time.

This boy is the child brought by the daughter-in-law married by the eldest son of the Meng family!

Khan, a little bit around!
The eldest son of the Meng family didn't marry a wife in time because of poverty, and later married a daughter-in-law with children.

The daughter-in-law brought two daughters and a boy. The eldest daughter was married, leaving the youngest daughter and the young man.

It is said that this boy was only a few months old when he married into the Meng family with his mother. The eldest son of the Meng family raised the child. Unfortunately, the eldest son of the Meng family died of illness three years ago.

The daughter-in-law he married did not give birth to a son and a half for him, otherwise, how could the old woman of the Meng family wipe tears and tell Liu that her fate was bad.

Now the big house of the Meng family is supported by this young man from outside, and the purpose of renting out the orchard is to earn more income so that the young man can marry a wife.

They all live in the same village, so the head of the village farts and the end of the village knows, not to mention that it is such a tortuous widow's family, and everyone knows it, even the children know it.

According to the statement here, this young man is carrying a calf.

It's an ugly word, but this is the countryside, no one will take care of your feelings, call it whatever you want.

Probably because of this, the young man seldom went into crowds, and his eyes were a little gloomy.

Seeing Zhang Xiaohua and the others, he stopped the dog and said.

"You can eat the fruit, but don't harm the fruit tree."

(End of this chapter)