Chapter 15: Finding Trouble
Su Chunlin was left speechless with no way to refute.
Shen Yi stepped forward and advised: “Aunt, uncle also wants to earn more money to buy food, please don’t blame him.”
Su Tai asked, "Did you buy these with the money you earned from digging the well?"
Chen Yi nodded. "The price of food has risen again. A pound of wheat costs thirty-five cents. The autumn harvest is coming soon. This year is even harder than last year. I'm afraid it will rise to sixty or seventy cents after winter. Who can afford it? Now we can save as much as we can."
Su Tai didn't expect the situation to be so serious. While they were talking, Han had already taken the food into the house and locked it up.
She could only focus on Shen Yi's bag of food.
Seeing that she was hesitant to speak, Shen Yi waited until there was no one around before asking, "What do you want to say?"
Su Tai smiled at him sheepishly and asked, "Can I borrow some food from you?"
Fearing that Shen Yi would not agree, she immediately promised: “Don’t worry, I will pay you back double.”
A trace of confusion flashed across Shen Yi's eyes. Seeing that Su Tai didn't intend to say more, he nodded slightly, "How much do you want?"
The bag of food that Shen Yi brought back weighed almost ten kilograms. She wanted it all, but was too embarrassed to ask.
Seeing her like that, Shen Yi simply gave her the whole bag and said, “I’ve been out all this time, and there’s some food stored at home, so I’ll give these to you first.”
Su Tai looked up in surprise, only to find that Shen Yi had already shifted his gaze and stood up to leave.
She quickly held the bag of grain in her arms and whispered to him, "I will return it to you as soon as possible, but it will take a few months. Also, I want to ask how to grow wheat?"
Shen Yi: “.”
Shen Yi spent a lot of time to make Su Tai understand the theoretical knowledge. He probably guessed the purpose of Su Tai's borrowing grain, and reminded her: "Now is not the season for sowing. There will be no harvest if the wheat is planted. Moreover, there is not enough water for irrigation, even if the wheat is planted, it will be useless."
"I know, Brother Shen, don't worry, I won't do anything rash." Su Tai responded seriously.
Seeing this, Shen Yi could only choose to believe her.
After Su Tai returned to the house with the seeds, she immediately went to the Space-Time Gate Transfer Station, spent one virtual coin to buy a large shallow-bottomed medium tray, and then took some water from the Water Space-Time to soak the wheat. This process can screen and accelerate the germination of the seeds. After the seeds germinate, they are transferred to the land in the Soil Space-Time. The environmental conditions here are the best in all aspects. There is no need to worry about soil moisture, pests and diseases, and other problems. The land will adjust itself according to the plants in the seeds to ensure the healthy growth of the plants.
But there is one thing, she has to do all these jobs by herself. The vending machine does provide a kind of auxiliary planting animal, called gopher. Two gophers must be hired for one acre of land. It costs one thousand virtual coins to hire a gopher a year. At present, even if she sells her, she can't get so much virtual coins. She can only envy.
Two days passed by the time Su Tai had planted all the wheat seeds.
After Su Chunlin's experience in Panlong Township, he learned his lesson and no longer dared to take on well-digging jobs. He would find excuses to refuse no matter who asked him to do so. Chen Yi was invited by the town official Liu Tiechui to help and had long been away from Dongmen Village.
Su Tai hadn't been out for two days and wanted to go to the village to check what was going on. As soon as she walked into the yard, she saw Han rushing back in a hurry, shouting, "Quick! Take the broomstick at home and go to the well. The damn Ma Yuanwai in town is causing trouble!"
"Mr. Ma?" Su Tai was surprised. There was no such person in the original owner's memory.
Han didn't bother to explain. As she took the things, she said, "He is the big landlord in our Moshi Town, and he is a well-known miser."
"Why did he come to our village to cause trouble?" Su Tai didn't understand.
Han urged her to run out, "Mr. Ma owns several wells and has been selling water in the surrounding area. He was originally the only one in the business, but we didn't expect that our village would dig two wells. We sell two buckets of water for one penny, but Mr. Ma sells one bucket for two pennies. People who know about this would rather travel a long way to buy water from our village than buy his water. He must be very anxious."
Su Tai felt inexplicably worried when he heard this. Since ancient times, common people have not fought against officials. Although Mr. Ma is not an official, he has a large family and a great fortune. He is the local tyrant here, and they cannot afford to offend him.
"Mom, do you really want to fight him?"
Han nodded firmly, "The well originally belongs to our village. He is not in the right to cause trouble. If we don't fight him, anyone can step on our Dongmen Village in the future."
As they were talking, the mother and daughter arrived at the well.
Mr. Ma only brought six people with him, but he was arrogant and blocked those who were queuing to buy water. He warned loudly, "If I find out that you dare to buy water from Dongmen Village, don't even think about renting my farmland, and our Ma family won't accept your food!"
Most of the people in the queue are from Ximen Village.
Xiong Kai was upset when he heard this. "Mr. Ma, it was the mayor's idea that we came to Dongmen Village to buy water. If you disagree, you have to go and tell the mayor."
Su Tai looked in the direction of the voice and finally saw Xiong Kai's true face.
Han was a little worried, "Why don't you go back?"
She was afraid that her daughter would feel sad when she saw Xiong Kai.
Su Tai shook her head. "Why go back? Mom, this Xiong Kai looks much worse than Big Brother Shen. He doesn't look like a good person."
Seeing that she could still comment on Xiong Kai, Han's worries disappeared and she stood there watching silently.
Mr. Ma didn't expect someone to bargain with him. He glared at him unhappily and asked, "What's your name?"
Xiong Kai was not that stupid. He immediately changed the subject and said to the other villagers of Ximen Village: "Do you think I am right?"
"That's right! Why should we spend money to buy your water? It would be better for us to dig a well with our own money!"
"You make money in such a dirty way, and you're not afraid of retribution!" an old woman cursed fiercely.
Once there is a first, there will be a second. Soon, everyone in Ximen Village began to attack Mr. Ma.
Su Changfu had been here for a while, and when he saw that the situation was almost settled, he pushed through the crowd and said, "Ma Rencai, this is Qingsha Township, not Moshi Town. When did it become your turn to interfere in the affairs of our township?"
Others are afraid of Mr. Ma, but he is not.
When Ma Rencai saw Su Changfu, his expression immediately changed. "Hey! Mayor Su! You came really quickly! What? Has my son-in-law finished talking to you?"
Ma Rencai's son-in-law is Liu Tiechui, the town official of Moshi Town. He said this to warn Su Changfu.
Su Changfu smiled faintly and nodded, not showing any panic. "Indeed, we have discussed it. It has nothing to do with you. If you don't want to buy water, please leave and don't delay everyone's work."
Ma Rencai gritted his teeth in anger and laughed, "Su Changfu! You are really courageous! You are just a small village chief, but you think you are a piece of cake! I want to see how long you can be so arrogant!"
Mr. Ma returned empty-handed, his face darkening as he left.
The villagers looked at each other, waiting for Su Changfu to express his opinion.
He waved his hands impatiently, "What are you still standing there for?"
Everyone woke up as if from a dream, those who needed to queue up queued up, and those who needed to fetch water fetched water.
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