Chapter 109: Fright
About a quarter of an hour later, the field was already filled with villagers.
Jiang Wan looked around and saw that some of the families she knew came with only one person, and some with two or three people. Not all families came together.
The old village chief and the old clan leader stood on the stone platform and cleared their throats twice, and the dam immediately became quiet.
"I called you here today because I have something important to discuss with you concerning the future of the village."
The old village chief had a loud voice, and Jiang Wan could hear it clearly even though she was sitting in the back row.
"The school in our village has been established. People from other villages are very jealous. Today, four or five families have come to us and said they want to spend more money to send their children to our village school."
Upon hearing this, the villagers immediately started talking about it, especially the wives who had been refused to send their own children to school, all of whom said they could not agree.
The old village chief raised his hand to signal silence.
"I didn't agree to this because I said at the beginning that only children from the village can attend our village school."
When the daughters-in-law heard this, they immediately quieted down.
“So those people want to buy land and settle down in our village, saying that if they become residents of our village, they can go to school. So today we are mainly discussing whether this land can be sold.”
The old village chief dropped a bomb, and before the villagers could react, the old patriarch spoke again.
"There is limited land in our village, and there is only so much we can sell. If you want to get the money, then just sell it. If it becomes difficult to allocate land in the future, don't make trouble in the village."
The villagers responded and turned around to discuss with the people around them.
Most people disagree. They have similar ideas to the village chief and the clan leader, who do not want the children from outside to dominate the children in the village.
Moreover, even if the land was sold for money, there were more than 200 households in the village, and each household would not have much money left after the land was divided.
Most people had this thought, but a few people were quicker to think and immediately asked loudly.
"Village chief, I don't have any children. If someone wants to buy my house at a high price, can I sell it?"
The old village chief took a closer look and saw that it was Lian Cong, the notorious lazy man in the village.
Before he could reply, the old patriarch at the side stepped forward.
"The house is yours. If you want to sell it and live in a better place, no one will stop you. But if you sell the land in Lianjiagou, I think you will have to settle down somewhere else. Then you will no longer be considered a member of Lianjiagou."
When everyone heard this, their expressions changed immediately. They all understood what the patriarch meant.
"Since you are not from our Lian family, then as the clan leader, I have the authority to remove your family from the clan tree."
Migrate from the family tree!!
To put it bluntly, it means extermination of the clan.
There were only about ten households with other surnames in the entire Lianjiagou, and the rest were all surnamed Lian. When so many members of the Lian family heard that they were being removed from the family tree, they were all shocked.
The family is their root. Anyone who dares to leave the family will be ashamed to face their ancestors after death.
Lian Cong was slapped on the head by his father and he shut his mouth and said nothing more.
Even if he had any little thoughts, he gave them up after hearing about leaving the clan tree.
The old patriarch saw the villagers' reactions and was very satisfied.
In this matter, he was indeed a bit overbearing. But Lian Cong must not be allowed to take the blame.
He felt sad when he thought that the houses in the village would be sold off by the villagers in the near future.
The tribesmen sold their houses and lands, and left one by one. The families were no longer families, and the tribe was no longer a tribe.
Most of the people in the village are outsiders. What kind of village is this?
The old patriarch would never allow it.
These things had little to do with Jiang Wan and her family. After all, Yin Ning's family was still renting a house and had no house to sell. Jiang Wan's family had just settled down and would not sell the house.
They are more concerned about the land sale in the village.
The surrounding villagers firmly said no to the sale of their houses, but they could not reach a consensus on the sale of vacant land.
Yin Huaixi tugged at his sister-in-law's sleeve and whispered to her, "Sister-in-law, the village may be selling a lot of land. If you don't buy it now, you can only buy the remaining land when you have enough money."
Song Wenhui nodded, she knew what her younger sister wanted to say.
"Then I'll borrow some money from you first, and go to the village chief tomorrow to get the land early?"
Yin Huaixi smiled and nodded. That's what I meant.
She still felt more comfortable talking to her sister-in-law. She was too lazy to ask her eldest brother because he certainly wasn't as straightforward as her sister-in-law.
The criticized Master Yin was surrounded by enthusiastic villagers. Everyone wanted to know how their children performed in class. As for the land sale, it was not yet time for a vote, so why rush?
The people at the dam discussed noisily for nearly half an hour, and as it was about to get dark, they finally came up with a plan that everyone was satisfied with.
The land in the village could be sold, but only the land at the end of the village, and it had to be sold at a high price. For example, the land that normally only sold for one or two taels of silver could be sold at ten times the price, at ten taels of silver.
Eighty percent of the proceeds from the sale were distributed to the villagers, ten percent returned to the village, and the remaining ten percent was divided equally between the two masters.
After all, it was because of the two masters that the land in the village became valuable.
No one in the village had any objection to this division method. Even if there were one or two people who had an objection, they did not dare to say anything.
Nowadays, the status of the two teachers in the village is rising rapidly, and everyone is protecting them very much.
After all, every family has a child. Even if you don’t have one now, you will have one in the future.
After discussing the sale of the land, the villagers dispersed.
When Jiang Wan saw her mother walking and talking with her uncle and aunt, she turned around and pulled her cousin to the front to walk with Yinzhu and the others.
Because her home was at the end of the village, after passing Yinzhu and Xiaoman's home, she and her cousin were the only ones left.
The two sisters were not afraid of anything, because their family members were not far behind them, and there were villagers' houses on the roadside. If they shouted, people would come out.
So even if it gets dark, it doesn't prevent the two sisters from walking home happily hand in hand.
When they were about to reach home, Yin Ning suddenly pulled Jiang Wan back a few steps.
Her hand was pinched and it hurt a little. It was obvious that her cousin was very nervous. Jiang Wan looked closely and was so scared that she pulled her cousin back a few steps.
What are those two black things at her door? !
A black bear coming down from the mountain?!