Chapter 56: Land Division
"Who are you? What are you doing?"
When Lu Tiantian came out of the room, she saw two bearded men leaning against the window stealthily. She immediately put her hands on her hips and yelled at them fiercely.
The two big men were a little scared when they saw the door suddenly open, but when they saw a tiny girl coming out from inside, they instantly became bolder.
"Your relative asked us to come over and help pick up something. It's an adult matter, so you, a child, shouldn't interfere."
The man with the boil on his forehead pushed Lu Tiantian away and went into the room.
But before he could enter the house, a terrifying scream came out of his mouth.
The other man was about to untie the ox rope when he heard the sound and quickly withdrew his hand. He looked at his accomplice in horror and asked, "What's wrong, Lao Gao?"
The man with the pus-filled wound covered his crotch and fell to the ground with a distorted face. He could not utter a word except screaming.
Lu Shili walked out of the room with a cane, bent down, and pulled out the dagger that was stuck in the man's genitals, cursing, "You bastards, you actually broke into my house in broad daylight? Who gave you the guts?"
The man looked at the bloody dagger in Lu Shili's hand, and then at his accomplice who was about to faint from the pain, and he felt uneasy.
"Brother, this is all a misunderstanding! We are not thieves. We were really asked by your relatives to come here." The man said as he backed away.
"Why wouldn't my relative come to get something himself?" Lu Shili raised his eyebrows slightly, twirling the dagger in his hand and said, "Should I ask you two pussies to come?"
The man said nervously, "Really? We're from Kenjing Village. A new family came yesterday and said you were their relatives. They asked us to help bring some food back, so we came here."
In fact, when the two men went to work this morning, they heard Chen and Jiang Caiwei arguing about how easy the eldest wife's life was and how rich she was. When the two brothers passed by and heard it, they suddenly decided to come over and take a look to see if there was any advantage they could take.
Hearing that they were from Kenjingzhuang, Lu Shili paused slightly.
When he was at the government office yesterday, he asked someone and learned that Manager Lei was not only greedy for money, but also had a very strange temper.
As a newcomer, he didn't want to deal with Manager Lei over such a trivial matter.
He suppressed his thoughts of chopping the two men off as he said, "Since this is your first offense, I'll let you go. If it happens again, it won't be so easy."
"Yes, yes, yes! We won't dare to do it again next time!"
The man turned around and was about to run, but was stopped by Lu Shili, "Take that pustules on the ground with you."
After the two left, Lu Shili did not return to his room to catch up on some sleep. Instead, he sat down in front of the hut and, imitating his elder brother, began to piece together wooden planks, trying to make a stool.
On the other side, Jiang Tangtang and his group received hoes, sickles and other tools from Manager Xia's house, and followed Manager Xia to the foot of a barren mountain.
Manager Xia pointed to the barren hills and said, "This area, marked by the large rock, is the area we will reclaim in Zhounan Village. Pick a piece of wasteland and get to work!"
Jiang Tangtang looked around the jungle and said, "You want us to cut down these trees and plant them in the fields?"
"If you don't want to cut down trees, you can also choose this wasteland to reclaim." Manager Xia pointed to the overgrown wasteland to the north and said, "There are just more rocks here. We just need to spend a little more time picking them up. It's easier than cutting down trees."
Jiang Tangtang didn't think cutting down trees was too difficult, but because she had just discovered rubber trees in the forest.
This is an important economic crop in modern times!
Unexpectedly, in ancient times, someone actually asked him to cut down the rubber trees and use the land to grow crops.
She pinched her chin and thought for a moment before saying, "Can we measure the land first? We can measure and register the land we want to reclaim to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings later."
Jiang Tangtang had just finished speaking when a sneer was heard from the side. Jiang Tangtang looked in the direction of the sound and saw Jiang Caiwei looking at her with a mocking expression.
Jiang Tangtang rolled her eyes, not wanting to pay attention to her. She turned to Manager Xia and asked, "Is that okay?"
"Generally speaking, we register each plot of land as soon as it's opened. You..." Thinking of his wife's praise for Jiang Tangtang last night, Manager Xia paused and nodded in agreement, "We can measure it first."
"Then I want this forest and the big pond at the foot of the mountain, is that okay?" Jiang Tangtang pointed to the forest of rubber trees where they had just discovered, and the big pond at the foot of the mountain.
Seeing that Jiang Tangtang did not grab the best piece of wasteland, but instead wanted the large forest and the useless pond at the foot of the mountain.
Jiang Caiwei sneered again.
Her cousin has been like this since she was a child. Although she is not very smart, she likes to attract attention and pretend to be very smart.
She thought she was going to grab some good land!
This is the result, what a fool!
Not only did Jiang Caiwei think that Jiang Tangtang's decision was ridiculous, but even Manager Xia did not quite agree with Jiang Tangtang's decision.
He looked at Lu Shiyan and said, "Think carefully. Once it's registered, it can't be replaced at will. Why don't you just do as others do and open one and register it at a time?"
Lu Shiyan raised his eyes to look at Jiang Tangtang, and seeing her indifferent expression, he felt that she had her reasons for doing this and would not act recklessly.
He nodded and said, "Just listen to my wife and take that piece of woodland and the pond at the bottom of the valley."
Seeing Lu Shiyan also joining Jiang Tangtang in making trouble, Jiang Caiwei was extremely angry.
He stamped his feet in anger, turned to Manager Lei and said, "Manager Lei, can we have this piece of rocky wasteland?"
Manager Lei accepted the silver note from Jiang Caiwei last night and was quite friendly to her. "This big rock is the boundary. That side belongs to Zhounan Village, and this side belongs to our Kenjing Village. If you want it, get to work quickly. Whoever opens the land first will own it."
"Thank you, Manager!" Jiang Caiwei said in a soft voice.
If she hadn't been disfigured, this gesture would have truly evoked pity. But now, with her rotten pig-like face, Manager Lei felt disgusted.
He shouted, "Alright, get back to work. Anyone who fails to complete their task for the day will not only be barred from the village head for food, but will also be whipped in public."
As soon as Manager Lei finished speaking, someone picked up a hoe and started working.
In addition to the second and third branches of the Lu family, the Peng family was also assigned to Kenjing Manor. The Peng family's conditions were even worse than those of the second and third branches of the Lu family.
If we don't ask the village for food, we may not be able to survive.
Although this wasteland has some rocks, it is flat and there are no big trees on it, so it is much easier to reclaim.
So, in order to grab the land, several families who had never done farm work before started doing farm work in a disorderly manner.
After Manager Xia led his men to measure and register the land Jiang Tangtang pointed out, he pointed to the rocky wasteland belonging to Zhounan Village and said, "I'll measure a few acres here for you too!"
Jiang Tangtang thought that although rubber trees were of great economic value, she was an outsider after all, and it would probably take some time to develop the economic value of rubber trees.
It would be nice to have some land to grow vegetables or something, so he nodded and said, "Then let's measure a few acres here too!"
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