Chapter 299 Swallowing the Weight Whole - Determined
That night, everyone ate and drank to their heart's content. It was a good harvest and everyone was happy. Drinking, eating meat, talking a lot, talking here and there, with a few words in between, no one knows what was said after the conversation is over, just happy, wanting to talk, wanting to laugh...
There was crispy pork on the table today. Yike liked this dish very much. She ate the crispy pork while smiling at everyone laughing and having fun.
"Bang," Li Youcai put his wine glass heavily on the table, stood up and said loudly: "I, Li Youcai, am happy today. No, I have been happy every day since I came here. I decided to follow Big Brother in the future and return all my own land to Big Brother. Big Brother, from now on, I will work for you and you can do whatever you tell me to do, just like them, okay?"
Everyone was startled by the collision of wine glasses on the table, and was stunned by Li Youcai's heroic words.
Hu Haohan did not wait for everyone to react, and followed Li Youcai's example and made a surprising move. He announced passionately: "The wasteland reclaimed by our family will also be returned to Big Brother's family. We will not cultivate the land ourselves. My whole family will work at Big Brother's house and receive wages, just like the newcomers. Big Brother, what do you think?"
It turns out that they see that working alone is a waste of time and they cannot make any money. Like this year, if Li Haoran hadn't seen that their rice had not been harvested yet and brought people to help them harvest it, it would have rained heavily for two consecutive days. If the rice in the fields was not harvested quickly, it would have been blown into the fields by the heavy rain. Not to mention a good harvest, it would have been a problem whether they could even harvest half of it.
They thanked their eldest brother Li Haoran for bringing people to help them harvest the crops. They also realized that their family had few laborers, and it would be difficult to cultivate more land and harvest more. It would be better to learn from those people coming from other places and work for big brother Li Haoran to earn money steadily.
Li Haoran was stunned for three seconds, then quickly tried to persuade him. But they were determined to return the reclaimed land to Yi Ke. Well, they changed their minds and decided not to return it to big brother Li Haoran, but to Yi Ke.
They even said that this place was originally discoverable, and according to the rules of the mountains, whoever found it owned it, so it was their right to come back now.
Chen Shengli's wife Tao Xiu'e also stood up and expressed her position. Her family also wanted to return the reclaimed wasteland to Yi Ke. Chen Shengli lowered his head and said nothing. Although he was unwilling in his heart, he could only raise the white flag in front of his wife.
After a heated debate and earnest persuasion, Tao Xiu'e, Hu Haohan and Li Youcai were determined to accept the offer.
Ziyi and Yike were both confused at first. Yike was even a little dazed. They were all laughing and chatting just now, but how come it turned into a land giveaway promotion in the blink of an eye?
Seeing that everyone was sincere in wanting to return the land, Ziyi looked at Yike. Yi Ke actually doesn't like sharing the land here with everyone, because when the new era comes, she plans to build this place into an agricultural base. Now that they have returned the land, it will reduce the trouble of buying it back in the future.
As soon as she saw Ziyi looking at her, she blinked mischievously.
Ziyi understood, "Dad, since the uncles don't want to farm the land themselves, let's take it back. We can open a shareholding farm, and everyone can buy shares according to the number of acres of land each family owns. The uncles' land will count as their shares, and the land of godfather Du Qingcang, Ma Youcai, Wang Feng, Dong Guoqing, and Liu Bing will also count as shares. Dad, what do you think?"
"Okay, that's good. Everyone can invest in a piece of land and get dividends based on their shares. This is a good idea."
Ziyi explained the role of shares to everyone again. After everyone understood it, they were even happier and unanimously decided to do as Ziyi said.
The first joint-stock company in the mountains somehow sprouted on the dining table. Well, I hope it won’t be cooked.
The joint-stock company now has a rough outline, and the company's name and everyone's work arrangements are all left to Ziyi to arrange. He had to make a detailed plan first, and everyone would hold a meeting a week later to discuss and decide. During this week, everyone would work together to build the employee dormitories and a temporary meeting room.
That night, whether they were the natives of the mountains or the newcomers, everyone was toasting each other, eating until their mouths were full, and talking and laughing until their teeth were showing. Everyone's face was filled with happy smiles and there was a gleam of hope in their eyes.
A week later, a staff dormitory building stood in Utopia. This dormitory building has only two floors and is made of bamboo and wood. The second floor is full of single rooms, and the first floor below has two bedrooms with a bathroom and a small kitchen, which are for those who have families. The conference room is built next to the dormitory building and can accommodate about thirty people.
Ziyi's plan has been prepared and he is just waiting to show it to everyone on the day of the meeting so that they can discuss and decide.
Li Haoran was afraid that Ziyi wouldn't be able to do it, so he took the plan to study it first, hoping to point out any mistakes in advance. But when he looked at it, he found that Ziyi had written down many things that he had not even thought of.
Li Haoran could only sigh that he was not as good as he thought, and lamented that a good father will have a good son. Even though the father was not around to teach him personally, the son still inherited his father's talent for business.
The great day of the paradise has finally arrived. Today, all the mountain people have uncontrollable smiles on their faces. The children are also infected by the adults and all grin. They drive the cattle to the valley and run back quickly. They also want to go to the big conference room for a meeting.
There were tables arranged in a square shape in the conference room, and a row of stools next to the tables. In the open space in the middle of the table, Yike took Li Xiaoying and Chen Fugui to the mountain to dig some beautiful unknown wild flowers and planted them in pots, and then placed them in the open space in the middle of the table, which was pleasing to the eye.
Li Haoran first arranged the work that the newcomers would do today, and the work at the paradise was temporarily let Da Niu and her sisters do it. Han Guihua was kept by Yi Ke to attend the meeting because Ma Youcai was also a member with shares.
Mr. Su and Wu Feifei were also invited into the conference room by Ziyi, and were asked to sit in the front. Sitting in the middle of the stools in the front was Li Haoran, with Su Lao on his left, Du Qingcang, Li Youcai, and Hu Haohan next to him, Ziyi, Yike, Wu Feifei, Tao Xiu'e, Chen Shengli on his right, followed by Chen Dawang and the others, all sitting close together around the table.
As soon as he counted them, he found that there were too few mountain people, big and small, only twenty-one in total. Now in the conference room, plus Old Man Su and his aunt Wu Feifei and her son, there were only twenty-four people in total.
There are still too few people. Yike looked at the young men and thought, well, I should talk to the aunts and let them worry about their sons' marriages and have grandchildren as soon as possible.
If we get married this year and have a baby next year, the baby will be ten years old in ten years, which is just the right time to train a successor, Yike thought to himself, without even hearing clearly what his father Li Haoran said.
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