Actually, it would not be a problem for the Lin family to work on the fields for a while longer. They just wanted to find someone in the village to help.
Otherwise, you would really think that the Lin family is idle and spend so much money to hire someone.
When everyone saw that the headman kept his head down and didn't even look at them, smoking his pipe without saying a word, they immediately became anxious.
"Uncle Fang, please help me talk to the Lin family about this matter."
"We have a large family here, with so many mouths to feed. If... we won't have enough to eat this year, and we'll have to go hungry."
"Yes, yes, it was all our fault in the past. Please don't bother with us."
A huge crowd surrounded the village head, and everyone started talking at once, saying nice things, just asking the head to not bother with them.
The most important thing now is to plant potatoes. If the Lin family can agree to let them plant them, they can plant them next season and harvest another crop in autumn. Then they won’t have to worry about their family going hungry this winter.
The headman's face was full of helplessness at this time, but as the headman of Qingxi Village, even if these people had refused this matter at the beginning, he now had to consider the people in his own village.
If the people in the village do not have enough food to eat and enough clothes to wear, Qingxi Village will remain poor.
Even if he was unwilling, he still had to consider the overall situation.
The head of the village sighed secretly, frowned, put down the pipe in his hand, and knocked it heavily on the ground twice.
He looked around at everyone, and finally fixed his gaze on the man closest to him. Thinking of what his wife Chen had said before, he slowly said, "It's not that I don't want to help you. You all know about this before. I have persuaded every household."
After a pause, he continued, "The Lin family also took into account the feelings of the villagers. As long as anyone was willing to grow potatoes with the Lin family, each family would be given ten kilograms of potato seeds for free. To those twelve families, Lin Wenshan gave away more than a hundred kilograms for free."
More than a hundred kilograms is enough for a family to eat for a whole winter. If he were to ask the Lin family to provide these potato seeds for free to the entire village, he would not be able to do it.
Even though the Lin family is living a good life now, they are a village and cannot be so shameless as to ask others to help them for nothing.
This is not the case anywhere else. Besides, the Lin family built a wall and a house next to their house a while ago. Lin Wenshan also discussed with him that they wanted to build a workshop.
Once the potatoes are harvested, we will officially start the work and will recruit a few people from the village to help in the workshop.
This is a good thing. Among the surrounding area, Qingxi Village is the first to build a workshop. This is the first time.
Lin Wenshan was also willing to find people in the village to work in the workshop, as that would pay them, which was much better than going to the town.
Moreover, we had hired workers before we built the workshop, and the wages we paid were higher than those in the town. I heard that the smell of meat wafted from the families who went to work there, so it seems that they were able to eat meat.
Today, the Lin family harvested potatoes and also asked people from the village to help. The wages were fifteen cents. Those families who couldn't go were jealous.
"Now that you've all spoken, I can put aside my pride and go talk to Wenshan, but..."
When they heard the headman stop talking, everyone's heart tightened and they all looked at him, eagerly waiting for his next words.
As long as the Lin family is willing to take them with them to grow potatoes, everything else will be easy.
Today, almost all the families in the village who did not grow potatoes went to watch the harvest in the Lin family's fields. The piles of potatoes were simply dazzling.
Those are not just lumps of earth, they are edible food. With these potatoes, my family will no longer have to go hungry.
They also heard that these potatoes not only have a high yield but also taste good.
It can be eaten whether steamed or boiled, and the Lin family also said that if you can’t finish eating the potatoes you grow, you can sell them to the Lin family, which is a lot of money.
They had thought too much before, fearing that the Lin family would not be so kind as to lead the villagers to live a good life together, and that they might even have some shameful intentions.
But today, when the Lin family was harvesting potatoes, they promised the twelve families present that what they had said would count.
After all the potatoes in the Lin family's field were harvested, the twelve families began to harvest those in their children's fields. If they wanted to sell them to the Lin family, the Lin family would buy them all.
And it costs two cents per pound.
Two cents per pound. You should know that sweet potatoes are only one cent per pound in the town. Now they realized that the Lin family really did not intend to take advantage of them, but instead wanted to take them to have a full meal together.
They are mean-spirited, so they shamelessly came to ask the village head for help today, hoping that the village head could say a few good words for them in front of the Lin family.
"Uncle Fang, we all know about this. Besides, with so many of us, there's absolutely no reason for us to ask the Lin family to provide us with free potato seeds."
"Yes, yes, yes. We'll buy these potato seeds from the Lin family, as long as they're willing to take us along."
"Yes, we have no objection to this."
Seeing that the village head was finally willing to help them talk to the Lin family about this matter, everyone's faces were filled with joy.
Although they had some of their own little thoughts before, they were still clear-headed about this matter.
There are more than 30 households in Qingxi Village. Even if the Lin family is living a good life now, there is no reason for them to give away so many potato seeds for free.
It is good enough that the Lin family can take them and teach them how to grow potatoes.
Seeing what everyone said, and hearing that they seemed to understand some of the logic, the headman's expression gradually relaxed as he thought about letting the Lin family give away these seeds for nothing without saying a word.
There was a bit more kindness in his eyes as he looked at everyone, and he said earnestly:
"It's good that you understand this principle. However, I'm afraid the Lin family has been very busy these days. After the potatoes are harvested in a few days, I will go to talk to Wenshan about this matter. You just wait patiently for now."
The Lin family had bought so much sandy land before, most of which was used to plant potatoes, so it would take several days to get them started. It would be inappropriate for him to go to them about this now, so he decided to wait for a few days.
Seeing that the village head had agreed to this matter, everyone nodded happily. As long as the village head was willing to come forward, it would be fine. It didn't matter if it was done a few days later.
What the village head said also made sense. The Lin family was busy right now, so there was no rush for this matter. They just had to wait.
"Okay, thank you Uncle Fang."
"Yes, we will wait for your news."
Everyone nodded, and someone said,
"Then I'll go to the fields first and see if the Lin family needs any help. I'll go and lend a hand."
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