Chapter 93: Determining to Contract the Mountain

Contract or not?

Song Tan had already made a decision in her heart.

Then the question is, where does this first twenty-year contract fee of one hundred and forty thousand come from?

Counting the money she earned since she came back—part of it made up the sixty thousand yuan for her parents.

Part of it is labor, materials, and various fragmented expenses.

The money earned later was all given to the dogs.

The only big income currently is on tea leaves.

But what about these tea leaves?

Counting it all up, plus the two jin that the village secretary hasn't paid for yet, it's only 9 jin in total.

Honey can earn two thousand, plus selling some vegetables every day can also have an income of one or two thousand. But this money cannot be moved, because there are too many places to spend money next.

That is to say, there is still a gap of at least fifty thousand.

However, she didn't panic, just looked at Zhu Jun calmly at this moment:

"Contract the mountain, I can contract it, and I have this plan."

"But as a young person who returned to my hometown to start a business in response to the call of our village, shouldn't the village also give some inclination?"

"For example, for the first rent payment, only need to pay for ten years first..."

Zhu Jun was stunned.

Who knew Song Tan would immediately say again: "Or it can be noted in the agreement that the payment will be made up within half a year."

"Look, my request is not excessive, right?"

This kind of operation, naturally, is not excessive in principle.

It's just that Zhu Jun still reminded: "If the payment is still not in place after the expiration, the village department has the right to terminate the contract."

Of course, they don't want to terminate the contract.

Now the village has no money, and the wasteland is left idle, and no one will contract it at all. Having one is one, and they cherish it.

Song Tan had long guessed that her proposal was very likely to be agreed, and didn't show too much surprise at this moment, instead reminding seriously: "The tea leaves you want can be taken away tonight. When you come to get them, remember to pay first."

Zhu Jun:...

It's her business to have money, but the price of ten thousand per jin, giving it out really makes people grit their teeth.

The two of them had basically solved the matter, and at this time, a burst of laughter came from outside the gate.

Wu Lan looked over instantly: "It's the aunts helping to sort tea leaves."

Qiao Qiao didn't understand what the adults were talking about, and was now focused on arranging the honey jars one by one.

Just happened to be seen by the aunt who entered the door, and immediately let out an "Oh my": "I said, as soon as I entered this courtyard, I smelled a sweet honey smell! This is too good to smell, right?"

"Exactly, your family's bees are capable, so diligent just after settling down!"

Everyone was instantly lively, and then asked: "How is this honey sold?"

"It's still more reassuring to have our own honey, how is it sold? Leave me a jin?"

Everyone responded one after another.

Zhu Jun secretly laughed, but saw Wu Lan now also with a sincere smiling face: "Can't sell it, these are all ordered."

Song Sancheng was also an honest face, saying it as if it were true: "The channel has long been found, otherwise, with our small family, how dare we spend money like this."

Everyone thought about it, it was true.

If it weren't for the channel, which young person would dare to do it so boldly?

Oh my, envy.

Everyone's eyes looked at the honey jars on the table. "Oh my, there are thirteen or fourteen jars!"

Then someone with a loud voice was instantly surprised: "Now our local honey is very expensive, one jin can sell for one hundred yuan? Isn't this one thousand three hundred instantly!"

"Old Song, your family's fortune is really okay this year."

Song Sancheng coughed loudly instantly.

Zhu Jun had a hard time suppressing her laughter, and then stood up.

"Okay, aunts, you guys are busy, I'm leaving."

Oh my.

Everyone only then discovered that the one drinking tea with their backs to everyone was the young secretary of the village, and now they didn't see it as an outsider and surrounded her:

"Little Secretary, the matter I told you last time, you haven't replied to me yet, how is it?"

"I tell you, the young man I know is absolutely handsome! You will know when you see him once..."

Zhu Jun's expression stiffened, and then she ran away quickly with oil on the soles of her feet.

Song Tan saw this, felt bad, and also drilled into the house.

Sure enough, another hearty laugh came from outside the house:

"Wu Lan, your daughter is really beautiful, I haven't seen such a beautiful person in ten miles and eight villages—what kind of son-in-law do you want to find?"

Just entered the door of the hall, but saw a figure sitting up leisurely in the dim light with the flashing light of the mobile phone, and then asked like a thief:

"Tantan, are you going to contract the mountain? Do you want summer workers?"

Only seeing him aggrieved: "I'll be your foreman, don't ask me to farm anymore, I'm really not that kind of material."

Song Tan looked at him and said slowly: "Brother Yanping, I trust the quality you do as a foreman. But I'm afraid that when you organize summer workers, you still have to find them to draw a commission."

"How is that possible?!"

Zhang Yanping hurriedly refuted: "Is that called commission? That's called an introduction fee."

"Then do you refund this agency fee?" Song Tan asked back.

Zhang Yanping didn't speak.

Song Tan didn't tease him anymore: "Okay, okay, Brother Yanping, I'm not looking for summer workers."

"Now who can do the work in the fields in summer?"

Don't tease, in case they catch bugs and birds on the hillside themselves, and something goes wrong, Song Tan has to deal with the parents, that's how much she doesn't want to open her mind!

Zhang Yanping thought it made sense, and had to painfully give up this career.

And then suddenly thought of something: "By the way, you can't use all manpower to reclaim wasteland on the mountain, right?"

No matter how much shrubs, those ten or twenty-year-old old roots are stuck in the ground, how many trees can one person dig in a day?

That's a full twenty mu of land!

He intended to pave the way first, but this treacherous cousin only showed a listening appearance and didn't answer at all.

Zhang Yanping suffered frequent setbacks, and in order not to farm tomorrow, he insisted on talking to himself:

"My meaning is... hire an excavator? I know a steady young man who drives an excavator."

"By mu, it's 220 per mu. By day, it's 600 per day, and less than a day is calculated as a day."

Song Tan raised an eyebrow, this time she was really interested:

"Mountain land, how many mu can be opened in a day?"

Zhang Yanping didn't even think: "About five mu a day, it's a small excavator."

Saying this, he couldn't help but complain: "Look at our road, the big ones can't get in, right?"

Song Tan calculated the account in her heart.

Five mu a day, twenty mu, no matter what, it will take four or five days, and after the wasteland is opened, it still needs to be fertilized, turned and dried, and transplanted with tree seedlings.

If you want to have good fruit in the same year, even if you buy more expensive mature seedlings, you can't drag it until May at the latest.

Calculated this way, time is tight and the task is heavy!

Hiring people is expensive, time is more expensive!

Song Tan decided instantly: "Brother Yanping, contact the other party, if possible, arrange for people to cut grass and trees tomorrow morning, and the contract will be obtained at noon."

Then said to Song Sancheng: "Dad, since there may be old graves on the mountain, why don't you call a few more people to go up in the afternoon, mark the location of the old graves separately first, and by the way, pave a road from the roadside that is convenient for the excavator to enter the mountain."

No need for more, just a short section connecting the village-to-village road and the wasteland, so that the excavator can enter the mountain steadily in the early stage.

"After the excavator starts work tomorrow morning, Dad, you arrange for people to follow behind the excavator, and tidy up the weeds and shrub debris that the machine tidied up to one side."

"When digging, it's the same, the tree roots and stones dug out have to be helped to one side."