The subtle changes in the expressions of several people fell into the eyes of the Qinshan people. They were all so angry that they wished they could beat up these greedy people and take back the fields, leaving them uncultivated.

It's just that this is the boundary of Lao Niu Village, and the opponent has a large number of people. They will really suffer the loss in a fight, so they can only suppress the urge to take action and look at Qin Xiaoxiao.

"If I don't want to reduce the rent, you won't let me live in peace, right?" Qin Xiaoxiao glanced at Chu Erhu, who was secretly proud, and his eyes fell on the few people who were interested, and his tone became gentler,

It seems that there is a deliberate compromise.

"Master, if you rent the land to us, we will help you take care of it well. If you do this, we will do the same."

Someone finally couldn't help it anymore and stood up to speak his mind: "But you know the situation in our village, so please be merciful and charge less rent. As Erhu said, your family has a great cause.

There is no shortage of this little food, but we depend on this little food to survive!”

Qin Xiaoxiao nodded slightly and looked at the silent village chief: "You are their village chief, do you think the rent should be reduced?"

When others heard this, they all tried to figure out what she meant.

Is it because she thinks the people in Laoniu Village are difficult to deal with and wants to use the village chief's authority to control them, or is it because she really doesn't know whether to reduce the number and wants the village chief to make the decision for her?

After much deliberation, they all agreed that Qin Xiaoxiao was an independent person and could not let the village chief make decisions for her. She definitely didn’t want to have a face-off fight with them and lose both sides, so they wanted to win over the village chief and use the village chief’s help.

They must not act recklessly.

"Village Chief, this is a major matter that affects whether our twenty families can fill their bellies. You have to think clearly before talking about it!"

Chu Erhu jumped up from the ground and shouted loudly, intending to bring the village chief to his side, and unite everyone to bargain with Qin Xiaoxiao to try to keep the rent as low as possible.

Several other villagers who were moved persuaded one after another: "Village Chief, our life is too difficult. We don't stop all year round, but we don't even have money to buy candy for our children. Do we, Laoniu Village, have to live like this for generations to come?"

Days?"

"Yes, village chief, we are asking for rent reduction not for ourselves, but for the children who never have enough to eat! Now as long as you say a word, they can eat better. You can't bear to watch your children all day long.

Are you hungry?"

"Not only the children, but also the elderly in the family. My mother will be 60 next year. I don't want to build a clay pot grave for her. When I get old, I don't want my descendants to build it for me..."

As soon as the three words "Crock Grave" came out, everyone fell silent. Their expressions changed from unwillingness, fear, and despair at the beginning to numbness at the end, which shocked Qin Shan and others.

"Sister, what is the earthen jar grave? It sounds scary." Liu Jin rubbed the goose bumps that appeared on his forearms and huddled behind Hu Qingqing and asked in a low voice.

Hu Qingqing shook her head, she didn't know either.

Chen Feng on the side suddenly said: "Many years ago, there was a severe drought in the Jingli area and many people starved to death? In order to save food rations for their descendants to survive, Chu's ancestors lived together in a cave and starved to death. Later in the village

For the elderly who are over sixty and still alive, a clay pot tomb will be built for them to live in. Food will be delivered once a day and an adobe brick will be placed at the entrance of the tomb until the entrance of the tomb is completely sealed."

The Hu family siblings shrank, their eyes widened: "This, this is too scary..."

"It turns out this is true!" Qin Shan was not intimidated, but his expression was not very good: "I have heard people talk about it before, and I thought it was spread randomly."

Qingshan Village and Lao Niu Village both fall under the jurisdiction of Le'an? However, one of the two villages is located in a mountain, and the other is relatively isolated, and there is no connection at all. About Lao Niu Village? People in Qingshan Village may have heard of it, but they regard it as

I heard it as a story, but I never thought it would be true.

On the other side, the village chief, who originally didn't want to get involved in rent reduction, was forced into a corner by Chu Erhu and others, and had to make a choice.

He glanced at Qin Xiaoxiao, who was smiling, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. He closed his eyes suddenly. When he opened them again, he looked directly at Chu Erhu, who was still inciting others, and shouted sternly: "That's enough!"

Chu Erhu was stunned, and then asked loudly: "Village Chief, are you trying to be the sinner of the entire village?"

For the village chief to be elected as the village chief by the villagers, there must be something special about him. He ignored Chu Erhu's unreasonable accusations and said to the villagers who shared his anger: "We have forty-three households in Laoniu Village.

The farmland we have rented out totals 260 acres. Except for Qin Dong’s family, the rent is 25%, and the other three owners’ rent is 30%. Since you want to reduce the rent and make the elderly and children live a better life, just the Qin Dong family’s rent is 30%.

A little land is not enough, why don't we all work together to reduce the rents of the three owners."

No one present was a fool. How could they not realize that what the village chief said was ironic?

A group of people headed by Chu Erhu were very angry and said with red faces and white eyes: "Village Chief, it turns out that you really took advantage of her and are determined to make the entire village an enemy!"

The village chief sighed secretly and looked at the remaining ten villagers who had not expressed their opinions: "What do you think?"

The villagers looked at each other. Of course they wanted to lower the rent, but it was too difficult to achieve. If they couldn't get it, and the owner took back the fields or sold them to others, where would they find fields with half a percent less rent?

Who can I turn to for food supplies?

After struggling for a while, one of them stood up first and said: "Village chief, my boss's fields are quite good. The grain I receive every year is forty or fifty kilograms more than before, and I am already satisfied."

Someone took the lead, and others also said: "Yes, yes, the rent is not overcharged in the first place, and it makes no sense to force the owner to lower the rent."

When Chu Erhu and others heard this, they wanted to beat up these guys who were holding back their affairs: "You are a fool who dare not even fart in front of a yellow-haired girl. Are you still not a man?"

The villager who was the first to express his stance frowned and fought back: "At least he's better than you guys who only catch soft persimmons!"

But no, Chu Erhu and the others dared to force Qin Xiaoxiao to reduce the rent so boldly, didn’t they think she was a little girl who was easy to bully? Otherwise, after all these years, why haven’t they forced the other three owners to reduce the rent?

"Okay, okay, you guys have the guts!" Chu Erhu stared fiercely at the village chief and others, with hatred in his heart: "I want to see if the few acres of land you rent are still capable of paying 25% next year.

The rent!”

This is simply a naked threat!

The faces of the village chief and others became very ugly, knowing very well that this ruthless fool could burn the crops they had worked so hard to grow.

At this time, Qin Xiaoxiao, who had watched the good show with cold eyes, stood up and said with a smile, "Village Chief, now that you have made a decision, I will listen to you and the rent will not be reduced."

The village chief cupped his hands towards her and smiled a little reluctantly: "My boss is kind and charges us half a percent less rent. Of course we can't be ungrateful and force our boss to reduce the rent."

"Village Chief Gao Yi." Qin Xiaoxiao directly put a tall hat on the head of the village chief, then glanced at Chu Erhu and others who were not yet dead with their evil intentions, and continued: "If people respect me, I will give them one in return.

Husband, do you think so?"

Chu Erhu and others had a bad premonition in their hearts. As expected, they heard her continue: "Someone wants to be a white-eyed wolf. Is there any reason why I can't do it? From now on, all my fifty-five acres of land will be cultivated by twelve of your families."

"What?" The village chief and others couldn't believe that such a good thing would happen to them. They forgot Chu Erhu's threat for a moment and confirmed to Qin Xiaoxiao: "My boss, is what you said true? Really put all the

Give us a field to plant?"

Don't blame them for being surprised. You have to know that these fifty-five acres of land are good paddy fields. They can grow wheat in winter and rice in summer. As long as the weather is good and the weather is good, the yield of one acre of land will always be twenty or thirty pounds higher than the other three.

Come.

These lands were evenly distributed to twelve of their households for farming, and each family could be allocated four and a half acres. In this way, they only needed to rent some dry land from elsewhere. The key is that Qin Xiaoxiao only received 25% of the rent, so

Each of their households receives at least two to three hundred kilograms more grain every year.

"Of course, a gentleman's words are hard to follow. Even though I am a woman, I can still keep my word." Qin Xiaoxiao said seriously, and began to discuss with the village chief how to distribute the fifty-five acres of land.

"You bastards, I'm going to fight with you!" Chu Erhu simply couldn't accept Qin Xiaoxiao's taking back the fields. He rushed in front of them with a furious look and raised his hand to slap Qin Xiaoxiao in the face.

"Chu Erhu, how dare you!" Qin Shan was the first to notice Chu Erhu's actions and was furious. He yelled and hurried forward to stop him. Unexpectedly, before his hand could touch Chu Erhu, a strong wind suddenly blew by, and the dust raised confused everything.

human eyes.

There was a crisp "click" sound, and something roared down from high in the sky. The next moment, a scream of "Ah" suddenly sounded in everyone's ears, and everyone was so shocked that they tried their best to open their eyes and follow the direction of the scream.

Look over.

"Oh my mother!" Someone shouted, but it spoke to everyone's heart.

I saw Chu Erhu, who had been arrogant and domineering about slapping Qin Xiaoxiao a moment ago, fell to the ground and screamed. A broken tree branch was inserted into his right hand from the back of his hand. It penetrated the palm of his hand and pierced him, and blinding blood flowed all over the floor.

Hu Qingqing of Qinshan, who knew about it, subconsciously looked at her daughter (cousin), and saw that she looked like "I'm so scared too". She couldn't help but be speechless, and did not expose her disguise in front of outsiders.

Liujin and Chen Feng were thankful that Qin Xiaoxiao was not injured by Chu Erhu. But seeing Chu Erhu in such misery, they couldn't hate him, so they stood aside and watched coldly.

"My son, my son!" When Chu Erhu's mother saw her son's miserable state, she didn't even bother to rub the dust in her eyes, and threw herself on her son and burst into tears.

Chu Erhu's wife was also extremely frightened. She squatted beside him and cried, fearing that her husband would be disabled.

Chu Dahu, Chu Sanhu and several other villagers who were making things difficult for Qin Xiaoxiao were frightened and looked at Qin Xiaoxiao in panic, as if they were looking at monsters.

What a coincidence. Just when Erhu was about to take action, a demonic wind blew inexplicably and broke the branches of the big tree above his head. By coincidence, it pierced Erhu's right hand. This right hand was not what he wanted.

A slapping hand?

Seeing the Chu family crying and screaming, Qin Xiaoxiao frowned and said to the village chief: "Find a doctor to look at him as soon as possible. If he hurts his hand tendon, it will be bad."

The village chief woke up from a dream and hurriedly said to the villagers: "Which of you is fast on your feet should go to the city to see a doctor."

A villager stepped forward and offered to find a doctor. Before he could run to the city, Chu Dahu jumped up and shouted to Qin Xiaoxiao: "My brother's injury is all because of you. You must pay for the doctor!"

Qin Xiao smiled and looked at him: "Are you sure?"

For some reason, a chill ran down Chu Dahu's spine, he shivered all over, and he suddenly didn't dare to say a word.

Qin Xiaoxiao ignored him and continued to say to the village chief: "You two families will discuss how to distribute these fifty-five acres of land. Once we have discussed it, send someone to let me know, and I will prepare a new deed for you to sign.

.In addition, the rent of 25% will remain unchanged, but in times of famine, I will reduce or reduce the land rent as appropriate and will not let you pay it back."

The village chief did not expect such an unexpected surprise, and couldn't help but shed tears excitedly: "Okay, okay, thank you boss, thank you boss!"

Others also heard Qin Xiaoxiao's words and shouted: "My boss is a living Bodhisattva!"

After working hard for a whole year, it is not uncommon for a strong wind and heavy rain to reduce the crop yield. In such a situation, the whole family will not only go hungry, but also owe the employer a lot of land rent, which will take several years.

Pay it off slowly.

Now with Qin Xiaoxiao's promise, they no longer have to worry about being overwhelmed by such days.

Chu Dahu on the side was even more regretful. He stared at his crying brother and suddenly no longer felt pity for him.

Qin Xiaoxiao ignored Chu Dahu's plea to continue the sharecropping, said hello to the village chief and others, then got into the carriage with Hu Qingqing and Liujin and drove towards the city.

As for the rent collected, the patriarch said that he would help collect the rent arrears of the three tigers of the Chu family, then transport it to the city and sell it together, and then settle the money directly with her.

The carriage drove out of Laoniu Village, leaving Sun Erhu's wailing far behind.

"Cousin, cousin, you are so powerful, you stopped those greedy guys without even moving a finger!"

Ever since he got on the carriage, his six-pound little eyes had never left Qin Xiaoxiao. The admiration burning in his eyes could even be seen by a blind man, and it was now effortless to flatter him.

"Well, let's leave it like that. This matter itself is not difficult to solve." Qin Xiaoxiao looked calm and calm, but for her, it was really not difficult to suppress Chu Erhu and his like.

But for Liujin, who has little experience, his cousin is the most powerful, more powerful than anyone he has ever seen: "Cousin, tell me, how do you know the village chief and others will be on your side?"

Qin Xiaoxiao looked confused: "I don't know."

Liujinyi choked and said in disbelief: "How come you don't know? You don't know and you let him make decisions for you? If he chooses to side with Chu Erhu, wouldn't it be all over?"
Chapter completed!