Chapter 180
Having dinner together at night, Li Yu showed them the notebook.
"Grandpa, I'm thinking of a way. Give me a look. I think pigs, cattle and sheep are selling well, and there are few places to raise them. It takes time for refugees to open up wasteland and grow food. They can't be idle these few years. People need to eat."
"Why don't we give him food or money and other support, give him piglets or chickens, let them go to a village to raise them, and I will take them back when they are raised. Do you think it will work?"
"You can try it. I'm afraid that if people are very hungry, I will eat it all for you. I will die. If I have no money to pay you back, you can do whatever you want."
Grandpa Li knows better that there are many bad people among the poor.
"It's possible. I don't think everyone can act like this. It's really impossible to treat me as a good deed. Anyway, it costs a lot of food to give away porridge. There are always people who are willing to live a good life. There are families and villages that can succeed. , there are people who are willing to follow suit.”
Li Rui said after hearing this: "Grandpa, I think we can try it. If it succeeds, we can solve some practical difficulties for the refugee village. It will last longer than giving up porridge. I believe someone will understand the benefits."
"It's also possible to change the grain without money. Humans and pigs are still different. Pigs can eat pig grass and some bran. I'll give you grain or grain, and you help me raise pigs and chickens. Chickens only last for a few months, and restaurants only want half-sized baby chickens, and big roosters that are too old don’t taste good.”
Gu Lei also followed suit.
"It can be done, but there will definitely be losses if you do it. There are those who make false accusations and eat for nothing, and there are those lazy people who don't do anything and just wait for your relief."
"Then use him to fulfill our good reputation, things can't be eaten for free."
Gu Lei chuckled lightly.
"Since you have thought it through clearly, let's do it. You brothers discuss it. If there are not enough people, you will drag the children in the school, and learn to keep your eyebrows high and your eyes low. Don't eat meat and look like a fool. The channel of work Contact several more. It's more affordable."
"Okay, I remember."
"Grandpa, I thought of something. Many refugees need to rebuild houses and cut wood. We can find someone to help, and then recruit some tenant farmers, and directly use food to offset the money."
Many recruiters in the market now pay their wages with food. This is not to take advantage, but to help refugees.
The grain in the outside grain store is mixed with sand, and a stone of grain will be mixed with sand in proportion to be used for weighing.
During the famine years, some people had the audacity to mix sand with half of the food. Half of the food bought back could not be eaten. The price of food fluctuated according to the market environment due to natural disasters and man-made disasters.
The aristocratic family pays for their wages with food, and they don’t need to pay cash. They are also very friendly to the tenant farmers. The tenant farmers just want to eat their stomachs, and they don’t mix any grain with sand. It’s as much as a bucket of grain, which is much more affordable than a grain store. .
All that was given were millet, yellow rice and chestnut rice, decent food, and tenant farmers were especially willing to ask for food.
Currently, almost all the aristocratic families recruiting workers in the market are giving decent food, not mixing sand, helping refugees, and making face for the Night King.
The Gu and Li families also give millet and yellow rice. They don’t give much rice, and they will give some during festivals. Generally, tenant farmers don’t want rice, but millet and yellow rice. The price is different. The money for rice can buy several catties of millet. To have a full stomach.
You can eat enough rice for half a year without starvation, but you can only eat it for two months if you eat delicious rice. You also know what to choose.
"The price given to tenant farmers in the market cannot be changed randomly, otherwise people will be offended. How about this, if the market price does not change, it will still be 37, tenant farmers three, we seven, we can give grain seeds or chickens and piglets, and we will collect them after raising them , agree on the exact price, how many catties, etc.”
Li Yu knows more about the economy and has worked independently for many years, knowing the market conditions.
"OK."
"Yu'er is right, we can't do it all, and we have to give others a little leeway, otherwise we will become the target of public criticism."
Li Rui added with a smile.
"Then I know, I will draw a scope, according to the spread around our two wasteland farms, select a few of the most difficult and poorest villages to help construction, so it is not eye-catching."
"OK."
"There are medicinal materials in the forest that they picked and sent to Zhuangzi. I have already greeted the steward."
"I plan to replant some good trees in that forest land, which will benefit my children and grandchildren in the future. Good wood is also excellent for making furniture."
The family affairs are like this, the land is still fundamental, if you can’t buy good land, you can add some woodland and wasteland, basically eat and drink without spending money, and you can get through no matter how difficult it is.
"Then I will find some refugees to come over and replant saplings, and now I can replant a batch in autumn."
"For the saplings, please contact the Xie family. I bought them from the Xie family last time. Buy better wood."
"Succeed, I sent someone to go to the south of the Yangtze River by boat to buy stones and good tree species, and the house also needs to be refurbished."
Gu Lei said something casually.
Their engagement ceremony will be next month. Grandpa Gu said that the main courtyard of the house is going to be redecorated. Some places were made inappropriate before, and the old man didn't like it.
"How do you plan to build the main courtyard? Draw me a picture and tell me what flowers and trees you like. I will buy them and plant a batch in spring."
"Okay, don't make a big move, or it will be too wasteful."
"That won't work, grandpa said, I have to live for the rest of my life, it doesn't look good and it's so annoying. I have money myself, so don't worry about money."
After the Gu family came here, it basically belonged to the division of property, but the old man is still there, and the property is divided without dividing the family. When he left the capital, the old man divided the property and only let the second uncle take care of it temporarily.
Some time ago, the second uncle returned all the property from the heir to Gu Lei, and the third aunt agreed to Gu Lei to take care of Gu Xin's property.
The Gu family has divided the property, but they still live together, and even food and drink are calculated separately and paid quarterly.
"I'm afraid of embarrassing Grandpa."
Li Yu smiled.
"Don't be afraid, I spend my parents' money, and I don't spend other people's money, so I do other people's business."
Gu Lei insisted on redecorating the main courtyard where they lived. Grandpa Gu said that he was going to redecorate the courtyard, but in fact, he was trying to block Li Yu from letting people talk about her.
"Then I like sweet-scented osmanthus. When it blooms, the garden is full of fragrance, and the color is also beautiful. There are also spring flower trees, wisteria is also beautiful, crabapple trees are also good, and peach blossoms."
"Okay, I remember, I'll look for it for you."
Gu Lei took it to heart after hearing this, and turned around to ask his own boat to pull it.
After dinner, Gu Lei went back. There are still many things to do at home. The third aunt is the only one in the house to support the family. It is very hard work. Some things cannot be left to the third aunt. Gu Lin's is similar and needs a long time to recuperate.
(end of this chapter)