Chapter 392 It’s a clear steal!

In the summer of 1986, the temperature was much higher than in previous years. This year, droughts were severe in various places.

People living in cities may not feel it too much, but in some rural areas, crops have died in large areas due to drought!——

Tianshui Village in Qingyang County is located in the Central Plains and is also one of the places where droughts occur.

This year, in order to save the crops in the fields, the whole village worked hard every day to carry water from the river to irrigate the fields.

But gradually, the water level of the river dropped and the river bed was gradually exposed.

The children in the village were so happy to see this that they fished in the knee-high water every day.

The adults in the village all looked sad, and the village chief even sighed in sorrow every day.

Eventually the water in the river dried up, and most of the village’s crop fields were lost——

On the mountain behind the village, Lan Dazhuang hired people to carry water to the orchard to irrigate the ground every day.

Fortunately, fruit trees are more drought-tolerant than crops, and the hotter the weather and the longer the sun shines, the sweeter the fruits will be.

This year, in the entire Tianshui Village, except for the orchard planted by the Lan family on the contracted land in the back mountain, everyone else in the village is worried about whether they will be able to eat next year.

As time goes by, the fruits in the orchard become ripe, and carts of fruits are picked from the mountain. Some of them are sent to the fruit processing factory built down the mountain to be made into cans and jam.

The other part is sent to the city, wholesaled to fruit vendors, and sold to various counties in Linjiang City.

The good life of the Lan family is the envy of everyone in the village!

Under such a strong contrast, some people in the village became jealous and resentful, and began to lobby the village chief, trying to get the village chief to tell the Lan family that they could no longer contract the back mountain!

Planting orchards and raising chickens in the hills behind the village should be in the interests of everyone in the village——

The village chief initially had such thoughts towards some villagers and said that they were unreasonable.

Later, as more and more of the village's crop fields died due to drought, the village chief gradually came up with the idea.

But his idea was not to take back the back mountain contracted by the Lan family, but to ask the Lan family to distribute some of the benefits from the back mountain to the whole village, so that everyone in the village would no longer have complaints.

On this day, Lan Dazhuang had been busy all day. When he was about to go home, take a shower, and then drive his tractor to the county town to meet his wife and son, he saw the village chief squatting at the door of his house. He had obviously been waiting for a long time.

Lan Dazhuang was an honest man and had a good personality, so he immediately invited the village chief to sit at home.

But when he learned the village chief's intention, Lan Dazhuang's originally honest face suddenly darkened——

"Village Chief, we brothers and sisters started contracting the back hill a few years ago. Whether it is an orchard or a free-range chicken farm, it is all due to the investment of us brothers and sisters, as well as the unremitting maintenance over the years.

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"Now because the village is experiencing a severe drought, we are asked to take out our own things and distribute them to others? There is no such reason in the world!"

Lan Dazhuang flatly rejected the village chief's request.

In fact, before arriving, the village chief did not have high hopes for the conditions he proposed.

But after he made these requests, he subconsciously felt that he had spoken. This was also the thought of everyone in the village. Even if the Lan family suffered some losses, it was because the wishes of the masses were greater than the wishes of the individual~!

After he clearly heard Lan Dazhuang's rejection, the village chief suddenly became angry!

"Lan Dazhuang! You must have a conscience! Ask yourself, how do I treat your family? In the past few years, when did your brother and sister contact each other through a phone other than my home phone? Now that the village is encountering difficulties, are you not even willing to help?"

Hearing what the village chief said, Lan Dazhuang was also upset.

"That's right, I didn't have a phone at home before, so I used your phone many times, but every time we used it, it was not in vain! Either the same day or the next day, eggs or even bacon would be delivered to supplement our income.

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"Since the harvest in my orchard two years ago, every year when the fruits are ripe, I carry baskets of fruits and deliver them to your home without asking for a penny from you."

"At that time, our family had already installed its own telephone, and we no longer used yours. Therefore, our family has repaid the help you gave our family, village chief!"

"And now, when you ask our family to help the village, you mean to ask our family to take out the 'money' in our pockets and distribute it to everyone in the village? This is so unreasonable! It's just like stealing!"

Although Lan Dazhuang seems to be honest and honest, he is not stupid and is even a smart man.

He thinks things through clearly and makes sense when he encounters them.

The village chief used to think that the second and third sons of the Lan family were good at studies, and the daughter of the Lan family was smart and good at doing business, so Lan Dazhuang was the simple and honest one.

But now he knows that the Lan family brothers and sisters are all human spirits~!

When Lan Dazhuang bluntly revealed his plan, the village chief suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

But thinking that he came today not because of personal interests, but because it was related to the livelihood of the whole village, so the village chief felt that even if he was being shameless, he still wanted to let the Lan family help the village.

After all, of all the people in their village, the Lan family has the best life, and the children of the Lan family are the most capable.

If the Lan family doesn't help, who else can they turn to to help the villagers survive this disaster year?

"Lan Dazhuang, you can't say that! The mountain behind your family's contract originally belonged to the village. Now that the villagers are in trouble, can you just watch and do nothing to help?"

The village chief's words seemed to have softened his attitude, but in Lan Dazhuang's view, they still meant the same thing as the previous 'clear robbery'.

Who doesn’t know how to say a few soft words?

A few words can make him give away his family's money to others for free. Do you really think he is stupid?

In front of the village chief, Lan Dazhuang rolled his eyes fiercely!

"Village Chief, you also said that we brothers and sisters contracted the back mountain, and we paid the contracting fees on time every year!"

"The people in the village are in trouble, which is caused by drought. No one wants to think about it in a disaster year. As for me watching helplessly, you are wrong!"

"Half of the workers hired by my family in the orchard, fruit factory, free-range chicken farm, and frozen semi-finished fried chicken processing factory in the back mountain are from our village!"

"Our family provides job opportunities for these villagers so that they can earn money every month. Is this just a helpless look and does it not help the village?"

The village chief never knew that Lan Dazhuang was so eloquent!

Yes, the Lan family's orchard and chicken farm, as well as the two factories they later opened, did bring job opportunities to some people in the village.

But not every household has such an opportunity. There are still many villagers who may not be able to survive this year’s severe drought!

When they have no food or food next year, will I, as the village chief, have to watch them starve to death?

So the village chief’s current mentality is that the Lan family can help everyone tide over the difficulties, but they refuse to help!
Chapter completed!