My 1995 Small Farm.

Chapter 48 Targeting
"There might be too many people, so they didn't have time to come to your house to call you."

“After you’ve eaten, come with me. I’ll give you ten yuan a day. I’m looking at the 50-plus mu of greenhouses that Erzhu is building. It’ll take at least a month to finish. Once they’re done, you’ll get three or four hundred yuan. That’ll cover your expenses for half a year.”

Wang Lixian suggested.

"After working for more than a month, each person only received three or four hundred yuan. Is Erzhu really that rich now?"

Wang Susu was very surprised to hear this.

After silently calculating in his mind, he realized that Chen Erzhu would need at least 30,000 to 40,000 yuan to build the greenhouse, since in addition to the villagers, there was also a construction team.

Not to mention the expenses for contracting other people's farmland and building greenhouses.

It would take at least 100,000 yuan to get it done.

Back then, Chen Erzhu's father was only a millionaire, but unexpectedly, he became even more arrogant than his father and is now approaching 100,000.

Wang Lixian smiled and said, "He makes a lot of money from the sand quarry in the county, not to mention his lover runs a bus station. How could he not be rich?"

“Our village has just finished dividing up the farmland, and everyone is about to start spring plowing. As soon as they heard that Erzhu was offering more money, the whole seventh brigade went.”

"So, Fugui, come with me after you finish eating. Erzhu isn't short of money, we'll make as much as we can from him."

Actually, Wang Lixian saw that Chen Ling was idle at home all day, with nothing to do and no source of income. Now that there was this opportunity, he wanted to urge him to go together.

Otherwise, if Chen Ling becomes lazy and doesn't want to work, wouldn't it be a waste of this great opportunity to make money?
However, he didn't expect that Erzhu didn't ask Chen Ling to help at all.

"Forget it, Brother Xian. Erzhu didn't call me. What would it look like if I went out of my way to ask? Maybe they never even considered using me."

Chen Ling waved his hand, indicating that he would not go.

Upon hearing this, Wang Lixian assumed he was being lazy again, so he glared at him and said, "Why wouldn't we need you? Even Brother Guoping, an old man in his sixties, went. You're young and strong, of course we'd hire you."

Chen Ling disagreed with this statement.

Doesn't he know what kind of person Erzhu is?
They just feel rich now and have come back to the village to show off.

Not to mention that hiring people to do the work costs more money, when contracting farmland from other villages, we pay them 30 or 40 yuan more than other villages.

For most people, sixty or seventy yuan per mu is a good amount when contracting land, but he insisted on giving one hundred.

That old saying really is true...

Wealth and honor do not return to their hometown, just like walking in brocade at night.

He feels uncomfortable if he doesn't show off how rich and capable he is in front of the villagers.

But ironically, the more someone is like this, the smaller their capacity for tolerance becomes.

He felt he had lost face because Chen Ling hadn't agreed to help him in the county town last time.

Judging from Wang Lixian's words, Erzhu had summoned the entire Seventh Brigade when he returned this time, including Chen Guoping, an old man in his sixties, but he was the only one not invited.

It was clearly an attempt to embarrass him.

At the same time, I also want him to watch others earn ten yuan a day while he doesn't get a single penny.

If he gets envious and wants to help out and earn some money, he'll have to personally beg Chen Erzhu, and he'll inevitably have to humble himself.

Chen Ling chuckled to himself, thinking that such people were fundamentally dishonest and it was best to avoid them in the future. He then said to Wang Lixian, "Brother Xian, I know you mean well and want me to earn more money, but this time it's really not because I'm lazy. Do you think Erzhu really forgot that he called everyone in our entire Seventh Brigade except me?"

Wang Lixian was speechless for a moment.

After a moment of silence, he suddenly stood up and said, "Since that's the case, then I won't go."

Chen Ling was taken aback for a moment, then quickly said, "No, Brother Xian, if he doesn't want me to go, I won't go. He already asked you. It's a job that pays you every day, so you should go. It's not a big deal for me. You don't need to make a fuss over something like this."

He lives in the Sun and Moon Cave and is not short of money at all. Wang Lixian is different. He has to support a family of seven. It would be a pity for him not to take such a good opportunity to make money.

Besides, Erzhu was targeting him, not Wang Lixian.

How could we let Wang Lixian lose a money-making opportunity because of this little thing?

He also knew that Wang Lixian cherished their past relationship and remembered that their two families were distant relatives, so he always treated him like a younger brother and had helped him a lot.

This makes it even more important to ensure that he doesn't suffer losses because of my affairs.

“That’s right, Brother Xian. If Erzhu doesn’t invite our family, then don’t invite us either. We just exchanged farmland with him and he didn’t invite us. The villagers certainly won’t say anything bad about us. You should go.”

Wang Susu also offered her advice.

The young couple chatted back and forth, and Wang Lixian's expression softened considerably.

“I agreed yesterday to help him this time, but I won’t go next time no matter how much money he offers.”

After saying that, he asked again, "Why didn't he come to call you? Did you offend him, Fugui, or what happened?"

Wang Lixian was not an outsider, so Chen Ling didn't hide anything from him and told him about his encounter with Erzhu when he went to the city last time.

Wang Lixian frowned as soon as he heard this: "That son of a bitch, he thinks he can fool you. That stinking soldier from the village is the head of my construction team. His nephew got into the sand quarry last autumn, and it was Erzhu who arranged it."

“His lover has a very powerful background in the county, and he himself is in charge of the sand quarry. It’s as easy as eating and drinking for him to get someone in.”

"He tricked you into doing this and that with the sand quarry, clearly taking advantage of your honesty."

After grumbling and cursing for a while, he warned Chen Ling, "You should stay away from him in the future. I think he'll end up in jail sooner or later."

"They spend all their time in dance halls and casinos; what good things could possibly happen there?"

Chen Ling readily agreed.

……

After Wang Lixian left, Wang Susu said softly, "Ah Ling, I'm so sorry. I used to think you were just messing around in the county town. I never imagined you wanted to get on Erzhu's good side and get into the sand quarry..."

Upon hearing this, Chen Ling couldn't help but sigh inwardly, thinking to himself, "Silly wife, I was indeed fooling around before, you don't need to apologize."

After finishing their meal, Chen Ling washed the pots and pans, cleaned the yard, and then talked to Wang Susu about their plan to plant fruit trees in the field.

"Planting fruit trees? I heard that Erzhu's father planned to plant fruit trees when he first cleared the wasteland, but then he set up a lime factory..."

Wang Susu thought for a moment and then said, "After the accident at the lime factory, it was abandoned for more than ten years, and only now can small grasses grow."

"Although we've plowed the land once, it's only just started to look good. If we plant fruit trees directly like this, I don't know if they'll even grow."

(End of this chapter)