Farming and reading family

Gao E didn't stop him either.

Her calmness doesn't mean she has no temper. If she is not good at causing trouble, she will let others do it.

"I'm going too." Lei said as she was about to go out.

"Stop right there." Gao E called out to Lei. "Don't you know what's going on? Stay home quietly."

Lei immediately became timid.

Gao E knew very well that those people had enough benefits when they joined the village collective. Now they can earn 750 coins a month outside, which is a considerable amount of money for ordinary farmers.

Chen Jie first went to find Zheng Fengan, and then found the families whose members had gone out.

Those families knew they were in the wrong but were unwilling to give in, saying that only one person in their family had left and the rest were still in the village, so there was no problem.

Chen Jie naturally refused to give in, and most people in the village also felt that those families had gone too far, so they had an argument.

Zheng Fengan saw that it was not a good idea for them to continue arguing like this, so he went to discuss the matter with Gao E.

Zheng Fengan came to the Chen family when they were preparing lunch. Now Chen Fansheng was not at home, and there was no one to intervene.

"Uncle Zheng is here, please sit down." Gao E came over carrying a kettle.

Lei was about to make a sarcastic remark, but suddenly remembered that she seemed to have become much more irritable because of her pregnancy, so she hurriedly restrained her temper.

Zheng Fengan sat down solemnly: "You know that some people in our village have gone out to work as farmhands, right?"

"Yeah." Gao E also pulled a bamboo chair and sat down.

"What are you going to do about it?"

"This is not something I should handle." Gao E said lightly.

Zheng Fengan turned his head to look at Gao E, wondering if Gao E was going to push this matter to him to deal with?

"They have already left the village collective, so just divide it up." Gao E said calmly.

That's it?

Zheng Fengan thought that Chen Jie had made such a scene at Gao E's instigation, but now it seemed that Chen Jie was just angry.

"They were indeed wrong in this matter." Zheng Fengan made a direct assessment.

He originally thought that Gao E would be petty and would even plead for those families for the sake of the village.

He didn't expect Gao E to be so magnanimous, so he didn't know what to say.

"I've made it clear upfront." Gao E still smiled faintly. "They joined the village collective as a household. Once they leave, our Chen family will no longer provide food for them, and we will not allow them to join the village collective in the future."

Zheng Fengan felt that this was as it should be. Gao E was already magnanimous by not pursuing the past matter: "They have already cleared the land of two households. This..."

"We don't care. From now on, anything belonging to the village collective has nothing to do with them, including grain seeds and seedlings." Gao E made a very thorough break.

Zheng Fengan thought that if he didn't provide them with grain seeds and seedlings at this time, they would definitely not be able to plant in the spring. "Okay, I'll go talk to them right away."

"Uncle Zheng, wait a moment." Gao E said and turned to go into the cave.

Zheng Fengan waited for a while, and Gao E came out with a stack of documents.

"Pick out the clerks of the families who have left the village collective. This matter must be handled in public." Gao E pushed the clerk to Zheng Fengan's side.

Zheng Fengan nodded, picked out the documents from those households and left.

After seeing Zheng Fengan off, Gao E looked at the remaining documents.

Previously, those who were unwilling to join the village collective were families with many strong laborers, and now those who are the first to turn their backs on the village collective are also families with many strong laborers. They really have the confidence to do so.

"Are you just going to let it go like this, Second Sister-in-law?" Lei was a little unwilling.

"The earth is Kun, and a gentleman carries all things with great virtue." Gao E sorted out the documents. "But no one can escape the vicissitudes of life."

Lei didn't understand at all and didn't ask any further questions.

Gao E put away the documents and began to calculate how much food to send to the village today.

The food is delivered every meal. If you tear up the documents now, those families will have nothing to eat for the next meal.

Gao E is not at all soft-hearted in this regard.

After a while, Chen Qing and Chen Jie came back together. Chen Qing was very silent, and Chen Jie was cursing, obviously dissatisfied with Zheng Fengan's handling of the matter.

"Second sister-in-law, Uncle Zheng tore up the village collective documents of those households and said that the matter is over." Chen Jie shouted loudly in the yard.

Gao E walked out of the cave and looked at Chen Jie, whose face was red and his neck was thick. He wondered how long he had been arguing with someone.

"He also said that this was what you said. I think he just wants to protect those families, two of whom are members of the Zheng family." Chen Jie said angrily.

"I said it." Gao E admitted directly.

Chen Jie was stunned for a moment, looking hurt and feeling betrayed.

He worked so hard to fight for fairness for his family, but his second sister-in-law actually sabotaged him.

"Then why did you let my third brother go and quarrel with those people?" Chen Qing was also a little dissatisfied.

When Chen Jie went to quarrel with those people, he came back and asked his second brother's wife. If his second brother's wife had such plans, she should have told his third brother earlier.

"I want them to know that our Chen family is not angry, we are just generous." Gao E looked at Chen Jie. "I'm sorry for not telling you in advance."

Chen Jie was stunned for a moment when he heard his second sister-in-law say this, then he felt relieved: "Second sister-in-law means that one of us plays the good cop and the other the bad cop, so that those people will be in the wrong."

"Almost." Gao E nodded.

Chen Jie was happy now: "Fortunately, my second sister-in-law didn't tell me, otherwise my emotions would not be in place."

Chen Qing smiled bitterly in silence. Why did his third brother suddenly become so stupid?

"But our family still suffered a loss." Chen Jie felt depressed.

"Twenty-five cents a day isn't easy to earn," Gao E said calmly. "Everything should be viewed over a long period of time. A single crop season takes half a year to grow."

Chen Jie didn’t know what he would see in the future, but he must have lost money before.

"Brother, those families haven't planted their crops yet, right?" Gao E suddenly asked.

"Not yet. These two days are the planting season." Chen Qing knew that if he didn't give those households the seeds, "If he didn't give them the seeds, they wouldn't have time to buy them."

"That's their business." Gao E said calmly and indifferently, "They were the first to break their promise."

Chen Qing lowered his eyes and thought, their Chen family must have suffered a loss in this matter, but those people would not be much better off if they did not work with the villagers.

It was fine during the day. Those families were in the wrong and were ridiculed by the villagers, but they didn't dare to say anything.

But they were furious when they didn't get any dinner.

After a hard day's work, they see others have food to eat while they have nothing. This contrast is unbearable for them.

Zheng Wang threw the bamboo bowl down in anger and said, "What does the Chen family mean by this? We've worked all day, and they want to starve us to death."

Those families who had no food to eat also stood up.

"Let's go to the Chen family and ask for an explanation. What we are doing today is not our own work."

"That's right. Now that the Chen family has so much land, they just want to get us to work for them for free in exchange for a bite to eat."

"This Chen family is so heartless. Just because one person left our family, they wanted to starve us all to death."

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