[Marriage first, love later] She is happy after marrying a widower

Song Yanzhi and Han Heming have been tilling the mountain land these two days. The mountain land is thin and needs to be fertilized before planting winter wheat. The fertile land is not as good as it used to be and it is still a long way from the autumnal equinox.

After waiting at home for two days, the tenants became restless. They were used to being busy all year round, and after resting at home for two days, everyone felt a little nervous.

The land is there, and as long as they are willing to provide food, how can we not find people to farm it?

Several families reacted immediately and skipped Hu Sangang and went straight to find Han Heming.

Song Yanzhi and Han Heming had just returned from the fields when they saw several men standing at the door of their house. They had their hands in their sleeves, their backs hunched, and looked a little confused and helpless.

"Master Han and Madam Han, you are back?"

When several men saw the two men coming back, they hurried forward to greet them.

"You are?"

Song Yanzhi and Han Heming had seen these people following Hu Sangang that day, but they were pretending not to know them.

"We used to be tenants of the Wang family. We'd like to ask the master and mistress if they would be willing to continue renting their land to us for cultivation."

The tenants' faces were full of longing. If they couldn't rent the land, their whole family would starve to death next year.

"I wonder how you plan to rent our land?"

Han Heming knew that the conditions for renting the land when they came today would not be the same as last time.

"I wonder if you could still give us a 20% interest like you did at the Wang family? If the master and mistress think 20% is too high, we can still give it a lower rate."

The temperature in the south of the Yangtze River is suitable, and here people can grow two crops and harvest two harvests a year, so the grain production is good. The tenants here basically rent the land with a profit of 20%.

A 2% interest rate can allow the tenants to eat 80% full, which will neither make them full nor starve to death.

If the interest rate is lower than 2%, you will have to live on hunger.

"Any other requests?"

When Han Heming heard this, his expression became serious. As long as others did not push him too far, he was still easy to talk to.

"No, no, if the master and mistress are willing to rent the land to us, we will be very grateful."

The person who spoke was called Hu Yong. Logically speaking, his father and Hu Sangang were brothers. He also asked Hu Sangang who he called his uncle, because his family and Hu Sangang's family had fled the chaos and came here together.

They are all tenants. Hu Sangang is considered to be a strategist and his life is much better than his family. His family is really on the verge of collapse.

"Okay, then I'll do as you say. I'll give you 2% interest on every acre of land. Also, I have some mountain land. The land there is thin. Would you be willing to help me cultivate it? If so, I'll give you 4% interest on the mountain land.

I know that hard-working people are not tolerated. During the New Year and other holidays, if our crops are good, I will not treat you unfairly. We will calculate based on strong laborers, and each person will receive half a piece of cloth and fifty coins per year.

If you have any difficulties at home, please come to me and my wife, and we will definitely lend a hand if we can."

Han Heming is a very honest person. He will not treat everyone unfairly. His factory can make concessions and he can give more during the New Year holidays.

His family has a fish pond and an lotus pond. At the end of the year, each family can share some fish and shrimp from the lotus pond, as well as some pork. If they give a few more coins, that's all fine.

"Really? Thank you so much, Master."

Hu Yong and several men behind him knelt down and were about to kowtow, but were quickly stopped by Han Heming.

"I'm afraid you families can't cultivate all that land. Can you go back and ask for me if there's anyone willing to rent our land?

If you have one, you will receive the same treatment. Come to me tomorrow to sign the deed, and then you can get back to your farm work."

Tenants and sharecroppers all have contracts with their owners. These contracts will be reported to the government, and the government will require the owner to pay a certain amount of tax based on the number of sharecroppers.

Hu Sangang found out about this at night. Hu Yong was his nephew and was holding him back. He found Hu Yong's house and wanted to kick him after catching him.

Hu Sangang is old, but Hu Yong is in his prime. He can only kick if Hu Yong lets him. If Hu Yong doesn't let him kick, he really can't kick.

Hu Yong broke free from Hu Sangang.

"Uncle San, what are you doing?"

He looked at Hu Sangang with a look of displeasure on his face.

"What did I do? What did you do?"

Hu Sangang was even angrier than Hu Yong. He stared at Hu Yong with his eyes wide open, as if he wanted to pierce through him.

"Uncle San, you came to my house to beat me up, but you didn't tell me what it was? Even if I'm your nephew, you should give me an explanation."

Hu Yong was able to bring people to find Han Heming, so he was certainly not a fool. He certainly knew why Hu Sangang wanted to attack him.

But if Hu Sangangyong could fool Mr. Han who was unaware of the situation, could he also fool them? Of course not.

Hu Sangang wanted to control the master of the Han family without considering whether others would let him do so or not.

Hu Sangang's own thoughts were obscure. He came to find Hu Yong, but when Keyong asked him, he was too embarrassed to say it out loud.

As a tenant, if he wants to control the master, that would be a rebellion. If the landlords in the area find out, they will never be able to rent land from others in the future.

"You little bastard, you'll be a tenant farmer your whole life and wait for your family to starve to death."

He said this angrily at last and left.

The tenants in Lizao Village do not live together with the local people here.

After the quarrel between the uncle and nephew, the tenants all knew what had happened. Those who did not follow Hu Yong to find Han Heming asked Hu Yong, and the Han family offered him the conditions for renting the land.

The tenants thought that the conditions offered by the Han family were better than those offered by the Wang family at that time, so they agreed with Hu Yong to go to Han Heming's house the next day to sign the contract.

Only Hu Sangang was sitting on the chair, smoking Hanye cigarettes one after another.

"His father, what should we do about this?"

Hu Sangang's wife looked at the man who was smoking non-stop and asked worriedly.

"How would I know? Hu Yong, that stinky brat, dared to ruin my business. Just wait and see what I'm going to do to him later."

On the second day, early in the morning, many people stood at Han Heming's house. Each tenant sent someone to say that they wanted to rent a few tenants and a few acres of land.

Han Heming's family has fertile fields and mountains. Everyone can choose to rent the fertile fields or the mountains. It is even better to rent them together. The tenants are all very happy.

As a tenant farmer, he won’t be worried unless he has land in his hands.

Of course, among these tenants, there was no Hu Sangang family.

After the land was rented out, Han Heming and Song Yanzhi felt relieved, and Han Heming no longer worked in the fields.

In autumn, the animals in the mountains are fat and strong, and the weather has turned cooler. Han Heming went up the mountain to hunt, and all the housework was left to Song Yanzhi.

Just after breakfast that day, Song Yanzhi had just sent her two children, Ajiu and Zhangwa, to school. When she returned to the village from school, a tenant farmer's wife ran towards her in panic.