A 50-year-old man is reborn and becomes a complete slacker, leaving his scumbag children completely

Is it difficult to eat cucumbers in winter? Not at all! With greenhouses, you can grow vegetables out of season.

At this moment, Hu Dahai also remembered that because China had experienced a special period of ten years, many production technologies had been stagnant and social order had been unstable.

It's only just beginning to recover, especially with the mindset that speculation and profiteering will get you arrested. Many people who farm just want enough for their own families to eat, and they don't even think about selling their produce, let alone growing greenhouse-grown off-season vegetables and fruits.

In fact, greenhouses existed in this era, but they had not yet been widely adopted. Hu Dahai, who had lived through the ages, also knew that greenhouse vegetables were not simply a matter of building a glass greenhouse and growing some vegetables; it also required a lot of other technologies and had relatively high requirements for seeds.

Fortunately, Hu Dahai had the necessary connections; he knew where to find these seeds.

Thinking of this, Hu Dahai smiled and said, "We can grow some off-season vegetables and fruits here, and they will taste even better than what we eat now. We will supply them to you then."

"Really?" Zhang Zhaoxing was stunned, clearly not expecting Hu Dahai to actually have such abilities.

"It's genuine, no doubt about it," Hu Dahai said confidently. "The price might be a bit high though."

Zhang Zhaoxing waved his hand: "It's expensive, but it's out of season, so it's normal for it to be a bit pricey. As long as it tastes good, then the price is worth it."

** reacted much faster than Zhang Zhaoxing, immediately saying, "Okay, Brother Dahai, our textile factory will take your off-season vegetables from now on. And if you have a large quantity, I also have channels with the supply and marketing cooperative, so you can sell directly to them."

His words gave Hu Dahai a lot of confidence. Selling to the canteen was only a small amount; if he wanted to expand, he really had to sell to the supply and marketing cooperative.

Of course, even without the supply and marketing cooperative as a sales channel, Hu Dahai had his own other methods to sell these off-season vegetables.

So after they left, Hu Dahai immediately made the necessary preparations.

To grow greenhouse vegetables, land is essential. Then there are people; you need skilled farmers, and in the countryside, farmers are the one thing you have in abundance.

Thinking of this, Hu Dahai took a few cans of fruit from the things that ** had brought earlier and headed towards the home of the brigade leader of Qunyi Brigade.

If you want to rent land in Qunyi Brigade, you need the help of the brigade leader. With his help, you can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

The captain of the Qunyi Brigade is named Li Wude.

When he saw Hu Dahai coming to see him, he greeted him with a smile: "Dahai, what brings you here today?"

Li Wude had a very good impression of Hu Dahai. Last time, when Zhang Zude's family had an incident, Hu Dahai not only gave Li Wude face, but also gave him half a pack of Zhonghua brand cigarettes. He still kept those cigarettes and smoked one every few days to satisfy his craving.

"Captain, I have something I'd like to ask for your help with," Hu Dahai said, placing the canned fruit he was carrying on Li Wude's table.

When Li Wude's family saw the canned food, their eyes lit up, and several people could be heard swallowing hard.

These days, being able to eat a can of fruit is already a luxury.

"Just say what you need, why bring things?" Li Wude poured Hu Dahai a glass of water and sat down in front of him, asking, "Go ahead, what's wrong? If you need my help, just say so. I'll definitely help you if I can."

"Captain, I need to rent some land to grow vegetables," Hu Dahai said bluntly.

Li Wude didn't take it seriously at first, thinking that Hu Dahai wanted to rent a small plot of land to grow some vegetables.

I was about to suggest that you just ask someone in the brigade to rent it, but then I realized that it probably wouldn't be that simple if Hu Dahai asked me for help, so I asked again, "How much land do you want to rent?"

Hu Dahai held up one finger.

"One mu?" Li Wude scratched his head: "If it's one mu, you can just find someone to rent a piece. Some people do want to rent out their land."

"No, I only need 100 mu for now, but I may need more in the future," Hu Dahai said, shaking his head.

"What?!" Li Wude exclaimed in surprise, "You want 100 mu? What do you need so much land for?"

Hu Dahai smiled and said, "I want to grow off-season greenhouse vegetables on a large scale, so I need a relatively large plot of land, preferably a contiguous whole plot."

"I wonder if our Qunyi Brigade has such land?"

Li Wude pondered for a moment. If Hu Dahai had said 10 mu, he would have had no trouble pointing out which plots. But 100 mu was a completely different scale.

The collective land of their entire Qunyi Brigade is only about 600 mu, which means that Hu Dahai alone is going to take away nearly one-sixth of it.

"Yes, there is," Li Wude replied after thinking for a long time. "But this land is used to grow rice. Every year, our brigade relies on this rice to earn some money for our own food. Moreover, we have to pay grain taxes to the state for this land. If you want to rent it, how much rent can you afford?"

Hu Dahai had already considered this problem on his way here. He had calculated that one mu (approximately 0.16 acres) of land could produce about 300-400 jin (approximately 150-200 catties) of grain. He would use 400 jin as his estimate, and with two harvests a year, that would be 800 jin. At 13 cents per jin of rice, and an estimated 10 cents per jin for procurement, one mu would yield 80 yuan per year. However, this figure also needed to account for labor and other miscellaneous expenses; in reality, the profit per mu was quite low.

However, Hu Dahai had no intention of taking advantage of the brigade in this matter, so he immediately replied, "I'm prepared to pay the brigade 80 yuan per mu as rent, and the brigade will be responsible for paying the grain tax. What do you think, Brigade Leader?"

"How much? 80?!" Li Wude stood up immediately upon hearing this. He could hardly believe that Hu Dahai would offer such a high price. 80 per mu, that's 8000 a year for 100 mu!

Even in a good harvest year, selling all the grain from one acre of land wouldn't earn them 80 yuan. And that doesn't even include the labor involved, plus the worry about the weather.

Furthermore, they could use the rice from the rest of the village's fields to pay the grain tax, so wouldn't the 8000 here be practically a net profit?

"How about it? If you find it difficult, I can rent it from Fengsheng Brigade. They are willing to rent it to me," Hu Dahai said.

Li Wude excitedly grabbed Hu Dahai's hand, as if afraid this god of wealth would leave. He nodded repeatedly, "Willing! Of course I'm willing!"

Without even thinking about it, an extra 8000 yuan a year—if I just casually mentioned it to the brigade tomorrow, all the cadres would definitely raise their hands and feet in approval.

“There’s one thing,” Li Wude continued, “If you need to find workers, it’s best to look for them in our brigade, so that everyone in our brigade can earn money too.”

Hu Dahai nodded upon hearing this: "No problem. It's just that I can't pay the full amount all at once. I'll pay 3000 first, and the remaining 5000 will be paid by the end of the year. Is that alright?"

“Sure!” Li Wude knew Hu Dahai’s earning power, so he wasn’t worried at all that Hu Dahai wouldn’t be able to pay the rent.

The two reached an agreement on the rent, as long as Hu Dahai went to the brigade office to complete the formalities the next day. In order to serve Hu Dahai well, Li Wude even personally selected a plot of land close to the main road for him, which would make transportation more convenient, making Hu Dahai very satisfied.

When Hu Dahai left Li Wude's house, it was already past ten o'clock at night. Looking at the moon in the sky, he felt relieved: now that the land problem was solved, the next thing he needed to solve was the technical problem.