The village committee held a collective meeting of the entire village and expressed the theme of the meeting. The villagers would have to express their opinions themselves.
There were only a few possible outcomes.
Whether they were willing to rent or not, there were people watching from the sidelines.
Most of the families who were willing to rent left were the elderly who had to take care of children. If they did not rent out the fields, the elderly would continue to plant them, making them helpless and worried.
Therefore, when they heard that the Shi family wanted to rent the land, those young people all called back and said that they were willing to rent the land out. It didn't matter how much the rent was, as long as everyone's rent was the same.
There were also some people who had been farming at home previously. Now, they planned to rent out the land and then go out to work. If the family went out to work, it would be easier to save money.
