The village secretary saw Lan Shu reaching out to take out stacks of money from her army green satchel.
"There's no need to discuss. We've already prepared the money. We're going to contract the back mountain of the village."
Seeing so much money, the village chief's eyes widened.
The secretary was speechless.
In the end, Lan Shu and Lan Dazhuang, the siblings, contracted the back mountain of Tianshui Village for 15 years at the price of 300 yuan a year.
Moreover, the money did not need to be paid in one go. It could be paid once a year.
Lan Shu counted out 300 yuan and handed it to the village chief. When Lan Shu signed the contract with the village, she specially asked the village to add a clause to the contract. If the land contract expired and needed to be renewed, the Lan siblings would have the priority to renew the contract first.
In other words, after the 15-year contract expired, only when the Lan family was disinterested in renewing the contract could the village contract the back mountain to someone else.
The village secretary and the village chief had no objections to this.
This was because they didn't think that anyone would be like the Lan siblings, who had too much money and nowhere to spend it.
Before Lan Shu and Lan Dazhuang left, the village secretary specially left a message for them. He said that if they changed their minds after a year and didn't want to contract the back mountain anymore, the contract could be withdrawn at any time and they wouldn't have to pay the contract fees for the next ten years.
Lan Shu nodded with a smile, but in reality, she was overjoyed!
They had contracted an entire mountain! Only 300 yuan a year!
If it was contracted farmland, it would definitely not be so cheap, but this price was far beyond her expectations.
A year later, not only would she and her brother not give up on continuing to contract the back mountain,
15 years later, they would continue to contract it!
Of course, this could not be told to the village leaders yet.
…
It was almost noon. Lan Shengli didn't wait for his daughter to deliver the food and rushed home himself.
Recently, the autumn harvest was approaching, and the union was extremely busy. He originally did not have time to come back, but he heard that this morning, his son and daughter had contracted the mountain behind the village for the longest period of 15 years!
This made him come back no matter what to ask about the situation!
Back at home, Xiao Bai was preparing food in the kitchen. He was about to fill the enamel jar, and Lan Shu was waiting in the kitchen, ready to send the food out at any time.
Lan Dazhuang hadn't arrived home yet. After settling the mountain contract, the next step was to plant fruit saplings and build a free-range chicken farm.
Therefore, the purchase of saplings and the construction of barbed wire for the chicken farm fence was urgent.
Lan Dazhuang had always been very efficient. After signing the contract with the village in the morning, he immediately drove the tractor to the county to buy what they needed.
Hence, when Lan Shengli arrived home, he only saw his daughter.
If he was facing his son, Lan Shengli could give him a few slaps on the head and scold him for taking over the back mountain!
But if it was his precious daughter, Lan Shengli couldn't bear to lift a finger or say anything harsh…
Hence, after he suppressed the anger in his heart and asked his daughter in the gentlest tone about contracting the back mountain, Lan Shu told him about the tree planting and breeding plan that she had told Lan Dazhuang back then.
This made Lan Shengli, who had blamed Dazhuang for messing around with his sister, feel that it was feasible!
"If that's the case, will our family become very rich in the future?" When Lan Shengli said this, he was a little excited.
"Of course." Lan Shu nodded.
"I did a rough calculation. Let's just talk about our income from raising chickens first. From getting the initial 100 chickens to having more than 1,000 adult chickens a year later, each chicken can be sold for 1.8 to 2.30 yuan according to the market price. We're raising free-range mountain chickens, so the price will only be higher. Someone will buy them for 2.50 yuan. Thus, 1,000 chickens would bring them a profit of more than 2,000 yuan.
"What we need to invest in raising chickens is only 20 to 30 yuan. Even if we include the feed the chicks need to eat at the beginning, it's not much."
Every family knew that raising chickens could earn money, but before the reform, they were very strict. They did not allow the villagers to trade privately at all, let alone raise a large number of chickens.
At most, the villagers would raise a few in their own courtyard and keep them for themselves to eat during the holidays.
However, things were different now. As long as there was a place to raise them, they could raise as many as they wanted.
"This is only the first year. In the future, our free-range chicken farm will only grow larger and larger. More and more chickens will be raised. We've contracted the entire mountain so not to mention a thousand chickens, we can even raise 10,000 or 100,000 chickens!"
"100,000!" Lan Shengli was a little shocked!
He silently calculated in his heart. If a chicken could be sold for two and a half yuan, then 100,000 chickens would be worth 250,000 yuan!
Their family was going to be rich!
However, Lan Shu continued to explain the big picture.
"Dad, when the time comes, let alone being rich, we can even be the richest family in the village. As for the richest family in the county, it's not impossible to achieve if we work hard."
As soon as she said this, Lan Shengli's jaw dropped even more!
The richest family in the county!
He didn't even dare to think about it!
And now, his precious daughter had already regarded the title of the richest family in the entire county as their future goal…
At this moment, Lan Shengli suddenly felt that he was really old.
It wasn't the body but the mind.
This sounded unbelievable to him. Only young people dared to think about it and do it!
It seemed that he could not treat his children as ignorant children in the future.
Their abilities were far more powerful than he had imagined…
Lan Shengli, who was originally livid and anxious to settle scores with his son, changed his mind after hearing his daughter's words.
When he left home, Lan Shengli's bright smile showed that he was unbelievably happy.
On Lan Shu's side, her father left after eating at home, but she still had to go to the village primary school to deliver food.
Picking up the dishes that Xiao Bai had already prepared, Lan Shu left the house in a hurry as she did not want the food to turn cold.
Behind her, Xiao Bai was still thinking about what the fat miss had just said.
"Does she want to be the richest family in the county? It's not impossible…"
This chubby miss suddenly reminded him of someone.
Someone who was also very talented in business…
But who was that person? Xiao Bai could not remember clearly.
However, he vaguely felt that the other party should have an extraordinary relationship with him…
…
At the end of September, Tianshui Village welcomed the day of the annual autumn harvest.
All the villagers were mobilized and worked hard in the fields.
These days, Lan Shu was lying on the bed in her room, too lazy to move.
She had been in this era for a month, and her period had arrived as scheduled.
Two days ago, she was still working hard to arrange the construction of the chicken farm on the mountain, but the sudden arrival of her period made her instantly listless.
In this era where sanitary pads were not used, the feeling of using toilet paper was not great. It was easy for the blood to leak when she took a few casual steps…
Hence, Lan Shu simply lay down.
At the thought that she would experience such an awkward situation every month in the future, Lan Shu was even more determined to make the sanitary pads launch early in this era!