Xia Ningxing lifted her eyes at this moment, her gaze passing over the enthusiastically speech-giving village chief, and landed on the land division map behind him.
A few of those acres would soon have a wide river flowing through them; in other words, this land was going to be appropriated by the authorities to build a river channel.
Appropriated, but not for nothing—they would compensate two thousand yuan for each acre!
Two thousand yuan might not be much in later times, but in that era, it was enough for most people to earn in four or five years without eating or drinking, whereas planting rice and other common crops would barely earn this amount in over ten years.
If their family's five acres... that would be ten thousand yuan!
Although by the late '80s, the notion of a ten-thousand-yuan household wasn't too valuable, in remote rural areas, it still symbolized a wealthy landlord!
