Rebirth 78: Hunting for Treasure in the Mountains, Spoiling My Wife and Daughter to the Heavens

"Where have you been! You haven't come back for days, I thought you were dead!"

As soon as they returned to Fendou Village, Zhao Yangyang wiggled her big butt and gave Lu Weiguo a good beating.

"Work! Work, who's as free as you? School doesn't start until October."

Lu Weiguo suddenly lifted Zhao Yangyang up.

She was just angry, but her eyes suddenly became glazed over.

He came back to talk business with Village Chief Zhao, but Zhao Yangyang wasn't about to let him off the hook.

I was busy for a full hour.

She blushed and let Lu Weiguo leave.

"Holy crap! This looks like my house."

After buttoning his coat and leaving home, Lu Weiguo felt as if he had just returned to a hotel.

Mid-September is the harvest season.

The entire village of Fendou became bustling with activity.

The villagers were bustling about at both ends of the village.

They were chanting work slogans and working with incredible enthusiasm.

Village Chief Huang sat in the village branch office, drinking tea, smoking, and recording everyone's work points.

Compared to other villages, they were lazy after they learned about the household responsibility system.

Clearly, the villagers of Fendou Village all want to harvest the potatoes in their fields as soon as possible.

Then I went to the purchasing station to find work.

"Damn it! You little brat, you dare to come back? Zhang Dexing's parents are practically living here, they're going crazy looking for Liu Dazhuang!!"

It's been over a week, and that kid is still not sober after all the beating you guys gave him. Anyone who didn't know better would think he's the one who's stupid.

The moment Huang saw Lu Weiguo, he felt a surge of anger.

This kind of hands-off management is something no human being should do.

"Hey! Don't talk nonsense. It was Liu Dazhuang who did it. It has nothing to do with me or his three girls."

If you can't even take care of three underage women, I'll report you to the commune!

Lu Weiguo said, half seriously and half jokingly.

"Get lost, spit it out."

Village Chief Huang ignored him, fearing that Liu Ermei and her three little girls would be bullied.

He led those three little girls to work every day.

They only returned after all the villagers had finished their work and gathered together.

They acted like they were taking care of their own daughter.

"It's still about the household responsibility system."

Lu Weiguo sat down opposite him, picked up a teacup, and gulped down a whole cup of water.

"Didn't you go to work at the Reform and Opening-up Office? You know the situation in our village. Now you're the leader, so you can do whatever you say."

With Zhang Dexing absent, Village Chief Huang clearly had much more say.

How dare they say something like "a hands-off manager"?

"Our village is different from other villages."

Lu Weiguo sighed as he spoke.

He said when he was first reborn that those potatoes couldn't be grown.

However, Zhang Dexing was primarily in charge of production at that time.

No one paid attention to Lu Weiguo's words.

When the household contract responsibility system was publicized, all the villagers were stunned.

Land that has been planted with potatoes will take two to three years to recover if additional fertilizer is not applied.

If this land is to be allocated to individuals, then they must buy fertilizer and apply it themselves.

Moreover, the amount of grain handed over each year was not based on a proportion, but on a specific quantity.

If you don't apply enough fertilizer, your crops simply won't grow.

Therefore, the villagers of Fendou Village had little enthusiasm for the household responsibility system.

It would be better to go to the recycling station and take on more manual labor.

They earn more than they do from farming.

"Then what do you suggest we do? The potatoes are almost all harvested, and the policy has been publicized for half a month."

No one comes to me to draw lots for land. Each contract is for three years only. Once the land is ready, I start leasing it again. If I end up in a different location, then I'm just letting someone else develop their land.

"Who wants to be this sucker?"

Village Chief Huang sighed.

The facts are there: although everyone says life is good in Fendou Village.

But in reality, only they know how many problems there are.

In my previous life, Fendou Village was just like this.

No one was enthusiastic about the household responsibility system.

That land remained abandoned for three whole years.

Three years later, the land was redistributed. The land was covered with weeds. The land was turned over, the weeds were removed, and the ridges were rebuilt.

Another year wasted.

With no harvest year after year, most villagers began to go out to make a living.

Those who remained also began to idle away their time.

A village, all because of one policy, and the result...

"I'll take it."

Lu Weiguo ignored the complaints and simply said two words.

"You're the one who takes the lead? How come people follow you just because you take the lead? How come you have such a big influence? How come you have such a big head? You're really something else."

Village Chief Huang scoffed.

They thought Lu Weiguo wanted to take the lead in contracting land and set an example.

He had also considered this method: whoever takes the lead in leasing land can have priority in choosing.

However, most villagers would rather go further afield to the mountains to cultivate their own land than plant this wasteland where potatoes have consumed all the fertilizer.

"I mean, I'm covering everything."

Lu Weiguo's words were so startling that Village Chief Huang almost fell to the ground.

"What the hell? You bought it all? You capitalist! What, you want to be a landowner? You little bastard, you think you're so great just because you have a little power?!"

See, I won't hit you...

Village Chief Huang picked up the kettle, ready to beat up Lu Weiguo.

But seeing his determined look, she quickly thought of something, frowned, and asked, "Don't try to fool me, tell me properly."

People with ability will change.

This statement applies to most people.

But in Lu Weiguo's case...

Village Chief Huang believed he wouldn't do that.

"Look at you, you almost chased me away with that kettle." Lu Weiguo pointed to the water glass, signaling Village Chief Huang to pour the water.

The village chief pouted, looking unwilling.

In the end, he poured a full teacup of water: "I'll scald you to death, you bastard."

"If it scalds me to death, who's going to rent the land?!"

"Hurry up and release it! Stop dawdling."

"Okay, okay!!" Lu Weiguo slurped his water and voiced his thoughts.

In reality, what is called land leasing is actually a lending model.

Lu Weiguo took out a notebook and pen and did some calculations for the village chief.

In name, Lu Weiguo wanted to implement a large-scale farm model, with unified planting, unified fertilization, and unified harvesting, which was no different from the previous collective model.

However, each household only needs to take care of its own land.

Fendou Village is not as good as the Great Northern Wilderness; it's all plains.

The land here is all in small pieces.

So after Lu Weiguo contracted the land, each household received seeds and fertilizer from him, and all they had to do was contribute their labor.

When the autumn harvest season came, in addition to what was handed over to the state and the collective, a small portion was given to Lu Weiguo.

What's left is yours.

In this way, farmers are no longer burdened by farming.

Lu Weiguo will bear all the previous losses.

So, even if Lu Weiguo earns less after three years, he's still making a profit.

The villagers now have land to cultivate, and the land is no longer left uncultivated.

In fact, this is the same as the agricultural development bank that existed in later generations, which was a lending model specifically for farmers.

Lu Weiguo was merely a contributor in the early stages.