This forest is contracted by you

Seeing that Penny was in a state of delusion and unable to communicate, Zachary pondered for a while, said hello to Penny, got up and went out to find Uncle Zhang!

After Uncle Zhang heard the purpose of Zachary's visit and said that he wanted to contract the nearby mountains, he said to Zachary in surprise: "Don't you know that all the mountains nearby are contracted by your family?"

Zachary was confused and subconsciously asked back: "Contracted by my family? Who contracted it? When did it happen?"

Uncle Zhang thought for a while and said, "Oh, if you didn't say it, I would have forgotten. This was done by your grandfather. You were not at home and you definitely didn't know. I was wondering why you didn't come to exchange the procedures."

Then Uncle Zhang got up and searched in the archives of the village committee for a while, and found a contract. He handed it to Zachary and said, "Here, this is the contract. Take a look. By the way, you are here now and your grandfather has passed away. We will sign a new contract later and transfer the contract rights for the remaining years to you!"

Zachary took the contract and looked at it. Wow, it was a contract signed with several villager groups in the village. No wonder it was a contract signed with the village. A total of more than 60,000 acres of forest land were contracted. This is also because it is in the deep mountains. There is nothing else but a lot of mountains. If you change to another place, you may not be able to gather so much forest land in a town.

Uncle Zhang explained, "I heard that your father made a lot of money back then, so your grandfather wanted to help the villagers and contracted all the barren mountains in the village. He also paid the contract money for 70 years at one time. Every household got a lot of money that year."

"That's not all. Your grandfather later recruited a large group of people in the village to help plant trees. The wages were very high, and they were paid on a daily basis."

"You may not be familiar with the nearby woodlands, and the contracted woodlands are somewhat scattered, so you may not be able to find some places. However, as long as there are bamboo mountains near the village, the nearby woodlands belong to your family. Those bamboos were planted by your grandfather who hired the villagers. As for the others, you can refer to the locations on the contract, which are roughly the same. The village is not short of that little woodland."

Then Grandpa Zhang sighed, "It's just that something happened to your family later, so there are still many places that have not been planted. Over the years, the villagers have remembered your grandfather's kindness, and they will help take care of your family's woodlands. As for the trees planted on the mountain, I can't guarantee other things, but I dare say that no one in the village has ever cut down a tree in your mountain!"

Zachary, who was reading the details of the contract, felt warm in his heart when he heard this. He looked up at Grandpa Zhang, thought for a while, and said, "Grandpa Zhang, you also know that a few days ago I entertained a group of people who came here to play, and they paid me 10,000 yuan that time, so I was thinking about repairing the roads leading to the nearby mountains contracted by my family, and then building some houses in them. What to use to entertain those who come to play? These things require a lot of people. At that time, we may need to ask you and the villagers for help! "

Uncle Zhang was overjoyed when he heard Zachary say this, and said, "I will take care of finding people. Now everyone is idle. How about this, everyone knows where the mountains contracted by your family are. I will ask everyone to repair the road first today. Now there are few people entering the mountains, and the road is almost gone!"

Zachary thought for a while and said, "There will definitely be a lot of people coming to the village at that time. I think you can organize the villagers to run a homestay, oh, that is, a farmhouse hostel. Simply repair the house. As long as the room and the living place are clean and bright, the business will definitely be very good at that time. I think you can discuss with everyone first to see if there is anyone willing to do this."

Uncle Zhang hesitated for a while and didn't speak. Zachary thought about it and it was true. Now there is only a group of people coming from his home. He can be sure that there will be countless people coming here in the future, but Uncle Zhang and the others don't know. Now they are inexplicably asked to prepare to open a homestay. It is normal for them to hesitate.

Thinking of this, Zachary said, "How about this, let's put aside the matter of opening a B&B for now, and as for the road construction, how about I pay a hundred yuan a day?"

Who knew that Uncle Zhang put the table and said, "Why are you paying for anything? Do you think everyone is just after money? The road is not yours. Everyone is idle now anyway. Repair the road leading to the mountains. They will have to go there anyway, and this job is not tiring. We just need to clear the bushes and the like."

Zachary thought for a while and said, "How about this, you tell me the number of people, and I will prepare lunch and dinner every day. This is my little token of my appreciation."

Uncle Zhang nodded and said, "Zachary, how should I put it? We in Jiulongkeng have the same surname, which is passed down from the same ancestor. So, don't be so formal about many things. We are all one family!"

Zachary felt a little hot in his heart, and nodded seriously. Then, he and Uncle Zhang modified the contract period and printed two copies of the contract.

After carefully reviewing it again and seeing that there was no difference with the original contract, the two signed and stamped on the two contracts.

Zachary took the contract he kept for his own file and said goodbye to Uncle Zhang. When he walked out of the village committee, he looked back and sighed in his heart, saying that some people have no blood relationship with you, but they treat you better than your relatives, while some of your closest relatives, for the sake of their own interests, will attack you more cruelly than their biggest enemies.

After returning home, Penny, who was still watching the official video of the Pleiades on the Internet, saw Zachary holding a document in his hand. She took it curiously and looked at it. Seeing the area of ​​the contracted forest, she said with little surprise: "It's done so quickly, and it's more than 60,000 acres. Now you are really a big landlord."

Then she thought of something and giggled. Then she said to Zachary in a strange tone: "I want the whole world to know that this piece of forest is contracted by you!"

Seeing Zachary looking at her in confusion, she said with boredom: "I almost forgot. You never watch TV dramas, so naturally you don't know this joke."

Zachary touched his nose a little embarrassedly. His girlfriend told him a joke, but he was confused. Such a thing was quite a downer.

Penny hugged Zachary from behind and said in a tender voice, "Zachary, let's go look for the Divine Eagle too, okay?"

Zachary felt even more guilty now and said, "We've lived here for hundreds of years and have never heard of any Divine Eagle. Everything on the Internet now is just hearsay, and Photoshop is so advanced, how can it be true! You're just kidding."

Upon hearing that, Penny bit his shoulder and said, "You're a straight man, can't you even say something nice to coax me?"

Zachary laughed foolishly and said, "Well, besides, you're Rong'er, it's really not kind of you to snatch Long'er's Divine Eagle!"

Penny also laughed when she heard this