In April, the farmland outside Bangta City was once again dyed brown by dense wheat straw.
The farmland that has been renovated through the farmland reconstruction project has complete water conservancy facilities, and with the help of various farmland magic machines, the farmland in Bangta City will definitely have a good harvest as long as it does not encounter any particularly serious natural disasters. , this year is no exception.
However, facing this harvest scene, not all the farmers outside Bangta City were happy, but most of them were actually depressed.
It took more than half an hour to ride a bicycle from Luke Village, which is more than ten kilometers away. As soon as Batru entered the area of Mexico Village and glanced at the surrounding farmland, he was so shocked that he even forgot about the pedals. He pedaled and almost tilted his body, causing the person and the bicycle to fall down.
After finally holding on, Batru didn't even care about his precious bicycle, which he had just spent eight gold coins to buy two months ago. He rushed directly into the wheat fields on both sides of the road, bent down, and held it up with trembling hands. Ears on a wheat plant.
Feeling the heavy touch of the wheat stalk in his hand, Batru shivered twice, and suddenly cursed in a low voice. He turned around, grabbed the bicycle, flew up, pedaled hard, and rushed like a whirlwind. Entered the Mexican village not far away. Seeing Batru rushing towards him like a madman on a bicycle, the villagers in Mexico Village tried to get out of the way. They just yelled and cursed a few words, but when they saw that the person on the bicycle was Batru, the villagers pointed at Batru and laughed loudly. got up. The laughter was full of mockery.
Hearing the ridicule of the villagers, Batru's face turned red, but he didn't care so much. I rode my bicycle and rushed straight to a two-story building at the end of Mexico Village that looked like it had just been built recently. I jumped off my bicycle and strode straight in.
"Hey, Sakchi, get out of here!"
Hearing Batru's shout, Father Sakchi frowned slightly and walked down the stairs to the second floor.
After seeing Batru. But Father Sakchi burst out laughing and pointed at Batru. He said with a proud look on his face: "What? Batru, are you here to admit defeat?"
Batru's already dark face turned even darker at this moment. He rushed over and grabbed Sakchi's father by the collar, and roared loudly: "Sakchi, you bastard! I'm sorry to take you for granted. I am an old friend for many years. You know that this fertilizer is so easy to use, but you don't persuade me! Now, our Luke Village's harvest this year is probably not even half of that of your Mexican Village. Are you happy now? "Dad Sakchi frowned, pinched Batru's wrist to let him go, and snorted: "Batru, for the sake of my old friend, I know you are angry now, so I won't argue with you. . But you have to understand that when I told you that I had fertilizer purchase quotas from Xinfei Fertilizer Factory and asked you if you wanted it, you said you didn’t want it and now you don’t want it. But you come here to blame me for not advising you properly? How can you blame me?"
Batru opened his eyes and glared at Father Sakchi, but Father Sakchi stared back without showing any signs of weakness.
After a while, Batru suddenly went limp like a deflated rubber ball, and sat on the chair next to him with a dejected look. He hit his head hard with his fist.
"Why was I so stupid back then! Why didn't I believe that this fertilizer was so effective? I really wanted to kill the whole village! I was so stupid!"
Seeing Batru blaming himself so much, Father Sakchi suddenly forgot how unreasonable he had been just now. After thinking about it, she sat next to him, patted his shoulder and comforted him: "Okay, I just missed the spring plowing. At worst, I can just wait until the autumn harvest to make up for it. Anyway, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce also said that their fertilizer factory Although the yield is not enough to ensure that Bonta City can use it all during the spring plowing, it will definitely be fine during the autumn harvest. I will tell Cantona in advance and ask him to help you get some fertilizer for Luke Village. "...
Batru raised his head and looked at Father Sakchi, his face still full of remorse and pain.
"But the spring plowing in our village is over. Do you know that now those people in the village know that I rejected the fertilizer purchase quota you gave our village, and they are pointing at me and scolding me every day. Our family, young and old, now I wish I didn’t even dare to leave the door!”
"Bah! What are you arguing with a bunch of ignorant guys?" Father Sakchi curled his lips disdainfully. "Don't worry. Do you believe it or not? When you go back and tell them that you have won your village priority in purchasing fertilizer during the autumn harvest this time, you will ensure that they turn around and lick your ass immediately?"
The muscles on Batru's face twitched, and he wanted to say yes, but he was worried that he was a villager in his own village, so he couldn't be so straightforward, so he could only smile awkwardly.
"After all, it was me who caused our village's spring plowing harvest to be so much worse than your village's. I deserve to be scolded by them."
"Bullshit!" Father Sakchi cursed unceremoniously. "Are the guys in your village all stupid? What age are we in, and they still only look at the little grain in the fields? Just tell them, no matter how much grain is harvested in the fields, it will be of no use! Even if you don’t have to pay any rent, how much money can you make if you sell it all?”
"You can't say that, right?" Batru defended. "Look, our family now rents and cultivates more than seven acres of land. This spring harvest should be able to harvest more than two thousand kilograms of wheat. If it can be sold, it can be sold for more than ten gold coins. If chemical fertilizers are used, , maybe I can harvest more than 4,000 kilograms, which is almost 30 gold coins. I didn’t use chemical fertilizers, but I lost more than ten gold coins at once, don’t you feel bad.”
"So, you guys are also stubborn. Is thirty gold coins a lot?" Father Sakchi immediately sneered: "Didn't you tell me last time that your boy found a job at the Cameron Chamber of Commerce? You can earn more than ten gold coins a month. But now you are fighting for more than ten gold coins. Isn’t it embarrassing?”
"This..." Batru looked a little embarrassed. "This is different. What he earns belongs to him. I can't be idle. Farming at home can at least ensure that our whole family has food to eat, right?"
"You still don't believe that you are stubborn?" Father Sakchi glared at him. "If you want to farm, wouldn't you go to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce? Or simply go to the Principality of Standing to farm for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. You don't have to spend money on food and drink for a year, and you can earn another hundred gold coins. It's no better than How much better is it to guard so many acres of land here?”
"But I always feel that it is not safe... In those places, if something happens, Tianke will be gone..."
"That's nonsense. You're saying it's not safe. Is it safe to rent the fields owned by those noble men? Maybe when a damn order comes down, the fields will be taken back. Besides, even if they don't take it back, it will have to be paid for one year. With such a high rent, what is left is barely enough to fill the stomach. What else can you do? For example, your son is about to get married. Can you help him get married by farming? " Father Sakchi asked.
Batru smiled bitterly: "That's really impossible. My boy fell in love with a girl from another village, and as a result, her family asked for a new house and a full set of new Feipai household magic machines. How can I get so much money? My boy is now every day I work so hard at the Cameron Chamber of Commerce just to make this money.”
"So I said, if you continue to plant a few fields here, there is no future at all. Why are you still staring at these fields? Even if you spread chemical fertilizers to make the food output much higher, what's the point? I don’t have much money at all, so I might as well find something else to do.”
"But besides farming... what else can I do?" Batru asked with a confused look on his face. "Besides, it's not good to leave this field here. You have to pay rent every year..."...
"The land is simple, just leave it to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce to plant. You don't have to take care of anything. Cantona will also pay the rent for you. In the end, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce can still give you some money every year. No matter how you calculate it, it doesn't matter. It’s much more cost-effective than growing it yourself.” Father Sakchi waved his hand and said, “As for what you will do if you don’t farm anymore... It’s easier. There are so many chambers of commerce in the city. You can just find one to learn some crafts. You can find a job. It doesn’t take more than a month to get close to ten gold coins.”
"But... I'm so old, I can't learn what to do..." Batru asked worriedly.
"Why can't you learn?" Father Sakchi glared. "Let me tell you, it's not as difficult as you think. I visited the factories of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the Luoyu Valley. In fact, the work in the hands of the workers is very simple. Many of them just repeat the same action. Only a few Workers require skills. Even if you can't learn those skills, it's okay to do simple tasks, right? You can do physical work too. Didn't the Armley Chamber of Commerce recently open a commercial and residential area project by the Sandy River and are hiring a lot of people? Why don't you give it a try?"
When Father Sakchi said this, Batru's originally depressed face gradually turned clear, and there was a hint of hope and excitement in his eyes.
Sakchi is right, times have changed, and ordinary farmers like them don't have to guard their family's one-third of an acre of land to watch the weather.
In Bangta City, whether it is the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce or other chambers of commerce, there are a lot of job opportunities waiting for people to take them, and the physical strength, time and most importantly the income required are much higher than farming. Much stronger.
If this is the case, why do we still have to continue farming
Thinking of this, the atmosphere, self-blame, pain and even panic that Batru had just felt on the way here disappeared in an instant. His whole person seemed to be suddenly enlightened, and his eyes suddenly became wider.