Chapter 899
Lin Ran smiled at that.
“You forget that? The co-op I was talking about!”
“Co-op?”
Song Nuan was stunned and seemed to have thought of something.
“Are you trying to save up the difference of the five pieces as funds for the co-op?”
“It’s just comfortable to talk to smart people!”
Lin Ran laughed.
“Cut it out!”
Song Nuan gave him a blank look, but was a little worried.
“Your intentions are good, but if the villagers find out, will they say you’re enriching yourself!”
“Enrich yourself? The money will still be used for the construction of the village in the future!”
Lin Ran laughed.
Song Nuan, however, was still a little worried.
“It’s alright, don’t worry, the villagers aren’t as mindful as you think!”
Lin Ran, however, laughed.
Just as the two of them were about to further discuss the next path of development, suddenly there was a loud noise in the courtyard.
Lin Ran frowned at the sound and immediately rushed out, but he only saw a figure running out of the gate, not who it really was.
“Who is it?”
Song Nuan also chased out and asked busily.
“I don’t know!”
Lin Ran shook his head.
“Then the conversation we just had!”
Song Nuan was vaguely worried.
“Don’t worry, you have to trust the villagers!”
Lin Ran, however, was unconcerned and smiled as he patted Song Nuan, gesturing for her to go back inside and continue discussing the next strategy.
“What are your plans next?”
Back in her room, Song Nuan asked.
Picking herbs was only temporary, after all, the mountain would be closed in the future, so it was impossible to keep collecting them, and when it was closed its time to consider other ways to get rich.
“I’ve thought about it, it’s May now, we can collect herbs until November, six months! As soon as the mountain sealing period starts, we’ll have to make a big move!”
Lin Ran said, taking out a pen and paper and planning.
“This?”
Watching Lin Ran draw a map of the current Linjiawan on the paper, Song Nuan couldn’t help but be stunned.
“I want to make Linjiawan a great place for herbal medicine and tourism, so the first step is to renovate the entire village’s houses and build it into a community with modernity!”
Lin Ran said solemnly.
“That’s not realistic, is it? How can the villagers have the money to renovate their houses!”
Song Nuan frowned.
Lin Ran, however, smiled.
“So this will require funds from the cooperative!”
“Tell us about your plan!”
Song Nuan asked busily.
Lin Ran laughed heatedly and spoke at once.
On their side, they were planning the development of the village, while at this time in the mountains, the villagers were working feverishly.
Old Yu ran up the hill with his cigarette in his mouth and smiled when he saw that there were indeed people gathering herbs.
“I say, gentlemen, you really believe that boy Lin Ran!”
“Old Yu? What are you doing here instead of going home to warm your bed!”
When they saw Old Yu, the villagers didn’t bother to pay him any mind, this guy was notorious for his laziness.
“What for? To save you!”
Old Yu sneered.
“Save us? Do you have food to eat yourself? Don’t steal buns from my house if you have the guts!”
Immediately, some villagers sneered.
“That’s right, you don’t do anything yourself every day, and you’re still pointing out other people’s mountains!”
Liu Xiao said coldly.
“Hey, I say you little girl, you still have the right to say what I do?”
“What’s Old Yu doing! Bullying my daughter, believe it or not, I’ll kill you!”
Liu Xiao’s mother was instantly furious.
“You widow, you didn’t follow me when I asked you to, and now you don’t even have a man!”
Old Yu said in a cold voice.
“Auntie I would be a widow for the rest of my life, but I wouldn’t look at such a pig-like man!”
Widow Liu said nonchalantly.
“Fine, fine! You are willing to be fooled, and I don’t care about you!”
With that, Old Yu immediately turned around and ran next to the old village chief.
“Old Village Chief, you are a sensible person, there is something I must tell you!”
“What is it?”
The old village chief frowned.
“Just that kid Lin Ran, he said seventy-five fast per catty for honeysuckle last night, but in fact he signed with someone else for eighty, and ate five of our kickbacks!”
Old Yu said busily.
The old village chief frowned slightly at his words and looked at Old Yu.
“How did you know that?”
“I …..”
Old Yu was dumbfounded.
“You have run off to eavesdrop on people, be careful of rotting your tongue!”
The old village chief said in a cold voice.
“But Village Chief, no matter what, it’s the truth!”
Old Yu argued.
“What facts, F**k off! I know about this!”
The old village chief didn’t bother with him and sent him away at once.
When Old Yu saw that he hadn’t made much noise, he didn’t bother to talk any more and prepared to go back.
But halfway there he saw Heizi and was stunned.
“Heizi, why are you here too!”
“Brother Yu, I just wanted to give it a try, if I can really earn money, then I can continue my studies too, right?”
Heizi said awkwardly.
“Study? You think you can earn money? Don’t they be stupid!”
Old Yu said disdainfully.
“It’s okay, I’ll try!”
Blackie laughed nervously.
“Try? Then you try, I’m too lazy to care about you!”
Old Yu said and turned around and went down the mountain.
…..
The time soon came to evening, and many of the villagers who had picked the herbs had sorted themselves out and were guarding the village head early, just waiting for Lin Ran to come and hand out money.
Lin Ran and Song Nuan had their dinner and then arrived with Dalong.
At this moment, they were both relieved to see the herbs in the hands of many villagers around them.
“Lin Ran, we’ve brought all the herbs, when will the money be handed out!”
Widow Liu was the first to ask.
“Don’t rush yet, we’ll start later!”
Lin Ran laughed, while greeting Dalong and taking out a pen and paper to prepare for registration, while Song Nuan took out a thick pile of money, immediately looking at the surrounding villagers’ eyes went red.
“Oh my god, there’s really money!”
“Lin Ran didn’t lie to us! There’s really money to be handed out!”
Seeing this scene, those villagers who had stepped on the herbs boiled over, while those who hadn’t picked the herbs could only look on with bewilderment.
“Villagers, we’re ready, everyone line up let’s go one by one!”
Lin Ran greeted.
“Good!”
At once all the villagers responded, following which everyone lined up consciously and began to count and settle the money.
“Aunt Liu, four catties of honeysuckle for a total of three hundred!”
“Liu Xiao, eight catties of snake tongue gra*s makes eighty dollars!”
“Mother I’ve earned eighty yuan!”
Taking the money, at once Liu Xiao said excitedly.
“Yes! Mother has earned three hundred, we mother and mother have earned three hundred and eighty dollars a day!”
The two Liu widows said excitedly.
And looking at the two of them getting the money, the other villagers couldn’t help but gag.
If they earned three hundred and eighty dollars a day, wouldn’t this be over ten thousand dollars in a month?
In the past, they would never have dared to think about it.
“Hei Zi, eight catties of gold and silver flowers, six hundred in total!”
With the fall of another voice from Lin Ran, there was a complete explosion among the villagers.
Holding his six hundred pieces, Hei Zi burst into hot tears.
“Brother Lin Ran! Village Chief Song, thank you! I can go to school again!”
“Brother Yu, did you see that? Brother Lin Ran they really gave money!”
Hei Zi took the money and ran to Old Yu at once.
Old Yu, however, looked envious, and at the same time was a bit chagrined at how he hadn’t gone to pick herbs.
Thinking of this, Old Yu could not help but be a little angry and immediately scolded.
“Lin Ran, what do you mean by that? You clearly signed a deal with the buyer for eighty yuan per catty for honeysuckle, and only gave Hei Zi seventy-five per catty, aren’t you screwing the villagers?”
“Wow.”
Hearing Old Yu’s words, everyone instantly looked at Lin Ran and the three of them, the atmosphere instantly changed, from boiling to quiet.
Chapter 900
Lin Ran swept his gaze over the crowd and saw that the big guys were all looking at him, so he couldn’t help but frown slightly.
“Ranzi!”
“Lin Ran!”
Song Nuan and Dalong also looked at him, unsure of what to do.
The situation at hand might cause discontent among the villagers, and they were all thinking about how to deal with it.
“Gentlemen! Now is the time to hand out money, if you have doubts, you may not pay for the herbs first, so as not to delay the others who are ready to pay!”
Lin Ran swept his gaze across the crowd and said blandly.
“Also I’m saying this, the seventy-five fast won’t change, so continue if you want to pay!”
“This …..”
All of them hesitated at once.
A difference of five yuan per catty was not a small amount, and for villagers whose average annual income was less than ten thousand, it was a large sum of money.
“I’ll go first! What five or ten dollars, getting the money is the way to go!”
Soon, the Second Grand Master shouted over the group and came over with the herbs.
“Second Grand Master, five catties of gold and silver flowers, three hundred and seventy-five fast in total!”
Lin Ran’s voice rang out once again.
Some of the other villagers who were still ready to wait and see, could not help but be foolish again when they saw that everyone else had gotten their money.
“Don’t you have any brains, that’s a difference of five yuan, you’re just willing to be ripped off by Lin Ran?”
Old Yu said angrily when he saw this.
“Shut up!”
Suddenly, an angry roar came from the crowd.
The crowd looked and found that it was surprisingly the old village chief.
The old village chief swept his gaze over Lao Yu, scaring him so much that he didn’t dare to say a word, although he was no longer the village chief now, but his authority was still there.
The old village chief swept his gaze across the villagers and spoke.
“I am an old man who is short of money, those of you who are not in a hurry go to the back and let me pay first, I need the money!”
A very simple sentence, but one that left the crowd speechless.
Some villagers were embarra*sed and had to move aside from the queue.
“Old village head, ten catties of gold and silver flowers, a total of seven hundred and fifty yuan!”
Lin Ran laughed, while handing the money to the old village chief.
The old village chief looked very excited as he took the money, he slowly turned around, looked at the other villagers and spoke.
“Villagers, I just want to ask, could you have earned this much money in a day before?”
Hearing these words from the old village chief, all of them fell silent at once.
Three to four hundred a day, not to mention before, they had never even thought about it in the future, but now it was all coming alive to them.
Those who had received the money could not say how excited they were.
Those who hadn’t delivered yet were a bit hesitant. They wanted the money, but the five yuan difference made them hesitate.
The old village chief swept his gaze over the crowd and? said with a sigh.
“Villagers, we are all poor and scared people, you feel your conscience and ask, if there was no Lin Ran, what would you all be doing now? You hesitate at a difference of five yuan per catty, have you ever thought that without Lin Ran, you wouldn’t even have seventy-five!”
With these words, the old village chief immediately made everyone fall silent, especially those who hadn’t yet handed in their herbs, and their faces were on fire.
Indeed, without Lin Ran, they were afraid that they wouldn’t even be able to sell them for seventy-five quick.
“I don’t want to say much more, who is not busy working to earn a living, why should people pay you as much as they sign, don’t they have to earn a living?”
After saying that, the old village headman said no more and took the money and went back to the crowd.
“The old village chief is right, I support Brother Lin Ran!”
Heizi spoke up.
“I’m already happy that I can go to school, if it wasn’t for Brother Lin Ran I’m afraid I wouldn’t have had the chance to go to school in my life, I don’t care about this five yuan, I’m willing to let Brother Lin Ran earn it!”
“We mothers too, we don’t forget to dig the well when we eat water, we earn seventy-five, so what if we let Lin Ran earn five!”
Widow Liu also spoke up.
At once all the villagers figured out this point and one by one they all spoke up.
“You guys!”
Old Yu was furious at the sight of this, but no one was even standing with him at this point.
“Lin Ran!”
Song Nuan saw this and pulled at Lin Ran’s clothes, as if she wanted him to explain.
But Lin Ran just shook his head and didn’t say much.
“Alright folks, let’s continue handing out money!”
Lin Ran laughed.
“Good!”
Some of the remaining villagers who hadn’t handed in their herbs yet also went up and handed them over, getting their money at the same time.
When everyone had finished handing them over, Lin Ran then gathered his emotions and spoke.
“I still say that those who didn’t participate today can also participate tomorrow, no matter what the reason is, as long as they are willing to make a fortune through their own efforts, I, Lin Ran, welcome it!”
“But if anyone wants to get something for nothing, from today onwards I, Lin Ran, put the word out that anyone who steals will be turned over to the Public Security Bureau!”
“You!”
Hearing Lin Ran’s words, Old Yu couldn’t help but tremble with anger, he had just thought about how to steal some herbs to sell to Lin Ran, only to have his thoughts crushed by Lin Ran as soon as they started.
“Gentlemen!”
Suddenly, Song Nuan also stood out, looked at the crowd, and spoke.
“Lin Ran doesn’t want to talk about it, but there are some things I must make clear to you all, since I am the head of a village, I can’t let anyone be wronged!”
Song Nuan said as she swept her gaze over the crowd and finally landed on Old Yu.
“The difference of five yuan for this honeysuckle, Lin Ran never wanted to take it all for himself!”
“Didn’t think much of swallowing it up alone, what a lie! Who has a problem with money!”
Old Yu said unconvincingly.
Song Nuan smiled at his words, however.
“You wouldn’t understand, Lin Ran doesn’t lack money at all!”
Said Song Nuan, sweeping her gaze over the crowd and saying aloud.
“Lin Ran’s a*sets are at least a hundred million, do you guys think Lin Ran is short of money?”
“One hundred million?”
“My god, that’s a lot of money!”
“Lin Ran is really capable!”
At once all the villagers were abuzz.
“One hundred million? How good would it be to simply give everyone a share of such money?”
Old Yu sneered.
“Split it up? On what basis? Just because you’re lazy and lazy? You can’t even feed this money to the pigs!”
Song Nuan said disdainfully.
“You!”
Old Yu was furious.
And Song Nuan was looking at the believers and said in a serious tone.
“Lin Ran has come back this time to help us all get out of poverty and become rich, he is rich, even if he gives you all a million dollars, so what if you don’t make money yourselves, there will be a time when this money will run out, teaching people to fish is better than teaching them to fish! Don’t you understand this principle?”
Said Song Nuan, pointing at Lin Ran.
“He just wants you guys to have the skills to be able to make money on your own, so that your offspring can also make money on their own, this is the way to develop in the long run at this point!”
“Besides, do you guys know what that five dollar difference is going to do?”
“I don’t know!”
The villagers looked confused and shook their heads one after another.
Song Nuan’s eyes went red and she said.
“That is the starting capital of the cooperative, in the future the cooperative that is the cooperative of all Linjiawan villagers, even we have planned the future development path of the village, wait for six months later, the difference price of these five pieces at least two million funds, then we will take it all out to renovate the houses for everyone!”
“Don’t you want to live in a house with water and electricity and in a better environment?”
“Renovate the house?”
“The village will pay for it?”
In the past, they wouldn’t have dared to think about it, who didn’t have money to build a new house, but now the village chief said that the village would pay for it in the future.
“That’s a parental official!”
The old village chief said excitedly.
He looked at the crowd and said excitedly with tears in his eyes.
“This is the hope of our Linjiawan, what the other village chief Song said is fair, do you understand?”
“Understood!”
At once all the villagers became excited.
Although Song Nuan had not said much, he had given the villagers a real glimpse of the future, a glimpse that the Linjiawan they lived in would become better in the future!
