Chapter 484: Life on the Island
Zhen Seventy-two has a daughter less than one year old in Datang, Zhen Qian very generously stuffed him with two women, to see if he has the ability to make both women pregnant with children within three months.
Zhen Qian promised Zhen Seventy-two that as long as he could return safely from the Americas, there would be an island belonging to him on the Wufeng Islands, which made Zhen Jiu and the others hot-eyed, everyone knew what it meant, this would not be the first time, nor would it be the last, but Zhen Seventy-two was the first person.
Zhen Jiu left with his own thoughts, and Zhen Qian did not continue to stay in the small building, these small buildings are built for the people on the island, the price is very cheap, each small building covers an area of half an acre, and the furniture inside is ready-made, the price is only twenty yuan, no different from giving it away for nothing.
Even so, not many people can afford to live in such a small building, because most of the people on the island are in abject poverty, and if it is not abject poverty, who would want to stay on this island.
In addition to the small building, there are rows of simple bungalows, the lonely family usually four people live in one room, if the family is dragged with a mouth, they live alone, the inside is very crowded, although the conditions are not bad, but the crowding together makes people really uncomfortable.
Zhen Qian and Wang Lun had eaten and wandered around the island at will, there were many people around who knew Zhen Qian, kept greeting Zhen Qian, and some people came to complain, not most of them were very dissatisfied with eating fish every day.
"Island owner, try the tofu made by my lady, this tofu is tender, and it is very smooth in your mouth", a dark-skinned man dragged two pieces of white and tender tofu with oiled paper and stuffed them into Zhen Gan's hands, and when he saw Zhen Gan taking it, he immediately began to complain: "Island owner, when will the market be built, and the small building I bought with a loan, it has been ten days since the promise was made, isn't this a breach of contract?" ”
The people on the island know Zhen Qian, but they rarely know what Zhen Qian's name is, firstly, Zhen Gan is lazy to publicize it everywhere, and secondly, it is not a good thing to spread it at this time, so most people call Zhen Gan the owner of the island.
Although the people on the island are extremely poor, this is difficult for Zhen Qian, as long as it is a person, he can take out a loan, if he doesn't pay back, I'm sorry! Forced labor is waiting for you, cutting trees, burning bricks, opening mountains, paving roads, etc., no dirty work, tired work can not run, and it is a luxury to find a lazy person on the island now.
However, the interest rate of the loan on the island is very low, only two cents a year, even if you can't pay it back then, it doesn't matter, you can continue to delay the repayment, and there is no such thing as a donkey rolling, but this kind of loan is limited to housing and land, and the loan interest for doing business is higher, but it is much lower than the public money and usury in Datang.
Wang Lun looked at the spontaneously formed trading bazaars around him and nodded with satisfaction, he had already understood it when he arrived in the Wufeng Islands, and now the top priority in the Wufeng Islands is the shipyard, the second thing is to open up wasteland and grow vegetables, and the third thing is to build housing, as for things like the bazaar, it is estimated that no one will care about it for the time being.
"I'm afraid the bazaar will be completed by the end of this year, but the small building you said is almost complete, and the first batch of fifty sets can be moved in ten days, but I remind you, it's best not to live first, first, there is a smell inside, and second, the surrounding noise is too loud, and people will not be able to settle down at night, or wait for this community to be completed and then move in!" Zhen Qian kindly reminded.
"Haha! I'm a rough person, there can be so much attention there, there are three children in the family, Lao Tzu snores at night, those boys grind their teeth in the middle of the night, there are screams in the middle of the night next door, sleep until the middle of the night at the root of the wall can still hear **, I don't want to live in that room for a day! ”
Zhen Qian smiled, these are the truths, two or three thousand people are crowded on less than ten acres of land, it is not bad if they don't go crazy.
When I wanted to build the wolf's den, I also messed up for a while, starting from nothing, slowly building and accumulating step by step, which is equivalent to the unavoidable prenatal pain of newborns, as long as I can survive the most difficult beginning, I will enter the fast lane of development on the formal.
Nowadays, the mood of the people on the island is relatively stable, although the conditions are not good, but they are changing in a good direction every day, there is a place to sleep, there are clothes to wrap up when they go out, and they have food every day, the key is that there is something to do now, even if they are people who have no skills, as long as they are willing to work hard, they can earn a hundred yuan a day, which is much stronger than in Datang.
Sometimes they only need to give them a suitable space, they themselves can develop all walks of life, the farmer will want to sell the vegetables in his hand at a good price, the flexible craftsman ponders what is urgently needed by others, to meet the problem of eating, immediately someone will be thinking about whether to make a few sets of beautiful clothes to sell, this kind of social structure like a snowball sometimes only needs someone to gently push in the back, even if it is found that the direction of progress has deviated, but also only need to gently dial, In the general direction, this is the inertia of history, and in the small sense, this is the instinct of everyone.
"The sanitation here is terrible!"
"It's already good! You don't see when you first arrive on the island, it's a huge refugee camp! ”
After the two walked through the market while talking, Zhen Qian already had a bunch of messy gifts in his hand, looking like a prodigal who had just returned from the market.
Came to a camp built with a tent, casually threw the gift in his hand on a sawn tree root, and Wang Lun did not mean to enter the tent, he found two stools made of stumps at random and sat down, Wang Lun took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Zhen Qiandao: "The secret spy department that followed you to Yangzhou has been investigated, Hao Ren should be very familiar with this person, I didn't expect it to be a person from the secret spy department, and there is a county government secretary, you should have also heard that Luquan County has been going out in the inland for three days since you left, Two months later, seven people returned to Luquan County at the same time two days before and after, it should be the people sent by the secret spy department to monitor you, and Wang Qun has already sent people to closely monitor the usual movements of these people! ”
Zhen Qian looked at the list on the paper, there were four people he knew, and he quickly recalled his experience with these people in his mind, and didn't find anything wrong.
"The secret spy department is really pervasive", Zhen Qian looked up just in time to find Qingyan and Kui Ji coming out of the tent with refreshments, and sneered: "I used to think that I was a nobody, but I didn't expect that there would be so many people from the secret spy department around me, and I really looked down on Zhen." ”
Qingyan's face was a little unnatural, and he hurriedly put down the refreshments in his hand and turned to leave.
Wang Lun's eyes were fixed on Kwai Ji's waist, and after Kwai Ji left, he said, "This widow seems to have it, Zhen Lang, please ask the doctor to take a look?" ”
"There it is!" Zhen Qian naturally understood what Wang Lun meant, turned his head to look at Kwai Ji, who had just walked into the tent, with a smile on his lips, and said a little self-deprecatingly: "Is she really a widow who can give birth to children?" ”
(End of chapter)