Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 301 - 21 Not Afraid of Others Beating _1

Chapter 301: Chapter 21 Not Afraid of Others Beating _1

Almost twenty acres of wasteland, though at risk of flooding, if you think about it, renting for ten years for only five hundred yuan, it’s not really expensive.

As long as you’re willing to work hard, you can grow anything to cover the cost.

But that’s how it is these days, regular households don’t have a strong economic awareness, and they don’t think about growing things to sell. The town is only so big and there are only a few people who often sell vegetables. These days most families are not short of vegetables, and those who sell vegetables haven’t made a fortune either.

As for growing other things, newly reclaimed land has low output, which is not cost-effective. So many acres of wasteland, the weeds and shrubs may have been rooted for many years, ordinary people would get a headache just thinking about it.

This stuff is really hard to clear, plus the land is full of gullies, and there’s the danger of flooding. Who would want to put in the effort to clean it up?

In fact, if Yan Fei didn’t rent this plot, it would probably lie idle for another twenty years.

The other party happily took the five hundred yuan, the village chief and the village secretary both came out and signed the contract with Yan Fei. They directly wrote down twenty acres, without boundaries. In a place surrounded by a river on three sides, the river is the boundary, and on the other side, it extends to where there are farmland and bamboo groves, and the farmland and bamboo groves are the boundaries.

In short, this large piece of land belongs to Yan Fei for the next ten years.

As for what Yan Fei plans to do, they didn’t even ask.

Not only did they not ask, but they also kindly reminded him.

The elderly secretary who was smoking a dry pipe coughed twice and said to Yan Fei, "Well, Mr. Yan, we make payment and sign the contract together, but we have to agree beforehand. If you don’t want to rent within half a year, we will refund all your rent. After half a year, it will be counted as one year, and only nine years will be refunded to you!"

Listening to this, Yan Fei is so unhappy! I haven’t done anything yet, and you don’t ask what I want to do, and you think I can’t make it? Mr. Yan? But the other party is an old man, so he is not good to argue directly, so he nodded reluctantly.

Once he was out the door, Heizi was mumbling as he pushed the motorcycle, "This old man, that’s not right, isn’t he saying that you, Brother Fei, must not succeed? You say, right, Brother Fei?"

Yan Fei glared at him and sat on the motorcycle, "If you have something to say, don’t beat around the bush."

Heizi chuckled, started the motorcycle slowly and walked away, only then said, "Brother Fei, I’ve thought about it. You said that place is surrounded by river on three sides, you plant willow trees along the river, and poplar trees in the middle. You don’t need to take care of them much, even flood in summer won’t be a problem. We wrote it down, what’s yours is yours, we can afford to wait for ten or eight years. By then, we definitely won’t lose this five hundred yuan, right?"

Yan Fei was quite surprised, "You’re getting there, Heizi, you’re starting to use your brain! I hadn’t thought about planting trees if you hadn’t mentioned it!"

Heizi started to show off again, "That’s it, ever since I started following you, Brother Fei, I feel like I’m getting more and more insightful. Don’t we have to always think about the long term? That place will be good for trees, the grass growing in there can feed the cattle. Or we just take the cattle to graze there, right?"

"Yeah, right, aren’t you also saying that I can’t make it? Are you looking for a beating?" Yan Fei started to regret telling this guy what he was going to do.

He thought that he couldn’t possibly guard this place alone forever, and once everything was ready, he would need someone’s assistance. Heizi was naturally the best fit, nobody else had the time!

"Brother Fei, even if you want to beat me, I have to say it. I really feel that what you’re talking about is not reliable. Aren’t you also uncertain? Otherwise, you wouldn’t let me tell others and plan to keep it a secret?" Heizi, surprisingly, plucked up the courage to be frank in front of him for once.

Yan Fei thought for a moment, he did not want to tell anyone else all along. Apart from fearing that others would say he was acting wildly, it was probably what Heizi said, he was having a little doubt.

"Don’t worry!" Yan Fei put his hand on Heizi’s shoulder. "I..."

Before he could finish his sentence, the motorcycle suddenly rushed towards the road ditch. Yan Fei reacted quickly, leaning his body off the motorcycle, and then pulled up the rear rack of the motorcycle with one hand.

The motorcycle stopped, but the front wheel was at the edge of the ditch, and the rear wheel was still spinning.

"What are you doing? Can’t you ride a motorcycle?" Thanks to the slow speed of the motorcycle, otherwise Yan Fei could only take care of jumping off on his own.

"I..." Heizi was still sitting on the motorcycle, looking blankly at the road ditch, still accelerating the throttle before stopping.

"Hit the brakes!" Yan Fei reminded Heizi. "What are you thinking about? Driving into the ditch?"

Heizi stepped on the brake, then supported the ground with one leg, waited for Yan Fei to put the motorcycle down and then said miserably, "I thought you were really going to hit me!"

"..." Yan Fei was annoyed, "Am I that unreasonable?"

He was impressed by Heizi’s stubbornness just now; willing to face a beating to offer suggestions, so he thought it was necessary to praise and encourage him. After all, people can’t always be criticized, can they?

That’s what Wang Jiuming did in the Provincial City, wasn’t it? He patted him on the shoulder and told him to keep going because he knew he could do it.

Yan Fei thought it was a nice gesture, so he didn’t hesitate to adopt it.

But, he didn’t expect that in Heizi’s eyes, he had become an unreasonable tyrant— that was certainly not what Yan Fei wanted.

The motorcycle hit the road again, and Yan Fei chimed in again: "What I meant was, let’s try this until the end of the year. If we can’t make enough money, and I can’t think of anything else to do, then we can plant trees, like you suggested. That way, we wouldn’t lose anything on such a large piece of land, and we’re not in a rush."

After finishing, he felt a bit puzzled: "I don’t think I’ve ever beaten you, right? So why are you so scared of me?"

Heizi expressed his grievance: "I’m not afraid of being beaten by others, only you! You were just lifting up the motorcycle with one hand. If you’d used a little more force when you patted me on the shoulder just now, would I be able to use my arm?"

Yan Fei was speechless. Just their short journey to the cattle farm, prompted him to comment: "I kick cows and dogs every day, you’ve seen how hard I do it, and they’re all still fine..."

Heizi silently hollered in his heart: Yeah, why don’t you mention that your wife spends every day with you, and she’s still completely unscathed...

Those were words he wouldn’t dare to utter, even if it killed him. A little cursing in his heart wouldn’t hurt, but if he actually said it out loud, he really would be beaten to death.

Once they arrived at the cattle farm, Yan Fei took a ruler and went with Heizi to look at the waste land in the bamboo forest, his new ’territory’.

At first glance, even Heizi was awestruck: "This is a really big piece of land, it’s all ours in the future! That’s amazing!"

It was indeed large. Many people don’t have a concept of ten to nearly twenty acres. To put it into perspective, a basketball court is about two-thirds of an acre, a football field is just over ten acres. The amount of land Yan Fei leased was equivalent to less than two football fields, or less than thirty basketball courts.

He and Heizi pulled the ruler together, roughly measuring the entire field, and Yan Fei felt more confident.

He happily informed Heizi: "Last year, when I first caught wild chickens and rabbits, it was right here. I sold them to Yang Qian’s dad and the previous Officer Wang..."

That was the first time Yan Fei had made money. A year has passed and now this land is his, and even though it’s only for ten years, it shows that he hasn’t been idle this year.

It wasn’t until Heizi walked around the plot that he realized how complex the terrain was. He had been here before, but he hadn’t paid attention! Now he was gawking and exclaiming, "No wonder the price is only 500 yuan for ten years! The grass in this field is waist-high, it’ll take forever to clean it up! Plus, all these useless trees..."

"That’s easy, just tidy it up like this, dry it and then take it back to burn as firewood!" Yan Fei was in a good mood, he grabbed a small tree and pulled it out of the ground to show Heizi how it’s done. "You can’t really help out here, you should head back first! I can handle this by myself."

Heizi didn’t want to leave quite yet: "I could do something!"

Even though it was next to the bamboo forest and the river, and the smell of the water wasn’t so great, the outdoor scenery was quite beautiful. Working here felt like playing, much more comfortable than being at the cattle farm.

With that, he found a small shrub and pulled hard on it for a moment before finally giving up: "Alright, I’ll be going then..."

Yan Fei laughed heartily: "You pig! The roots of that shrub aren’t any shallower than these small trees!"

Once Heizi left, Yan Fei began to formally manage his plot of land.

He didn’t use any tools, he just used his hands to pull out the grass and shrubs, throwing them aside; small trees that wouldn’t grow properly were no exception.

It wasn’t work for nothing; having his own land was great. That afternoon, he had already reaped some rewards.

By the time he returned in the evening, he hadn’t returned empty-handed.

He brought back a wild chicken.

He was ecstatic!