Zhao Xiu felt that he should do his best to figure out whether the land was as he thought.

She immediately made an appointment with the cousin, the weather seemed to be a little better in the past two days, and it didn't rain much, so she took the opportunity to quickly take the time to go to the scene to take a look, since it was in the west of Qingxi Town, and it was by the river, just take the waterway and take a small boat to go over, and half a day was enough to come and go.

The cousin was overjoyed when he heard this, Zhao Xiu wanted to go to Xiangdi to prove that she had the heart to buy, as long as this transaction was completed, he got a sum of silver, not to mention, he barely got a relationship with the small second room, whether it was learning to do business with the people in the sixth room in the future, or in his own home, he had a little reliance.

He immediately agreed, and the time was determined by Zhao Xiu. Now he had just divided his family, and in addition to the money and the land, he had been given a house. It was originally a place for servants to live at the back of the house, and three small rooms formed a very small courtyard, which was considered a single family. The house was a little dilapidated, the roof was leaking, and the walls were half down, so the steward who used to live here would move elsewhere, and his grandmother simply gave him the yard. He just found someone to hastily repair the roof yesterday, and he doesn't plan to renovate it, as long as there is a place for him to eat and sleep these days, and when he earns money in the future, he will consider repairing the house. However, under the pretext of tidying up the house, he separated the family again, and he didn't have to wait for the dispatch in front of his mother and brother these days, so he just had time to accompany Zhao Xiu on a trip.

Zhao Xiu told him that he would set off early tomorrow morning without rain, so he sent him back first. As soon as the people left, Lu's mother came up and persuaded: "The girl really wants to buy Master You's land?" It's only thirty acres. It is uncultivated wilderness again. It's a shame that Grandma Jue still claims to be a virtuous person, and treats her concubine so poorly that no one else can see it. This land is good. Grandma You will not be able to share it with Master You, if the girl takes pity on Master You, give him a few taels of silver and it will be over, why buy his land? ”

Master You is the cousin, his name is Zhao You, his father Zhao Jue, is the son of the side branch of the outer fifth room.

Zhao Xiu smiled: "The land that others don't look down on." It's not necessarily useless for me. Anyway, it's only ninety taels, isn't it? Ninety taels can buy such a large piece of land, which is quite cost-effective. It's also by the river, and it's easy to irrigate, so as long as you tidy it up, it won't become a good land. ”

Lu Ma thinks about it. This is not without reason. But I still feel that Zhao Xiu has lost money: "In the wasteland and wilderness, as long as one or two silver and an acre, if the girl really wants to buy it, let it go, and some people will hold the land in front of the girl." Besides, if you buy it, you can buy it, but it's only thirty acres, so why bother to see it in person? If the old lady is at home. I won't let the girl go out at will. ”

Zhao Xiu had to coax her: "Good mother, you just let me go." Just the distance of ten or so miles, take a boat to get there for a while, I take my own boat, bring a few more people, you also go with me, are you afraid that something will happen? Besides, the clan fields in our clan are almost around there, right? There are also many tenants of our family who live in that area, and what are you afraid of him? ”

Lu's mother has been spoiled very much for Zhang's pair of grandchildren since she was a child, and she is even more spoiled than Zhang's, although she disapproves of it in her heart, but when she saw Zhao Xiu's soft words and begged each other, what she said made sense, so she quickly lost her armor and gave up her armor: "Okay, the girl must remember what she said, you must bring enough people, but Lu's mother is not going, Miss Ming'er is not at home, and the affairs of the family still need to be watched, let us accompany the girl in charge, and let Bilian accompany her." The girl just sits on the boat, don't go to the shore, that is all wild land, although the clan field is nearby, but there is still a river, and most of the people living in Qingxi Town are not our tenants, people from the village, don't know how to pay respects, don't let them scare the girl. ”

As long as she agreed, Zhao Xiu could say anything, and happily agreed.

The next morning, the sky was beautiful, and although there were clouds in the sky, obscuring the sun, there was no sign of rain. Lu's mother got up early to prepare breakfast in the kitchen, urged her husband to choose the servants who would go out with her, and personally watched the people prepare the sedan chair for Zhao Xiu to sit on when he went out, and sent someone to the ferry outside the city to make a boat to sit on, and she was very busy.

Zhao Xiu ate and drank to his heart's content, changed into a dress that was convenient for movement, brought a sachet with the effect of repelling mosquitoes, and went to the front yard to wait. It's not the first time Bilian has gone out with her, but it's the first time she's gone to a so-called "country place" with the little master, and she is worried.

Although she is a girl, she also suffered when she traveled south when she was a child, but because her mother is the relationship between Lu's mother, who is highly valued by the Zhang family, she lives a life of food and clothing most of the time. In the past few years, she has been waiting by Zhao Xiu's side, and she is even more pampered, almost like the deputy lady. She is fourteen years old this year, she is already a first-class girl, and there are two little girls under her hand. In the past, she also followed her master out of the door, but along the way, there were special people to take care of food, clothing, housing and transportation, so she didn't need to worry about it, this time, it was the first time she was responsible for this work, for fear that something would be missed, and she silently recited her mother's instructions over and over again in her heart.

Zhao Xiu saw her looking absent-minded, wearing a homely light pink Yahuan uniform dress, delicate embroidered shoes on her feet, and beautiful beaded flowers on her head, she couldn't help but say to her: "Do you want to go back and change your clothes?" At least a pair of dirt-resistant shoes? This is your new embroidery, right? Wouldn't it be a pity if it got dirt? She herself wears a pair of plain mille-feuille shoes.

Bi Lian had a shocked expression on her face: "Girl, didn't you say that you would only stay on the boat?" So how can my shoes get dirty? ”

Zhao Xiu turned her head silently, should she be honest, if the situation requires it, will she still go ashore in person to go to the field for inspection?

Bilian has been by her side for five years, how can she not know her temperament? Seeing her expression, I was shocked, and my first reaction was not to change my clothes and shoes, but to go to my mother to complain and ask my mother to come over and persuade Zhao Xiu.

It's a pity that before she could take a step, Zhao You arrived, Zhao Xiu was afraid that Bilian would find Lu's mother and would really sue her, so he couldn't wait to greet everyone: "Everyone is here, let's go quickly!" ”

So Zhao Xiu sat in a small sedan chair. Zhao You walked and escorted on the side, and the group went out of the city gate, and got on the boat prepared by Xiao Erfang at the ferry not far from the city gate. All the way. Bilian sat in a small sedan chair and didn't have a chance to say a word to her mother in private.

The boat of the small second room is not big, it is the kind of canopy boat that is common in this Jiangnan water town, but it is more spacious than the average person, and the canopy is also taller, so the space in the cabin is larger. There is a coffee table with tea and snacks on it. Thin bamboo curtains are hung on the hatches and small windows, so you can see the scenery from the shore when you look out from the inside of the ship.

Zhao Xiu sat next to the small table. While drinking tea and eating snacks, he enjoyed the cool breeze sent by the Bilian fan, and at the same time listened to Zhao You introduce the situation of his land to the fish scale atlas.

Zhao You had a simple map of the area in his hand. Ancient maps of this tradition. Zhao Xiu didn't expect to be able to see any precise proportions and distances from above, and he could roughly know what was near that area. Zhao You's 30 acres of land are actually not independent, the south is next to the private land purchased by Zhao You's own small family, but the other fields are well cultivated and are planting cotton, only the 30 acres of land on the edge are because there is a large area of wild woods. It takes a lot of work to sort it out, when I bought it. The price is very cheap, Zhao Jue's wife is troublesome, and there is no shortage of land at home, so she will leave it alone.

These 30 acres of land are distributed along the riverside, the whole is rectangular, almost 600 feet long, 300 feet wide, wild fruit forests account for almost half, and the remaining vacant land can actually be reclaimed into fertile land, the soil quality is not bad, but it is just separated by the woods and other private fields under Zhao Jue's name, and it borders other people's fields.

That family is not from the Zhao family, but they are also big families in the county, and they are related to the Zhao family. Zhao You provided secret information in friendship: the housewife of that family and Zhao Yu's wife are cousins, and they have been at odds since they were children, but they just maintain their face-to-face relationship. The other party's husband asked Zhao Jue many times to buy this land, but Zhao Jue's wife found a reason to refuse, but Zhao Jue felt that they were all relatives, and the land that he did not cultivate was sold to his family, and Zhao Jue's wife wanted to continue to be a good wife in front of her husband, and she did not open her mouth to object, but deliberately did not reclaim the land, let it be overgrown, and wanted to block the housewife. The family was in trouble two years ago and had financial difficulties, so they stopped talking about buying land. When the family was separated, Zhao Yu's wife dumped the land to the concubine.

Zhao Xiu inquired about the name of the family, sure enough, it is a famous family in the county, she went to other houses with her grandmother during the New Year's holidays, and occasionally met his wife, but this year has not appeared, it is rumored that his brother seems to have offended the nobles in Jiading, not to mention that he is in prison, and he owes huge debts, although it has not yet reached the point of bankruptcy, but it is also difficult to mix, and the people who are a little famous in the county have broken off contact with his family.

This was someone else's business, and after Zhao Xiu listened to the gossip, he stopped paying attention. The boat had already sailed through Qingxi Town and arrived at the section of the river where Zhao You had been assigned to the west of the town. Zhao Xiu lifted the bamboo curtain and looked at the shore, and sure enough, he saw a large area of fruit groves, all of which grew in a disorderly manner, including fruit trees and ordinary miscellaneous trees, and the weeds were two feet high. Halfway to the west, the field is almost overgrown with weeds, separated from an adjacent field by a small ditch. That farmland must be owned by the rumored housewife and Zhao Jue's wife, planted rice, now it is obviously May, it is the time when the crops in the field are growing just right, but the rice in his field is a little wilted, not very energetic, is it because the main family suffered, and he has no intention of cooking?

Anyway, Zhao Xiu has confirmed that this is the area of the Xanadu that she has been to in modern times, and there are wild peaches in the wild fruit groves, which can be seen that this is suitable for planting peaches.

Zhao Xiu happily ordered to return, and Bilian was secretly relieved to see that she did not go ashore. Zhao You was also overjoyed, because Zhao Xiu bought this land and generously gave him one hundred taels of silver, which was more than he expected.

When they returned to the Zhao family's two-bedroom old house, they were happy, and before they had time to sit down and take a breath, Lu's mother came to report a surprising news: "The county master's son suddenly fell ill and died, and the county master wants to worry about it, I don't know who the new county order will send?" (To be continued......)