Chapter 53: Measuring the Land

"Wasteland?" Yao County Ling was a little confused, this title deed clearly said that it was a hundred acres of good land, 'good land'! Why is this still a wasteland? Hearing the county order ask himself, Wang Xing replied: "I can't ask for the land of the villagers, people have waited for so many years to become fertile land, I go to pick peaches now, how will I be a person in the village in the future?" That wasteland is also very good, close to the river, and it will be fertile land in three or five years."

Yao Xianling nodded with satisfaction, looking at the people under his jurisdiction, this enlightenment? This quality? This is the credit of my own education!

Su Bai doesn't know much about these things, he has never planted land in his previous life, it is better to leave these things to professional people, Wang Xing has been planting land for so many years, and there should be no problem with the position he picked.

Yao Xianling smiled: "Then I will go with you to measure the land, please wait a while", after speaking, he bowed to the carriage again, Su Bai smiled: "I'm tired of the adult!" Yao Xian Ling smiled and waved his hand, turned around and walked towards the official mansion, Su Bai guessed that he should go back to find the staff, and then go to measure the land together, a hundred acres of fertile land is not much, and it is not too little.

Sure enough, as Su Bai guessed, it didn't take twenty minutes for Yao County Ling to walk out with a scribe and eight or nine messengers, and smiled at Su Bai: "Prince Wang, please get into the carriage first, and the carriage in my county will arrive later." Su Bai bowed deeply and said, "Lord Laoan, County Venerable! After seeing Yao Xianling nodding, he pulled Wang Xing into the carriage, told the groom the direction, and with the groom's loud shout, the carriage galloped away.

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Su Bai knows where Wang Xingxuan's place is, there is a small river in front of the cattle village, the people in the village go there to wash their clothes, there is a wasteland by the river, which is Wang Xingxuan's place, the terrain is quite flat, the wild grass is overgrown, in Datang, where there is no pesticide, it is a little difficult to clean up these wild grasses, and he has a cow at home, and it seems that he will buy more next year and hire some villagers to help.

Su Bai arrived at the place on the front foot, and the party of Yao County Ling on the back foot rushed up, and the person who looked like a scribe held the county chronicle in his hand, carefully looked at the wasteland in front of him and whispered: "My lord, this wasteland has been measured before, and he plans to build a manor here, but then the troubled times came, and there were soldiers and horses everywhere, so he didn't build it, when he measured it before, he went to the river in the east, the village in the west, the road in the south, and the locust tree in the north, which was exactly one hundred and ten acres of land" The scribe pretended to whisper, The actual voice was just right for Su Bai and them to hear clearly.

Before Su Bai could speak, Cheng Chumo on the carriage accosted, "What? Exactly a hundred acres? Isn't that just the same reward for my second brother? Then it's set here! Wang Xing smirked, he also heard the scribe speak, this earned ten acres of land for nothing, what could be happier than this? Su Bai looked at the scribe with a smile, this person was so awake, he actually used such a method to please Cheng Chumo.

As soon as Yao County Ling heard Cheng Chumo's words, he directly closed the county chronicle in the scribe's hand and said: "What the little grandfather said is very true, this is exactly one hundred acres of land, isn't it the same as the reward of Brother Wang, providence, providence." Cheng Chu, who was in the carriage, laughed and said: "That's right, this is the will of heaven, Yao County Order, you are very good!" You said this sentence very well and directly into Yao Xianling's heart, and I felt that the cold wind outside was warm, and it became no longer bone-chilling.

The scribe stepped forward to take the title deed in Su Bai's hand and said: "Tomorrow, I will invite the prince to come to the official mansion and go through the relevant procedures", Su Bai smiled and pushed Wang Xing beside him: "This is the father, tomorrow the father will go by himself", the scribe respectfully gave Wang Xing a salute, Wang Xing was startled and quickly dodged, he didn't dare to let the scholar give a salute.

The scribe didn't force it, and retreated very measuredly, Su Bai smiled: "I'm tired of the adults today, please go to the house to drink a glass of sake", Yao Xianling stared at Su Bai's carriage, obviously waiting for Cheng Chumo to reply, and after waiting for a while, he didn't hear Cheng Chumo's voice, and said with some disappointment: "Busy with official business, it's better not to bother, if the prince has nothing else, he will retire in the future."

"I'll send Master Yao" Su Bai said, tightly on his body, took a few steps forward to help Yao County Order get into the carriage, Yao County Order looked at Cheng Chumo's carriage, looked back at Su Bai, and whispered: "I didn't know that Gongzi was from my Huangniu Village, and I was also an official in Juxian County for almost three years, and I was also half a fellow villager, and I asked Gongzi to say a lot of good words for me." Su Bai looked left and right, and whispered: "Please rest assured, this time the amount of land is thanks to the care of the adults, and the kindness in this is not forgotten, and the ugly cow must not be forgotten", Yao County Ling and Su Bai looked at each other, everyone is a smart person, and there are some things that need not be said thoroughly.

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After returning home, Wang Xing still had that standard smirk on his face, and Wang Liu, who saw it, was very angry, and gave him a heavy back and asked, "How is it?" Only then did Wang Xing recover, rubbed his face that was a little stiff and said: "The one hundred and ten acres in the east of the village are now ours, and I will go to the government tomorrow to go through the formalities", Wang Liu heard it, and perfectly copied Wang Xing's previous smirking expression!

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"Second brother, I'll go back first, when will you go back to Chang'an?" Cheng Chumo sat in the carriage and asked, Su Bai thought for a while, fifteen, why do you have to go back on fifteen, I have long wanted to see the Lantern Festival of the Tang Dynasty, it is said that there will be a lot of lantern riddles at that time, and the rich lady in the boudoir will also come out to enjoy the lanterns on that day, and then I will definitely go to see and see, now that there is a fat man in Liaozhai, I have nothing to worry about, and I will go back with my parents when the time comes.

Cheng Chu smiled and patted Su Bai and said, "Second brother, when are you going to build that high-grade liquor workshop?" When Su Bai heard this, his face turned a little black, the military order that had reached 10,000 taels of gold in half a year was still in Cheng Yanjin's hands, blue thin, shiitake mushrooms, I was happy today, why did I say such a thing!

Fortunately, he had already exchanged the technology of distilled liquor before, Su Bai stretched out his hand and pointed to the east of the village and said: "It's on the edge of the river, you can shoot craftsmen when you go back, I'm afraid it's not easy to build a workshop in winter." Cheng Chumo's chest slammed and said: "No problem, you don't have to worry about this kind of small thing, just leave it to us", Su Bai nodded and said: "In addition, I will send a thousand jars of wine tomorrow." The corners of Cheng Chumo's mouth twitched: "What? "I said I'd send a thousand jars of wine tomorrow!"

The corners of Cheng Chumo's mouth twitched again: "Brother Xian, aren't we making wine?" Why do you have to buy it", Su Bai coughed and said: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed, of course don't worry, these are just preliminary experiments." Cheng Chu nodded silently as if he didn't understand: "Don't worry, just leave these little things to me", Su Bai nodded with satisfaction, his heart doesn't need to be in vain, tomorrow when the craftsmen come, directly let them build the dim sum workshop!

"Brother be careful on the road" Su Bai hugged his fists and said very formally, Cheng Chu smiled silently, and returned to the carriage shed, the groom arched his hand at Su Bai, waved the horsewhip, and the carriage galloped away, accompanied by six subordinates behind him.

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When he went home, Su Bai found that the cauldron of stewed mutton was once again propped up, Wang Xing bought two sheep in the village, saying that it was to celebrate his family becoming a landlord and to invite the villagers to eat, grandpa knew that the land in the east of the village was now his own family, so he couldn't help it, he had to go to the river to see, Er Niu and Xiaobao accompanied the old man to the river. Wang Liu is showing off to the neighbors, his son is also the person who alarmed the saint, His Majesty knows the name of his son, and rewards 10,000 taels of gold and 100 acres of fertile land!

Speaking of this gold tael, it is really a cheat, Su Bai always thought that the gold tael was really 10,000 taels of gold, who knew that it was actually 10,000 copper coins! Do you say this is the biggest scam in history! 10,000 copper coins! Shall I send you this ten dollars? Su Bai put the money into his warehouse with a look of hatred!

The villagers are looking at Su Bai a little wrong now, there is a daughter at home, and the eyes looking at Su Bai are green, as if they have seen the expression of the golden beetle son-in-law, and the son at home is red, with a look of envy and jealousy, such a good baby, why is it not his own family? Ay? Is this the origin of the term 'red men and green women'?

Distilled liquor needs a still, this may be the only secret of distilled liquor, in the final analysis, it is actually a purification process, Su Bai quietly found Wang Liu and asked him to inform his uncle that he had a confidential job to do with him! Wang Liu had told Su Bai before that his uncle was a very good blacksmith, and this kind of thing would be left to him.

As soon as Wang Liu heard that his son was still thinking about his uncle, of course he was also very happy, and said that he would notify him when he returned to his parents' house in a few days, and when the time came, he would come with his uncle.

Grandpa finished watching the wasteland, walking seemed to be a lot easier, along the way 'floated' back, saw Su Bai's eyes lit up, came over and took Su Bai's hand and said: "Or my ugly cow has the ability, hahahaha, more than 100 acres of land, our family is also a landlord now, wait until the beginning of spring to let your father buy a few cows back, the wasteland is difficult to cultivate, you need two strong cows!" ”

"Two cows?" Su Bai asked with some puzzlement, the most traditional farming I watched on TV before, and it was also an ox that could pull a plow to walk around, is it the reason for the wasteland? Grandpa nodded and said: "Yes, why did you forget that our land is a vegetable field, and there is almost no need to plough, our cattle are pulling carts, and we need two cows to cultivate the land.

Su Bai's eyes swept to the plow placed on the side, and found that it was really different from what he had seen on TV before, and instantly Su Bai knew that his chance to make a fortune had come!