Zhulan explained, "If you want to marry in the future, my mother hopes that the girls around you will have families, at least Da Xia will marry with you, and the family will not dare to betray you if they are still in the hands of your mother, or if your mother does not leave ten thousand families, she will accompany you with one house in ten thousand families, and you can pinch it yourself." ”

For the three newly bought girls, she is really not at ease, especially Liqiu, who voluntarily sold herself at the age of ten, really threatened her family, Liqiu is the easiest to betray, Zhulan thought, no wonder watching ancient TV dramas, big families like to have children!

Xue Han was taught, "Mother, then why don't you buy all the descendants of the family, and how many Liqiu you have?" ”

Zhulan smiled, "Let's not say where there are so many family members to buy, let's just say that the house can't be all family members, and the mother is also guarding against them, so as not to marry each other and unite together to fool us in the future, buy some little girls to come in, these little girls can only rely on the master, and they will be the most obedient, there are two voices in the house, you have to remember that everything must be balanced, and if you want to balance, you need checks and balances. ”

Li stood aside and listened for a long time, her brain was confused, what checks and balances, what kind of marriage and combination, she was confused, forget it, she didn't want to, just listen to her mother's words.

Li said: "Mother, I took the silk flowers back to the yard, I want to go to the market with the master for a while, yesterday they all lined up to receive food, and today I want to see if there is anyone in the market." ”

Zhulan, "Go ahead." ”

When Zhulan herself was left, Zhulan divided the family's silver, and the family kept 5,600 taels as the family fund, and she put away the remaining 7,000 taels.

I asked Zhou Shuren yesterday, the wasteland is not counted in 200 acres, she decided to buy only 20 acres of land for her family, and the rest to buy mountain land.

Ding housekeeper has more experience than Zhou Boss, it didn't take two hours before and after going out to buy land, and he did it down the mountains and fields, which was still out of the city to see the delay on the mountain road, otherwise he would come back faster, and the mountains bought one hundred and eighty acres, which was a gift, a total of two hundred and sixteen acres, fifteen acres of dry fields, five acres of paddy fields, Lizhou City's paddy fields are less expensive, one acre of thirteen taels of silver, dry fields are cheaper than those in the northeast, and one acre of land is good for four taels of silver.

The purchase of the land, including the tax money for the exchange of deeds, cost about 400 taels of silver.

The eldest and his family came back almost noon, and Zhulan frowned, "Why did you come back?" It's been almost half an hour since Steward Ding came back from buying land. ”

If it weren't for the large number of people following, she thought something was wrong.

Zhou Lao Avenue: "Mother, there are people in this market to sell wild vegetables and fish, I think there are too few, a few little dolls selling wild vegetables said that there are still at home, we see the little doll strange and pitiful, and the heart is soft and said that it is all right, but the little doll walks back and consumes time, I and Li can't bear it, and there is a carriage to send it back." ”

Li Shi answered: "When I arrived in the village, I knew that we were here to buy wild vegetables, and many families came to ask if they wanted more?" I thought that our family buys wild vegetables every year to dry and eat in the winter, so we stay to collect wild vegetables, so it takes a lot of time. ”

Zhulan looked at the boss and the Li family, the entire Zhou family counted one by one, and the most soft-hearted were these two people, "How much did you buy?" ”

Li grinned, she knew that her mother-in-law would not be angry, "Mother, I bought two carts, and I also said that I will let people collect wild vegetables in the future." ”

Boss Zhou added: "Mother, I bought it for two pennies and a catty, and I bought more than three hundred catties." ”

Zhulan, "......."

I bought all the wild vegetables from several nearby villages!

Zhulan waved her hand, "Don't pile it up when you buy it, hurry up and dry it, don't be rotten." ”

Li Shi slipped away, "Mother, I'll go to dry." ”

At noon, there were more wild vegetables and fish on the dining table of the Zhou family, and the size of the fish was not small, and the people risked going down to the river to fish in exchange for money.

In the afternoon, Zhulan changed her clothes and took a carriage to take a look at the mountain she bought, the mountain is close to Lizhou City, the wild vegetables on the mountain have long been dug up, and there is some vegetation, more than 200 acres of mountainous land is really not small.

Boss Zhou looked at the mountains in front of him, "Mother, are these two mountains our family?" ”

Zhulan, "Yes." ”

Boss Zhou was worried again, "Mother, there are too many mountains in this place?" Do you grow sweet potatoes and potatoes? ”

In Boss Zhou's impression, only sweet potatoes and potatoes are generally grown in the mountains.

Zhulan could imagine what the orchard looked like, and said with a smile, "In the mountains near the top of the mountain, I plan to plant apple trees, and plant some watermelons at the bottom of the mountain, and plant winter wheat after the watermelons are harvested." ”

Boss Zhou gasped, such a large area of mountainous land, planted a lot of fruit trees, "Mother, our family wants to buy a lot of fruit trees!" ”

Zhulan looked at the ground and had a bottom in her heart, and said with a smile: "Of course, after the fruit trees are planted, the mountains will be handed over to you in the future, Lichun will follow you, don't let your mother down!" ”

Boss Zhou can only get his hands on farming, but he has never been hit by apple trees and watermelons, and his scalp is a little numb for a while, and it is the first time he has managed such a big thing at home, and he has no bottom in his heart.

Zhulan saw that Boss Zhou had no confidence, and the boss still needed to practice hard, "It's not for you to do it yourself, will you spend money to hire someone to do it?" ”

As soon as Boss Zhou heard this, since he became the uncle of the Zhou family, he has become more and more comfortable spending money, and he does know how to spend money, "Mother, I must take care of the mountains." ”

Now that there is land, Zhulan's family needs to hire a lot of people, and the family has brought a lot of food, and Zhulan is also ready to pay half grain and half silver, which can also help Zhou Shuren relieve a little burden.

In the next few days, not only Zhou Shuren was busy, but Zhulan was also busy, she calculated how many fruit trees she needed to buy, how many people she hired to help, and the ice cellar at home had to be dug.

By the time batches of fruit trees from Zhulan's side were shipped back, it had been ten days since the Zhou family arrived in Lizhou City.

Zhou Shuren has started to build roads and dig ponds, and the entire city of Lizhou is full of people working, and the city of Lizhou has initially stabilized.

After the ice cellar of Zhulan's family was dug and the nearby people were hired to plant fruit trees and fields, Zhulan was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, and said to Zhou Shuren at night: "You said that we have been in Lizhou City for almost a month, why didn't there be an official wife to invite me?" ”

(End of chapter)