Ever since I found a purple wild wheat in the Blackwater Marsh, I've had high hopes for it. Sure enough, after some experiments, this flour made from purple wheat showed strong plasticity, and it is definitely a staple food material with great potential for making yin and ghost meals.

However, the problem soon came, I don't know how to farm, I don't have land, even if I have purple wheat seeds in my hand, I have nowhere to plant. In the end, I had no choice but to pin my hopes on the village chief Wang Shou. He had promised to set aside a piece of land for me to build a house on, maybe I could ask him if he could sell a few pieces of land for me to open up a test plot first.

Although the sarcastic ghost has a cheap mouth, he actually knows a lot about his skills. It gave me a trick: go to see the place first, and then ask the village chief to buy the land.

"There are so many doorways in this land sale!" The sarcastic ghost folded his fingers and counted the treasures, "paddy fields, dry fields, fertile fields, thin fields, black soil, loess, red soil, flat land, sloping land, depression land, stone land, sand land, saline-alkali land, each of these lands has a different price." Also, how far away is the water source? Is it sufficient? Are there any ready-made ditches? These are all factors that directly affect the harvest, and they can also directly affect the value of the land! ”

I couldn't help but be a little confused after listening to a long list of professional terms, so I asked it: "I see that what you said is so slippery, you should understand the market and can see whether the land is good or bad, right?" ”

The sarcastic ghost smugly replied, "Of course! When it comes to buying and selling land, I'm an expert! ”

"What did you do when you died?" I asked casually again.

The origin of the sarcastic ghost seems to be more mysterious than mine, and Boss Cha and I have asked a few times, but they have all been fooled and prevaricated. It seems that this guy must still have some hidden secrets!

The sarcastic ghost's expression suddenly became embarrassed again, and he waved his hand again and again: "I happened to be talking about buying land and farming, why did it happen to me again?" It's important to get down to business first, let's look at the ground! ”

The sarcasm usually does his work quite well, and I have a request for it now, and it is not good to get to the bottom of it, so I go with him to the field outside the fishing village.

Since this nameless fishing village is not far from the town of Kawaguchi, which can be reached by boat along the coastline from the sea in a day, I have never known if there is any other land transportation outside the village. This time, I followed the sarcasm around the fishing village, only to realize that there was actually a rugged path leading to the direction of Estuary, but it was rarely walked, and it was long deserted.

There are not many wild areas outside the village, except for the cave where the fishing village is located, there is a cave in the direction of Estuary Town and one cave in the direction of Ghost Eater. The cave in the direction of the town of Estuary is not large, about 200 meters long and 50 meters wide, and beyond it is a rugged, narrow path. Although the terrain here is flat, according to the sarcasm, the land is not fertile enough and the water source is scarce, so there is no need to think about it.

We went in the other direction. The cave that went to the Ghost Eating Forest was much larger than the previous one, about a mile long and about three hundred meters wide, but there were slopes on both sides and were not flat enough. Fortunately, there is a small stream nearby, and it should not be a problem to divert water for irrigation, and it can be regarded as having its own advantages and disadvantages.

The mocker circled around the hole with his hands behind his back. It bent over with its head down, its eyes fixed on the ground, and from time to time it reached out and grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground and rubbed it. It took three turns, and finally it chose a place in a corner, pointed to its feet, and said, "Well, this is the best location!" ”

"What's so good? Tell me about it! "I humbly asked it for advice.

"First, the soil is the most fertile. If you look at this soil, it is all black soil, with good characteristics and high fertility, which is very suitable for growing wheat. The second is that the yin qi here is the thickest. The crops in the underworld need yin, just as the crops in the yang need sunlight, which is indispensable. Third, because this is a sloping land, it is easier to bargain! ”

"Why is it easier to bargain on sloping land?" I'm still a little confused.

"Boss, think about it, the same soil, naturally, flat land is easy to cultivate, and slope land is difficult to plant. So if you offer to buy the land below the slope first, the village elder will definitely ask you for money. Let's start asking the price from the slope, if the price is high, we will lower the price, and if the price is low, we will even buy the bottom piece together! ”

"Well, that sounds like that!" I nodded, pleased with the sarcast's explanation.

"Let's go! Let's go to the village chief and old man to buy land! It was also quite excited, and pulled me to find Wang Shou immediately, "When I get to him in a while, I'll talk to him." Boss, you don't have to talk to me, just leave it to me! ”

When I saw that it was confident, I agreed.

Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the village chief's house, the sarcastic ghost was first startled by Xiao Hei. It didn't know that this was the night flying cat that had been tamed, and suddenly saw such a big beast, and was so frightened that it hid behind me, and its self-confident spirit flew away from the clouds at once.

Wang Shou came out of the house and shouted that Xiaocai had taken Xiaohei away, and then asked me about my intentions.

I looked at the trembling mocker behind me, and knew that I couldn't count on it at this time, so I simply went straight to the ground: "I want to buy a piece of land outside the village." ”

"Buying land? Outside the village? Wang Shou was surprised and asked, "I said before, if you want to build a house, I can set aside a piece of land in the village for you." Why do you think of going outside the village to buy land again? ”

"I want to buy land to grow wheat." I tell you the truth.

"Growing wheat?" Wang Shou was even more surprised, and asked, "What kind of wheat do you want to plant?" ”

"That's it!"

I took out a seed from my pocket and handed it to Wang Shou.

Wang Shou took it and looked at it carefully, and finally recognized what kind of wheat it was, "Isn't this the kind of purple wild wheat that grows in the Blackwater Swamp?" That's why you're staying? ”

I shook my head and said, "There are many reasons why I decided to stay, and this is just one of them. ”

"I see." Wang Shou returned the seeds to me and asked, "Which piece of land do you want to buy?" ”

"It's on the slope on the right hand side of the first cave in the direction of the Ghost Eater Forest, up to the cave wall, down to the thornberry bush, left to the gravel field, and right to the dry cracked ditch!" The sarcastic ghost finally returned to normal, and in one breath he recited the four solstices of the land.

Wang Shou smiled when he heard this, and said, "It turns out that you have already come prepared this time, and you are bound to win!" ”

I also laughed and said, "Yes." It was a suitable place for me to grow wheat, and I saw that the village was all fishing at sea, and there was no one to cultivate the land, and the land was all deserted. Sell it to me, village chief! ”

"Let's start with a price! Let's start with a price! The sarcastic ghost hurriedly interjected again.

Wang Shou asked it with a smile: "How many acres of land are you going to buy?" ”

"One acre is enough!" The sarcastic ghost replied. Since it is just a test field, with the seeds I currently have in my hands, it would be good to be able to plant an acre.

"What can be grown in an acre?" Wang Shou shook his head in disagreement.

"You tell me the price first, and then we decide how many acres to buy!" The sarcasm is still very obsessed with the issue of price.

"Alas! Speaking of which, no one here has ever offered to buy land before. I don't know how much it will cost? Wang Shou suddenly changed his tone, turned around and asked me: "In this way, we can have a 'gentleman's agreement', how about it?" ”

"What 'gentleman's agreement'?" I wondered.

"I can give you this land for free, but you have to go out to sea with me next time!"

"Out to sea?"

"That's right!"

I was confused by the sudden warm invitation of the village chief Wang Shou. If you go out to the sea, you can get one acre of land for free, and this condition can be said to be not a loss. Is there anything special about this fishing trip?

"As long as you agree, don't say one acre of land, I can give you ten acres of land!" Wang Shou added more chips.

As soon as the sarcasm heard that there was a good thing for free, he pulled the corner of my clothes hard behind my back. Naturally, it hoped that I would agree, and it was incomprehensible to have such a big advantage and not take advantage of it.

But I'm still hesitating: this is too favorable, right? Could it be that because of the small population in this village, the village chief Wang Shou intends to rely on preferential land policies to attract talents to settle here?

"I haven't been out to sea and I can't fish, so what do I need to do when I get on the boat?" I decided to ask first.

"You don't need to do odd jobs, as long as you go with the boat." Wang Shou said very cheerfully.

"Is it dangerous?" I skeptical.

Wang Shou laughed and confessed: "The Stygian Sea is not an ordinary underground river, it is a more dangerous and treacherous place than the sea in the sun. I don't want to lie to you, as long as you enter the Styx, everyone will be in danger! But don't worry, whatever you need to do, I'll definitely ask for your consent! ”

"That's ......"

In fact, all that was said and done, I really couldn't find a reason to refuse him, so I finally agreed.

After negotiating the "gentleman's agreement", there was no contract or contract or anything like that between me and Wang Shou, he directly took out a small blackboard, and marked the location of this land on it according to the four solstice mentioned by the sarcasm, and wrote that it had been given to me.

This small blackboard hangs just outside the door of the village chief's house. Given that this nameless fishing village has less than a hundred villagers, its contents can be seen from the places where they come and go every day. Therefore, this form of announcement is more credible than writing any title deed or land deed.

Having rightly obtained the most fertile plot, the sarcasm and I began to sow the seeds with what few purple wheat seeds we had. The sarcastic ghost is indeed a good hand at farm work, from weeding and ploughing the ground, leveling strip sowing, watering and fertilizing.

Originally, we only planned to buy one acre of land, but we got ten acres of land without spending a penny, which can be described as a surprise. In fact, such a large piece of land is not used up by us at all, and in the end, it is only sparsely planted with less than half an acre.

However, since this first season is only experimental, it is easy to take care of it with a little less. If we can get a good harvest after a year, we won't have to worry about not having enough land to plant next season.