It's just that it's not possible to just buy land, after buying land, pioneering, breeding, and raising flowers need to invest a lot of manpower, and you need to build a workshop at the end of the year, which requires silver everywhere, and three hundred taels of silver looks like a lot.

After the family discussed, they finally decided to buy 30 acres of land first, and wait for the workshop to build a bonus and see if they need to buy land after the need for flower sauce.

The purchase of land must be negotiated by the village chief, and the village chief has no ability to go to the yamen to pay money to get the bill and become the owner of the land.

Daqing instigated the pioneering, with a number of decrees to benefit the people, so the wasteland is far cheaper than the fertile land, according to the land water and drought characteristics, the general arid wasteland will not cross one or two halves of silver per mu, and the water wasteland will not cross two taels.

After Guo Mianmian returned to Guo's house, the household registration fell on the Guo family, and according to the rules, the land could only be bought in the name of the head of the household, which means that the name on the list had to be Guo Honest.

Guo Mianmian has no suggestion in this regard, at the mercy of her not married, the business of flower sauce is still in her hands, this is a family business she bought for her mother's family, even if she marries in the future, she never thought of taking it away.

handed over the matter of buying land to his father and second brother, and estimated that a lot of the wasteland he fancied would not exceed forty-five taels, so Guo Mianmian took out fifty taels of silver. Except for two silver ingots of twenty taels, the rest of the silver were five taels, one tael of small silver ingots, and even half a tael of broken silver.

"Sanya, fifty taels is too much, you take back these ten taels of silver, and forty taels of silver is enough." Guo Laoshi had never arranged so much silver, and he was shocked when he saw this, so he quickly took out two large silver ingots and handed the rest back.

"Dad, giving you so much silver, it naturally has its benefits, the second brother will tell you in detail later, you can take it and make no mistakes!" Guo Mianmian shook his head with a smile and put the ten taels of silver back.

Seeing that his father was still hesitating, Guo Lin took his purse and walked out, and said with a smile: "Dad, you just listen to Ye'er, these silver have their own benefits." ”

Guo Laoshi stood in place and thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't think clearly, so he had to pick up the meat strips that he had planned early and go to the village chief's house with his second son.

"Mianmian, there will be more places to use silver in the future, you can save it, how can you be so generous?" As soon as the father and son left, Mu, who had endured it for a long time without speaking, began to count down his daughter, fearing that his daughter would lose the money if she didn't make it.

Guo Mianmian was a little helpless, so she had to say the reason: "Mother, it is said that 'the king of Hades is easy to see, and the little ghost is difficult', our family asked the village chief to do something to send out a large piece of pork. ”

As soon as Mu heard this, he knew the benefits of his daughter, and he was immediately distressed: "Oh, how much silver does this have to give away for nothing!" ”

Guo Mianmian shook his head and said in a different way: "Mother, the account can't be calculated like this, if those 'little ghosts' are not satisfied, it will be light for them to delay the purchase of land for a year or two, and the loss of our family will only be more at that time." ”

This kind of unspoken law, Kyoto at the feet of the emperor is not to blame, let alone Yunlai County, which is far away from the emperor on this day? Most of the land purchases are out, and the order can be done as soon as possible, and it is nothing to pay a little more.

In the end, or they don't have a status, otherwise they wouldn't be so forward-looking when they buy a piece of wasteland. For example, when she was just a little maid, the status of the master was over there, and those women who were not too high-ranking saw her and gave her two faces, calling her "Aunt Guo".

After listening to this, Mu Shi did not speak for a long time. This kind of thing had too much impact on her, and she was once again honored to grit her teeth for her youngest son to study, and no matter what the final result was, she always had the hope of changing the court.

As Guo Mianmian expected, after Village Chief Li saw the five-pound piece of pork, he immediately agreed to accompany the Guo family father and son to the county office, and kept praising Guo Laoshi and his son for their promising, and they were becoming more and more luxuriant.

With enough silver, after the three of them came to the town, Guo Lin rented a carriage to travel on his behalf, and soon came to the county office.

When the little official who worked hard in the land business saw that the Guo family father and son were empty-handed, their expressions were very unpleasant, and they prevaricated that they would have to go to Lijia Village to measure the land after a while.

Fortunately, Guo Lin had a plan, and quietly stuffed a five-dollar silver horn into the little official, and the little official smiled at the moment, and he didn't know how many times better, and he agreed very happily to send someone over the next day.

At daylight that day, three people were sent from the yamen. After the Guo family's good tea and water were entertained, they gave each person a hardship fee of 200 yuan.

The 600 Wen hard work fee soon paid off, and after the wasteland was measured, there were thirty-three acres, and the people in the yamen erased the fraction and recorded it as thirty acres, and assessed the high-grade wasteland as medium wasteland, so as to save at least five taels of silver for the Guo family.

As soon as this account was settled, Mu and the others, who had spent more than a tael of silver on the pain, were very happy, and even said that Guo Mianmian was prescient, and the silver was not in vain.

After the news that the Guo family bought 30 acres of land in one go, all parties reacted differently. There are those who congratulate sincerely, such as Zhao Shugen; There are those who admire and envy, such as Widow Lee; There are also those who want to reap the benefits with small calculations.

Money can make ghosts grind, give enough benefits, and on the third day after measuring the land, the Guo family smoothly got the official seal of the square sheet.

Thirty-three acres of wasteland is not small, the soil quality is also slightly different, in order to raise high-quality flowers, Guo Mianmian soaked in that wasteland for a few days, the soil quality, soil thickness, and even the level of moisture preservation of each piece of land made a detailed inquiry, made a detailed map for backup.

Guo Laosan heard that the Guo family had bought a large piece of wasteland, so he came to the door with burning eyebrows, and when he saw Guo Mianmian, he asked if the land was used to plant flowers.

Guo Mianmian was surprised by Guo Laosan's sensitivity, and knew that this matter could not be concealed from the admission of the modern party.

After getting a proper answer, Guo Laosan's expression was very unpleasant, and he said in a tone of inquiry: "The eldest niece said that she would take the third uncle to do the flower sauce business together, but this time your family bought land but left the third uncle's family behind, does the eldest niece want to give the third uncle an explanation for this matter?" ”

Guo Mianmian pretended not to understand, and asked suspiciously: "Say?" What does the third uncle want? Could it be that the third uncle blamed his niece for buying land without informing the third uncle? But the money to buy the land was paid by my family, so I don't need to inform the third uncle, right? ”

Guo Laosan's eyelids twitched, and he said with a smile: "The advantage of the third uncle is that the eldest niece wants to do a big flower sauce business, so he should inform the third uncle, and the third uncle can also buy two acres of land for the eldest niece to be in charge." ”

Guo Mianmian showed a suddenly cheerful demeanor, and said incredulously: "The last time the third uncle came to send flowers, saying that there was no silver at home, so that the niece would raise the price, the niece thought that the third uncle's family really had no money, so she didn't tell the third uncle, the third uncle's family has silver!" ”

Speaking of this, Guo Mianmian's expression became unpleasant, with the anger of being deceived.

Guo Laosan didn't expect Guo Mianmian to remember this, and his arrogance suddenly shrank a lot: "No, no, what kind of life the third uncle's family is living and the eldest niece doesn't know, where is there another silver, haha, haha!" ”

Guo Mianmian didn't want to continue to fight with Guo Laosan, and said a little discouragedly: "Now that the third uncle already knows that my family plans to buy land and plant flowers, if the third uncle also wants to plant, buy land and plant it, and if he grows as many flowers as his niece receives, he will not make the third uncle suffer." ”

Guo Laosan's face turned red, and he didn't know how to answer.

This time, when I came to Xingshi to ask for the guilt, I wanted to let the Guo family automatically give him a few acres of the thirty acres of land he had just bought without spending a penny.

After thinking about it, Guo Laosan was reluctant to tear his face, and finally left the Guo family in disgrace. With Guo Mianmian's promise, he bought a few acres of land to plant flowers, and he didn't return empty-handed.

……

Half of the hot summer days have passed, but the sky is still not cool.

At noon, a few women under the big tree at the head of the village were enjoying the coolness, hoping that when the sun went down, they would go to the fields to block them, and they could not work in the fields under the sun, and if they were pitiful and had heat stroke, they would not be able to work.

These people are all famous long-tongued women in the village, who has lost a needle, they can know it clearly, and will use "concerted efforts" to arrange the person who lost the needle, and the indignant tone is as if he lost his own needle.

A few women were not idle, chatting secretly about the gossip in the village, and chatting about the Guo family's purchase of land.

These days, the Guo family's purchase of land has become a hot topic in Lijia Village, and it has been studied repeatedly I don't know how many times.

"Tsk, this Guo family bought thirty acres of wasteland in one go, even if it is one or two taels of silver per acre, it is also thirty taels, I really don't know why their family is so rich." A woman said in a tone of admiration.

This immediately drew the echo of another woman: "Who says it isn't? The Guo family also bought a cow a few days ago, and the cow and the land add up to fifty taels, and we are afraid that we will not be able to find a second family in our village that can come up with so much silver. ”

Widow Li is also one of the long-tongued women, and she is wearing a cheongsam at this time, and you can know that this is Li Precious by looking at the color and style of the cheongsam.

If you want to say that who doesn't want the Guo family's life to be better than possible, Widow Li, who can't wait for the Guo family to be ruined, should be the first. At this time, seeing those women's admiration for the wealth of the Guo family, my heart was filled with pain.

She bit off the thread fiercely, raised her head and said, "What if you have money?" Who knows if the way the money came from is unclean? Maybe it's dirty silver from selling your body! ”

Everyone could hear the evil intentions hidden behind these words, and several women looked at each other and didn't know whether to answer or not.

Widow Li thought that someone would ask, and then she pushed the boat down the river and poured a few basins of dirty water on the Guo family, and when she saw that no one answered, she was a little annoyed in her heart, and asked angrily: "What's the matter, you don't believe it?" ”

Those women really didn't believe it, and they didn't want to approve of Widow Li's words, so as not to blame the Guo family, and they wouldn't be able to get involved in the future. It's just that Widow Li's words are too confusing, and they really want to know what is going on after all.

In the end, the woman who spoke first couldn't help it, and whispered to Widow Li: "This kind of thing can't be nonsense, if it reaches Mu's ears, she will come to the door with a knife to cut people." ”

It seems that this is to persuade Widow Li not to slander, but in reality, it is to stimulate Widow Li and let her shake out everything she knows at once.