Chapter 74: Buying Land
After that night's conversation, more than half a month has passed, and after Su Wan's temptation during this time, Feng Jing is indeed a person with no bad intentions, and she is completely relieved of him.
She has arrived at Chengjia Village, Quyang County, Wu'an Prefecture, her destination.
Su Wu found the county government office in Quyang County yesterday and found the person in charge to express her intention to settle down.
After giving a benefit fee of one or two silver, Su Wan was assigned to Chengjia Village on higher ground as she wished.
In ancient times, villages were mostly gathered by surnames.
So in this village, Cheng is a big surname, but it is not without other foreign surname families.
Maybe the benefit fee played a role, or there was a letter of introduction from the county government, or maybe Su Wu sent a piece of pork, a jar of wine, and a bundle of leaf cigarettes to make the village chief Cheng Guangsheng very satisfied.
At this moment, the village chief Cheng Guangsheng was holding a pipe and took the initiative to take Su Wan's family around the village.
Originally, Su Wan wanted to put her mother and younger siblings at the village chief's house to rest, but they were unwilling to leave her, and Su Wu could only let her follow.
In ancient times, it was always not as convenient for women to do things as men, so in order to reduce unnecessary trouble, Su Wan asked Feng Jing to negotiate with the village chief on her behalf.
Along the way, Su Wan and Ah Xiu took turns to hug Su Wan, while Su Zhen always accompanied Ah Xiu, using a stick to open the weeds in front of her mother.
The village chief stopped, pointed to a piece of overgrown land and said, "Your girl wants to buy 5 points of paddy field and 5 points of dry field, but if you don't have high requirements for soil, it is the field under the mountain that I just showed you, which is more suitable for this land."
I know that your girl's budget is not much, but no matter how bad the land is, it will be difficult to grow crops, and selling it to you will be purely a pit for your money, what will your family eat next year? ”
The village chief noticed that although the clothes worn by the Su family were clean, they were not silk and satin, so he guessed that the situation at home was indeed not very good as they said, and he saw that their family was stupid and small, and that a big girl could handle things, but there was also a loyal servant, and it would be difficult for the female children of the Su family to come to their village.
"Thank you for the village chief's concern, then I will buy the field under the mountain and this land."
Five points of paddy field, five points of dry field, exactly one acre, 6 taels of silver, not only in the budget, but also pressed very low by Su Yuan, even Feng Jing, who said this to the village chief, did not understand why Su Wu would buy such a poor land to plant.
Didn't she say she wanted to farm well?
How can you grow good crops by buying such poor land?
Could it be that her plan is to live on the thousands of taels of silver in the future?
In this way, it will sit and eat empty.
Although he was puzzled, Feng Jing didn't ask on the spot, he wouldn't be so stupid to do it.
Perhaps, Su Wu has other plans.
After all, farming, the labor force at home is insufficient, Su Zhen is still young, Su Wan and Ah Xiu can't do anything at all, and buying too much land to plant is also a waste.
If they grow enough food for their own family, and rely on Su Wu for other living subsidies to hunt, their lives will not be worse than those of any family in the village.
If you buy the land you plant, you have to buy a homestead.
Originally, Su Wan wanted to build the house on a higher place, but most of the villagers in this village were halfway up the mountain, and the houses were built together, and it was high enough.
If you insist on going to the top of the mountain to repair the house, Su Zhen and Su Wan will have no friends to play with, although Su Wan wants to live a secluded life, she doesn't want her children to live this kind of life.
An environment that is too simple is not good for children's growth, they need to socialize, and they need to learn how to get along with others.
Therefore, in the end, Su Wan compromised with herself, and after going around the outskirts of the village, she found a place with a good view and bought a homestead.
The homestead was bought by Su Wan because she wanted to design a yard similar to that of a modern villa, with a house in the center, a garden in front of the house, a small piece of land in the back to grow some vegetables, and a pigsty and chicken coop on the right side.
At this time, Su Wu took out 18 taels of silver, and it took a lot of money to find someone to repair the house.
Although she has a lot of silver on her body, Su Zhen will not spend it indiscriminately, and Su Zhen did not say that my family is rich in the disdainful eyes of the village chief's grandson.
Why didn't Su Wan notice the gaze of the heel behind the village chief?
There is no shortage of this kind of person anywhere, even if he is just a child, I am afraid that it is because the people in the village often come to the door to ask the village chief to do things, and this child has also learned the same way as an adult.
Seeing that their family was not generous, and they bought such poor land to plant, this child looked down on their family.
Fortunately, Su Zhen didn't stab Lou Zi, which shows that the previous education was done right.
Now that the land deed has been negotiated and obtained, Su Wu stepped forward and thanked herself, "Su Wu has thanked the village chief here." ”
Cheng Guangsheng is still very happy when he gets the silver, now that the world is peaceful, there are very few people who have moved, and he can sell the bad land in the village, he can't close his mouth happily.
He guessed that he might have thought bad just now, the family was short of labor, and the purchase of land was probably just a pretense, they should still have silver on them, and he, as the village head, naturally wanted to work for the welfare of the villagers.
Do something for your relatives.
said, "Miss Su, it will take some time for this house to be built, and during this time, you still need someone to supervise the work, do you plan to live in an inn in the town, or borrow it from someone in the village?" ”
Living in the town is a little far away, the family has been bumpy after half a month, even if she did not treat her family badly in terms of food, although their bodies are better than before, but their spirits are still inevitably sluggish, Su Wu doesn't want them to continue to run back and forth, she also has the heart to let the children play with the children in the village earlier.
She asked tentatively, "There are not a few people in our family, and you have also seen the situation, our family is inseparable from the care of Brother Feng, it is impossible to borrow it separately, at least we have to have two rooms, I wonder if there is a suitable family in the village for our family?" In fact, it is always inconvenient to borrow, and it is inevitable that there will be annoyance, and it would be great if there was a vacant house to borrow. ”
Cheng Guangsheng thought about it, although he wanted to benefit his relatives, but the number of the Su family was indeed quite large, and he only needed two rooms to sleep at night, and he was active in a small courtyard during the day, so I am afraid that he would really not be able to move.
In this way, there will indeed be a lot of friction, so think about it, then don't make trouble for relatives, "I have three places here for Miss Su's reference, one is an old widow's house, her daughter is married, and her son works in the county, she lives alone, and there is nothing wrong with living in her house, but the trouble is that this old widow has a bad temper." ”
"There is only one person living in the other residence, a widower, there is no trouble living here, and the others are honest, but ...... If the girl is afraid that her reputation will suffer, then forget it. ”
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