“... If you have a house, there is really one in this neighborhood. One is on the opposite side of your house, Miss Ming also knows that his family was originally engaged in the rice and grain business, if it weren't for his youngest son who was not successful and was hooked into the gambling house, his family would not have sold the house and returned to his hometown to farm. ”

Mingyue nodded, "The money shopkeeper is good. ”

What she didn't say was that their two sons weren't so good.

The eldest son has no talent for business, and his eyes are always on the family's money and shop, but whenever his younger brother spends a penny of the family, he has to mumble and complain about his parents' partiality.

The younger son is lazy and brainless, and he owes a lot of gambling debts by a few fox friends and dog friends, and he didn't even realize that he was deceived by a trap, and finally he had to involve the old father and mother against the fierce opposition of the eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law, and sold the house and shop to pay off the gambling debts for him.

But these have nothing to do with them, if they really like the Qian family's house, then they only need to work Sun Yaren to tell the money shopkeeper.

Sun Yaren obviously saw through Mingyue's careful thoughts, he smiled at Mingyue before continuing to introduce the other houses, "There is another place closer to the county school, go out from the back door of your house, through the alley, the second house on the left-hand side, there is an apricot tree in front of the door." ”

Mingyue was also very impressed by that family's house, and she asked Sun Yaren, "That family should have been a scholar's house, right?" ”

Sun Yaren nodded, "Yes, the eldest son of his family is a man, and a few years ago, he went to other places to be a county minister. I heard that this year is expected to rise, so I want to sell my hometown's house and land to make some money. ”

Mingyue's heart moved, "So his family sold land at the same time?" ”

"Well, his family has two small Zhuangzi in the south of the city." Sun Yaren recalled for a moment and then continued to introduce to Old Man Ming and others: "But you shouldn't be interested in the two Zhuangzi of his family, they are too small, one is only fifty acres of land, and the other is seventy acres of land. ”

Mingyue listened to it and really didn't ask anymore - it is better to buy a bunch of small Zhuangzi in bits and pieces, it is better to buy a big Zhuangzi directly, which is convenient for management!

Seeing this, Sun Yaren talked about the third house he had at hand, "The last house near here is a three-entry courtyard with a two-story small building, and the location is better than the two I said before, just on the street next to the county government, and your house is separated by two streets and an alley." ”

The county government is in the opposite direction of the county school, and the old man Ming couldn't help but shake his head when he heard it, "This is not good, it is a little far." ”

He bought the house because he wanted to accompany Mingyue, and the first thing he considered was whether it would be convenient for Yu Jiayan to go to the county to study after the two of them lived.

It's like the house they bought before, although it is a little far away from the academy where they are allowed to study, but it is very close to the county school.

When Sun Yaren heard this, he didn't go into more detail about this last mansion, he asked Old Man Ming, "Then do you want to go with me to see the two mansions I mentioned earlier?" ”

After a little thought, the old man Ming agreed to go and have a look first, he took Mingtang and Mingyue, and only left Zheng Caixia to cook at home.

The three generations of grandchildren followed Sun Yaren to the money shopkeeper's house diagonally across the door, and the money shopkeeper was sitting in the shop with a sad face sighing, and when he saw Sun Ya, he barely pulled a smile.

Hearing that the three members of the family came to see the house, he hurriedly called his mother-in-law to come and see the shop, and he himself took Mr. Ming and others to see the house.

Old Man Ming was very satisfied with this house, but because Qian Dalang had been staring at them all the time, with a strange expression of "Although I dare not disobey my old man, I must let you know that I don't want to sell the house", Old Man Ming did not immediately discuss the purchase of the house with the money shopkeeper.

Under the slightly disappointed gaze of the money shopkeeper, they went to another house recommended by Sun Yaren.

The old man Ming was not very satisfied with this house, because the main family had been absent for a long time, and the servants who guarded the house gradually became less concerned about the house.

As for the other houses, the roof leaked, the walls were covered with cobwebs, the dust had fallen in a thick layer, and the furniture in the house had even been gnawed by rats.

As long as he thought of how many rat droppings were stored in this house, and how many holes were hit by rats in the walls and ground, Old Man Ming felt a pang in his heart.

"Just the house of the money shopkeeper's house, if we buy this place, we will have to spend time renovating it." The prices of the two houses are almost the same, and the old man Ming will buy it if he is stupid and will renovate it extensively.

Sun Yaren had already expected it, "Then I'll go to the money shopkeeper and talk about it later." ”

Old Man Ming thanked Sun Yaren and took his son and granddaughter back to his house.

It happened that Zheng Caixia had made lunch, so the four of them came to the table and took a quick bite.

After the meal, Old Man Ming and Mingtang went to the main landlord's house to rest, and Mingyue still lived in the west house of his main house.

As for Zheng Caixia, as long as she comes, Ming Xu will move from the east wing to the west wing and live with her daughter-in-law.

Before the middle of the afternoon (two o'clock in the afternoon), the old man Ming, who had taken a nap, was accompanied by Mingtang, Mingyue and Sun Yaren to see Zhuangzi outside the city.

There are only three Zhuangzi in the hands of Sun Ya people who are close to the needs of the old man Ming, one of which is in the south of the city, which is a good Zhuangzi of medium size with 300 acres of upper fields, and the old man of Ming wants to buy two 200 acres of land, so Sun Yaren first took the Ming family to the two Zhuangzi in the north and east of the city.

The Zhuangzi in the north of the city has 100 acres of upper fields and 100 acres of middle fields, with a small courtyard with two entrances, and the one in the east of the city has 120 acres of upper fields and 90 acres of middle fields, which also comes with a small courtyard with two entrances.

The old man Ming was very satisfied with the soil quality and water source of these two granges, although the price of the grange in the north of the city was about fifty taels of silver more expensive than the market price, but thinking that a good village has always been rare, the old man Ming finally decided to buy it first.

Unlike Old Man Ming, who was staring at the good land to buy, Mingyue instigated Old Man Ming to buy two small farms with mountains and ponds in the east of the city after asking Sun Yaren what Zhuangzi he still had in his hands.

Of the two small farms, one has 120 acres of land in addition to ponds and forests, and the other has 80 acres of middle field and 80 acres of lower field.

Mingyue bought them, in addition to continuing to expand the scale of her breeding industry of "planting fruit trees in the mountains and forests to raise chickens, ducks and geese, and planting lotus roots in ponds to raise fish, shrimp and crabs", she also wanted to buy a part of the middle field and the lower field to grow beans, artichoke and sweet potatoes, and then use beans, artichoke and sweet potatoes to make soy products, dried sweet potatoes, vermicelli and other agricultural and sideline products.

Even the manpower to open a workshop on Zhuangzi is ready-made, and those long-term workers can go to the field when they are busy and work in the workshop when they are not working, which can make full use of this large number of people in her hands than letting them be idle for a winter.

Of course, Mingyue didn't plan to use these people to work in vain, she had already thought that once the workshop opened, she would pay a certain salary to the workers every month according to the rules of the two workshops in Wulitun.

Mingyue said this, and the old man Ming readily adopted Mingyue's suggestion and bought the two small Zhuangzi located in the east of the city together.