After Xu Qingyan sat down, Xu Hai spoke: "Why don't you find a villain for the county lord?" “

Xu Qingyan didn't talk nonsense, and went straight to the point: "The lord of this county likes the water quality of Lijiang and wants to raise something through this, so he asks what the regulations are for this matter?" “

Xu Hai was stunned for a moment, and then hesitated: "I don't know what the county lord wants to raise, and he wants to ...... How big is the place? “

"If you want to raise some pearl mussels, the place doesn't need to be too big, about ten acres."

Hearing that it was only ten acres, Xu Hai immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked, "That'..... I don't know which piece the county lord has taken a fancy to? “

Xu Qingyan pondered for a moment, then raised her eyes and said, "Just the one on the east shore." “

Xu Hai nodded, that area was on the side, but it didn't seem to have any effect on the ship berthing, so he said briskly: "Okay, I'll arrange it immediately, I don't know when the county lord will requisition?" ”

"Requisition?" Xu Qingyan raised her eyebrows and looked straight at him.

Xu Hai knew that he had said the wrong thing and broken the face of these magnates, and was thinking about how to come back, when he heard Xu Qingyan say lightly: "Village Chief Xu misunderstood, the county lord is not requisitioning, but wants to rent that water area for ten years, and the village chief will see how much rental silver is needed?" ”

Not an expropriation? Xu Hai's face was full of surprise. He originally thought that the county lord came to him to say this for the purpose of requisitioning it for free, and who would have thought that he was willing to spend money on rent.

"Why, can't you rent it?" Seeing that he was silent, Xu Qingyan asked.

"No, no, you can rent, you can rent, it's just that it's rent...... Since there is no old practice, the villain does not know how to set the price. ”

In fact, he didn't even know if he could rent it or how to rent it, because there was no old precedent for these things.

If it was an ordinary person, he really had to think about this problem, but Xu Qingyan had a special identity, since she said rent, then rent.

To be honest, her willingness to take the money to rent was really unexpected to him, because with her power, even if she wanted to expropriate it for free, they would have nothing to say.

"Let's just use the price of land!" Xu Qingyan said.

Xu Hai was stunned when he heard this, and then secretly praised in his heart.

It's strange that she can become the only county lord of the Great Zhou Dynasty as a peasant girl, and she is open-minded and means, which is difficult for ordinary people to do.

Obviously it can be requisitioned for free, but she wants to rent it with money, and the rent money is not a formality, but a real price of land.

If you want to say what is the most expensive at the moment, of course, the land is the most expensive, she contracted ten acres of water from the river at the land price, and when she said this, no one can find fault with it.

Xu Hai said with a smile on his face: "Okay, according to what the county lord said, the water area is not as good as the fertile land, and the rent for the following land is ten taels a year, what does the county lord think?" ”

"No problem, just do as you say, but in the future, I hope that the village chief will restrain the village chief more so that the villagers will not approach it closely."

"It should be, it should be." Xu Hai should go down.

The rest of the matter went very smoothly, Xu Hai wrote two lease contracts, Xu Qingyan paid off the ten-year lease at one time, both parties signed and pledged, and each signed a copy of the contract.

After the contract was completed, Xu Qingyan said to the village chief that in the future, she would give full authority to the Sun family to manage the ten acres of water, hoping that he would be more convenient in the future.

What can Xu Hai say, he naturally promised again, and only said that he would take care of his own affairs, so that Xu Qingyan could rest assured.

Xu Qingyan nodded with satisfaction, and when she walked out of the gate of Xu's house, she suddenly took out a medicine bottle from her bag and handed it to Xu Hai, "The village chief's night cough can be cured with this medicine, five drops in the morning and evening, and it will be cured when it is used up." ”

After saying that, he left without looking back, leaving Xu Hai to look at the empty gate, and set off a storm in his heart.

Old man Sun, who was in a daze the whole time, didn't react until he walked out of Xu's house, looking at Xu Qingyan walking beside him, Old Man Sun hesitated for a moment, but in the end he still took a few steps forward, knelt down in front of Xu Qingyan, and made a big salute: "The old man sees the county lord." “

"What is the old man, get up quickly." Xu Qingyan helped him up: "I concealed my identity because I was afraid that you would be polite, if it wasn't for this, I wouldn't have revealed my identity, and my husband must not make this big gift in the future." “

Old man Sun was helped up by Xu Qingyan, only to feel even more frightened, and hurriedly whispered: "Yes, yes." “

Seeing that his face was uneasy, Xu Qingyan hurriedly turned the topic to pearl farming.

Sure enough, talking about this, Old Man Sun relaxed a lot, and by the time he arrived at Sun's house, he had fully recovered.

"Take a slightly larger clam and soak it in water, wait for it to open, and throw it with beads in a hurry...... Frequent exchange of water, after autumn will become a pearl!"

This is the only sentence that Xu Qingyan remembered in her previous life about cultured pearls.

The principle of pearl formation is actually that when shellfish grow in water, they encounter fine sand particles or harder organisms that penetrate into the mantle membrane in the shell, and the mantle feels uncomfortable after being stimulated, so it secretes nacre to gradually surround the sand particles or organisms that enter from the outside, and become pearls day by day.

Artificial breeding is the use of this principle, the selection of older mussels, soaked in water, when it opens and closes, and then artificially put into the sand, the pearl mussels feel uncomfortable, will naturally secrete nacre wrapped in gravel, thus forming pearls.

This process typically takes one to two years, and the older the pearl, the better the color.

However, Xu Qingyan only knows a principle, and he doesn't know anything about other related operations.

Therefore, in this breeding, the father and son of the Sun family have to rely on their own exploration, and Xu Qingyan naturally does not want to harvest this situation, but only to test the water and accumulate experience.

In order to ensure the daily living expenses of the Sun family, Xu Qingyan hired them with a salary of 100 taels of silver a year.

The Sun family naturally has no objection to this price, which is much stronger than their pearl diving in the river, not to mention anything else, the risk alone can be avoided.

After the matter was discussed, seeing that the sky was dark and sinking, the Sun family naturally tried their best to stay, and Xu Qingyan didn't want to rush to the night, so she pushed the boat down the river, anyway, it was not the first time to stay at Sun's house.

In the city, at the Lijiang Inn, Wu Tianyou looked at the darkening sky, thinking that Xu Qingyan had not come back yet, and his face was like the sky, getting heavier and heavier.

Walking around the room twice in annoyance, Wu Tianyou pushed open the door and was about to go downstairs, but he heard two men and a woman in the lobby talking to the You Mama who had met at noon.

"When will your county lord come back?" Luo Qiancheng sat at an empty table and asked with his hands on his cheeks.

"This old slave doesn't know, the county lord didn't explain." Mama You replied with a glance.

"And where did she go, you know?" Luo Qiancheng felt bored.

Waiting for Xu Qingyan's past month, Jiang Xincheng has been played by her, and she is now eager to go to the next place, see different customs, and eat different foods.

"It seems to be talking about Jiangbian Village, but where Jiangbian Village is, the old slave doesn't know."

"Hey, I know, I know." Luo Qiancheng was suddenly excited, "It seems that on the edge of the river, I heard that the people in the whole village make a living from pearl diving, and they are known as pearl people." ”

Luo Qiancheng was complacent, feeling that his wandering around these days was not in vain. 2k reading web