Li Gengtian also looked at the little couple and joked: "Huaizi, do you want to buy this land?" That's easy, let's not sell it to the big steward, I'll sell it to you. Down: Zai Lou Xiao _ Say _ Net шшш.xiàzǎilóu.сοм Always have to follow the people in our own village first, and then let the outsiders buy it. Anyway, Master Fang has money, and he can buy good land anywhere. ”

Several people laughed as soon as he said this.

Huaizi also knew that Shopkeeper Song treated him well, and besides, the Fang family was wealthy, so there was really no need to be careful with others; It was Li Gengtian, since the last time he experienced the incident of coming to Shou to study, his friendship with the Zhang family and the Zheng family was also very obvious, so he told the truth.

"Uncle Li, Steward Song, if it's just to buy the wasteland in front of me, I won't be embarrassed: naturally buy more with more money, and buy less with less money. It's the same even if you change places, you don't necessarily have to buy this land. However, I originally wanted to buy the barren mountain behind me, and I had to buy the barren land in front of me, otherwise, not to mention blocking the waterway, it would not be cheap to run things. It's just that I don't have that much money right now, so I'm worried. ”

Li Gengtian asked in surprise, "Do you want to buy a barren mountain?" ”

Huaizi nodded and roughly explained: "It's to plant trees and bamboos, and feed some chickens." ”

Li Gengtian nodded, I wanted to ask if your family didn't plant a large piece of bamboo, why did you still buy wasteland to plant bamboo? I want to tell you in detail why people are doing, maybe this is Huaizi's excuse, or don't ask, so as not to annoy people.

He smiled helplessly at Huaizi and said, "It's good if you think about it, but what can you do if you don't have money?" I can't take credit to you, and I can't sell it to the chief steward, and keep it until you make money before I buy it. This land is not mine, it belongs to the emperor. ”

Huaizi nodded and said, "That's it, or I have a headache." ”

Shopkeeper Song looked strange and asked, "Brother Zhang has to buy the barren mountain behind?" ”

Huaizi nodded with a wry smile and said, "I've been calculating this matter for a long time. I wanted to wait two years and scraped together the money. Buy some a year, and buy the wasteland in front of you first. That's easy to do. The latter is not in a hurry. No one buys it anyway. It's just that I didn't expect someone to buy the land in front of me so soon. ”

Shopkeeper Song pondered for a while and asked, "When will that brother Zhang be able to scrape together enough money?" ”

Huaizi was stunned for a moment, and hesitated for a while before saying, "I am afraid that it will not be possible to make up enough at one time." It takes two years to buy it back. ”

Shopkeeper Song shook his head and said, "That's not possible." You must know that in addition to the Fang family, there are still many people in Xiatangji who want to buy land on the side of the mountain to build a garden. Even if the Fang family doesn't buy it. There are also others who come to buy. Qingnan Village is also more complete in this area, and other places are either too far away from Jishang Avenue or not enough for this piece of land. It's a little smaller. If Brother Zhang is at the end of the year, he will be able to make up enough money. I can help at the bottom, and when the time comes, I will say that the Fang family is not satisfied with this place, and they want to change places, so that they can give it to Brother Zhang. ”

Li Gengtian said with some regret: "Changyu just bought the field, otherwise you can borrow some silver for you to change hands." ”

Huaizi thanked him with a smile and said, "It's not a matter of poverty and illness. How can anyone borrow money to buy land? ”

Chrysanthemum listened to it for a long time, and quickly calculated in her heart. Then he said to the shopkeeper Song: "If we can scrape together enough money at the end of the year, is the chief steward really willing to give up this land?" ”

Shopkeeper Song smiled: "Naturally willing." I only said I wanted to buy it, but I haven't bought it yet, and others are embarrassed to intervene. At the end of the year, I don't want it again, so you can buy it back, isn't that great? Does the village chief think this will work? ”

Li Gengtian couldn't find a chance to get close to the Zhang family, and when he heard about this good thing, of course he agreed.

He said earnestly to Huaizi and Chrysanthemum: "I'll tell people that this land is favored by the Fang family, and it has been decided, and when the end of the year comes, you buy it again, and say that the Fang family doesn't want it." ”

Chrysanthemum said: "That's really thanks to the chief steward and Uncle Li." We must have scraped together enough money to buy this land at the end of the year. If it is insufficient, Uncle Li can just sell the land to others, and he can't make Uncle Li embarrassed. ”

Huaizi looked at the chrysanthemum suspiciously, opened her mouth to say something, and hurriedly closed it again.

With his updated understanding of chrysanthemums, she would not make promises to people. It seems that Chrysanthemum came up with the idea of making money. Anyway, this autumn fungus planting, I have made all the preparations, I think I can also have more income, plus this year I have fed a lot more pigs, all kinds of things are gathered together......

He quietly bowed his hand to the shopkeeper Song and said, "There is a big manager of Lao." But it's so bad that the big steward can't buy the land, how is it good? You can't ask the steward to go back to Fang's house to be punished. ”

Shopkeeper Song smiled and waved his hand: "As Village Chief Li said, the Fang family can buy land anywhere, and it doesn't have to be here. It's Brother Zhang, if you don't want to buy the barren mountain behind, you won't have to buy the wasteland in front. However, Brother Zhang should be tight-lipped, don't reveal the meaning of buying barren mountains, for fear that someone will deliberately make a hindrance from it. ”

There is no shortage of men to fight anywhere.

Li Gengtian hurriedly said: "That's what I said. Huaizi, don't be careless, many people in the village have said that they want to buy land next year, although they only buy three or five acres, but no more than ten acres, if you draw a piece in the middle, your land will not be complete, and it will not be annoying to look at. ”

Huaizi hurriedly thanked the two and said that he would definitely not say it.

After a few more greetings, Huaizi invited the shopkeeper Song to sit at Zhang's house and eat a coarse tea and light meal.

Shopkeeper Song refused with a smile, saying that he still had something to do, and he would make a special trip to visit him another day.

So Huaizi said goodbye to the two and went hand in hand with Chrysanthemum.

Shopkeeper Song looked at the backs of the two, his eyes flickered, he was very curious about what the little daughter-in-law had to do, and he confidently promised to make up the money at the end of the year, he could see it clearly, Zhang Huai hesitated at first, but immediately retracted, which showed that he didn't know his daughter-in-law's thoughts in advance.

However, thinking about the Zheng family, he smiled unconsciously, and waited a little.

Li Gengtian is also strange, these hundreds of acres of land, but it costs more than 1,000 taels of silver, although the Zhang family and the Zheng family are still rich, within a few months, I am afraid it will be difficult to make up.

The two then discussed going to other places to take a look, if Zhang Huai really scraped together the money, the Fang family might as well buy land in another place.

Let's say that Huaizi and Chrysanthemum hurried back, and on the way, he asked softly: "Chrysanthemum, ...... you?"

Chrysanthemum smiled and said, "Don't worry. Brother Huaizi, let's go home and talk about it. ”

Seeing her mysterious appearance, Zhang Huai couldn't help laughing, so he stopped talking and walked home wholeheartedly.

After arriving home, Chrysanthemum called her in-laws into the house, and asked people to call her father, brother and sister-in-law, thought about it, and called Liu Heizi in, and the two families gathered together, let Aunt Liu and Grape look at the little baby outside, and then closed the door to discuss the matter.

Grape looked at the chestnut and the shallot, and the younger brother, and although they were through the door, they could hear a sentence and a half coming out from time to time.

"It's just too much space......"

“…… So much, can it be sold? ”

"I won't be able to make up enough miles for a while......

“…… It's too much trouble and there's a lot of water down there......"

The two families have been discussing for two hours before opening the door and coming out, He, Aunt Liu and Chrysanthemum have cooked, everyone has eaten, and then they are busy like a whirlwind.

Huaizi found Wu Cheng and explained several things to him: first, he arranged for someone to dig a large amount of adobe for backup; The second is to find some tenants who can weave utensils, and weave a lot of large bamboo baskets, which are not too exquisite, but they are just used for homely decoration; Third, when the adobe is dry, he will bring people to help the Zheng family and the Zhang family build the east and west wings in the backyard, so he has to bring people over first, and remove the flowers and trees on the side of the east and west courtyard walls, as well as the bamboo outside the wall.

Aoki took Uncle Ma to various villages to buy chili peppers; Huaizi arranged for Wu Cheng's two younger brothers to bring tenants to follow behind to help.

So, after two days, the Xiatangji came out: the Zhang family and the Zheng family in Qingnan Village collected a large number of chili peppers, the green and red ones were all made, but the ones that were too tender should not be long, they should be long and hard, the big ones without broken skin, and the ones with chili pepper stalks would cost three cents per catty.

The green chili peppers on the set are only two or three pennies a catty, but not they can be sold as much as they send, after all, this thing is generally available to everyone, and only those rich people and shops will buy it. Red peppers can be sold to the Fang family's pickle workshop, and it is also three pennies a catty.

The villagers were happy, and some people picked it up and sent it to Zhang's house.

One to ten, ten to hundred, the person who sells chili peppers will automatically come to the door, and Aoki will not go out, and take care of affairs at home with Huaizi.

After a while, the east and west wings were built in the backyards of both houses, all of which were adobe, but the roofs were covered with small tiles.

In this way, the backyard is a lot smaller, and that can't be helped. In the future, if the north courtyard wall of the mountain is also built, this courtyard will be counted as two entrances.

Zheng Changhe and Zhang Dazhuan each led people to be busy in the field, preparing for planting wheat, and also burned a lot of straw, mixed livestock manure with grass and wood ashes, and said that it was good to lose the nest when they ordered wheat.

The two families were busy, and it was just in time for the harvest season on dry land, and all the tenants of corn, peanuts, soybeans, sunflower seeds, and yams were invited, and sometimes there was a lot of noise at night.

No one noticed that in the dark of night, many of the ashes were transported into the courtyards of the two houses, and even the straw used for cooking in the two houses these days.

The Zhang family sometimes burns a bunch of straw directly in the yard, saying that it is stewed chicken. Of course, these are all done by the Zhang family, the Zheng family, the father and son, and Liu Heizi, and the Zheng family's Uncle Ma and Aunt Ma also know - it is not easy to avoid them, so they can only choose to trust. Liu Xiaosi didn't know - he was sent by Huaizi to collect chili peppers.

In the evening, Zhang Dazhuan and his son, Zheng Changhe and his son, as well as Uncle Liu and Heipi, took the dried chili peppers down to the cellar, and took many large bamboo baskets down for later use.

First spread a layer of plant ash at the bottom of the big bamboo basket, then put a layer of pepper into it, then pour a thick layer of plant ash, and then a layer of pepper, fill the bamboo basket all the time, cover it with straw, and then cover the basket with a lid, and then lift the basket to the wall and put it away, and then continue to install the next basket.

Since the east and west wings of the backyard have not yet been built, the peppers that are harvested first can only be put into the underground storage room.

Because there is groundwater in the storage room, I don't know if the locust will be stored here or not. Zhang Dazhuan said that it was okay - isn't the grain bad here? The main thing is that they dug groundwater wells to store water, so the storage room is quite dry.

What Country Wilderness Z wrote is a reprinted work, collected on the Internet.