In the spring of the seventh year of Wanli, at the beginning of February, Yang Xue took a piece of Ganoderma lucidum from her family and went to Dr. Shi of Chuncaotang to sell it. The Ganoderma lucidum sold this time was better than the one sold before, and it was sold for a total of 100 taels of silver.

In fact, both of them were surprised that they sold a hundred taels of silver, Li Bokang was selling Ganoderma lucidum for the first time, so it was okay, but she did sell it for the second time. In her opinion, there is nothing special about the Ganoderma lucidum sold this time, except that it is larger than the previous one, and she thought that it would sell more than the previous one, but she didn't expect that the price was twice as much. At that time, Dr. Shi also asked where they found it, and Li Bokang didn't know at the time because she had found it before he came, so he didn't answer at that time. Later, she said that she saw it by accident before, and thought that she had come here to sell it before, so she sold it.

They were still very excited to sell so much money, after all, this money was already a huge amount of money for them, and now with this silver, they could buy land, and there was also some money left to send Li Bokang to study. Now that he will be fourteen years old soon, he should go to school, and even if he can't participate in the imperial examination, he can learn more knowledge, just like now, although he has already known all the books at home, he still doesn't understand the meaning.

They didn't know how to buy land when they thought about it, so they asked Dr. Shi about buying land while they were in the hospital. Shi Dafu was very supportive of the idea that they wanted to buy land, and land is the most important thing for people in this era. However, Dr. Shi didn't have any good advice, but in the end he told them to ask them to go to the dental shop in the town to ask, or they could go to the chief's house to inquire, and also told them the location of the dental shop and the location of the chief's house.

Because of Dr. Shi's kindness, they first decided to go to the chief's house to inquire and then go to the tooth shop to ask, but they were going to go again in a day, because she thought that if she went to the mayor's house, she would at least bring some things, and Li Bokang also agreed, he still knew a little about human relations. But they haven't thought about what to bring, and then they thought that there were still a lot of pickled wild boar at home and thought about taking some meat, meat in this era is still a luxury for ordinary people, so it is best to take some meat.

On the eighth day of the second lunar month, Yang Xue and Li Bokang brought about three catties of cured meat to the chief's house. They inquired all the way, and although Dr. Shi had told them the general location, they still inquired a lot all the way to get there. When they came to the door of the Chief's house, the door of the Chief's house was closed, and the lady who brought them here said to them: "This is the Chief's house, then you can go in by yourself and I will leave first." "Although the lieutenant chief is not an official, but for the villagers, he is already an official, so there is nothing to gather around the door to ask and watch, but there are still many people watching them under the tree not far away.

Standing at the door of the Chief's house, Li Bokang opened his mouth and shouted inside: "Is the Captain at home?" As soon as she finished shouting, a woman in her thirties came out and asked, "Who are you?" Can I help you? Seeing that they were strangers, he asked a little enthusiastically when he carried another basket. We are from another village, and there are some things I want to ask the chief, is this sister-in-law at home? The woman looked at them again and said, "Come in." "Okay, thank you, sister-in-law." Because she was wearing women's clothes today, it was Li Bokang who was talking.

After entering the chief's house, she also quietly looked at the chief's house. The house of the Li Chang's house was also much better than the villagers' houses they had seen before, and it was a blue brick house. When the woman led them into the hall, an old man in his fifties was sitting on it, and then she heard the woman say, "Father-in-law, these two said they were looking for you and I let them in." Then the old man said, "Well, I see, go and pour some water." Then the woman went out.

When the woman had gone out, the old man looked up at them, looked at them for a moment, and finally set his eyes on Li Bokang. Then he said, "What do you have to say?" Hearing his words, coupled with his gaze on Li Bokang, she didn't speak, just motioned for Li Bokang to speak, I don't know if it was deliberate or really I didn't see the small movements between them, in short, he still looked at Li Bokang. Seeing this, Li Bokang had no choice but to say: "It's like this, we want to buy a few acres of land, and we don't know which one to sell, although we also know that we can go to the tooth store to see, but we still want to come to the chief to inquire here, after all, the chief of the old man knows better." By the way, this is what we brought, and the little heart is not respectful, and I hope that the chief will accept it. After speaking, he handed the basket he brought to the chief, and when he handed it over, he lifted the cloth on the basket by the way.

The chief looked at the contents of the basket, there was a piece of cured meat and a jar of wine, and then looked at the two of them, and the two of them didn't say whether to accept it or not, but said, "How much land do you want to buy?" What are the requirements for the ground? Hearing the lieutenant say this, she felt that there was a drama in her heart, and Li Bokang also knew, fortunately, they had discussed it before, so he said: "We want to buy about ten acres of land, but we don't know what the current land price is, so we are not sure." As for the land, it is better to be next to each other, so it is easier to manage. Hearing his words, the chief was silent for a while, and then said: "In this way, then let me tell you the current land price, now the good land is twelve taels of silver per mu, the medium field is ten taels, and the inferior eight taels?" Two; As for the earth, the upper ones are ten taels, the middle ones are eight taels, and the lower ones are five taels. Do you think it's a land purchase or a land? ”

After listening to the price, both of them felt that it was quite expensive, and the chief saw their expressions and knew what they were thinking, so he said: "You are not here at the right time now, it is the time of spring ploughing, and people are in a hurry to use money to sell, otherwise no one will sell it now." The two of them also knew that it was wrong when they came, but Li Bokang still couldn't make some decisions about money, so he looked at her, and when he saw Li Bokang's expression, she said: "Is there a long place that is connected together, whether it is land or field, that is, about ten acres we just said?" Seeing that it was her proposal, the lieutenant was a little surprised, but he still said: "I have a family here, which is similar to your requirements, but he has thirteen acres, and it is also a field with land, five acres of high-quality fields, four acres of medium fields, and four acres of high-quality land." I have also seen his family's fields, and they are indeed good fields, but his family has to sell them together. ”

She calculated in her heart that if she bought it, it would probably cost one hundred and forty taels, and now there were about one hundred and seventy taels of silver in the house, and if she bought, she could still buy it, but there was not much silver left in the house. So she asked the lieutenant again: "Is there anything else there?" "There are others, but they are all scattered acres and acres, and there is no such thing as what you want." "Well, if we buy all the ones you said, can we make him less?" "I don't know about this, but you also know that there are a lot of people who buy land or something during the Taiping period now, you can think about it, but I will also discuss it with his family for you as you say, but I estimate that even if it is less, it will not be much." "Where is the land you said? Can we go check it out? "Yes, I'll take you there in a while, even Li's family is not very far, speaking of which, his family is still his son, who is doing business outside, and now he wants to take his parents to live a good life, so he wants to sell the land, originally his parents didn't want to sell, but the child insisted on it, so he wanted to sell." And the land is indeed good land, you can buy it now and you can plant it and get the title deed. "At that moment, the chief will take us to see it." She and the chief talked there.