Chapter 33: Barren Mountain
They can't just take these seeds and let the people below plant them, they don't know what the result will be, and if they harm those people, it will be theirs.
So, they had to wait until the results of the experiment came back to discuss what to do next.
But the experiment is actually quite important to them now, so Li Bokang is not at ease to hand it over to others, so he thinks about saying that he has experimented himself.
It's just that it's a little helpless, they've been in Miyang for more than a year, and they haven't settled some industries here, not at all.
Now they have no seeds, but no fields to plant.
Moreover, the misty sun originally belonged to the situation of less fields and more land, and now it has just finished spring ploughing, and it is not so easy to buy land now.
Thinking of this, she and Li Bokang were a little embarrassed.
In fact, if you really want to buy land, it is still very easy according to their current situation, after all, Li Bokang is now the highest official in Miyang County, as long as you use it a little, it is still very simple to buy a few acres of land.
It's just that neither of them is such a person who oppresses people with power, so they have never thought of this idea.
That's why the two of them are in such a dilemma now.
However, although it is difficult, they still have to work hard to solve this matter, and try to buy some land before they can grow things this year.
After deciding, Li Bokang asked Shumo to arrange someone to inquire about the field, and they didn't want to buy too much, just about five acres, which was enough for them to plant the seeds they bought.
But maybe they think too much and worry too much, because soon someone will sell them land.
Before, they thought that the spring ploughing had already passed, and that things had been planted in those fields, so they said that each mu of land was about one or two more than the market price.
Then they were afraid that they would not be able to buy the land, so they added half a tael to a tael on the basis of the price after the increase.
They did so much in order to be able to buy as much land as possible.
However, I didn't expect that as soon as their condition came out, many people asked them about buying and selling land.
When the subordinates saw that the matter was a little big, they didn't dare to make their own decisions, so they reported the matter.
At this time, she and Li Bokang realized that they had really thought too much before.
But now that the matter has come out, they have to find a way to solve it.
She asked Shumo, although there were several people who inquired about selling the fields this time, but they didn't really want to sell as much as they wanted, basically they just wanted to sell one or two acres.
However, if they buy it, they want to buy the kind that is connected together, and they don't plan to buy much, and if they are connected together, it will be easy to manage.
So, she asked Shumo to sift through it again, and then chose who to buy it from.
In the end, there are not many families who are really selected, and they can sell their land now, except for those who really need money, that is, those who like to get something for nothing.
Otherwise, it's those big families, and it's just to have a good relationship with them.
But, again, even if you want to have a good relationship with them, you won't sell them much.
So, in fact, it is still a little difficult for them to buy good ones now.
Eventually, they bought a total of ten acres of land, five acres each at the foot of a mountain outside the county seat.
The fields are next to each other, but there are a few acres of other people's houses between the fields and the fields, and they originally said that they would buy those few acres of fields, but the master's family did not agree and they did not force it.
After buying the land, they asked experienced farmers to help them grow the seeds, and then they went straight to the field.
Although the time to plant rice is a little late, it is not too late, and if the speed is faster, it will be half a month later at most, which should be okay.
Because the fields you bought have already been organized, you don't have to spend any more time tidying up when you plant seeds.
The people in their family are actually not good at farming, so the fields they bought this time are all hired by outsiders.
They hurried and managed to plant the rice by April, as well as some other seeds they had bought.
In those acres of land, she mainly planted one acre of potatoes, one and a half acres of sweet potatoes, one acre of cotton, half an acre of peanuts, and the other one acre planted some other grains and vegetables.
As for the sugarcane they bought back, she planted some on the edge of the ground, and she didn't know how to squeeze sugar, nor had she heard of how to squeeze sugar, so she didn't have any way to solve the sugarcane at present.
Moreover, apart from squeezing sugar and eating it as usual, she didn't think of any other role of sugar cane.
Now, she didn't know how to squeeze sugar, and she felt that it was impossible to sell it in large quantities for people to eat, so she gave up the idea of a sugar cane to develop Miyang.
In fact, she still has an idea in her heart, but she still has a lot of concerns in her heart now, so she didn't mention it to Li Bokang.
This time, there are still a lot of seeds left in Laixing that they brought back, and she is not in a hurry, they will also have those lands, so let's take their time in the future.
Moreover, she believes that as long as they persist in experimenting year after year, there will always be a successful day.
In fact, there is a reason why she chose to buy the land at the foot of the mountain.
At that time, Li Bokang was still a little puzzled about her choice to buy this land, after all, there was a better place than this, but she did not choose, but chose here.
Of course, it's not that it's bad, it's just that it's not as good as the one they saw before.
They had seen a place before, more than ten acres of fields were all connected, and there were no other people's land in the middle, and the fertility was better than the one they bought now.
However, in the end, she chose this piece over the better one.
So, the connection of the earth is not the main reason.
However, while this is not the main reason, it can be considered a secondary reason.
If the land they bought this time was not connected or had too much land in between, she wouldn't have bought it.
Speaking of which, the main reason for her is still the mountain, which is better than a small hill.
The mountain is not big, it looks like a small hill from a distance, and it is not big up close, it is a gentle slope more than ten meters high.
It's just that there are a lot of gravel and miscellaneous trees on that slope, so they haven't been mined out.
Otherwise, there would be nothing she could think about, and she would have been fired by others.
She mainly wants to buy the mountain, and wait to see if she can buy all the land at the foot of the mountain, and this mountain will be regarded as their family's property in this misery in the future.
And she also has other plans to buy this mountain, even if her plan is not successful at that time, she can still use it to grow things, and it is not a loss.
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