This courtyard in the western suburbs of the Lin family is at the foot of a mountain, the mountain is very low, it belongs to the common hills in the south of the Yangtze River, only about ten acres in size, it is lush and green, all the original flowers and trees, so it is very messy.

This mountain is included in the Lin family's Zhuangzi, but the Lin family has never been able to help people go up the mountain to chop firewood and dig wild vegetables, and now it is the time when everything is reviving and wild vegetables are beginning to emerge, and there are many villagers who come and go on the mountain.

The courtyard is backed by a mountain and faces a smooth road, which was built by Lin Qingwan after returning to Suzhou last year, after all, they may often come to the courtyard in the future.

The main road also branched into about two miles of land, and there was a small village called Changfu Village, with only about 20 households, all of which were tenants who had rented official fields before, and moved in order to take care of the fields.

So they were all improvised villages, and they gave the village a beautiful name.

And walking out along this road for about a quarter of an hour is the official road to the west of Suzhou, and it is not necessary to sit in a carriage for half an hour.

On the opposite side of the official road is the main road into Aomine Mountain, and then go two miles to the foot of Aomine Mountain, where there is a Aomine Village.

The more than 300 acres of land radiating from the northwest of Qingfeng Mountain to the official road is Lin Qingwan's Juetian, and now next to that land is the land that Zhao Sheng just bought from the villagers of Qingfeng Village.

However, his land is not connected into patches, but the more than 300 acres that surround Lin Qingwan, one in the east and one in the west, enclosing her land in a semicircle, leaving only a semicircular gap in the northeast for her.

This was his intention, he just wanted to eat away at this land step by step, but Lin Qingwan couldn't find evidence.

When she remembered the land of Qingfeng Mountain, it was when she had a quarrel with the Zhao family and the Suzhou Thorn Mansion.

Zhao Sheng was happy to fight her again.

Lin Qingwan was also very willing to fight with Zhao Sheng, so as to test the Zhao family, but she would not wait until "many years later", but settled down in the other courtyard, and the next day she got into a carriage and went to Qingfeng Mountain to investigate surrounded by people.

Lin Yubin didn't want to stay at home either, so he followed with great interest.

Lin Qingwan teased: "Not sick now?" ”

Lin Yubin stuck out his tongue and smiled embarrassedly.

"Let's go, I still have to take medicine when I come back, and then talk about breaking the root of the disease, so as not to stop the medicine as soon as I feel better, and then recur."

This girl actually stopped coughing two days ago, and Dr. Xu prescribed her medicine for two more days, but she didn't think the medicine was bitter, so she pushed it and stopped taking it.

Then one night later, I became sick again and coughed again. Fortunately, the medicine at home was ready-made, and Dr. Xu re-prescribed a pair of medicines, took it for two days, and the condition went down again.

But this repeated repeat is the most hurtful, Lin Qingwan is not allowed to mess around, so people are strictly ordered to watch her.

The scenery of the annex is already very beautiful, the scenery of Qingfeng Mountain is even more magnificent and beautiful, before you reach Qingfeng Mountain, you can only hear the chirping of birds all the way, which is very crisp and pleasant.

Not only Lin Yubin, but also Lin Qingwan couldn't help but lift the curtains and look out, there were kapok trees, peach trees and pear trees planted by people on both sides of the road, and now the trees had just sprouted green buds, and a few birds stopped on the branches, while chirping, while stretching their necks back and forth between the leaves.

Lin Qingwan, who had changed her body, had very good eyesight, and she could see the small insects flashing in their mouths.

Lin Qingwan sighed, "When the flowers bloom, what a scenery on this road." ”

"I heard that these books were planted one by one by Mr. Lu and his disciples," Lin Yubin said in a low voice: "Not only here, but also on Qingfeng Mountain, there are also a lot of them, all of which are done by themselves, and they have never faked their hands." ”

Qingfeng Village is much better than Changfu Village, not only the roads in the village are spacious and tidy, but the houses are mostly stone houses, and there are villagers wearing coarse cotton clothes standing on the side of the road talking in twos and threes, and they only look up when they see the carriage coming, and they are not surprised.

The carriage passed through the village, and then went northwest to the Lin family's land, and the chief steward Zhong pointed to a small stream inside: "It comes down from Qingfeng Mountain, it will rise sharply during the flood season, although it will not dry up in winter, but there is not much water, but it is still possible to irrigate the nearby fields." ”

Lin Qingwan bowed her head, walked down the field with her skirt, and couldn't help sighing, "If you want to open this land, it's difficult!" ”

Chief Steward Zhong nodded thoughtfully, "If it weren't for Zhao Sheng to buy land around here, I'm afraid that the little one really can't take care of this land, and he will have to wait five or six years at the earliest to think of it." ”

Because this land is really not as good as the large field opposite, it is small, the fertility is not good, and the field is overgrown with weeds and shrubs.

There were only about 300 acres, and the fields were full of grass, and there was a large area of bushes and trees to the north of the stream, and there were fewer bushes in the rest of the place, but it was normal for the weeds to grow to the knees.

It's just spring, and most of the weeds are withered, occasionally mixed with some green, but as long as you squat down and push the withered grass away, you can see the grass with green buds slightly bubbling at the bottom.

Lin Qingwan was sure that in less than a month, those green shoots would soon grow vigorously and become a new wave of green grass drifting in the wind.

The seeds of these weeds are deeply rooted and cannot be eliminated in three or four years.

To grow food on this land, it takes too much manpower and material resources.

The gains outweigh the losses, even she, I'm afraid that she will do her best to put more efforts on the side of the other courtyard.

Lin Qingwan walked around the stream, and finally looked up at the top of Qingfeng Mountain, from here, you could faintly hear the sound of Lang reading from the mountain.

The corners of her mouth curled slightly, and she said to the chief steward Zhong: "We will plant fruit trees, and some flowers and trees, and send people to cut some hedges, and put hedges in all places that border other people's fields." Find the other party to confirm and then insert it, separating the demarcation. ”

"Auntie, that cost a lot of manpower, we have to save some money now, and the fruit trees are still, how can we make money by planting flowers and trees?"

Lin Qingwan pointed to the top of Qingfeng Mountain and said, "Don't worry, we won't lose money." ”

Lin Yubin followed her sister-in-law's fingers, her eyes rolled, and she couldn't help clapping her hands and said, "I know, my sister-in-law is going to repair the garden, and when the time comes, will she rent the garden to the students on the mountain?" ”

Lin Qingwan laughed, touched her head and said, "Yes or no, I can't build a garden like Yiyuan, but I just build one or two open pavilions, three or four thatched houses, and five or six pavilions in it." ”

As for what high-rise buildings, don't think about rockeries, the cost of a rockery may be thousands of taels, where does she get so much money.

With tens of thousands of taels of silver, she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to build even a prototype, so she planned to take the simplified route - build a farmhouse.

It's done, make a lot of money for nothing, don't sell fruits.

"Since we are planting fruit trees, we don't have to work intensively, so we have to cut all the weeds, cut the shrubs, and dig pits and plant trees when we have finished drawing the drawings." Lin Qingwan asked, "Didn't you pay attention to the news of fruit trees a year ago, but did you find a suitable fruit farmer?" ”

"Yes, the small ones have found several, all of them have set aside fruit seedlings, most of them are seedlings and seedlings, seedlings need to be planted for about three years to hit the fruit, the seedlings can be planted this year and next year, and some of them are large seedlings, planted before March, this year it is possible to flower and bear fruit, but the damage to the tree is also great, the most important thing is that the price is ......"

"Then focus on medium seedlings, and more seedlings, in addition to here, there are also some other courtyards." Lin Qingwan thought for a while and said, "We want a large amount, and then we will discuss the price with them, and find a few talented fruit farmers to teach, so that we can take care of the fruit trees when the time comes." ”

"Yes."

Lin Qingwan surveyed the small stream for a long time, and finally pinched her waist with satisfaction and said: "When the time comes, plant some flowers and trees by this stream and clean up the surrounding area, don't they like to play with the flowing water?" It's too late for this year's Shangsi Festival, but next year it will be in time. ”

Lin Yubin couldn't help but glance at her sister-in-law, "Auntie, you used to love to play." ”

Lin Qingwan smiled slightly and said, "I won't play in the future." ”

That's Sister Wan'er's hobby, but a large part of the reason is because of Xie Erlang's company, what's the point of her playing?

Lin Yubin looked at her sister-in-law's lonely back, and felt that her nose was slightly sour, she ran forward and grabbed her hand and shook it: "Auntie, will I play with you in the future?" ”

Lin Qingwan smiled and touched her head and said, "Why do you want to play with me?" Yubin also has friends, doesn't he, you can invite them to play, but I don't know how to play this. ”

Who believes it, she knows, every time my sister-in-law plays this, it can be said to be the focus, and now I don't play most of it because of my uncle.

"Okay, I'm tired after coming out for a long time, let's go back. Tomorrow we will take a carriage to inspect Juetian. ”

Juetian is much bigger than this, and she has to take a carriage to do it, and when she has seen Juetian once, she will start to work on spring ploughing.

The weather is still cold, and most people are still in the atmosphere of the New Year, and they will not start to get busy until the New Year.

But the Lin family is different, they have a lot of land, and most of it is barren land, weeds, shrubs, stones, to catch up with this year's spring ploughing, it must be carried out early.

For this reason, Lin Qingwan also asked people to make two lighter clothes, just to avoid procrastination when walking in the field.

The twenty-eight families who were transferred from the various villages had been busy since the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, with adult men digging bushes with hoes, women cutting weeds, and old men and children piling up these things and picking up stones from the fields and transporting them.

Lin Qingwan hadn't seen them yet, so she specially brought Yubin to visit today, after all, these people were loyal servants of the Lin family.

But when she got to the field, she understood a little why Steward Zhong said that they would not be willing to rent the land on a household basis.

For those who are in the field have a male master, and the male owner has some defects to a greater or lesser extent, and those who do not have a male master are the old and the old, the weak and the weak, and the young and young.

In this era when farming basically relies on manpower, they are afraid that they will not even be able to support themselves, let alone paying taxes and grain.

Lin Yubin was also a little surprised, and asked in a low voice, "Sister-in-law, why are most of them disabled?" ”

Lin Qingwan took a deep breath and blinked away the tears in her eyes, "It's because I forgot that they are all from the Northwest Army." ”

Lin Yubin was stunned, the predecessor of the Northwest Army was the Lin Family Army, this is, sergeant?