Seeing Zhang Yunzhi's panicked appearance, Xu Ying had already expected that the people of this world all relied on the fields to earn a living, and if they took all their fields, it would be even more uncomfortable than taking their lives.

"I don't keep a single acre, the fields at home are just thin fields, and after planting for a year and paying the government's taxes, there is nothing left at all!" Xu Ying shook his head, his attitude was very resolute.

He deeply understands that farming alone will never turn over.

......Seeing that Xu Ying was so resolute, Zhang Yunzhi was a little overwhelmed for a while, she couldn't imagine the days without fields when she was a child begging for a living in the field.

"Don't worry, I believe that you will let you live a good life!" Xu Ying reached out and touched Zhang Yunzhi's head, his face full of doting.

Zhang Yunzhi has never been so close to a man, even if this man is now her father-in-law, her heart is so nervous that she wants to jump out, and her face is full of shame.

After playing tricks on Zhang Yunzhi again, Xu Ying got up and walked towards the east of Xujia Village, the people in the village did not have much surplus grain in their hands, even if Xu Ying wanted to sell his twenty acres of thin fields, no one could eat it.

Only the landlord who lives in the east of the village, Xu Fugui, can eat it, but this person is notoriously treacherous, and this trip may not be so easy.

Not long after, around the village, there is a big house in a beautiful place by the mountains and rivers, with white walls and green tiles, and a heavy vermilion gate that looks very generous, compared with Xu Ying's house, it is simply a heaven and an underground.

Looking at the big mansion in front of him, Xu Ying sighed in his heart, when can he live in such a house?

Shaking his head, Xu Ying quickly came back to his senses, as long as he could earn the first pot of gold quickly according to his plan, many plans would be on the agenda at that time.

"Knock knock!"

There was a knock on a pair of iron knockers, and after a long time the heavy wooden door opened a crack, and a small head poked out of it, with hair coiled on the head, but eleven or twelve years old, a long-term worker in the landlord's family.

"Xu Ying? What are you doing here? Seeing someone coming, the child was a little surprised.

"Uncle Fugui is not here, I have something to do with him!" Xu Ying had seen each other, and when Xu Fugui was wandering around the village, it was this little boy who followed with a bunch of things.

"The master is here, you wait for me to report it!" The boy nodded, and then ran in to report the news.

It didn't take long for the little boy to go and return, this time he directly opened the door and welcomed Xu Ying in, and through a corridor, he saw the rather rich Huang Fugui teasing a yellow parrot in a pavilion.

"Yo, isn't this Xu Ying? I just married my daughter-in-law yesterday and don't enjoy it at home, what kind of wind blew you to me? When Huang Fugui saw Xu Ying, a smile appeared on his fat face. Xu Ying's father made military achievements, and now he has been promoted to centurion, so Huang Fugui is still very polite when facing Xu Ying, and he doesn't bother to see Huang Fugui if he changes to someone else.

"Uncle Fugui, Ming people don't say dark words, I really have something to do with you this time! I want to give you the twenty acres of thin fields in my family, and you are the only one in our village who has the ability to eat! Xu Ying said directly.

Hearing Xu Ying's words, Xu Fugui's body stiffened, as if he had misheard, and asked with an incredulous face.

"You're going to sell me those twenty acres? That's your old book! You have already sold the five acres of fertile land that your father earned, and now you sell these twenty acres of land, what will you eat in the future? ”

The annual conquest made the life of the people of the Song Kingdom miserable, but Xu Ying's father was a centurion, and even if he was not rich, it would not be to the point of selling land.

"I have my own plans, Uncle Fugui, you just say that you can't accept it, if you don't accept it, you can only find someone from the next village!" Xu Ying waved his hand and did not answer Xu Fugui's question.

"Close! How can it not be collected? But you also know that now there are barbaric soldiers everywhere, and it is not easy for me to find so many laborers to farm, what is the price...... I can only give you one acre and four taels of silver! ”

A quarter of an hour later.

Xu Ying walked out of Xu Fugui's house with a burden, four taels of silver per acre of land, and eighty taels of silver for twenty acres of land, Xu Ying was not easy to carry, and returned home cautiously all the way.

As soon as she got home, Zhang Yunzhi came over anxiously, she knew that Xu Ying had gone to sell the land.

"Xianggong, is twenty acres of land really sold?"

"Sold, a total of eighty taels of silver!" After locking the doors and windows, Xu Ying opened the baggage, and the white silver was suddenly revealed, but looking at the pile of silver in front of him, Zhang Yunzhi was not happy.

Although eighty taels of silver seems to be a lot, it is all the property of their family, and if they have no land, they will have to buy food, pay taxes, and daily expenses, and if they have children in the future, they will have to increase the poll tax, and eighty taels of silver will not last for a few years.

Looking at Zhang Yunzhi's sad face, Xu Ying didn't know why he was a little heartbroken.

"Fool, since I dare to do this, I naturally have my plans, don't worry, I won't let you go hungry if you follow me!" Xu Ying touched Zhang Yunzhi's head, said with a doting face, and then took out five taels of silver and stuffed it into Zhang Yunzhi's hand, and then ordered.

"Take this silver, you go and buy some food and firewood, and remember that the firewood must be hardwood!"

"Firewood? If the minister needs firewood, I will go to the mountains to fetch it, so why waste silver! Zhang Yunzhi hurriedly said, she thinks she can save some silver, and she still needs to buy firewood all over the mountains?

"No, I need a lot of money, let's collect 10,000 catties first!" Xu Ying wrenched his fingers and calculated, a load of firewood is about 120 catties and can be sold for 20 catties in the city, which is almost 6 catties per penny, but there is more firewood in the village, as long as you are willing to work hard, it should not be a problem to buy 10 catties for 1 penny.

10,000 catties of firewood is about one tael of silver.

"What does Xianggong want so much firewood for?" Zhang Yunzhi was also taken aback by the amount Xu Ying needed, such a quantity of firewood was indeed not something she could handle.

"Secret!"

Xu Ying smiled, and did not say directly, if you want to practice fine iron, you must have enough temperature to melt the iron and refine the impurities in the iron, and it is impossible to reach the temperature that Xu Ying needs with firewood alone, and if you want to achieve the required temperature, you can only use carbon!

Therefore, harvesting firewood should be used to practice carbon.

Zhang Yunzhi frowned, clutched the silver in his hand tightly, and finally did not ask again, but said with a resolute face.

"I'll do it!"

"Okay, then I'm going to go to the county seat and get some iron ore back!" Xu Ying was a little excited, as long as he got the iron ore back, he could start his plan.

"Xianggong, I'm afraid it's not peaceful to go to the county seat here, do you want to call some people together?" Zhang Yunzhi worried.

Xu Ying nodded, this is a mess, and it is indeed inappropriate to go alone.

"It's about making some preparations!"

So Xu Ying went to find the third uncle Xu Maocheng, and when he heard that Xu Ying was going to the county seat to buy iron ore, he immediately agreed to go together without the slightest hesitation, and at the same time called the two elders in the village.