"Grandma, and my melon field, which also needs to be watered now." Liu Yiyi hurriedly said that everyone has been busy with the wheat harvest recently, and they have no time to take care of her melon field.

She was small and couldn't do anything, so she finally waited for everyone to be free and quickly asked for everyone's help.

"Okay, water the melon fields too." Zhao Xiaolan said with a smile, that is, her mother-in-law spoiled this girl.

The daughter said that she wanted to eat melons, so her mother-in-law really found melon seeds, and specially took the children to open up the land and plant more than an acre of melons and cold melons.

Every day when I go to the vegetable garden, I can see the melon field on the other side of the vegetable garden, which grows quite well.

Mrs. Liu was at home, hiding the silver in another place, and no one knew about it except her.

Liu Zhijiang, Liu Zhihe kept the cart and bought two thousand catties of wheat at a price of six cents per catty, and spent twelve taels of silver.

Old man Liu only spent fifteen taels of silver, and bought a large area of puddles all the way to the foot of the mountain.

"Cheng Xiang, what are you doing buying that puddle?" Patriarch Liu took Zhao Lichang to measure that large piece of the place.

Although it is very cheap, the puddles are too shallow to raise fish.

Old man Liu smiled, "Patriarch, I won't tell you, in fact, I took a fancy to it, it is close to my house, I took my son and grandson to dig the puddle a little deeper, and it will become a small pond." In the surrounding field, I can pick up the small stones in it and plant some soybeans. ”

"Actually, it's more cost-effective to buy good land!" Patriarch Liu felt that it was not a good deal, and still tried to convince Old Man Liu.

Of course, Old Man Liu knew that Patriarch Liu had good intentions, but they had already discussed it, and they must buy that puddle.

Of course, the reason can't be said to be the request of the little granddaughter, it's too unbelievable.

In addition, the little granddaughter is a very blessed child, they just need to know about it from their own family, and they don't want others to know, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble and disputes.

So Old Man Liu thought about it carefully and found a very reasonable excuse.

"Patriarch, in fact, I also want to buy good land, but in the past few years, the wind and rain have been smooth, the harvest of the common people is very good, and the county lord is not the kind of person who oppresses the common people. Our people's lives are better, so there are very few things to sell our sons and daughters and fields! Besides, in addition to buying rations, my family can't buy a few acres of land with the rest of the silver. If you buy a few acres of land in a far away village, it is not easy to manage! So I thought it would be nice to buy it closer, and it would be nice to go to the piece of land in front of my house. As long as I take the children to work hard and raise the land, it is also good. ”

Zhao Lichang nodded after hearing this, "Cheng Xiang is right, my mother's brother bought a few acres of land ten miles away from home. Normally, it's fine, but when the harvest comes, more than half of it will be stolen. Later, I couldn't do it, so I directly leased it to people in nearby villages to plant. ”

Hearing Zhao Lichang say this, Patriarch Liu was embarrassed to persuade him again.

"Since you have made up your mind and all aspects have been considered, then I will not say more. Let's go to measure the land now, and just when we have time tomorrow to go to the county office and get your land deed. Patriarch Liu nodded and said.

A group of several people came to the vicinity of the puddle and began to measure.

Originally, I thought there were only five or six acres of land, but after measuring, there were more than eight acres, and the other corners and corners were not counted, and it was estimated that there were ten acres.

If this old man Liu's family is diligent and takes good care of the land, it is also a good choice.

Zhao Lichang thought for a while and said: "Cheng Xiang, originally we thought that there were only five or six acres here, but now that we have measured that there are eight acres and six points of land, then fifteen taels of silver is a little less!" If you think about it, even if the homestead is more than this money! ”

Of course, Old Man Liu knew what Zhao Lichang meant, so he asked with a smile: "Since Zhao Lichang said so, how much silver do you think is more appropriate?" ”

Zhao Lichang's wheat and rice harvest was bumper, and he also bought the seeds of Old Man Liu's family, so he owed a favor.

"Then you can add another five taels of silver, so that it will be easier for us to go to the county government to handle these procedures for you, otherwise it will be difficult for the county government to say it!" Zhao Lichang said that a total of twenty taels of silver was added, which was barely enough.

Patriarch Liu still wanted to say, but was stopped by Old Man Liu, and he didn't want to make trouble with Zhao Lichang because of this matter.

What's more, Zhao Lichang is right, such a large piece of land has less income, and it is indeed difficult to explain it to the county government.

"Okay, twenty taels of silver is twenty taels!" Old man Liu said with a smile, don't leave trouble.

In addition to the silver used to buy land and grain, there are still dozens of taels left.

With this money, you can build another yard, and the homestead has been bought before, and now you just need to buy the materials to build the house.

After Old Man Liu went home, he said to his wife, Mrs. Liu, "We still have a few dozen taels of silver left, let's build another house!" This one was a five-room tiled house, with four wings on each side, and it cost a full fifty-five taels of silver at that time. ”

"Is it so big to build a house for the second and third families?" Mrs. Liu thought more.

Old man Liu shook his head, "Of course we can't build such a big one, we will live with the boss's family in the future, so build a bigger house!"

The second and third children are all going to be divided, and their population is not large, so I am going to build them three main rooms and three wing rooms on each side. In this way, only thirty-five taels of silver are enough. If they think it's too small, let them pay for the house themselves! ”

When Mrs. Liu heard this, she smiled slightly, "Master, why do I think you are becoming more and more shrewd now?" ”

"I'm so old that I don't want to understand that I'm really confused to death! Over the years, the three brothers went out to work. Half of the money earned was left behind, and half of it was handed over to the public high school, and a lot of silver was more or less saved in his hands! If they want to build a big one, they will post it themselves, and if they don't want to build it, it's enough! Old man Liu smiled and said.

Mrs. Liu nodded, her face was full of red light, "Okay, let's build the house of the second family first, and when the money is ready, we will also build the house of the third family!" ”

"Then it's settled!" Old man Liu said with a smile, smiling from ear to ear, the life of the family is getting better and better.

In the evening, everyone heard the news from Old Man Liu about buying land and building a house.

Especially Wu Xiao'e, she was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth, but she was afraid that her parents-in-law would think that she couldn't wait to move, so she kept holding back her smile.

Old man Liu decided to make his words clearer, so as not to cause conflicts in the future, "Zhihe, Xiao'e, when I built the current house, your mother and I also told you that I will support your eldest brother, so the house should be built bigger." You and the third child are going to be separated, so your mother and I will talk about it now, and we will build three main rooms and three east and west wings with your family. If you think it's small, add your own money, and you can build whatever you want, and I'll give you thirty-five taels of silver! ”