Ding Heli looked at Shui Qing and casually asked, "I heard you say a few days ago that you wanted to buy a few acres of fertile land?"

Fan Damu's eyes lit up as he looked at Shui Qing.

Shui Qing said calmly, "After the flood, the fields are difficult to cultivate. Let's wait and see."

What I was really thinking was, "Fan Damu, don't give up! If you persuade her a little more, she'll buy it!"

Not only did Fan Damu not give up, he also lowered the price again.

He chuckled and said, "We're all from the Fan family, so how about this: two taels of silver per mu, seven mu of land for fourteen taels of silver, plus the land and hillside, and then one tael less, for a total of twenty-eight taels, how about that?"

He was smiling on the outside, but his heart was bleeding inside.

According to the initial selling price, it was a full sixty-one taels of silver.

Now it's less than half!

All their belongings amounted to only twenty-eight taels of silver.

On second thought, after the flood, how many people went hungry? There would probably be starving people everywhere. Even if the people of Shanshui Village had a high yield of potatoes, it would be useless—they didn't even know if they would live to see the harvest.

At that time, many people in Shanshui Village were either dead or injured, and no one would buy his land.

Twenty-eight taels of silver is better than losing everything!

What's more, he also harmed his cousin's family, whom he hated the most.

Thinking of this, Fan Damu's smile became even more obsequious, and he continued to persuade Shang Shuiqing: "Sister-in-law, Jin and I are from the same clan. When there's something good, we think of you first. Buying this land and forest is definitely a good deal!"

Shuiqing had no idea when they had become so close to Fan Damu's family.

However, from a business perspective, as long as it's worthwhile, buying or selling the land title is fine.

She really needs land now, especially forests.

The hill belonging to Fan Damu's family is flat and covers a large area. The miscellaneous trees on it were cleared away and replaced with fruit trees and dried tangerine peel trees. Under the trees, medicinal herbs that require climbing, such as Polygonum multiflorum, were planted.

The land is used to grow yams, and the ridges are raised high to make it easier to harvest the yams.

She can buy it online, and it's cheap and convenient, but she has to plan for the future.

If we want to openly and legitimately sell the items in the mall, we need to start planting now and gradually scale it up. Ideally, we should develop Shanshui Village into a medicinal herb village and become a well-known and wealthy village.

But that's all for the future. Right now, she needs land and mountains to make her own family rich!

Bargaining is a common practice when buying things. She looked at Fan Damu, whose smile didn't reach his eyes, and said, "It's still too much. I would have bought it if it were twenty-three taels."

Twenty-three taels!

Fan Damu's smile was about to fade.

Five taels were lost all at once.

He inwardly resented it, but outwardly he readily agreed, "Okay!"

In a few days, you will be left to weep over these fields and forests.

But by then, I probably wouldn't even have the strength to cry.

When he left the city today, the way the disaster victims looked at him was as if they wanted to devour him. In another month or so, as the number of starving and thirsty victims increases, and if he lets out even the slightest hint of trouble... Shanshui Village might cease to exist...

Shui Qing looked at Fan Damu's ambiguous expression, wondering what he was thinking. One moment he was angry, the next he was relieved, then he was about to cry, then he was laughing.

I can't understand it.

After discussing it with Fan Damu, Shuiqing went to the back mountain to call Fan Jin back.

Upon hearing that Shui Qing had spent twenty-three taels of silver to buy dozens of acres of farmland and forests, Fan Jin smiled faintly.

Fan Damu: ...What a useless man, letting a woman run the household!

Buying land is such a big deal, and it wasn't decided by him, the head of the household, directly. I don't know how this fool can still laugh.