Chapter 139 Relocation

Uncle Liang really has a psychological trauma.

He was afraid that Xu Zhichun would hold a banquet before his own and it would be too good, making his family lose face.

My family is not like her, spending money lavishly without any control.

Xu Zhichun agreed. She had originally planned to hold the wedding after Liang Cui'er got married. After all, good days are limited, and the next good day was Liang Cui'er's wedding. She couldn't possibly compete with someone else's wedding.

As for whether the other person is truly happy or feels bitter inside, that has nothing to do with her.

Perhaps Xu Zhichun agreed so readily that it emboldened Uncle Liang, and he felt that he could do it again.

"Ahem," Uncle Liang said, his voice getting louder as he cleared his throat. "How much did it cost you to build this house?"

Xu Zhichun paused slightly and raised his head.

"You are young and ignorant, and you might not even realize you've been deceived. Tell me all your expenses and I'll help you calculate. Mingxuan is now attending the county school, and his expenses are quite high. How much silver do you have left? How much does Liang Lizheng have? If you don't calculate it properly, I'll see what you'll do when you can't even make ends meet."

Xu Zhichun: "No comment."

"you--"

"Don't worry, uncle. I won't bother you to borrow money or food no matter what."

“Good intentions are never rewarded!”

Uncle Liang walked away with a dark face and slammed his sleeves.

Xu Zhichun closed the gate of the yard.

Give him face.

With just three colors, he started a dyeing factory.

How could she forget what happened before?

She didn't dare to gamble her life and property. After all, who knew if she would have such good luck again next time.

How much silver was spent? It was indeed a lot this time. After the housewarming party, the cost of digging the well was about seventy taels.

Fortunately, even during this period of time, I did not delay making money, and now I still have more than 360 taels in my hands.

The autumn harvest is getting closer and closer, and we will have a bigger income then.

Therefore, although she spent a lot of money at once, she still felt it was worth it when she saw the new house in front of her, which was brand new inside and out.

While it was still early, Xu Zhichun called Chunfen and went to the vegetable garden to dig up the flowers, trees, strawberries, etc. that had been temporarily planted in the corners of the vegetable garden when the old house was demolished.

The roses, hydrangeas, and jasmine were all pruned back then, leaving only three to five-inch stems. When they were dug, they dug deep into the soil, then dug a large hole in the garden to bury the entire plant. So, transplanting them now simply required providing shade during the day and watering them morning and night, which was no problem at all.

The front and back yards are both very large. Xu Zhichun had a wide area specially built along the base of the back yard wall and the base of the two opposite walls of the front yard. He also built two small oval flower beds on the left and right in front of the front door of the house, so there was plenty of space for planting things.

With the help of Chunfen, the flowers and trees were quickly dug up with their roots and soil. Xu Zhichun carefully held them and put them into the dustpan.

She also pulled out some leek roots and green onion roots to plant, and inserted some garlic cloves.

The seeds of coriander, celery and lettuce have been soaked in clean water and will be sown directly tomorrow.

The tomatoes are already blooming and bearing fruit. The green fruits are gradually swelling, looking like cute little balls. I already have quite a few in the vegetable garden, but after transplanting the few from the backyard, I don't want to transplant them back.

The most important thing is strawberries.

Xu Zhichun planned to monopolize the strawberries first. After the seedlings grew, she gave ten plants each to Aunt Zhu'er and Zeng Xiaoyan, and told them not to give them to others. She decided to make some money for herself for a year or two before making any other decisions.

Who doesn’t love small, cute, red, sweet and delicious strawberries?

They don't cheat ordinary people, they only sell to rich people. It's not too much to sell it for two taels of silver per catty, right?

In order for his son to enter the county school, Mr. Zeng generously gave away tens of thousands of silver coins, which really refreshed her understanding of the wealth of the locals.

Even if we only sell to a few of them, it will be enough.

By the way, there are a lot of fresh, big red strawberries in the cold storage of her warehouse space. With the strawberry seedlings planted in the ground as cover, she has a clear way out.

The high-quality strawberry varieties grown using modern planting techniques are so large that she is embarrassed to sell them. She has to carefully pick each one before selling them, choosing only medium-sized ones.

Xu Zhichun dug out all the strawberries that were buried densely together.

A pair of scoops and a backpack are filled with all the plants to be transplanted. This way, the job is done quickly and there is no need to make another trip.

"Alright," Xu Zhichun clapped his hands. "Thank you for your hard work. Let's go."

"Yes." Liang Chunfen squatted down and was about to carry the backpack, but Xu Zhichun quickly stopped him: "You carry the burden, I'll do this."

"I'll do it all. I'm afraid you can't carry Sister Zhichun."

"Why--"

Liang Chunfen smiled and stood up without saying anything, carrying the basket on his back and taking the load with him. "I can really do it. Look, I can do it."

Easy as pie.

Xu Zhichun smiled and gave up, "Let's go back."

"Um."

All the flowers, trees and vegetables were planted in the flower beds in the front yard and in the specially built vegetable garden. Xu Zhichun planted all the strawberries in the backyard.

Under her careful care, the strawberry grew vigorously, with layers of green leaves stretching out. Within a few days, a runner stretched out from the core, drilled into the ground, and grew into a new plant again.

The first plants to sprout and grow have buds in their center. These buds will slowly grow, open one by one, and produce fruit. The fruit will grow and mature.

It's what we see.

Even so, strawberries cannot grow as fast as cucumbers and tomatoes. It takes at least one and a half months from the time the buds first appear to bloom, bear fruit, and mature.

It will take at least another month and a half to sell strawberries.

Don't delay her eating, but delay others eating.

Xu Zhichun and Chunfen planted all the plants and watered them. Xu Zhichun was worried and secretly added some rooting powder.

After finishing all this, calculating the time, it’s time to go to Aunt Zhuer’s house to make konjac tofu.

She moved to a new house today and did not set up a stall. Zeng Xiaoyan and others came to congratulate her and help.

While they were digging konjac, she cleaned up the house.

"Chunfen, go home and take a rest. Don't eat dinner at home. Come and eat with me."

Liang Chunfen was stunned. "Really?"

Xu Zhichun laughed: "Of course it's true, why are you asking like that?"

Although she was not invited to dinner every day, sometimes Xu Zhichun felt tired and did not want to cook, so he would just get instant noodles with ham and braised eggs from the warehouse; or occasionally he would be very greedy and take the vacuum-packed roast duck or roast goose and heat them up, which made it inconvenient to invite her to dinner.

Liang Chunfen scratched his head and smiled innocently: "I, I thought Sister Zhichun had a new house and didn't want me to come. Some people in the village said that Sister Zhichun was reluctant to let me live in such a nice new house."

Xu Zhichun was at a loss for words. "Don't listen to their nonsense. Aren't we still able to live in a new house? It sounds so strange that we can't bear to live there anymore!"

"Okay, okay. Will you come at that time like usual?"

"right."

"Okay."

Liang Chunfen went home happily.

Only then did Xu Zhichun realize that Chunfen had been a little absent-minded and depressed since his new house was completed. It turned out that he had heard some gossip.

There are always gossipmongers everywhere, but Xu Zhichun didn't take it seriously. He just thought he should tell Chunfen that if he heard anything, he could ask him directly and not keep it to himself.

After locking the door, Xu Zhichun went to Aunt Zhuer's house.

(End of this chapter)