Chapter 1082 Buying Land
Twenty acres is neither too much nor too little. Rich families would not look down on it, and ordinary people may not be able to afford it.
Of course, there are also people who think it is suitable and want to buy it. At this time, it depends on the speed of the hands.
Qiao Xuan bought the land without any hesitation.
The land price in the capital city is not cheap at all. One mu of land for growing crops costs twenty taels of silver, which is much more expensive than the best paddy fields in Heshan County.
But the soil in the north is very fertile and flat, so it will be very convenient to manage. Qiao Xuan thinks it is also good.
When Qiao Xuan got the deed for the twenty acres of land, she was quite satisfied!
Twenty acres, she and Shao Yunduan joked that they had houses and land in the capital, and after a few years they would be able to say that they were people living in the imperial city under the feet of the emperor!
She plans to use the 20 acres of land to grow strawberries and potatoes, and the rest to grow seasonal vegetables and annual fruits such as watermelon, cantaloupe, melon, passion fruit, etc.
It's great to be self-sufficient.
As the weather hasn't really gotten cold yet, Qiao Xuan plans to tidy up the twenty acres of land so that she can plant crops as soon as the weather warms up next spring.
First of all, the whole place needs to be fenced off. The things she wants to plant are all precious and cannot be destroyed.
Twenty acres of land is quite spacious. Half an acre can be used to build a few more houses. It can be used as a place to rest, and some can be used as a tool room or warehouse.
A large cellar is dug underground where the harvested potatoes can be stored.
The entire land should be divided into pieces, leaving room for walking, and then deeply plowed and tidied. Then, in the spring, it should be plowed again and planted after the next spring rain.
After the planning, most of the work, including purchasing materials and supervising construction, was left to Songshi.
Turquoise is in high spirits and full of energy.
He finally has something to do and doesn't have to be so bored every day!
If he performed well and did well, he would have a promising future. He saw clearly that both masters were nostalgic people, and as long as he was loyal and followed them well, good days were still to come!
Song Shi is quite smart. Whenever he encounters something he doesn't understand or is not very clear about, he will not act on his own. After finding out everything, he will tell Qiao Xuan everything in detail and ask for Qiao Xuan's opinion.
This thing was done smoothly.
Eleven or twelve days passed like this. One day, Shao Yunduan returned home and mentioned the Qiao family to Qiao Xuan in a casual chat. He said that there was a lot of commotion in the Qiao family right now. It seemed that Qiao Wei's marriage had gone wrong. Her fiancé had somehow gotten involved with Qiao Kou. Now the Qiao San master and his wife were in a turmoil over this matter.
Qiao Xuan was very surprised to hear this.
The fire of gossip was burning fiercely, and she asked Shao Yunduan with sharp eyes about the inside story and more inside stories. She really wanted to hear it.
No gossip could arouse her interest more than the gossip about the Qiao family!
She felt relieved to see that they were not doing well.
Unfortunately, Shao Yunduan only heard a little bit of it, and he didn't know the details of what happened. After all, he was working in the Hanlin Academy, and he didn't have that much time to inquire about the gossip of the Qiao family.
Qiao Xuan was a little disappointed, but she also understood that her husband was not the type of person who liked to join in such fun.
She can find out for herself!
Qiao Xuan then told Song Shi to go around the Qiao family's area and invite the servants of the nearby families to have tea, eat melon seeds, and chat.
(End of this chapter)
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