Chapter 1294: Not Enough Land
Shao Yunduan glanced at the lady who looked very willing, and nodded with a smile: "Anyway, we can't eat that much at home, it would be a pity to let it go to waste in the fields!"
Zhao Shu immediately smiled and said, "The Jinquan Restaurant I often go to is pretty good. Why don't I talk to the shopkeeper about it tomorrow?"
Qiao Xuan was delighted: "That's great. I'll ask Song Shi to send you a basket of strawberries tomorrow morning. You can take it to the shopkeeper to have a look!"
Zhao Shu readily agreed. This was a simple matter. The next morning, Song Shi ran to the field and picked half a basket of fruits, which he handed to Zhao Shu.
Zhao Shu went to Jinquan Tower with his entourage.
Jinquanlou is a well-known high-class teahouse in the capital, with three teahouses in the city. Zhao Shu often goes there and is generous with his money, making him a famous guest of Jinquanlou.
It's easy to say a word to the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper tasted a strawberry, his eyes lit up, and he agreed to Zhao Shu's request without hesitation, saying that it would be no problem for a teahouse to consume fifty or sixty kilograms a day.
The three teahouses together sell nearly 200 kilograms of goods, and each kilogram can be charged two cents of silver.
Zhao Shu asked Song Shi to go with him to Jinquan Tower, and then asked him to go back and report to Qiao Xuan.
Seeing that this matter could be done so easily, Qiao Xuan naturally would not refuse.
The final agreed upon price was two cents of silver per pound, with a provision of 180 pounds per day.
From this item alone, one can earn thirty-six taels of silver a day, which means over a thousand taels a month.
She has special powers, and when she uses them, the strawberries can continue to bear fruit until around November, and even if the yield decreases later on, it won't be noticeable.
After a few months, that’s several thousand taels!
Moreover, the strawberries are still growing and can be divided every few days, and they will only grow more and more.
A rough calculation shows that this amount is quite significant.
These few acres of strawberries alone are enough for her and Shao Yunduan to live a prosperous life in the capital without worries about food and clothing.
I dare not tell anyone about this. I have to keep a low profile. If Shao Yunduan's colleagues knew about this, I don't know how complicated their feelings would be!
Qiao Xuan was secretly proud in her heart: her special ability is really useful!
When I told Shao Yunduan about this in the evening, he was obviously shocked. His wife was really blessed. Others said that life was hard and making money was so difficult, but why was it that for his wife, making money was as easy as playing!
Qiao Xuan smiled and said, "I'm afraid that twenty acres of land won't be enough next year. I want to grow potatoes, strawberries, and other things, but there's not enough land. Husband, ask people if there's land for sale outside the city. No matter how much, let's buy some!"
"If there's nothing nearby, it doesn't matter if it's a little further away. It can be within 70 or 80 miles of the capital!"
Shao Yunduan nodded and wrote it down: "I will ask tomorrow. Large tracts of good farmland are not easy to buy, so I think the land should not be difficult to find."
Land is traded everywhere in the world. Good land is hard to find in the capital, but ordinary land should not be difficult to find either.
Shao Yunduan worked as an official in the Ministry of Revenue, and he had access to more information than most people. Within a few days, he found a suitable piece of land, covering an area of about 1,000 acres in Yunshui Town, more than 40 miles away from the capital.
It is really not easy to find such a large piece of cultivated land.
The next day, Qiao Xuan and Shao Yunduan took a carriage to take a look.
The land was located at the foot of the mountain. It was flat with some small hills about one or two meters high. It was about 1,200 acres in total. The owner calculated the land based on 1,200 acres at 12 or 14 taels of silver per acre, which would be nearly 17,000 taels in total.
(End of this chapter)
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