Song Zhang handed the horse to his attendant, walked forward, squatted in front of Qin Yao, pointed at the soil used for demonstration on the ground, and asked the same question again.
"Except for the conditions you mentioned earlier, can't other land be cultivated?"
Qin Yao didn't expect him to come so low-key, bringing only one follower with him. He didn't even say hello before coming, and was very sneaky.
However, it was obvious that Song Zhang did not intend to let the villagers know his identity. He nodded at him as a greeting and replied:
"You can plant melons on other land, but it will greatly affect the quality of the melons."
Song Zhang looked as if he had heard nothing and continued to talk to himself, "Bitter melons come from the Western Regions and are rarely seen in the Central Plains. I didn't expect that Lady Qin even knew how to grow them."
Qin Yao pulled the corner of her mouth, and seeing Zhang's puzzled look, she stood up and explained: "Mom, a guest is here, I will take the guest home to sit for a while first."
Although Zhang didn't know who Song Zhang was, she had a vague guess. After all, Liu Zhongcai had said before that the county magistrate would visit Qin Yao's home.
He waved his hands hurriedly, "Go ahead, I'm here."
After saying that, he smiled politely at Song Zhang again.
Song Zhang nodded politely, stood up and bowed to Zhang as a junior, called his followers, and happily followed Qin Yao's pace.
"The last time I went to Jinshi Town, I only visited a few other villages, but missed Liujia Village, a village with beautiful scenery." Song Zhang said with some surprise.
Qin Yao didn't respond, so he asked curiously, "I heard that the great scholar built a courtyard in your village to live in for a long time. I wonder which one it is?"
When Qin Yao mentioned the house, her eyes lit up slightly. She stopped by the bridge and pointed deep into the village. "Look, over there, do you see the empty terrace? That's it."
"Sir, do you want to go and take a look?" Qin Yao's tone was full of enthusiasm, and she said seductively, "It was designed by the master himself. It was renovated from an abandoned old house in the village. It's a very special lotus courtyard."
After saying that, he glanced at Song Zhang again and added, "If you are interested, you can also choose an old house with a great view in the village and renovate it yourself."
Without waiting for Song Zhang to speak, he continued to speak before him: "After the renovation, you can live here as long as you want. After all, you are the county magistrate. If we knew that you wanted to stay here often, the village would definitely hand over the deed to the old house with both hands, and you don't need to spend a penny!"
The followers were all excited when they heard this, not because of the old house in Liujia Village, but because they could live next to the great scholar.
He immediately looked at his own county magistrate expectantly, "Master, didn't you always say that you wanted to find an opportunity to visit Mr. Gongliang? Today is the perfect time."
Qin Yao smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry, the great scholar is not in the Lotus Courtyard now, but you can see him in three days."
Counting the days, Gong Liangliao will arrive in three days.
Song Zhang's follower sighed with regret. He thought he would be able to meet the great scholar today.
"But since no one is here, it would be nice to go and take a look at the yard." Qin Yao continued to encourage.
She suddenly discovered that Song Zhang was also a good client.
If the wealthy businessmen in Kaiyang County knew that the county magistrate had also renovated an old house in Liujia Village, wouldn't they come here to try to get the news?
By then, the residential land in Liujia Village will be worth a lot of money!
Song Zhang stared at Qin Yao suspiciously for two seconds, unable to figure out why she was so eager to recommend the old house in Liujia Village to him.
But since I'm here, and I can't see the great scholar, it's okay to just take a look at the house where he lives.
"Madam Qin is so kind, so let's go and take a look." Song Zhang responded with a smile.
Qin Yao finally smiled at him, raised her hand to make a gesture of invitation, and led the way. As they walked, she introduced how beautiful the scenery of Liujia Village was in all seasons and how healing it was to live here.
Song Zhang and Qin Yao didn't have much contact. Generally speaking, they only met twice, during the bandit suppression campaign and the last time outside the Ding family ancestral hall.
Most of the time, he heard about Qin Yao from other people.
Some people say that she is a fierce and shrewish woman, some say that she is a cool hunter who never misses her arrow, and some say that she is the domineering leader of Liujia Village.
But no matter which one it was, no one had ever told him that she was so talkative!
The three of them finally arrived at the Lotus Courtyard, and the various sales pitches with hints and implications in Song Zhang's ears finally stopped.
He looked at Qin Yao who walked forward to find the key to open the door, and secretly let out a sigh of relief.
The owner was away and the house was unattended, so it was covered with a layer of dust.
Qin Yao pushed open the door and fanned it a few times to clear away the dust floating in the air.
This is all thanks to the fact that it has been drizzling these days, otherwise I would have been breathing in a lot of dust when I came in.
Qin Yao patted her pants and planned to call Awang and Liu Ji to come and clean the house tomorrow.
Looking back, he saw Song Zhang politely standing at the door, curiously looking in, and waved and shouted, "Come in and take a look. It's okay. The rooms are locked. I don't have the key. Just look in the yard."
Qi Xianguan and Gong Liangliao have very good aesthetic taste. The courtyard, which looks quite extraordinary from the outside, is full of details inside. The various clever arrangements and the owner's ingenious ideas are very exciting to watch.
The attendant suppressed his excitement and asked politely, "Madam Qin, is this really an abandoned house?"
Qin Yao nodded, "Yes, we still have a sketch of what it looked like before. If you don't believe me, come to my house later and I can show it to you."
Speaking of this sketch, it wasn’t easy to come by.
Qi Xianguan couldn't stand the fact that his junior fellow apprentice couldn't even paint, so he used the old house in Lianyuan as a model and guided Liu Ji step by step. It took three days of hard work to draw this picture.
Unexpectedly, when I took it out again, I could make a comparison with the current Lotus Courtyard before and after the renovation.
"How is it? Are you a little moved?"
After locking the gate of Lianyuan, Qin Yao asked confidently while leading Song Zhang to her home.
The follower nodded frantically, but was glared at by Song Zhang, so he quickly lowered his head and followed behind obediently, holding the horse.
Seeing that his followers were well behaved, Song Zhang smiled faintly and said indifferently: "Not bad."
Qin Yao did not give up and said with a smile: "How about supporting rural development, sir, and choosing an abandoned house to set an example for the rich gentry in the county?"
Song Zhang was worthy of being the county magistrate, and he immediately smelled something unusual from these words.
Although it is also a poor village, Liujia Village is getting better and better every year. Everyone would be curious and want to come here to find out.
Originally, Song Zhang only speculated from the various information he had that the changes in Liujia Village were related to Qin Yao.
Now after hearing Qin Yao's words, he was certain that she was the source.
A woman in her early twenties who had fled from other places was not only extremely strong and could suppress bandits and kill tigers, but she was also able to come up with ingenious devices such as water mills and magical book boxes to build factories. She also knew how to grow Western bitter melons and build a rice seedling room.
She is so omniscient and omnipotent that no one would believe that she is not God.
But unfortunately, she is alone.
Now it is flesh and blood, standing in front of him alive. (End of this chapter)
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