"Miss Jiang!"
"Village Chief Lu, what's wrong?" Jiang Hua stopped and asked.
“Miss Jiang, it’s like this, I’ve already discussed the land purchase you mentioned last time with the villagers, and they have no objections. Do you still want it?” Village Chief Lu asked cautiously.
The main issue is that we're preparing for the second planting season. Everyone is short of money to buy seeds. If Jiang Hua buys the land, the money can be divided among everyone, and we'll have more money to buy seeds, which will make this winter easier.
"Selling?" Jiang Hua asked.
She had a feeling that she wouldn't be staying in Xu Family Village for long, so she decided to make the best of it. Now that she was here and had transmigrated into the body of the female lead, besides helping the original owner take revenge, the most important thing was how to settle down here.
Lin Shuyan is the female lead in this book, so she naturally has the aura of a leading lady. No matter what she does, there will be people protecting her and sacrificing themselves for her.
As for her, if she wants revenge, she needs to develop her own power first. Revenge is a must, as she brought all the misfortunes of her birthplace upon herself.
The so-called "strong female lead" is nothing more than someone who tramples on other people's blossoming innocent lotus flowers.
"It was sold." Village Chief Lu nodded repeatedly.
"How much silver? You can calculate it, and I can pay you right now," Jiang Hua said readily.
Village Chief Lu was somewhat stunned. Was it that fast?
One mu of wasteland cost five taels of silver, and one mu of farmland cost ten taels, double the price. Jiang Hua then asked for five mu of wasteland and five mu of farmland as originally agreed.
"Young lady, what are you going to do with all this farmland and wasteland?" Village Chief Lu asked again, having previously dismissed it as a joke.
Now that Jiang Hua is really going to buy land in her village, he, as the village chief, definitely needs to find out the details.
“Building a house, making a living,” Jiang Hua said softly.
"Miss Jiang, is everything you said true?" Village Chief Lu almost choked on his own saliva.
"Miss Jiang, you've built such a big house, can you live in it all?"
“Yes, I can live in whichever courtyard I want.” Jiang Hua said, taking out silver and her household registration from her spatial storage.
“Five mu of wasteland is worth twenty-five taels of silver, and five mu of fertile land is worth fifty taels of silver, for a total of seventy-five taels,” Jiang Hua said, then handed a hundred-tael silver note to Village Chief Lu.
"Village Chief Lu, I'll have to trouble you to make some arrangements at the government office later. I'm not free tomorrow."
“Yes, village chief, the teacher from Shifang Academy is going to Xujia Village to recruit students tomorrow, so Sister Jiang won’t be able to leave,” Honghua explained from the side.
“Well, if Miss Jiang trusts me, I’ll take care of it for you tomorrow,” said Village Chief Lu.
“Okay, thank you very much, Village Chief.” Jiang Hua nodded.
After returning to Xujia Village, Jiang Jingyi had already cooked the rice and cleaned the vegetables, leaving them for her to cook when she got back.
"Stepmother, you're back." Jiang Jingyi heard footsteps in the courtyard and quickly ran out to see what was going on, only to find that it was Jiang Hua who had returned.
"I'll go cook the dishes, you wash the dishes first," Jiang Hua said, ruffling his hair.
He's been busy with the shop lately, as well as the snail rice noodle shop he's partnered with Shen Qingchuan on. He's decided to expand the snail rice noodle shop to Beijing first.
If there are no problems in the capital, she will start expanding to other places. So these two days she needs to prepare pickled bamboo shoots, pickled cowpeas and spices for snail rice noodles at home, and then send them to the capital.
This was also Shen Qingchuan's idea. He specifically instructed that the chili oil should also come from her, just to ensure that the taste remained unchanged. Even the people who taught her were sent from the capital.
Jiang Hua had no objection to this; there were plenty of spices. However, there weren't as many pickled cowpeas and pickled bamboo shoots available. They would all have to be developed from scratch.
After dinner, Jiang Hua gave Jiang Xingzhou's reply to Jiang Jingyi. Only after seeing Jiang Xingzhou's reply did Jiang Jingyi feel satisfied and fall asleep peacefully, waiting for the exam at Shifang Academy the next day.
Jiang Hua then entered the space, where there were already no fewer than ten jars of pickled bamboo shoots and pickled cowpeas made by the little white snake.
It had only been a few days since I last entered the space, and there were already so many pickled bamboo shoots and pickled cowpeas in it. It turned out that the little white snake had been nagging me to buy water tanks for the past few days, and I ended up buying ten of them.
She thought it wanted to buy it for bathing, but it turned out to be something else entirely.
"Master, how is it?" The little white snake crawled directly to Jiang Hua's feet and rubbed against her.
"Make more, and chili oil too. I'll cook something delicious for you when I'm done." Jiang Hua squatted down and stroked the snake's white head.
After taking a bath in the space, Jiang Hua left the space.
The next morning, Aunt Liu came to the door, and Jiang Hua was washing clothes in the yard.
"Huahua, why haven't you gone to the ancestral hall yet? All the children in the village have already gone there," Aunt Liu said anxiously.
“Okay, Auntie, I’m going over now.” Jiang Hua called out to Jiang Jingyi into the inner room, and then went to the ancestral hall with Aunt Liu.
In the original owner's memories, women were not allowed to enter the ancestral hall, as it was said that women would taint the ancestral hall's fortune. This time, it seems that Xu Wanli is taking the Shifang Academy exam quite seriously.
However, when they arrived at the entrance of the ancestral hall, Jiang Hua realized that she had overestimated Xu Wanli.
I thought the exam would be held in the ancestral hall, but it turned out that all the tables inside the ancestral hall were moved out to serve as temporary desks.
When they arrived, all the children in the village were already seated, and Xu Yaozu was the most conspicuous among them, sitting in the first row.
Jiang Jingyi didn't pick and chose the last seat. The Xu family watched Xu Yaozu from the side, as if afraid he would miss something, and each of them went up to give him a word of advice.
They only stopped when Xu Wanli stopped them with a look. Then, looking up, they saw Jiang Hua approaching with Jiang Jingyi. Xu said coldly:
"What kind of Tom, Dick, or Harry? These uneducated wild children have no right to take the exam."
As soon as Xu said this, everyone present fell silent. However, Xu herself was completely unaware of what was happening. Upon hearing this, Xu Wanli's face grew even more unpleasant.
He had already noticed that the teacher of Shifang Academy had slightly furrowed his brow and was looking at Jiang Jingyi, who was seated.
He gave Xu Dagui a wink, and Xu Dagui then pulled Xu Shi behind him.
"You're such a useless and despicable person, good for nothing but causing trouble. If the teacher gets a bad impression of Yaozu, I'll beat you to death." Madam Xu also leaned over and whispered through gritted teeth in Madam Xu's ear.
When the time came, the teacher of Shifang Academy distributed the questions and let the children in the village answer them on their own. To ensure fairness, each table was spaced one meter apart.
Jiang Hua glanced at the children present. Only Jiang Jingyi and Xu Yaozu were engrossed in writing, while the other children were scratching their heads.
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