Yan Dashan and his men came today, so Chunxiao and his men went back early. He asked the yamen runners to send them to the farm in Linye Village. Shuwen was helping to move wood, and he was so excited when he saw Yan Dashan that he almost dropped his foot.
"Dad, when did you come?"
"Be careful, don't be reckless. Only your aunt would trust you with such an important matter."
"How could I be reckless." He put the wood aside, clapped his hands and ran over. "Dad, look, our farm is as big as my aunt's farm in Lu Village. The foundation was just started yesterday. Have you been to my aunt's place to see it? It's huge, almost as big as our entire village. Also, look, the soybeans in the field are almost ripe. In order to build a house, several acres of land have been turned over. It's such a pity." Shuwen seemed to have endless things to say to his father.
"Dad just came over from over there." Yan Dashan looked at him and touched his head with some pride, "Well done, you will be better than Dad in the future."
Shuwen started to giggle, "Dad, let me show you the blueprints that my aunt and I put together. See if you like it."
"Since it was your aunt who approved it, then it must be correct. Let's wait and see when we get back." Yan Dashan looked at the soybeans scattered on the ground, then at a carriage parked in the distance, "Is that the carriage your aunt bought?"
"Yes, I'll take you there to have a look. It's quite lively. My aunt spent 50 taels of silver on it. I heard that even if you have money, you can't buy it. Now my aunt and I can both drive a carriage. My aunt said that we must also learn happiness and perfection. Dad, since you are here, you must learn it too. Tomorrow I will teach you first, and when you have learned it, I will teach you happiness and perfection."
Several people walked up to the carriage, and Yan Dashan carefully touched the horse's hair and said, "This horse is well-bred. It rides very smoothly."
"Not only does it have good fur, it also runs fast. I'll let you experience it later."
The few of them wandered around the farm, which could not even be called a farm, and did not leave until it was almost dark in a carriage. The driver was naturally Shuwen.
"We are short of money in the early stage, so let's not build the wall yet. Let's get all the important things first, and then we can build it after the autumn harvest."
"That's entirely up to you, big brother. You can actually build it yourself. Just do the same as what I did and enclose the main courtyard. In the early stages, I plan to hire temporary workers. There's no way to add so many people all at once. I'm afraid we'll have to bring them in batches. Only when the people in front are familiar with it can they lead the people behind."
“How many people are you planning to buy?”
"We've asked at the real estate agency before, and it's relatively easy to hire people here. We're planning to build four more courtyards besides the main courtyard, and construction has already begun on these four. Each courtyard has 20 rooms, and with three people in each room, that means 60 people in one courtyard. If we have all the rooms, we'll probably need to hire 170 to 180 people. The extra courtyard is for when we're short on manpower. If we can hire more people, over 200 would be ideal."
"so much?"
"There's no other way. Without this much, we can't move around. Brother, the farm here has a courtyard with 12 rooms, so I'm afraid it will take 30 people. You can take your time to arrange the placement. We can't accommodate them until the houses are ready."
"With so many people, food will be a problem."
"I've thought about this, so we can only take it slowly. We need to reserve some land on both sides of the farm to grow crops, otherwise it will be too expensive to buy them. I have more than 200 acres of fertile land over there, and I plan to reserve it all for growing crops. More than 800 acres of cotton will also be enough."
"Then I'll go back and calculate how many acres of land it would be cost-effective to grow crops."
The brother and sister talked about various things that needed to be prepared. Happiness and Meiman listened on the side, and wrote down what they thought they needed to write down. Soon, the carriage arrived at the gate of the courtyard.
"Dad, we're here." Shuwen got out of the car, opened the door and pulled the carriage in. Several people got out of the car and looked at the small courtyard.
"Let's just make do with it for now. We'll rent it for a month. In a few days, once the furniture in the main courtyard is ready, we'll move in. Happiness and Perfection, stay with me today."
As soon as Xingfu and Meiman arrived, they took over Shuwen's cooking job. The three of them continued to discuss what Zhuangzi needed to prepare in the main hall.
With the help of happiness and perfection, Chunxiao finally felt that she could breathe a sigh of relief.
The task of fermenting manure for everyone was given to Xingfu, and the task of purchasing things for the main courtyard was given to Shuwen and Meiman. Yan Dashan took over Zhuangzi's work the day after he arrived.
With Yan Dashan around, there is no need to worry about Zhuangzi at all.
Today Shuwen took Meiman to make mattresses. Chunxiao asked them to see if there was a place like in their hometown where they could exchange old cotton. If there was, they could use 100 kilograms of new cotton to exchange for old cotton. Regardless of whether it was new cotton or old cotton, they had to make a mattress weighing 5 kilograms.
This time, Meiman was smart and brought all the cotton cloth from her place. The main reason was that she heard Xingfu say that the cloth here was too expensive. She thought that she would definitely need it here, and the bus fare was so expensive, so she brought all she could.
She was a little worried at first, afraid that Chunxiao would say she was acting on her own, but Chunxiao praised her happily, saying that she had forgotten about the cloth, so she could save some money. There were 17 pieces of coarse cloth and 8 pieces of fine cloth, which could make a lot of bedding.
In addition to making mattresses, they also have to order iron pots, kitchen knives, water tanks, and buy some daily necessities such as bowls, chopsticks, dustpans, etc. In short, they have to buy everything that is needed for daily use.
Chunxiao now just needs to concentrate on the construction at the construction site.
Construction of four deep wells has already started. It is not easy to find a well driller, so we can only take it slowly. According to the progress the well driller said, we can drill eight wells a month, and it will probably take until June to drill thirty or forty wells. We can't rush it. Fortunately, the wells can be used immediately after they are drilled.
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