Chapter 942 The Fourth Family
Lu Sanzhu trusted Shu Yu completely. If Shu Yu said it was a good time to buy a house, then it was a good time.
He even considered buying several more properties, thinking that if the property prices rose in the future, he could sell them and make a fortune.
But then he thought about it again. He only had a little over forty taels of silver. Borrowing two hundred taels from A-Yu was already the limit. If he borrowed any more, he was afraid that he wouldn't even have meat to eat in the future, and his whole family would have to tighten their belts.
Most importantly, he dared not renege on his promise.
After Shu Yu finished speaking, she was about to leave. "Didn't Third Uncle just say he was going to help my family with the work? Come on in, my dad and the others are inside, and your brother-in-law Uncle Liang is also helping out."
Lu Sanzhu froze; he hadn't really come here to work.
His eyes darted around, and he spotted the mule cart beside him. He quickly asked, "Ayu, where are you going?"
"Let's go check out the few estates that Brother Da Niu is looking for," Shu Yu said before getting into the car.
Lu Sanzhu pushed Da Niu aside and climbed up himself, saying, "Then I'll go with you. I know the area outside the city well."
Da Niu was lagging behind and couldn't help but feel a headache coming on. "Yeah, there's no place you don't know."
Since everyone was already on the bus, Shu Yu couldn't very well kick them off.
Therefore, Da Niu, who knew the location well, drove the group straight to the city gate.
Da Niu searched for three or four villages, but each one had some shortcomings.
However, that was his idea. Perhaps Ayu thought it was acceptable, so they planned to visit several estates.
The first manor was not far from the city gate. Shu Yu had passed by here before and had seen this manor.
This estate has a good location and is quite large, and the price is relatively cheap, but the only drawback is that there is too little farmland.
This is precisely the point that Shu Yu cares about most.
Therefore, Shu Yu didn't even meet the owner of the first house before going to the next one.
The second plot of land was too damp and unsuitable.
The third place was alright, but there was a hillside directly in front of it. Sunflowers love the sun, and this hillside blocked out the sunlight. At least the large area of land at the bottom of the hillside would lose half a day's worth of sunshine.
Shu Yu shook her head after looking at three places. Although Da Niu was prepared, he couldn't help but feel anxious. If the fourth place didn't work, then they would have to go to even more distant places to look.
Shu Yu wasn't worried. If she couldn't find a ready-made estate, she could build one herself as long as she had the land.
Da Niu drove the car, and the fourth house was already quite far away.
Shu Yu discovered that it was even further than the black market she had visited before. After passing through the bamboo forest outside the black market, it was still about four miles away before the mule cart finally stopped.
“This is the last one, the one I found yesterday,” Da Niu explained. “This land is too dry and not close to a water source. So the harvest has always been poor. For several years in a row, the yield per mu has not met expectations, and the tenants have not been able to pay their rent. So the owner of the estate has given up and plans to sell it.”
Shu Yu looked over and saw that it was indeed a barren area, so it seemed that they didn't plan to grow any more crops.
It's currently the busy farming season, and most farmers have already started plowing and transplanting rice seedlings. Even those few villages they saw earlier, despite their intention to sell them, still have crops planted on them.
There's nothing here at all; it seems the landlord has no intention of managing it at all.
Shu Yu squatted down and looked at the soil.
Sunflowers don't have high requirements for soil quality, and this plot of land is actually very suitable, plus there are no hillsides blocking the sunlight around it.
(End of this chapter)
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