Yue Jiuyue was absolutely stunned!
A whole stack! This is a whole stack! They're all red contracts!
Has she really become a landlady?
"The shops and houses in our town are cheap, and many people are in a hurry to sell them, either to buy food to save their lives, to go back to the countryside, or to go to other places to stay with relatives. Prices are much lower than in previous years. Five taels of silver for a shop is expensive, and the price of houses is not much higher. So, a lot of people are buying them."
Hearing this, Lin Chaobei, who had been eavesdropping at the door, immediately opened the door and jumped out, exclaiming in surprise:
"Mom! You bought a house and a shop in town! What's wrong? Are you planning to open a shop to sell things? Or do you want to move to town to live?"
He was looking forward to it in every way!
When he was a child, he envied the families who owned shops the most, because they could earn money every day and buy delicious food.
The same goes for the people who live in the town.
Unexpectedly, one day his dream actually came true!
He's going to live in town!
He's going to open a shop and become a shopkeeper!
The social hierarchy is: scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants. Although merchants are at the bottom, they are wealthy!
Farmers rank second, but they are the poorest people. They work in the fields all year round, but they don't always get a reward for their labor. They have to rely on the weather for their livelihood, and it's common for them to go hungry. For example, when Yue Jiuyue first transmigrated, she couldn't even eat wild vegetables to her heart's content!
If it weren't for her special ability and the emperor's reward, even if she were to become wealthy in the future, it would still take time. After all, money is not easy to earn; otherwise, there wouldn't be so many poor people.
She has always been a genuinely poor person. She didn't get arrogant after receiving rewards from the emperor and making a lot of money with her golden finger. That's because this is an unfamiliar dynasty. If she were in her previous world, would she have bought herself a big house first and then a car?
Home is a safe haven for those who are constantly on the move.
"I didn't think about it at all; I just bought it because things were cheap at that time."
After saying that, Yue Jiuyue remembered something, slapped her forehead, and said:
"Oh, right, I forgot to mention this at the dinner table. Didn't Master Li come today? You know this fourth brother, right? He came to remind us to prepare early. People from the capital will be arriving in the county town the day after tomorrow, and they might even come to our house the day after that. It's a reward from the emperor. We can't go anywhere for those two days; we just need to stay home and wait."
After giving her reminder, Yue Jiuyue ignored the two brothers' gaping mouths, which were wide enough to fit goose eggs. They were so surprised that they didn't even come to their senses after she closed the bedroom door. After returning to her room, she put away the contract documents, took out the popsicle she hadn't been able to eat that morning, unwrapped it, and licked it with her tongue.
Don't worry, your tongue isn't stuck.
This time, Yue Jiuyue wasn't just trying to change her mood; she was absolutely ecstatic! After all, the Emperor had sent her money and gifts again. Last time, a cartload of sweet potatoes had given her five hundred taels of silver and a lot of good stuff. This time, she'd get at least a thousand taels, right?
She's short of money right now, and this emperor is such a good person!
That very night, Yue Jiuyue had an amazing dream! In her dream, she did receive a reward from the emperor, and the amount of silver he bestowed upon her was unexpectedly large—a whopping eight thousand eight hundred taels of silver!
The fact that there were whole and odd amounts made Yue Jiuyue in her dream extremely happy. Was this the pinnacle of a peasant woman's life?
In her dream, Yue Jiuyue almost woke herself up laughing with joy.
But when Yue Jiuyue woke up, her mood was not so pleasant. She had finally had a dream of getting rich, but she didn't even dream of millions of taels of silver, let alone hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. She only dreamed of eight thousand eight hundred taels of silver!
Is her luck with money really that bad? Even in her dreams it's so bad it makes her want to burst into tears, but the worst part is she's still happily laughing in her dreams!
She's so angry!
Of course, if the emperor really did give her a reward of 8,800 taels of silver, Yue Jiuyue would be just as happy as she was in her dream, so happy she wouldn't know which way was up.
After all, a dream is just a dream. Becoming a billionaire in a dream is perfectly normal, but how can it be compared to reality?
However, thinking that another windfall would come her way in two days, Yue Jiuyue's mood gradually improved.
It seems that those plants that don't exist yet can't be planted too quickly; it has to be done slowly. Ideally, one or two types should be planted each year, so that she can receive the emperor's rewards every year.
It doesn't matter who you sell to.
They could be indirectly sold to the emperor, which would fetch an extremely high price, and these would all be the same items used by the emperor. Some of these items could then be sold at a high price with a clear conscience, such as watermelons, strawberries, and roses.
As for cotton, corn, and sweet potatoes, she would sell them at ordinary grain prices. She didn't intend to be a profiteer, and these things were meant to be widely available, so she could only make more money in the first year or two. Once she had enough money, she wanted to do more good deeds and accumulate merit for herself!
She's already transmigrated to another world, so it's only natural that she'd believe in some nonsense, right?
After getting up, Yue Jiuyue first went to her "experimental field" to see if the watermelons she had planted were ripe, so that she could prepare two for the people from the capital to taste when they arrived.
This year, she has her eye on not only cotton, but also corn. She hopes that corn can be like sweet potatoes before, allowing her to make more money while it's still a unique crop. She believes that even the emperor, who has tasted the corn, will praise it highly.
She wondered what the emperor's reaction would be when he saw the cotton-padded coat she had made. She hoped the emperor would be pleasantly surprised, so that she could receive more rewards.
In short, she hoped the emperor would bestow more gifts upon her, so that she would be motivated to "discover" more new plants.
"Mom, when can we have some watermelon at home?"
Lin Chaobei had followed us without us noticing. Looking at the big, round watermelon, he unconsciously started swallowing his saliva.
Last time, a young lady from the county town took the watermelon that had cracked. Of course, she paid for it.
But as the son of the person who grew watermelons, it's a bit unreasonable that he still doesn't know what a watermelon tastes like.
Moreover, his mother said last night that people from the capital are coming again, so will he be unable to eat these watermelons that have grown again?
Yue Jiuyue glanced at Lin Chaobei and said with a serious expression:
"What are you thinking! Now that the dignitaries from the capital are coming, these watermelons are of course meant to be reserved to entertain them."
As she walked forward, she subtly kicked the largest watermelon, and the watermelon immediately opened its mouth and smiled at her.
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