Chapter 32 Town Purchase
"Wife, ma'am, this...will our family have farms and shops from now on? Pinch me, I really can't believe it." Gu Yan took a few land deeds and looked through them excitedly.
"Hiss~, are you really pinching me?" Gu Yan grimaced as Li Wanqing pinched him.
"Do you believe it now?" Li Wanqing withdrew her hand that was pinching Gu Yan.
"I believe it, I believe it. Thank you, my wife." Gu Yan said hurriedly.
"No need to thank me, after all, this will all be your business from now on. Don't worry about the shop for now, let Li Zhongren help rent it out.
"What are your plans for these two farms? Spring plowing is coming up soon, and it affects our annual harvest, so we can't be careless," Li Wanqing said.
Speaking of business, Gu Yan quickly straightened his attitude: "Wife, I've made up my mind. I won't go hunting these days. We'll just stay at the farm.
I have never farmed before, but I can learn from the experienced farmers.
Didn't you say you wanted to cultivate rice paddies? I'll start looking for people to start working tomorrow.
I've asked around, and there's a farmhand on our farm who used to grow rice. I've already made an agreement with him to have him lead the team in reclaiming the rice fields tomorrow."
Li Wanqing nodded. She didn't intend to interfere too much in the affairs of the farm. These matters should be handled by Gu Yan as a man.
However, she still had to remind him of some things: "Don't go to the fields to work. You just need to have a general understanding of farming so that you don't get cheated.
Your only task is to grasp the general direction. As for how to plant the land specifically, leave it to the village head to do.
We pay people to do the work, not to be bosses."
Gu Yan nodded thoughtfully after hearing this. This was something he had not expected. He had lived in the mountains since he could remember. When he grew up, he followed his father to learn hunting and how to live.
No one had ever told him how to manage the farm.
But it doesn’t matter. He can learn if he doesn’t know how to do it. He also has a feeling that his wife will definitely understand it. If he doesn’t know something, he can just ask his wife.
"Wife, I understand. I will study hard and try not to embarrass you." Gu Yan said.
From that day on, Gu Yan ran back and forth between the two farms every day, personally supervising everything from plowing to planting.
The fifty-acre farm is planted with thirty acres of corn, ten acres of peanuts, and ten acres of sweet potatoes.
The farm in Qingshui Town has 50 acres of corn, 30 acres of rice, 10 acres of soybeans, 5 acres of cotton, and 5 acres of sesame.
The remaining three acres are used to grow vegetables. In addition to these, Gu Yan has planned some corner areas of the two farms and enclosed them to raise a lot of chickens and pigs.
This farm near the Luoshui River also raised fifty ducks and thirty geese. Since it was close to the river, they didn't need to feed them specially; they just let the ducks and geese eat small fish and shrimp in the river.
By the time I finished all this, a month had passed.
During this month, Gu Yan and Li Wanqing lived in a farm in Qingshan Town, where there were three large blue brick and tile houses reserved specifically for the owner.
Li Wanqing felt sorry for Gu Yan because he had to run back and forth every day, so she bought him a mule cart.
This way, traveling back and forth in a mule cart is fast and less tiring.
"Wife, the fields have been planted. Shouldn't we go back?" Gu Yan said as he sat next to Li Wanqing.
"Well, we'll go back tomorrow. This time, we'll focus on digging medicinal herbs. As you can see, good herbs are valuable. Let's hurry up and earn some."
But this is not always possible. It takes time for medicinal herbs to grow. The reason why the medicinal herbs we dig can be sold for so much silver is because they are old enough.
So, although digging and selling medicinal herbs can make money, this money cannot be earned forever. After all, medicinal herbs also need time to grow, and this time can be several years, more than ten years, or even decades.
The reason why Li Wanqing said so much was because she was afraid that Gu Yan would miss his parents and brothers and sisters if he knew that he could make money by digging herbs.
Gu Chongshan and the others were not very nice to her, so she was unwilling to tell them her way of making money.
Call her selfish or heartless, she just doesn't want to.
Gu Yan didn’t think too much about it. He grew up with his grandparents, and his feelings towards his parents and brothers and sisters were just like that.
Of course, he wouldn't tell anyone about his family's livelihood. Didn't he hear what his wife said? These medicinal herbs are not always available. After this batch is dug up, if you want to dig more, you have to wait for the herbs to grow up.
"Well, let's go back tomorrow. After we go back, we'll go and have a look further ahead." Gu Yan said.
"Since we're going back tomorrow, let's go to town and do some shopping. I don't want to go out for a while.
We have to buy seasonings for the household, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and we also have to buy clothes for winter.
Even though we bought the farm, we've only just planted the crops, so we still need to buy them." Li Wanqing thought about the many things the family still lacked.
"Okay, let's go in the afternoon. In addition to clothes, let's go to the jewelry store and buy you two pieces if you like anything." Gu Yan said, thinking that he had never bought jewelry for his wife before.
Li Wanqing did not refuse this. After all, if a man wants to buy something for you and you refuse, he will automatically think that you don’t want it next time.
She is not so stupid. If a man buys her, she will want him. Even if she doesn't need it, she will not refuse.
"Okay, you have to help me choose when the time comes." Li Wanqing agreed with a smile.
In the afternoon, Gu Yan drove a mule cart and took Li Wanqing to the town to purchase things.
The first place I went to was the grocery store, where I bought salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and needles and thread for the home.
Then I went to the grain store and bought 50 kilograms of rice, 50 kilograms of flour, 20 kilograms of cornmeal, 50 kilograms of soybean oil, and 5 kilograms of sesame oil. In addition, I also bought some soybeans, millet, and other grains.
They went to a cloth shop and bought a few pieces of coarse cloth, two pieces of cotton cloth, and thirty kilograms of cotton. Because they bought a lot, the shopkeeper also gave them a bag of rags.
Next, they bought pork and pork fat. Although Gu Yan could hunt, Li Wanqing still thought that the pork raised at home was the most delicious.
Especially now that pigs are fed pure grains, the pork is even more delicious.
The last stop was the jewelry shop. Gu Yan parked the mule cart next to the jewelry shop and found a big sister who was setting up a stall nearby. She promised to give him two cents and let him watch over the mule cart.
Gu Yan took Li Wanqing into the jewelry shop.
"What would you two like to buy? Our shop has a complete range of gold and silver jewelry with many styles. Whether it's hairpins, earrings or bracelets, there are many styles to choose from." As soon as the two people came in, a waiter came over to greet them.
"Let's just take a look first." After saying that, Gu Yan took Li Wanqing to the counter.
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