The little child's eyes were full of admiration.
At this moment, Xie Hong couldn't help but ask, "Why do they all have to study, but you don't?"
If this child had studied, he wouldn't be in this embarrassing situation today.
Lin Jinyue then said, "I have other important things to do, and I can read, I can read everything they have read."
Xie Hong didn't believe it.
This little girl is only eight years old, and she's still a girl. How could she have read so many books?
Looking around the village, Xie Hong saw that all the children were boys in school, which made him even more convinced that Lin Jinyue was lying.
Xie Hong insisted on testing her: "You say you know it, then recite the Analects of Confucius?"
Lin Jinyue ignored him, finding him rather strange, with an inexplicable malice about him.
She turned to Gu Shao and asked, "General Gu, let's go take a look ahead. I've got my eye on a large plot of land over there, right by the lake. Could you allocate it to us?"
Gu Shao looked over and asked, "Which one?"
Lin Jinyue pointed to the lake: "Can we have all of the surrounding areas?"
Gu Shao fell silent, a rare occurrence for him.
The lake is quite large, and there's a lot of land around it. He asked again, unsure, "Is it... from the other side of the river all the way to this lake?"
Lin Jinyue: "Could we also enclose the lake, all the way to the fields over there?"
Lin Jinyue also wanted to say that she could exchange some other things for land.
But Xie Hong interrupted her: "Little girl, you have quite an appetite. This is a huge piece of land, probably five thousand acres. Can you even finish planting it all?"
Lin Jinyue: "I'm worried that we won't have enough to plant all of them, and we also need to reserve some for fruit trees."
Xie Hong knew that Gu Shao had invested all his money in the military camp and was now in dire straits.
Acquiring a few smaller plots of land isn't difficult, but such a large area needs to be registered, and the imperial court will collect taxes, so the cost of buying the land is considerable.
Without a doubt, the people of Linjia Village certainly don't have the money to contribute, and neither does Gu Shao.
Xie Hong was annoyed that Lin Jinyue had ignored him earlier, so he said, "How about this, I'll just bring over a few books. If you can memorize one of them, and it covers about two thousand acres from the riverbank to the lake, I'll pay for it for you."
"If you can memorize two books, I'll buy you all the land you want."
"If you can memorize three books, I can get you a 3,000-acre woodland across the river."
Lin Jinyue's eyes lit up: "Really?"
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