Chapter 164: Deciding to buy land, the relationship between Wan Lao and Shen family heats up
Old Mrs. Wan spent one hundred taels of silver to buy the shop, and she still had more than one hundred taels of silver left.
"Second brother, third brother, we still have more than one hundred taels of silver left. What do you think we should do?"
Wan Laoer likes farming, and the first thing he thought of was buying land.
"Mom, I think it's better to buy the land. We are all farmers, and this land is our roots. Even if we don't do business in the future, we still have this land to support us. What do you think?"
Wan Laosan did not express any opinion. After all, they had achieved their wish and opened a shop. The next step was to work hard and save money. Grandma Wan said that each family would earn money based on their own ability in the future. Now half of the income from the shop had to be paid to the public every month. Grandma Wan was not short of money and it was enough to support the family expenses, so she did not have to keep all the money in her own hands as before.
In fact, Old Mrs. Wan also wanted to buy land, but the land here is really not suitable for growing crops. However, the passion for farming engraved in their bones makes them unable to leave this land.
Finally, Old Lady Wan decided to use the one hundred taels of silver to buy land. The border area is vast and sparsely populated, so land is cheap. They spent fifteen taels of silver to buy twenty or thirty acres of land. The one hundred taels of silver could buy almost one hundred acres of land. Wouldn't that make their family landlords?
Old Mrs. Wan had never thought that one day her family could become landlords. She heard from the people in Shizi Village that there was a landlord not far from their village. His family owned thousands of acres of land and did not have to pay taxes. After all, his family had a juren master.
The one hundred acres of land owned by Old Lady Wan may not be a lot, but for the people of Shizi Village, it is an astronomical figure, a height that they cannot reach in their entire lives.
"Okay, let's buy the land. While my mother is still alive, we can show off our wealth to the landowner. But we definitely can't cultivate all the land, so we'll have to hire someone to do the farming."
"Don't worry, mother. I will definitely buy more land so that you can show off your wealth as a landlady."
Wan Laoer smiled naively. He had a deep love for the land. Without the land, he felt he could do nothing.
After discussing it with her two sons, Mrs. Wan no longer worried about not being able to spend the hot money and rested peacefully.
When Wan Lao Da and Wan Lao Si from Shizi Village returned home, they found the house quiet. Without the noise of children, the whole yard was lifeless.
Shen was sitting on the kang in the room mending clothes, Liu was leaning on the kang and dozing off, there was a pot of fire on the ground, and a few chickens and geese were squatting comfortably on the kang, without making any sound.
When Boss Wan walked in, he saw at a glance that the clothes that Shen was mending seemed to be his torn shorts.
Boss Wan's face turned red, but as a grown man he couldn't just turn around and leave, so he called out, "Big sister, are you busy?"
Shen was startled by Boss Wan's voice. She looked up and saw that it was Boss Wan. She immediately hid the clothes in her hands behind her back subconsciously. She had originally planned to help Boss Wan mend his clothes while he was not at home and put them back before he came back. How could she have known that he would come back so soon?
Now both of them were embarrassed.
Wan Laosi was a step late as he came in after closing the gate. When he saw his eldest brother standing at the door of the house and not going in, he pushed him in confusion.
"Brother, what are you doing? Why don't you go in?"
Boss Wan was feeling embarrassed and was pushed by Wan Lao Si. There was a threshold under his feet and he stumbled forward. Shen was standing not far in front of him. Seeing that Boss Wan was about to fall face down and his arm was injured, Shen didn't think twice and immediately threw away the clothes in her hand. She quickly stepped forward and used her thin body to prevent Boss Wan from falling.
Boss Wan subconsciously hugged Shen who was coming up to him to steady his body.
The two of them hugged each other tightly, and the noise also startled Liu who was dozing on the kang.
As soon as Liu opened her eyes, she saw Wan Lao Da and Shen hugging each other. Wan Lao Si had not entered the room yet, so Liu did not notice him.
"Mom, I didn't see anything, I didn't see anything, I fell asleep."
Liu quickly pulled the quilt on the kang cabinet to cover her face.
As soon as Wan Lao Da stood firm, he immediately let go of Shen. He turned to the stunned Wan Lao Si outside and shouted, "Fourth brother, you are already married, why are you still so clumsy?"
After Wan Laosi reacted, he also saw Shen standing in the room with a red face. She was so uneasy that she didn't know where to put her hands and feet. She wished there was a crack in the ground for her to crawl into.
"Brother, I didn't mean to do that. I didn't know Sister Shen was there, but you should thank her. If it weren't for Sister Shen supporting you, your arm would have been injured again."
Wan Laosi hurried to rescue the two, and at the same time he was secretly happy in his heart. He heard from his wife that his mother liked Shen to be the eldest daughter-in-law. This time he could be considered to have hit the jackpot by accident, adding fuel to the fire and bringing the relationship between the two to a new level.
Shen blushed and wanted to leave, but when she looked down and saw Boss Wan's eye-catching bandage, she became a little worried, so she suppressed her embarrassment and asked with concern, "Brother Wan, what happened to your hand?"
Before Wan Lao Da could speak, Wan Lao Si quickly added fuel to the fire and said, "Sister Shen, you don't know, we encountered horse bandits looting in the town last night. My eldest brother was very powerful. He killed a horse bandit, but he was also injured in the arm by the horse bandit."
"What? Horse bandits!" Liu, who was lying on the kang, raised her voice unconsciously. She also stepped down from the kang with her shoes on and walked to Wan Laosi with great effort.
"Boss, how are you? Are you not injured? These horse bandits are capable of killing people. Where is mother? Why haven't they come back yet?"
Liu took Wan Laosi for a walk and took a careful look. She found that Wan Laosi was alive and well and not injured. She then started to care about Wan Laotai again.
Wan Lao Si glanced and saw that Shen and Wan Lao Da seemed to have something to say, so he pulled Liu towards his room.
"Come on, I'll tell you slowly when we get back."
Liu immediately understood and left space for Boss Wan and Shen, and the couple left hand in hand.
Shen lowered her head, revealing a section of her snow-white neck. Because of shyness, there was a faint blush on her skin.
"Brother Wan, is your hand okay?" Shen's voice was gentle. She kept twisting the corners of her clothes with both hands, very nervous.
Boss Wan wanted to escape from the room as soon as possible. Although he already had several children, he had never been alone with another woman, let alone with a woman as gentle and virtuous as Shen. When he was with Mrs. Wan before, they just did it in the dark when they had physical needs, and there was never any emotional exchange.
At this time, Boss Wan's heartbeat accelerated inexplicably, and his old face turned red. His mouth, which was not very eloquent to begin with, was now like a gourd with a sawed mouth, and he couldn't utter a word for a long time.
He scratched his head, pointed at the large shorts on the kang and said, "Hey, big sister, I'm going to throw away these clothes, so I don't need to bother you."
Boss Wan regretted what he said the moment he said it. He slapped his own mouth hard. At this moment, he really hated himself for not having a clever mouth like the fourth boss.
Shen's face turned even redder. She quickly looked up at Boss Wan and said, "I'm so superfluous. Just throw it away, Boss Wan."
After saying this, Shen ran straight back to her room, closed the door, and panted for a long time before she calmed down.
Boss Wan stared blankly at the pair of shorts that had been almost sewn on the kang. He reached out to take the clothes, turned around and went back to his room.
From then on, whenever Shen and Boss Wan met, a blushing and heart-pounding feeling slowly grew between them.
In the blink of an eye, it was February 18th. The night before, Old Lady Wan sent Old Man Wan back to Shizi Village in a ox cart to pick someone up.
So before noon on the 18th, Wan Laoer brought everyone here.
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