Chapter 92: Having a Backer
Li Youshan smiled and said, "Now that I've made some money, I'm thinking of buying more, just in case I can grow something when I open up some wasteland."
"That's fine. There's a large piece of wasteland next to the Tian family. If you want it, it's two taels of silver per acre."
"Okay, brother, I still want to buy a few acres of land. Is there anyone in our village who wants to sell land now?"
Village chief Li was very surprised. How much money did the Dashan family earn in such a short time?
He did not ask, but just replied: "Yes, yes, there is. The son of the old man Chen in our village did business in the next county. He made some success and settled down there. He took the old couple away. The old couple originally wanted to come back, so they did not sell the land. But they lived there for a year and bought land there. A few days ago, someone sent a message saying that the land here was sold.
His family has four acres of top-quality paddy fields and five acres of medium-quality dry fields. The paddy fields cost twelve taels of silver per acre, and the dry fields cost eight taels of silver per acre. They asked the tribe members to look after the land, so now the tribe members are cultivating the land. If you buy it, you will probably have to wait until the crops are harvested before you can take it over."
Li Youshan thought about it and decided that normally he would definitely want to buy paddy fields, but now that his family was doing business, it would be a good idea to buy dry land and grow mung beans or something.
"Village head, please help me talk to them. I have decided to buy two acres of paddy fields and three acres of dry land. If they agree, I will go and handle the transfer first. The crops can wait until they have harvested this crop."
Village Chief Li nodded and said, "Okay, I will go to the Chen family to write a letter tomorrow. If they agree, they will tell the tribe members. I will tell you when they confirm the letter."
"Thank you, brother. Tomorrow I'll have to trouble you to get the title deed for my five mu residential land." After saying this, Li Youshan took out a ten-tael silver note and one tael of change and handed them to the village chief.
Village Chief Li said, "What are you doing? Just give me ten taels of silver, and take the other tael back."
Li Youshan held the village chief's arm and said, "Brother, it's not easy for you to make this trip. You also need to make arrangements to go to the county government. Just accept this money."
"Brother, you are treating me like an outsider. I didn't even pay for the two pieces of ink you gave me last time, so how can I ask for your money again?"
Li Youshan said hurriedly: "Brother, Yueyue also means this. If you don't accept it, she will be embarrassed to trouble you in the future."
Village Chief Li couldn't persuade him, so he had to agree: "Then I will go to the county government office to get the deed tomorrow morning, and then measure the land after I come back."
"Thanks, bro."
Village Chief Li thought about his family's farming these past two days and asked, "Dashan, I heard you were farming these past two days. What were you farming?"
Li Youshan remembered his daughter's words and said, "Didn't Yueyue send bamboo shoots to Baiweilou? The owner imported some seeds from a foreign country and wanted to try to grow them. He said they were sweet potatoes. It just so happened that my family had some vacant land, so he wanted us to help him try to grow them. I don't know if we can grow anything."
Sweet potatoes? What are they? Try growing them. Do you need to grow that many?
Village chief Li didn't ask too many questions. When the crops come out, you will know what you have planted.
After Li Youshan finished speaking, he stood up and left.
Village Chief Li looked at his wife and said, "Old lady, when you have nothing to do, go to the old locust tree and tell everyone that Dashan and his team have been asked by the owner of Baiweilou to try to grow new species."
The village chief's wife was puzzled: "Why? Dashan and his men obviously want to keep a low profile. If we tell others about this, they will say we are not careful with our mouths."
Village Chief Li smiled and said, "No, they will leak it out unintentionally. We are just helping them. You see, they can buy five acres of land at once. Even if they don't need so much to build a house, it means that the house they built is not small. Dashan and his men must have made money.
He just mentioned that they were helping the owner of Baiweilou to grow crops because he wanted to say that they were helping the owner of Baiweilou and had a backer. If the villagers knew about this, they would think twice before causing trouble, wondering if they could go against the owner. "
The village chief's wife suddenly realized and nodded in agreement.
As the sun was setting, Li Dachuan and Wang Guixiang returned, bringing with them 146 kilograms of mung beans and 135 duck eggs.
Wang Guixiang's parents also gave back some eggs, dried vegetables, and green vegetable seedlings.
In the evening, at the dinner table, Sun Xiuqin asked, "Little sister, can you ask your second brother to go to my mother's village to collect duck eggs tomorrow? I haven't been back to my mother's house for a long time. My mother's house is not as close to Daohua Village as my eldest sister-in-law's house. It takes an hour to walk there. I wanted to ask you, if you don't want to use the ox cart, I will let Erhu take us back tomorrow."
Li Wanyue said, "Second sister-in-law, use it."
She will go to the county town tomorrow, so she will let Sandong follow her and take the village ox cart.
Sun Xiuqin was delighted: "Thank you, little sister. Can I take two bottles of your shampoo?"
"Okay." Li Wanyue nodded. After all, she was the second brother's wife. The eldest sister-in-law had already taken it, and it would be embarrassing if she was not allowed to take it.
Sun Xiuqin felt relieved to see that she was so easy to talk to, as she was afraid that her sister-in-law would not let her take it.
After dinner, she took the initiative to clean up the dishes. After that, she hurried back to the house to pack the things she wanted to take.
Li Wanyue prepared the things she would take to the county town.
The next day, after finishing the housework, Li Erhu and Sun Xiuqin went back to her parents' home, while Li Wanyue and Li Sandong went to deliver bamboo shoots before going to the county town.
Sun Xiuqin's mother's home, Sunjiazhuang, is quite far from Daohua Village, and it took an hour by ox cart to get there.
Under a big tree in the center of the village, a group of women sat there and chatted while sewing shoe soles.
A woman was surprised and asked, "Hey, sister-in-law Sun, why does the man on the ox cart look like your son-in-law?"
Grandma Sun looked up and saw the ox cart approaching in the distance. The one driving the cart was none other than her own son-in-law.
She immediately said proudly: "Oh, it's really my Xiuqin's family who came to see me."
When the ox cart approached them, Sun Xiuqin and her children hurriedly greeted them.
Mother Sun glanced at the two backpacks on the ox cart and her smile became even brighter.
"I'm going home to entertain my daughter and her family first, you guys can chat."
After saying that, he sat on the ox cart and headed home.
She asked in a low voice: "Xiuqin, is this cow newly bought by your villagers? The ox cart you rode on when you came back before was not as good as this cow."
"Mom, this is the ox cart that our family rented."
Sun's mother asked in confusion: "What? A rented ox cart? The land has been plowed, why haven't you returned it?"
"Mom, let's talk about it when we get back."
Mother Sun stared at the fine cotton clothes on her daughter and two grandchildren, and wondered in her heart, "Has the Li family become successful? They are all wearing fine cotton clothes, and Xiao He even has a silk flower on her head."
When he got home, Li Erhu said hello to his family and took the cows to graze, and also collected some mung beans and duck eggs in the village.
Sun's mother asked her two daughters-in-law to prepare lunch, and she and Sun Xiuqin went to the main room with backpacks.
"Mom, where's my dad?"
"Your father and your brother went to the fields."
Mother Sun looked through the basket and saw brown sugar and snacks inside. She said, "Wow, there are brown sugar and snacks here. Look at the paper that wraps the snacks. They are quite expensive. Xiuqin, can you tell me if the Li family is making money?"
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