After returning to the village and distributing the things he bought for the villagers, the Pei family became a lot quieter. However, it was still a lot more lively than before because villagers came to visit the Pei family from time to time.
Most of the visitors were middle-aged women, as well as young girls and boys. Their main purpose was of course to chat with Mo Xiaobao about things happening in Yueyang City.
It is a rare thing for someone in the village to go to a big city like Yueyang City, and everyone is curious about all kinds of things that are not available in villages and towns.
Now is a good opportunity for his family to integrate into the village, so Pei Shaorong naturally would not refuse. He let everyone chat with Mo Xiaobao. Anyway, his Abao was also happy to do so.
In the past, except for a few families that Mo Xiaobao was on good terms with, no one in the village had ever visited Pei's house. Now, after staying at Pei's house and chatting for several days in a row, the girls and boys in the village began to envy Mo Xiaobao again.
Before the wedding, everyone saw how much Pei Shaorong valued and loved Mo Xiaobao in everything he did. But when they arrived at his home, everyone realized that it was more than just love. The man of the Pei family simply treated her like a treasure and pampered her.
Look at what Mo Xiaobao eats and wears now, her complexion is rosy, and she looks whiter and fatter. She doesn't look like she married a useless poor man at all.
Even though they are poor, the men of the Pei family are willing to spend money on him and dote on him. Her husband even just took him to Yueyang City.
Nowadays, the aunties, sisters-in-law, girls and boys in the village like to go to Pei's house to chat with Mo Xiaobao, because every time they go, Pei Shaorong will always treat them with more or less melon seeds, wild fruits and snacks.
Most of these snacks were collected in the mountains before and are not worth much. Villagers can also go up the mountain to find them themselves, but people enjoy eating free things more!
Within two days of returning to the village, Pei Shaorong decided to find the village chief to arrange the purchase of land, because the village chief was planning to go to Yueyang City in person to see his daughter.
Pei Shaorong estimated that the village chief would be gone for at least one or two months. He still had time to grow crops and fruits to support his family, so he couldn't waste that time.
He had a lot of silver in his hands, but Pei Shaorong didn't plan to buy too much land now. He decided to buy ten acres of land temporarily.
Like the other villagers, 4 acres of land are used to grow rice, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other grains; the other 6 acres of land are used to grow watermelons, tomatoes, and apple seedlings and persimmons.
Of course, rice, sweet potatoes and potatoes are grown to cover up the family's food problem. It is impossible to buy land and not even grow food. The villagers will definitely find it strange.
Planting apple trees was a decision Pei Shaorong made after careful consideration. First of all, apples were available here, so it was not surprising to have apple trees at home. Second, the seeds of the saplings were taken from modern fresh fruits, and their quality genes were better than those of the ancient apple ancestors that had not yet fully developed.
Moreover, apples have a long shelf life and are convenient for long-distance transportation. If they are planted in large quantities in the future, they will be easier to sell.
Let’s plant apples first, and then grow other fruits later. Don’t be in a hurry. You can’t become fat by eating all these in one go.
The watermelon and tomato seedlings had been cultivated long ago. Both of these are herbaceous fruits with a relatively short growing period, so they can be harvested quickly and make money quickly.
There are watermelons here as well. Pei Shaorong has heard of them from Zheng San and others, but they are basically wild and no one grows them on purpose. Also due to genetic reasons, the wild watermelons here are not as sweet and delicious as modern watermelons.
Mo Xiaobao likes to eat watermelon the most, and Pei Shaorong likes it too. There is no air conditioning here in the summer, so although he prepared some ice cream in his own space to cool off, it was not much.
If you grow watermelons, when they are ready, you can freeze them in the well in the summer. That will be so delicious.
The persimmon trees were found ready-made in the mountains, so all that needed to be done was transplanting and planting them, without the hassle of cultivating them. Persimmon cakes were so profitable, and Pei Shaorong had no intention of giving up.
This is just an initial experiment. His family has few staff and he has only been in ancient times for a short time. Although he has a relatively harmonious relationship with the villagers, his foundation is weak and it is not convenient for him to make big moves.
Pei Shaorong wants to plant so many things, but he can't become fat in one go. He can't be impatient about anything, especially this kind of field. He has to take his time. His farming skills also need to be improved.
In fact, what he wanted to grow more was food, but high-yield crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn were already available here, so he could just grow some for himself and there was no need to develop them vigorously.
As for rice, Pei Shaorong could only sigh. He did want to grow it, but the modern hybrid rice yield of nearly 1,000 kilograms per acre was simply incomparable to the 300 to 400 kilograms per acre in the backward ancient times.
This is also the reason why people in ancient times could not get enough to eat even though there were so many fields, because the yield per acre of land was too low!
All the rice in his space is delicious and high-yield rice grain, but it cannot be used as seeds. Pei Shaorong can only regret it.
Fortunately, high-yield crops such as corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes appeared relatively early here. Although people could not eat grains like modern people, they would not go hungry, and Pei Shaorong was not worried about food famine.
Pei Shaorong went to Yueyang City to do business. Most of the villagers guessed that he must have made money. The village chief did not doubt that he had money to buy land, and he readily helped him with the land issue.
Eight acres of good farmland and two acres of sandy land with average soil cost a total of 20 taels of silver.
This sandy land is naturally used to grow watermelons. Watermelons are drought-resistant and barren-resistant, so there is no need to waste fertile land.
It is definitely impossible for Pei Shaorong and Mo Xiaobao to cultivate ten acres of land, but Pei Shaorong did not plan to do it all by himself. People who can become rich will make use of labor.
Pei Shaorong decided to hire someone to help with the 4 acres of grain, and he was going to do it himself on the 6 acres of field where he would cultivate seedlings and plant fruits. Even if he couldn't plant all the crops, he would still look after them himself and ask for help!
There are still more than two months left before the good time for spring planting. Pei Shaorong decided to add some fertilizer to the several acres of land and then build a simple greenhouse to cultivate some watermelon, tomato, and apple tree seedlings.
After sorting out the farming matters in his mind, Pei Shaorong decided to put the house repairing matter on the agenda before the spring planting!
"Brother Pei, we just bought a piece of land and now we are building a house. Isn't it a bad thing..." Mo Xiaobao was worried that if his family was too ostentatious, someone in the village would come to ask for money.
"I am a little anxious, but we went to Yueyang City to do business. If we say we didn't make any money, the villagers will definitely not believe us. Now we are buying land and repairing houses. If we meet someone who wants to take advantage of us, we will just say that we have run out of money and not offend anyone!"
During this period of time in ancient times, Pei Shaorong had seen many people who asked for money in the village. This was also the reason why the villagers kept their money hidden. Everyone was related to each other to some extent, so whether to lend money or not was a problem.
Lending money hurts yourself because who knows when others will pay it back. It is said that when you borrow money, you are a grandson, but when you pay it back, you are a grandfather.
If I don't lend it, it will hurt feelings. In ancient times, the most important thing was the relationship between relatives. If there was any problem at home, I would rely on relatives and neighbors for help.
Especially since he has a miserly father-in-law like Old Man Mo, Pei Shaorong can't guarantee that if he is respectful and filial to Old Man Mo, he won't have any ideas about him.
Normally, he could tolerate Old Man Mo asking him to eat and drink for free and take advantage of him, but if Old Man Mo wanted to use his money to support a relative he had never met and had nothing to do with him, Pei Shaorong would never agree to it.
It's not that he is reluctant to honor his father-in-law, but as for Old Man Mo, he wants the money for only one purpose, which is to invest in his eldest son-in-law, a potential stock. Otherwise, why would he, a sonless country old man, need so much money!
Now that he has bought the land and renovated the house immediately, there is no reason for people to want to take his money, since no one knows how much savings he has anyway.
Most importantly, Pei Shaorong was thinking about Mo Xiaobao's daily nagging about giving birth to a baby for him.
It’s better to build the nest now before the baby is born, otherwise it will be inconvenient to start construction after the baby is born.
Babies are precious. If your own baby gets hurt and doesn't even feel sad, his Abao will surely be heartbroken.
After the Pei family finished purchasing the land, the village chief prepared to leave for Yueyang City. When the news came out, Linjiang Village was filled with gossip again.
The villagers were extremely excited. Those who had missed out on Pei Shaorong bringing things to them came to the village chief to ask him to buy things for them.
These days, the families in the village who brought things back from Yueyang City are so awesome, especially the families who bought flowered cloth from Yueyang City. Everyone is envious of the flowered cloth.
The day before the village chief left, all the villagers of Linjiang Village rushed to his house again. Compared with the time when Pei Shaorong bought things for them, this time almost every household in Linjiang Village asked the village chief to help carry things.
More or less, expensive or cheap, everyone just wanted to join in the fun and ask the village chief to buy something from Yueyang City for their family.
This made the village chief suffer. His purpose of going to Yueyang City was no longer to see his daughter. Instead, he became an errand boy for the villagers, paying for his own travel expenses and taking care of his own food and drink!
"Village chief, please remember my floral cloth. I want the same kind that Mrs. Zhang bought last time. One piece. I want one piece..."
"Yes, village chief, I've remembered mine too. In addition to the floral cloth, I also want the Yueyang City shortbread that Lin'er's family brought back last time. You'd better come back soon. My grandson is so greedy!"
"Village Chief, please take care..."
"Village Chief, please come back soon..."
On the morning when the village chief Qin Laoshuan set out, almost all the villagers in Linjiang Village went to see him off. Pei Shaorong also got up early today. Looking at the scene at the entrance of the village that was comparable to the ten-mile farewell to the Red Army, he couldn't help but hold his stomach and laugh.
He counted yesterday and found that almost everyone in the village asked the village chief to do shopping for them. Now the village chief is the only one going to Yueyang City. Unlike him, he does not have the space to bring back so many things, and they are all in small pieces. It is a tough job!
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