Chapter 113 Buying Land
After some selection, Jiang Mixia took a fancy to two places.
Both are of a size of fifty acres, one is entirely top-quality paddy fields, and the other is entirely top-quality dry fields.
The paddy field is near a village called Fengjiazhuang. There is a landlord in the village who wants to settle down in the county town, so he sold all the fields under his name. If he buys the fields, he needs to take care of them himself, but most people in the village are willing to rent them, so there is no need to worry about renting them out.
The other dry land originally belonged to a farm. The owner moved his family to the capital and sold the farm. However, as the farm was too large, no buyer could buy it all at once, so it was divided into several parts. The largest buyer bought 150 acres, and the remaining 120 acres was bought by two people. These 50 acres were the remaining ones.
If you buy the fields here, you can hand them over to the farm to manage. However, the farm will charge 10% of the rent every year as labor fee. If you need food, the rent can be transported on time. If you need money, the farm can help deposit it in the Baofeng Bank in the county.
As for the price, paddy fields are more urgently sold, and the price is five cents cheaper than dry fields. The brokerage firm also strongly recommends paddy fields.
Jiang Mixia thought about it and decided to take the fifty acres of dry land.
The clerk at the brokerage shop was a little surprised, but he still smiled and said, "Sir, why don't you choose this paddy field? Is it because of the price? The owner did say that if the price is high, he can give it another 5 cents off."
"Paddy fields are cheaper than dry fields, and now they are even cheaper. The owner is really in a hurry to sell them." Jiang Mixia narrowed her eyes. "Fengjiazhuang is not far from the county town. If they want to move to the county town, I think it's because they are well-off. They don't want to sell all their land just to move."
"People in the village value clan blood and family ties the most. Even if they are very successful, they will not give up all their roots. If they sell everything at once, they probably don't want to return to the village in the future."
"I feel like there's something going on here."
After Jiang Mixia finished speaking, the waiter first chuckled sheepishly, then gave Jiang Mixia a thumbs up, "Sir, you are really amazing. You can even see this."
"Let me explain. If you say there's nothing wrong, then there really is nothing wrong. There's no dispute over the land. It's just that the villagers in Fengjiazhuang are a bit tough, and Mr. Feng is a wealthy man in the village, so there are often conflicts. After a while, Mr. Feng got fed up and wanted to go to the county town to live a quiet life."
"This is what Master Feng said himself. We also saw it when we went to the farm to look at the fields. Master Feng is indeed not on good terms with the villagers. But whether the conflict is due to trivial matters or other reasons, we have no way of finding out."
"For the brokerage firm, there is no dispute over this land, so it cannot be said to have any problems. We are not in charge of other matters, so we cannot tell you more."
Jiang Mixia nodded, "I understand this logic as well."
After all, this is the original owner's business, not the land's business, and there is no obligation to investigate other people's network of relationships in a pawnbroker's business.
But the pawnbroker also said that this was all they knew, and they didn't know anything else. Jiang Mixia felt more and more that the paddy field could not be bought, so she temporarily settled the matter of the 50 acres of dry land with the pawnbroker.
The next day, Jiang Mixia and Song Jingyun followed the broker to take a look at the farm.
The biggest buyer of this farm was named Song. He ran a security company in the neighboring Luo County. After living on the edge of a knife for many years, he wanted to use the money he saved to buy some land so that he could collect rent and farm in the future to live a stable life.
It happened that the farm was for sale, but he did not have that much cash, so he only bought most of it and sent a steward to manage the land.
Moreover, Shopkeeper Song was thinking of buying all the remaining fields after he had enough money, so he also wanted to help other people who bought the farm to manage their land, and earn some hard work fees to support the manager and servants on the farm.
When Jiang Mixia went there, Shopkeeper Song was not there, only Manager Qiao was there.
After a conversation, Jiang Mixia could also see that Manager Qiao was a down-to-earth, dedicated and honest person.
After visiting the farm, Jiang Mixia decided to buy the 50 acres of land and signed a management agreement with Manager Qiao, agreeing that the harvest from the farm would be converted into cash and deposited into the account Jiang Mixia opened in the bank.
Manager Qiao readily agreed and welcomed Jiang Mixia to come to the farm at any time to check the fields and accounts, or stay for a few days.
Before Jiang Mixia and Song Jingyun left, Manager Qiao specially gave them a large basket of radishes, cabbages, and dried long beans for Jiang Mixia to take back and eat on a daily basis. He also said that when there is a harvest next year, in addition to the money deposited in the account, if the family really does not want to buy food, they can also bring a few bags of food and vegetables.
It is just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, so the radishes and cabbages are not yet fully grown, but the radishes are almost the same size now and taste more tender.
The cabbage has not yet curled up, but the leaves are loose and tender green when eaten, which has a unique flavor.
The best ones are the dried long beans. Go home and soak them in water, then stir-fry or stew them. They become more fragrant the more you eat them, and the taste is not worse than meat.
After getting these things, Jiang Mixia cut a large piece of pork belly and bought a large piece of tofu on the way back, preparing to stew the dried beans when she got back.
After a busy journey, when we got home, the sun had already set and the western sky was filled with rosy clouds.
"My dear, let's go back and make fry-up radish balls with these radishes." Song Jingyun counted the radishes in the basket while thinking about how to eat them.
Radish meatballs can be eaten dry, stewed, or even made into meatball soup. They are delicious no matter how you eat them, and can be eaten with anything.
Just thinking about it, Song Jingyun felt that his mouth was almost watering. He couldn't wait to eat the radish balls, so he found a thin bamboo strip to use as a knife, scraped off the skin of the washed radish, and started to chew it.
Water radish, crisp and juicy,
All the way to Jiangjia Village.
When the people in the village saw Jiang Mixia and Song Jingyun coming back, they hurriedly reported, "Xiaoxia and Jingyun, go home quickly. There are guests at home, and they said they are looking for Jingyun."
Are there guests coming?
And he came to find Song Jingyun.
Jiang Mixia glanced at Song Jingyun.
Song Jingyun ate half of the radish in his hand and shook his head in confusion.
(End of this chapter)
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