The master and his disciple spent a whole day chasing wild animals in the No Return Mountain.
Song Yuehua shot a lot of sparrows and turtledoves, but the most surprising thing was that she hunted a roe deer.
Liu Xue hunted a rabbit and a pheasant. It was only her second time going into the mountains and she was able to gain something, which was a very good performance.
Unfortunately, the trap I set last time caught nothing.
Liu Xue looked at Song Yuehua's full backpack and felt extremely envious.
The two went directly to Xinan Village and sold the goods at Xie's house.
There were 55 jin of roe deer in total, which was still calculated at 58 wen per jin. Adding other wild animals, the total was 4 taels of silver.
Liu Xue's rabbit and pheasant, after adding them together, I gave her 200 coins.
The moment she got the money, Liu Xue couldn't stop smiling. They were both in a good mood on the way back to the village.
That day, Zhou Lizheng did not return from the county town until dark. After returning, he went straight to the Song family at the end of the village.
Zhou Lizheng took a sip of water before saying, "I was buying land at the government office today, and I happened to meet Mr. Jin. He has 25 acres of good farmland in our village. I heard that he wanted to buy land for the new school, so he offered to exchange it with me."
"The hilltop east of the village has been abandoned for a long time. I will buy 30 acres for you, for a total of 20 taels."
Zhou Lizheng took out two deeds from his arms.
Song Yuehua took the deed, which included 25 acres of fertile farmland, 30 acres of mountain land, and a total of 145 taels of silver.
Running to the bedroom, Song Yuehua took out 45 taels of silver and gave it to Zhou Lizheng.
Zhou Lizheng spread out the silver and took out 5 taels of silver.
"Girl, stop wasting your words. This time, Mr. Jin is kind and there is no need to bribe me. If you insist on giving me money, then we should stop interacting during festivals in the future and just be ordinary neighbors!"
Song Yuehua held the five taels of silver in her hand and swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue.
"Grandpa Zhou, you are joking. Tomorrow you have to take me to see the location of the fields and hills. The day after tomorrow, the school will also need you to take charge of the overall situation. I always make things so troublesome because I am afraid that you will suffer losses."
Zhou Lizheng finished drinking the water and stood up, saying with a smile, "Put it away, put it away. Call Lao Ma's ox cart tomorrow. The place is so big that two legs can't cover it."
After sending them out, Song Yuehua held the deed in her hand, came to Xiaoyu, woke her up, and said cheerfully, "Xiaoyu, look, our family has our own land now!"
Xiaoyu rubbed her eyes in a daze, looked for a while, and suddenly woke up. She asked excitedly, "Sister, do we not have to buy food anymore?"
"That's about right." Song Yuehua couldn't help but feel happy.
The current national policy benefits the people. The grain tax is calculated based on the acreage of land, one-thirtieth of the harvest. The reclaimed land is tax-free for three years. Now in autumn and winter, it is impossible to grow crops, but reclaiming wasteland is just the right time.
Xiaoyu woke up at some point and crawled over to take a look, muttering, "30 acres of wasteland, Sister Song, we have to work on it until next year, right?"
Song Yuehua put away the land deed, hugged the two of them and said, "I have an arrangement. You don't have to do it this time. In the future, we can just plant whatever we want to eat, okay?"
"Okay!" The two little girls huddled together, their faces flushed, and responded with a smile.
The weather was fine the next day.
Zhou Ergui pulled a cart of mud bricks, Zhou Dafu carried a ladder, and the two brothers fetched water and mixed mud, then squatted on the top of the wall and began to build the wall.
Song Yuehua wants to take Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu, and Xie Wenwu out.
I could only boil a large pot of tea for the two brothers in advance and place it in the hall.
When Grandma Wang is looking after the two babies, help pour some water.
After hearing this, the two brothers laughed and said, "We have our own hands and feet, so we don't need anyone to take care of us. Just go and do your own thing."
After the ox cart arrived, Song Yuehua and three other people, along with Zhou Lizheng, got on the cart to see the newly purchased land.
The 25 acres of land are indeed top-quality farmland.
The fields were clearly demarcated by roads and ditches; the rice in the fields had been harvested, leaving only rice stubble.
Let's rest the fields during the winter and plow them again tomorrow spring before we can plant crops.
Dongshan is connected to Bugui Mountain in the north, and the terrain is not high in comparison. The 30 acres of land only occupies a corner of it.
I heard from Zhou Lizheng that the entire mountain covers more than 3,000 acres, and Taoyuan Village occupies half of it.
The 30 acres of land allocated to Song Yuehua is flat, but the boundaries are unclear, so a boundary marker needs to be erected.
There is no water source nearby, so if we want to reclaim the land, we have to bring water down from the mountain or dig a well.
Song Yuehua nodded and took note of it.
Diverting water can only solve the problem temporarily. For long-term considerations, we still have to dig a well.
We need to dig a well here in the wasteland, and we also need to dig a well in the school. Thinking of the deep well at home, it is troublesome, time-consuming and costly.
Each shallow well costs 12 taels of water. The school still has to carry water to drink, and the wasteland is also in urgent need of water. The sooner we start work, the easier it will be.
After Song Yuehua returned home, she went to Zhou Lizheng's house again, and the two of them revised the admission rules.
There are 30 acres of wasteland in front of me, and the matter of reclaiming it is urgent, so naturally I will solve this problem first.
After the discussion, the brothers Zhou Dafu and Zhou Ergui also came back.
Song Yuehua asked Zhou Ergui to contact a well digger, to first dig a shallow well in the wasteland, and then buy a large water tank, and gave him a total of 14 taels of silver.
After returning home, Song Yuehua counted the remaining silver and found that there were still 30 taels.
I can still get by.
In the past few days, Master Yi copied 15 copies of Three Character Classic, 5 copies of Thousand Character Classic, and 3 copies of Hundred Family Surnames.
It should be enough for school to start tomorrow.
The next morning, people were already lining up before the school opened.
Zhou Lizheng was sitting in the room at the entrance registering, and then was taken inside to see the teacher by Zhou Dafu's brother.
The first to register were Grandpa Ma’s two little grandsons, Ma Long and Ma Hu.
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