Master Ma is from Baimaguan Town. He has nine daughters and only one son.
When Manbao returned home from Yizhou City for the New Year the year before last, he overheard that Master Bai wanted to marry Manbao for his son. The daughter does not have a son, so she is not very happy.
At that time, Man Bao quietly listened to her sisters-in-law discussing about Master Ma's family. It is said that because there are nine daughters in his family, his in-laws spread all over Baimaguan Town, and two daughters married to Luojiang County.
Man Bao thought Master Ma was good enough, but he didn't expect Cui to be even more powerful than Master Ma's family.
Only now can Bai Shan feel the power of the Cui family or, in other words, the aristocratic family.
He swallowed his saliva, and said to Man Bao: "Let's discuss this job field. Other things are not urgent, but chickens can be raised."
Bai Erlang said: "There are not so many chicks."
Man Bao said: "Buy eggs and come back to hatch. We will pay for the eggs and buy some brooding hens."
This is what their Xiaozhuangzi used to do when they wanted to raise chickens, but they bought the eggs, not the hens.
At that time, they were handed over to the hens of Lao Zhou's family to help hatch them.
Man Bao finished stamping and handed in a copy of the lease documents to the head of the village, and then went to talk to her father about it, and saw that her father was already busy in the field with others.
Seeing Man Bao at this moment, old Zhou Tou couldn't help but mutter, "Why did you rent out all the land, and didn't leave us an acre?"
Man Bao was stunned.
Old Zhou said: "If you don't reserve land for us, what are we doing here?"
Man Bao was stunned, and after a while, he said: "Father, you stay and take care of them. There are a hundred tenant farmers here, and they plant 1,200 mu of land owned by our family and my husband. You have to watch it. By the way, are we going to fatten up?"
Man Bao looked at Bai Shan, and Bai Shan immediately said: "That's right, it needs to be fertilized, Uncle Zhou, look how fertile the land is, but if there is not enough fertilizer, even the best land will be barren."
Old Zhou was immediately distracted and turned to look for those tenant farmers. He had to ask how much manure they had prepared for composting this year.
Old Zhou was so busy that he couldn't take care of them immediately.
Qian glanced at his back, beckoned to Man Bao, looked at her for a while, reached out and tapped her forehead, and said: "Forget about other things, where will your father and the others live when they come to visit the land?" ?”
Man Bao immediately said: "I am looking for a place to build a house for Dad?"
Qian said: "It's fine to build a thatched house. After all, this land is only for us to cultivate, and it is not under our name. It is not certain how many years it can be cultivated."
Man Bao remembered the pond she was about to dig, and couldn't help looking at Bai Shan.
The two exchanged glances for a while, then smiled.
Qian looked at the two of them and said, "It's not fooling around when you have money. Although the family is not too short of money now, you can't spend it carelessly."
Man Bao promised: "Mother, don't worry, when did I spend money indiscriminately?"
Qian Shi reluctantly believed her.
Man Bao turned around and started discussing with the village chief about buying the land.
As soon as the head of the village heard that Man Bao wanted to buy land, he became dizzy, and his affection for her fell to the lowest point.
Man Bao pointed to the wasteland in the distance and said: "There are a lot of sand and gravel, I don't know if it can be bought or rented."
The chief was still thinking about how to reject her, but when he heard that she was going to buy that piece of wasteland, he couldn't help being taken aback, and then asked cautiously, "What can Mr. Zhou do with that piece of land?"
"Let's build a house," Man Bao said, "I can't help it. I think the houses in your village are very compact. In the future, when my family members come to manage the village, there must be a place to stay. It's better to be near the village. It will take three quarters of an hour to come here."
The head of the village breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "It's a piece of wasteland, but it's possible to build a house, and it's not expensive. It's fine if Mr. Zhou wants to give some."
Man Bao rolled his eyes and asked, "Then if I buy a bigger one, where should I dig a big pond?"
Li Chang said: "The land is not expensive, but the cost of digging ponds is quite a lot, and it's dry right now..."
"It's because of the drought that we need to dig ponds to store water," Man Bao said, "The fields near here are all my work fields. I don't know what the situation will be next year. If we can store water, it will alleviate some of the drought, right?"
She said: "It is an acre of land that can save an acre of land."
The head of the village thought she was stupid with a lot of money, so he smiled and said: "Master Zhou thinks it's okay."
Then, without any psychological burden, he sold the wasteland that was useless and uncomfortable to walk to Man Bao.
Because he wanted to build a good relationship, he only took the lowest share of money, and then issued the land deed, and then he could file for the record when he went to the Yamen.
As for the money, it is usually placed with him, and will be paid out from the public office when the village needs anything in the future.
The old Zhou family knew nothing about these.
Old Zhoutou and Zhou Dalang followed the villagers to carefully walk half a circle around the 1,000-acre land, and determined with them the number of acres of winter wheat to be planted this year, and they returned to the village only after they had a good idea.
Bai Shan has already started planning how much and how deep the pond will be dug, while Bai Erlang is scribbling on the paper how many houses he plans to build for Man Bao, "Even if it is sand and gravel, we can't just build a few bare houses." , You try to be an official for as many years as possible, with such a large piece of land, in the future there will be mulberry fields, fruit trees, wheat fields, rice fields, and various melons, fruits and vegetables, and we can come and live there when we are resting."
He drew on the paper and said: "So I want to have a room, Bai Shan also needs to have one, and you and my husband, this garden must be planted with more flowers and plants to look good, I think it should be planted with roses, that one You can grow a lot, and you can feed yourself..."
Man Bao said: "Don't forget there are my family members."
"I know, I have to reserve a room for Brother Zhou and the others. He has already moved his business to Xiazhou. From Xiazhou to the capital, he must pass through Yongzhou. If it is late, he can rest here and leave early the next morning. Returning to the capital just in time to advance to the city at noon, it would be nice to take it easy."
"Well, then cover it a little further to the side."
Bai Shan took a look at it, and couldn't help but pat him, "If you build it like this, I don't have any land to dig the pond."
Yin Ju was helping them sort out the manuscripts, and smiled when he saw it, "How can a house be built horizontally like this?"
He took a pen to help Bai Erlang plan, Liu Huan was very bored, and asked: "Just leave this kind of thing to the steward, why do you have to do it yourself?"
Man Bao said: "My family has nothing to do."
Liu Huan then pointed to Bai Shan and said, "If yours doesn't have one, can his family still have one? And if you don't have one, you can hire it, or buy it. Would you like me to give you one?"
Bai Erlang looked up at him, shook his head and said, "Aren't you stupid, even Bai Shan didn't give her away, but you actually gave her away."
Man Bao said: "No, my eldest brother and the others can handle my family's affairs, and there is no need to take care of them right now."
She hired a steward, and her father was able to take her mother, eldest brother and sister-in-law home with her back foot.
Don't look at her parents who seem to be happy in the capital, but they miss their hometown very much. If they have nothing to do for them, they will go home even if they miss her.
There are so many places at home.
Man Bao saw her father passing by the door with sharp eyes, and immediately said: "There are so many places, and I still have to go to the palace to work, but I can't control it, so I will point it all at my father and the others."