At this moment, Zhang Dayong, Zhang Eryong, and Zhang Jinfeng were all in the house. They saw the old lady running out looking for life and death, but no one stopped her, not even a word of persuasion.
Having lived together for so many years, they know my old lady too well. With her selfish temperament, she would not be willing to commit suicide, that's just bluffing to scare people.
Or, she was afraid that her father would continue to beat her, so she found an excuse and ran away; or, she was afraid that her father would ask her for pearl flowers, so she ran out and hid under the pretext of looking for death!
The little child in Li's arms saw his grandpa beating up his grandma, and cried out in fright, and the older one also sobbed and cried in fright, so Li took the opportunity to take the child back to the room.
Anyway, the most exciting scene has already been seen, so there is no point in staying here any longer. When she was leaving, she winked at her man, Zhang Dayong saw his wife winking at him, and hurried away with her.
Only old Zhangtou, Zhang Eryong, and Zhang Jinfeng were left in the room. Old Zhangtou sat on the kang angrily, and said to Zhang Jinfeng, "I know about this from beginning to end, and you don't have to hide it from me anymore." It’s over, it just so happens that that shameless old man ran away, so tell me honestly, where did that old man put that branch of flowers?”
Zhang Jinfeng saw that her mother was not there, and she was suffocating because of the uneven distribution of spoils between her mother and her. Now that her father pressed her, she told her about her going to sell pearl flowers without hesitation. up.
After finishing speaking, she still didn't forget to complain about her old mother, "Father, my mother is so picky, she sold it for sixty taels of silver, and bought me such a small pair of earrings, look, they don't even catch the snot! big."
After she finished speaking, she shook her head, and the two small earrings were beating around her big square face.
When old Zhangtou heard that Cui Shi had sold Shen Ruolan's Zhuhua, his temples were so angry that his temples bulged. After gnashing his teeth for a while, he suddenly lifted his legs onto the kang, and took Cui Shi's sleeping pillow from the kang cabinet. I took it down.
Then the skin of the pillow was torn open with a click, and the buckwheat skin inside the pillow was immediately exposed in front of his eyes. He pulled the two corners of the pillow and turned the torn opening down.
"Wow-"
All the buckwheat husks in the pillow were dumped onto the kang, and Lao Zhangtou rummaged through the pile of buckwheat husks a few times, and soon found several silver ingots of different sizes, weighing only three or forty taels.
"Er Yong, you are digging at the mouse hole in the corner of the kitchen to see if there is any silver hidden there."
While giving orders, the old Zhang went to the kang cabinet and took off Cui's quilt, which was also disassembled as before.
Not long after, Lao Zhangtou found more than a dozen taels of silver in Cui's quilt.
Zhang Eryong dug out the rest in that mouse hole.
Cui thought she was smart, so she shared the money and hid it. She didn't expect that the den where she hid her private money had already been discovered by the old man, but he didn't tell her clearly.
Now, all the silver she had painstakingly hidden has been found, not only that, but the one or two taels of private money she had saved before has also been dug out and confiscated!
Old Zhangtou gathered up the money, and asked Zhang Jinfeng where he sold the pearl flower and how much he sold it for, and then gave all the money he found to Zhang Eryong, asking him to redeem the pearl flower tomorrow.
He also knew that the price of selling bead flowers could not be the same as the price of buying bead flowers, so he gave Zhang Eryong all the money his masters earned from going to Qingzhou this time, and asked him to take it with him to see how much money was left for others. , In any case, Lanya must redeem Lanya's Pearl Flowers.
Lao Zhang led his two sons to work in Qingzhou for more than a month. Needless to say, it was hard work. He planned to buy a few acres of land with the ten taels of silver. How many taels of silver, you can hear it when you throw it in a puddle, but in the end it disappeared like this, it made the old Zhang feel distressed, and I wish I could beat that scourge to death.
It's also thanks to Cui Shi running fast, otherwise a good fight would be inevitable!
Cui thought that if she ran away, she would be able to avoid the old man's continued beating of her, as well as keep the money she had privately hidden, but she didn't expect that the old nest at home was taken away by others, and in the end, it was beaten, not only the money for selling pearl flowers was taken away. The old man searched out everything, and even the money the old man and his son earned from going out this time was taken.
At this moment, she has already rushed to her old mother's house to hide from the incident. When she finds out that this incident will happen, she must be heartbroken and in pain!
**
On the second day after Shen Ruolan returned home, she started to implement her plan of reclaiming wasteland and digging fish ponds. She first went to Lizheng and told him about buying wasteland and water bubbles. The smelly water paozi and the barren mountain were sold, and he immediately agreed.
So, Shen Ruolan spent three taels of silver to buy the big water bubble in the village, and spent another fifty-three taels of silver to buy another fifty-three acres of barren hills. In this way, she had a total of sixty acres of open land. Badlands gone.
As soon as Fourth Master Wu received the money, he immediately wrote her the land deed and reported it to the government for filing. Hence, Shui Paozi and those barren hills became Shen Ruolan's private property.
After getting the land deed, Shen Ruolan called the villagers together in a high-profile manner and held an important meeting.
The spirit of the meeting is as follows:
She wants to open up fifty-three acres of wasteland on the mountain, and the villagers can come to help her open up wasteland. She will pay one tael of silver for each acre of land opened up for her. Everyone can cooperate or act alone. She only cares about the results. If you pay, no one will be able to steal and play tricks.
In addition, if there are villagers who want to open up wasteland like her but have no money, they can borrow money from her first, and pay off the debt with work in the future, or take the potatoes grown in the wasteland, Soybeans, sweet potatoes, and Chinese cabbage are also available for debt repayment.
In addition to opening up wasteland, you can also help her dig fish ponds (water paozi) to earn money, but the work here is based on the amount of money, the more work you do, the more you earn, and the less you do, the more you earn There are few, fair and just, and those who want to take advantage of others don't have to think about it.
When everyone heard that there were so many jobs to do, they were all overjoyed, and rushed to sign up one after another, fearing that they would be left behind.
When Zhang Eryong redeemed Shen Ruolan's bead flowers in the county seat and sent them back to Gushantun, he happened to see the enthusiastic scene of villagers signing up one after another.
He asked briefly, and when he heard that Shen Ruolan had actually acquired more than 50 mu of wasteland, he was very surprised.
It’s okay to grow some watermelons and melons in the mountains, but it’s not enough to grow food.
Because of the topography, the mountainous land cannot store water and is prone to drought. Therefore, in the eyes of many farmers, the mountainous land is not planted for nothing, because it is possible to spend a lot of effort to plant the land, but in the end nothing will be harvested. If you don't come up, you will waste your seeds and work in vain, and you will lose money!
Therefore, the large area of mountain land behind Kaoshantun is still deserted, and no one is willing to plant it even if it costs one tael of silver per mu.
Some people would rather buy some low-lying land for one tael of silver than buy mountainous land for one tael of silver.
Although Zhang Eryong doesn't approve of her opening up so much wasteland, as long as she wants to do it, he will support her unconditionally. As long as she is happy, she can do whatever she wants!
**
The vigorous land reclamation campaign began.
Everyone's attitude towards this land reclamation was far more enthusiastic than Shen Ruolan imagined!
She originally thought that rough work such as land reclamation and fish pond digging could only be done by men, but she never expected that when it came time to do the work, not only men came out, but most of the women, children and The old people also came out, it was like a family action.
Some of these people take the family as a unit, contracting an acre of wasteland, and then the whole family will cooperate with all their strength. The stronger ones will do more, and the weaker ones will work less. If they have money, they will follow suit. If you are rushing to do it, you will try to earn more money, so that your life in your home will be spacious and spacious.
There are also some people who are not satisfied with making money for their own families, and invite their relatives and six friends from other villages to work together. In this way, they can not only help their relatives earn some money, but also feel lighter on their own!
There are not many villagers who buy wasteland by themselves. After all, one tael of silver is not a small amount, and the mountainous land is not easy to plant. Everyone is afraid of spending so much money on it, so they work hard to open it. In the end, the harvest is not good and the book is lost. Therefore, Shen Ruolan mobilized for a while, and in the end, only three or four families bought barren hills to open up land.
These families are Qi Laishun's family, Aunt Xie's family, Brother Dachun's family, and Gui Shengzi's family. The rest of the villagers are all working for Shen Ruolan and earn money from Shen Ruolan.