Early the next morning, Xiaoman woke up to the disturbance of Gu Xiangning's hair. When she opened her eyes, she saw Gu Xiangning's face enlarged in front of her. Xiaoman couldn't help rolling her eyes.
"My husband, do you know the saying that distance creates beauty? Although you are very handsome, when I look at you up close, the pores on your face are so big."
Gu Xiangning was speechless: "What are pores? Are there any holes on my face? I only see my nostrils!"
Xiaoman was dumbfounded. Your answer was very strange. Pores can actually be connected with nostrils. However, Xiaoman did not want to explain and snorted: "Oh, it's your nostrils."
"Your nostrils are pointed upwards, almost like a pig's nose. How dare you get so close to me? What do you want to do?"
Gu Xiangning was speechless: "Of course I'm calling you to get up. Hurry up and pack up, have breakfast, and then we'll go around the villages and see which one is the best."
Hearing that there was serious work to be done, Xiaoman stopped joking and quickly got up. After washing up and having breakfast, the two set off. Xiaoman looked down at his feet.
Then he looked at her and said, "Husband, are you tired if we walk like this? I haven't ridden a bullock cart for a long time! Let's go buy a bullock cart. We can use it for transportation and for farming."
Gu Xiangning thought it was a good idea. He imagined himself driving the cows and taking his beautiful wife home. This scene was so beautiful! So he immediately nodded and agreed: "Okay, let's go buy it now."
The two of them went to the cattle market, picked out a cow, bought a cart, and then Xiaoman got on the cart happily: "Husband, drive the cart quickly."
Gu Xiangning started to drive the car consciously, but frowned: "Why do I feel like I have become my wife's driver?"
Xiaoman smiled and looked at Gu Xiangning: "Isn't this good? You can take me to the ends of the earth, how romantic!"
Seeing Xiaoman's happy smile, Gu Xiangning immediately became happy. Forget it, as long as Xiaoman is happy, it doesn't matter. Why care so much? The two drove the ox cart out of the city.
The areas in the northeast are mostly plains, so the land here is connected piece by piece, and the area is relatively large. Of course, there are also some small hills.
After the two people came out, they went to the village closest to the city. After entering, they found that the village looked quite poor. The ox cart slowly entered the village.
There was a group of children playing at the entrance of the village. They seemed to be having a lot of fun. When they saw the oxcart coming, they immediately surrounded it and asked, "Who are you?"
"Yeah, what are you two doing in our village?"
All kinds of questions came up from the children. Xiaoman looked at the children with a smile, "You little kids, you have so many questions. Where are the adults in your family?"
"Oh, by the way, where is the head of your village? We are here to find the head of your village. I will give you some candy. Can you take us to find your head of your village?"
One of the leading children stood up, looked at the candy in Xiaoman's hand, and snorted proudly: "Don't think you can buy us off with a few candies."
"That's impossible. If you don't tell me clearly what you are here for, we won't let you into the village."
Xiaoman blinked her eyes and said, "You guys are very alert. That's good. At least we don't have to worry about kidnappers. Well, we won't go in. You go in and ask your headman to come out, okay?"
"I'll be waiting here. There are so many of you. Can I take you away by force? Go quickly, okay?"
Seeing that Xiaoman was so easy to talk to, and the children really wanted to eat candy, they finally discussed it and the two older children nodded.
"Give us the candy first, and then we'll go and call the head of the village for you. We'll leave someone to watch over you, so don't mess around."
As they spoke, the two of them ran into the village, apparently to look for the village chief. Xiaoman and Gu Xiangning looked at each other. They were still innocent children, just a few of them.
If they really had ulterior motives, they could have dealt with it in minutes, but they were all good people. Soon the head of the village was called over, because this place was very close to the city.
So there are often strangers coming here, staying here or just passing by, but it is rare to see people looking for the village head as soon as they arrive. The village head is a middle-aged man with a very burly appearance.
Looking at Xiaoman and Gu Xiangning, "I wonder what you two want to do in our village?"
Xiaoman and Gu Xiangning looked at each other, and then Gu Xiangning stepped forward and said, "Hello, head of the village. Actually, my wife and I came out to find something to do. We just want to ask you a few questions."
"Excuse me, what kind of crops do you have here? Also, do you have any land for sale? Would you sell it to my husband and me? Oh, I haven't introduced myself yet."
"My name is Gu Xu, and this is my wife, Chen Jia. My family is in the grain business. We heard that you have a lot of land and abundant resources here, so we want to come here and buy some land."
"Then use it to grow the food we brought. Do you have any land to sell?"
Are you here to buy land? The village head was confused. If you want to buy land, shouldn’t you go to find a tooth? But since they came to ask, the village head also answered: "I know who is from our village."
"I don't know about the nearby ones. You can go find a pawnshop. By the way, if you want a lot of land, I'm afraid our village can't satisfy you."
Xiaoman and Gu Xiangning looked at each other and thought so, but they still looked at the head of the village: "Head, it's like this, we have been here for a long time, I wonder if there are any houses for sale in your village?"
"Or we can rent it. After all, we are going to grow food here, so it is better to buy it directly. If we don't have a house, we can buy a piece of land in the village and build it ourselves."
The village head felt something was a little strange when he heard this and looked at the two of them: "If we want to stay in the village, we need a household registration. Do you have one?"
Gu Xiangning smiled: "Of course there are. We are all citizens of the Great Zhou. It's just that this is our family's mission. We have no choice but to come. So, can you show us around the village?"
When the village head heard this, he was a little surprised: "Let's see? Are you still not sure?"
Xiaoman smiled and said, "That's exactly what's going on here. We naturally want to live in a village that has lots of people, lots of land, and is quiet and harmonious. I don't want to hear people quarreling and fighting every other day, right?"
"We have looked at several villages and found that your village is good in both environment and location, so we chose yours."
After hearing what the two said, the village head believed them a little and nodded: "Okay, come with me first, I'll park the ox cart at my house, and then I'll take you around."
Xiaoman and Gu Xiangning were of course obedient. After parking the ox cart, they followed the village head out for a walk. The villagers they met did not look well dressed.
But their faces were all filled with smiles. Gu Xiangning and Xiaoman looked at each other and said to the head of the village: "Head of the village, it seems that life in your village is good. Everyone has a smile on their face."
Upon hearing this, the head of the village suddenly changed his expression, but he didn't say anything, which made Gu Xiangning and Xiaoman feel a little strange, but they didn't say anything either, just followed the head of the village everywhere.
Arriving in front of a field, he said, "If you want to buy land, this is what we have for sale in our village. It's fifty acres in total, and they're all connected, so it's convenient for planting."
"If you want more, you'll have to go find Fang."
Xiaoman squatted on the ground, picked up some soil with her hand and took a look. The soil was good and very suitable for growing rice. It seemed that she had found the right place this time, the pearl rice she had grown before.
She had been missing it for a long time, and when she thought of this, she nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, then this piece, how much is it? Oh, by the way, maybe we can find a place to live in the village."
"By the way, what is the name of this village?"
The head of the village laughed. The two men's behavior was really strange, but the question still needed to be answered: "This is Liujia Village. My surname is Liu. If it's where I live, then I'll answer it."
"I still have one acre of residential land that I can sell to you. Would you like to take a look first? Besides, the land here is all top-quality land, about eight taels of silver per acre."
"If you want to buy it, I'll notify the owner of this land to come over. What do you think?"
Xiaoman and Gu Xiangning looked at each other and said, "Okay, then we'll trouble Chief Liu. Let's go take a look at the homestead now. If possible, we want to buy it today."
The head of the village didn't think much about it, so he nodded and took the two of them to see the homestead. Of course, they were satisfied with the result, and Gu Xiangning immediately decided to stay here.
The head of the village also notified the person who was going to sell the land, and then bought the 50 acres of land and the residential land. Xiaoman designed a house on the spot that was easy to build and looked beautiful and sturdy.
He asked people to work faster and looked at the head of the village: "Head, there is one more thing I want to ask you for help with. You see, it would be best if our house is built as soon as possible. Of course, money is not a problem."
"It would be best if it could be repaired in half a month. In exactly half a month, my family's seeds will be shipped here. Oh, and we'll also need to find some long-term workers to help with farming."
"Li Zheng, you must be familiar with the people in your village. I wonder if you can help select some people?"
As he said this, he gave the head of the village ten taels of silver. The head of the village could see that these two people were probably really rich people, and not the imperial envoys as the people above said.
They came to inquire about their lives. After all, would the imperial envoy buy a house here to live? Of course not, so these two people are definitely not here. In this way, Liujia Village has taken a big advantage.