When Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi returned home, Chen Xiaocai had already cooked.
Before, when Chen Xiaomi was out hunting, Chen Xiaocai cooked by himself, but his cooking skills were not very good.
After Lu Lin married in, Lu Lin basically did the cooking. However, occasionally if Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi were too busy, Xiaocai would cook the food first.
When Lu Lin was cooking, Chen Xiaocai would sometimes help to light the fire. After following Lu Lin for a long time, Chen Xiaocai's skills improved a lot.
"Brother, why are you so late today?" Chen Xiaocai asked.
Chen Xiaomi told about meeting Brother Qin Lang.
Chen Xiaocai sighed, "It's not easy for mountain people."
Before Chen Xiaomi beat the tiger and bought the house, he also lived in the mountains with Xiaocai and Mai for a while. During that time, the three brothers lived in poverty. Hearing the situation of the Qin family, Chen Xiaocai couldn't help but feel the same way. .
"Is there anything going on in the village?" Chen Xiaocai has been quite popular among the children recently, and he is quite well informed, so Lu Lin would ask Chen Xiaocai to inquire about anything Lu Lin wanted to know.
"The Lu family wants to sell the land, and the low-grade land is ten taels of silver per mu. No one took over for a while. Everyone said that the Lu family was robbing money." Chen Xiaocai said.
"The Lu family's two acres of low-grade land are too expensive to sell for ten taels of silver per mu." Chen Xiaomi said that the price of land is not stable. If there is a catastrophe and the farmers have no food to eat, in order to survive, It is possible to change children and eat food, let alone selling land at a low price. The so-called land merger is most likely to happen at this time.
During the great famine, the price of land was very cheap, and you could buy an acre of land for two or three taels. Waiting fields cost about fifteen taels. The Lu family's two acres of low-ranking fields are a bit high if they want to sell medium-sized fields. However, there are many people in the village who want to farm now, so this is also a good opportunity.
"Unfortunately, it belongs to the Lu family." Chen Xiaomi shook his head regretfully.
Lu Lin glanced at Chen Xiaomi thoughtfully.
The next day, Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi took some white rice and bacon and sent them up the mountain, which made the two brothers of the Qin family very grateful to them.
Qin Yi's condition has improved slightly, and he has come to his senses.
When Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi passed by, Qin Yi sat on the bed and thanked them very sincerely.
Lu Lin sighed at the strong physique of the mountain people. The same injuries were not so easy to heal on those people in the past.
Lu Lin reckoned that Qin Yi had already heard about the three taels of silver. When he met the two of them, he was a little embarrassed, and said that he would definitely repay him when he recovered.
Qin Yi even greeted two children to kowtow to Lu Lin, scaring Lu Lin enough.
As a person who traveled through the peaceful era, Lu Lin was not a bad person, but he still couldn't do anything about watching others starve to death in front of him.
Coming out of Qin Yi, Lu Lin secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
When Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi returned home, they saw Chen Xiaocai sitting at the door with a worried look on his face.
Lu Lin looked at Chen Xiaocai and said, "What happened?"
"People from the Lu family are here." Chen Xiaocai said.
Lu Lin sighed, people from the Lu family would go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, so there might be nothing good to come here.
"What did the Lu family say!" Chen Xiaomi asked.
Chen Xiaocai curled her lips and said, "The people of the Lu family said that if the fat and water don't flow into outsiders' fields, it's a pity that we have no land, so they want to sell the land to us."
Chen Xiaomi asked with interest: "Did you say how much money?"
"Twelve taels of silver per mu."
Chen Xiaocai rolled his eyes, "It's just two acres of inferior land!"
Logically speaking, there will be no shortage of people to take over the land in the village. However, the Lu family's asking price is too high. About seven or two. The price quoted by the Lu family to the villagers seemed to be ten taels per mu, and the price went up to two taels from them.
Lu Lin shook his head and said, "Leave them alone."
Chen Xiaocai nodded and said, "Okay."
Lu family.
"Is Lu Lin unwilling to buy land?" Wang asked.
Tang Shi shook his head and said, "It seems that I have no such intention."
Lu Lin and Lu Chengyu were born at about the same time, and the villagers often compare the two. Lu Chengyu has always been the winner of Lu Lin.
In Tang's opinion, Lu Lin is not worthy of carrying shoes for his son. However, now his son has repeatedly failed in the assessment, and after Lu Lin married Chen Xiaomi, life is getting better and better. I heard that It is not less money, which makes Tang very unconvinced.
Wang said sullenly: "Isn't Chen Xiaomi very rich? Why can't he afford two acres of land?"
"Maybe it's just rumors, they're not that rich at all," Tang said.
Mrs. Wang fully agreed: "Yes! That ungrateful kid Lu Lin has such a poor look on his face, how can there be a lot of money? In my opinion, it is very likely that he slapped his face to make himself fat."
The land of the Lu family could not be sold all the time, and the wedding was imminent, so in desperation, the Lu family had no choice but to lower the price. In the end, the two mu of land was sold at a price of eight taels of silver per mu. The one who bought the land of the Lu family was Grandma Shen who had cooperated with Lu Lin.
Grandma Shen paid sixteen taels of silver when she made a move, which caused many people in the village to discuss it.
Many people think that the price of eight taels of silver per mu of land is still a bit high. However, some people think that there is a shortage of land right now, and it is good to be able to buy it even though the price is a little higher.
More people lamented that the Lu family was going to marry a young lady from a rich family, and the scene was really extraordinary, and they had to sell the land.
Chen Xiaocai looked at the land deed in his hand and said, "Did you buy back the Lu family's land?"
Lu Lin shook his head and said, "No."
He didn't dare to touch the land of the Lu family. He just lent money to Grandma Shen to buy back the land of the Lu family. After buying it back, Lu Lin bought the land of the Shen family from Grandma Shen. It can be said that he indirectly bought the land of the Lu family.
Chen Xiaocai looked at Lu Lin in confusion, and said, "Why did you think of buying land?"
Lu Lin glanced at Chen Xiaomi and said, "Don't you want it? Besides, it's not short of money."
Every time the land was mentioned, Chen Xiaocai's eyes would light up. Although Chen Xiaomi concealed it better than Chen Xiaocai, Lu Lin could tell that Chen Xiaomi also wanted the land. The earth occupies an extraordinary position in the eyes of people in this world.
Chen Xiaomi blinked and said, "It's always good to have land."
Lu Lin nodded and said, "If it's only two acres of land, it should be taken care of."
Chen Xiaomi glanced sideways at Lu Lin and said, "You used to manage five or six acres of land by yourself."
Lu Lin knew that Chen Xiaomi was referring to the original owner, so he felt a little embarrassed.
Although he inherited the original owner's memory, he didn't inherit the original owner's hard-working spirit.
There is a saying that it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant and difficult to go from extravagant to frugal, because individuals will always be lazy.
The fact that Lu Lin bought Grandma Shen's land was silent, because Grandma Shen had already planted crops on the Shen family's land, and the two parties agreed to wait for the Shen family to harvest the crops in the field before completing the handover of the field. Grandma Shen felt ashamed for taking advantage of Lu Lin, but Lu Lin didn't mind much, and she felt a little sorry for pulling Grandma Shen to protect her from the wind.
After persuading Grandma Shen for a while, Grandma Shen agreed.
The Lu family was busy arranging the marriage. Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi discussed it and decided to buy a shop in the town.
The silver in Lu Lin's hands has reached more than three hundred taels. With so much silver, it is better to buy an estate.
Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi walked around the street, and Chen Xiaomi said, "Now there are three shops for sale, which one should we buy?"
The cheapest store is only 50 taels, but it’s just a small shop, and the location is not very good. The more expensive one is 250 taels. Not only is the location good, but it also has a small yard with two entrances. The small courtyard with two entrances has a main hall, left and right wing rooms, and several servant rooms, all kinds of equipment are available.
Chen Xiaomi went to see the house, and it was spacious and clean. After looking at it, he felt that everything was good.
Lu Lin blinked, and said: "The left and right are not very short of money, why don't you just buy the two hundred and fifty taels directly."
Chen Xiaomi glanced at Lu Lin, curled his lips. Lu Lin's choice was also within Chen Xiaomi's expectation. When he was looking at the firm, Lu Lin expressed that he was very moved by that house.
The owner of the house worth two hundred and fifty taels is a big landlord. The eldest son of the landlord's family has been admitted to Jinshi this year, and everyone in the family must follow him to take office. That's why the shops and the house are treated at a low price. There will be no such opportunities in ordinary times.
Two hundred and fifty taels is not a small amount. There are many rich people in the town. However, many of them own real estate. It is still a bit overwhelming to spend so much money in a short while, so this house is listed. It has not been sold for a long time.
"That house is still very close to the school." Lu Lin said.
Chen Xiaomi snorted softly, and said, "What's the use of being close?" Chen Xiaomi wanted to send Xiaocai to the academy before, but in the end, the instructor of the academy refused to accept it because of him, and Chen Xiaomi was always thinking about it.
"Students' business is very easy to do." The rest of the Lu family live in austerity, but they are very kind to the scholars in the family. Many families put their hopes for success in the students.
Chen Xiaomi puffed her cheeks and said, "If you open a store, what kind of store do you plan to open?"
Lu Lin smiled and said, "You can open a stationery store."
Chen Xiaomi blinked and said, "Sell pens, ink, paper and inkstone?"
Chen Xiaomi thought to himself: Pens, inks, papers and inkstones are precious things! Chen Jing bought an inkstone before, and it only cost two taels of silver. Chen Xiaomi had seen that inkstone before, but had never touched it. If he broke such a precious thing, the old lady would definitely not be safe.
Lu Lin shook his head and said, "How much money can you make!" There are already businesses selling pens, inks, papers and inkstones in the town, and they all have fixed purchase channels. , I am afraid I will offend others.
Chen Xiaomi looked at Lu Lin and said, "If you don't sell pens, ink, paper and inkstones, then what are you selling?"
Lu Lin rolled his eyes, and said, "You can consider selling bags." In his previous life, those brand-name bags were casually sold for 10,000 or 20,000. If he got the schoolbag out, it should be sold.
Chen Xiaomi puffed her cheeks and said, "Will anyone buy the bags?"
Lu Lin shook his head and said, "I don't know, there should be."
Chen Xiaomi curled her lips and looked at Lu Lin with some distrust, "Can you make bags?"
Lu Lin blinked and said, "Me? I can't, but I can teach people how to make bags."
Chen Xiaomi looked at Lu Lin suspiciously, Lu Lin smiled and said, "Let's give it a try."
Chen Xiaomi nodded and said, "Okay."
Chen Xiaomi thought to himself: The more than three hundred taels of silver in the family were basically earned by Lu Lin. So easy to lose.