The 60 acres of land outside Huang's family are located in Lishugou behind Huangjia Village.
It is a fertile area with large patches. There are currently no crops, but it is also well groomed and there are no weeds.
The farmhouse with two entrances is located upstream of this land, leaning against a large mountain. The front gate has a tall wall, and fences made of thorns on the left and right contain the two hills.
Song Qiu thought it was a simple matter of entering the courtyard twice, but when he saw the imposing wall connected to the gate, he liked it a little.
After entering the door, the first thing you see is a large and empty yard. On one side are the two gates entering the yard, and on the other side are the two hills. You can see a medium-sized lotus pond, with a lot of lotus roots planted in it.
Before digging, the lotus root stems were all withered and hanging in a mess on the water.
Further ahead is a bamboo forest, and above the bamboo forest are two hills.
The top of the mountain is not high. Song Qiu took a quick look and estimated that it was only about 20 meters above sea level.
Put together, it looks really big.
Without going up, you can see at a glance that there are many fruit trees planted on top. In this season, citrus and grapefruit are hanging all over the mountain, which is quite pleasant to look at.
Song Qiu recognized many fruit trees, including peach trees, apricot trees, plum trees, loquat trees, and jujube trees.
This farm is quite nice.
Lotus roots can be grown in this lotus pond, and the wide area of the bamboo forest is perfect for raising chickens, ducks, etc. If you can buy piglets, it would also be good to raise some sheep.
There is also the area on the other side of the lotus pond where several pig pens are built with seven or eight pigs in them. Pigs and sheep are killed during the New Year. How festive!
The area next to it is divided into a vegetable garden, which is neat and tidy for growing vegetables. The inn doesn't have to worry about the supply.
Song Qiu was already satisfied with the continuous land outside. Now that he looked at the situation of the farm, he had a plan in mind, and Song Qiu was even more satisfied.
This farm plus the hilltop is worth one hundred and eighty taels, and even if you don't look at it, including the lotus pond, this piece of open space occupies many acres.
I then opened the second door to the small courtyard and went in to see it. It was said to be a farmhouse, but it had the same specifications as residential courtyards in the town.
Entering the front yard is the front yard. On both sides of the door are reverse rooms with three rooms on each side. On the left is a shed for livestock, with a toilet, and on the right are two large bright rooms. The kitchen is here.
The yard is also quite large, with trees planted and a well.
In the middle is a main hall for receiving guests. It is fully furnished and equipped with small rooms on both sides that can be used as warehouses or other things.
Then follow the main hall through the hall and enter the second door with hanging flowers. When you reach the second inner courtyard, there are three main rooms in the middle, one wing room on the left and right and two wing rooms on the left and right.
Behind the main house there is a row of back rooms with a corner courtyard.
Next to the corner courtyard is the toilet in the inner courtyard.
Two locust trees leaned against the wall, and a row of unknown flowers were planted along the wall.
The yard was very clean inside and outside, but Huang Yuanwai did not live here. Song Qiu thought that there must be servants who were specially responsible for cleaning the place. He probably planned to sell it, so he removed the servants.
There are other arrangements.
Because no one else was seen in this farm.
Song Qiu had already planned to buy it, so when Huang asked about it, he did not hesitate, or deliberately tried to lower the price.
Five hundred and forty taels is already very reasonable.
He nodded immediately, "Okay, I'm very satisfied with this place and plan to buy it."
Huang Yuanwai also knew that today's trip would be possible in all likelihood, so he was very happy and said generously: "The furniture here is all complete, I won't bother moving it away, I will give it all to Song
Girl, you are here."
In the main room, there are fine pear wood canopy beds!
As long as both parties are willing to do so, it will be a matter of course for the transaction to be concluded.
We agreed to go to the town office tomorrow to go through the formalities and apply for the official deed, and that's it.
There is no one who can win, so naturally I have to go there myself.
The sale was finalized, and although no money had been given through the deed yet, Huang Yuanwai was informal and handed the key to Song Qiu as soon as he left the farm. He just said it would be troublesome to hold the key in case he forgot it tomorrow or something.
Yes, it's rare for him to carry it on his body.
Seeing this, the people from Huangjia Village who were waiting outside the farm guessed that the land was really sold and sold it to the Song family girl. They quickly came up to care about their concerns.
"Song Xiaodong, this land is yours now. What are your plans? In the past, this land was rented by people from our village. You can rest assured that we will not be held back by the rent.
The land will not be messed up by you. Look, can you continue to lease this land to us?"
It will still be some time before the farming starts next spring. Song Qiu has plans for this land. He can't say much at the moment. He only said: "If I plan to go out as a tenant farmer, I will definitely consider your village first. But it's still early. I'll wait."
Let’s talk about this again next year.”
The people in Huangjia Village were a little worried when they didn't get a reply and assurance right away, but the land belonged to others, and they couldn't force them to agree to plant it for them right away, right?
I just want to wait until the New Year is over and then celebrate the New Year.
In short, this land requires tens of millions of dollars to be used for farming. Otherwise, what will the dozens of families in their village do if next year’s harvest is not enough to make ends meet on their own land?
Most of the people in the simple village thought very simply, so before the Chinese New Year, Song Qiu received enthusiastic New Year gifts from representatives of every household in Huangjia Village.
They were all home-made things, such as eggs, two handfuls of leeks, a duck, home-made glutinous rice cakes, and even a big piece of meat that was given to Song Qiu. Song Qiu had to accept it, and he said it wasn't worth a few bucks, that's what he meant.
Song Qiu couldn't refuse even if he wanted to, so he could only accept it with a smile.
But that’s all for another day.
Huang Yuan wanted to stay in the village to catch up with old friends for a while, so Song Qiu hurriedly went back. After agreeing to meet him at the town hall tomorrow, he left early.
It was still early when we returned to the inn, and there were still guests drinking tea and resting in the tea shed. The inn was not busy, and Mrs. Li and Mrs. Wang were mending bedding. Song Qiu went back to the village first and went to the workshop to have a look.
After entering the village, I passed by Wang Orion's house and saw that many villagers were in the yard of Wang Orion's house, which was very lively.
Song Qiu couldn't help but squeeze in, craning his neck to look inside.
It turned out that Wang Lie and his son, who had been deep in the mountains for a few days, came back. This time they brought back a lot of prey. In addition to rabbits and pheasants, there were also a deer, a goat, and a dead wild boar.
This time the harvest was quite fruitful, there were so many good guys, and everyone in the village came to watch the fun.
"Dashan, the deer and goat are still alive. We can sell them for a good price tomorrow. The blood of this wild boar has dried up, and a large piece of meat under its neck has been bitten off. I'm afraid it must have been dead for at least two days, right?"
If you can't sell it at a high price, why don't you just boil it and peel it at home? Our family will buy a pound or two of it and try it out. You can also keep the rest and pickle it and smoke it!" Old man Zhang squeezed in with his hands behind his back.
At the front, I looked at the wild boar with a smile in his eyes.
Everyone burst into laughter after hearing what he said. The Zhang family was not short of money for the two kilograms of meat, and they also wanted to taste the wild boar meat.