Three acres of land is not small. Song Qiu made a plan. The layout of the inn and tea shed is similar to that of Songshan Inn, which can leave a large open space.
The open space was left behind, and Song Qiu planned to ask the villagers from Xiaoyao Village to help fertilize the land. While the weather was not at its coldest, they could also sow some vegetable seeds, such as radish and cabbage.
This area is specially used for vegetable gardens. It is half an acre in size and can be used to grow a lot.
All year round, various vegetables are grown and supplied to the inn, which saves money on buying vegetables outside.
The estimated time it takes to build the inn is one month, but as long as there is no continuous rain or anything like that, and we work as usual every day, with this manpower, it can be built in less than a month.
Song Qiu didn't plan to stay here waiting for the inn to be built. Taking advantage of the nearly one month's gap, she had to first visit the place mentioned by Gao in Jianping County.
Someone had to keep an eye on this place, so she left Tao Dongcheng to take care of everything here, and the Dazhong benches also stayed here.
She also left fifty taels of silver to Tao Dongcheng for expenses.
As for the wages of the carpenters and others, she will come back to pay them before the construction is completed.
She also asked Tao Dongcheng to purchase a lot of fabrics and cotton and give them to the village chief of Xiaoyao Village, who hired women who were good at needlework in their village to help sew bedding and other items needed for the inn.
After planning these things and watching the wasteland enter the construction process in an orderly manner, I left Chunlin Town early in the morning and continued walking forward.
Lihua and A Ling naturally went together, and she also brought Mian Mian, A Yin, Yang Dalian, Tao Dongping, Shunzi and Tian Gener with her.
As usual, Yang Dalian drove the carriage and Tao Dongping drove the mule cart.
Leave a mule cart behind for the use of those who stay here.
This is not far from Jianping County, and it only takes three to five days by normal travel.
After passing Chunlin Town, we had to walk for more than a hundred miles before we reached the first city of Lizhou Prefecture, Xiping County.
This more than one hundred miles can't be covered in an hour and a half. I drove all day that day. Before sunset, I entered a town to rest for one night. I got up early the next day and started on the road. That night I stopped at a place called
Village market in Dajiang.
This place is similar to the Ping An Jiji over there.
There is a Songshan Temple on the mountain at Ping An Daji, and many people come to offer incense and worship Buddha.
But here, there is a Temple of Five Blessings on the mountainside behind.
In this area of Lizhou, there are more believers than Buddhists, and the temple owner of the Five Blessings Temple is relatively famous, so incense is also very popular. Many ladies and girls go to the Five Blessings Temple to burn incense and worship the God of Wealth, and ask the temple owner how to set up an altar.
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And because it is located in the center, several nearby villages spontaneously gathered here. Your family sells agricultural products, and my family sells dustpans and baskets, and then slowly formed a huge market.
Because this village was called Dajiang Village, this place became Dajiangji.
And because this place is close to the official road, it is on the edge of the official road. In addition, those who come to burn incense and worship the gods have to take their people with them by carriage and horse. Several families at the head of the village have opened tea shops on their own initiative, and there are also specialized tea shops.
I prepared fodder and sold it to passing carts and horses, and I could also help feed those with water and fodder, earning some money.
There are also several families with large yards and many houses, which are specially arranged for people to stay. For example, if the ladies who come to worship the gods live in the Taoist temple, and they bring many servants, they live at the foot of the mountain.
Over time, some passers-by came to stay here.
A cloth banner was hung high at the door, with a large Chinese character "Su" embroidered on it. When people looked at it from a distance, they knew that accommodation could be provided here.
In this way, we can receive a lot of people every day.
Song Qiu and the others passed by this place for the first time, so naturally they didn't know that clearly, but they still watched the group of people walking in front of them suddenly get off the official road and come this way. When they looked over, they saw a tea shop.
Only then did he follow.
When we arrived at the tea shop, we got to know the situation of Dajiangji.
It's getting dark, so naturally I want to stay here for one night.
Dajiang Village has now grown to include more than 300 households, which is quite a large village.
The market is located on a stream and grassland outside the village. There are stalls arranged one after another. It really looks like that. It is more decent than the market in Ping'an Market.
And that area was full of displays, making it no smaller than the market in the town.
Entering the village, the densely packed houses and courtyards looked more like a town than a village.
The first house was a tea shop, followed immediately by five houses with cloth banners with the word "su" hanging on their doorsteps.
On the opposite side, the courtyard door opened, and there were houses that looked like shops in the town. There were tofu shops, butcher shops, wine shops, grain and oil shops, grocery shops, etc., as well as noodle shops and snack shops.
It's actually more complete and lively than Ping'an Dazhao.
It's getting dark now, and the market has closed long ago. If it's a big market held on a double occasion, there will be a sea of people here, which is no worse than in the town.
When the tea waiter talked about this, there was a look of pride on his face. In the end, he even talked about the gossip he knew without hesitation, "Li Zheng is from our village. His eldest grandson is very capable and got the title of scholar."
!Working as a clerk in the county government! That’s something you can talk to in front of the county magistrate! He came back to the village during the Mid-Autumn Festival and said that our Dajiang Village will be promoted to a town soon. By then,
, that’s Dajiang Town!”
"Dajiang Town! Listen to this name, how grand it is!"
"At that time, we will be serious townspeople. We don't have to work hard to buy a house in the town, and we can become town residents! It's really the green smoke on the graves of our ancestors. It's a great blessing! Look back.
When the Chinese New Year comes this year, I will have to burn more paper money for my ancestors!"
He was chattering away, and he couldn't stop himself from looking so proud.
Tian Gen'er is a talkative and very gossipy. When he goes out and meets anyone, he can chat with them immediately. Along the way, he also gets a lot of news.
But even though he was chatty and gossipy, most of his chatter was just gossiping about other people's affairs. He didn't reveal much about himself, and he had a sense of control in his heart, so Song Qiu didn't restrain him. He was there to inquire about things.
Cheap.
No, the tea boy was chatting these words in front of him right now. When two chatty chatters meet, they can't stop talking.
After the tea boy rambled on about this, Tian Gen'er looked unbelieving and said, "Your village is going to be promoted to a town? Why? Do you believe this? It's really a rumor leaked from the county magistrate. How can it be done?"
Do you want to know first?"
There is a kind of person in this world. If you say you don't believe what he says, he will have to find all kinds of evidence to make you believe it. He doesn't care whether he is afraid of digging a hole for himself or whether he is afraid of causing trouble for others.
Those who are not good are just so serious.
The tea waiter happens to be this kind of person, and he is also a talkative person, which is even more serious.
When Tian Gen'er didn't believe it, he raised his head and said, "Why do you think so? Huh! First, we have a prosperous Five Blessings Temple here! You people from other places don't know, even our county magistrate is here.
I often come to the Five Blessings Temple! How many Taoist temples in other towns are more famous than our Five Blessings Temple?
This second place is naturally the largest in our village within a radius of dozens of miles! There are more than 300 households in Zhengerbazheng! The total population is not to mention 2,000, but it is indispensable to 1,500. We, Zhengzheng, still have to take care of it.
There are several villages nearby!
Why do we have such a big market here? Isn’t it because it is far away from the town! From Lian Town on the left to Dongxiang Town on the right, there is a distance of nearly 80 miles! We live in eight villages within ten miles.