Mr. Ma is from Baimaguan Town. He has nine daughters and only one son.
The year before last, when Man Bao came home from Yizhou City for the New Year, he overheard that Mr. Bai wanted to marry Man Bao for his son. The reason was that Man Bao had six brothers, but Lao Zhoutou disliked his family.
My daughter doesn’t have a son, so I’m not very happy about it.
At that time, Manbao quietly listened to her sisters-in-law discussing a lot about Mr. Ma's family. It is said that because his family has nine daughters, in-laws are spread throughout Baimaguan Town, and two of the daughters have been married to Luojiang County.
Man Bao thought that Mr. Ma was already powerful enough, but he didn't expect that the Cui family was even more powerful than Mr. Ma's family.
Only now could Bai Shan feel the power of the Cui family, or the aristocratic family.
He swallowed and said to Man Bao: "Let's discuss the job field. Other things are not urgent, but chickens can be raised."
Bai Erlang said: "There are not that many chickens."
Man Bao said: "Buy the eggs and hatch them. We will pay for the eggs and buy some hens for nesting."
This was how their small farm used to raise chickens, but they bought the eggs, not the hens.
At that time, they were all handed over to Lao Zhou's hens to help hatch them.
Manbao finished stamping the documents and handed over a copy of the tenancy documents to the village chief. Then she went to talk to her father about it, but she saw that her father was already busy in the fields with others.
When Lao Zhoutou saw Man Bao, he couldn't help but muttered, "How come you rented out all the land and didn't leave an acre for us?"
Manbao was stunned for a moment.
Lao Zhoutou said: "If you don't leave us any land, what are we doing here?"
Manbao was stunned, and after a while he said: "Dad, you stay and take care of them. There are a hundred households of tenant farmers here, and they are cultivating the 1,200 acres of land owned by our family and my husband. You have to watch it.
By the way, are we going to retting?"
Man Bao looked at Bai Shan, and Bai Shan immediately said: "Yes, it is time to fertilize. Uncle Zhou, look at how fertile the land is, but if there is not enough fertilizer, even the best land will be barren."
Old Zhou was immediately diverted and turned to look for the tenant farmers. He had to ask how much manure they had prepared for retting this year.
Lao Zhou got busy with something and immediately couldn't take care of them anymore.
Qian glanced at his back and waved to Man Bao. After looking at her for a while, he reached out and tapped her forehead and said, "Forget about other things, where will your father and the others stay when they come over to look at the land in the future?"
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Man Bao immediately said: "Should I find a place to build a house for dad?"
Qian said: "You can just build a thatched house. After all, this land is only for us to cultivate. It is not in our name. We don't know how many years it can be cultivated."
Man Bao thought of the pond she was going to dig and couldn't help but look at Bai Shan.
The two exchanged eyes for a while, then smiled and agreed.
Qian looked at the two of them and said, "It's not a waste to have money. Although the family is not too short of money now, you can't spend it carelessly."
Man Bao promised: "Mom, don't worry, when have I ever spent money randomly?"
Qian reluctantly believed her.
Man Bao turned around and started discussing with the village chief about buying land.
As soon as the village chief heard that Man Bao wanted to buy land, he was confused, and his good impression of her suddenly fell to the lowest point.
Man Bao pointed to the wasteland in the distance and said: "That piece of sand and gravel is a lot, I don't know if it can be bought or rented."
The head of the village was still thinking about how to reject her. When he heard that she wanted to buy the piece of wasteland, he couldn't help but be stunned, and then asked warily: "What can Mr. Zhou do with that piece of land?"
"Build a house," Man Bao said, "There is no way. I see that the houses in your village are very compact. If my family members want to come over to manage the village in the future, they must have a place to stay. It is better to stay nearby. From the Bai family's village
It will take three-quarters of an hour to get here."
The head of the village breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "That's a piece of wasteland, but we can build a house on it. It's not expensive. Master Zhou can just give some of it if he wishes."
Manbao rolled his eyes and asked, "Then if I buy a bigger one, where should I dig a big pond?"
Li Chang said: "Land is not expensive, but digging ponds costs a lot, and there is a drought right now..."
"It is because of the drought that we have to dig ponds to store water," Man Bao said: "The fields around here are all my work fields. I don't know what the situation will be like next year. If we can store water, it can alleviate the drought to some extent, right?"
She said: "Every acre of land that can be saved is an acre of land."
The head of the village thought she was stupid for having so much money, so he laughed and said, "Mr. Zhou, I'll do whatever it suits me."
Then, without any psychological burden at all, he sold the wasteland, which was of no use and was painful to the feet when walking, to Manbao.
Because he wanted to build a good relationship, he only withdrew the lowest amount of money, and then issued the land deed, which he could then go to the Yamen to file.
As for the money, it is usually left with him and will come out of the government when the village needs it in the future.
Lao Zhou's family knew nothing about this.
Lao Zhoutou and Zhou Dalang followed the villagers and carefully walked half a circle of the thousand acres of land. They determined with them the number of acres of winter wheat to be planted this year. They managed to have a clear idea before returning to the village.
Bai Shan had already begun to plan how deep and how deep the pond should be dug, while Bai Erlang was scribbling on paper to plan how many rooms Manbao would build. "Even if it is gravel land, we can't just build a few bare rooms."
, you can serve as an official for as many years as possible. In such a large piece of land, there will be mulberry fields, fruit trees, wheat fields, rice fields and various fruits and vegetables in the future. We can definitely stay there when we take a break."
He drew on the paper and said: "So I want to have a room, Bai Shan also has a room, and you and your husband. This garden must be planted with more flowers and plants to make it look good. I think I will plant roses, that one."
It will grow a lot and be easy to feed..."
Man Bao said: "Don't forget that there are still members of my family."
"I know, I have to leave a room for Brother Zhou and the others. He has moved his business to Xiazhou now. From Xiazhou to the capital, you have to pass through Yongzhou. If it gets late, you can rest here and set off early the next morning.
Returning to the capital just in time to enter the city at noon, how nice it is to take it easy."
"Well, then cover it a little further to the side."
Bai Shan took the time to take a look and couldn't help but pat him, "If you build it like this, I won't have any space to dig a pond."
Yin You was helping them organize the manuscripts. When he saw it, he smiled and said, "How can any house be built sideways like this?"
He took the pen and helped Bai Erlang plan it. Liu Huan was very bored and asked: "It's enough to leave this kind of thing to the manager, why do you have to do it yourself?"
Man Bao said: "My family has nothing to do."
Liu Huan pointed at Bai Shan and said, "If your family doesn't have one, how can his family not have one? And if you don't have one, just hire one, or buy one. Do you want me to give you one?"
Bai Erlang raised his head and glanced at him, shook his head and said, "Are you stupid? You didn't even give Bai Shan a gift to her, but you actually gave it to her."
Man Bao said: "No, my eldest brother and the others can take care of my family affairs. There is no need to take care of anything at the moment."
If she hires a steward, her father can take her mother, eldest brother and sister-in-law home.
Even though her parents seemed to be living happily in the capital, they missed their hometown very much. If they had nothing to do, they would go home even if they missed her.
There is still so much space at home.
Man Bao saw her father's figure walking outside the door with sharp eyes, and immediately said: "There are so many places where I still have to go to the palace to work, but if I can't take care of it, I will blame them all on my father and the others."