At night, Qingyu's family gathered around the well in the back garden, Zhufeng Shi'an held two lanterns, and Hongtao muttered words, which seemed particularly strange in the dark and windy night.
"The Three-bill Star is here." Hong Tao stepped on a position near the well, "The Blue Star belongs to wood, and wood makes fire, so fire should be used to eliminate evil."
Wen Ya carried the hoe, banged the hoe twice on the position pointed by the heart, and then buried a piece of red cloth. The cold wind in the yard immediately weakened a lot.
Hongtao continued walking and came to the corner of the penthouse and said: "The seven red stars belong to gold, and metal generates water. Senior sister, hang the landscape painting here."
Wen Ya took the nail and hammer again and hammered on the wall a few times to hang the landscape painting.
As soon as it was hung up, the cold air in the courtyard immediately dissipated, the heat wave outside the house also rolled in, the dark clouds in the sky floated away, and the whole house returned to its normal yang energy.
Hongtao stretched and said, "Okay, the evil spirits of the two evil stars have been released. Our house is now stable."
She took everyone to the main room again, pointed to the beam in the southeast and said: "Hang the gourd on the beam with a red line, and the red line is two feet above the ground."
Wen Ya climbed up to the beam with the ladder and hung the gourd.
"A little adds up to a lot, and every year there is more than enough. You are done." Hong Tao clapped her hands, "Senior sister, you have worked hard."
Wen Ya rolled her eyes at Zhufeng, and Zhufeng chuckled, "Junior sister is indeed the backbone of our family."
"Brother, hold the lamp." Qingyu shouted, holding a peach tree branch and came to the center of the courtyard.
She waved her hand, walking like a dragon and snake, and a golden talisman gradually appeared on the ground. The moment she stopped her hand, the golden talisman suddenly enlarged and rushed into the sky. Finally, a golden light shield was formed ten feet above the sky. In the blink of an eye,
Disappear into nothingness.
At the moment when the golden light shield was formed, all the plants in the house sprouted and were reborn, visible to the naked eye. The remaining feeling of decadence in the yard disappeared because of this. The whole house regained its vitality.
"Now that's good, with the head junior sister's peace charm and my Feng Shui skills, our house is now indestructible." Hong Tao yawned, "I'm going to bed, you can do whatever you want."
"One more thing." Qingyu called her, "Tomorrow morning, senior brother and I will go to the countryside.
Senior sister, second senior sister, and second senior brother, you go to the northwest to find a large household, and I divined a divination of ‘shandipi’. The tomb where the old man returned to the mountain needs a shady house.”
"Yin Mansion?" Hong Tao's eyes glowed with golden light, "Junior Sister, Headmaster, what about me in the future?"
Qingyu nodded with a smile, "We are in urgent need of money now, so we have to focus on these big households. It is too time-consuming to wait for guests to come to the door. Family members depend on connections. We have just arrived here, and it will be difficult to make progress in the short term. Only tombs can make a breakthrough.
So Second Senior Sister, I need you to work harder in the future, we don’t wait for customers to come to our door, we have to come to find customers."
Hongtao jumped with excitement, "Okay, okay, I'm happy to do this. Then I'll go to bed quickly and get up early tomorrow."
Zhufeng was a little confused, "Then why are we going to the countryside?"
Qingyu smiled slightly and said, "Buy land."
...
Because they wanted to go to the countryside, Zhufeng and Qingyu set off at Mao o'clock the next day. They hired a carriage and traveled 20 miles north out of the city to the house of Liu Tou, the old man in Zhuang Ya.
Old Liu Tou had just finished breakfast and was stretching in the yard when he suddenly saw a father and daughter walking on the field ridge. He stared at the father and daughter with some curiosity. After a while, the two walked towards his yard.
He stood still and waited until the door was called before he stepped forward and asked, "Are you two looking for me?"
Zhufeng smiled and saluted, "I'm Zhufeng, I'm taking the liberty to come to the door. Is it Mr. Zhuang Ya and Liu Tou?"
"I am." Old Liu responded, inviting Zhufeng and Qingyu into the courtyard, and shouted loudly: "Old lady, pour two bowls of tea and one bowl of sugar water." Then he led the two of them into the main room and sat down.
Old Liu Tou's wife soon came in with tea and sugar water, placed the sugar water in front of Qing Yu, placed a bowl of tea in front of Zhu Feng, and then brought the remaining bowl of tea to Old Liu Tou, and then put the remaining bowl of tea in front of Old Liu Tou.
Sit next to your head.
Old Liu Tou smiled and made the invitation, "Boss Zhu, don't despise a bowl of rough tea."
"You're welcome." Zhufeng took a sip from the teacup, put it down, and got down to business, "I'm here today mainly because I want to ask you to set up a connection. I want to buy land."
"Buy land?" Although everyone who came to him came to buy land, Old Liu Tou was still a little surprised. After all, no one had come to him for a while. He knew the reason why.
"Boss Zhu looks a little unfamiliar. Is this your first time buying land?"
Zhufeng smiled and said, "My family has just moved to Yinzhou and we haven't bought any property yet."
No wonder, it seems that you still don’t understand the market. Old Liu Tou murmured in his heart and said on his face: “It’s a good thing to buy land for your family, but now a lot of land is favored by Boss He. If you want to buy it, I’m afraid you will offend the He family. The He family knows
Bar?"
Zhufeng gratefully held up his hands and said, "Thank you for informing me. The He family is one of the richest businessmen in Yinzhou, and I know that, but since this land has not yet become the property of the He family, I also have the right to buy and sell it."
"Okay, let's go, I'll take you to see the land. What kind of land do you want to buy? How much? Should you buy it as a village or as an individual?"
Zhufeng was stunned for a moment, and said with some embarrassment: "This is my first time buying land. I don't know much about it. May I ask what buying a village is? What is buying a scattered land?"
Anyway, we just talked while walking on the road, so Lao Liutou introduced me carefully, just to pass the time.
"This land is divided into 'sky', 'time', 'territory', 'benefits', 'people' and 'six levels'. The heaven, earth and earth are naturally the most fertile and have the highest yield, and the others decrease in descending order. Different levels of land have different taxes.
, it is still heaven and earth that are the best.
This land sale and village purchase means that large areas are connected together, and the tenant farmers all live in the village. Large farms like those of the He family and the Si family can accommodate tens of thousands of tenant farmers."
"Tens of thousands." Zhufeng was surprised, "How much financial resources will be invested in this?"
Old Liu Tou laughed because of his ignorance, "Landlords will not suffer losses. Tenancy rents in Zhuangzi are the highest.
The sharecroppers worked hard for a year, and what they turned back to them was only a few rations of food left.
If you don’t have food or shelter, you have to rely on the owner of the village. The more you are attached, the harder it is to break away. Alas... in short, the tenant farmers in the village have a difficult life, which means they have lost their financial freedom."
Zhufeng was shocked again, "If that's the case, why do you still want to go?"
"There is no other way. If you don't have money to buy land, you can only rent it. This land transaction changes hands very quickly. Today I am at your house, tomorrow I am at his house. Finally one day, I entered Zhuangzi without even knowing it."
"As long as you have money, you can buy as much as you want." Zhufeng said with some clarity.
"No." Old Liu Tou continued to introduce: "Buying in bulk means you buy whatever piece of land you like, one piece in the east and one piece in the west. They are not connected and cannot form a village."
"Then if I want to buy a farm, how many acres will it cost?"
"It needs to be at least fifty acres. The village has invested a lot, so the more land it can concentrate on, the more cost-effective it is. If there is too little land to build a village, it will not be economical."
"But buying from a bank is much more expensive than buying loose." Zhufeng already understood, "Every item in the bank is worth a lot of money."