Just after breakfast, Old Man Zhao and Ah Fu walked into the yard carrying a large box cage.
"Boss, wife, here are the hundred molds you asked for. They are all here!" Old Man Zhao took out a mold from it, "I tried several styles of this thing but it didn't work. Finally, Ah Fu proposed it. The bottom of the mold is engraved with the four characters "Dahe Zhao", and a lid is added on top. The lid is also curved here, and the thing made will be exactly the shape you drew..."
The old man took out a handful of soft mud from another basket and put it into the mold, pressed it firmly, and then knocked it out. The four words were printed on the front of the mud ball, which looked very nice.
Cheng Wanwan laughed: "Dad, thank you so much, this is what I want!"
The mold is made, the workshop is built, and now work can officially start.
Old Man Zhao breathed a sigh of relief: "As long as you are satisfied."
If the eldest daughter-in-law is not satisfied, he will have to spend time thinking about it. He really does not have this talent, and his head hurts from thinking about it.
"Dad, I'll calculate your wages at ten cents apiece." Cheng Wanwan said with a smile, "A hundred in total, that's one tael of silver."
She asked Zhao Sidan to go to the house to get money.
Old Man Zhao waved his hands quickly: "No, no, I just do it casually. I can't ask for your money. Besides, we are all a family, and we don't speak two different languages. Okay, I'm leaving. "
"Hey, Dad!" Cheng Wanwan said helplessly, "How can I ask you to work like this in the future? Just accept it."
She forced a tael of silver into the old man's hand.
Old man Zhao rubbed his hands: "This matter has caused such a fuss... I am an elder and I am shameless when asking for money. One tael of silver is a bit too much..."
When he was still about to refuse, two people walked in from the door of the courtyard. They were Li Zheng, followed by Cao Yingying.
Li Zheng walked in with a surprised look on his face: "Da Shan Niang, why are you buying land again?"
Cheng Wanwan was even more surprised: "No."
Her family's 60 acres of wasteland has not yet been dealt with, and she has no plans to buy land for the time being.
Li Zheng said: "Miss Cao said you want to buy hundreds of acres of land. I'm just saying, your family has just built a house and bought a carriage. How can you get two hundred taels of silver to buy the land?"
Hearing the two hundred taels of silver, Cheng Wanwan came to her senses and said, "Yingying, do you want to buy property in Dahe Village?"
Cao Yingying nodded: "I want to use all these two hundred taels of silver to buy land. I bought all the land next to my aunt's house."
A long time ago, there were hundreds of acres of wasteland that no one wanted in Dahe Village. Later, the county magistrate rewarded him with a thousand acres. Not long ago, the Holy Spirit rewarded him with three thousand acres. The land boundary expanded a lot. There is no human race in those lands, and they are abandoned there. Li Zheng once again lowered the price a lot for the people in the village, but there were still very few people who could afford to buy land.
"It turns out you want to buy land." Li Zheng laughed, "The land next to Dashan's family's house is all wasteland. People from outside the village buy wasteland for one tael of silver per acre. You have lived in our village for so long, so I just bought it. The people in the village will calculate the money for you. Half a tael of silver per acre, and two hundred taels of silver can buy 400 acres of land..."
Cao Yingying shook her head: "Just calculate it by one tael of silver."
The last time the Cao family came to arrest her, many people in the village stood guard at the gate of the yard. The people in Dahe Village were very warm-hearted and kind, and she would not take advantage of the village.
She knew that the money would be used to subsidize the patrol team in the village, and purchasing land at full price was one of the few things she could do.
Li Zheng disagreed: "It's not easy for you in the Cao family. You bought land in our village. Even if you are from Dahe Village, how can your fellow villagers take advantage of you? It's only five yuan..."
"Uncle Li Zheng, just do what Yingying said." Cheng Wanwan said with a smile, "Two hundred acres of land is not a small amount. Uncle Li Zheng can find a few more people to help measure it."
She knew that the girl wanted to thank the villagers of Dahe Village.
Two hundred taels of silver is nothing to the Cao family, but it can keep the patrol team going for several more years. This money is in short supply in the village.
Since it is lacking, there is no need to refuse.
Li Zheng nodded, and took Old Man Zhao, Zhao Dashan, Zhao Ergou, and his two sons and two grandsons together to measure the land in the back.
Two hundred acres of land is really big. To put it bluntly, it is equivalent to twenty modern international standard football fields.
Measuring land is a delicate job. Seven or eight people worked hard until the sunset before they finally measured out the 200 acres of land, marked the location, wrote the land deed, and then brought it to Cheng Wanwan's home to ask Cao Yingying, the owner of the land deed, to I'll sign it and go to the county to file it tomorrow. It will be considered a success.
"Auntie, come and draw the seal." Cao Yingying handed the ink pad to Cheng Wanwan, "These lands were originally bought for auntie. I was afraid that auntie would not want it, so I cut them off first and then paid them back..."
After Hongyu sent the money yesterday, she immediately sent it to her aunt's room, but her aunt didn't accept anything she said.
The aunt didn't want it, but she had to give it. She lay in bed and thought about it all night before finally coming up with this idea.
Giving money is too vulgar, it is better to exchange it for land.
For farmers, land is the most precious wealth.
Cheng Wanwan was a little stunned. She really didn't expect that this girl bought two hundred acres of land to give it to her.
"Yingying, you..."
"If it weren't for my aunt, I still don't know what kind of situation I would be in." Cao Yingying held Cheng Wanwan's hand, "Actually, I also have selfish motives. After these lands are given to my aunt, then I will live in this home in the future. , you will feel more comfortable and will not feel like a burden...Auntie, take it..."
Cheng Wanwan touched her hair: "I will accept these two hundred acres of land, but I have to agree first that if I give you something in the future, you can't refuse it."
Cao Yingying smiled happily: "Okay, thank you, Auntie."
Cheng Wanwan shook her head helplessly. This girl gave things to others and said thank you to others. How silly.
Li Zheng brought the ink pad over with a smile, asked Cheng Wanwan to draw it, then blew it and said: "Da Shan Niang, your family's wasteland now has more than 260 acres, and you can't take care of so much land. I’m afraid I’ll have to hire someone to plant it.”
"There's no rush." Cheng Wanwan shook his head, "I'll think carefully about what these wastelands are for, and then I'll ask Uncle Li Zheng for help."
Li Zheng happily agreed and went back with the land deed.
In the evening, many people from the village came to deliver dry firewood. In the past two days, the family had collected at least two thousand kilograms of dry firewood.
A bundle of firewood weighs at least twenty kilograms, and it is all chopped. Two kilograms cost a penny, and a bundle costs almost ten pence. An adult man can pick up two bundles from a trip to the mountain, and he can make three or four trips a day. That works out to sixty or seventy cents a day.
"Old Wang, you didn't go down to the ground today. How many times did you go up the mountain?"
"I made four trips and chopped four loads of firewood. My son was responsible for chopping firewood at home. The two of us worked together and earned more than 70 penny a day."
"I had to water the fields in the afternoon, so I wasted a little time and only made more than 40 cents."
"Sister-in-law Zhao said she would only charge for half a month, so we must take advantage of this time to make money. If we make money, we can buy winter clothes and decorate them. The children will be happy."
"..."
The person in charge of collecting firewood was Zhao Ergou before, but this day he was replaced by Zhao Dawang.
If Zhao Dawang wants to learn how to do business, he should start with receiving goods and settling accounts.
This boy is very articulate and can calculate accounts very quickly. He can also write and write down one calculation after another. He moves very quickly.
Cheng Wanwan pulled Cao Yingying into the back room, and she prepared a gift for the little girl.
