Why do children belong to other people’s families?
People in Xiaoxi Village are very grateful to Pei Ningyuan's father for what he has done for the villagers. Before the current road was built, it would have taken two days for people in Xiaoxi Village to go to Qinghe Town and back.
Later, Pei Ningyuan inherited the position of village chief, and he also worked hard to lead the villagers to find ways to make money, and he was also very fair in dealing with people. It can be said that the words of the village chief in Xiaoxi Village are more effective than the regulations issued by the Yamen.
When Ji Qingyao arrived at the village chief's house, the village chief had been waiting for her at home for a while. When the village chief's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jiang, saw Ji Qingyao coming with another prey, she laughed so hard that she couldn't even see her eyes.
It's not that she is short-sighted, but she is the first girl in Xiaoxi Village who knows etiquette and is so capable, and she is also the first in the entire Qinghe Town.
Especially after hearing what my husband told me about what happened to this girl in her parents' home, I wanted to love this girl from the bottom of my heart. She also had a cheerful personality. If Ji Qingyao had this kind of heart, she would accept it. She picked up one this morning. The cloth came out to make clothes for Ji Qingyao.
I met Ji Qingyao several times from the day before yesterday to yesterday. This girl was obviously only fifteen years old, but she was dressed in gray cloth. Although it didn't look ugly on Ji Qingyao, she lost the cheerfulness and liveliness that the girl should have.
She didn't know that Jiang wanted to make clothes for Ji Qingyao. She just felt that Jiang and the woman who opened the door for her last night were people with easy-going personalities. Ji Qingyao always had too many people like him. Somewhat tolerant and willing to interact with them.
Ji Qingyao did not hesitate and directly explained that he wanted to buy the vacant land with a low slope in the south.
That area is the highest part of the entire Xiaoxi Village. When Ji Qingyao builds a house there, he doesn’t have to worry about being flooded by heavy rains, landslides, and it’s not far from the villagers’ homesteads, so it’s isolated from outsiders. Harassment.
She had just seen the material of the sloping land, and it was very suitable for building a house. When the time comes, let the house builders lay the foundation stronger, and there would be no problem in living there for hundreds of years. As for after she returns to the west, that is not something she should consider. It's up to one generation to take care of one generation.
When the village chief heard that Ji Qingyao wanted to buy the hillside, he was a little shocked. The land area was at least twenty or thirty acres. The government's price was two and a half taels per acre, and it would cost about sixty or seventy taels of silver to buy it.
"Girl Qingyao, what are your plans for buying such a large piece of mountainous land? Even if you sold the tiger for some money yesterday, building a house will still be a big expense. You have to think clearly."
"Uncle, don't worry about money. Yesterday I sent the tiger to Shalou in the county town and sold it for more than three hundred taels of silver. When I was in Dahe Village, I also had some money from hunting. Building a house is not a problem."
"In addition to building a house on the hillside I want to buy, I want to reclaim the rest to grow food and fruit trees." Ji Qingyao knew that Pei Ningyuan said what he just said just because he was worried about her future life. In this era, blood relatives are unreliable, let alone someone like her. As a single woman, it is always good to have more money with you.
"You kid, even if you want to build a house and grow food, you can't use that much land by yourself. There is an open space at the foot of the mountain that is about four or five acres. You can actually buy it by yourself."
Pei Ningyuan has further considerations. Although Ji Qingyao has settled in Xiaoxi Village, she is nominally an orphan, and buying so much land at once is eye-catching.
After Ji Qingyao came to this time and space, she also had some understanding of the laws of the Daji Kingdom. There were restrictions on buying conventional homesteads and land for a single person like her. The land for building a house could only be purchased in one acre. The maximum land for growing food is three acres, but if it is barren hills and slopes that no one wants, there are not so many restrictions.
She doesn't want to have trouble in the future, so buying a small hillside is the best choice at the moment. She doesn't want to grow too much food. She just needs a few acres of food for each kind of food. If the people in Xiaoxi Village believe her, she will also bring it. Together with these people, we can grow high-yielding and drought-tolerant food.
Ji Qingyao was really not good at explaining, so she had to use the cover of her sleeves to take out a sweet potato and hand it to the village chief.
"Uncle, I saw this in a restaurant yesterday when I went to sell tiger meat. I heard from the shopkeeper that it came from a foreign country. I forgot whether it was called sweet potato or sweet potato. The shopkeeper told me that this stuff fights hunger and can be used as a dish. Eat it, you can also eat it as food.”
When Pei Ningyuan heard this, he excitedly picked up the red thing and carefully stroked it in his hand, as if he were treating a rare treasure.
But after a moment, Pei Ningyuan regained consciousness and looked at Ji Qingyao with a serious face: "What does this thing have to do with your purchase of mountain land? You also said that it is something from foreign countries. None of us have seen it before. I don’t know how produced it is, let alone whether it’s authentic or not.”
