Chapter 0166 – Buying Wasteland (1 / 2)

On the way home Lan Luoluo and the two of them stopped by the Wu family again to ask if they wanted to buy a field. After learning that Lan Luoluo wanted to buy barren land, Elder Wu habitually went to stroke his beard. “When you enter the countryside, we’re all farmers nowadays, so it’s only right that we should buy some fields. But we intend to buy good fields, that Zhang family definitely can’t take that much compensation silver.

In the next day or two, we’ll definitely have to sell the land to raise money, and then Grandpa will learn from others to take advantage of the fire and buy those fields at a low price.” Elder Wu stroked his beard to reveal a bad smile.

“Grandpa you are this ……” Lan Luoluo extended a thumb to show her admiration, not realizing that the usually serious and generous person had such a heartfelt and cute side.

The Wu family will not buy land for the time being, so the two of them went home and put on a carriage and went straight to the village entrance to meet with Zhao Lizheng.

At the entrance of the village, Zhao Lizheng cautiously boarded the Shen family’s carriage. However, he sat on the frame and did not enter the carriage. Even so, Zhao Lizheng’s inner excitement was like a beating drum!

Shen Che and Lan Luoluo’s ear power were both higher than normal, so they could naturally feel Zhao Rizheng’s nervousness. The duo had to ease Zhao Rizheng’s consternation by talking.

“Zhao Lizheng, I just forgot to ask about the price of the wasteland, how much does the village’s wasteland cost per mu?”

Zhao Lizheng, who was sitting on the frame with the driver, heard Shen Che’s question and sidestepped his body a bit towards the car door, “Sir Shen, the last thing we lack in the Northwest is wasteland, and these wastelands are not worth one or two silver pieces per mu.”

Compared to the seven or eight taels per acre of good land, one or two silver taels per acre of wasteland was simply a cabbage price. Zhao Lizheng sighed again and continued to speak.

“Although the barren land is cheap, but the care of the effort, hard work for a year to organize a good land final output is not as high as the general dry land output, the village people are not willing to their own silver money down the drain, and gradually no one went to buy the barren land.”

Lan Luoluo nodded in understanding, suddenly she remembered that there was quite a bit of dead grass drying in the Zhao family’s yard, and the Zhao family’s daughters-in-law seemed to be weaving grass mats while they were there.

“Zhao Lizheng, does your family rely on making grass mats to sell for money on weekdays?” Other than taking the woven grass mats to sell for money, Lan Luoluo couldn’t think of what else his family used to weave so many grass mats for.

As soon as he mentioned the straw mattresses, Zhao Rizheng sighed again, “Alas, which is to sell them is to keep them for making beds in the winter. Northwest winter is very cold, poor people can’t afford to buy so much cotton, can only make do with grass mattresses to make beds, on the bed a few more layers to protect from the cold.”

Lan Luoluo remembered that those rooms at home were furnished with beds, and Rizheng’s house was also furnished with beds, so it couldn’t be that this side didn’t even have a fire kang?

In my last life, I followed my master to visit a friend deep in the Changbai Mountains, and in the northeast of the country, every family burns a big kang in the winter, and it’s as warm as spring inside the house with snow and ice outside.

Local people in winter cats in the house, cross-legged to the big kang a sit drinking small wine nagging stoned not to mention how comfortable. The kang is the treasure of winter in Northeast China.

“Zhao Lizheng, do all the families here sleep in beds? Don’t you have a kang?”

“What is a kang?” Zhao Lizheng couldn’t help but mutter in his heart that this Mrs. Shen’s question was so strange, where else can you sleep if not in bed?

It’s hard to believe that people from the capital don’t sleep in beds but on the floor at night? The living habits of those nobles in the capital were really different from theirs.

Lan Luoluo understood that there was no kang here yet, so she told the two of them about the principle of the kang for heating. She would ask Hua Hulu if she had any drawings for the kang, and then she would replace all the beds in the house with big kangs.

Soon the carriage into the county, looking at the Yamen Zhao Lizheng sighed a carriage is fast, if he walks half an hour is not estimated to arrive.

The magistrates on duty at the entrance of the courthouse all recognized Shen Che and Lan Luoluo, and someone had long since gone inside to report to the county magistrate. The Second Prince, who was working in the inner room, heard that they had come and quickly ran out of the room.

“Cousin, sister-in-law you came to the court for something?” The second prince had a little expectation in his heart that it would be to deliver the antidote to him.