Chapter 24 Buying fields?Build a house?
Chang Xi only listened to the family's affairs as stories.I didn't take it to heart at all, as long as they didn't mess with myself.

Right now, she has one more important thing to say.

"Father! Mother! Tell me, our family has ten taels of silver, can we buy a field or build a house!"

Speaking of buying property, this is the foundation passed down from generation to generation, the well-being of future generations, and the foundation of survival!

Chang Sanshi and his wife suddenly became serious.

Chang Sanshi thought it over before saying: "This is your money, of course it is reserved for your dowry."

Suddenly getting rich, Chang Sanshi inevitably thought about how to use the money.

After all, he is a thin-skinned man who uses the money earned by his daughter to support his family. He can't overcome this hurdle in his heart.

Wen Furong saw through her man at a glance, and he became awkward, so she said to him: "Why does my daughter want to earn money?"

"Don't you just want to have a home of your own and settle down sooner? Living in the family property is not a long-term solution."

After saying this, she turned to look at her daughter again: "Xibao, listen to your mother!"

"Twelve taels are enough to buy an acre of land. If you want to build a house, it can only be the size of our old house.

Xibao, this is the money you earned yourself. Let me tell you, how should the money be spent? "

Chang Xi saw that the initiative was in her own hands, she murmured in her heart, children only make choices!

"Mom, it's so hard to choose!"

"I want it all right?" She said, she snuggled into her mother's arms, looking straight at her mother's soft face.

Xin said that Niang is really beautiful, not the kind of beauty that is startling at first glance, but is as slender as a hibiscus flower, with graceful posture.

Chang Sanshi looked at his daughter amusedly, he was about to open his mouth to tease her, but Chang Ping, who had been silent by the side all the time, spoke at this moment.

"Xibao wants to have the best of both worlds, but there is actually a way!"

What Chang Ping said was tossed over and over in his heart, and he thought about it countless times, and he felt that there was nothing wrong with it.

Chang Xi looked at his eldest brother in surprise: "What way?"

"It's actually very simple. Our family has no land, so we can open up wasteland! I remember that there was an official sent to the village to mobilize the villagers to open up wasteland. At that time, I heard a few ears."

Chang An suddenly realized, and looked at Dad excitedly.

"There is such a thing! At that time, my eldest brother and I were rushing into the mountains to hunt, and we heard the officials say that whoever reclaims the land will belong to that family, and if it is reclaimed, there will be no need to pay the land tax for the first three years!"

"Wow!"

Chang Xi hugged her mother tightly, and buried her face sideways in Wen Furong's arms: "Mother! Let's open up wasteland tomorrow!"

"We can use ten taels of silver to build a small courtyard while reclaiming wasteland, and strive to move out of the family property as soon as possible!"

"We're going to have our own home!" Chang Xi shouted, and the other three brothers jumped up and down happily.

The small courtyard of the farmhouse was lively and lively, and the joy from the heart of the Chang family unconsciously infected Cao Jingxiu. As he was reading a book, the corner of his mouth curled up into a smile.

Before the children were happy, Chang Sanshi and his wife had mixed joys and sorrows, Wen Furong gently stopped, telling them not to make noise, she slowly said: "You are still young, you don't know how hard it is to cultivate wasteland!"

"Ordinary people's homes are not like big landlords. They only need to spend money to hire tenants to cultivate and buy old yellow oxen to plow the land, and they can sit and wait for food."

"What about us?!"

"All we have is a pick, a sickle, and two hands!"

"We rely on intensive farming to eat. If there is more labor, we still have food. If there is less labor, we are afraid that we will starve to death!"

"One mu of land starts from reclaiming wasteland, planting grain, and harvesting good grain. It needs generations to raise the land!"

"That's why, the field is passed down from generation to generation."

"The more fertile the land, the better the crops you plant! It's all because of the fertile soil we have accumulated day after day, with the whole family working hard to pick up fertilizer, pick up stones, burn and bury straw."

Chang Sanshi nodded approvingly: "The current situation of our family is poor and white, and reclamation is to face difficulties."

"Don't say that the land tax will be exempted for three years, it will be exempted for five years. I'm afraid the land has just started to improve, so don't expect a bumper harvest!"

The smiles of the four children froze on their faces, after Chang Xi listened to what his parents said, all the smiles faded away, and tears welled up in his eyes.

The working people are working so hard!

"Mom! Then what should we do?" Chang Ping and Chang An were discouraged and asked Wen Furong in unison.

Chang Sanshi and his wife were silent for a while, thinking about how to choose.There is no turning back in the matter of reclamation. If the field attendant is not well-done, the ground is dug loose, and the seeds are sown, but the harvest is not good, and it is just a waste of effort in the end.

Chang Xi's voice was a little choked up: "Father! Mother! Let's earn more money! Earn money to buy fertile land, the best and most expensive kind of land!"

The whole family suddenly pinned their hopes on Chang Xi. Could it be that if she continued to comprehend medical skills, their family would be able to turn around?

Chang Ping looked at his father: "I still want to reclaim wasteland. Even if Xibao can process medicinal materials to make money, we can't put too much pressure on her. I will go to the village chief tomorrow to ask for an acre of wasteland."

Seeing that Chang Ping had made up his mind, Chang Sanshi also patted him: "What a boy! You have backbone!"

"Whether it's reclaiming wasteland and farming, or digging into the mountains to dig lumps, our whole family is together!"

No one knew that Cao Jingxiu, who was in the next room, listened to the Chang family's conversation, and his thoughts traveled far away, and he couldn't return for a long time.

At night, everyone washes up.

When she was about to go to bed, Chang Xi was not in a hurry to sleep, she stood in the kitchen, staring at the kitchen knife.

"Mother! Mother!"

"Come on! You child, what are you doing in the kitchen if you don't sleep? Are you hungry?"

Chang Xi shook her head, pointed at the kitchen knife seriously: "Mother forbids me to touch it, but I need its help now."

"Okay, you can say it, my mother will get it for you."

Wen Furong had already washed her face, and now she put down her high bun during the day, she looked like a young girl.

Chang Xi couldn't help but praise her mother's beauty in her heart.

"Mother, cut a few slices of fresh yam and let dad put it on the crunchy nest, don't say it's my idea."

She lowered her voice and ordered, and trotted back to the room.

Pulled up the bedding, turned over and fell asleep, and in a blink of an eye it was time for the cock to crow.

"It's not good! The wild boar has gone down the mountain and raised the fields!"

"Get up, guys, let's drive away the wild boar together!"

A dense sound of gongs and drums spread throughout Taihang Village.

Chang Xi was in a hazy sleep, and the shouts sounded familiar.

Now that the Chang family has no land, Wen Furong is not worried at all, she has already heard that the shout is Wang Dahong's voice.

Turned over and continued to sleep, but she couldn't fall asleep, and heard movement outside the house, it was Chang Sanshi who got up.

There was a sound of ping-pong-pong, as if looking for farm tools.

Wen Furong got up and put on her coat casually, buttoned up the buttons, and opened the door: "I said, you don't want to help the old house, chase wild boars, do you?"

"What? Can't you?"

Chang Sanshi thought, he heard his stepmother shouting, so he couldn't cover his ears and pretend not to hear.

(End of this chapter)

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