farming female castellan

Chapter 85 Watching the Stars Together
Mo Jian ran over the fastest: "Young master, the measurement is done, 2085 mu. It's okay to buy 2000 mu, but you don't need to buy 85 mu over there." He pointed to a certain place with his finger.

"Buy them all." Zhang Ci said.

"Okay." The ink note responded.

More than 2000 mu of land, equivalent to a little more than 250 taels of silver.

Li Zheng walked over panting, Qin Zheng didn't fly this time, and walked with Li Zheng.

Zhang Ci waved his hand slightly, Mo Jian took out a small box from the carriage, and went back with Li Zheng.

Qin Zheng reported the specific figures to him: "The north-south direction is four hundred feet (1200 meters), and the east-west direction is three hundred feet (900 meters). The other is the 85 acres."

Zhang Ci nodded.

Mo Jian came back with the box under his right arm, and said, "Master, the money has already been paid, and he will go to the county government office to apply for the land deed tomorrow. When will someone be arranged to work?"

"Don't worry, we'll make arrangements with the girl."

Several people walked back in a carriage.

Dinner was eaten at Qi Lizheng's house. Qin Zheng took out dried meat, rice and salt, and Chen Fan took out sweet potatoes and a basket of green vegetables, beans, carrots and cucumbers.Chen Fan told them to keep the big ones, and the small sweet potatoes can be boiled in one pot, and then simmered in several stoves to eat.

Lizheng's family is very enthusiastic. He has three sons, three daughters-in-law, a 14-year-old daughter, and seven grandchildren.

Li Zheng said: "It was thanks to the people in Yuanfeng County that we didn't starve to death a while ago. It's not bad for us to rely on the river, and we can finally plant some seedlings."

Zhang Ci said: "The amount of water in the river here should be good, right? The wheat should be harvested."

"The water in the river has almost bottomed out, so we don't have enough land to plant, otherwise there wouldn't be enough to irrigate the land."

Zhang Ci looked at Chen Fan: "This river comes from Huaizhou. Huaizhou's terrain is relatively high, and the water there is relatively fast, and the water can easily break through the dam."

Chen Fan nodded his head to express his response, remembering what Guanshi Li said, the governor of Huaizhou was beheaded the year before last, and the disaster was very serious because of the embankment burst.

"The road we came from was so dry that there was no water at all. Is there still need for disaster relief?"

"Necessary, Pingzhou, Yuzhou, Huaizhou, and Xizhou are still providing disaster relief. Many victims have received relief food or money to go home. Shengping County is not very balanced, and there is a big difference between whether there is water or not. Yema Mountain should have water now. Water, otherwise the Liu family would not have taken a fancy to it. But the mountain must have been chopped down."

Chen Fan smiled: "Yes." They even know these things?It's like having a map in your mind.

Qi Lizheng took up the conversation: "The mountains in Shengping County are not easy to keep. There is little food, so the trees are cut down and burned, and the wild vegetables are dug too hard. There is a lot of wasteland and heavy taxes. Many people have escaped. Those of us who are left Those who come down will pay even heavier taxes.”

"How much tax do you pay per mu of land?" Chen Fan asked.

"Four buckets of rice per mu is twice as much as in Yuanfeng County, but the grain harvested in the field is not as much as in Yuanfeng County. If you can't eat enough, you dig wild vegetables and eat leaves and bark. The water and soil are not good, and the food is not good to grow. .” Lizheng sighed.

This is a vicious circle.

"Where is Guangyun County on the opposite side?" Qin Zheng asked.

"It's the same in Guangyun County. Four buckets are collected. The county magistrate of Guangyun County is the eldest uncle of your Liu family. He is very upright and doesn't greedy the people's money. Has the local son over there gone to see it?"

"I've seen it. Two thousand acres of land have already been bought."

"Then you will have to pay a lot of taxes. I hope these lands will produce food as soon as possible."

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Qi family brought the sweet potatoes in the pot to the table.

"What is this?" Li Zheng asked.

"It's sweet potatoes, with a production capacity of two to three thousand catties per mu." Chen Fan said a conservative figure.

"Two or three thousand catties? Then you don't have to go hungry." Li Zheng was very happy.

"I have some sweet potato vines on my carriage, not too many, you can try to plant a few. I can plant them early next spring."

Chen Fan peeled the sweet potato skin: "You can peel the skin and eat it, or you can cut it and dig out the meat."

Everyone took a bite and praised it one after another.

Lizheng's wife used tongs to pick out the sweet potatoes one by one, and the rich aroma permeated the whole main room.

"This one is more fragrant." The children ate happily.

Chen Fan stepped into the carriage, threw a handful of sweet potato vines to the ground, took out another, and another, and another, and the pile grew higher and higher on the ground.

"Can there be so much piled on this carriage?" The little daughter-in-law opened her mouth.

"It's well pressed on the carriage." Chen Fan said.

Space and her are now getting more and more tacit understanding, quietly and obediently fell into the carriage a lot.

Chen Fan asked them to take a pair of scissors, cut a section of sweet potato, and explained how to cut it and how to plant it.

Lizheng's family worked together and cut a hundred sweet potato vines in a short while.

"Is it possible to cut tens of thousands of roots?" Lizheng estimated, and asked the eldest son to gather people.

Lizheng's wife, also surnamed Wang, took Chen Fan and the others to a house in the back, saying that his house had a vacant yard and a spacious room where they could live.

Qin Zheng gave his family fifty Wen, and the family happily swept the floor clean, wiped the tables, chairs, beds and stools twice, even wiped the window frames, and boiled hot water for them.

Qin Zheng wanted to help Chen Fan carry hot water, but Chen Fan declined.How could she bother someone else's maid?

After taking a shower, Chen Fan washed his clothes.Qing Ji washed his and Mo Jian's clothes, Qin Zheng washed hers and Zhang Ci's clothes.

There are a lot of clothes hanging on the clothesline under the eaves.

It was not completely dark yet, Chen Fan stood in the yard looking at the stars, and Zhang Ci stood beside her, also looking at the starry sky.

In fact, there are no stars in the sky.It rained during dinner, and the sky and the ground are still wet.

Qin Zheng brought two chairs, put them behind them, and retreated into the room.The Qingji is outside the door, and the ink stick is on... the roof.

Chen Fan looked at the roof.

"He's on the other side and can't see us. We can't see him either," Zhang Ci said.

"He also sleeps on the roof?" She looked at Zhang Ci.

Zhang Ci smiled: "Sleeping in the room, on the bed. He is just observing the surrounding environment now."

"Can you fly to the roof too?"

"I can. Take you to the roof to see?" Zhang Ci looked at her.

She shook her head.

Zhang Ci talked about the knowledge of the 28 constellations, and talked about which constellations correspond to several places on land.

"Mr. Zhang is erudite and talented. He knows astronomy at the top and geography at the bottom." Chen Fan praised him sincerely.

"It's common sense that we have to have."

Good Versailles.

The two stood silently for a while.

It was dark and quiet, and Chen Fan's sense of smell and touch seemed to be particularly sensitive, and she smelled a faint fragrance of bamboo leaves.She could feel that he was by her side, and his aura came towards her vaguely.Even faintly, there was a faint traction, leading her to lean closer, and then lean closer.

"Let's have a rest early, and leave." She turned around as she spoke.

"Chen Fan!" Zhang Ci called out in a soft voice.She stopped.

He walked up to her and looked at her.

(End of this chapter)