Travel to ancient times and make a fortune

Chapter 24 Buying Land
Li Xiao's goal is to get rich. Before getting rich, he must first get rich. Before getting rich, he must build a good family background.

What is the family background of the farmers?
Yes!

However, Li Xiao's family currently only has six acres of paddy fields, and the family's financial resources are really too thin.

So when Li Xiao brought up the matter of buying land with his parents after lunch, neither his parents objected!

Farmers, farmers, only those who have crops are men.Where do the crops come from?Come to the ground!Without land, no matter how capable a farmer is, it is useless!
After confirming the purchase of land, Li Xiao brought up the matter of buying cattle again.

The plan is to buy twelve acres of paddy fields first, so that there will be a total of eighteen acres. If there are too many fields, pear raking will be time-consuming.

There are sixteen households in the village, and currently only the eldest son of the village chief and Li Dashu, the head of the village, own cattle and pear rakes.

When the farming season is busy, the two families are usually asked to help. One acre of land costs 12 cents, and three to four acres of pears are raked in a day.

Of course, there are also those who are reluctant to spend money, so they borrow a pear rake and use their own hands to rake the pear for 6 cents per acre.

After all, this is slower than oxen and more tiring. There are basically no such people in Dapo Village.

Li Xiao thought about buying a cow for her family, but she didn't necessarily have to buy a pear rake.

In addition to pear raking, oxen are excellent for transporting rice during harvest and for transportation when going to town.

You can borrow a pear rake during spring plowing, which is also convenient for intensive farming at home.

Li Dashan was actually a little hesitant, but Li Xiao mentioned that he would receive fruit wine and fruits from the town in three days, and there would be more next year.

Besides, after the new year, the two elder brothers will go to school and have two days off per month. It will be more convenient if there is an ox cart.

Anyway, for various reasons, Li Dashan was finally persuaded by his daughter, which Li Yuan couldn't bear to look at.

Although she also loves her daughter, her husband, who is unprincipled, is afraid of spoiling his daughter. Fortunately, her daughter is still relatively well-behaved.

The next day, Li Dashan made an appointment with the village chief and went to the city early in the morning to go to the Yamen to apply for the land deed.It was almost noon when he returned home with the cow.

To Li Xiao's surprise, Li Dashan also bought a pear rake.

After this day, everyone in the village knew that Li Dashan's family at the foot of the mountain had bought twelve acres of medium-sized paddy field, as well as an ox and a pear rake.

The new fields are spread out on the roadside outside the village. No one has planted them before, so they are a bit deserted.

Fortunately, it is winter, so we can open up wasteland and cultivate fields.

So, while the half-grown children in the village were playing around, Li Qingsong and the others followed Li Dashan to open up wasteland.

Ten days were enough for the father and son to change the appearance of the originally barren land.

Li Xiao is responsible for cutting grass and feeding chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep every day at home.

Soon, Laba will arrive.

On the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Dashan and Li Qingsong hitched a bullock cart and prepared to go to the town to buy some red dates, peanuts and other things to make Laba porridge.

I bought some meat and other things on the way to prepare myself for a good Chinese New Year!
After buying land and cattle, the family didn't have much money, but it was still plenty.

Twelve acres of medium-sized farmland cost 84 taels, plus red envelopes for the village chief and government officials, a total of 85 taels.I bought a cow for eight taels and a set of pear rake for six taels. One pass cost 99 taels!

But later, six jars of cherry fruit wine and 88 kilograms of oranges were brought in, which brought the family another 5920 yuan, nearly sixty taels!

With more than 60 taels of silver, even if the two boys went to school in the town in the new year, there would still not be much pressure on the family. After all, they were not just sitting back and doing nothing.

As long as you work diligently, your family’s pocket will not be empty!
However, Li Xiao's family, who were busy preparing Laba, would not know that the cherry wine and oranges they sent to Jixiang Restaurant had already arrived in the capital thousands of miles away.

(End of this chapter)