Happy pastoral sturdy little lady

Chapter 350

Da Ya couldn't help but smiled wryly.

In this way, her dream of buying two small mountains near Shanqian Village to build an orchard was shattered!To build a women's college, she bought a small hill next to the college, which was reasonable and reasonable, and no one had room to talk about it.However, if she buys a mountain to plant fruit trees, it will be different, and it will cause very bad effects!
Just imagine, if she did this, what would the other villagers think?At that time, everyone will follow suit and buy mountains to plant fruit trees, which will be very detrimental to the policy of "closing mountains for forestation and preserving water and soil".

There was no other way, Shui Qingqian and Daya went to the vicinity of Peach Blossom Valley to check again.

Except for the three small mountain villages in the five-mile area under the mountain of Peach Blossom Valley, the rest of the place was bestowed by the emperor with clear and shallow water.There are several small mountains and valleys in that place.The trees in these places grow relatively sparsely, and there are no large trees over 30 years old.

The big girl nodded and said: "Well, let's build an orchard here! There are mountains, waters, and valleys, not bad!"

In fact, this is also a helpless move.Because the roads in this area are not easy to walk, if you want to build an orchard here, you must first build a road about ten miles long.In this case, labor costs plus various expenses will cost at least 500 taels of silver.

500 taels of silver, for Da Ya, that is a lot of money!

There is no shadow of the orchard yet, so I have to pay 500 taels first. To be honest, Da Ya is a bit reluctant.You know, there must be no harvest when planting fruit trees!Generally speaking, it takes three to five years for the fruit trees planted that year to harvest.

However, Da Ya has a spiritual spring to help her, and she has a way to make the fruit tree bear fruit in the year it is planted.If you keep a low profile, let the fruit tree heal in the second year, and once the fruit tree bears fruit, it must be fragrant and sweet!

Thinking about it this way, Da Ya's mentality became more balanced, and she immediately made a decision: "Build the road first, and then plant fruit trees!"

Shui Qingqian nodded: "Well, that's fine! In the spring of next year, the emperor will send people to Peach Blossom Valley to build the palace. Before the road is repaired, it will be a big problem to transport bricks and tiles! Besides, I guess we have to start from the foot of the mountain first. To build hundreds of steps, a large amount of stone slabs must be transported. If the road leading to the outside is not repaired, transporting the stone slabs will also be a big problem!"

When Da Ya heard this, she immediately became interested: "You mean, build a step leading to the Peach Blossom Valley from the foot of the mountain in Tianjia Village? Besides, you need to use large stone slabs to build stone steps?"

Shui Qingqian: "Yes, I think this is better! From the foot of the mountain to the Peach Blossom Valley, the journey is actually not that far, but because it is too rugged, it used to take at least an hour every time I went up the mountain! It's been too long, if the stone steps are completed, we can still climb the stone steps every day, it's good to be exercising!"

Da Ya: "Well, that's a good idea! If it is built into stone stairs, I think at my speed, I can go up to Peach Blossom Valley in a quarter of an hour!" In the past, Da Ya's speed would take an hour.If it was Rao Shouqin, it would take two and a half hours.

Just do what you say, and when you get home, Da Ya announced this decision to her family.Early the next morning, Shui Qingqian went to the county government office in person and took out the emperor's imperial decree.

When the county magistrate saw it, he quickly wrote a title deed, stating that the mountain where Peach Blossom Valley is located, and the area five miles below the foot of the mountain, were granted by the emperor to King Pingxi.

Moreover, he immediately took people with him to the Peach Blossom Valley area with Shui Qingqian to measure the land and set the boundaries.

The land deed states that the mountain where Peach Blossom Valley is located, and the area five miles below the foot of the mountain, except for three small mountain villages, all belong to King Pingxi.These mountains and lands can be hereditary and passed down from generation to generation.

In a word, enjoy permanent ownership!
Now it is the slack season, and I heard that Da Ya is going to build roads in the mountains, Shui Sheng immediately found a few good young and middle-aged people, and volunteered to help build the road.

Da Ya: "Brother-in-law, you are familiar with the people in Tianjia Village, please invite young and middle-aged people from the three nearby villages to build roads! Hire people from Shanqian Village, the distance is a bit far, and it is not possible to sleep in the open in summer. Therefore, Let's try to invite the nearby mountain people!"

Shuisheng patted his thigh: "Hey, why didn't I think of it? I have very good friends in those three villages. It would be great to ask them to come forward to invite people! Today, the life of the people in the mountains is still very good. If you ask them to build the road, they must be very willing!"

On the contrary, it is not good to hire people from Shanqian Village. Most of the people in Shanqian Village can solve the problem of food and clothing. In this cold weather, hiring people to repair roads must be very expensive.Moreover, going there from Shanqian Village would take at least an hour by bullock cart, which was really not worthwhile.

Shuisheng drove away the carriage, and together with Rao Shouqin, happily went to Tianjiacun, Wangjia'ao and Zaoshugou to ask people to build roads.

After running through three villages in one day, a total of 56 young and strong men were hired. When these people heard that they still had work to do in this winter, and they were working for King Pingxi and Mrs. How happy!

King Pingxi has a good reputation, and Mrs. Rao is a well-known good person in a hundred miles around. Working for such a person, they feel very at ease.Even, I feel very proud and proud!Moreover, after the road is repaired, it will be convenient for everyone in the future, right?

The winter in Hulu County is not too cold. At this moment, the ground has not yet frozen.

However, there is only half a month left before the time of freezing.Da Ya handed over all the road construction to Shui Sheng.

Shui Sheng arranged it in a hurry, allowing everyone to combine freely, and five people contracted a lot.Wages are calculated according to the location.Do more and get more, and do less and get less.

Before the freezing, half of the ten miles of road had been repaired.

Everyone who participated in the road construction received two taels to three taels of silver. Everyone laughed from ear to ear, and kept saying that the prince and princess are good people, good people!
With this sum of money, this new year will be much better, and you can eat and dress warmly!Even if it snows heavily, people will not starve to death or freeze to death!
In the eyes of everyone, Shui Qingqian and Daya are the incarnations of that Bodhisattva.Because of the road construction, I have helped many people in the three villages a lot, so that they have money to survive, so that they will not die of starvation, cold or disease, which is considered a good deed!

Another new year has arrived!

This year's Spring Festival is the busiest year in Shanqian Village.

Da Ya made cotton-padded clothes and trousers for each of the five widowed old people in the village, and gave them thirty catties of rice, fifty eggs, ten catties of pork, two chickens, two catties of sugar, a brand new quilt, a pair of Cotton shoes, five taels of silver.

Made two cotton-padded clothes and trousers for each grandparent, two pairs of cotton shoes, and sent fifty catties of rice, fifty eggs, twenty catties of pork, five chickens, five catties of sugar, two brand new quilts, 100 Two taels of silver, ten catties each of peanuts and melon seeds, ten catties of pastries, ten catties of candies and biscuits, one basket of fruit, and ten catties of raisins.

Some people may say that Da Ya treats the elderly differently and treats her grandparents well, far surpassing the other five elderly people.In fact, Da Ya is not lonely, it is not that she is reluctant to part with that little silver.It's really hard to be a good person. If you give too much, sooner or later, there will be a strange phenomenon of "promoting kindness against mihou".

Back then, when she narrowly escaped death and returned to Shanqian Village with Zhenxing, how did the villagers treat her?So far, she can't completely forget it.That memory is so deep that it is not easy to forget it.

Besides, it's perfectly normal to be nice to your own grandparents!Even if she doesn't give things and money to those lonely old people, she still has to treat her grandparents well!
Made two new clothes for father and mother, made two pairs of shoes, bought a valuable leather coat, and gave 100 taels of silver.Give grandma and grandpa two new clothes, two pairs of new shoes, 100 taels of silver.

Shui Qingqian was very straightforward, giving 200 taels of silver to grandparents and grandparents each, 500 taels of silver to Da Ya’s parents, and 100 taels of silver to each of the fifth uncle and fifth aunt.

Liu Xiangchun was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear, and went around saying how nice Da Ya and Master Shui were.When the women in the village heard this, they didn't know how much they envied her, and quite a few were jealous.However, Da Ya is now a majestic princess, those jealous people only dare to be jealous in their hearts, and dare not say even a single strange word in person.

Dare to say, it is the three families of Rao Lao Er, Rao Lao San and Rao Lao Si!
By the way, Rao's second family suddenly came back three days before the Chinese New Year.On the first day back, I went to visit Ningyuan and Jingyuan, but was driven away by Daya and Erya with a broom, and I couldn't even enter the door.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Rao's family came again.

A big family, more people came than last time, Rao Mudan and Rao Moli, their husbands and children, all came at once!After a rough estimate, there were about thirty of them.

Bai Shi is still the ghostly look before, with a pair of eyes rolling his eyes non-stop, with an air of aloofness.

Da Ya couldn't help frowning: There are so many people here, is this the rhythm of wanting to quarrel?She couldn't help but glared at Rao Fugui: "Brother Fugui, what does this mean? It's Chinese New Year, so many people came and blocked the door. What are you trying to do? Are you preparing for a fight, or are you preparing for a fight?" fight?"

Rao Fugui is the eldest son of Rao's second son, and the only one with a conscience in the second room.As far as this person is concerned, Da Ya is still willing to pay attention to him, otherwise, he will just drive him away with a sweeping broom.

Rao Fugui was full of embarrassment, and blushed: "Sister Da Ya, don't get me wrong, we are here to apologize, not to quarrel or fight!"

Da Ya waved her hand: "I have nothing to say to your family members. Your second room has severed ties with our eldest and fifth rooms long ago! For so many years, your second room people left your grandparents alone. You have never given a copper coin or a grain of rice to your grandparents. Now, you suddenly say this, how can I believe that your family still has a conscience and a sense of shame? You go, and if you block the door like this, don’t blame me You are welcome!"

Back then, when she was forced to take her child away to the northwest, the people in the second and third bedrooms created a lot of rumors about her, saying that she stinks like shit.Those words are said to have spread to the capital!
Now, it is too late to say that he is here to apologize!

Rao Fugui's face turned red immediately, and he was so ashamed that he couldn't even lift his head.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, Mrs. Bai hurriedly tried to hug Da Ya's arm cheekily, but Da Ya gave her a cruel look and stared back.However, she still didn't give up, and still apologized with a cheeky smile: "Big girl, it was the second aunt who was wrong back then, and the second aunt knew it was wrong. You are a lot of adults, so give the second aunt a chance to correct her mistakes! I am your direct relative. Second Aunt, you have to recognize me as Second Aunt, otherwise, I will not be able to survive!"

Da Ya glanced at her coldly, and said to Rao Fugui: "Brother Fugui, you come in alone, but you have to let them all go back! I don't want to see any of these people!"

(End of this chapter)