Farmhouse Golden Phoenix

Chapter 14

After the new year, Su Jingsen was going to take Su Zhiping and Su Zhian to the town, to meet the teachers in the school, and then to do some repairs.Su Qinghe made a fuss and wanted to go too, but Su Jingsen had no choice but to take her along as well.

The husband's house is just across the street from Su Jingmu's bookstore. The environment is good and quiet.Su Jingmu took their family to the door of the school, and after knocking on the door, a boy came to open the door.

"Excuse me, is Mr. Chen at home?" Su Jingmu asked with a smile, the boy nodded, turned his gaze, and asked with a smile: "Are you going to school? Please follow me, Mr. is reading in the study."

Su Jingmu nodded, and stuffed a paper bag into the boy's hand, which contained two pieces of snacks.The boy happily accepted them and led them into the yard.Then he went to the study to report, and not long after, he came out and took them to the study.

Mr. Chen looked about 40 years old, with a palm-length beard, a slightly thin figure, and looked refined.There was a little boy standing next to him, he looked about ten years old, he was white and clean, and he was looking at them curiously with his eyes rolling.

"Mr. Chen, my surname is Su, Su Jingmu. This is my brother Su Jingsen. I am here this time for my brother's two sons." Su Jingmu stepped forward to salute and pointed at Su Zhiping and Su Zhian: "My brother wants They go to school to study, please ask Mr. Chen to see how qualified they are."

Mr. Chen nodded slightly, then turned to look at Su Zhiping and Su Zhian: "What are your names and how old are you?"

"Mr. Hui, the boy Su Zhiping, is 11 years old this year."

"Mr. Hui, boy Su Zhian, is nine years old this year."

Mr. Chen stroked his beard and asked, "Have you ever read and written at home?"

"No." Su Zhiping and Su Zhian shook their heads, a little embarrassed.Mr. Chen changed the question: "Have you ever thought about why you want to study?"

Su Zhiping pursed his lips and looked at Su Jingsen. Su Jingsen was more nervous than the two sons, and the hand holding Su Qinghe was full of sweat.Su Zhiping looked down at Su Qinghe again, and then turned to answer his husband's words: "For the family, to protect the family, to make the life of the family better, and to make more people as safe and prosperous as my family."

Mr. Chen nodded, and turned to look at Su Zhian. Su Zhian was still smiling, but now he shook his head and said, "In order to increase knowledge and broaden horizons, reading can make sense, and you can know more things."

"That's right, both children are talented." Mr. Chen put on a smile, nodded and said, "From tomorrow on, let them go to school, and I will teach them."

Su Jingsen was overjoyed and bowed to Mr. Chen again and again: "Thank you sir, thank you sir."

As he said, he served ten strips of pork, each weighing two or three catties, and ten strips were almost twenty or thirty catties.Then he took out a paper bag from his pocket, which contained ten taels of silver.The boy next to him took it and put it aside.

Mr. Chen took four books from the table and handed them to Su Zhiping and Su Zhian respectively: "In the future, you should keep these two books with you. After I teach you your homework during the day, you should practice hard at night when you go back."

Su Zhiping and Su Zhian followed to salute Mr. Chen: "Thank you sir."

Mr. Chen waved his hand: "Okay, let's go back first, do you know where the school is? You will go to school tomorrow, remember to bring your pen, ink, paper and inkstone."

Afterwards, Su Jingsen left with the three children.The school is the innermost part of this street. Su Jingmu took them to the door to recognize the way, and then went back to the bookstore.Su Jingsen led the children to continue to the livestock market, planning to buy a bullock cart to go back first.

As the name suggests, the livestock collection is for buying and selling livestock, and there are few horses. Except for the big families, few people in the town use horses.On the contrary, there are more mules, then cattle and sheep, and then chickens, ducks, geese, cats, dogs and pigs.

Although Su Jingsen’s family didn’t have an ox cart, but Grandpa Su’s had one. At that time, Su Jingsen followed him to buy it, and he was quite experienced, so he looked at them one by one, finally picked a half-sized cow, and started bargaining. The transaction was made at four taels of silver.After spending half a tael of silver, I bought a rather big car.

For the two packages, Su Jingsen sat in the front and drove the car, while Su Zhiping and Su Zhian and Su Qinghe sat in the back and flipped through the books they just got.

"Brother, there are so many characters on it." Su Qinghe flipped through it twice, and all of them were in traditional characters. She could recognize only two or three tenths of them.It's not that she is illiterate, but that the ancient characters are slightly different from the modern traditional characters, and the pronunciation and meaning are almost bigger.

"Well, after the eldest brother learns these characters, I will teach you to read when I come back." Although Su Zhiping is usually steady, he is still a half-grown child. He liked to read before. If it wasn't because the family had no money, he would probably be able to read now. The test child is born.

Now the wish came true, and I couldn't close my mouth with joy along the way.Su Zhi'an did the same, and nodded vigorously: "Little sister, the second brother will also teach you to read and write, and then we can read together."

"Little hairy boy, don't know as much as your little sister." Su Jingsen laughed and cursed in front, and Su Zhian replied loudly: "No way, I must know more than little sister."

Su Zhiping leaned over and asked, "Father, when shall we buy the land?"

"Let's go now. I talked to Lizheng a few years ago and asked him to keep an eye out for us. Go over and ask today to see if anyone wants to sell the land." Su Jingsen said with a smile: "If not, let's Just open up wasteland by yourself."

According to the regulations in the village, each person is entitled to five acres of land, and the Su family has a total of five members, so the current family has fifteen acres of land.If you want to open up wasteland, you don't have to pay tax this year, but you have to pay one tael per mu for land reclamation.

Don't think that in ancient times, land can be reclaimed at will. Where is the field, where is the forest, and where is the wasteland, these are all recorded by the government, and reclaiming wasteland will be punished.

Li Zheng's family lived in the middle of the village, and Su Jingsen drove the carriage there.It happened that Li Zheng was at home, and when Su Jingsen and the others entered, Li Zheng asked directly, "Jingsen came here to buy land?"

"Yes, please excuse me." Su Jingsen said with a smile, and Lizheng took out two brochures and flipped through them: "There are two ways to do things in this place, one is to buy, and the other is to open up wasteland. Those by the river in our village The land has not been opened yet. If you want to open up wasteland, you have to ask for those by the river, and you can only open [-] acres. If you buy it, there are three families who want to sell their land this year. One is the Yang family, and their eldest son became a teacher Now, wanting to open a shop, Lao Yang wanted to sell the land, which has ten acres, to buy a shop for his eldest son."

"The other family is the landlord Wang's family in the east of the village. His youngest son is addicted to gambling and owes money. The landlord wants to sell a hundred acres of land. The other family is the third son of Qiao's family in the west of the village. They The whole family eats too much and is lazy, and they don’t want to farm anymore, so they have to sell it, the total is [-] acres, you can see where you want it.”

Su Jingsen hesitated for a moment: "How is that place?"

"You know, the land of the Yang family is only four or five acres away from yours. They are all good land, and they cost five taels of silver per mu. The owner of the Wang family is also a fertile field, and it is also five taels of silver. It is a fertile field, but it has been abandoned for a year, and it is also five taels of silver. The one by the river is only one tael of silver, and it has been like this for many years."

Li Zheng closed the brochure and said with a smile: "If you want to buy more, you can buy land from Wang Landlord's house. It's rare for their house to sell land. Of course, Yang's house is also good. It's a little far."

Su Jingsen smiled a little embarrassedly: "One hundred acres is too much, I can't afford it, and now I only have more than 200 taels of silver on hand." It's too far, almost across a village.

Li Zheng smiled and nodded: "Look, whoever you want to buy, you have to think about it as soon as possible. Several companies have come over and asked if they want to buy land."

Su Jingsen also couldn't make up his mind, so after thinking for a while, he said, "Why don't I go home and discuss it, borrow money, if it works, I'll buy more. If it doesn't work, let's open up wasteland."

Li Zheng naturally had no objection, and when Su Jingsen got up and left, he sent the brochure back to the inner room.

Su Jingsen first consulted with Su Zhang, but Su Zhang wanted to buy a hundred acres of land, but he also had no money, so after thinking for a long time, he frowned and said: "My natal family can borrow a dozen or so, but We are short of half the silver, how about asking Fifth Brother?"

"My fifth brother doesn't have much there. I have to build a house for my parents this year, so I don't know if I can borrow it." Su Jingsen sighed, squatting by the door and said, "Otherwise, let's just buy the house from the Yang family, and then we can borrow it." Let’s go to open up wasteland.”

Mrs. Su Zhang was not happy: "It costs money to open up wasteland. Although you don't pay taxes next year, it will be a waste of land. You don't need to spend money? How many people do you have to hire to work on a hundred acres? What else do you have to do?" Yes, buy ready-made land, just in time for spring sowing."

Su Jingsen spread her hands: "Then we don't have money, what do you think we should do?"

Su Qinghe listened to it for a long time, and lay on Su Jingsen's lap to come up with an idea: "Father, let's make money. Last time I made preserved eggs and made 300 taels. If we make something that no one else has eaten before, we will earn money." Yet?"

Mrs. Su Zhang nodded her forehead: "Do you think that everything is easy to make? You just made the preserved eggs by chance. Tell me, what else we haven't seen before?"

Su Qinghe pouted, even if she knew it, she couldn't say it. If she said it, she would definitely be burned to death as a monster.Coincidentally, if there is one, there cannot be two, even if there are two, they cannot appear at such a close distance.

If you ask her, it's not like opening up wasteland directly. Although there are only 300 acres of land, after buying the Yang family's land, it will be [-] acres.Well, [-] taels is more than enough.That is, the land opened up is not fertile, and the things planted have not been harvested for at least three years.

(End of this chapter)