Space Lingquan: The Boss of the Last Days Dressed as a Peasant Girl

Chapter 6 Buying Land

If Nan Yan was successful, the yamen clerk took out the book on the side of the table and said: "The farm shop that the girl needs is now available, but I don't know how many fields the girl wants to buy."

Nan Yan didn't know about the grade of land, but she had heard her former classmates talking about good land and poor land. Now she said: "I want to buy fifty acres of land."

I don’t even know. I might as well buy a few acres of each field and walk around in the fields when I have time. Then I will know the quality of the fields.

Don't wait until she goes to the fields to get to know the land and its grade.

When she was applying for the land deed and paying the money, she learned that the land was divided into three levels: "First and Second Wasteland", of course, paddy fields were not included.

First-class land costs 4 taels of silver per acre, second-class land costs 2 taels per acre, and wasteland costs 5 to 800 taels per acre.

She spent a total of three hundred taels of silver to buy first- and second-class land this time.

There are also shops she needs. There are currently no three-story shops. In the end, she can only choose a two-story shop and one with a backyard.

The clerk took her to see both shops. The one with two floors had an area of ​​150 square meters, and the one with a backyard had an area of ​​80 square meters.

For two shops, she spent another five hundred taels.

After buying the shop, she did not rush to recruit craftsmen to decorate it. Instead, she waited for the coming spring to plant the flower seeds in the space and then decorate the shop.

About ten days before the Chinese New Year, Butler Zhang came to announce: "Miss, the tenants from Shanghe Village are here. I asked them to wait in the front hall. Miss, would you like to go out and have a look?"

When Nan Yan bought the land, the secretary's office informed her that the land had previously been contracted to the villagers of Shanghe Village for cultivation. Now she heard from the housekeeper that tenants were coming. She speculated that these people should come to meet her new employer and take a look at the plans.

Don't continue to let them farm.

Zhou Tiezhu, the head of Shanghe Village, and five villagers were sitting in the front yard, a little cramped, waiting for the housekeeper to report. Soon they met a girl wearing an expensive-looking cloak who walked in.

The village chief lowered his head, cupped his hands and greeted Nan Yan: "Head of Shanghe Village, Zhou Tiezhu has met Miss Nan."

Nan Yan returned the gift and asked them to sit down. The village chief took the opportunity to say: "Miss Nan, we are here specially to visit Miss Nan." Then she gave the gift prepared in advance to Butler Zhang and said: "This is

It's a small gift we prepared, and I hope Miss Nan won't dislike it."

Nan Yan just smiled lightly and asked Butler Zhang to accept it, saying: "I was also thinking about asking the steward to go to the village to look for Wu Wu and them in a few days. Now that the village chief has brought them here, it saves the steward Zhang another trip.

"Friday is one of several tenant farmers and the head of the family.

After a brief chat, the village chief finally revealed the purpose of his trip.

Nan Yan heard the village chief ask if she wanted to continue renting the land for these families to plant, and said: "Village Chief, I want to rent it, but I don't plan to grow food. I plan to plant some flowers in the ground."

The village chief was puzzled.

Seeing that he was puzzled, Nan Yan said it again, and then the village chief said blankly: "Miss, do you want to plant flowers in the ground?"

Nan Yan nodded.

village head:???

Mom, the farmers depend on the land to grow food, but this young lady said that the land does not grow food, but instead grows flowers and plants that cannot be eaten or drank.

This lady doesn't grow food, what will the tenant farmers do for dinner on Friday?

The village chief thought about it and said, "Girl, I wonder how the rent is calculated when you grow flowers?"

The housekeeper told Nan Yan before that the land rented to tenants for farming was 64 or 63 per year.

In other words, after paying taxes when the grain in the land matures, she will get 60% or 50%, and the tenants will get 40% or 30%.

Of course, the tenants get 40%, that is, if the owner is not harsh and the tenants give more, then they will have 40% of the grain. If the owner is harsh, they may only give 30%, 20%, or even 10%.

Nan Yan thought she was not a harsh boss, so she said: "The rent is sixty-four cents."

The village chief is worried?

Nan Yan said that 64 points is not impossible, but what he cares about is, can flowers be eaten?

Nan Yan saw the village chief's troubled face clearly, and then thought about ancient times, where no one had grown large quantities of flowers for eating or making rouge gouache.

The village chief may be thinking that he will make his villagers unable to eat.

Nan Yan thought of this and said: "Village chief, how about this! If my flowers cannot be sold by then, how about giving them an estimated rent based on the grain output of the field?"

The village chief was just worried that Nan Yan would plant flowers and keep the villagers busy all year long without having anything to eat. Now that Nan Yan said this, her heart dropped.

After the tenants' rent was settled, the village chief and others did not stay long, got up and said goodbye to Nan Yan.

Nan Yan asked Friday and others to come to the house to get flower seeds from the housekeeper after spring began, and then asked the housekeeper to send the village chief and others out of the house.

Of course, Nan Yan had just accepted the gifts brought by the village chief and the others, and now asked the housekeeper to prepare the gifts and return them to the village chief and the others.

Although she has been the Corpse King for ten years, she still knows how to deal with people.

At this time, she returned the gift to the village chief and the others because she wanted the tenants to help her manage the flowers in the field and not to kill all her flowers.

Friday and others were sent out by Butler Zhang. Friday stretched out his hand to wipe his sweat and said: "Oh, a wealthy family is really beyond the comparison of us ordinary people. Look at that big house and the layout of the courtyard..."

Zhou Laoer patted Wu Wu on the shoulder and said, "Isn't that the case? Look at the tea they served us. It's much better than the tea in the teahouse. Even the cup I drank from just now, I've never seen such exquisite tea.

cup."

: "Yes, yes! And the snacks we just had. I have never eaten such delicious cakes in my whole life." The youngest "Zhou Xiaozi" smashed it and tasted it in his mouth.

The village chief felt bitter in his heart as he listened to the chattering of everyone.

The fate of each person is different. Some people can eat delicacies without doing anything, but ordinary people like them may not be able to afford a simple meal after working hard for a year.

Alas, I can only say that everyone has their own way of living, and people cannot be compared or compared.

Nan Yan didn't know the conversation between the village chief and his group. She was talking to Butler Zhang at this time, saying: "Butler, go and ask two people to follow me to the warehouse and take out the seeds from the warehouse. Wait until the tenants come to collect the seeds at the beginning of the new year.

, you send them the seeds.”

"Yes, miss, I'll call you right now," said Butler Zhang.

When the housekeeper went to call for people, Nan Yan took Mei Lan to the warehouse first, and waited for the housekeeper to bring people to move the seeds to another room.

In fact, these seeds have always been in her space. She just bought land some time ago and found an excuse to take them out.

Now the seeds have been transplanted from the warehouse, and she can plant some in the yard herself in spring.

It’s New Year’s Eve in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Nan Yan asked the kitchen to cook chicken, duck, and fish. Before dinner, she called all the family members to the courtyard and held a brief meeting with everyone.

Nan Yan looked at the servants standing in two rows, cleared her throat, and said: "Today is the New Year. Miss, I am here to wish everyone a Happy New Year... I hope everyone will be healthy in the coming year."

Then he paused and said: "New Year and new atmosphere. Miss will give each of you a red envelope. Let's welcome the New Year together. After everyone gets the red envelope, Aunt Hou has prepared delicious food for everyone today. Everyone wants it today.

Eat well and drink well.”

(End of chapter)