The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor

Now that she has made up her mind to buy the Zhang family's shop, Mo Yan has to keep an eye on the Zhang family's activities. It's just that she can't go to the city every day, nor can she keep an eye on it in person, so she can only find someone to help with this matter.

So she went to Huixianju and found Xiao Zhu, hoping that he could find a reliable person to keep an eye on the matter.

This matter is not difficult to handle. After Xiao Zhu heard about it, he agreed immediately.

Mo Yan quickly thanked him and took out ten taels of silver from her purse and handed it to him. Five taels were thanked by Xiaozhu for his help, and the other 5 taels were asked to be handed over to the person who helped. After the matter was over, another five taels would be given.

This was just a matter of words, and Xiao Zhu refused to die for his five taels. In the end, Mo Yan pretended to be angry and said that he would ask someone for help if he didn't want to take the money, so he took it embarrassedly.

After returning home, neither of them told Li Xiu about the Zhang family's affairs. Telling them would only cause trouble and remind her of the past that she couldn't bear to look back on.

It's the end of September in a blink of an eye. After an autumn rain, the temperature is already very low. You have to wear a thin cotton jacket and thin trousers to avoid feeling cold.

After more than half a month of digging, Mo's small pond was dug before it rained. The small pond is not large, about an acre, and has a depth of three meters. The excavated mud surrounds the pond, and it looks like it is four or five meters deep. After the channel from the spring to the pond was dug, the spring water flowed into the pond, and the pond was quickly filled with water.

After the pond was dug, land reclamation followed. The depressions are mostly filled with moisture-loving aquatic plants, which are not troublesome to clean up. These aquatic plants have well-developed root systems and are particularly capable of reproducing. It's winter now. If you clean it, it won't grow anymore. When spring comes, it will grow swarming again. Only by planting the seedlings and cleaning them frequently will they not compete with the crops for nutrients.

The 120 acres of sloping land I bought later were also being reclaimed, but they were just turned into long strips like stairs. Li Zhong and the people who helped open the land didn't understand, and they couldn't see what Mo Yan wanted to do. What.

Li Zhong asked twice, but seeing that Mo Yan was unwilling to tell, he stopped asking. However, many people in the village asked and suspected that the Mo family had another plan to make a lot of money, which made Mo Yan a little distressed.

It's not that she doesn't want to say it, it's that no one will believe her if she does. Neither the original residents of Liuyang Village nor the villagers who had fled from various places had ever heard of terraced fields.

If she said it rashly, it would only arouse more questions. It would be better to wait until the terraces were built and let them see for themselves.

If the spring had not been dug and there was no need to worry about the water source, Mo Yan would not have thought of buying sloping land and building terraces.

Building terraces cannot be done by just finding a slope. First of all, the slope must be appropriate, generally not greater than 25 degrees, to avoid soil erosion. Secondly, irrigation and lighting are very important, otherwise good crops will not grow.

The sloping land she bought has no mountain forests to block the sunlight, and now there is no problem with spring water for irrigation. The slope is about 20 degrees, which is very suitable for building terraces. If you want to find such a good place, you can hardly find it.

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When Xiao Zhu hurriedly came to Mo's house to talk to Mo Yan about Zhang's shop, Mo Yan was working with Li Xiu and others to make new clothes using leather that had been tanned by Lin Yong.

When Mo Yan saw him, he knew there was something going on in the Zhang family. It was inevitable that Li Xiu would hear it, and he quickly took the person to the big study room.

"Brother Zhu, is the Zhang family going to sell the shop?" After waiting for so long and still not getting any news, she thought the Zhang family would insist on not selling the shop!

Xiao Zhu nodded and said: "Recently, the Zhang family has been contacting friends in the business world and wants to sell the shop to raise capital for other businesses. However, seeing that the Zhang family has declined, his friends have lowered the price very low. That Zhang Fugui Too few and unwilling to take action."

Mo Yan was not surprised when such a situation occurred. In the business world, interests are always intertwined. Now that the Zhang family is in trouble and there is no profit to be made, the so-called friends can only extract the last layer of oil from the Zhang family.

"How much money does the Zhang family need before they are willing to take action? How much do his friends pay?"

Xiao Zhu held out four fingers: "Zhang Fugui said he wouldn't sell it for less than this amount. His friends with the most are only willing to give 2,500 taels."

Mo Yan frowned, secretly calculating how much money he still had available.

The family earned 3,500 taels of silver from selling vegetables, and received a thank you gift of 1,500 taels for saving Xiao Ruiyuan twice, as well as more than 600 taels of compensation from Yan Junyu to their family, adding up to a total of 5,600 taels of silver.

Later, we spent 1,700 taels on building a house, nearly 200 taels on buying land, and nearly 100 taels on my father's education, which added up to two thousand taels. After deducting these expenses, the remaining money in the family was only Three thousand six hundred taels.

After all this calculation, it seems that buying a shop is not enough...