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Chapter 122: Buying Fields
Li San He smiled and said: “You have helped us so much and we have nothing to thank you with, only this charcoal! Please take some home to try burning and see what you think of it! If you are satisfied, bring some more home next time!”
This was a clear indication that they had wrapped up the charcoal for Liu Jia.
Liu Jia did not decline either, but thanked him with a smile.
Li San He picked up two big bags of charcoal and followed to the donkey cart, helping load it into the cart.
“Thank you! Old uncle, if you are busy, please go back, brother San He as well!” Liu Jia smiled and arched his hands, saying goodbye to both of them.
After the two went back inside, Liu Jia and Lian Fang Zhou got in the cart to see the paddy fields.
Lian Fang Zhou waved and called over Lian Fang Qing and Lian Che. She smiled and said, “Uncle Liu won’t mind if I’ll take a look with my younger siblings! You don’t need to be naughty at home!”
“Of course, go, go, and get in the cart!” Liu Jia said with a smile.
Although he is in his thirties and has a wife and children, it is too ostentatious to go out with a girl as old as Lian Fang Zhou. Not only would it be bad for her reputation, it would also be bad for his.
If someone spoke with a broken mouth, it would be impossible to correct!
Lian Fang Qing and Lian Che were at a fun age and they had never ridden in such a particular cart. Hearing their sister’s greetings and Liu Jia’s kind invitation, where would they be unwilling?
The brother and sister immediately agreed with happy smiles, and couldn’t wait to climb into the cart.
When Lian Fang Zhou climbed up, Liu Jia smiled and said, “Sit down, let’s go!” Then he drove the cart towards the paddy field.
Unlike the mountain, the 60 acres of paddy fields had convenient roads for transportation and donkey carts could go directly to the fields.
Liu Jia pointed it to Lian Fang Zhou and said with a smile: “Look Miss, this field is really not bad! The water is plentiful, the mud in the field is fertile enough, and it’s also very convenient. The grain can be loaded directly after it is harvested! “
Lian Fang Zhou was very satisfied when she saw it, knowing that what Liu Jia said was true. After thinking about it, she nodded and said with a smile: “Okay. In any case, I will need to buy it sooner or later and it’s rare to be so suitable. Let’s buy it!”
Liu Jia laughed, slapped his thigh and smiled: “Miss Lian is refreshing!”
Lian Fang Zhou smiled and said, “I have brought all the bank notes, so I don’t need Liu Shu to go to my house again! Just follow the previous rules, I want the official lease!”
Liu Jia was even happier and slapped his thigh again: “Miss Lian is really refreshing! Okay, I know, Miss Lian, don’t worry!”
With a smile, Lian Fang Zhou counted three hundred and twelve silver taels for Liu Jia. Three hundred taels were for the paddy field. The other twelve taels included the official lease and the intermediary fee for Liu Jia. Naturally, they were also an extra couple of taels as a thank you.
Liu Jia was not polite with her either. He smiled and thanked her, accepting it generously.
“It’s not far here, we can just walk back by ourselves! Uncle Liu, please don’t mind us!” Lian Fang Zhou smiled politely.
First, she was not willing to trouble others and second, the less contact they had alone, the less likely she will cause gossip, and it will appear to be more official.
People always love gossip.
Liu Jia seemed to understand what she meant and didn’t insist, leaving with a smile.
Lian Fang Qing and Lian Che opened their eyes wide and asked excitedly: “Sister, elder sister! Do these fields belong to our family? Are they all ours?”
“Well,” Lian Fang Zhou nodded with a smile, and said, “It’s all for our family!”
“Great!”
“Really!”
The two little guys were so happy, talking so fast they babbled.
Listening to them, Lian Fang Zhou was delighted and said with a smile: “From now on, we will buy more fields! As for you, please listen to the words of Third Aunt at home so that your sister and your second brother can do things at ease, understand?”
The two little guys nodded in agreement, and Lian Che said again: “Sister, we can also help sister work like second brother!”
“Yes, yes, we can help too!” Lian Fang Qing said expectantly with her eyes wide open.
Seeing that they were so sensible, Lian Fang Zhou couldn’t help but feel warm. She didn’t intend to spoil them to be indifferent and lazy.
It’s just that the family was already poor and couldn’t keep up with nutrition. Later, in the six months after the death of the parents, their life was even more messed up! When she had arrived, their faces were yellow and thin, and they were not energetic. How could she let them go to work?
Now that they had been recuperating for more than a month, the most important thing was that their spirits were back, their complexions were much better, and their bodies seems to be much stronger than before. She could indeed consider having them helping the family in a moderate amount.
“Okay,” Lian Fang Zhou thought about it and laughed: “Let’s do that. Qing’er will help Third Aunt at home from now on. When I buy some chickens and ducklings next year, they will be yours, and Che’er will follow Brother Jian and second brother to the field to help the workers! After you go to school next year, you can help with some of the housework in your free time.”
Lian Che nodded happily.
Lian Fang Qing refused, begging to go to the field.
Lian Fang Zhou thought for a while and smiled: “Well, you can follow along! But these days Third Aunt is going to cook lunch for the workers and you will both have to stay at home to help. Otherwise, Third Aunt will be alone and it will be bad for her to be overworked!”
Both young ones agreed.
The three siblings walked home while talking, and met Uncle Zhang Wu in the village. All three smiled and said hello.
Uncle Zhang Wu said hello but didn’t walk away immediately. Instead, he smiled and asked Lian Fang Zhou, “I just saw Liu Jia, the city’s land steward, going by. Did your family buy land?”
The news spread too quickly!
Lian Fang Zhou was surprised and couldn’t help but glanced at Zhang Wu Shu.
“Yes, I bought some!” Lian Fang Zhou smiled and nodded. Anyway, there was nothing that could not be said and there was nothing to hide.
“Hehe, good, good, buy a lot! Hey, it’s different if you have the help of noble people, of course, Fang Zhou, you are also a capable child!” Zhang Wu Shu laughed.
“You laughed, where am I so capable!” Lian Fang Zhou smiled.
Uncle Zhang Wu laughed, didn’t ask anything more.
Lian Fang Zhou felt slightly relieved, and took the opportunity to say to Lian Che and Lian Fang Qing: “Although our family bought land and fields, if someone asks you, you don’t know anything, do you understand?”
Lian Che and Lian Fang Qing nodded. Lian Che replied, “Is my sister afraid of people thinking about our fields?”
“Not so!” Lian Fang Zhou smiled and touched his head.
Lian Fang Qing suddenly realized, and said hurriedly: “Sister, I promise not to say!”
The three returned home. Lian Ze and Ah Jian were returning from the wasteland fields in the donkey cart. The cart was full of tree roots and half-scorched trunks, which had obviously been cleaned out today.
“These things can’t be piled at the field, they are still cleaning up there, so Ah Ze and I decided to transport them back first so they can be burned as firewood.” Ah Jian said.