At the end of the short day's rest, Liu Ji took his living expenses and hurried back to the academy.
This time Qin Yao sent him to Jinshi Town, and then he walked to the county seat himself.
When Qin Yao returned, he bought a lot of daily necessities and asked about any news about land sales in the town.
Land is the most important asset for ordinary people, and most people are unwilling to sell it until they are desperate.
Because she buys meat frequently, and each time she buys meat in quantities of two kilograms or more, the butcher in the town already recognizes Qin Yao. Hearing her inquiring about selling land, he asked her to go directly to the county pawnshop to ask.
“But be careful, those guys in the **** shop are smart people, be careful not to be deceived by them.” the butcher reminded.
Qin Yao had never thought that there was a **** shop, so she curiously asked: "Don't **** shops collect pawned items? Do they also sell land?"
The coachman Qin Yao had seen it, and he often traveled between Xiahe Village and Kaiyang County on this road. She and Liu Ji had both ridden in his car.
In a blink of an eye, half a month passed.
Dalang asked in the morning, "Auntie, won't my father come back?"
The butcher continued: "But if someone in your village wants to sell their land, it would be better to buy it with someone from the same village."
There are nine people in the family, including the Qiu family soon, and ten people next year. If there are no other taxes, it can be considered a good life.
If you buy more, you can even negotiate a wholesale price!
Having made up her mind, Qin Yao did not plan to touch the one hundred taels of silver on hand for the time being, and concentrated on running the water mill.
This year is a good harvest year, and grain taxes are much lower than in the old dynasty. Reluctance is rarely seen on the faces of ordinary people.
Old Han Liu's family has a lot. This year they planted 110 acres, and the total harvest including husks was 24,200 jins. They should pay 1,600 jins of grain tax, leaving a balance of more than 22,500 jins. This year the county had a bumper harvest and grain prices dropped extremely low. Liu Dafu's family only sold three cents per pound of grain, half less than last year.
But there was no sign of Liu Ji in the car.
Li was leading people to collect grain taxes, and the village was lively for several days.
Qin Yao's family had little land, so they paid more than 190 kilograms of grain, and they were done with just two loads.
Just when he was about to take action, his ears twitched slightly, and he quickly walked to the dam in front of his house. He lowered his head and looked at the river bank, and saw an ox cart slowly driving towards his house.
Instead of buying it now at a high price, it is better to wait and see if there are better opportunities. At the same time, you can save more money and strive to get it in one go.
While maintaining old customers, while developing new customers, we can bring back an order every two or three days.
As a result, it was already dawn, but the person who was supposed to come back did not come back.
Dalang was a little worried, fearing that something might happen to his father in the city.
The two places that ordinary people are most taboo about going to are government offices and pawnshops. It's better not to go there if you can.
As soon as Qin Yao heard this, she had a guess in her heart, "Did Liu Ji ask you to come?"
However, for families with a large population and little land, the one-fifteenth grain tax is still a huge pressure on them.
But Qin Yao doesn't want the land that is too bad. If she wants to buy it, she can buy it. At least it should be as good as the fertile land she is renting now. Whether she grows it herself or wants to sell it out of desperation, it will be more valuable.
Qin Yao also felt a little strange. After breakfast, no one came back yet, so she wanted to take Lao Huang out of the stable and go to the county town.
Because Liu Fei has reached the age of marriage, the family needs to build an additional room as a new house.
However, only the old people who have experienced it, such as Old Man Liu and Mr. Zhang, feel happy and relieved at the harvest this year.
Of course, good land is also expensive. She asked Old Man Liu that the ten acres of good land that Liu Dafu rented to her could be sold for between eighty taels and ten taels per acre.
Gold, silver, and soft things can only be used by young ladies from wealthy families. What else can ordinary people **** besides land?
Qin Yao suddenly realized that this was the case.
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Qin, are you impatient? You were supposed to come last night, but something happened at home and you were delayed. Driving at night was too dangerous, so I just waited until this morning."
After selling the grain, I got twenty-four taels of silver, but I only dared to use part of it.
There are no natural or man-made disasters, and if you save for a few years, you can achieve a moderately prosperous life.
"Maybe I was delayed because of something last night." Qin Yao replied uncertainly.
After paying the grain tax, Qin Yao suddenly remembered that the day of rest in the academy had come.
“You don't understand this.” The butcher brother said with a smile: “Think about it, what is the most valuable thing for ordinary people like us?”
But when Qin Yao went to Liujia Village and inquired, no one wanted to sell the land for the time being, so he put aside the matter of buying the land.
"Thank you, brother butcher." Qin Yao paid for the meat, took the three kilograms of meat she just bought, nodded gratefully to the butcher, and turned to leave.
Qin Yao woke up twice in the middle of the night, once when she was woken up by the barking of the new little yellow dog raised by Grandma Wang's house in the village.
“Yes, yes, yes!” The coachman nodded fiercely, “It was your Xianggong Liu who asked me to come!”
Another time, Old Huang in the stable screamed, thinking that someone was passing by and he was awakened.
She plans to ask again before the spring of next year. In January or February, when the stored grain is used up and the wheat has not yet grown, someone may want to sell the land.
Old Han Liu's family sold all the remaining food after excluding their own family's food for a year, which could be sold for forty-eight taels of silver.
The driver parked the car at the foot of the mountain and walked up. He saw Qin Yao waiting at the intersection and said as he walked:
Although it is not as good as Qin Yao's seventeen sets at once, the trickle is continuous and very stable.
The last time he sent Qin Yao back to Liujia Village from Jinshi Town, he still remembered the scene of her husband running all the way from the mountain to the river to pick her up. The man was handsome and the woman was beautiful, what a perfect match.
They did not dare to sell all the remaining grain this year, but only half of it.
Humistically speaking, there must be a lot of land deeds pressed in the **** shop.
At the water mill, workers have mastered the production process, and assembly line production has begun to achieve results.
According to the current production speed, the thirty sets of small water mills can be delivered as scheduled in mid-October.
I thought Liu Ji would come back before dark like last time, but unexpectedly, no one was expected that night.
Because they know that God will show his power at any time.
Carpenter Liu was also much more relaxed. Together with Qin Yao and Shunzi, who was selected by Qin Yao, he joined in the sales work and went to the town and other villages from time to time.
After such calculation, Qin Yao found that with the one hundred taels of silver in her hand, she could only afford about ten acres.
At that time, he felt that the gentleman's majesty was different from that of ordinary people. Unexpectedly, he was actually a student in the academy, and he was familiar with Fan Xiucai and others. They were all scholars, which was incredible.
Therefore, this time Liu Ji asked him to go home to help collect living expenses, and the coachman agreed very readily, and was even a bit flattering in it.
Qin Yao invited the coachman in. The four Dalang brothers and sisters stood outside the hall door, leaning against the wall and raising their ears to listen.
Chapter end
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