C15

Aunt Xu stared at her husband with a serious look, as if to say: Zheng Changwen, tell me the truth. Did you teach Brother Zhang how to do anything bad? Hmph, don't tell me you are poking us in the back then. If so, go to bed tonight.

Da Niu saw the couple was interesting, so she walked up to Su Qiqiao and said, "Mother, look at them. They are already so old, yet they're still fighting with their eyes open. How shameful."

She was a child's girl, so she didn't say it out loud. In just a short while, everyone had heard her clearly.

At first, Aunt Xu was surprised, but then she burst out laughing.

"Da Niu, my mother and the others aren't playing with the eyes of chickens, they are calling me that …" "They are flirting …" A five-year-old child of Aunt Xu's immediately corrected Da Niu's speech.

"Oh …" flirting? "What does that mean?" Da Niu was a very studious person, so she didn't understand what he meant by asking him about it on the spot.

"Being flirtatious …" The adults held back their laughter as they waited to see how Zheng Xueyun would explain the emotional interaction between men and women.

"I don't know either. You're just flirting. It's just like my parents. Little Qin, you're so beautiful." "Dead ghost, you're already old, why are you being so naughty. Go, scram to the side, don't let the children see …"

The little guy imitated the adults' tone perfectly, shocking everyone at the table.

When Zheng Xuanyun finally reacted, his old face flushed red with embarrassment. Ye Zichen slapped down on the table, "You little bastard, you actually dared to eavesdrop on us …

Auntie Zheng was so embarrassed that she couldn't even lift her head. Oh god, this was too embarrassing. How could the child have overheard the love talk between husband and wife?

At this moment, Su Qiqiao came to a stop. Emotion, Aunt Zheng's nickname, was Qin. Uh, okay. These two people, when they got close, they didn't know how to avoid it. This time, it was understood by a child to be flirting with each other.

"Haha …" Zhang Chaoming, this unscrupulous guy, laughed out loud on the spot. The moment he started, Su Qiqiao also couldn't help but laugh out loud.

When his father had shouted at him, Zheng Xianzi had fled far away.

If he didn't run, then his mother would catch up to him and give him a good performance.

"Sigh, so this is the adult's flirting? "It's not necessarily that much fun." Da Niu added, making everyone in the room laugh.

At this moment, another two members of the family came in with large bowls of meat.

"Come, come. Brother Chaoming is here. for a bunch of us miserable hunters. "

Generally speaking, now that a new member had arrived, everyone would gather for a bit of fun.

There were only four families in Su Qiqiao's family, so naturally, they would have to gather together.

Da Niu could not bear to continue eating and even after falling asleep, she still had not eaten.

The next day, everyone fell asleep.

There was no helping it, a bunch of people had drunk too much last night, and now the men were all lying on the bed. As for the women, they gathered together in high spirits, preparing to find some wild vegetables to eat.

Su Qiqiao was among the four women that were going out this time.

Although he had just arrived, he should have cleaned up the house. However, Su Qiqiao felt that it was necessary for her to go outside and understand what was suitable for planting in this place.

She had a plan in mind, and now she had to see it for herself before she could carry it out.

However, she was still a bit disappointed when she came out to look at the land outside.

Dry, Hard...

This piece of land gave people a feeling of being dry and hard.

No wonder it wasn't easy to grow things here. How could they grow things in a place like this?

"No wonder no one has come to stay for long. Sigh, it seems that these lands are not suitable for cultivation." Su Qiqiao sighed in disappointment.

"Of course. The reason why this place is so desolate is because this land is too dry and hard. In the early years, we tried to grow something. Unfortunately, in the end, they were all killed. Sigh, I'm not afraid of you saying that we've been watering for years, and we're so tired that we can't take it anymore. But what we harvest in this field isn't even comparable to what we get from hunting in the mountains. That's why we stopped farming later on. "

Hearing this, Su Qiqiao also nodded in agreement. "That's right. It seems that the most important thing for this place is the lack of water. However, why not just go under the mountain and open up a plot of land? "From what I see, the mountain forest is extremely long. Needless to say, those places are definitely suitable for cultivation as well."

Su Qiqiao looked at the lush and verdant forest in front of her and asked Aunt Zheng in confusion.

"Oh, that, I know. That is a good place to grow. However, if you start a new land, the rats on the mountain and other wild animals will come and ruin your plant at any time. Because of the desolation of the city, few families lived in this area. But there were quite a few wild beasts. If it was planted with food or something like that, those wild squirrels and wild rats would be very likely to ruin things. Sigh, big sis, you haven't planted any land, so you don't understand the trouble these wild animals cause by wasting food. "In one night, you can ruin all your land."

Only now did Su Qiqiao realize how simple she had been.

Where the soil was thick, there were rats and other wild animals.

In a place like this where the soil was weak, it was obvious that nothing could grow out of it.

If he could solve the problem of those disasters and cultivate in the wilderness, that would not be a dream.

Su Qiqiao frowned, deep in thought. Because she had something on her mind, she didn't pull many wild vegetables along the way. As for Da Niu, when she saw that her aunts were doing a lot, she did the same as well.

In a short while, he had plucked quite a lot of wild vegetables.

The family couldn't eat much, so when they saw that it was about time, they started walking back.

After a few days of settling down, Su Qiqiao brought the brown sugar here as well. Of course, Zhang Chaoming went to carry all of this back.

When she was refining the sugar, she had closed the door and operated on her own in the backyard.

It wasn't that she had to be so selfish as to not bring Aunt Zheng and the others, but that she had to be selfish.

She couldn't be a good person and go to a family that was suffering all over the world without being able to eat and drink.

Zhang Chaoming's main job now was no longer to hunt, but to work as a porter for her in this place.

After all, the transportation in this area wasn't very convenient. In order to bring in the brown sugar from the outside, one would have to transport the processed white sugar out.

After a round trip, Su Qiqiao suggested they raise a donkey.

However, his plan to raise a donkey in the end was disrupted by Zhang Chaoming. Because when he was selecting in the market, he always thought that picking a horse was more practical than a donkey.

Moreover, the negative weight of the mare is also larger than that of the donkey.

When he picked his way home, he thought that Su Qiqiao would be unhappy. However, when she looked at him, her lips curved up into a smile. She even gave him a kiss on the cheek, "The child's father, you are too smart. You finally know how to use your brain and not what I say."

Although it was good to say that he was an obedient husband. However, if this man only knew how to be obedient and did not know how feasible his words could be, then he would definitely be no different from a puppet.

Su Qiqiao hoped that her husband would listen to her and take her actions as a general direction. But he didn't want to become a soft, wifely man who only knew how to be a wife. Having his own opinion proved that he wasn't that stupid.

The days passed just like that.

Initially, Su Qiqiao had been worried that Aunt Zheng and the other few families would object and say that she was going to make a fortune by herself. However, once, when she heard Aunt Zheng mention it, she realized that she had been overthinking.

"What's the big deal!" There were many recipes that he had hidden himself. Big sister, you are in love with you to make some things up, we know, of course there is envy. But, this is your ability, why should we hate you? Don't think too badly of everyone. Big sister, you can take good care of your life, and not take care of us. Alright, just do as you're told. We believe in you. "

Su Qiqiao thought that perhaps, she was of the mind to probe Aunt Zheng this time as well, as she listened to these heart-wrenching words.

She immediately took hold of Aunt Zheng's hand. "Aunt, you're absolutely right. The reason I've come to find you this time is actually because of the idea of earning money together with everyone else. How about this, from now on, I'll hire you guys to pioneer and farm. "Every day, I don't care about food, but each head has the income of 12 copper coins. Since you guys are free, I'll open up that piece of barren land on the mountain side."

When this thought was said, Aunt Zheng was stunned on the spot.

However, looking at her serious expression, she knew that this sister-in-law wasn't joking.

As he told the other women, they were also stunned.

However, to them, earning money was a good thing.

It wasn't easy to open a wasteland, but a rural woman couldn't be compared to the pampered women in the city.

Once he got down to work, he really did have a head.

As a result, the four women originally only knew how to cook here. Now, not only was it about cooking, it was also about clearing lands.

As it was a wasteland, it was very cheap for Su Qiqiao to purchase it.

After he found the main entrance to the village that was next to the village, that person happily brought him to the yamen to register.

He looked as if he was afraid he would lose the business if he turned around.

Su Qiqiao had bought a hundred silver taels of land for this purchase of Wasteland.

A hundred silver taels could buy many acres of fertile land.

A good land of twelve silvers a mu, ten silvers a mu. This wasteland could be said to be bought and given away. Two silver taels for an acre of land, as well as a mountain!

The yamen's people are also shrewd. In the first few years, I didn't collect any taxes on this wasteland and sold it to you cheaply. However, it was only a few years later that the wasteland was considered familiar.

When that happens, I'll have to collect taxes on all these places.

If you could develop this famous piece of barren mountain and drive this region's economy, in the future, there would be many families that would come here.

In the long run. That foresight county magistrate gave the two mountains to Zhang Chaoming's family so cheaply.

After obtaining the contract, Su Qiqiao read it over and over again.

Her dream of becoming a landlady had come true.

However, even though she was willing, there were some people who weren't.

Zhang Chaoming looked at his wife with a troubled expression, "My wife, we bought so many wastelands and threw them all there. However, five years later, these will all be taxed. "Sigh, speaking of this, buying two mountains with a hundred silver taels, this is truly a cheap deal."

But he just didn't feel at ease.

When he thought that he would have to pay the tax on ten acres of fertile land in five years' time, he felt a little anxious.

Su Qiqiao giggled and kissed the paper. Then, she jumped in front of Zhang Chaoming and put her hand on his shoulder, "Child's father, don't you think about how long we have been in the sugar business?"

"Uh, yes … More than half a year. "