The first lord of the poor family

Chapter 41
"You, you just think about getting rich all day long and don't work. You can't continue like this at such a young age!" Zhou Tiezhu cursed loudly.

"Master-in-law, isn't the purpose of working to live a good life? Now that we have the ability to live a good life, why do we have to endure hardships?

What's more, even farming and carpentry work don't need to be discarded.

Just think of doing something as exercise! Lin Hai persuaded with a light smile.

Zhou Qiang also persuaded: "Lin Hai is right. In addition to farming, you can also continue to do carpentry in your free time!"

"Okay, let's put the money down! I'll go out and ask around in the next few days to buy some good fields for farming!" Zhou Tiezhu finally let go.

"That's right, brother, put the money away quickly! Let's drink tea and talk about farming in the future!"

Lin Hai said quickly.

Let Qiaoer open the door.

Qiaoer's mother and sister-in-law walked in and looked at the people in the room with confusion.

"What on earth could be so mysterious that we are not allowed to hear about it?"

"It's not that I don't want you to listen. I'll tell you later!" Zhou Tiezhu said.

……

After eating at Qiaoer's house, the two drove the donkey cart home.

As for how to buy the land, we have already discussed it.

Lin Hai planned to be a hands-off shopkeeper and not care about anything.

Back in the village, Qiaoer quickly ran into the room where she lived.

After checking the money under the bed, I breathed a deep sigh of relief.

Lin Hai smiled and said: "Don't worry, no one will steal the family's money. Our village is looked after like an iron bucket, no thieves will come in."

"That won't work. Maybe there are bad guys hiding in the village. You can't be careful!" Qiaoer argued.

"That makes sense. Don't go anywhere. Take good care of our money. Wait until the house is built before moving the money there." Lin Hai said seriously.

Qiaoer took it seriously!
Nodding seriously: "Don't worry, sir, I will take good care of our family's money!"

Lin Hai suppressed his smile and went outside to check.

I feel that my daughter-in-law is really cute, but she has money and is worried all day long for fear of being stolen.

When I came to the brick kiln, I didn’t expect it to be so fast.

The brick kiln is actually well-built and has begun to take shape.

When Wang Dayong saw Lin Hai, he came over and said happily: "The master craftsman said that the kiln can be opened to bake bricks tomorrow.

Today, someone has come to your house to dig the foundation. Let these master craftsmen build your house first.

If there is anything else that needs to be arranged, go over and take charge! "

"Good job, let's go over there and have a look!"

The two people came to Lin Hai's home, where craftsmen were digging the foundation with shovels.

With a lot of money in hand, Lin Hai planned to build a yard with two entrances and two exits.

There are nine houses alone.

There is also a stable for feeding livestock, which was planned to be three times larger than the original one.

In order to make the yard larger, we also spent money to purchase surrounding land.

Lin Hai now has a high prestige in the village, and everyone has benefited from him.

The land purchase went very smoothly.

Without any hindrance, Lin Hai directly used the money to buy the land next to him.

“I think these craftsmen are not enough, can we recruit more people.

Even if these people don't know how to build walls, they can still help with chores like moving bricks.

Then these craftsmen will work more efficiently. Lin Hai said.

"It's not a busy farming period, so we can find some laborers. But we still have to give a shout out to these craftsmen.

After all, we are working with them.

With laborers doing chores, the money they can share is less. "Wang Dayong said.

"It doesn't matter. We can just find more people and give them more money. In such a hot weather, we have to work faster.

The whole house must be built before autumn, otherwise it will be cold at night and dew will easily fall! Lin Hai said.

"Okay, I'll tell the leader about this!" Wang Dayong agreed.

Lin Hai found the master bedroom according to the planned drawings.

Call a craftsman.

“Dig down nine feet from here and dig out a basement for me.

And it has to be waterproofed with lime so it doesn’t get wet! "

Craftsmen who work often build houses for wealthy families, and they have long been accustomed to this kind of thing.

He simply agreed: "Don't worry, young master, we will do a good job for you."

"Okay, thank you very much!"

Lin Hai plans to build a basement to store gold and silver.

The next few days went very smoothly. The brick kiln began to produce bricks. Labor was recruited from several surrounding villages to work together.
The house was built very quickly, and it took only seven or eight days to take shape.

The roof will be built soon, and trees from Beishan will be cut down to be used as beams.

And other houses are starting to be built.

Lin Hai goes hunting in Beishan every two days. Although the harvest is good, there are too many hunters.

The prey allocated to each person was not much, and it was just enough to support the family.

This also caused the original hunters to complain. The whole village went hunting in the mountains. It would not take long to clean up the prey in the mountains.

Lin Hai didn't care. He didn't expect the hunting to last long from the beginning.

On this day, Lin Hai came to the back mountain to check the situation of the mountain.

Sure enough, a mountain spring was found on another higher mountain behind the mountain.

According to Lin Hai’s childhood memories, he often went to the mountains to play when he was five or six years old.

Pick wild fruits in the mountains and drink from mountain springs when you are thirsty.

Moreover, the flow of mountain spring water here is not small, but it is only separated by a hilltop, so it is not convenient to transport the water there.

But the place where the mountain spring comes from is a little higher than the mountain terrain on the other side.

Using the siphon principle to build pipelines, the spring water here can be transported to the other side of the mountain.

It's just that no one knew this principle in ancient times. Lin Hai took advantage of this good opportunity to buy all the mountains below.

These mountain springs are diverted to irrigate the mountainous areas.

In the past few days, I found someone to carefully measure it, and it turned out to be more than 200 acres.

It can be turned into terraced fields and crops can be grown.

After you are optimistic about the land, you must report it to the government and let the government people come and measure it again.

Then the money is handed over to the government, and the transaction is completed when the land deed is completed.

Just pay the local tax annually.

Because no one wants such mountainous land, the crops grown there are very little.

So the price is also very cheap.

It only takes less than two taels of silver to buy an acre of land.

Calculating more than 200 acres of land, it only costs more than 300 taels of silver.

But if we can get a good harvest, we might be able to make back our money in a year or two.

Wang Dayong often comes to help these days.

He already knew that Lin Hai was determined to buy this mountain land, and he felt very confused.

“No one is willing to plant this kind of barren mountainous land even if it is given away for free, and when there is a drought, there is no way to carry water to the mountain for irrigation.

They had to rely on the weather, and often the harvests were not even enough to pay taxes. "

(End of this chapter)