Chapter 440: Buying Land
Shuiqing expected Zhang Chunhua to flee in panic.
Wanxia is the kind of person who can be helped. It's okay to be timid, but if she can't stand up even with help and support, it's more annoying than seeing her being bullied!
There is no problem with the three girls distributing things. If there is a problem, they can solve it. Shuiqing has settled things on her side. She opened the door and went home with peace of mind.
She looked up at the sky. It was already late. Bai Manshan and his party went to Nanning Prefecture last night. They came back this morning to get the second batch of potatoes, but Bai Manshan didn't come back with them.
I don't know how the land he bought is doing. It's been almost a year since the flood. The land in Zhulin Village may have been sold long ago... I don't know if the victims have chosen the right one...
The night fell, and the sound of horse hooves sounded again. Candles were lit in the house, making it as bright as day.
There was a large table of food on the dining table. Shuiqing's family had already eaten. This was prepared for Bai Manshan and his party.
There were more people coming back than expected, so Mother Hu hurried to the kitchen to get a few more bowls of rice.
The five men beside Bai Manshan were wearing ragged clothes, standing awkwardly beside him, looking down at the ground in front of them, not daring to look around. They were honest and decent.
Wiping the sweat off his head, Bai Manshan stepped forward and said directly: "Sister, I picked twelve families, about a hundred people, and these five are the ones I think are smart and intelligent. I brought them here so you can get familiar with them."
The manor in Zhulin Village will definitely need a village head in the future. Sister Shuiqing will just need to communicate with the village head in the future. Otherwise, you can't give instructions to more than a hundred people one by one every time you give orders, right?
It's okay if the manor is small and close, but if it expands in the future, it will be exhausting.
As soon as Bai Manshan finished speaking, the five people immediately bowed and introduced themselves: "My humble Gong Shang greets Madam, Madam, you can call me Gong Da."
"My humble Zhou Youzhou greets Madam, Madam, you can call me Zhou Laoer."
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Shui Qing clearly understood that Bai Manshan wanted her to recognize their faces and see which one was suitable to be the village head after getting familiar with them.
She looked at the five people, wrote them down one by one, and said to them warmly: "You must be hungry after traveling all the way here, let's go to the dining room to eat first, and we can talk after we are full."
We are all human beings. How can we let people ask questions on an empty stomach for the first time? Besides, Bai Manshan has been running around all day and tired, so he has to fill his stomach first.
Gong Shang, Zhou Youzhou and the other five looked up in surprise. They didn't expect that the master would let them go to eat first, but just go to the dining room. Are they qualified?
This is the master they finally met. Master Bai is very strict in selecting people. If they don't perform well, they will definitely be sent back to the dental clinic. There are a lot of wives, children and old people in the family. They can't be picked again because of their mistakes.
The five people did not move, their bent backs became more cramped, and they did not know where to put their cracked palms.
Shuiqing sighed and said to Bai Manshan: "Brother Bai, you take the lead."
Bai Manshan took over the task happily and said to the five people: "Let's go, just follow me."
The five people looked at each other, and then looked at Shuiqing. Seeing that she had no intention of testing or blaming them, they hesitantly raised their big feet in tattered straw sandals to follow Bai Manshan.
There were very few dishes on the table, one pork stewed with potatoes, one mutton soup, one garlic sprout and shredded pork, and a pot of steamed egg, only four kinds, but each one was served in a soup bowl, and the portion was full!
Bai Manshan was already starving after running around all day, so he picked up the coarse pottery bowl on the table and scooped the steamed egg into the bowl first, ready to mix with rice.
Turning around, he saw the five people standing at the table in a daze, and shouted anxiously: "What are you standing there for? Can these meals get into your stomachs? Eat quickly!"
Although there are only four dishes, there are meat, eggs, vegetables, and a soup! What a good combination.
Today is different from the past. The fifty men Ling Ran brought back transported potatoes back and forth. It was very tiring just to prepare food for these fifty men!
She was able to prepare three dishes and a soup for them despite such a hard time. She is worthy of being his sister
Gong Shang and the other five were full of disbelief and hesitated to sit down.
Zhou Youzhou even thought of the name given by his parents and thought that it would be good for his family to have enough porridge. However, the four dishes in front of him all had meat. This was no longer porridge or meat, but full of meat!
His parents didn't dare to name him like this, and now he actually ate four dishes, four meat dishes...
Bai Manshan reacted, deliberately put away the smile on his face, and said seriously: "Hurry up and sit down to eat. After eating, your master will definitely have something to tell you. Only when you are full can you have the strength to work!"
"Oh, oh, good."
The five people hurriedly sat down and picked up the big bowl. The aroma of rice in it was fragrant. The bowl in their palms seemed to be heavier than a hammer!
They picked up a piece of potato with shaking chopsticks. They had eaten this in Zhulin Village at noon. It was much smoother than black noodles. It would be their staple food in the future. It should be okay to eat this.
Shui Qing saw it and said: "We try not to keep the food overnight. It's a waste if you can't finish it. If you really can't eat it, then eat meat. It's a pity to throw away the vegetables instead of the meat."
When the five heard that the unfinished food was going to be thrown away, they hurriedly picked up the meat, and then realized that the master wanted them to be polite.
The five people's eyes were moist, they lowered their heads and buried their faces in the big rice bowls, eating the food in big mouthfuls.
The four dishes in the bowls were dwindling at a speed visible to the naked eye. Bai Manshan didn't dare to be distracted at all, and didn't care about his image anymore, he also quickly ate the food.
In the end, the mutton offal in the mutton offal soup was scooped out, and even the mutton soup was drunk without a drop left.
Bai Manshan stroked his round belly and wanted to collapse in the chair without moving, but he just thought about it - there were still many things waiting for him, and time was too little and too precious to waste.
After resting for only half a cup of tea, he struggled to stand up and winked at Shuiqing.
The two went to the main hall.
"Zhulin Village suffered a serious flood, and there were many acres. There were also those big men who thought that too many people died in this land and it was unlucky, so they never sold it. After I went there, I bargained again. In the end, I bought all of them at one tael and two cents per acre, a total of 560 acres, and the land was purchased for 672 taels, which was a little less than the budget."
Shuiqing: ... This is not a little less, it was 7 or 8 taels per acre before, and it was sold at a discount of 2 or 3 taels after the flood and the war. Now Bai Manshan bought it at one tael and two cents per acre, which is a full half less!
She didn't think that the death of so many people was unlucky, because the people in Zhulin Village were all Hong Daniu's family members, and what others were afraid of was the people Hong Daniu and Li Dani wanted to see but would never see again.
And if they had been alert in advance and taken precautions like Bai Manshan, there would be no one missing just like in Baijiazhuang.