From the family treasure tree to build an eternal family

Chapter 44 Hoarding Fields
"Liu Yaozu's property was confiscated. We discovered he owned a hundred acres of land in Baihe Village, so we came to take care of it. Your family is a tenant, so you have priority to buy the land. Do you want to buy it?"

Shen Yu explained his purpose.

Xu Fugui breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, as it was not a troublesome matter.

He had a sudden thought: opportunities to buy land don't come around often. He had just gotten a windfall of eight thousand taels of silver from the bandits, and with his own savings, he had ten thousand taels of silver.

"Excuse me, sir, how much does one mu of land cost?"

"Eighty-five taels."

After Shen Yu finished speaking, he added, "If you buy thirty acres at once, eighty taels of silver per acre will be enough."

In times of peace, even one hundred taels of silver per mu wouldn't buy anything. Lately, with every household short of money and labor, the county government has lowered the price to this low.

"Sir, what if I buy all the 100 acres of land under his name?"

Xu Fugui really wanted to hoard land.

He had so much money but didn't dare spend it, and didn't know what to buy. He thought it would be better to convert it into farmland and make a steady income. As long as he was willing to work hard, farming was a sure way to make money.

"How much? One hundred acres?!"

Shen Yu looked at Xu Fugui in surprise. He couldn't believe that the honest farmer in front of him could come up with so much silver.

"According to the regulations, I have to ask the other tenants first. They have the right to buy the land first. Only if they don't buy it, or if you offer a higher price than them, can I sell the 70 acres to you.

But..."

Having said that, Shen Yu paused, picked up the teacup and sipped the tea slowly.

Xu Fugui understood what he meant and gave Jiazhen a wink to let her go out.

Only Xu Fugui and Shen Yu were left in the main room. Xu Fugui closed the door and took out a purse from the side room and handed it to Shen Yu: "Sir, please help me."

Shen Yu calmly put away the purse, estimating that there were twenty taels of silver, and secretly thought that the farmer in front of him was capable of handling things.

"Our office is only interested in convenience. If you can buy all 100 acres at once, it will save us a lot of trouble. The chief clerk's reserve price is 7,500 taels of silver. If we sell it for this amount, we can report it to the county government."

Come to the county office tomorrow with the money and I'll help you find the chief clerk. My name is Shen Yu."

He then stood up and prepared to leave.

"Okay, thank you, Master Shen."

"By the way, there is one more thing..."

Before leaving, Shen Yu whispered a few words into Xu Fugui's ear.

Afterwards, Xu Fugui sent Shen Yu out the door and thought to himself: What a big profit.

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The next day.

Xu Fugui rushed to the county government office and reported Shen Yu's name.

Soon Shen Yu appeared and took him to see the chief clerk Xiao Lei.

Xu Fugui quietly handed over fifty taels of silver as a bribe to Xiao Lei, after which Xiao Lei neatly and efficiently obtained the land deed for one hundred acres of land at the base price of seven thousand five hundred taels of silver.

The land deed lists the owner of the 100-acre land as Xu Fugui.

"From now on, my family will have 180 acres of land!"

He hid the land deed in his arms, feeling very excited.

With so much land, his family will not be so worried about food, clothing, housing and transportation in the future, and their living standards will be improved.

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Time passed, one month later.

In the farmland, Xu Fugui is transplanting medicinal herb seedlings.

"This Yanqi is really hard to keep alive. It took half a month of incubation in the internal space before it came back to life."

The medicinal herb he was planting was called "Yanqi".

This is a fire-attributed medicinal herb. It is an ordinary medicinal herb when planted in an ordinary field, but it is a spiritual medicine when planted in a spiritual vein.

When it grows up, it is very similar to wolfberry, the difference is that the fruit is flame yellow. It has the effects of nourishing internal yang, dispelling cold and generating heat, strengthening the heart and lungs, etc.

The difficulty in growing Yanqi is that it is difficult to grow, especially in ordinary farmland without spiritual energy.

So Xu Fugui grew seedlings in the space inside his body which was full of spiritual energy, and transplanted them into the fields only after they survived.

It takes three years for the Yanqi tree to grow to be about one meter tall.

From then on, "Yanqi" fruits will be produced every year for medicinal purposes, and their medicinal properties will increase year by year. After a hundred years, the medicinal properties will reach their limit and will no longer increase.

Xu Fugui planted five acres of Chinese wolfberry.

A single Chinese wolfberry plant requires a large space to grow, and each Chinese wolfberry seedling is three meters apart.

In terms of economic benefits, the benefits of growing Chinese wolfberry are actually very average.

Because after three years, a lot of Yanqi can be produced every year, the output is large and stable, and the demand is not that much.

There are several farmers in Tonggu County who specialize in growing Chinese wolfberry, which is enough to meet market demand.

Xu Fugui chose Yanqi not for its economic benefits, but because it was the only fire-attributed spiritual plant he found in the county.

Next to the five acres of Chinese wolfberry, there are four acres of "Di Luosen".

Di Luosen is a spiritual plant with earth attribute. Its medicinal part is located underground, just like iron root grass.

The roots of the herb grow slowly and become medicinal in two years, after which their medicinal properties increase year by year.

Next to the Rosen field, there are five acres of empty medicinal herb fields.

Xu Fugui has already chosen the variety: the water-attributed spiritual plant "Lan Si Teng".

Yan Qi, Di Luosen, Lan Si Teng, plus the withered leaf black and iron root grass already in his body, he has collected all five spiritual plants of gold, wood, water, fire and earth.

These five types of spiritual plants are the key to breaking through the innate realm when practicing the "Five Elements Posture Meditation" to the third level limit.

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Du family.

"Madam, the medicine is ready and has been cooled down."

"Ah."

Wang Qian responded and walked towards the kitchen. A few strands of gray hair had appeared at her temples, and her youthful charm had vanished, leaving only the appearance of a middle-aged woman unwilling to accept her aging.

No matter how hard she tried to hide, she couldn't hide the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes.

In fact, she didn't have to be so haggard. It was just that after her son Du Yong went to the army, her husband Du Hai suggested that they have another child. She could understand his thoughts. After all, they only had their second son by their side. What if something happened to him?

But the couple is not young.

Du Hai is in his early fifties and Wang Qian is nearly forty, so it is not easy for them to get pregnant.

The two of them struggled for a month, but there was no progress at all.

The kitchen was filled with the strong bitter smell of medicinal herbs, and a bowl of warm brown medicinal soup was placed on the table.

Wang Qian picked up the soup bowl and drank it in big gulps without stopping.

The bitter smell of the medicine rushed into her nose, almost making her cry.

After drinking it in one gulp, she put down the bowl and burped lightly.

"It's so bitter, tsk."

She was so bitter that she gasped and quickly picked up the dessert prepared beside her. The sweet dessert barely covered the bitter taste.

"Ah~"

She didn't expect that she would have to suffer such a thing at her age.

Du Hai bought the medicinal herbs at a high price in the city. He said that drinking it could regulate the body, help pregnancy, and even ensure a greater chance of having a son.

Wang Qian didn't believe it, but for Du Hai, she had no choice but to believe it and forced herself to drink two bowls of medicine soup a day.

"This won't work."

she thought.

The inability to conceive wasn't just her problem. Even though Du Hai was a high-level warrior, pregnancy had nothing to do with martial arts cultivation. At Du Hai's age, it was already difficult.

"We have to find a wife for Er Meng as soon as possible so he can have a baby soon."

This is a different approach.

Du Hai wanted to have children simply because he was worried about an accident that would lead to the extinction of his family line. If his second son could get married and have children early, that would surely allay his worries.

Just then, there was a knock on the door outside.

A moment later, the maid passed on the message: "Madam, a young man named Pan has come and said he is your relative."

"Look at my memory. How could I forget such an important thing?"

Wang Qian quickly got up and went out to greet them.

She went back to her parents' home a few days ago and learned that a distant relative was looking for a daughter-in-law for her son.

That relative was doing business in the county town. He was well-known and had considerable wealth.

Wang Qian thought of Xu Xiaoxia, so she went to visit her distant relative.

After listening to Wang Qian's introduction, the other party was quite satisfied with the Xu family's situation and agreed to let his son come and take a look.

Wang Qian talked to the Xu family, and Xu Fugui and Jiazhen also agreed.

Xu Xiaoxia is seventeen years old and it is time for her to get married.

They come of age at sixteen, and it's common for families to marry off their daughters fourteen or fifteen, rather than raising them. If the people don't report it, the officials won't investigate.

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Wang Qian walked quickly to the door and saw a tall figure dressed in luxurious silk and elegant attire.

His identity is the third son of the Pan family: Pan Wenbin.

She had never met Pan Wenbin before, and this was the first time she met him today.

She walked forward with a smile on her face: "Wenbin, I'm your cousin. The last time I saw you was when you were a child. So many years have passed. You've become so handsome that I almost didn't recognize you."

Pan Wenbin bowed respectfully and said, "Hello, cousin. My mother asked me to come. I hope I didn't disturb you."

After he finished speaking, he smelled the bitter smell of medicine coming towards him, and he couldn't help but frowned and took two steps back.

Wang Qian noticed his little action and looked a little embarrassed: "Don't bother me, don't bother me. Go inside and have some tea. I'll go change my clothes and then we'll go to Xu's house."

Pan Wenbin sat down in the main hall, quietly waiting for Wang Qian. A maid brought him tea.

He couldn't sit still, looking around the Du family, and looking at the maid from time to time.

Before coming here, he learned about his distant relative. In terms of blood relationship, they were very distant and could only be called relatives.

"I heard her husband is a high-level warrior, teaching martial arts in the village. These conditions are quite ordinary."

Pan Wenbin's family brewed and sold wine in the county town. They had a wine shop called "Wu Gu Liang Niang Brewing Shop", which was one of the best wine merchants in the city.

His family is very wealthy.

Therefore, in his eyes, the Du Hai family seemed poor.

"Why haven't you come yet?"

When he was getting impatient, Wang Qian came over after taking a shower and changing clothes.

Wang Qian deliberately wore a sachet to cover up the smell of medicine: "Wenbin, let's go."

"Ah."

The two walked out of the door.

Wang Qian saw a luxurious carriage parked outside the door, with a groom leading the horses. It was Pan Wenbin's vehicle for travel.

"Cousin, can you tell me about that family? My mother only mentioned it briefly, and I don't know much about it."

Pan Wenbin asked.

"The owner of that family is named Xu Fugui. His father is a landlord, but unfortunately he is addicted to gambling..."

Wang Qian couldn't stop talking and spilled everything she knew.

"Fugui is very hardworking. He supports his family and helps them save money. I heard he bought a lot of land not long ago. Now his family has over a hundred acres of land, so they don't have to worry about food and drink...

His eldest son joined the army, and his third son practiced martial arts and was the best among the younger generation in the village...

The fourth and fifth sons are still young..."

As Pan Wenbin listened to Wang Qian's endless speech, he learned more and more about the Xu family.

More than one hundred acres of land are nothing compared to his family's wealth.

Only when he heard that "the third son was practicing martial arts" did he become interested.

However, when he heard Wang Qian say, "He is the most powerful young person in the village," he laughed to himself: There are not many people practicing martial arts in this remote village, so how powerful can the most powerful one be?
(End of this chapter)