The new book of the burning prairie star

"Yang Biao, you are in the store too?" Shopkeeper Liu wanted to buy cloth for his old wife and planned to make her a slant-collared and cross-lapel style dress. He gave his wife's size to the tailor in the cloth shop as a birthday gift for his wife.

"Well, come and take a look!" Yang Biao did not expect that Manager Liu would come to his cloth shop to buy cloth. He thought he would be angry because he did not buy Boss Wang's house. He went to Huanxi Restaurant to deliver wine these few days, but did not see Manager Liu.

"Manager Liu, are you buying this cloth for your family?" Seeing that Manager Liu picked out two colors of cloth, emerald green and goose yellow, he asked casually.

"Yes, my wife's birthday is coming soon, and I want to buy her some clothes." Shopkeeper Liu smiled. When he was young, he was away from home all year round for the business of his master, leaving his wife at home to not only take care of the family's food, drink, defecation and urination, but also to educate their three sons well. Now they are also working for the master. He has seen his wife's silent dedication over the years and is grateful.

"I heard that Boss Wang has a lot of land in this county. I wonder if it's still for sale?" You don't have to buy the house, but you can grow crops and vegetables on the land, which can be easily converted into cash.

"Well, he still has two farms that have not been sold. If Yang Biao is interested, why not come with me to take a look?" Manager Liu immediately took people to the farm. Now that the Huanxi Restaurant is on the right track, it can run well even if he doesn't stay there every day.

"This farm has 180 mu of land, and these houses were built by Boss Wang later." Manager Liu introduced the farm to Yang Biao. Originally, he bought 23 servants. After more than ten years, the servants have paired up with each other, and the population has grown to more than 100. In ancient times, ordinary people had no contraceptives and no other entertainment at night, so the population must have grown rapidly.

"Where is the other location?" Yang Biao also wanted to know the situation of the second farm.

"Oh, the other farm is located in the suburbs east of the city, covering an area of ​​300 acres. I'll take you to have a look." Shopkeeper Liu still hoped that Yang Biao could take over both of his old friend's farms. He was almost getting angry recently because he had to deal with those businessmen who wanted to get a bargain and kept lowering the price. He got a headache just thinking about this.

"What do you think, Yang Biao?" Shopkeeper Liu asked Yang Biao cautiously after taking the young man for a walk around the farms in the eastern suburbs of the city. The young man paid back the 500 taels of silver he had borrowed in just ten days, took over Boss Wang's cloth shop business, organized a lot of promotional activities, and had many innovative clothing styles. His business was even more prosperous than Boss Wang's at that time. If one calculated the funds based on the repayment speed, he should be able to take over the two farms.

"Well, I wonder how much one acre of this land sells for?" Yang Biao looked at the newly built brick houses, which should be used by Boss Wang to live in and store grain, because he saw many mud houses built farther away from the brick houses, which should be for the servants to live in.

"Six taels of silver for one mu of land, less than three thousand taels of silver for four hundred and eighty mu of land." On the market, one mu of land can be sold for about eight taels of silver. Manager Liu wanted to sell the two farms as a package. He didn't want those merchants who were always taking advantage to lower the price of his old friend's land. When Boss Wang bought it, he spent five taels of silver for one mu of land. He couldn't let his old friend make no profit. After thinking about it, he still felt that Yang Biao was a more honest person.

"Well," Yang Biao lowered his head and thought for a while, "Manager Liu, I only have about one thousand taels of silver in my hand now." He currently did not have that much money to purchase two farms, so he had to tell Manager Liu about this. He could clearly feel in his heart that Manager Liu was still sincere to him and did not want to tell lies to deceive him.

"It doesn't matter, as long as you can give it all within two months." Two months later, his wife would set off back to her hometown to reunite with her parents, and by the way, she would bring the silver notes obtained from selling the real estate and land under Boss Wang's name to Boss Wang.

"Two months is enough?" Yang Biao repeated this sentence, a little uncertainly asked Manager Liu, and when he saw him nod affirmatively, he said, "If the purchase of the land can wait for two months, then there is no problem for that kid."

"Then let's write a contract first. Yang Biao, do you have any objections?" In order to avoid any further complications, Shopkeeper Liu wanted to sign a contract quickly to settle the matter and put his mind at ease.

"Well, that's OK." Yang Biao had nothing to say. Manager Liu was able to delay raising funds for him for two months. What could he be dissatisfied with?

"Well, let's go find witnesses and write the contract first." Manager Liu quickly ordered his servants to drive the carriage so that they could return to the county town as soon as possible to sign the transfer contract.

He gave Manager Liu a silver note for one thousand taels, and agreed that the remaining one thousand eight hundred taels of silver could be paid within two months. Now he was also a landowner in ancient times. Looking at the transfer contract with several stamps on it, Yang Biao felt very happy.

"Well, let's ferment the farm manure tomorrow to prepare for the subsequent fertilization in the fields." Yang Biao thought that the farm manure should be made as soon as possible so as not to delay farming.

"Yang Biao, where have you been?" Qin Xiaoran returned to the rental place and saw Yang Biao in the house, writing something. She walked over and asked, "What are you writing?"

"Oh, I was just thinking about it." Yang Biao put away his pen and put the paper full of words into the drawer. Then he stood up and saw that it was getting dark outside. "How come it's dinner time so soon? Xiaoran, what do you want to eat for dinner today?"

"I want to eat dumplings," Qin Xiaoran suddenly missed the taste of dumplings. When she lived in Beijing, she often made dumplings with her parents for dinner.

"Okay, let's eat dumplings tonight." Yang Biao hurried out to the grocery store to buy five bags of flour, and went to the butcher's shop to weigh eight pounds of pork belly. It was really convenient to buy things in the county town. At dusk, the butcher would slaughter a pig to sell.

"Xiao Ran, can you make dumplings?" Yang Biao asked Qin Xiaoran who was standing beside him while kneading dough. He just asked casually and didn't mean to ask the child for help. After all, his fifteen-year-old daughter didn't know how to make dumplings.

Unexpectedly, Qin Xiaoran nodded and rolled up his sleeves, "Yang Biao, you go mix the stuffing, I'll roll out the dough."

I was quite surprised to see Qin Xiaoran pinching the kneaded dough into small pieces of equal size, pressing the pieces with her left hand and rolling the dough with a rolling pin in her right hand. I only knew that girls in ancient times would learn needlework from a young age, but I didn't expect that at such a young age, she has already mastered life skills. It really makes people look at her with new eyes.

"Then I'll go chop the meat." Yang Biao hurriedly washed the pork belly with water, put it on the chopping board and started cutting the pork. "Brother Biao, do you want to have dumplings for dinner tonight?" When Xiao Zhang heard the sound of chopping meat in the kitchen, she hurriedly put down the cross-stitch she was embroidering and came out of the house to help.

"Yes, mother, what other vegetables do we have at home to mix with the meat filling?"