I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Gu Wenxuan hurriedly said: "Next time, next time I will definitely send something to his house first."

Jia Guizhi: ...

Quick to admit mistakes, but never change, right? She was completely convinced of her daughter's new habit.

Gu Wenxuan didn't want to continue this topic. She talked about how she wanted to use each item, then decisively slipped away, out of her mother's control.

"Grandpa." Gu Wenxuan came to the side of the old man who was sitting next to him, smiling at the rest of the family, "While our family is rich now, let's buy all the wasteland from the creek to our house."

Mr. Gu was stunned. "What are you going to do with that much wasteland?"

"Build a mansion, a workshop, dig a pond, in short, it will definitely not be abandoned."

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, they could understand building a big house, but for farmers, as the family population increased and the children and grandchildren grew up, the children would eventually have to build new houses and live separately.

If they bought the wasteland next to it, the children in their family could build houses around the old house in the future.

We all live together, so we can take care of each other in the future.

But what about building a workshop and digging a pond?

Gu Yongming asked tentatively: "My girl, do you want to raise fish next to our house?"

Gu Wenxuan nodded, "Not only can we raise fish, we can also raise shrimps and crabs, and grow lotus roots. In short, these are all good ways to make money."

Gu Yongqing (Gu Wenxuan's uncle) scratched his head, "But no one in our family knows how to do this."

Old Master Gu nodded. "The secret of fish farming is not something that anyone would easily pass on to others. As for the things you mentioned about raising shrimps and crabs and growing lotus roots, it seems that no one in our area knows how to do it, right?"

The fewer people who raise fish, the higher the price of fish in the market, and people will certainly not teach others their own skills to make a living.

Not to mention raising shrimps and crabs and growing lotus roots, which are new and novel things they have never heard of.

"My master said that someone in the south can do this." Gu Wenxuan reassured her family, "Now our family has some connections. Whether it's my master or Mu Jingzhi and Peng Xuan'an, it's just a piece of cake for them to find someone to teach us. Of course, I will definitely not let them help me for nothing. I will definitely give them the benefits they deserve."

When everyone heard this, they immediately felt that this seemed feasible.

Gu Yongming was still thinking about what Gu Wenxuan had said before about "building a workshop". He asked Gu Wenxuan, "Did your master teach you other skills?"

Gu Wenxuan was stunned, "What other skills?"

Gu Yongming was even more confused than her. "Didn't you say you wanted to build a workshop on the wasteland next to our house?"

Gu Wenxuan waved her hand. "I just had this initial idea. The greatest benefit of this wasteland to our family now is that when the war is over, we can build a large, bright and spacious house with blue bricks and blue tiles next to the old house."

As soon as she said this, the expressions of the Gu family members changed immediately.

Who wouldn't want a big, bright and spacious house with blue bricks and blue tiles? Especially since the one they were living in was a dilapidated adobe house that was at risk of collapse.

Old Master Gu took a deep breath and said, "Okay, Grandpa will go find Bai Lizheng tomorrow."

Gu Wenxuan had said before that land prices would only get higher in the future, so if you buy now, you can spend less money.

Furthermore, the land is there and cannot be stolen or robbed, but it is different with the silver. If the war spreads to their small mountain village, the silver they have saved by living frugally may not still be theirs.

Rather than being robbed by soldiers, bandits or refugees later, they might as well use the money to buy wasteland now.

Li was thinking about something else. "If we really buy this land, it won't be a good idea to leave it uncultivated. Why not wait until we get the land deed and reclaim the wasteland to plant some radishes, cabbages, etc. as soon as possible."

Vegetables are half a year's food. After the vegetables are planted, they can harvest some in late autumn so that the family can eat more and be fuller in the winter.

Upon hearing this, Mr. Gu nodded slightly and said, "It just so happens that we have cows at home now, so it won't be difficult to reclaim the wasteland."

Gu Wenxuan silently revealed the truth in her heart, "It's actually still very troublesome."

What she didn't know was that almost at the same time that Mr. Gu agreed to buy the wasteland, Bai Jingzhou's parents had also agreed to purchase a large piece of wasteland on the other side of the Gu family.

At first, Bai Chong and Ning Cuizhi didn't think it was necessary for their family to buy new land and build a house, but Bai Jingzhou used a combination of ideas such as "workshop", "medicine field", "invite grandparents to live with us", and "my brother and I can't separate and live our own lives after we get married" to successfully convince Bai Chong and Ning Cuizhi.

The workshop means making money, which Ning Cuizhi likes. Medicinal herb cultivation is a new field for Bai Chong, and he is very interested in it.

Bai Jingzhou didn't want to separate from his younger brother after getting married. As parents, Ning Cuizhi and Bai Chong naturally hoped that the two brothers would live together for the rest of their lives. On the one hand, the couple could enjoy family happiness, and on the other hand, Bai Jingzhou and his brother could support and take care of each other.

As for Bai Jingzhou's grandparents, although the two elderly people can still take care of themselves now, they are no longer young after all. In a few years, they will eventually have to live with their younger generations so that they can be taken care of at any time.

If you think about it this way, their small courtyard and those few rooms might not be big enough for them to live in.

With multiple factors taking effect, Bai Chong and Ning Cuizhi agreed to find Bai Lizheng as soon as possible to discuss the purchase of land.

It is worth mentioning that, unlike Gu Wenxuan who only had a vague idea of ​​"opening a workshop" in her mind, Bai Jingzhou had a lot of real things in his mind.

While he was trying to persuade Bai Chong and Ning Cuizhi, he had already thought about what he would do with this workshop in the future.

In addition, Bai Jingzhou asked his parents one question.

"Dad, Mom, is there no pig butcher in Liulin Town?"

His mother looked confused, "What is a pig butcher?"

Bai Jingzhou: "It's... the craftsman who castrates pigs."

Bai Chong and Ning Cuizhi: ...

The two of them were strangely silent for a moment, and then Bai Chong shook his head and said to Bai Jingzhou: "That is indeed... not true."

After a pause, he continued, "Not only in Liulin Town, but in the entire Qingshan County, I haven't heard of anyone who knows this craft. But there are two gelding craftsmen in the mule and horse market in our county."

Here, "castrator" refers specifically to craftsmen who make a living by castrating large animals such as cattle, horses, and donkeys.

Bai Jingzhou cleared his throat and said, "Actually, castrating a pig is similar to castrating a cow or a horse. They basically do the same thing."