Chapter 267: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
Chapter 267: Buying Land and Reclaiming Wasteland - Fooling Xiaohua (Part 4)
Upon hearing the price, Mo Yan didn’t think it was expensive. She asked Li Zhong to quickly find someone from the yamen to measure the area so they could buy it as soon as possible.
With money, things were easier. People from the yamen came quickly, and after measuring the entire area, it amounted to a total of forty mu.
Forty mu seemed a bit small to Mo Yan, but there was nothing they could do about it. This plot was already the largest in Liuyang Village. While there were some other pieces of land available, they were scattered in small areas, making it more troublesome to manage.
After paying sixty taels of silver plus a tael of silver for the paperwork fee, Li Zhong returned with the land deed.
Taking advantage of the cold weather when most of the grass and trees had withered, the Mo family began to hire people to reclaim the land. In the end, two to three hundred people from the village signed up, but Li Zhong only selected fifty to sixty capable individuals and took them to the low-lying land the next day.
Mo Yan didn’t need to manage the land reclamation, so she had more free time. Since there were many ripe fruits in the mountains now, she started going back to the mountains. She would bring the little furball along, considering it would eventually live in the forest, so it was good to familiarize it with the environment early on.
With Xiao Hua carrying the little tiger cub ahead, Mo Yan followed behind, scanning around. Whenever they came across wild fruits on the trees, they would stop to pick them before continuing.
The wild fruits on the outer trees had already been picked by villagers going up the mountain, so there were none left deep in the mountains. Since these trees weren’t tended to, they grew quite tall. Mo Yan could climb the ones that were easy to climb, but for the difficult ones, she had to stand at the base and use a bamboo pole to knock them down.
At this time of year, the fruits were ripe and easily damaged when they fell to the ground. Mo Yan could only pick up the damaged ones and put them in baskets. Fortunately, they found quite a few, and before long, the prepared bamboo baskets were already filled with four or five.
In addition to common wild fruits like wild persimmons and hawthorns, they also found many wild walnuts and ginkgo nuts, especially ginkgo nuts, which could also be used to make wine! However, they didn’t find any smaller plants, otherwise, they could transplant them into the space to have ginkgo nuts more often.
Not long after they entered Da Bai’s territory, Da Bai ran over joyfully, making joyful ‘woo-woo’ sounds.
Since moving, Mo Yan had almost never been to the mountain. Da Bai had missed her very much, naturally showing affection by rubbing against her for a while until Mo Yan could barely bear its enthusiasm and pushed it away, letting it play with Xiao Hua and the little furball.
It was the little furball's first time in the mountains, and it was curious about everything around it. However, when it saw the tall and majestic Da Bai, it was still somewhat scared, clinging tightly to Xiao Hua and refusing to come down.
Seeing Da Bai’s big tongue approaching, it panicked and cried out in fear, looking pitifully at Mo Yan, hoping she would rescue it from danger.
Knowing that Da Bai liked the little furball, Mo Yan couldn’t help but tease it. Naturally, she wouldn’t interfere. Moreover, if the little one got along well with Da Bai, it would have a backing in the forest in the future.
The little furball didn’t understand Mo Yan’s good intentions. In just a few moments, it was licked all over by Da Bai, dampening its fur. Throughout the process, the little one whimpered with fear and impatience.
After picking enough wild fruits, Mo Yan entered the space, and Xiao Hua, Da Bai, and the others followed.
As soon as Da Bai entered, it sniffed around vigorously and ran straight to the edge of the Spirit Spring water, where the Lingzhi was planted. The Lingzhi had grown a lot, and the most obvious change was that it had completely turned from its initial blood-red color to purple.
Da Bai howled excitedly around the Lingzhi, clearly very excited. It glanced at Mo Yan, licked its lips, and showed a hungry expression.
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