Chapter 278: Each Has His Own Way of Living

Liang Si nodded. Reading

"I heard that you bought this village. I'm afraid it's not possible to open up the wasteland. I want to ask if you need people to do the work? I see many women in the village are making sauce..."

Su Qingmei looked at her.

"If you want to open up the wasteland, you can live in the next two mountains. If you open up the wasteland there, I will only collect 30% of the grain, and the rest is yours."

Liang Si bit his lip: "I...we...I want to live in this village. There are many people here, and it's safe to live here."

Su Qingmei glanced at her and didn't speak for a long time.

Ask her: "You can do something if you want to. Plant trees and raise waxworms. There are also mountains in the village. You can also help with the work. Planting trees will earn you 30 cents a day, taking care of the mountains will earn you 25 cents a day, raising waxworms will earn you 20 cents a day, and working in the sauce house will earn you 15 cents a day. What do you want to do?"

"I, I want to go to the sauce house. There are women there..."

Su Qing'an nodded: "Okay, I'll arrange it. What about your mother?"

"My mother, my mother, she misses my father..."

Okay. It's OK as long as you can support her by yourself.

"I can give you the small building you live in for 30 taels. When you pay it back, the house is yours. Otherwise, the village can take it away at any time."

Liang Si gritted his teeth: "What about Brother Su?"

"He is my family and lives with us."

After a long while, Liang Si nodded: "Okay."

After Liang Si left, Su Qing'an went to find Guo and told her about Liang Si's situation.

"Okay, boss, I understand. I'll arrange for her to wash, cut and dry the sauce, but the key work should be done by our own people.

Su Qing'an nodded, that's what she meant.

Walking in the village, he thought of the thirty or so miners who came back with him, and he didn't know how to arrange them.

When he went home to ask, he heard that they were all arranged on the next mountain and settled, so he felt relieved.

Remembering that he still had a lot of land to arrange, he called Xiang Shang again.

When Xiang Shang heard that the boss had bought thousands of acres of good land, he was shocked.

Now he won't be hungry anymore.

Su Qing'an asked him to go to the next mountain to find Su's father, The two of them took some people to go and arrange the farm affairs properly.

Xiang Shang is good at personnel affairs, and Su's father is good at farm affairs. The two of them should be able to arrange things together.

I forgot to tell Su's father yesterday.

When Su's father heard that his daughter was looking for him, he hurried back from the next hill carrying a hoe.

Hearing that his daughter bought another 6,000 acres of good land, he was so shocked that his mouth couldn't close.

6,000 acres, how much is this?

His family has so many fields now?

I heard that they are distributed in various counties and towns in Renzhou, and it will take several days. Su's mother came back from her shock: "Is it chaotic outside? Will there be any trouble?"

"Let Siyuan follow, and bring more people. "Father Su arranged everything without waiting for Su Qing'an to speak.

When he heard that the family had added so many fertile fields, Father Su was very excited.

He was ready to do something big.

Su Qing'an told him: "Dad, you go to the Governor's Mansion in Renzhou. The Governor's Mansion will also arrange people to replant late rice. They should have arranged the seeds. You can go and get them, and see the adults.

"I, I, see the Governor? No, Qing'an, Dad, I'm afraid..."

"What are you afraid of? Lord Pei is a very good person. The pile of things yesterday were all brought to you by the Governor and his wife, and Siyuan is here."

Father Su was waiting to see the thousands of acres of fertile land his daughter bought, but when he heard that he had to go to the Governor's Mansion to get seeds, he was a little scared.

When ordinary people heard that they had to see an official, their legs went weak.

Su's mother said, "How about I go with you? Look, the governor's wife brought us so many gifts. I'll go and thank her."

When Su's father heard this, he straightened his chest and said to her, "What are you going to do? Qing'an and Qingliu have things to do, who will take care of Yaya and Xiaobao?"

Su's mother saw the two little grandchildren on her thighs, one on the left and one on the right, looking at her with wide eyes and a look of attachment, and immediately changed her mind: "Then you go by yourself, I will take care of Xiaobao and Yaya at home."

Su Qing'an looked at Qingyang standing aside. He was more than nine years old and a big child.

So she said, "Dad, take Qingyang with you. Let him follow and experience. The book I sent him last time was found by the governor, and it's a good opportunity to thank him."

Everyone looked at Qingyang.

Qingyang suppressed the excitement in her heart and nodded: "Okay, I'll go with Dad."

"Sister, I'll go too!" Qingxing shouted, she also wanted to go and experience.

"Why are you going, a girl?" Su's mother scolded her.

Qingxing pouted.

"You should follow your sister." Su Qing'an comforted her.

"Okay! I'll follow my sister." Qingxing was so happy when she heard that.

This made Su's mother glare at her again, saying she was not a girl.

Su Qing'an arranged everything properly and looked around: "Where is my sister?"

"She went to build a house on the next mountain with Fuchang." Su's mother said.

Su Qing'an looked at Su's father and mother suspiciously.

"He is a good person, humble and sensible. Your father gets along well with him." Su's mother said.

"Do you think it's suitable?"

"Let's wait and see." Su's father waved his hand and turned to Su's mother: "Go and help me pack my luggage."

It's only been a short time since he reunited with his daughter, and he wants to marry her off.

Let's wait and see.

After Su's father left, Su Qing'an took Qingxing and Siyuan to the market town.

When we were about to reach the market town, we looked down from the halfway point of the mountain and saw that there were still many people walking around in the market town in the middle of the day.

"Sister, I thought there were not many people in the mountains, but I didn't expect there were so many people."

"There are so many villages, and there are quite a lot of people. And everyone usually stays in the mountains, and they get bored and have nowhere to go. If there is a place to move around, there will be more people."

"I heard yesterday that many other villages are planning to move closer to the market town." Siyuan said.

"Ah, who told you that?" Su Qingmei was a little surprised.

Relocation of the whole village?

The project is a bit big.

"I heard from the people in the village. Some villages are just wooden houses and caves. They can be taken away after being demolished. It's better to be closer to us." Siyuan was well-informed.

Su Qingmei thought about this all the way to Ma Xin.

"Are you back?"

"Yeah."

"Is this your sister?" Ma Xin looked at Qingxing.

"Call her Uncle Xin." Su Qingmei gestured to Qingxing.

"Uncle Xin."

"Hey." Ma Xin smiled and responded. "Your sister is quite like you."

Su Qing'an glanced at her: "She is bold and has a spirit of not admitting defeat."

Ma Xin teased the little girl a few words. Qing Xing saw that they had something to say, and said: "Sister, I'll go around nearby."

"Okay, don't go too far."

"Yes, right here in the barracks."

After Qing Xing and Si Yuan left, the two chatted.

"Has Uncle Xin sent a letter to my godfather?"

Ma Xin nodded: "But it will take a long time to wait for your godfather to reply. The road is not peaceful now, and the post station is almost non-existent."

"No hurry. I told Lord Pei, and Lord said he would discuss it with godfather. It would be better if he came forward."

Ma Xin nodded.

"It's not easy for your godfather. Now that Wang Hu is dead, I don't know how the situation will go, whether it will remain dormant or become more chaotic."

Su Qing'an remembered that in history, there were 53 years of chaos between the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the unification of the Northern Song Dynasty.

As for the chaos of the Shuo Dynasty, she didn't know how long it would last.

There are ways to live in peaceful times and there are ways to live in troubled times.

We can’t just do nothing and go with the flow.