The Beauty in the Peasant Family - C250
After the lunchtime diet, they accompanied Rizon and Rizon to help Xing Hua choose two sets of seats, and after pulling a few pieces of materials that were popular in the town, they returned to Zhenxi together.
Originally, planned to return to the Chao Chung Hall, but Rizon and Rizon felt that the child was a bit more at ease here. Furthermore, the Madam Lin was originally a person who was familiar with the Zhang family, so their conversation was a bit more at ease.
Qin Wuya thought that was also reasonable, so she simply sent Fu Xi and Fu Zhi away, and only allowed Madam Wei to accompany him and Rizon and Rizon Xinghua to the courtyard house in Zhenxi.
Madam Lin had not seen Li Zheng and Li Zheng for a long time, and seeing that the two of them were extremely happy, she pulled Li Zheng’s wife along and talked about many things in the family.
When he found out that the apricot flowers were going to marry into the town, Madam Lin was surprised, but more importantly, he was happy. He pulled the apricot flowers and went into his own room, flipping over two new sets of fine cotton.
Qin Dashan and his wife were currently working in Qin Wuya’s factory. The couple’s monthly allowance was more than two liang, which was already enough for them to eat and drink. They still had a lot of silver left over for the past two months.
Seeing that their family’s life was better, they would occasionally give Madam Lin some private property expenses. Although it wasn’t much, but Madam Lin was used to saving money, and would go out to spend it anyway, so other than buying some snacks for Xiao Bao, most of the silver was saved.
A few days ago, Madam Lin wanted to make some clothes for his grandson, so she saved the silver coins and changed it into four batches of fine cotton from the cloth shop she brought with him. These days, she was doing it, but she didn’t expect that Rizon and Rizon would come to the town because of the apricot blossom.
Although Madam Lin had a soft temper, her heart was not bad. She would remember anyone who was good to her. So today, knowing that the apricot was going to be married off, she wanted to give it something to make it up, but she couldn’t find anything suitable. Thinking of this, she remembered that she still had two untouched apricots in the box, so she pulled the apricot into the house.
However, Madam Lin said that the two of them from the Rizon and Rizon had helped Qin Wuya too much in the past. Since Qin Wuya accepted the Rizon and Rizon as her parent, then the apricot flowers could also be considered as her daughter.
Rizon and Rizon was unable to refuse, and upon thinking about how Qin Wuya would return home after marrying into a good family, she felt that she should stay safe for the rest of her life, so she agreed to accept the apricot flowers.
Even if Madam Lin had given them makeup, how could Qin Wuya, the legitimate older sister in the household, not give them to him? Qin Wuya now had a lot of good goods that she kept in her luggage, and on the same night, he took out a pair of decent looking jade bangles from the trunk. There were also enough Yun Jin materials to make a set of clothes for him, and on the second day, she secretly stuffed them in Li Zheng’s wife’s house when she sent them back.
Li Zheng’s wife never thought that Qin Wuya would be so generous, he was so scared he didn’t dare to accept it. But Qin Wuya said that since the apricot flower was his sister, how could his sister fill up her makeup without taking it from him? Furthermore, Qu Family was also a family with a lot of money, wouldn’t it be underestimating if the girl married into a family?
In less than three days, the Qu Family sent over the Geng Pai. After changing the Geng Pai and fusing the two words together, the wedding date was set for next year’s Spring.
With regards to the arrangements being made at this time, both Rizon and Rizon and Qin Wuya were very satisfied. The preparation time for marriage that was less than a year was not considered long in the Grand Dynasty, but it was definitely not too nervous either.
Of course, the reason that Rizon and Rizon was satisfied was also because the marriage schedule, which was neither too long nor too short, indirectly showed that Qu Family had taken a liking to the marriage and did not look down on the Li family’s younger generation.
At the beginning of May, Qin Wuya brought Fu Xi and the Madam Wei on a few more trips to the western mountains, and it was still Xu San who was driving. The only difference was that Qin Wuya and the rest did not rush to the location of the dry grape, but patiently walked around the entire western mountain, and from start to end, it took them three days of effort to roughly figure out the location of the entire western mountain.
Actually, the Western Mountain is not called the Western Mountain. In the Clear Water Town’s records, the Western Mountain also has an elegant name, the Sunset Clouds Mountain.
As for the Western Mountain, its name was actually just called by the Li family villagers. Because the Western Mountain’s entrance was located in the western part of the village, the old people in the village were used to calling it the Western Mountain.
found it even more interesting, that the Sunset Clouds Mountain did not actually belong to the Li Family Village. To be exact, two-thirds of the Mu Village’s seats were connected to the mountain, and only a third of the foot of the mountain was connected to the Li Family Village.
As for the right of ownership, it was in the hands of the Clear Water Town, and it did not belong to either the Li Family Village or the Mu Village.
Furthermore, due to the reverence the Li Family Village had for the Western Mountain, it was very rare for the villagers to enter the mountain, let alone climb it to see the Mu Village on the other side.
As for the people of the Mu Village, they were not as afraid of the people of the Li Family Village. In fact, there were quite a few villagers who went to the mountain to hunt for food in the autumn of the summer, but most of them were not far away.
As for the reason, it was because the Sunset Clouds Mountain was located about halfway in the direction of the Mu Village, and had a natural barrier.
It was a mountain valley. There were quite a few pools of water. Perhaps it was because the terrain was lower than the surrounding mountains and the water vapor was heavier, but the surroundings of the lake were always shrouded in a misty white mist.
In addition, the misty miasma stretched for several miles, making people look really scary. As a result, even the villagers of Mu Village would consciously avoid the misty miasma in order to avoid trespassing into unclean things.
With the combination of the two, coupled with the fear and respect towards the unknown, the Mu Village and the Li Family Village had been neighbors for hundreds of years, yet there were almost no interactions between them.
Not to mention that the Mu Village was even from the Li Family Village, actually, when Qin Wuya brought Fu Zhi and the Madam Wei Xu San into the mountain, the Madam Wei had also displayed her fear of the place where almost no one was coming in and out of more than once.
Other than a few pheasant rabbits, the five of them had not actually seen any large wild beasts, not even a deer.
naturally could not understand Madam Wei’s inexplicable fear. In Qin Wuya’s eyes, the Sunset Clouds Mountain was no different from the mountain ranges in the countryside she had passed through in her previous life.
If there was a difference, it would be because in his previous life, he had seen village people walking in and out of the mountain ranges in the countryside, but Sunset Clouds Mountain was not very popular at all.
Of course, because of this reason, it was almost impossible to find any clear mountain paths within the Sunset Clouds Mountain, which allowed no one to casually walk while looking at the sun.
Fortunately, the terrain of the Sunset Clouds Mountain was not complicated, even without a path, Qin Wuya and the other three did not run into any trouble when they went into the mountain to inspect the terrain.
“Madam, how is it?” Amongst the few of them, only Xu San understood Qin Wuya’s intentions. Seeing Qin Wuya’s satisfied expression, Xu San could not help but ask.
“That’s right.” Qin Wuya nodded her head, “The terrain of the Sunset Clouds Mountain is not complicated, there are even some areas that are very flat, and much better than what I had expected.”
Qin Wuya’s original plan was to contract the Western Mountain and plan out the place where the dry grape and the mountain pear grew. She then spent some time to cultivate them by artificial planting. She wanted to turn these three wild plants into her own long-term industry. This way, she could ensure that after she grew up in the northern part of the town, there would not be a situation where she cut off the raw materials.
However, these few trips to the Western Mountain made Qin Wuya realize that this western mountain, or to be more accurate, this Sunset Clouds Mountain, was much broader than what she had imagined. They even thought of taking over the mountain and planning the entire Sunset Clouds Mountain into a large orchard and a manor.
This was definitely a crazy idea, but it was also a very tempting one.
Qin Wuya narrowed her eyes slightly and said: “Xu San, tomorrow, go to the Shangguan Family and ask for the price. If the price is suitable, I want to buy the land deed for the entire Sunset Clouds Mountain.”
“Yes.” Xu San nodded.
The Grand Dynasty’s land was purchased not under a lease, and it was the same even on the mountain. As such, as long as the price was suitable, they could buy the entire mountain and create a land contract with the Shangguan Family. This way, the mountain naturally became private property, and it could also be legally controlled so that no outsiders could enter.
Qin Wuya originally thought that the Western Mountain was part of the Li Family Village, so she wanted to entrust the Rizon and Rizon to help out, to see if she could buy the Western Mountain privately without alerting the villagers.
However, the last time Rizon and Rizon accompanied the apricot flower to the town to settle down, Qin Wuya had to take a few breaths to realize that the entire Western Mountain was actually not in the hands of the Li Family Village.
The day after he sent off the Rizon and Rizon, he instructed Xu San to look for the Shangguan Family to check on the rights of ownership of the Western Mountain. And the result of Xu San’s investigation was that there was no Western Mountain near the Li Family Village, and only the Sunset Clouds Mountain was located on the mountain to the west of the village, and the owner of the Sunset Clouds Mountain was neither the Mu Village nor the Li Family Village, it was a desolate mountain with no one controlling it.
According to the laws of the Da Li Empire, the mountain ranges that did not have notes on the jurisdiction over would be directly under the management of the town’s Shangguan Family s, so if Qin Wuya wanted to purchase this barren mountain, she only needed to write a contract with the town’s Shangguan Family s. As for the price, it would be set by the yamen’s City Governor, who was similar to the later generations.
This saved Qin Wuya a lot of thought.
Originally, Qin Wuya was afraid that the reason to purchase the Western Mountain would be discovered by the villagers of the Li Clan. After all, the Li Family villagers’ fear of the Western Mountain was too deep-rooted. If they made too much of a move, it would inevitably arouse the villagers’ disgust.
But now, there was no need to worry. Sunset Clouds Mountain could not enter from the Li Family Village, so he might as well enter from the west side of the Mu Village.