The next morning, Li Wanquan and Li Wanxiang took four-color gifts to the ancestor's house to discuss the land purchase.

The four gifts were collected by Li Wanquan and Li Wanxiang's families. Li Wanquan took a hen, Li Wanxiang took a pound of brown sugar, a handful of vermicelli, and a few pounds of millet.

Only one of these four-color gifts was bought, that is a pack of brown sugar, and the other three were agricultural products produced by their own families. In this era, farmers were generally poor, so it was not easy to be able to take out these four things. Hens in farms were particularly precious, and the eggs laid by the hens must be sold, that is, the housewife's salt pot and sewing box.

The ancestor usually doesn’t like these poor and vulgar tribe members. Under normal circumstances, his wife sent them away. Today, when it comes to these gifts, the ancestor is very polite to them and came out to receive them in person.

The land purchase matter was decided soon because the ancestor urgently needed to raise money to build the ancestral hall this year.

The old ancestor has been the leader of the clan for twenty-five years. During his time as the clan leader, the Qing Dynasty was overthrown, Bai Lang pulled the pole and started a business, the flood, drought and locust plague, and the warlords fought. Now the little Japanese are in trouble in the north again. In short, there are almost no peaceful days during his clan leader's tenure.

The Li family ancestral hall was still built in the Qing Dynasty and has not been repaired for the past 25 years. The roof and beams of the ancestral hall are soaked in water, the original painted paint has peeled off, the brick walls and stone foundations are tilted and cracks are tilted, and the wooden beams and pillars are rotten.

The ancestor is seventy years old this year, and he feels that there is not much future. A few years ago, due to the chaos in the war and the poor, he was unable to collect funds for the construction of the temple. In the past two years, the weather has been good, and the crops have been harvested year by year, and farmers have collected some more. "People leave their names behind, and geese leave their voices behind." Those who repair the ancestral temples have to record them in the genealogy, so the ancestor was eager to repair the ancestral temple once in his lifetime.

The harvest was good last year, and the ancestor started to raise funds among the clans since the autumn harvest. The ancestral hall had not been repaired for more than 20 years. Because this maintenance project was too large, the money and property raised and the income from the clan fields were still about 100 oceans away from the cost of repairing the ancestral hall. The ancestor was in a bad mood these days and sighed all day long.

When he heard that the Li Wanquan and his brothers were going to buy the wasteland on the steamed bun slope, he opened his mouth in surprise.

Others don’t know the value of the land, but his ancestor knew whether the land was worth it. When the money for building a ancestral temple was not enough, he found Li Wancai, the largest landlord in the clan, and was about to sell the land to Li Wancai. Li Wancai looked at it disdainfully and said, “I don’t want it if you give it to me for free! The steamed bun slope is full of urea soil, and nothing grows there. Even if you give me the land, I will pay the tax money!”

When he was sure that the two brothers Li Wanquan were indeed going to buy the slope of the steamed bun slope, the ancestor's mouth opened to the largest point, so big that a cooked egg could be almost put in!

The arrival of the two brothers Li Wanquan was a timely rain for the ancestor. The ancestor made a decision on the spot: "Go! You can offer a price!"

Li Wanquan and Li Wanxiang didn't expect that the ancestor would be so happy. They planned on the road that if they had two oceans per acre, they would buy all the money for selling tung oil. Two oceans would buy one ammonium of land. The price was too cheap. Now the ancestor asked them to offer the price, but they really didn't know how to speak.

The ancestor took the initiative to speak, "How about three oceans and two acres of land? If you like it, buy it."

Li Wanquan and Li Wanxiang were naturally overjoyed and signed a contract with the ancestor on the spot. Each of them bought ten acres of land and paid a deposit of five yuan on the spot. The remaining money was sent by the ancestor to measure and sign the land deed, and they made up for it on the spot.

Li Wanquan brothers attached a condition, that is, water is needed to plant crops, and they had to dig a pond under the slope. The land used for the pond was purchased at the price of one ocean per acre after being dug, and it was also paid on the spot after the ancestor sent someone to measure and demarcate and write a contract. The pond was later owned by the Li brothers.

Of course, the ancestor would not object to this condition. The steamed bun slope was bare and could not store water. There was a ditch under the slope. It would drain water on rainy days and would stop flowing when it was sunny. Of course, there were weeds and no one cared about it. Since someone used money to buy abandoned ditches, it was too late for the ancestor to welcome it, so how could there be any reason to disagree?

Dalizhuang is less than three miles away from Xiaolizhuang. There are a small hill and a field between the two villages. It is very fast to walk back and forth. Li Wanquan and Li Wanxiang returned to the village at midday.

The land purchase matter has been basically decided, and the Li brothers pointed at the land they were about to obtain, planning to transform the twenty acres of wasteland. Unexpectedly, the ancestor could not wait for them. Shortly after they came back, the ancestor personally brought several tribe members to measure the boundaries.

Through measurement, the area of ​​the pond was six acres, and the ancestor generously calculated only five acres, and gave them free land on the pond ridge downstream of the ditch.

The land and pond boundary was quickly settled, and the land and pond bought by Li Wanquan and Li Wanxiang were also nailed to the boundary pile. The ancestor wrote the land deeds he brought on the site, and the Li brothers handed over the remaining thirty pieces of ocean and obtained the land on Mantou Slope.

The ancestor's generosity was also rewarded. Seeing that the land was cheap, the Zhou family and Qian family in the village gathered fifteen oceans and bought five acres of land each.

This is a win-win outcome. The ancestor left with the land selling Dayang. Before leaving, he even told him that if he could buy all the land on the steamed bun slope, the price would drop.

The existing dry land of several families in Xiaolizhuang is passed down from their ancestors. Today, they can buy industries in their hands, and they can be worthy of their ancestors and their children and grandchildren. The four farmers who hold land deeds are happy from the bottom of their hearts.

Slopes like this can also be grown in slopes. Because the slopes cannot retain water and fertilizer, the yield of the slopes is not as high as that of flat land.

The snow on the slope has not been completely melted, and the shallow surface soil is still frozen. The four farmers can't wait, so they began to sort out the land in the afternoon.

Villagers often change jobs when doing farm work. When the owner has heavy work, relatives, friends and neighbors come to help. The owner only provides food and does not need to pay wages. This time someone does the work at your home, and you will help him when someone has work next time, so that he will return his work to him. This way of changing jobs is very practical and fair, especially for completing large and complex things. Everyone has expertise, and everyone works together to improve labor efficiency and no money.

All four families in Xiaoli Village bought land, and every family needed strong labor. The neighbors in the village could not help for a while, so each family called their relatives to help sort the land.

It was not until the project started that Li Qinglin realized that Li Wanquan and his friends were going to dig ponds not only for the water source, but also for the fertile soil under the trench.

Because the ground plants are sparse, after years of rainwater erosion, the soil with better weathering on the surface of the steamed bun slope has been washed to the bottom of the ditch. The soil deposited at the bottom of the ditch is relatively fertile and has good water retention. For so many years, weeds have been circulating. The weeds grow in spring and wither in autumn, and the rotten layer at the bottom of the ditch is very thick. After digging, it turns out to be fertile soil.

The slope was first sorted into flat ground, and then transported the good soil at the bottom of the ditch. This project was really not small, and Li Qinglin's uncle and aunt also came to help.

The men worked in the fields, and all the spinning matters were left to the women, including going to the town to buy cotton and sell yarn.

There is a saying here: "From ninety-nine up to seventy-eight nine down to seventy-nine, as long as there is a yarn cart, you can spin a spool." The spinning technology is not complicated, and the requirements for physical strength and age are not high. As long as people are patient, it is enough, so farmers can basically do it. Zhou Dezhong's old mother and young daughter also joined the spinning ranks. Now there are a total of eight people spin at the same time. The second batch of forty kilograms of lint bought was spinned in just six days.

Early in the morning of the 18th day of the first lunar month, Liu Xiuzhen and Wei Sanya went to the town to sell cotton yarn together. The town was nine miles away from the village, and the old customers bought flowers and yarn, so the two of them had a smooth job.

In the evening, after Li Qinglin and his friends finished their work from the field and returned home, Wei Sanya quietly pulled Li Qinglin aside and told him that something unexpected happened: Liu Xiuzhen had a fight with someone in the town!

Li Qinglin was shocked when he heard this.
Chapter completed!