bookcurios Chapter 160 Buy It
Chapter 160 Buy It
The originally deserted village suddenly became lively. The villagers were busy moving their luggage into the village. Notes were posted on every door, but most of the villagers were illiterate.
At this time, Cheng Shuang's role in teaching the children in the village to read came into play. Children running around the village enthusiastically helped to check names and helped the villagers to move in.
Cheng Shuang and her family had few things, so they packed up quickly. They divided the rooms according to the previous room allocation, and then the whole family cleaned the new home inside and out.
Cheng Shuang also asked the officer leading the team why there was an extra room in their house. The answer she got was that Prefect Zhu had specially ordered it so that she could use it to teach the children in the village so that they would not have to squeeze in the open yard.
This put Cheng Shuang in a somewhat awkward situation. She was only teaching the children in the village temporarily, and it was not certain whether she would continue to teach them in the future.
But let’s leave it this way for now. Maybe I can let my two younger sisters teach them. Anyway, all we need is for the children to be able to read.
After cleaning the house, the younger brothers and sisters all ran out to play. Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang also went out to stroll around the village, greeting everyone they met along the way. When they arrived at the headman's house, they saw more than a dozen elderly people blocking the headman's house, asking where the land allocated to them was.
Seeing this, the two turned around and left, going somewhere else to stroll around.
After taking a look around, Cheng Shuang was very confused. Why was there only one brick house in the village? The old scholar's big yard was nowhere to be seen. Did he not live in the village anymore?
Wei Qinglang suddenly said, "The scenery here is quite nice. Look ahead, is that a peach blossom forest?"
Cheng Shuang looked in the direction of his finger and saw a peach blossom forest in the distance. There were pink and white flowers blooming brightly.
"Let's go over and take a look." Cheng Shuang suggested.
The two of them walked for a long time, looking at the peach blossom forest not far away. The large open space they passed by had been divided up. It was obvious that it was to be distributed to the villagers to grow crops.
As you enter the peach blossom forest, you can smell the fragrance of flowers. There is soft soil under your feet, and unknown wild flowers are growing here and there, red, yellow and purple, which complement the peach blossoms.
Peach blossoms are in full bloom above my head, the branches of the peach trees are twisted and coiled, and the branches are full of flowers.
A gust of wind blew, and petals fluttered gently down in the wind, and butterflies flapped their wings and flew by. The breath of spring was very strong.
"It's so beautiful!" Cheng Shuang couldn't help but sigh as she tilted her head back, and reached out to catch a falling petal.
Wei Qinglang looked at her gently and said, "This place should have been allocated to Chengjia Village. Before, the villagers were worried about the pomegranates and bamboo shoots on the mountain. Didn't the officials say that there are more good things on the mountains in Xinjia Village?"
The two of them walked through the woods and found that the trees were quite large, with an estimated number of hundreds. When the peaches were ripe, there would be enough for every family in the village to share dozens of kilograms.
"Listen, there seems to be the sound of water." Cheng Shuang suddenly stopped and listened.
Wei Qinglang also listened carefully and nodded, "Indeed, it seems to be coming from the front."
The two followed the sound of water, passing through several tall peach trees, and suddenly the view opened up. A small waterfall cascaded down from the rock face, and below was a small pool. The water was as green as jade, and the surrounding area was covered with moss and wildflowers.
"I didn't expect there is such a waterfall here!" Cheng Shuang quickly walked to the edge of the pool, stretched out her hand and gently touched the water surface, and a cool feeling came from her fingertips.
Wei Qinglang also walked over to her and pulled her, "Look, there are fish in the pond."
Cheng Shuang looked up and saw four or five fish, quite large in size, swimming happily in the clear water.
"What fat fish!" she said happily. "Catch a few and take them back to have as a dinner?"
Wei Qinglang smiled and said, "Do you know how to catch fish? Don't let yourself fall into the water before you catch any fish. This pool looks quite deep."
Cheng Shuang rolled up her sleeves, revealing her slender wrists. A fishing net appeared in her open palm. She snorted, "Who are you looking down on?"
As she spoke, she walked to the water's edge and gently lowered the scoop net into the water, moving very carefully for fear of disturbing the fish.
Wei Qinglang stood behind her, his arms folded across his chest, a smile on his face. "If you keep doing this, the fish will have already run away. Move quickly and don't hesitate."
Cheng Shuang turned around and glared at him: "Stop making noise, you scared the fish away!"
Then she refocused her attention on the water, her eyes locked on a fish hovering near the water plants.
The fish seemed oblivious to the approaching net, still swaying its tail slowly. Cheng Shuang held her breath, exerted a little force on her wrist, and the net moved swiftly and steadily toward the fish.
Just as the net was about to close in, the fish suddenly swung its tail and swam away. Cheng Shuang scooped it up, and the net broke through the water, splashing water onto her dress.
There was quite a bit of noise, but when the scoop net was lifted up, it was empty with only a few pieces of water plants.
Cheng Shuang sighed in frustration: "Just a little bit!"
Wei Qinglang couldn't help but laugh out loud: "It would be strange if you can catch him with your skills."
Cheng Shuang was so angry at him that she pointed her finger at him and said, "Get away from me and don't bother me."
Then he changed the location, put the scoop net back into the water and waited for the rabbit to come out.
The surroundings were quiet with only the sounds of water and wind. Cheng Shuang squatted until her legs were numb but she didn't move. She kept staring at a few fish in the water that were approaching little by little.
The sunlight shone on her profile, reflecting her focused expression. Wei Qinglang smiled helplessly and walked around to observe the mountain.
After watching, Cheng Shuang still maintained the same posture without moving.
He folded his arms and waited quietly behind her. After a while, Cheng Shuang made a sudden move and the net quickly came out of the water.
This time, there was a flapping sound in the net.
"Caught it!" Cheng Shuang shouted excitedly, lifting up the scoop net. Sure enough, there was a fish in the net, wagging its tail desperately.
"what......."
The next second, she staggered because of the struggling fish. Her legs were numb from squatting for too long and she almost fell into the water.
Fortunately, Wei Qinglang, who was behind them, was quick to pull the person back. He looked at the frightened Cheng Shuang and said, "I'm just kidding. Do you really want to jump into the water and perform for me?"
After Cheng Shuang recovered from the shock, she saw that the fish was still there. She proudly raised the net in her hand and said, "You're quick. This fish is yours for half."
Wei Qinglang laughed, "Since you like this place so much, let's go find out who owns this mountain and buy it."
Cheng Shuang blinked. "Buy a mountain?"
"Yes, we can plant fruit trees, grow herbs, raise chickens, ducks, rabbits, anything. We can also build a road and a viewing pavilion on this side."
"That's true." Cheng Shuang thought about it and realized that it would be very useful. With her own hilltop, she could grow some precious herbs and also cultivate white fungus artificially.
Wei Qinglang said, "Over there, next to the peach blossom forest we just came from, that piece of wasteland is at the foot of this mountain. If this mountain can be traded, we will buy all the wasteland at the foot of the mountain. We want to raise crayfish, right? Then we can dig a pond."
Cheng Shuang looked at him and said, "I didn't expect that you thought it through. You must have made up your mind a long time ago to do something big here."
Wei Qinglang raised his eyebrows slightly, "I guess so. I can't just stay in the village and eat and wait to die after coming here."
Cheng Shuang nodded in agreement.
The two men twisted a straw rope with the cowgrass on the roadside. Wei Qinglang threw the scoop net into the space and went back with the fish.
It was almost noon, and all the villagers had moved into their new homes. Adults and children were visiting each other to familiarize themselves with the situation, and greeted them warmly when they saw them.
"Qing Lang, where did you get the fish?"
"There's a small pond through the peach blossom forest. I caught it there."
"That's amazing! He can even catch fish in the pond."
Wei Qinglang gestured to the side, "Cheng Shuang caught it, she's really good."
Cheng Shuang smiled proudly, "Yes, I caught this fish."
After chatting for a while, they continued walking forward. They ran into Cheng Fu running around the village announcing some news. Wei Qinglang called out to him, "Ah Fu, what are you yelling about?"
Cheng Fu braked suddenly and ran towards him. "There are a few bamboo rafts over there. You can get on a boat to Huanhua County for one cent a person. It will take a little over a quarter of an hour. I want to go to the county town to take a look and do some shopping, but the boatman said he won't leave until the raft is full. There are eight people on each raft. Do you want to go?"
"Let's go." Cheng Shuang continued, looking at Wei Qinglang and said, "Let's call the rest of the family to come along. We don't even have a pot at home, so let's go to the county to eat lunch, and then go shopping."
Wei Qinglang nodded in agreement, and then the two of them split up and found the three children running around in the village, and then went home to call the others.