After being jilted, the entire neighboring village was filled with deep regret.

Chapter 105 The Han family is anxious
Su Tai let go of Ruan Xiaoyu's hand, putting away her playful expression, and said, "If you ask me, I think wheat, peanuts and soybeans can continue to be planted, but at most for another two years. You can't make money from these three things anymore."

"Why?" Su Chunlin asked, puzzled.

The others watched Su Tai with amusement, not believing she could say anything useful.

Su Tai, relying on Shen Yi's presence, planned to teach her family a lesson. "The reason is very simple. Why did the magistrate buy all the crops we planted the year before last at a high price? It was because of the high yield. If every household can achieve high yields, it will be a great achievement for the magistrate's career, enough to promote him two or three ranks."

I know you're all wondering, if we bought them in the first year, why did we buy them again in the second year? Naturally, it's because the county government conducted an experiment in the first year, and the results were good, but there weren't enough seeds to benefit all the villages in a short time. So last year, the county government spent a lot of money to buy our crops.

These crops have already been distributed this year. This autumn harvest, half of the villages in Zhaohua County will have a bumper crop. The county magistrate must have already reported the situation. This year, the county government will purchase the crops at a high price again. Next year, at least a quarter of Langya Kingdom will be covered. At most, another year later, every household in Langya Kingdom will be able to harvest high-yield wheat, soybeans, and peanuts.

Do you think these three items will still be valuable then?

Her words caused the whole family's expression to change drastically.

Han was the first to lose her composure. "What are we going to do? I was thinking of using these crops to cultivate some more land so that your two younger brothers wouldn't have to live such a hard life after they divide the family property. According to you, I need to hurry up and buy land!"

Su Tai nodded vigorously, "Mother, if you want to buy land, hurry up, otherwise there won't be much land left to buy in the village!"

Reminded by her words, Han could no longer sit still. She took the money and ran to Su Changxi's house.

Su Chunlin was calmer, and just looked at Su Tai with longing eyes, "Girl, what do you think we can plant after next year?"

"Plant fruit!" Su Tai said as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

Everyone was filled with questions, "Fruit?"

Su Ming frowned. "Big sister, are you craving fruit? There are plenty of fruits in the mountains. I can find some for you if you want."

Su Tai affectionately patted Su Ming's head. "Big sister doesn't crave fruit. Most of the fruit in the mountains is sour and astringent, and even the delicious ones have many flaws, so they're not really popular. So, we'll plant a delicious fruit that we don't have here. Didn't Mother already go to buy land? We can start planting next year, while everyone's lives are good, and we won't have to worry about selling it."

Su Chunlin's eyes lit up, but he didn't dare to be presumptuous. Instead, he looked at Shen Yi and asked, "What do you think?"

Shen Yi nodded with amusement, "I'll do whatever Xiao Tai says."

Su Tai immediately said, "Let's buy another twenty acres of wasteland to plant fruit trees in the spring. Anyway, wasteland is exempt from land tax for the first three years, so we can do whatever we want with it."

"Oh no!" Su Chunlin suddenly stood up and ran outside.

Su Tai looked confused.

Su Zhan said with a smile, "Dad probably went to stop Mom from buying fertile land."

The couple had been out for most of the day, and when they came back, they were walking with a brisk pace.

Su Tai poked her head out from the kitchen, "Is it done?"

Han ran in, secretly delighted. "We've both gone there, so it has to work out! I heard that almost every household in our village is buying land this year, and there's not much good land left. I was just pestering the village chief when your dad came over. He said we don't need good land, but we have to choose the best wasteland."

The village chief immediately made a decision: when the snow melts in the spring, our family will be the first to clear the wasteland. Your father even said he wanted to buy sixty acres, I can't even imagine! Can we manage to take care of it?" Su Tai smiled and looked relaxed. "Mom, if we can't manage it, we'll buy a couple more oxen to help. Anyway, it's not like we can't afford them. We'll plant soybeans and peanuts for the next two years, or we can plant wheat. That way we can earn a little more."

After the autumn harvest, we'll fertilize the fields. You can have Dad go to the Little Stone River to dig up river mud, burn wheat straw and bean stalks, and mix in all the farmyard manure we've saved up, like cow dung, sheep manure, and chicken droppings. Oh, right! In the spring, we can raise some pigs. If we can manage, we can raise three or five. We can use the pig manure to irrigate the fields. If we take care of them like this for a year, how can the land not be fertile?

If we don't have enough people, we'll find others to help. Providing them with a couple of meals is also an option. If we can't find anyone in our village, we'll look in Zhongmen Village or Ximen Village. There are plenty of people willing to take on this job, right?

Hearing this, Han was overwhelmed with excitement, and she couldn't suppress the urge to smile. "Oh! According to you, our family is almost becoming landlords, and I'm becoming a landlord's wife!"

She never dared to dream of such a life before! It's like a dream.

Su Tai laughed so hard she almost fell over. "Mom, this is nothing! Once the family is settled in a few years, A-Zhan and Xiao-Yu get married, and A-Ming is a bit older, we can even buy a shop in town and collect rent. Don't be fooled by how much money it costs to buy a shop."

But this stuff is real and tangible, so even if we encounter another natural disaster in the future, we won't have to worry about starving to death, right?

Han was overwhelmed by the vision Su Tai described and quickly stopped her, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, girl, I wouldn't even dare to think about what you're talking about. Let's wait until we get our sixty acres of wasteland first. But buying oxen and raising pigs is fine. We can leave those jobs to Xiaoyu and Aming. Your father, Aming, and I will take care of the farm work. I'm afraid we won't be able to take care of you after spring."

Han felt upset whenever this matter was mentioned.

The man my daughter married is great in every way, but the lack of support from others is a big problem.

Su Tai didn't care at all. "Mother, you don't need to worry about my affairs. Although I can't help with the work in the fields, we can hire someone to help! Shenjiazhuang is different from our Dongmen Village. In the past two years, only Shen Yi and his second uncle have made money, and only they have built houses."

There are many families in the village who don't have enough to eat. If we pay them twenty or thirty coins a day, we can hire a whole bunch of people to work."

"This is such a waste!" Madam Han frowned, her face full of disapproval.

Su Tai said, "Mother, do you know how much I've earned in the past few months since Shen Yicheng and I got married?"

"How much?" Han unconsciously moved closer to Su Tai.

Su Tai held up two fingers.

Han asked instinctively, "Twenty taels?"

Su Tai gave a meaningful smile. "Twenty taels of silver isn't worth my concern! I work so hard to earn money so that I can suffer less from manual labor. Do you understand, Mother?"

Han shook her head speechlessly, "I don't understand. Sometimes I really can't understand. She's the daughter I raised, but she thinks like a rich girl from the city, afraid of hardship and lazy."

However, I can't say anything to you two for being good at making money. Just be mindful of where you spend your money; save where you should, and spend where you should. Raising children will cost money in the future!

Speaking of children, Han immediately looked at Su Tai's belly, "Still no signs?"

Su Tai nodded innocently, "No! I told Shen Yi I wanted to see a doctor, but he said it wasn't meant to be and wouldn't let me go."

"That won't do! You've been married for so long, how could you not be pregnant if there were no problems! I'll take you to see Doctor Li tomorrow!"

Han's expression was serious, and Su Tai didn't dare to object at all.