Eldest daughter

Chapter 288 Buying a Zhuangzi
Tang Xueer's reputation as domineering had been spread in Changle Town for a long time. The Second Mrs. Tang was so angry that she smashed several vases and restrained her at home, but she couldn't restrain her feet. Tang Xueer sprained her feet and couldn't move around anymore.

It's not that Tang Xue'er didn't know that her reputation had been dubbed domineering, and she was a little flustered, and bitterly asked Mrs. Tang what to do.

"What else can I do? I have worked hard to train you for many years, but you have dismissed me all at once. Let me see what kind of family you can find in the future?" Second Mrs. Tang was very annoyed.

It's a bad start, a bad start, first I got a cold fruit from Wang Yuan'er, and Tang Xue'er made such a reputation here, it will be even more difficult for their second wife.

"Mother, this place is not good at all. Let's go back to Beijing and ask grandpa?" Tang Xueer said coquettishly, "Grandma always loves me, she will definitely let her daughter decide."

Mrs. Tang Er pursed her lips, feeling a little sad in her heart.

When she was in trouble, her natal family almost expelled her for self-protection. Later, when the corruption incident happened, her natal family also suffered the crime. Her natal family hated her to the core, so what do you want to do?
"Stop talking, take good care of it." Second Mrs. Tang said indifferently, and left with a flick of her sleeves.

Tang Xueer muttered, angrily threw the pillow on the ground, hating Cui Yuan even more in her heart, if he wasn't so ruthless, would she have such a reputation?
"I heard that Mr. Cui has feelings for Miss Wang, so how could he have a crush on our young lady?"

"That's right, the eldest girl seems to have a good temper, but our young lady is so domineering, anyone can pick on her."

Outside, there were two women chatting gossip, Tang Xueer pushed open the window and shouted angrily, "Shut your mouths!"

The two women curled their lips and left.

Tang Xueer was so angry that she smashed her teacup again, gritted her teeth and said, "Cui Yuan, Wang Yuaner, hum!"

Naturally, Wang Yuan'er didn't know about Tang Xue'er's mother and daughter's grievances. After sending Cui Yuan away, she went to Yajia, and wanted to buy a village with ponds, mountains and forests, even if there were only ponds.

The tooth dealer also paid close attention to the affairs of Wang Yuaner and his family. Hearing what Wang Yuaner wanted, he agreed with his heart. Within a few days, he brought a piece of news.

In the outskirts of Tongzhou, there is such a small village in a town called Huangmei, with fish ponds, mountains and forests, and there are about thirty households in the village.

Tongzhou City is three hours away from Changle Town, and it is also a big city. Wang Yuaner thought the distance was not too far, so he wanted to go and have a look, and buy it if it was suitable.

As soon as he said it, Wang Yuan'er told Qing'er Aunt Cai and the others to take care of the house, and he took Uncle Cai and Sujuan to Tongzhou City with the dental prostitute surnamed Li.

I heard from Li Yajia that the Zhuangzi was an outsider. He heard that the business was a little tight recently and needed to turn around, so he sold some farmland and Zhuangzi for money. Because of the rush, the price of the Zhuangzi was not too high. Nearly a hundred mu Zhuangzi's asking price is only four hundred taels of silver.

After walking for three hours, Wang Yuan'er and his party arrived at Zhuangzi mentioned by Li Yayu.

The carriage stopped in front of Zhuangzi's gate, and someone greeted them. It was Tan Daqiang, the head of the Zhuangzi, who led them to the front of the villa. There was a man in charge waiting there. Li Yaji introduced him as Director Ye.

After exchanging greetings and having tea, Wang Yuan'er proposed to take a walk around the village, and Director Ye asked Tan Daqiang to lead him around.

Zhuangzi is close to the side of the mountain. There is a main courtyard with several side rooms. The farmers’ houses are sparsely populated. It is not yet the time for farming, but some farmers have already started to tend the fields on the farmland.

As Tan Zhuangtou walked, he introduced the Zhuangzi to Wang Yuaner's side, how much it produces in a year, how much the farmer rents, and how many disaster years there are, all of which are clearly stated.

Knowing that Wang Yuan'er wanted to see the fish pond, he led him to the west.

The fish pond was dug along the side of the mountain, because there was a mountain stream over there, so it was convenient to fill the pond with water.

On the hill behind the fish pond, there is a small fruit forest, with apricot and plum trees planted, and several chestnut trees, and a few chickens shuttle among the fruit trees.

"It's winter in this fish pond. Can the fish survive? Will they all freeze?" Wang Yuan'er knew that some lakes would freeze in extremely cold weather.

"It depends on God. If it is too cold, the water in this fish pond will definitely freeze to the surface of ice. There has never been such a situation in the past two years, but it was frozen a few years ago." Tan Zhuangtou scratched his head honestly. She smiled and said: "But girl, don't panic, the water surface is frozen to ice, the pond water below will not freeze, and some fish will survive, but if it is really extremely cold and freezes, the fish will If you don’t reach the surface, you will freeze to death.”

Wang Yuan'er looked at Li Yajiao, who nodded invisibly, and knew that Tan Zhuangtou was telling the truth.

Tan Zhuangtou didn't see Wang Yuan'er's wink, and continued: "Actually, if this fish pond is frozen, the fish will be even more delicious. If you dig a hole in the ice, if you are lucky, you can also catch many fish. Few ice fish come up, because the water in our fish pond is fed by the mountain stream, so the quality of the fish is extremely fresh and excellent."

Wang Yuaner's eyes lit up: "Ice fish?"

Tan Zhuangtou nodded: "However, this is also considered rare, because some fish cannot withstand freezing, and many of them will freeze to death before the ice surface is frozen."

But there are ice fish, which are also live fish. As for winter, it is inevitable that some will freeze to death.

Wang Yuan'er took a look at the area of ​​the fish pond. It was one acre in size. The water surface is considered calm now, except that one or two small fish hairs would occasionally jump on it, breaking the calm water surface and causing circles of ripples.

After seeing the location of the fish pond, Wang Yuan'er went to the fruit forest for a walk. After walking around like this, he was already very satisfied.

"Uncle Cai, what do you think?" Wang Yuan'er walked aside with an excuse and asked in a low voice.

"Miss, I think this Zhuangzi is very good. When you guys went to Guolin, I went to a few farmers' houses to have a look and chat with them. They are all honest people, and I haven't seen them Zhuangtou is honest about rent delay." Uncle Cai answered in a low voice what he had inquired about.

Wang Yuaner nodded approvingly.

"This head of the village can be changed. Miss, if you have a suitable candidate, you can change it too." Uncle Cai was afraid that she would not know, so he mentioned it again.

Wang Yuan'er looked at Tan Zhuangtou, who was talking to Li Yaqi, her eyes didn't wander at all.

Seemingly aware of Wang Yuaner's gaze, Tan Zhuang turned his head to look over, saw her smiling, and hurriedly bowed slightly.

"I heard that some Zhuangzi are managed by their confidant servants, but I don't know if Tan Zhuangtou is from the master's family." Wang Yuan'er said.

"Some Zhuangzi are indeed like this, but there are also some who were brought up from the villager's family, so there is no such thing as a slave, but the eldest girl can also ask." Uncle Cai replied quickly.

Wang Yuan'er had a measure in his heart, and when he went back, he asked Tan Zhuangtou about it.

Tan Zhuangtou was obedient, and immediately replied: "My family lives in the house not far from the main courtyard, and I usually help the master's house to take care of the main courtyard, but we didn't sell ourselves to the master's house. The family saw that I could read a few words, so they mentioned me as the head of the village."

In other words, the first family of Tan Zhuang is freelance, which is considered a form of employment.

"If the owner changes..." Wang Yuan'er only spoke half of the sentence.

"We didn't plan to go anywhere." Tan Zhuang scratched his head and said with a smile: "Our family has taken root here for a long time, and our children are all born here, and we don't want to go anywhere, so we also want to go to the Zhuangzi's field. Tent a few acres to plant."

Walking to the main courtyard, Wang Yuan'er nodded to Li Ya, expressing that she bought this Zhuangzi.

Li Yajia was naturally happy when he made a deal, and discussed the details with Manager Naye, and he also got a price of 20 taels less.

After the price and details were agreed upon, the next step was to issue the deed paper, which would naturally be handled by the middleman, and Wang Yuan'er only had to deal with Zhuangzi's affairs.

Knowing that Zhuangzi is going to change owners, many tenants went to the main courtyard to hear the news. They are tenants, so they are naturally concerned about the tenants. The so-called family is different. Who knows what will happen to the new owner, whether it is mean or peaceful. Yes, it has something to do with the rent paid by the tenants.

A hostile owner would pay too much for food and rent, and tenants would not be able to bear too high a rent, so everyone hoped that the new owner would be a good one.

Therefore, as soon as Wang Yuaner and the others came out, they were surrounded.

"Everyone, don't crowd, the new owner will give us good news." Tan Zhuang raised his hand to prevent the commotional crowd from rushing up.

As soon as he said this, the tenants really stopped pushing forward, but looked at him eagerly.

A dark-skinned man took a step forward and asked, "Brother Tan, did you really change your employer? How is our rent? It looks like spring farming is about to start, so we need to get an accurate head start."

"Our Zhuangzi's things are going to be changed. In the future, this is our new owner, Miss Wang. As for the fixed rent, we will have to wait until the owner decides." Tan Zhuangtou gave Wang Yuan'er behind him to Lu. out.

When everyone looked at it, seeing such a young girl, they whispered to each other unconsciously, and some of them were a little uneasy.

"It's about to start plowing, and I hope the owner will give us an accurate head soon." The man said again bluntly.

"Don't worry, everyone. At most tomorrow, I'll give everyone a head start. Now, you all go back to rest. Tomorrow is three quarters, and everyone will come here to listen to the news." Wang Yuan'er said with a faint smile.

"That's right, let's all go back first, we'll be fine in a day and a half." Tan Zhuangtou also said.

The crowd dispersed slowly, and the voice of the discussion floated along the wind.

Tan Zhuangtou said to Wang Yuan'er with an apologetic face: "Boss, these tenants have no malicious intentions. They will start farming in a few days. They are just impatient. Don't take offense."

"I understand." Wang Yuan'er smiled slightly.

Tan Zhuangtou breathed a sigh of relief, watching Wang Yuaner hesitate to speak, but finally said nothing.

(End of this chapter)