roccoschili Chapter 244 Settling down in a remote area!
Chapter 244 Settling down in a remote area!
I've heard of poverty but I've never heard of such poverty. There are only two people in the county government, the county magistrate and the legal advisor. There is not even enough money for the bailiffs and police officers. So this is just an empty shell? Oh my! It's really funny!
The lawyer Ma Fabai was sitting on the shaft of the carriage. He felt dizzy and couldn't help feeling happy: This lady is really rich and has a carriage at home!
The carriage traveled smoothly for an hour, and in the afternoon, it finally arrived near Jubao Mountain.
When they arrived at the place, Master Ma Fabai smiled and said, "Madam Shen, this piece of land in front and those two hills are all yours. The one in front is Xiaobao Mountain, and this hill is Jubao Mountain. All the flat lands near the foot of these two mountains are yours!
Although it is all weeds now, it will become fertile land if it is tidyed up!
Shen Ruyi came out of the carriage, stood on the carriage and looked at the endless barren mountains and wastelands. She instantly had a feeling that this was indeed a remote and poor place!
The northwest was freezing cold just after the Chinese New Year. Shen Ruyi looked particularly elegant and graceful in her fox fur coat. Ma Fabai turned around and saw this lady and felt that she was extraordinary.
Although this lady is not young, she is dressed in an elegant and luxurious manner and does not look like an ordinary lady.
Facing the barren land, Shen Ruyi just smiled and said, "Okay! Zhaocai, go to that small tree and take a look from the front. The terrain there is flat, so you can probably enclose the land there. Tie this red silk to that small tree!
Master Ma, please help lead the way back. We need to find an inn to stay in and start construction tomorrow."
Ma Fabai nodded and bowed: "Okay! Madam, you really have a good eye, it's really nice there..."
The old man thought: This is a place where rabbits don't shit. If I come here, I will starve to death and die of thirst. Alas! The wife of this rich family can spend money, but I can't say anything..."
Zhaocai took the red silk and quickly ran to the pile of trees. As expected, the terrain here was flat. He tied the red silk to a tree according to Shen Ruyi's instructions, which served as a mark for the area.
Jinbao was dumbfounded. What was going on? What did the little county lady want to do here in a place where rabbits don't shit?
Shen Ruyi selected a piece of land in Jubao Mountain, which was flat and about ten acres in size!
"Jinbao, take this green silk and go to that tall poplar tree and tie it to the tree. That place will be used to dig a well in the future.
You have to flash it out when you build a house, you know?"
Jinbao took the green silk and ran away. He went to the poplar tree that Shen Ruyi pointed out and tied the green silk!
Shen Ruyi looked at it for a while and then smiled: "Okay! Let's go back..."
Master Ma was stunned as he watched the old man followed Zhaocai Jinbao in a carriage and returned to the city of Jubao County. Master Ma took the carriage directly to Yuelai Inn, the only inn in Jubao County.
The inn was really old. Shen Ruyi decided to rent three guest rooms and sleep in the space at night. She couldn't sleep in that room. She was worried that the old house would collapse.
After returning to the guest room, Shen Ruyi took out pen, ink, paper and inkstone and began to draw the drawings of Zhuangzi.
Zhaocai and Jinbao tied up the horses in the backyard and went out to chop wood to feed the horses. Xiaohong and Xiaobi set up a stove in the backyard and prepared to cook. Shen Ruyi was pregnant now, so she had to eat and use good things.
Also, because this small inn did not provide food, and the food in the restaurants in the city was also very bad, the two of them could only cook for themselves. They made ginseng soup for Shen Ruyi alone, and also cooked some of Shen Ruyi's favorite vegetables and rice, which was enough for the four of them.
Shen Ruyi's IQ is still online. After drawing the blueprint, she came out and stood in the yard looking at the sky in the distance. It was dry and cold in the northwest, not as prosperous as the capital, but the sky felt unusually clean!
Her breath was white and she smiled gently. Her child was going to be born here. She had not been able to give her child a good birth environment, but she would work hard to create a good growth environment for her child!
She was confident that after coming to Qiongzhou Prefecture, she would turn Jubao County into a treasure pot!
Shen Ruyi observed the desolate scene around him. The land was barren because there was no water and fertilizer in the soil. It was basically loess, and it was still dry and cracked. It was conceivable that nothing could be grown in this situation!
But she felt that she was a person with spiritual power and space, and she also understood the concept of scientific analysis of soil composition, so this was not a problem. As long as she settled down and had children, she could find materials to improve the soil in the mountains and plant things on her land first...
She will live here in the future. As this place develops day by day, the surrounding areas will become luxurious.
On the day Shen Ruyi moved into Yuelai Inn, she didn't know that she had become a sensational figure in Jubao County!
This afternoon, the county magistrate Ma Dahai personally stood outside the county government office with a gong and rang it!
They also posted a big red paper saying they were recruiting workers!
The land here is barren and the people live in misery. When they heard that the county government was recruiting workers, they all crowded out to see. In fact, no one believed it at first because they all knew that the county government had no money. Didn’t they see that all the runners had run away?
But after everyone arrived, they heard the county magistrate say that he wanted to recruit workers to build the farm and do manual labor. Anyone who was young and strong and able to do the work could sign up!
The county magistrate Ma Dahai smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about not giving the money. This lady is an official's wife. Her husband's family committed a crime, so she came here to avoid the disaster and built a farm.
I have already negotiated with the lady. The salary is 20 cents per day, and you can bring your own lunch!
This salary has never been paid before, think about it!"
In an instant, the people were excited, and by the evening, many people were still queuing up at the county government office to sign up.
Lawyer Ma Fabai was so busy that his hands were shaking. His two sons came here to help. County magistrate Ma Dahai and his wife Liu also came out to help. The couple was so happy today that they couldn't sleep at all.
Not to mention the money from selling the mountain, Jubao County can take one tenth of the commission, and the kickback Shen Ruyi gave for recruiting workers is one hundred taels. Ma Dahai and his wife are not fools.
My cousin's family has been following me for so many years, and they are often not able to pay me their wages, but they have not left. They have been serving as my legal advisors for free. Even my two cousins have been my free runners in times of crisis!
Now that they had the money, how could they keep it all to themselves? After discussing it, the couple took out thirty taels and distributed it to their cousin's family.
These thirty taels of silver were a huge sum of money, so Ma Fabai's two sons and later his two daughters-in-law also came to help.
When the construction of the manor was about to start the next day, the county magistrate Ma Dahai actually hired more than 700 workers!
Shen Ruyi was surprised for a moment and then smiled: "Okay! Let's do it this way. More people means more work, and money makes the world go round. Shen Ruyi doesn't have much, but a lot of money!"
Two baskets of copper coins were brought out, and it was stated that money would be paid immediately after a day's work. Who wouldn't be jealous and work hard?
Everybody brought their own tools and started to build Jubao Garden at the foot of Jubao Mountain. It was a huge project with 700 people working together to build the farm which covered an area of about ten acres. Even if only one person lent a hand, the construction could be completed very quickly!
Some carpenters are paid an extra ten cents a day. Who would not do this to make a living?