“This, this, this… ” Liu Guixia pointed at the money on the table and stuttered.
Jiang Yue took out two bags of pastries from the basket and gave them to Xue Yan.
“The moonbelly fungus was sold to Shopkeeper Qiao of Lakshimi Restaurant, and these two packets of pastries were given by him.” Xue Yan also put them on the table.
Then, Xue Yan and Jiang Yue stood there silently, waiting for their family members to recover.
After a long time, Xue Dafu and the others finally recovered. They swallowed their saliva and said, “This moonbelly fungus is so valuable, it’s more valuable than that blind bear…”
“F-father…” Xue Wufu placed his hands on the table and stared at the money. He swallowed hard and became extremely excited. “Our family is rich!” He swallowed his saliva again. “How should we use them all?”
Jiang Yue was speechless. Why was that the first thing he thought of doing?
Xue Yan thought that Wufu was being too much.
However, the farmers had never seen so much silver before. Therefore, it was understandable that they would have a big reaction. It would be fine after they got used to it.
After letting everyone rest for a while, Xue Yan said, “Jiang Yue and I want to buy a few acres of barren land to plant things, but we haven’t thought of what to plant yet. We just want to play around and see if we can grow something. Maybe you can buy one acre of land with just two or three silver. Father, Mother, what do you think?”
“You guys earned this money. You can use it however you want,” Xue Dafu said.
“Yes, yes,” Liu Guixia agreed.
“Father, please ask the village head tomorrow to see is anyone is willing to sell the land. We will only buy a few acres.” Xue Yan said.
Generally, a landlord had three types of land — low, medium, and high quality. However, in the hands of the landlord, no matter how low-grade the land was, it was still better than the newly developed wasteland.
If they wanted to buy a plot of wasteland, he would naturally buy it from the villagers.
“Sure, sure, I’ll ask the village chief tomorrow.” Xue Dafu immediately agreed. “What else do you guys want to buy?”
Xue Yan shook his head, “There’s nothing to buy.”
Jiang Yue also shook her head.
“What about Grandfather…” Xue Yan opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something.
Xue Dafu said, “It’s fine. He didn’t want the money I gave him last time, so he won’t take your money either. He’s just like that. Didn’t he say last time that money is useless at his age? He told me to take care of myself first. If we want to be filial to him, we should buy him more good food, accompany him, walk around with him, and talk to him,” Xue Dafu continued. “I’m sure he’ll be content with that”
Xue Yan nodded. Then, he looked at Jiang Yue and said, “You guys can do as you see fit with the rest of the money.”
“Then can we build a bigger house?” XueWufu immediately started spouting out ideas. His eyes were shining with the endless possibilities.
A hundred silver might have seemed like a lot, but they didn’t have a single plot of land. They also wanted to build a house, but it wasn’t enough. Xue Dafu had been hesitant and couldn’t make up his mind. He thought for a whole night before deciding to buy eight acres of land.
Now that he had six hundred silver, buying a few acres of barren land would at most cost him ten silver, so he still had more than five hundred taels.
There was still some money at home. In any case, their family had more than enough to buy some land and build a big house, so Xue Dafu naturally had nothing to hesitate about. He immediately said, “Let’s do it, let’s do it. It’s been too crowded at home. We’ll have to do it sooner or later anyway.”