Chapter 758: 758 The largest landowner in the village 3
The master bedroom’s bed was five meters wide and two meters long. The three sons of the Xiao family, plus Ji, all slept there without feeling cramped.
Xiao Yishan and Xiao Yuchuan were tired from delivering goods for a day, so Yishan went to bed first while Yuchuan continued to teach Qinghe a few of the “Round Words” before resting.
The next day, Ji left after asking Su Qingyue to visit the Drunken Immortal Pavilion in town next time.
The Xiao family rented the Li family’s warehouse next door to store the dried ferns, and they finished moving everything out within three days, returning the house key to Li Wangshi.
These days, since the Xiao family put out rumors that they needed to buy a lot of paddy fields and vegetable fields, the village sold around ten acres in total.
Those who wanted to sell their fields were neither fertile nor well-located, so Su Qingyue didn’t buy them after judging them unsuitable.
The matter of buying fields was thus postponed.
A few days later, Xiao Yishan and Xiao Yuchuan delivered the bayberry wine and dried ferns to the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.
Of course, they kept a jar of bayberry wine for themselves to drink and a hemp bag of dried ferns for themselves to eat.
After settling the accounts, they received six hundred twenty-five taels of silver for the remaining two thousand five hundred jin of bayberry wine, excluding the jar they kept for themselves. As for the dried ferns, they delivered ten thousand jin in twenty installments, each costing thirty cents for transportation, six hundred cents in total.
In ancient times, there weren’t many styles of furniture, and most of them were made of wood. Although the Xiao family made two thousand taels from selling dried ferns, Su Qingyue intended to use the money to buy fields. Besides, the sky-high prices they made from the bayberry wine and dried ferns were due to their exclusivity within a year, which would lose value in the next year when people learn to make them with fresh ferns and bayberries grown on the mountain.
Making money is not easy after all.
They also had to save money for their second brother and third brother to marry wives. The new furniture, having a mid-to-upper level in the village, would suffice, so they didn’t plan to be extravagant with their purchases.
The news that Su Qingyue sold dried ferns and bayberry wine for two thousand six hundred twenty-five taels spread from the town to Wushan Village.
The entire Wushan Village was buzzing.
Everyone said that the Xiao family must have burned a lifetime’s worth of incense to have found such a wife who knew how to make money.
After planting the six vegetable plots in the yard, Su Qingyue went up the mountain every day to collect medicinal herbs and taught Xiao Qinghe to identify them.
At night, the third brother taught the fourth brother “The Analects,” and the fourth brother taught the third brother to identify herbs.
Both of them taught each other and learned very seriously.
The Xiao family had hired three carpenters to make furniture.
All twelve rooms had furniture such as wardrobes, tables, and chairs for their rooms and storage rooms. They also bought three large stove pots, bowls, and chopsticks presented as excellent quality in the village, which cost over forty taels of silver.
One night, Xiao Yuchuan returned home and called out as soon as he entered the courtyard door, “Wife!”
Xiao Yishan had just taken a shower and replied while putting on a shirt, “My wife is resting in the secondary bedroom. Don’t disturb her, call her for dinner later.”
Su Qingyue came out of the secondary bedroom and saw Xiao Yuchuan, saying, “Third brother is back.”
After delivering the goods, the second brother went hunting in the mountains every day, while the third brother went to town every day to find part-time work.