vrcanaries Chapter 516 Buying Mountain
Chapter 516 Buying Mountain
Zhou Guo looked at her in surprise, "You really don't care about me? You don't even ask me what I'm doing with the money?"
Li said, "Why should I care about what you do? You earn thousands of taels of silver every time you earn money. I can hardly earn a few taels of silver in a year. How can I care about you? As long as you don't gamble or do bad things, you can take all of it."
Zhou Guo said with a smile: "I won't gamble. I plan to buy the two mountains in Houwan."
Li asked, "Why are you climbing that mountain? There's no fungus growing on it."
Zhou Guo said proudly: "If it doesn't grow, let's just let it grow. The two mountains are so big, and there are many pine and oak trees on them, so it's easy for fungi to grow."
After hearing this, Li got up and left. He had never heard that fungi could be grown. Don't they grow naturally? Besides, this thing doesn't even have seeds, so how can it be grown?
Zhou Guo immediately divided the money into several parts and hid one part in each room.
The old man saw her digging the ground with her butt bent in his room, and he didn't know what to say, "Didn't you say you were going to buy the mountain and the shop? Why are you hiding it? Are you going to dig it out in a few days?"
Zhou Guo said without even looking up, "It's several thousand taels of silver. How can we spend so much of it? The money hidden in your room is our family's money that cannot be touched. We keep it as a backup. We can't spend it all at once, right?"
After a long while, the tightly sealed jar was buried, filled with soil, and bricked back to make it secure.
I took a closer look and it was very good. If you didn't look closely, you couldn't tell that the brick had been moved.
He turned to the old man and said, "Master, do you want to go and see those two mountains?"
The old man didn't want to go at first, but then he thought that he was free anyway, so he stood up and said, "It's better to go and take a look."
They are said to be two mountains, but in fact they are one. The two mountains connected together are bigger than their village. There is no good wood on them, and even less wood that can be used as lumber.
The old man couldn't help but shake his head. "I don't know what you bought this barren mountain for. Even if you plant the seedlings now, it will take at least several decades for them to grow into trees. Did you buy this mountain for your grandson?"
Zhou Gu looked around and said, "This mountain can be used to collect some firewood."
Zhou Su and his friends came back after walking around the mountain. They said excitedly, "This mountain is really huge. There is not even a single pine mushroom, let alone pine mushrooms. There is nothing. We can only pick up leaves to start a fire."
No one knows why they spent so much money to buy this mountain.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Because it's not far from the village, it's big enough and barren enough, so it's cheap. If there were a lot of wood and products, do you think the village would be so cheap that we would buy it?"
Zhou Mi said: "No matter how cheap it is, it's useless if there's nothing growing on it."
Zhou Guo didn't say anything. She had already said that if nothing grew, couldn't she plant something?
Although the two mountains are barren, they are not cheap. I spent nine hundred taels of silver!
When the villagers saw how generous they were, spending nine hundred taels at once, they were so envious that their eyes turned green with envy. So these two huge mountains belonged to the Zhou family?
Fortunately, they also knew that there was nothing on it, not even a mushroom could grow, and there was no wood. They also didn't know why the Zhou family spent so much money to buy this mountain?
Isn’t the money earned wasted?
Chen and his friends asked Li quietly, "Why spend so much money to buy that mountain? It's famous for having nothing on it. Isn't it a waste of money?"
She was even more anxious than Mrs. Li. How could it be easy for a child to work hard for two years to earn so much money? And just spend it like this?
Li smiled bitterly and said, "How could I not know? But I can't control this matter. I can't decide for the child."
Chen was so disappointed, "You are a mother after all, you should also keep an eye on your child. Why don't you care what your child does? If she goes gambling one day, you won't care?"
Li said, "You know, this kid in our family is different from other kids. I'm not afraid of you laughing at me. We have such a big fortune now, but I didn't contribute a bit. It was all earned by the kid. I'm a useless person. I've only known how to dig for food in the fields all my life. The kid is so capable. You can say that I can't help, but I can't hold the kid back. If I stop her, how can she let go and do it?"
Chen knew that what she said made sense, and after a long sigh, she said, "Even so, as a mother, you have to persuade her. The child worked hard to earn money, but he bought two barren mountains without blinking an eye. I feel sorry for him even if you don't."
Li smiled and said, "No wonder the child is so close to you! She calls you Aunt Chen all the time, and never forgets you no matter what she does. You love her more than I do!"
Chen said unhappily, "I'm serious about this."
Li said, "I know, but think about it, this money was earned by the child herself. She worked hard in the wind and rain, and finally earned this much money. She didn't do anything else, didn't gamble, and didn't buy herself food, clothes, or jewelry. She just wanted to buy two mountains for the family. She said she had her own considerations, what else can I say?"
After a pause, he continued, "Even if we take a step back and say that she spent all the money she earned and didn't make anything, there are still two mountains standing there, which can be considered as the family's assets."
Chen paused for a long while and said, "You are right. I am not as good as you. Let the child spend the money she earns herself."
The two smiled at each other and began to chat about family matters.
Chen's life is much better now than in previous years. It should be said that most people in the village are better off than in previous years. They can eat meat two or three times a month. If it were the same as in previous years, they would only be willing to cut meat to eat during festivals.
On this side, after Zhou Guo bought the mountain, he let Wu Jiang and others work on the mountain.
The group scattered throughout the mountains looking for suitable dead wood, which they sawed into pieces and brought back to the mountains.
Others chose the more fertile land on the mountain and cut down trees and cleared the land. Since there were no big trees to grow into timber, they could cut down as many trees as they wanted.
A group of people were busy in the mountains. After work every day, they would come back to Zhou's house for dinner. The house was bustling and noisy every day.
Zhou Guo saw that this was not going to work, so he simply paid for them to build a circle of thatched houses at the foot of the mountain, brought their families over, and bought them rice, flour, grain, oil, and vegetables.
In this way, they can cook and eat at home every day.
Wu Jiang and his group knelt down and kowtowed on the spot. This was equivalent to giving them a home. They were the reincarnation of Bodhisattvas, and they would have a home in the future.
The villagers turned a blind eye to Wu Jiang and his friends' life in the mountains. These people had been working under their noses for a year. Zhou Guo always turned to them for everything, so the two sides were not unfamiliar with each other.
There is more or less some sympathy for these orphans who have long lost their parents and family members. It would be best to give them a home, and if they have something to do, they will not cause trouble in the village.
If something like what happened back then happens again, if the Hu people attack us one day, these half-grown boys will also be able to provide labor.