activa-t Chapter 360 1 acres of land
Chapter 360 1 acres of land
Linjia Village has been particularly busy these days. The women have handed over their farmland to their husbands to take care of, and they have signed up to participate in reclaiming wasteland.
Only six cents for a day's work.
Working as a temporary worker on a farm would earn them ten cents, and three meals a day would be provided, but they were not accepted for the job.
Six cents is also money.
Lin Jiaojiao has also been planning the thousand acres of land at the back these days. It is impossible to use all of it for planting, and she also needs to plan roads, farm expansion and housing issues.
For example, the pig farm needs to be expanded, or a larger pig farm can be rebuilt and the original pigpen can be used to raise rabbits.
Fortunately, I had thought that horses, cattle, and sheep would need large grounds, so I built a large space and there was no need to expand it.
She needed to build a few workshops and grain warehouses. She planned to use 300 acres of land to grow rice, 200 acres to grow wheat, and 100 acres to grow various legumes.
After all, she has to support so many people, and the daily food expenses are quite high, so she should produce and sell her own food.
This time she will follow everyone and farm honestly. She will no longer use the high-quality seeds from the system mall, nor will she use modern cultivation methods to increase production.
They have never seen the extra-curricular items, so they won't doubt them. Even if they do doubt them, they can't get any evidence. But this is not the case with conventional crops.
It’s better to keep a low profile.
Of the remaining 400 acres, half is used for transportation road and site construction, and the other half is used for planting other crops.
She bit the tip of her pen and thought, the next reward should be land, right?
If she were rewarded, she would plant all the crops, and grow more rice, potatoes and corn.
People eat for food.
Fortunately, she now has an official title, otherwise she would feel painful paying the taxes.
She finally tasted the sweetness of being an official.
She put down her pen and stood up, looking at the drawings covering the desk, nodding with satisfaction. The drawings were clear, concise and well laid out, very good, and she didn't want to make any more changes.
Just as she was about to roll up the drawing, a comfortable and pleasant voice came from behind her.
"Jiaojiao has finished painting?"
Only then did she remember that there were two other people in the studio, Fu Qi and Jiang Huai.
She turned her head, but only saw Jiang Huai sitting in front of the easel. She looked around but did not see Fu Qi.
Jiang Huai also noticed her confusion and explained, "Xiaoqiu felt uncomfortable after sitting for too long and went back to her room. I didn't tell you because I didn't want to disturb your thoughts."
Only then did she realize that she had actually been painting all day, starting in the morning, and Fu Qi pulled Jiang Huai to practice painting together.
After lunch, she did not take a nap and went back to the studio to continue drawing. She wanted to finish the drawings as soon as possible so that the villagers who were reclaiming the wasteland could follow her drawings.
Fu Qi wanted to stay with her, so she brought Jiang Huai along.
So except for Fu Qi who left halfway, Jiang Huai also stayed in the studio with her for a day.
She then smiled and called him over to look at the drawings, "Yes, it's finished. Would you like to take a look, cousin?"
He was curious to begin with, so when he heard her invitation he stood up and walked over. He came to her side, leaned over slightly and looked carefully at the drawing in front of him.
"It turns out that a thousand acres of land is this big..."
Lin Jiaojiao heard him mumbling to himself, and she also said that if there was no map, she would not be able to imagine how big a thousand acres was, and she would not be able to draw the map so clearly.
"Yes, if we want to go to the tail end, we have to ride a horse. Planting rice will probably take about ten days."
Jiang Huai looked at the rice fields she had planned and made a serious suggestion.
"We can hire more villagers to plant rice then. It should be finished in three days, right?"
"Yeah, that should be possible. My cousin is so smart."
Jiang Huai's face flushed slightly. He knew she was teasing him. This was not a smart idea at all.
Lin Jiaojiao rolled up the drawing happily and went to find Master Wang.
"Huh? Cousin, your painting of the moonlight over the lotus pond is so beautiful."
She walked to the easel and was about to bend over to take a closer look when a hand blocked her eyes.
"Jiaojiao hasn't finished painting yet."
She raised the corner of her mouth and looked at him sideways, "It looks so good even before it's finished, how much better it will be after it's finished."
Jiang Huai couldn't stand her burning gaze any more, so he put his hand in front of her eyes to block it, but she pulled his hand away.
“Of course the most beautiful is just around the corner.”
Ever since their relationship heated up, she would always tease him from time to time and say sweet words that would make him blush and his heart beat faster.
Lin Jiaojiao saw that he lowered his eyes and dared not look at her. If it weren't for the blush under his eyes, she would have thought that he was immune to her love words.
She resisted the urge to reach out and pinch his cheek, and stopped teasing him.
"I'm going to go out and look for Master Wang."
He then raised his eyes and said, "We'll have dinner soon, so go after dinner."
She walked towards the door, turned around and waved to him.
"It's okay, I'll be back soon, or you can eat first without waiting for me."
After she finished speaking, she turned around and walked away quickly. She was anxious to finish the task at hand so that she could focus on drawing clothes for her family and unborn children, as well as drawing patterns for the fabrics for Daiying Pavilion, and then take them to Liu Ying's embroidery workshop to sew.
Arriving at the gate, Lan Yi followed her footsteps.
Many people from the construction team have left, leaving only Master Wang's team to do the final layout of the street pavement. They live in a courtyard house.
When Lin Jiaojiao arrived, she happened to see Master Wang squatting at the door eating with a bowl in his hand. She hugged the drawings tightly and walked over quickly.
"Master Wang, you're having dinner so early."
Master Wang was eating rice while watching his granddaughter playing with a tricycle in front of the door. When he heard Lin Jiaojiao's voice, he immediately stood up and looked over. His eyes lit up when he saw that she was holding a long roll of drawings.
She was a little sad at first. After the streets were paved, they would have to leave Linjia Village. She felt reluctant to leave after staying there for more than half a year.
The drawings in Lin Jiaojiao's hand now must be for a new project!
She quickly ate the remaining food in the bowl, put the bowl on the ground and asked her husband to clean it up, while she quickly walked over to meet him.
"Master Lin is here, please come in and sit down. Have you eaten yet? If you don't mind..."
"Don't be so polite, let's make it short."
The two of them entered the study, and Master Wang quickly put away the paper and pen on the table, while Lin Jiaojiao spread out the drawings on the table.
Plans can't keep up with changes.
She thought she would be able to finish her explanation quickly, after all, she had been working with Master Wang for such a long time, but the area was so large that many details needed to be explained.
She had no choice but to ask Lan Yi, who was waiting outside the door, to go home first to inform his family so that they could eat first and not wait for her.
This explanation lasted for an hour, and during the course of the lecture, Mr. Wang brought in two oil lamps.
Because the overall drawing was too large, many small details were not drawn in detail, so Lin Jiaojiao had to draw as she explained, and she drew more than a dozen small pictures in the end.
"That's it. Actually, there aren't many places to work on. It's mainly the size of the roads and areas that require Master Wang to pay more attention to."
"Don't worry, sir. We are very sensitive to size in our business. However, since the land is so large, there may be some slight deviations, but we guarantee that it will be 90% consistent with the layout on the drawing."
Lin Jiaojiao stood up and stretched. "Okay, ask Qiu to arrange the project price. I haven't seen Aunt Lin these past few days, so I'll go back first."
She walked out the door, and Lan Yi followed silently.
Lan wanted to report that the second husband was waiting for her outside the gate, but when she saw the young lady's tiredness disappeared and she ran towards the figure standing at the door in surprise.
She thought that what Lan Qi said made sense, and some things did not need to be done according to the rules.