Reborn as an Ugly Wife in the Countryside-Chapter 1229 - 1231: For Sale, But Not Yet Sold, Right?
"Wife, I might not be accurate; there might not be a water source underneath."
"No, what you’re saying makes sense. Whether there’s a water source or not, we can hire someone to dig and find out. See how deep it is. If it’s too deep, we won’t dig. But if it’s around three meters, we might consider it."
The more Xiaoxiao thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. She originally planned to build a greenhouse there during winter, but now she felt starting with the Angling Garden was more reliable. After all, she didn’t know how to build a greenhouse and could experiment with it later when free.
Yang Ming was speechless; his wife was indeed impulsive. "We have to wait until after the autumn harvest; that piece of land is used for making sauerkraut, and the rest is still planted."
"..." With these words, Xiaoxiao was dumbfounded. Indeed, she had forgotten about it. She gave Yang Ming a silly smile, "Let’s wait until after the autumn harvest then."
At this moment, Yang Dong came running over, looking like he wanted credit, and asked, "Third sister-in-law, look, how did we do?"
"Not bad, not bad." Xiaoxiao nodded.
Yang Dong continued with a chuckle, "Hey, the Han Family sent people over to supervise for a month, teaching us hand in hand."
"Yang Dong, have you all learned to fish?"
"We have. We have fishing nets. When the time comes, we’ll have them all pulled here. Just stand inside and pull them; the water isn’t deep here." Yang Dong explained while gesturing to Xiaoxiao and Yang Ming, demonstrating by pointing to the river.
Xiaoxiao thought, with the Han Family’s help with the fishing pond, there shouldn’t be any big problems. The issue was how to deal with all these ducks.
Her mother-in-law indeed raised quite a few. Looking out, there were at least several hundred, if not a thousand. She only mentioned raising ducks but didn’t discuss how to handle them. She tentatively asked, "Fourth brother, with so many ducks, have you thought about where to sell them?"
"Oh, that. Brother-in-law Chu said to send them to their restaurant."
"..." Well, having relatives does make things easier; she didn’t have to worry about anything at all.
Thinking about these ducks, there were many ways to cook them, like roast duck, marinated duck neck, salted duck eggs, etc., but unfortunately, she didn’t know how to make any of them.
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At the back hill, a group of people appeared in front of a patch of hazelnut trees. These people were the family members of the woman who was eavesdropping outside.
A man, appearing to be in his thirties, spoke, "Mom, can this really sell for Silver?"
"Of course! Hurry up, let’s pick more and sell them in town." The old woman said while picking hazelnuts, seeing these full trees of hazelnuts as if they were Silver.
"But I heard from the village chief’s wife that the mountain will be sold to the Yang Family."
"You fool, it’s going to be sold but hasn’t been sold yet, right? If we pick them now, they can’t say anything." The old woman schemed, knowing that the Yang Family was keeping this under wraps to make money for themselves.
She had heard from the village chief’s wife that the mountain was worth a thousand two hundred taels of silver, and they said they’d buy it just like that.
Jealousy swelled in her heart. Although there was no usual grudge with the Yang Family, seeing them make money made her itch with envy. Driven by jealousy, she rallied her whole family to go up the mountain to pick hazelnuts, thinking that before the Yang Family bought the mountain, picking some themselves would earn them a little money.
"Stop talking and hurry up, the more we pick, the better."
The family, hearing the old woman’s words, began picking hazelnuts. At this time, Xiaoxiao still didn’t know that the hazelnut trees had already caught someone’s eye.
