Chapter 223 Thirteen Villages
"You can leave tomorrow and continue walking south. When you get there, you can make a living." The shopkeeper said at night.
The business of the inn is not very good, and the money earned every day is not much. With three extra mouths, the inn really cannot afford it.
Fengyun Shang stood up and bowed down, saying, "Thank you so much, shopkeeper, for taking me in. I will never forget it."
The shopkeeper smiled casually, "Everyone has bad luck sometimes, I'm just helping you out, it's no big deal."
At Feng Yunshang's insistence, the shopkeeper went back to his room to rest at night, and Feng Yunshang kept watch.
Early the next morning, with a few steamed buns given by the shopkeeper, Feng Yun Shang and others were on the road again, heading further south.
Shendu City is located in the center of the entire space rift. The farther you go around, the more deserted and remote it becomes. However, there is also a large amount of idle land, and many people who cannot survive will go out to make a living.
Along the official road, he walked south and passed several inns. Fengyun merchant exchanged his labor for some food and took it with him to eat on the road.
Logically speaking, Fengyun Shang's labor could not be exchanged for so much labor, but the innkeeper thought he was in trouble and felt pity for him, so he paid him more wages.
Fengyun Shang couldn't explain it, so he could only keep these sentiments in his heart secretly and leave them to report in the future.
We continued walking south and finally settled in a village called Shisan. It is said that this small village was first established by refugees who fled famine in Shisan, so it was named this way and it has been passed down ever since.
"Hey, are you here fleeing from famine?" A few aunts enjoying the cool air at the entrance of the village saw Fengyun Shang and the others and enthusiastically hugged them.
"Then why don't you settle down in our Thirteenth Village?" Auntie said in a flurry of words, saying that Thirteenth Village was praised as a unique and good place.
"If I can be allocated some idle land when I settle down, I will naturally be willing to do so." Feng Yun Shang stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead. After being exposed to the wind and sun for more than a month, his skin became much darker, and he was completely different from before.
Not an exaggeration.
It can only be said that skin color has a great impact on a person's appearance.
"This is natural. We have more land than any of the thirteen villages." The aunts dragged Fengyun Shang and others to settle down.
But when I heard on the way that Fengyun Shang and Jiang Ruxue were a couple, I was a little disappointed.
"What a handsome little brother, why did he get married?" thought the aunt who had a girl to marry at home, "but the little guy next to me looks good, fair and clean, but he is a bit young."
"What a pretty girl, why did she get married?" thought the aunt who had a son to marry at home.
Although they could not become their own sons-in-law (daughter-in-law), these aunts still enthusiastically took Fengyun Shang and others to register.
Although the spatial rift where the divine capital is located has been reinforced, the probability of natural disasters is still much higher than in the mortal world.
Therefore, people flee from famine every year for various reasons. Every time they arrive in a place, they will resettle and their original household registration will be deleted by official documents.
These aunts are all locals of Thirteenth Village, and they know where the land is most fertile and can grow more crops. With their help and advice, Fengyun Shangxuan will naturally be able to get good land.
Fengyun Shang doesn't care about the quality of the land. He doesn't know much about farming, and he doesn't know the ropes in it. He will only be allowed to go outside for two or three years at most. When the overseas transfer is over, the land in the Thirteen Villages will be of no use to him.
It's useless.
Therefore, he did not attach much importance to the land. As long as he could grow things and have food to eat, it was enough. Therefore, it was up to the aunts to help him choose.
The aunts were not polite and quickly helped Fengyun Shang select farmland. After settling in, these lands would belong to Fengyun Shang.
But it's not that the aunts are particularly kind. It's just that in order to prevent land annexation, the Divine Court has regulations on the land area of each household.
But it cannot be said that the aunts are being generous to others. After all, the government will not care about "accidentally" planting a few meters of land.
After solving the problem of settling in, the aunts dispersed. Before leaving, they smiled and invited Feng Yun Shang to visit his home after packing up.
Fengyun Shang smiled and agreed, with a small mouth that was called "sweet" and a mouthful that was called "aunty". Coupled with that handsome face, it made the aunts like it very much.
If nothing else happens, they will live in Shisan for a year or two, and it is naturally extremely important to have a good relationship with their neighbors.
If you can leave a good impression among the aunts with a few kind words, Fengyun Shang will naturally not be stingy.
"There is a ruined temple in the north of the village. You can live there temporarily until your house is repaired." Li Zheng, the man in the village, took Feng Yun Shang to the ruined temple in the north. After opening the door, he said: "While it's still early, hurry up and clean up."
Clean it up."
There are a few houses in the village that are vacant. The original owners have closed their accounts and gone to other places.
Strictly speaking, these houses are already the property of the Shenting government, but according to the Shenting decree, Fengyun Shang and the others can buy them at a very low price.
It's just that most of these houses have not been lived in for several years and are in a state of derelict. If Fengyun Shang and others want to move in, they still need to be repaired.
Fengyun Shang and the others were so poor that they naturally couldn't afford the money to repair the house. Not only did they have no money to repair the house, they didn't even have money for daily living.
Fortunately, Shenting has already considered this. Fengyun Shang and the others can borrow money from the Shenting government and repay it after a good harvest.
Depending on the length of time you borrow money, the amount of interest you need to pay varies.
If you borrow 1,000 Shenting coins for one year, you need to repay 1,010 Shenting coins; if you borrow 1,000 Shenting coins for two years, you need to repay 1,020 Shenting coins, and so on.
The loan can be borrowed for a maximum of three years. If the loan is not repaid within three years, the land will be taken away and the debt will be repaid through labor.
The reason for this is that they are worried that without the repayment deadline, some people will borrow money from the government unscrupulously, and eventually breed a group of parasites.
With the money borrowed from the government, Fengyun Shang bought a small house and materials through the government the next day, hired craftsmen, and began to repair the house.
The renovation of a house involves all aspects, and it is not something that Feng Yun Shang can just do it himself if he wants to.
Some money that should be spent cannot be saved at all. Moreover, Fengyun Shang has other things to do.
Because there has been no farming for many years, the land is covered with weeds and has severe hardening.
Fengyun Shang and Long worked together to hoe the weeds on the land and crisp the soil before they could plant the seeds.
Because the gods are in the rift of space, they rarely receive real sunlight. The sun and moon in the sky actually use magical powers to project the sun and other stars from the outside in.
However, this also has an advantage, that is, there is no distinction between spring, summer, autumn and winter in the Divine Court, and you can sow seeds at any time.
Jiang Ruxue, on the other hand, stayed at home. Firstly, she was supervising the workers who came to repair the house to prevent them from sneaking around. Secondly, she was also cooking meals for the workers and Fengyun Shang.
"Haha, although these feces are dirty, they can greatly increase the yield of the land." These workers who came to repair the houses also have land at home and know something about farming.
I also heard from my mother-in-law that Fengyun Shang was from a middle-aged family and probably didn’t know how to farm, so she would give verbal guidance to Fengyun Shang every day when we got together to have dinner.
They just say whatever comes to mind. Although it is very messy, it is indeed very useful knowledge for Fengyun Shang.
In return, Fengyun Shang bought some fat meat and asked Jiang Ruxue to refine it into oil and put some in it when cooking every day.
Although the craftsmen could not say that their mouths were full of oil every day, they still had a lot of fun. As a result, they had a better impression of Feng Yun Shang in their hearts. They also worked harder when they worked, as if they were building a house for themselves.
Not only that, some people also gave some of their own seeds to Fengyun Shang. These seeds were specially selected by them. After planting, as long as they are carefully cared for, the yield in the coming year will definitely be higher than the seeds bought from the government.
Chapter completed!