Chapter 267 Buying Land to Reclaim and Deceiving Little Flower (4)_1
Upon hearing this, Mo Yan did not find it expensive and told Lizhong to quickly find someone from the Government Office to measure the area so they could purchase it as soon as possible.
With silver at hand, things were easier to manage, and the Government Office personnel came promptly. In the end, they measured the entire awkward patch of land, which totaled forty acres.
Forty acres seemed a bit small to Mo Yan, but there was nothing to be done about it since it was already the largest block of land in Liu Yang Village. There were other pieces of land available, but they were scattered and much smaller, making them a real hassle to clean up.
After paying sixty taels of silver plus one tael for the handling fee, Lizhong returned with the land deed for that piece of wasteland.
While the cold weather caused most of the vegetation to wither, the Mo Family began to look for people to clear the land. Eventually, a hundred or two villagers signed up, but Lizhong only selected fifty or sixty capable people and led them to the low-lying land the next day.
Mo Yan did not need to manage the work of clearing the land herself, which left her with more free time. Now that many fruits in the mountains were ripe, she began to visit the mountains more often. However, she would bring Little Fur Ball with her, as the little one would eventually return to the mountains, and it was good for it to get familiar with the environment in advance.
Little Flower, carrying the tiger cub, walked ahead while Mo Yan followed behind. She looked around carefully, and whenever she came across a wild fruit tree, she would stop to pick the fruits before proceeding.
The wild fruits on the outer trees had already been picked by villagers who had gone up the mountains, but deep in the mountains, no one ventured there. The wild fruit trees, not tended to by humans, grew quite tall. When Mo Yan came across a tree that was easy to climb, she could ascend to pick fruits, but for those trees that proved difficult, she could only stand beneath and knock the fruits down with a bamboo pole.