Farm Girl Turns Everything Around: Sly Husband, Let's Farm

Chapter 1045: Chapter 1045 Good Car, Good Car_1 Chapter 1045: Chapter 1045 Good Car, Good Car_1 “Uncle Fan, after Sanlang and I leave, please move into the manor,” Zhuang Luhe requested.

The manor was too large, and with dozens of long-term workers coming and going every day — although guards also lived in the Guest House — Zhuang Luhe still hoped that Fan Linong would move in as well, to live in the Bamboo Fragrance Residence and personally protect Qiao Changshun, Qiao Dami, and herself.

The troublesome members of the Sun Family and Sun Junyan had met their doom, but there was still Qiao Meipan, who might soften Qiao Changshun’s heart.

Fan Linong readily agreed. His job was protection, and he would reside wherever Zhuang Luhe asked him to.

Qiao Changshun stood to one side, somewhat embarrassed, but he did not speak up.

With the security arrangements in place and their belongings packed, Zhuang Luhe began walking around their own fields, sprinkling them with water from the Spiritual Spring.

Wheat was now the most abundantly grown crop at home — its use was most extensive, indispensable for daily staple foods as well as pastries. If this batch of wheat turned out high-quality, she intended to sell it at a sky-high price.

The regrettable part was the long journey ahead, which meant missing two months of care. She hoped this would not affect the quality of the wheat.

There were also watermelon seedlings that had not yet germinated; this too would have to wait for her return to water.

Using her reluctance to leave the land as an excuse, she wandered over a thousand acres of crops for two or three days until finally, all preparations were complete.

It was time to depart.

Tong Sanlang went to Anping Village and brought back Tong Tiehu.

Zhuang Luhe cooked a table full of food herself, so they could gather one last time as a farewell.

At the dinner table, Zhuang Luhe entrusted the bicycle-making task to Tong Tiehu and hoped he would visit the manor more frequently in the future.

Apart from farming, Qiao Changshun was virtually useless in anything else.

Tong Tiehu agreed. The bicycle matter indeed warranted close attention, as a few hundred bicycles previously sold in the village had caused a sensation in the neighboring villages and even in the town.

This tool was incredibly practical.

Those who bought it on the second day of the new year soon learned how to ride, and then went off to visit friends and relatives, with the wife seated at the back, a child on the crossbar, and gifts in the front basket.

Such a style was absolutely fashionable!

Everyone who saw it was enticed; moving through crowds, the attention they got was definitely a hundred percent.

Realizing how convenient this tool was, the neighboring villages immediately inquired about its origin.

When they learned it cost one or two taels of silver per bicycle, and there was no stock available, many people’s enthusiasm cooled down.

The people of Anping Village made money with the heated kang beds this year and naturally were willing to buy.

But the others, without ways to earn money, found it hard to part with that much silver!

They would usually scrape a living off the land and take temporary jobs in the town during the slack farming season. If it was too far to walk, they had to take donkey or ox carts, costing one coin per ride. One or two taels of silver was a thousand coins, and to buy a bicycle would cost three years’ worth of cart fares.

Understanding this calculation, many backed away. For farmers, one or two taels of silver was too much — better to wait and see.

Time proved that this waiting was worthwhile; a month after the bicycle sale, there were no quality issues. Families that bought bicycles used them for all their travel, riding from one village to another, or to the town, moving with remarkable agility.

Moreover, as winter passed and spring arrived, there was more work to be done in the fields, and the bicycles proved useful for those trips as well.

The population in Anping Village was large, as was the amount of land. With many patches of land piled together, some families’ fields were quite far from the village, with the furthest being nearly half an hour’s walk away.

Working in the fields every day was exhausting enough without spending extra time and energy on walking. Those with fields far away had not stopped complaining over the years.

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