Chapter 60

Although Xu Fa and Xu Zhen were not skillful at it, at least they knew a little about it, so their reaction was totally the same as that of Xu An.

Seeing it with great delight, he also silently felt proud again in his heart. ‘The inventions of Great China always present people with unexpected shock.’

It was a lovely day today and there were many people present, so Xu Ran immediately asked Xu An and others to help bring out all the chilies and scatter them on the ground. He was quite confident of his skill of making chili paste and also not afraid of it being secretly learned by others. Anyone who could make delicious chili paste just deserved it. Besides, he didn’t intend to make a living just by this skill in the future. After all, the income was too low.

This time, he and Liu Tong had really picked a lot of chilies, which had been stored up in ten big bags, and all six of them had been busy working for over two hours. At noon, all three families had been invited by Xu Ran to have dinner together, and Xu Ran even asked them to come over to help collect chilies after the sun was set.

After lunch, Xu Ran asked Liu Tong to put the chili paste they made into the bamboo tube and each family went back home with two tubes of chili paste.

Then all the rest chilies were all packed, which would be delivered to the town tomorrow. They hadn’t delivered any chili paste over the past few days, wondering whether Mr. Chen had any chili paste in stock.

After finishing the business at home, Xu Ran took a rabbit and went to the village head’s home. He had talked about planting wheat with the village head before, and he was wondering how things went on now.

Xu Ran planned to plant wheat after drying chilies in the sun. Although November came a little late, it was also a time to nourish the land.

When Xu Ran arrived at the house, the village head was sittinat the gate, smoking. Now it was not the busy time for farm work, so he got some leisure time to relax.

Upon seeing Xu Ran coming with a rabbit in hand, the village head immediately knew what he meant. He acclaimed inwardly that Xu Ran was such a smart guy.

“Village head, you’re at home. It seems I’m quite lucky.” While talking, Xu Ran handed over the village head the rabbit in his hand. The village head didn’t refuse it. He took the rabbit and cracked an affable smile.

“Xu Ran, are you coming here to talk about the laborers? In my opinio, now it is too late to plant wheat. Are you sure you are going to do that?”

Xu Ran smiled, “Village headd, it’s fine. You know that my place is a barren wasteland. I’ll take it to nourish the land as fertilized as possible. So that it can be suitable for farming.”

No one dared to say that in this village. It was only the first year that they had started to pay no taxes. It was unexpected that they only bought it after collecting the taxes, so it would take only one year next year.

By the year of the next, Xu Ran had to pay taxes for his land. And at that time, it would cost much. After all, it was 30 mu!

But since they themselves even didn’t care about it, the village head felt that there was no need for him to worry about it. After all, worry didn’t help anything, so he said to Xu Ran, “When are you planning to start? As long as you need, I’ll tell the whole village and let someone work for you.”

After thinking for a while, Xu Ran replied, “Village head, let’s start from next month! It’d be best to find some long-term workers so that I won’t have to trouble you in the future again. ”

The village head waved his hands and said, “It doesn’t bother. Fine. Just as you said, I’ll find a few long-term workers for you.”

“That’s very nice of you. Thank you very much.” Xu Ran immediately thanked him.

The good relationship with the village lead was the foundation of his comfortable life here.

After exchanging the usual pleasantries, Xu Ran headed home in a gentle stroll.