Chapter 47

It took them about ten days to complete the reclamation of the wasteland, during which most of them worked hard. However, there were also one or two workers who were caught to be too lazy or cheating. As a result, Xu Ran paid them as agreed before, and then let them go after informing them again that they would never be employed again.

Only when such workers got their final pay did they realize how regretful they were, but there was no way out already. Obviously, Xu Ran walked the walk.

In the end, the results of the three groups got  almost the same results. Two groups were the fastest, while the other group was only a little slower. Therefore, Xu Ran decided to put the two groups in the first place while the other group in the second place. In this way, all the workers in the three groups were rewarded, which made all of them very happy. They all promised that they would never refuse whenever Xu Ran should need them in the future

Indeed, Xu Ran had won instant fame as well as great support from many people this time.

Except that Xu Ran’s eldest and third uncles came to harass them the next day, no one from the Xu Family ever came including his dad and daddy. This made Xu Ran feel strange. However, he didn’t think that the Xu Family would change their attitude. He believed there must be something else waiting for him.

The Xu Family really had their own wishful thinking. What they planned was that after Xu Ran opened up the land, they would go straight to do farming on it. They thought Xu Ran was their son and he should let his dad and daddy share the land with him.

This scheme was put forward by Elder Daddy Xu. At first, Xu Houcai disagreed with it. However, when he thought that last time Xu Ran stood by and watched them to be bullied by his eldest and third brothers, he hated Xu Ran’s guts. He thought Xu Ran was an evil-hearted and ungrateful person.

After consideration, the family thought that the plan would work, so this time they all waited at home with great patience.

Xu Ran planned to grow more wheat and potatoes, as well as garlic and radish. He also planned to hire workers to grow wheat. As for potatoes, he would prefer to ask Wu Mei’s and the other two families for help. He knew that these families were not going to plant potatoes now, because they did not know how the harvest was. If the crop was planted more while the harvest was less, it would be terrible because it was not enough to feed the whole family.

Xu Ran intended to plant a large quantities of potatoes in the village, but he needed to have a test first. This could be considered as his contribution to the village!

First of all, he needed to buy wheat seeds because they didn’t have them at home. The people in the village didn’t leave much, either, only enough for their own use. Xu Ran thus had to go to the town to buy them. Thinking of the corn he had seen before, he felt that he could buy some of it by the way this time. So he could buy corn and wheat seeds together in the same shop.

This time, he went the town alone. Liu Tong was busy making clothes at home, and didn’t have time to company him. The two kids got familiar with other children in the village because of their family’s land opening up event, so they had joined the large group of palymates in the village. Every day, aside from words leaning, eating and sleeping, they were basically not at home.

Seeing the joy of the two kids, Xu Ran and Liu Tong were glad and let them be. Apart from the kites they had before, Xu Ran also bought many toys for them.

It just so happened that they had just produced more chili paste. Thus early that morning, Xu Ran and Liu Tong got up and got the chili paste ready, after which, Xu Ran went to the town to deliver the paste.

He was thinking of buying a donkey cart after they finished their crops planting, otherwise it would be inconvenient for them to go around. Even he himself felt embarrassed by always borrowing the ox cart from Wu Mei.

Walking was much slower than taking an ox cart. It usually took only an hour to get to town by ox cart, but it took two hours to walk. In addition, Xu Ran was carrying something heavy on his back. He felt exhausted, so he had to stop and go. At last, he got to his destination.

The first thing he did when he got to the town was to go straight to Mr. Chen’s restaurant. Though the restaurant was a bit remote, its business was really good. Its customers were all rich people. Anyway, Xu Ran knew they didn’t know him, so he went in without fear of being noticed.

Upon seeing him, Mr. Chen came forward to greet him warmly, “Hey, Ran! Here you are.”

Xu Ran put down his heavy load and pounded himself on the shoulder, “Mr. Chen, sorry for the late delivery. A few days ago, we were busy opening up the land, so we didn’t have time for the delivery. And I came now right after the work there had been done.”

“It’s all right. It’s good that you are here. The suggestion you put forward last time worked. But because of the large number of customers who have ordered your chili paste, I think your delievery today will not be enough to supply to the customers. Would you please send me some more tomorrow? ”

“Fine. As long as I finish my work tomorrow, I’ll send you more. Mr. Chen, please accept today’s delivery first! I still need to buy some stuff.”

“Alright, give me everything you have there then!”

Xu Ran counted and found that he had carried there more than fifty bamboo tubes of chili paste. After settling the account, Xu Ran laft in a hurry. He was going to buy the seeds he needed.

Xu Ran got to the shop selling seeds last time and noticed that there were still corn seeds. He rushed inside and asked the shopkeeper, “Mister, is your master here now? Please inform him that I want to buy seeds.”

Upon seeing Xu Ran closely, the shopkeeper thought of who he was. He said with a smile, “So it’s you, Xu Ran! My master came back yesterday. Wait a moment, please. I’ll go and inform him. ”

“Oh, thank you.”

As the shopkeeper was the only staff on duty today in the shop, Xu Ran stopped himself from walking around because he felt it was not appropriate to do so when the shopkeeper was not present.

“Master, it’s that customer I told you before standing there at the door. His surname is Xu,” the shopkeeper informed his master.

Hearing the voice behind, Xu Ran turned around and saw that the shopkeeper was talking to a young man.

Smilingly, Xu Ran went up to him, “Hello, I’m Xu Ran. I’d like to buy your seeds.”