After unlocking the material space, I raised my younger siblings in a farmhouse.

"Grandpa Lizheng, I'm so sorry to have worried you. I can't help it. This wild boar ran into my house and caused damage. If I don't go up, I'm afraid the house will be destroyed, and we will have no place to stay at night."

Lin Chuyi spoke awkwardly, and as soon as she said this, everyone shifted their attention to the house.

The wooden fence that was stuck in the ground had been smashed into pieces, and the house had several large holes in it. In some areas, entire walls had even collapsed. Now the only things that were still intact were the kitchen that had been cleaned up in the morning and a bedroom.

If they had come back a little later, the remaining two rooms might have been reduced to ruins.

"Besides, I wasn't completely unsure. I've been strong since I was a child, and I usually do the wood-chopping work. I figured if I went in, there shouldn't be a big problem. The situation at the time didn't allow me to think too much, so I just picked up the kitchen knife and went in."

Lin Chu was very satisfied when she saw that everyone's attention was drawn to her, and she took every opportunity to establish herself as a person with natural supernatural powers.

Everyone had different thoughts after hearing this. Some thought that this child was really bold. His parents passed away early and no one taught him. He didn't know how scary wild boars were, but he dared to go up with a knife. Fortunately, he was okay.

Some people nodded secretly. This kid was really strong. They had just watched with their own eyes how Lin Chuyi fought with the wild boar. The shiny kitchen knife was still stuck in the wild boar's brain.

The blade didn't penetrate more than two-thirds of the way. Even for strong laborers like them who had worked all year round, this was the limit they could go if they exerted their full strength. Moreover, they were close and saw clearly just now that the girl had knocked the wild boar over with just one punch. They asked themselves honestly that they would never be able to do this if it were them.

When Lin Wuyou and Lin Cheng heard Lin Chuyi say that he was very strong, they had no objection and even nodded in agreement.

Their second sister took the fairy sister as her master, and they had long known that their second sister was very strong.

After hearing what Lin Chuyi said, Lin Sanya couldn't help but feel sorry for her second sister. She used to do the laundry and firewood chopping work in the old Lin family. Ever since she went to work for the landlord, these jobs fell into the hands of her second sister. She was also used to doing hard work, so she naturally knew the hard work involved.

When she thought about how she only had to light the fire in the landlord's house and occasionally help prepare food, she could have enough food and clothes, and get paid, while her second sister and the others had endless work to do every day and had to go hungry, her heart was filled with guilt and heartache.

"Forget it this time. Don't be so rash next time. This house is no longer habitable. You can pack up and stay at my house for one night. I will organize some people to come and help you tidy up tomorrow. What you told me before is no longer possible. What are your plans next?"

The head of the village asked in a subtle way, and what he was referring to was naturally the matter of Lin Chuyi asking him to buy a house.

Lin Chuyi took one look at the dilapidated house and without much thought, told him his previous decision.

"Grandpa Lizheng, I know you have good intentions, but it's not appropriate for us to stay in your house. I see that the kitchen is still in good condition, so we can just rest there tonight."

"As for the house we mentioned earlier, now that the house is gone, we still have to buy the land. We have to build a place to live, right? But now you can see that the house has been ruined. It is not appropriate to buy it at the original price. How much money do you need to buy it now?"

As soon as money was mentioned, the scene suddenly became much quieter, and the villagers pricked up their ears, wanting to listen carefully.

The village head looked at the villagers around him and said helplessly: "You girl."

Originally, he wanted to help her conceal the fact of buying a house, but he didn't expect that she would reveal it herself. However, the village head was also a smart man and quickly understood Lin Chuyi's intention.

She wanted to use the building of the house as a way to get the money from selling ginseng out of the way. Once she had spent all the money on building the house, naturally no one would bother her anymore.

After thinking it through, the village head naturally spoke up to help.

"I spent five taels of silver when I bought this house. Now that the house is gone, I can't sell it at the original price. But this house belongs to the village, and the wild boar's disturbance was an accident. We can't let the villagers lose it in vain. But this house is indeed uninhabitable, and asking you to buy it at the original price is really unfair to you."

After thinking about it, the village head proposed a compromise.

"How do you think about this? Although this place is a bit remote, it is large. I will give you all the surrounding land. You can build a house or reclaim land as you like."

"Such a large place, it is at least two or three acres. The homestead is five taels of silver per acre. With the original house, it should be sold for at least twelve taels. Now the situation is special, I will sell this land to you at a lower price of eight taels. If you can accept it, we will sign the document. If not, I will help you find another place to live."

When the villagers heard this, they couldn't help but click their tongues. The price the headman was asking for was not low. Most houses in rural areas were made of adobe. Buying the foundation, making adobe bricks, cutting wood, and hiring workers to build the houses would cost about ten or twenty taels in total.

At first, the owner wanted to sell the house and asked for ten taels of silver, but no one wanted it because the location was remote and far from the village center, and the house was also quite old. It might need to be renovated and rebuilt after a few years. It would be more cost-effective to buy a new residential plot and build a new one himself than to buy this house.

Normally, three or four taels of silver are enough to buy a residential plot, which is about half an acre in size.

Logically, you can only build as big as you buy, but at that time the land was vast and the population was sparse, and the distances between households were relatively wide. If there were many people in a family and the house area exceeded the scope of the homestead, the village head and others would turn a blind eye and not be too fussy.

On the surface, it seemed like Lin Chuyi was getting an advantage with the head of the village's plan. But in fact, with four people in their family, there was no need to build such a big house. Wouldn't the extra space be wasted?

Maybe you will say that the extra land can be cleared for farming, which is even less cost-effective.

It will take a long time just to clear all the rocks and weeds here, and then we have to fill the land with soil.

There will be no harvest for at least the next one or two years, and by the time we can start farming officially, the three-year tax exemption period will be over.

The harvest from this newly reclaimed low-quality land would not be very good. After paying the grain tax, it was not even enough for food, let alone making money from it.

It would be better to rent medium-quality or superior farmland with this money. At least the annual income is visible, and if you take good care of it, you might even have a lot of surplus grain that you can sell for money.