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For several days, the whole family was cleaning the house.

There are kang beds here, so there is no need to make another bed. However, there is a lack of a lot of dressing rooms and chairs and benches.

Tang Peipei waved his hand and bought all new ones. In total, he spent nearly fifty taels of silver.

"Grandpa, we have everything we need at home. Tomorrow I will go to the head of the village and ask if there is any good farmland for sale. I will buy some good farmland and grow some food and vegetables for you then."

Lu Gang thought that the land needed to be bought. They were farmers and farming was their job.

He said, "You have to buy land, but don't buy too much. Don't you want to do business? You have to save money for your own big business."

Tang Peipei nodded and said, "Don't worry, Grandpa. I know this." Looking at everyone, he added, "So, I plan to buy five acres of good farmland first, enough for my family to eat."

Lu Gang agreed: "That's enough. We only have two of us."

Seeing that Lu Gang agreed, the others naturally would not object.

So, after dinner, Tang Peipei and Lu Lifeng went to the head of the village together.

Now is the spring ploughing season. In the south, spring ploughing begins after the beginning of spring, but the climate in the north is cold and there is snow, so spring ploughing starts later than in the north, probably in March or April.

When Tang Peipei arrived at the headman's house, she only saw the headman's wife, Aunt Zhao.

"Second Aunt, is the village head here?" Tang Peipei asked.

Aunt Zhao looked up and saw that it was Tang Peipei. She smiled and said, "Oh, it's Peipei. Spring ploughing has just begun and your uncle, the head of the village, has taken Dazhu and Erzhu to the fields. What do you want to see him for?"

Tang Peipei thought that it would be the same if she told Aunt Zhao Er, so she told her the purpose of her visit.

Aunt Zhao said with some embarrassment, "Now that the population of the village has increased, the fields are not enough to plant crops. We have to ask your uncle, the village head, about this matter." Then she took off her apron and said to Tang Peipei, "Well, you wait, I'll go to the fields to call him back."

Having said that, he went to the fields in a hurry.

Not long after, Aunt Zhao brought the village head back.

The village head came in, drank a sip of water, and asked Tang Peipei: "Are you planning to buy land?"

Tang Peipei nodded and said, "Uncle Lizheng, is there any good farmland for sale in the village?"

The village head shook his head. "There is no good farmland in the village now. There are already many people in the village, and there is not enough land to go around. But there are still several hundred acres of wasteland behind the village, not far behind your house."

After saying this, he looked at Tang Peipei's expression and saw that she was listening carefully, so he continued, "The villagers dislike it as wasteland. There are many broken stones and it is troublesome to deal with. Therefore, no one has gone there to open up wasteland for the time being. If you want to buy land, there is only that place at the moment."

Tang Peipei felt a little embarrassed when she heard this. As the head of the village said, there were a lot of gravels there, and it would be very difficult to reclaim the land. Besides, she had never thought of making a fortune by farming. She just wanted to buy a few acres of good farmland so that other people in the family would have something to do.

Lu Lifeng pulled Tang Peipei.

Tang Peipei said to the head of the village: "Uncle head of the village, reclaiming land is not a small matter. I will go home and ask my grandparents first."

The village head naturally knew that most people were unwilling to go there to open up wasteland, so he said, "We need to discuss this matter carefully. If you have any questions, just come to me."

Tang Peipei responded and followed Lu Lifeng back home.

Everyone in the house looked at the two people who went out happily, but looked very depressed when they came back. They looked at each other and surrounded them.

"What's wrong? Didn't you go to buy land? Why do you come back with this expression?" asked Tang's mother.

Lu Lifeng looked at everyone and sighed, "There is no land in the village."

"There is no land in the village? How could there be no land in the village?" Liu Yeling said.

Lu Lifeng looked at the crowd and said with a wry smile, "Peipei has chosen a good village. The head of the village said that the village has a large population now and there is not enough land to be distributed."

Tang Peipei continued, "It's not that we don't have land, but we don't have the good farmland we want. There are still several hundred acres of wasteland not far behind our house, but everyone thinks that there are too many gravels in the land and it's troublesome to deal with, so no one wants to cultivate it."

Lu Gang said: "It is indeed difficult to reclaim land with so much gravel, and even if it is reclaimed, it will take at least three years to cultivate a piece of land." After thinking about it, he sighed helplessly.

"Then what should we do now? Should we still buy land?" Liu Yeling asked.

This is also the crux of the problem that everyone is at a loss as to what to do now.

"Why don't we just ignore the land and cultivate the land in the backyard and grow some vegetables?" Chen Cuihua said.

But Lu Gang felt that the land must be cultivated, otherwise what kind of farmers were they? Besides, this big family couldn't rely on Tang Peipei to make money to support the family, right? Not to mention that Tang Peipei hadn't started yet? Even how to do it, Tang Peipei hadn't figured it out. With such a big family, was it going to be a waste of money?

Tang Peipei was also very frustrated. She had originally thought of buying a few acres of land first so that her family would have enough food and drink. She could then take her time with her business, but she didn't expect that they finally arrived at the foot of the capital, but got stuck before they even started.

"Grandpa, why don't we put the land purchase on hold for now? I'll go to the city tomorrow to see if there's a suitable shop. I'll rent it and start my business there."

Lu Gang glanced at Tang Peipei and asked, "Are you still running a ready-made clothing shop?"

Tang Peipei nodded, "Well, it's still a ready-made clothing store."

Lu Gang said: "Then you should find a source of cloth first and then rent a shop."

Tang Peipei nodded, "Okay, I got it. Before I came here, Brother Zeng, my former partner, gave me a name, saying he was in the cloth business, and told me to go find him if I needed anything when I got to the capital."

Lu Gang nodded, "Just keep it in mind."

Tang Peipei and Lu Lifeng went to the city early the next morning. They first visited cloth shops and garment shops to understand the market conditions.

"Peipei, the prices in Beijing are much more expensive than where we are!" After taking a walk around, Lu Lifeng was stunned by the prices.

"Uncle, you only see that prices are higher, but you don't see that although things are more expensive, their quality is much better. For example, the ordinary cotton cloth we bought before felt a bit rough, but this one they sell, you can feel it." Tang Peipei handed the cloth in her hand to Lu Lifeng.

Lu Lifeng touched it and said in surprise: "Don't tell me, it's true. It looks the same, but it's a lot more comfortable to use."

"This young lady is right. The goods in our store are all woven in Suzhou. The quality is incomparable to those made in other places." The shopkeeper just walked behind Tang Peipei and Lu Lifeng, heard their conversation, and said with a smile.

"Boss, all the ready-made clothing and cloth shops in the capital get their cloth from Suzhou?" Tang Peipei said.

Unexpectedly, Tang Peipei's words made the shopkeeper sigh and say, "Originally, I was the only one in Beijing who bought Suzhou goods, but suddenly everyone found out the way and everyone started buying Suzhou goods."

Tang Peipei thought to himself: Doesn’t this mean that this store is the first to have intersection with Suzhou?

Tang Peipei had an idea in mind and asked, "I wonder if your store can provide wholesale services?"

The shopkeeper was stunned. He had never heard of this term before and asked, "What is wholesale?"

Tang Peipei coughed awkwardly and said, "It means using the lowest price and selling in large quantities. This is what we call small profits but quick turnover."