It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 226

Jiang Yan didn't know that after he wrote those words for Qiao Kuiniang, she would copy the three little figures he had drawn on the city wall.

The pattern actually had no meaning. It was just a small habit she had developed when she was practicing calligraphy with Jiang Yuanjiang earlier - adding an emoticon at the end of a sentence to amuse other friends who were grinning because of studying.

At that moment, Jiang Yan sat in front of the square table, holding a wooden chopstick with several circles of linen tied on one end, dipped it in water, and then deduced the farming plan for the next few years on the table.

She recalled it over and over again these days and was sure that there were only two requirements each time: ten acres of fertile land and five consecutive years of good harvests.

Jiang Yan looked at the ten big words on the table and felt at a loss as to where to start.

Why was she subconsciously obsessed with the numbers ten and five, or was it that the unknown force that instilled this idea in her had a special liking for these two numbers?

Compared to five years of good harvest, ten acres of fertile land can be said to be easy to obtain. Since Jiang Yan came here, he has not seen a few years of good weather and good harvests.

After complaining, Jiang Yan began to calm down and break down this difficult problem, or to be more precise, to find a shortcut.

Let’s talk about the ten acres of fertile land first. There are three paths: buying the land, improving the soil fertility, and buying the land and improving the soil fertility in parallel.

Jiang Yan fiddled with the only two taels of silver and one hundred and thirty-three copper coins in the box, and solemnly wrote the words "make money" on the right side of the item.

The fertile land in Zhongyuan Prefecture was sold at four to eight taels per mu, while the fertile land in Rongcheng County was originally sold at two to three taels. However, after last year's flood, the price of the fertile land that was not affected rose to four or five taels, which is almost the same as that in the prefectural city.

She inquired some time ago and learned that it might take two or three years for the fertility of other fields to recover before the price will fall.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yan added the words "cultivating the land" next to "making money".

All her land was shallowed by the flood, and the medium land was directly downgraded to thin land. If she wanted to restore it... With Jiang Yan's limited farming knowledge, she had to come up with a five-year plan first.

Besides, there have been five consecutive years of bumper harvests... Jiang Yan thought about it for a long time and felt that this condition was not strict enough, making her unable to control her desire to take risks.

For example, according to the elders who have been farming in Dongshan Village for decades, a good harvest is considered a good harvest if it exceeds or meets expectations by a small margin, regardless of whether it is thin land or fertile farmland.

Even though the bad weather conditions were destined to reduce production, the rescue measures were effective and the final output exceeded expectations, and the elders could happily say it was a small harvest.

Since there is no quantitative standard, Jiang Yan's thinking is even more open.

Is there a necessary connection between ten mu of fertile land and five years of good harvest? Jiang Yan thought carefully and concluded that there was no such connection.

Are there any requirements for growing certain crops? Jiang Yan thought again, but still didn't.

……

Jiang Yan stood up suddenly with an excited expression.

There were no rules. Did that mean she could just choose two, three, or four mu of her meager farmland, plant only one crop of the best-living crops year-round, nurture a good harvest for five years, and finally, gather up ten mu of fertile land before turning in her mission and going home?!

What to do if you don't grow enough food? You can trade for it or buy it.

Or maybe before planting, you can designate the acres of land that will be used to complete the task, and then randomly scatter some seeds on other vacant land and let them grow freely to make up for the shortage?

The more Jiang Yan thought about it, the less reliable it seemed. She quickly closed her eyes and concentrated on completing the details in her mind.

As for whether these operations are effective, Jiang Yan believes that if the request comes from her subconscious, then she will think about it three times a day to put the previous request back on track.

If this was an instilled idea, then she was now making a wish to gain favorable conditions for herself.

If nothing works... Jiang Yan quickly erased this unlucky thought from his mind.

If there is anything, wait until she tries it first.