Li Da naturally didn’t dare to give false number to the imperial envoy’s goddaughter, “That family urgently needs the money, so the price isn’t very high. If you buy them separately, the superior farmland cost twelve taels per mu, the average farmland cost ten taels per mu, and the inferior farmland is seven taels per mu. If you buy them together, it cost a thousand five hundred taels.”

The price was quite reasonable, so Yu Xiaocao bought it on the spot. The next day, the head steward of the Fang Estate and Broker Li went to the yamen to go through the formalities.

At this time, it was the time of spring plowing. Since the Ma Family was in a hurry to sell the plantation, they didn’t rent the fields to the tenant farmers. Thus, the tenant farmers at the plantation all felt very anxious.

The tenant farmers generally didn’t have any farmland and relied on farming on rented farmland to make a living. At the beginning of autumn, at least half of the grain produced in the fields should be handed to the master’s family. If they had a harsher master, who charged them sixty percent or more for rent, and they had an average harvest, the tenant farmers might not even have enough to fill their stomachs. However, these tenant farmers, who had no other skills except...