The villa in the western suburbs of Lin's family is located at the foot of a mountain, which is not very high and belongs to the common hills in Jiangnan. It covers an area of about 10 mu, with lush flowers, grasses and trees in their original state, making it look quite messy.

  This mountain is included in the Lin family's estate, but the Lin family never forbids people from climbing the mountain to cut firewood or dig wild vegetables. Now that everything is coming back to life and wild vegetables are starting to sprout, many villagers come and go on the mountain.

  The other courtyard is backed by a large mountain, facing a wide and flat road that Lin Qingwen had Zhong Da build after returning to Suzhou last year, as they might come to the courtyard frequently in the future.

  The main road went further in for about two miles, where there was a small village called Changfu Village. There were only twenty or so households, all of whom were former tenant farmers who rented and cultivated official land. They had moved here specifically to take care of the fields more conveniently.

  So they are also temporary villages, and gave this village a very beautiful name.

  Going out for about a quarter of an hour along this main road is the official road from Suzhou to the west, and it takes less than half an hour to ride a horse-drawn carriage.

  Across from the official road is the main road leading into Qingfeng Mountain, and going two more miles in will bring you to the foot of Qingfeng Mountain, where there is a village called Qingfeng Village.

  More than 300 mu of land radiating from the northwest direction of Qingfeng Mountain is Lin Qing's jiatian, and now adjacent to that piece of land is the land Zhao Sheng has just bought from the villagers of Qingfeng Village.

  However, his land was not a contiguous piece, but rather the more than 300 mu surrounding Lin Qingyuan, scattered in the east and west, forming a semicircle that surrounded her land inside, leaving only a semicircular gap on the northeast side for her.

  This was what he had deliberately done, he just wanted to nibble away at this piece of land step by step, but also made it impossible for Lin Qingwan to find any evidence.

  When she remembered Qingfeng Mountain, it was when she and Zhao's family had a falling out with the Suzhou Governor's Office.

  Zhao Sheng was more than happy to have another round with her.

  Lin Qingwan was also willing to have a fight with Zhao Shengdou, and take the opportunity to probe the Zhao family. But she wouldn't wait until "many years later", instead, after settling down in another courtyard, she set off on horseback the next day, surrounded by her entourage, to inspect Qingfeng Mountain.

  Lin Yuhbin didn't want to stay at home either and followed with great enthusiasm.

  Lin Qingwan smiled and asked: "Are you feeling better now?"

  Lin Yuhbin stuck out his tongue and smiled awkwardly with a lowered head.

  "Let's go, when we get back you still need to take your medicine and get rid of the root of the illness. Otherwise, if you stop taking it after feeling a bit better, it will just relapse again."

  This girl actually stopped coughing two days ago. Dr. Xu prescribed her two more days of medicine, but she thought the medicine was bitter and refused to take it.

  Then after a night, the illness recurred and I started coughing again. Fortunately, there were ready-made medicines at home, so Dr. Xu prescribed another dose of medicine, which I took for two days and the symptoms subsided again.

  But this back and forth was most hurtful to her body, Lin Qingyuan did not allow her to be reckless, so she strictly ordered people to keep a close eye on her.

  The scenery of the other courtyard is already beautiful, and the landscape of Qingfeng Mountain is even more magnificent. Before arriving at Qingfeng Mountain, I heard only the chirping sounds of birds all along the way, which was very crisp and pleasant to hear.

  Not only Lin Yuhong, but also Lin Qingyan couldn't help but lift the curtains to look outside. On both sides of the road were trees planted by people, including cotton trees, peach trees and pear trees, etc., which had just sprouted green buds. A few birds perched on the branches, chirping and stretching their necks back and forth among the leaves.

  Lin Qingyan's eyesight was incredibly good after switching bodies and she could even see the small insects that flashed across their mouths.

  Lin Qingwan sighed, "When the flowers bloom, what a wonderful scenery this road will be."

  "I heard that Mr. Lu and his disciples planted these trees one by one," Lin Yubin said in a low voice: "Not only here, but also on Qingfeng Mountain, they have planted many, all of which were done personally by them, without relying on others."

  Qingfeng Village is much better than Changfu Village, not only are the roads in the village wide and clean, but also many of the houses are made of stone. Villagers wearing coarse linen clothes stand on the roadside chatting in twos and threes, and when they see a horse carriage coming, they just raise their heads to take a look, without any surprise.

  The horse carriage went through the village and headed northwest, and soon arrived at the Lin family's land. Zhong Daguanting pointed to a small stream inside and said: "That is from Qingfeng Mountain, during the flood season it will surge, in winter it won't dry up, but there isn't much water either, however, it can still irrigate the nearby fields."

  Lin Qingyan nodded and walked down to the field with her skirt in hand, unable to help but sigh, "It's hard to open up this land!"

  Zhong Daguanshi nodded in deep agreement, "If it weren't for Zhao Sheng buying land around here, I'm afraid the little one wouldn't have thought of this piece of land. At the earliest, he would have remembered it five or six years later."

  Compared with that large piece of land across the street, this land is really not good. It's small and has poor fertility, and there are weeds and shrubs growing all over it.

  There are only over 300 mu, and the land is full of grass everywhere. There is a large area of shrubs and trees in the north where the stream flows, and the rest of the places have fewer shrubs, but the wild grass grows to knee height is normal.

  It's just the beginning of spring, and most of the wild grass is withered. Occasionally, there are some green ones mixed in, but as long as you squat down and brush aside the withered grass, you can see the small grasses at the bottom that are slightly sprouting green buds.

  Lin Qingyuan was confident that in less than a month, those green shoots would quickly grow into a new wave of green grass swaying in the wind.

  The seeds of these wild grasses are deeply rooted and cannot be completely eliminated in three or four years.

  It takes too much manpower and material resources to grow grain on this land.

  It's not worth it, it's her, I'm afraid she'll also put more effort into that other hospital.

  Lin Qingwan walked along the small stream and finally looked up at the top of Qingfeng Mountain, from here, she could faintly hear the sound of a man reading aloud coming from the mountain.

  She slightly raised the corner of her mouth and said to Zhong Daguantie, "We will plant fruit trees and some flowers and woods. Send someone to cut some branches and insert them wherever our land borders others'. After confirming with the other party, we will separate the boundaries."

  "Auntie, that costs a lot of manpower! We should be frugal with our money now. And it's not just fruit trees, how can we make money from growing flowers and wood?"

  Lin Qingwan pointed at the top of Qingfeng Mountain and said: "Don't worry, we won't lose out."

  Lin Yuhu followed Xiaogu's finger and looked over, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but clap his hands: "I know, Xiaogu wants to repair the garden, and then rent it out to the scholars on the mountain, right?"

  Lin Qingwan burst out laughing and stroked her hair, saying: "It's not entirely correct. I couldn't possibly build a garden like Yiyuan, but rather just fix up one or two pavilions, three or four thatched cottages, and five or six gazebos inside."

  As for high-rise buildings and artificial mountains and rivers, don't even think about it. The cost of building an artificial mountain could be thousands of taels, where would she get that much money?

  She had tens of thousands of taels of silver, but was afraid that she couldn't even build a rough outline, so she decided to take a simplified route - building a farmhouse.

  Made it, then I'll earn some money for nothing; if not, I'll just sell fruits.

  "Since it's a fruit tree, there's no need to be meticulous. Let people cut the wild grass and dig up the shrubs. Once we've drawn the blueprint, we'll dig holes and plant trees." Lin Qingwen asked, "Didn't I ask you to pay attention to the news about fruit trees last year? Have you found a suitable fruit farmer yet?"

  "Yes, I've found several small ones, and they all have fruit saplings. Most of them are medium-sized or young saplings. The young saplings need to be planted for about three years before they can bear fruit. The medium-sized saplings can bear fruit next year if planted this year. There's also a part that is large saplings, which can be planted in March and may bloom and bear fruit this year, but the damage to the tree is also great. The main thing is the price..."

  "Let's take the middle-aged saplings as the main ones, and also want some young saplings. Besides here, other institutes also need some." Lin Qingwen thought for a moment: "We need a large quantity, and then negotiate with them about the price. Also, find a few talented people to let the fruit farmers teach, so that they can take care of the fruit trees later."

  "Yes."

  Lin Qingwan followed the small stream and surveyed it for half a day, finally nodding in satisfaction as she pinched her waist: "When the time comes, we'll plant some flowers and trees by this creek, clean up the surrounding area, they love playing with curved water, don't they? This year's Shangsi Festival is too late, but next year we can make it."

  Lin Yuhu couldn't help but glance at his aunt, "Auntie, you used to love playing too."

  Lin Qingwan's smile slightly faded as she said, "I won't play anymore."

  That's Wan Jie'er's hobby, but a big part of the reason is that Xie Er Lang accompanies her, what's the fun in playing?

  Lin Yuhu looked at the lonely figure of her little aunt and felt a slight sourness in her nose. She ran up to her, grabbed her hand and shook it, saying: "Auntie, I'll play with you from now on, okay?"

  Lin Qingwan smiled and patted her head, saying: "Why do you want to play with me? Yubin also has friends, can't she invite them to play? I won't play this game."

  Who would have believed it? She knew that every time her younger sister played this game, she was the center of attention. Now she doesn't play as much anymore, all because of her younger brother-in-law.

  "Alright, I'm tired after being out for half a day. Let's head back. Tomorrow we'll ride in the carriage to inspect the fields."

  The field is much larger than this one and she needs to ride a horse-drawn carriage, after she has finished inspecting the field, she will start busy with spring plowing.

  The weather is still cold now, most people are still in the New Year's atmosphere, and it will only start to get busy after the first month.

  But the Lin family is different, they have a lot of land, and most of it is barren land, wild grass, shrubs, and rocks. To catch up with this year's spring plowing, they must start early.

  For this reason, Lin Qingwan also had two lighter garments made, just in case she needed to walk in the fields without being cumbersome.

  The twenty-eight households of laborers who returned from various villages began to be busy after the seventh day of the new year. Adult men took hoes to dig up saplings, women went to cut wild grass, and the elderly and children were responsible for piling these things into heaps, and also picking up stones in the field and carrying them out.

  Lin Qingwan had never seen them before, but today she specially brought Yu Bin to visit them, after all, these people were the loyal servants of the Lin family.

  But when they reached the end of the field, she finally understood why Manager Zhong said they wouldn't be willing to rent out the land by household.

  For those who are in the ground, there are male masters, and more or less, there are some defects on the body of the male master. If there is no male master, it is old and weak, young and young.

  In this era when farming relies mainly on manpower, they can't even afford to pay taxes or provide grain, let alone make a living for themselves.

  Lin Yuhong was also surprised and asked in a low voice: "Little sister, why are most of them disabled?"

  Lin Qingwan took a deep breath and blinked away the tears in her eyes. "It's just that I forgot they were all from the Northwestern Army."

  Lin Yuhong was stunned, the predecessor of the Northwest Army was the Lin Family Army, this... is a soldier?