92. Contracting Barren Hill_1

Zu Jun was truly capable of winning trust in the countryside alone, his words were very persuasive:

"I figure with your Chestnut Garden and this mountain behind it, along with your tea plantation, all in all it would add up to about ten acres, right?"

"There's quite a bit of land actually, and it's nice and concentrated, totaling a little over fourteen acres, but less than fifteen."

"But the mountain behind your property, right across the road, that's a good twenty acres of hillside land. If you could lease that and join it up with your own, then the entire mountain ridge at the back would all be yours!"

Wow!

Boy, after this spiel, both Wu Lan and Song Sancheng got it: they realized he was trying to entice them into leasing more land because their farming was decent?

Wu Lan was not pleased: