Ruo Xuan listened to the village chief's words and explained in a childish voice, "I'll buy the wasteland too, but the barren hills are even cheaper, buy one acre and get one free. Plus, I'm thinking of planting medicinal herbs and fruit trees on the barren hills."
The wasteland in Shaxi County is mostly too low-lying, and many medicinal plants and fruits are not suitable to be grown in such damp soil, so it is better to buy the barren hills.
The village chief was surprised, "Planting medicinal herbs, fruit trees? Both are not easy to cultivate! If you can grow medicinal plants, that's great, and they will be easy to sell. But fruit trees take many years to grow, and if you're unlucky, the fruit they produce can be sour and no one will buy them, and the harvest can be unstable, with good and bad years. Often it's a full tree of fruit one year, and sparse the next, not easy to grow!"
