Craig wanted to stop at Nong’s, Lek sighed inwardly and acquiesced.
“So what was said there exactly? I know there was more going on than I understood. It all seemed a very civilised way of doing business, I must say.”
Lek was as pleased as Punch. “Yesterday, I told the farmer that I had a plot of land that I wanted to put about one hundred mapang on. I showed him my drawing and told him the rough size. Today we chose the varieties. Tomorrow, he will come and look at the land and tell me what I need to do to it and how to set it out and then he will select a hundred trees of two metres and delver them when I am ready.”
“Sounds great, so when will you put them in the ground?”
“It depends, I don’t think that there is a problem with the land, so maybe we can start the day after tomorrow. I
