When he arrived at Aunt Liu, Chen Qing was criticized.

"It's okay, what are you doing to send so many things to me? It's eggs and apples, this married brother can't pour things out of his mother-in-law's house, so as not to be accused by his mother-in-law" Liu Xiulian hurriedly stuffed things into the basket, wanting Chen Qing to carry them back.

"Oh, auntie, this chicken is raised by myself, and the fruit is also disliked by the owner, why can't I bring it to you to eat?" Chen Qing hurriedly pressed Liu Xiulian's hand.

"Then you can't say that you can send it!" Liu Xiulian sighed, why doesn't this baby know how to have a little heart?

"Why can't you send it? I haven't returned to the door for the New Year, you are my mother's house, who dares to say that I will take some New Year's gifts from my mother's house? Besides, he also said, I can call the shots about the things at home" Chen Qing put the things on the ground.

"Did he really say that?" Liu Xiulian immediately asked with a smile.

"Well, I won't be allowed to return the silver, and I will hand over all my family assets to me for safekeeping" Chen Qing immediately showed a thief smile when he mentioned the silver.

"Yohe, is this relationship for you to enter the family tree?" Liu Xiulian patted Chen Qing on the shoulder happily, and finally let go of a heart that was hanging in the air. Seeing Chen Qing shaking his head, he asked puzzledly, "The family is all in your hands, why don't you give you a family tree?" What does he mean?"

"It's better not to go, I'll still be a brother when I pay off the money" Chen Qing scratched his head, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart.

"What a fart! He won't let you repay your debts, doesn't he just recognize you as a daughter-in-law? Don't wait for your belly to be big before you think of the family tree, go back and quickly mention it to him" Aunt Liu learned that Chen Qing was in charge of the family, and immediately had the confidence to let Chen Qing hurry home and do this.

Chen Qing clutched his stomach in fright, he didn't want to conceive a baby, "Auntie, don't scare me, you see this cold sweat is coming out"

"Poof~ It's best not to be pregnant, it's not a good thing for the little brother to get pregnant in the first year, but your body is hard, I guess you can't suffer too much" Aunt Liu covered her mouth and smiled with a smile.

Chen Qing secretly breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, anyway, he had planned it, he could pass it, and if he couldn't pass it, he would return the money to him and leave the house, anyway, there were not many debts left.

"You, it's right to leave a way back for yourself, but when you get married, you can't always have an outside heart, especially if you can't talk about it, do you hear?" Aunt Liu instructed uneasily.

"Got it" Chen Qing hurriedly promised, and handed the letter to Liu Xiulian again.

Chen Qing didn't mention this stubble, Liu Xiulian almost forgot about it, and the guy in the noodle restaurant asked Li Laohan to bring a letter to Chen Qing, thinking that it was not in a hurry, so he didn't rush to send it to him, and this person came and handed it over to him.

Chen Qing took it happily, and he didn't know how Brother Shen did in the exam, I'm afraid that the letter at this time will inform him that he has passed the exam, right?

Except for Shen Shucheng, no one will write to him, after opening it and reading it, Chen Qing is indeed regretful, Shen Shucheng said that he would come back a year ago, and wanted to get together with him before the fifteenth, and he was afraid that he would have already set off after the fifteenth year.

"It's troublesome, blame me! I gave it to you in the first two years, so I shouldn't be in a hurry" Aunt Liu also slapped her thigh, this is a man who went to Beijing to take the test for fame, not to mention stammering, even if he can say two sentences, it is also a decent thing.

"It's okay, if you miss it, you miss it, he said in his letter that the palace trial change will be changed this spring, if you are lucky enough to get an official position, you have to go back to your hometown to worship your ancestors, and it will not be too late to see you again" Chen Qing carefully put away the letterhead, and Brother Shen still remembered their brotherhood.

"It's good to see it, this Shen Gongzi is really a talent, it's not in vain that you praise him many times, it would be good if he could be sent to our county as a parent official" Liu Xiulian listened to Chen Qingnian about this person, and heard that he was a scholar with excellent talent and character. If such a person can be an official, he can benefit the people.

"It seems that you have to stay away from your hometown as an official, I'm afraid it won't work" Chen Qing shook his head, if all the county officials return to their hometowns to take up their posts, won't all the relatives who are related to their hometowns have to become local tyrants?

Asking the aunt to take the letter away quickly, so that she could meet Chen Bi in the town tomorrow, Chen Qing returned to Liangjia Village with the basket on his back.

Chen Bichu only went to see his brother in the fifth year, and he didn't want to receive a letter from his brother again in the middle of the month, so he was anxious that something big had happened, so he opened the letter and read it twice, and then pulled Wan Zhuoping back to the house to discuss.

"How can this be done? No!" Wan Zhuoping can be said to be obedient to Chen Bi, and for the first time he expressed a different opinion on this matter.

"Why can't you do it? Brother didn't also say that if you don't want to go to the county seat to live, we can help at home when the farm is busy, and then go to the town to live for a while?" Chen Bi pouted.

"Even if the eldest brother pays to buy a house, then we are also under the fence, we are not homeless, why do we have to go to the county to beg for a living? The county is such a good place? Even if you have to spend money to buy a dish, how can you afford it with embroidery? And the fields at home are inseparable from people, and Daddy and Aunt only have a son like me, who will serve them when I leave?" Wan Zhuoping glared, honest people will lose their temper when they are in a hurry.

"Why is it under the fence? My brother brought me up single-handedly, what is the difference between me and my father and aunt, my brother's family is my family! My brother has great ability, he said that if he can make us live well, he will definitely be able to live well! I don't care, anyway, I want to go to the county to find my brother!" Chen Bi was angry, a few months after getting married, she saw her brother once during the Chinese New Year, and now she is only 15 years old, even if she is old, she is still a child, and her eyes are red at the moment, crying to find her brother.

Wan Zhuoping panicked, and was busy comforting his daughter-in-law, and the two and a half children pushed and shouted and didn't understand the matter, and finally alarmed the old couple.

In the end, the whole family still can't move to the county to live, but when they are not busy in summer and winter, they can let the couple go to the county to play for a while, so as not to miss her brother too much.

After Chen Bi saw her brother the next day, she immediately told her grievances, and Chen Qing couldn't help but apologize to Wan Zhuoping after hearing it, and pulled her sister-in-law to educate her, "What did I tell you in my letter? This matter can only be done with the consent of the family, how can you make your own mind by your temperament? I think Zhuo Ping has been used to you during this time! I don't know the severity."

Chen Bi snapped tears aggrievedly, biting her lip and complaining aggrievedly, "I...... I just miss my brother."

How could Chen Qing not know what his sister was thinking? But he had to reprimand her even if he was acting like this, lest Zhuo Ping and his in-laws have opinions about her. took the girl into his arms and gently patted his back to coax him, "Brother misses you too, but we are all married, and everything has to be dominated by the in-laws' family, you have the opinion that my brother does not object, but you have to talk to the family, whether you agree or not, you have to discuss everything?"

Chen Bi nodded obediently, "I know it's wrong"

"Good boy~ Don't cry, when my brother buys a house, you can come and live for a few days when you are free, and take the embroidery home to do it when you are free." Auntie, I'll do it for you, I won't take it when the embroidery in your hand is finished, I will take the job directly from Liang Ji, and let Li Laohan help you piggyback" Chen Qing nodded Chen Bi's nose, and teased her for a long time, finally making the little girl burst into laughter.

Taking advantage of the fact that it was still early, Chen Qing carefully explained the embroidery he brought to Chen Bi, and taught her all the latest stitches. Chen Bi already knows some basic embroidery methods, and then learns the new embroidery methods that are extended, and he can quickly master them.

Chen Qing handed over the semi-finished product to the sister to complete, and took a new base material to teach while demonstrating. Wan Zhuoping sat on the side and accompanied him silently, feeling that he couldn't insert into the harmonious atmosphere, and he didn't want to destroy the warmth of the brother and sister reunion.

When Chen Qing remembered Wan Zhuoping, he patted his forehead in annoyance and nodded at Chen Bi's little brain, "You heartless master, let your husband talk to your brother alone, look, how pitiful?

Chen Bi stuck out her tongue and smiled at him, "I deserve it, let him not allow me to live with my brother!"

"You, even if you move to the county, my brother can't live with you" Chen Qing finished telling the truth, and squeezed his eyes again, "At most, accompany Abi during the day!"

"Hee-hee~" Chen Bi's pursed mouth immediately opened a big arc, and the brother and sister got together again and muttered about the little secret.

Taking advantage of the dawn, Chen Bi waved goodbye to his brother and made an appointment to go to the county to find him when the farm was free. Chen Qing waited for the ox cart to disappear before taking a carriage back to the county seat.

Buying a house is a big deal at any time, and the farmer's groundbreaking (starting the homestead and building a house) has to be counted as a good day, so Chen Qing has been busy in the county town for the past two days.

Now Chen Qing is also a person with a small net worth, and it is not difficult to buy a house in the county, but he didn't think about it, and when he entered the "Zhuanghu Yaxing", he realized that his money was not a fart at all.

The Xia State clearly stipulated that the house and slave trade must be handled by the tooth shop, otherwise it would be dealt with according to the law related to the punishment of thieves. If the stolen thing is worth 1 yuan, it will be beaten with 60 boards, and if it is worth 5 taels, it will be punished with one year of forced labor. If you dare to buy and sell a house privately without looking for a tooth shop to handle it, you can beat your ass to pieces by hitting the board, and you can sit through the bottom of the prison by going to prison.

The one who deals in the sale of houses is called "Zhuang Zhai Ya Xing", the one who deals in slave trading is called "Shengkou Ya Xing", and the one who deals in livestock trading is called "Five Animal Tooth Shop".

The "Five Animal Tooth Shops" are now not strictly controlled, except for cattle, horses, and sheep, the rest can be bought and sold freely.

Buying a house also requires the payment of deed tax, and the deed tax of Xia Guo is levied at 40 wen for every tael (1000 wen), which is equivalent to 4% of the deed tax. 3% by the seller and 1% by the buyer. It is said that before the tax adjustment in previous years, the deed tax was as high as 6%, but now it is very cheap.

In order to evade the deed tax, some people only signed a draft deed with the seller, and did not go to the yamen to seal it. It's okay if you don't find it, once you find it, the neighbors report together, whoever reports first will receive the reward, and whoever doesn't report who will top the cylinder. It is such a thing as evading deed tax, and no one dares to do it anymore.

Chen Qing found someone to explore a few houses, and found that the housing prices in Qingping County were really high, and a small courtyard like Liang Zijun covered an area of only one acre and cost 2,000 taels of silver. Ordinary farmers have to save for 200 years a year even if they don't spend money, so there is no market for it.

Chen Qing barely scraped together 200 taels in his hand, not to mention a property like another courtyard, even if he bought a single-door house, he couldn't afford it.

There is no land purchase restriction in Qingping County, as long as you have money, you can live in any big house. According to Gu Renyazi, the land in the capital is called every inch of land, and it is also clearly stipulated that land can be purchased according to population restrictions. Civilian families, for every three people, can only buy one acre of homestead at most, and if it is a untouchable family to buy land, every five people can buy one acre of homestead. Those who exceed the limit will be subject to 10 large slabs for every more than one acre.

Don't think that this is very harsh, it is not the common people who really can't afford to buy a house, but the court officials.

In order to consolidate the imperial power and prevent corruption, the homestead land allocated by officials is often different from the place of office, and once they leave office, the money they receive when they are in office will be stopped, and the land must be returned to the emperor.

In order to save a lot of trouble and meet the needs of the office, many officials directly set up their homes in government offices with relatively superior conditions. If he became an official in a different place, his family moved to the new government office. If you are unfortunate enough to be dismissed, then you will find another way to make a living or go back to your hometown to live.

Housing prices in the capital are so high that if you are not a royal family and a family, it is difficult to have your own house. If ordinary officials are not corrupt, they may not be able to save enough money for a house in thirty or forty years.

Those who enter Beijing to work as officials also need to rent a house to live in the same way as those who come to Beijing to seek a living. The most common thing is that four families are cramped in a small courtyard, each family lives in a small room, and they all drag their children and daughters, and the children have no place to sleep, so they set up a wooden board in the air, change the house into two floors, and stack the boxes as beds, so that the children can sleep on it.

If they do not have a family, officials serving in Beijing can live in free public housing (dormitory). Those who have families can only rent houses at high prices.

After listening to Renyazi's introduction, Chen Qing broke out in a cold sweat, no matter what era the houses in the first-tier cities are every inch of land, fortunately, he was born in a farmer's household, although it is hard, there is no need to worry about the house.

Pinching the money bag, Chen Qing quietly stuffed Yazi with a tael of silver, and after saying good things for a long time, Renyazi agreed to find a cheap and affordable suitable house for him.