Chapter 104: Gossip

Asking for a commuter pass——

The distance was relatively far, and Chen Afu was bored and looked out the window. Looking at www.biquge.info the fertile fields and wilderness flashing backwards, I feel like I was riding a car in my previous life. But most of the time he was listening to Luo Fang and Qing Bo chatting outside the car, and sometimes Chen Shi would interject a few words.

They said that in order to celebrate Chu Hanyan's birthday, how many relatives and friends came to the capital, how many people came to the provincial capital, and on the day of his birthday, the nobles and rich people in Dingzhou basically arrived, how lively was it......

Chen Afu understood that the little girl Chu was not only a dignitary in her family, but her great-grandfather was the old marquis, and her grandfather was the marquis. Even my uncle and grandfather are the governors of northern Hebei Province, this is a feudal official...... Then, before the abbot of Lichen became a monk, he should be the wife of the Marquis of Chu and the sister of the Luo Xun Mansion. This, this, such a prominent birth, why do you want to become a monk?

I really can't figure it out.

Moreover, they didn't say that the current Hou Ye, that is, the little girl's own grandfather, came to congratulate him. Listening to what Steward Luo said, some people were malicious to the little girl, and even invited a certain nobleman in the palace...... Could it be that the Marquis of Chu is empathetic and don't fall in love, and now his wife is powerful, and he still doesn't let go of the little girl, so he forced Chu Lingxuan to let his daughter hide in Fucheng?

Also, there was no mention of the little girl's family and mother, maybe her mother was dead......

Chen Afu was thinking about his thoughts, but he heard their topic suddenly change direction and talk about the newly appointed prefect Chen.

Chen Afu was nervous for a while, and even Chen Shi's expression became unnatural.

I only heard Qingbo ask, "Steward Luo, when you greeted the guests, did you see the newly appointed prefect Lord Chen? I heard that he is extremely handsome." He said unconvincedly, "No matter how handsome you are, can you still have our uncle handsome?" Or, can we have our Hou Ye when he was young?"

Luo Fang smiled proudly, "I really saw that Lord Chen, he is indeed extremely handsome." However, his handsomeness is different from the handsomeness of our uncle and Hou Ye. Our uncle and Hou Ye are handsome and majestic, tough, and Lord Chen's handsomeness is particularly good-looking, better than a woman. After a pause, he added, "Uh...... It's strange, why do I think Lord Chen looks like an acquaintance?"

Chen Shi glanced at Chen Afu nervously, then at Wang, and hurriedly said, "Steward Luo, Brother Qing, I don't know where our original prefect went to become an official?" and said firmly, "He is the Qingtian Master, and he must have been promoted." ”

Luo Fang said, "He's going to be an official in the capital......"

They pulled the conversation elsewhere.

Fortunately, they didn't directly say the name of "Lord Chen", and the Wang family didn't care about anything that had nothing to do with her, and kept keeping their heads down.

Chen Afu felt that it was impossible for Chen Shiying to be the prefect of Dingzhou for too long. After all, Chen Shiying's hometown is in Zhaojia Village, Fenglin Town, Sanqing County, and Zhaojia Village is only seven or eight miles away from Xiangluo Village. The people there must have rejoiced that a young prefect had been born, and perhaps the news had already reached Xianggong Village.

About the end of the day, I arrived at Laohuai Village, Guanghe Town. Find the forest landlord who sold the land and go to see the land together. A large field is connected together, and there is a weir lake not far away, which is also convenient for irrigation.

Although Chen Shi is a businessman, he also grew up in the countryside, and the general quality of the land can still be seen. He went to the field, grabbed a handful of soil, looked at it, nodded, and whispered to Chen Afu and Wang that this field was good.

Chen Afu nodded and said he was willing to buy it. The forest landlord brought several tenant farmers over, hoping that Chen Afu and them would continue to use these tenants.

Chen Afu agreed. Since the land purchase contract had not yet been completed, she did not want to travel so far tomorrow, so she negotiated a tenancy agreement to be signed four days later when she passed through the place.

There are a total of 200 fields, the 100 acres in the east are under Chen Afu's name, and the 100 acres in the west are under Chen Ming's name. Giving Chen Ming so much land was something that Chen Afu had thought about, this was his first time buying property, and he had to give Chen Ming more to repay him for his care for Xiao Afu.

Wang originally thought that he would give Chen Ming 50 acres of land, but now he saw that he had gone up to 100 acres, and he was about to postpone it, but Chen Afu shook his head and stopped him.

In front of so many people, it is indeed difficult to postpone.

Seeing such a large fertile field as far as the eye could see, Wang's eyes turned red, and his family was finally the owner. In this life, I don't have to worry about food and clothing. This, this, this is something that you can't even dream of.

After signing the land purchase agreement, the tooth man and the Chinese person signed the tooth marking, and Chen Afu gave 1,260 taels of silver to the forest landlord.

She took out two more silver horns and asked Chen Shi to buy two pieces of meat and five catties of wine at the entrance of the village, and gave them to Lizheng here. For lunch, she also invited a guest, and took out two silver horns to a tenant who was more profitable, and asked his family to clean up a few good dishes and buy a few catties of wine. Chen Shi and Luo Fang accompanied the men to drink and eat, and Chen Afu's mother and daughter ate in another room.

Because I had to hurry, I drank this meal in a hurry, and it was finished in about half an hour.

After the meal, Chen Afu and Wang took Qingbo's carriage and returned to Fucheng with Luo Fang.

Chen Shi wanted to follow Li Yaren and the forest landlord to Zhongning County to apply for the deed. It will take more than an hour to get to Zhongning County, and it will be nearly an hour for Zhongning County to return to Fucheng. The time when the city gate was opened in the Dashun Dynasty was the beginning of the Chen, and the time when the city gate was closed was at the beginning of the Xu.

Chen Afu gave Chen Shi two taels of silver, and in addition to taking care of it, he also invited Li Yaren to dinner. If you can't enter the city before the city gate is closed, you have to live in an inn outside the city.

Around the time of Shen, Chen Afu and Wang arrived at Chen Shi's house. Zhang enthusiastically brought a pot of braised skewers to the carriage and gave it to the two families to eat.

Chen Dabao hadn't come back from Chu Mansion yet, and Chen Afu's mother and daughter were tired, so they went back to the house to rest.

Ah Lu pointed to the two bowls of water on the kang table and said, "This is sugar water, I left it for my mother and sister to dry." ”

Chen Afu smiled and touched his horn and drank sugar water.

Wang put his arm around Ah Lu and said, "Ah Lu, you have to study hard and treat your sister well in the future." ”

Ah Lu nodded and said, "I must be admitted to the lifter, support my sister, and don't let people like Wang Yingjun worry about my sister." ”

It is said that Chen Afu and Wang's great happiness.

Not long after, Chen Dabao was sent back by the carriage of the Chu Mansion, and Steward Luo also came.

Steward Luo smiled at Chen Afu and said, "My old marquis is as tricky as Sister Yan, and he likes to eat the glutinous rice dates you make, saying that they are much more delicious than the cook's." He will return to the capital the day after tomorrow, hehe, my uncle wants to ask the Chen family lady to help him do more and take him to the capital for the old man. He lifted the basket he was carrying, pointed to the two big bags of things carried by the two little guys behind him, and said, "We have brought all the ingredients." ”

Seeing so many ingredients, Chen Afu smiled, "Okay, I'll finish it tonight and tomorrow morning." ”