"Grandpa the village chief, you are the head of a village, we all listen to you. Now I want you to give us a testimony, don't you think? "Actually, Ling'er just didn't say it, and the people present were all witnesses, but Ling'er came out like this, the meaning was completely different, if the Zhao family regretted it in the future, then the village chief would not let her go first.

"Cheng, I will testify to you." The village chief was also angry in his heart, angry with Li Dabai and angry with them, and even more angry with Ling'er. This kid agreed so quickly at first glance, but now he can't come forward to refute, after all, it's someone else's housework, thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at the stupid Zhao He, and sighed. Ling'er saw all this in her eyes and had a plan in her heart.

"First, this house is for my grandmother, and my father made amends to my grandmother for my brother. In the past few years, my father and mother have opened up ten acres of land, and although the title deed was not a high-grade fertile land, it was also a high-grade middle field. This land was given to my second uncle, and the second aunt couldn't get a deed even if she didn't set up a household, so she gave it to the second uncle. After speaking, everyone nodded one after another, but Li Dabai didn't say anything. In this era, in addition to the death of her husband and her divorce, and then the age of twenty-five and not married, the old girl can go to the town to set up a household, otherwise a woman cannot have these real estates. Ling'er then went on to say the following conditions like a thunderstorm:

"Grandpa the village chief, you also know our family, how did it divide it back then? How did it become this field now? I believe everyone knows it in their hearts, and I won't say anything more. My dad was born to my grandmother, but my sister and I are not, plus we are girls and sooner or later we are from someone else's family. Therefore, my second condition is to break off the relationship with my grandmother's family, including my second uncle's family. In the future, if my father is sober and wants to move around, it will be his business, and it has nothing to do with my sisters. If my father has not been sober, we still have to make our own decisions, such as weddings and funerals, and their old Zhao family has no right to interfere. If you agree, let's make a note, and our grandfather and my mother will go out of the house immediately, only bringing a few changes of clothes. We don't take anything at home, whether it's pots and pans or my father's farming tools and hunting tools. If not, then we will give you nothing. If you are in a hurry, I will bury my mother at home, or our sisters will die on my mother's coffin one by one, and let the people of the world poke our backbone in Hongsongtun. "If Ling'er and the others are really forced to die, then this matter will be a big deal, and the reputation will naturally stink, and at that time, the girls and boys in the village will only be able to marry in their own village, and other villages will not marry even if they die, which also shows the importance of reputation.

"Yes, we promise." Zhao said happily. Anyway, the two girls will have to go to the door sooner or later, so it's the best, you must know that the hunting tools and farm tools are the most valuable in silver, and she doesn't know what he has in his house, those things are worth fifteen or sixteen taels. Even if it has been used, it is not broken, it has been purchased by Zhao He little by little in recent years.

"That's good, please trouble the village chief's grandfather to set up a note for us, so as to save the future from being rotten." Ling'er's words immediately received a warm response from Zhao and others, and Li Dabai even sent his son to the village chief's house to get pen and ink, for fear that Ling'er would regret it later. Min'er has no opinion on Ling'er's decision, she thinks that it is the most correct thing for her sister to deal with this matter, and it seems that she will have to let her sister take charge of the matter in the future.

The rest of the matter was much smoother, Ling'er asked the village chief and everyone present, including Zhao, Li Dabai and others to press their handprints on it, and if they couldn't press it on the front, they pressed it on the back, printing a full piece of paper. Ling'er only found out the problem after looking at it, except for the handprints of the village chief and the Zhao family, they couldn't find them at once, and the other people's handprints didn't know who was who. But she doesn't care so much, as long as she presses it on it, she will definitely testify in the future, and the ancients still attach great importance to promises. She did this completely to prevent her family from becoming rich in the future, and the Zhao family and others came to find trouble, and now with this, not to mention giving them the house and land, it is okay to give them all the money in her hand. Therefore, Ling'er's heart is still very happy, and it can be regarded as a matter of breaking her heart.

Seeing that this was over, Mr. Yin Yang began to prepare for the burial ceremony, and Ling'er and Min'er took Zhao to the room. Under the witness of the Zhao family, he packed a few changes of clothes and went out. Neither Min'er nor Ling'er went up the mountain, but just sent Wang's coffin to the foot of the mountain, according to custom, women are not allowed to go to the cemetery, even for funerals.

"Ling'er, you ......"

"Aunt Zhang, I'm ......" Aunt Zhang and Ling'er opened their mouths at the same time, and closed their mouths at the same time. Aunt Zhang motioned to Ling'er to say first:

"Aunt Zhang, I want to ask if your old house can be rented to us?" When Aunt Zhang heard this, she said angrily:

"What to rent, it's empty anyway, you just move in. When you said you would give them a house, I thought about letting you live there, and we wanted to go together. Aunt Zhang knew that Ling'er had money in her hands, but she didn't want to know that she must have given most or all of it to Zhao Shu. It's not that her family can't open the pot anymore, and Cha Neng wants them to pay for the house.

"Aunt Zhang, let's talk while walking, this is not the place to talk." Min'er saw that there were still others here, so she pulled the two away, and now they better keep a low profile.

"Look at my memory, go and see the house, I just told you Uncle Zhang, and when they go down the mountain, they will send people away and take your father to my house." Aunt Zhang walked as she spoke. Ling'er was very moved, this Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang really cared about them, much better than the so-called relatives. When she arrived at the door, Aunt Zhang instructed:

"You wait here, I'll get the key." Watching Aunt Zhang leave quickly, Ling'er really looked at the so-called old house. Last night, I rushed in and out the back door again, so I didn't pay attention to it, and now it seems to be fine.

The house faces the village from west to east, and in front of the main road of the village. The main road runs from east to west, and at about a fifth of the way to the south, it finally enters the official road. The original location of her house was at the foot of Dongshan Mountain, which belonged to the east of the village, but this house was closer to Xishan and belonged to the west of the village. Follow the road in front of the door and walk south for a distance of about 500 meters to the official road. Last time, if they hadn't walked the barren meadow to Shangguan Road at the foot of Dongshan, they would have had to leave the village from this road. That is equivalent to walking around the village and returning to the position where they went to the official road at that time, so when Ling'er said to walk at the foot of the mountain, Aunt Zhang did not object. Behind the house is a large yard with a lot of vegetables, and after the vegetable plot is a thatched house in the left corner; The small wooden door in the middle was the back door they had walked through last night. After going out, about 20 meters away, I came to the embankment, which is not very high, that is, more than one meter high. This river was dug by the village itself, and it was for domestic water at that time, so the river was not very deep, and even the deepest part of the river center was not two meters. There is a single-plank bridge over the river, and there are a few families after crossing the bridge, and then we reach the barren meadow on the edge of the west mountain.

As Aunt Zhang, who took the key, entered the yard, she found that the front yard was not very big, except for the main house and the warehouse on the left. Open the door in the middle of the house, and when you enter, you will find a hall similar to your own home, but this hall is smaller, and there is no kang, just a dining table and a few stools. There is a door frame on the wall facing the door without a door, and after that, there is no utility room in the kitchen, and in the corner of the kitchen is a kiln covered with a wooden lid. When I came out of the kitchen, I saw a door on the left and right sides of the hall, on the left hand side was Aunt Zhang's former room, and on the right hand side was Erya's room. The pattern inside is the same, and it can be said that the pattern of this area is almost the same. Half of the room is made of kang, most of the houses are nailed to a simple wooden shelf and covered with a cloth curtain, and some poorer people are not even covered by a curtain. For example, those who live better will put a box with a flip lid or a kang cabinet with a door in front. Many poor people only put one or two stools or small wooden piers on the ground, and only those who live better will have furniture, and the furniture style of this era is basically a box with a top lid made according to the position, and the cabinet is also very simple, all of which are double-doored, and there are two or three horizontal partitions made of partitions. There are no others, and Ling'er doesn't know if this era is like this, or if it's just their place.

In fact, the furniture of this era is on the simple and practical side, and there are not as many types as in modern times. After visiting the whole house, Min'er and Ling'er were very satisfied. Although this house is old, it is not dilapidated, and it seems that Aunt Zhang often comes to clean it up. It would be nice for them to have a place to live, let alone such a well-organized house.

"Aunt Zhang, we are not outsiders, so I will say it bluntly, I have fallen in love with this house. If you rent it, we'll live there, and if you don't live in vain, we'll leave right away. Ling'er usually said to Aunt Zhang, looking at Ling'er's small appearance at this time, Aunt Zhang realized that this was just a little doll less than four years old.

"Hehe, look at your little appearance, like a little adult, be careful that you don't grow up." Aunt Zhang is the character who said it when she thought of it, but Ling'er couldn't really be happy when she said a word, she was an adult, okay.

"Ling'er is right, Aunt Zhang, you know our situation best, we can't live in your house for nothing." Min'er also feels that she can't take advantage of others in vain, not to mention that they have money in their hands, even if they don't have it, they can't live in vain.

"Aunt Zhang, you have helped us a lot, if we don't accept it, we won't be able to live even if we live." Ling'er made a decisive move, and Aunt Zhang was immediately killed.

"Okay, okay, okay, I'll take you thirty wen a month, and if you give it annually, give me three hundred. Don't intervene This is the rule of the village, I don't want you less, there are few rentals in our territory, they are all sold or built, this is still the price of a foreigner renting a wing house at the village chief's house the year before last. "What Aunt Zhang said is true, the price is also fair. Ling'er thinks that it is cheap because she has money in her hands, you know, this penny can sell a meat bun, two vegetable buns or two steamed buns. Of course, it is not pure white flour, but cornmeal and bean flour. You can see how expensive the coffin is. That's three years without opening, and three years after opening. Such prices also made Ling'er feel a lot more at ease, and the silver on Zhao Shu's body was enough for him to live, of course, if everything went well.

"Okay, we'll give you the money tomorrow, but we don't have it now." Ling'er was a little embarrassed to say, yesterday before they went home, they hid the remaining silver in the pond where the forest frog was found, just to prevent the Zhao family, and they had to go to get it back at night.

"Okay, you little clever, I was thinking about what you were doing in the pond yesterday?" Min'er realized her sister's strange behavior yesterday.

"Then you don't ask?" Ling'er thought she had thought of it too, so she didn't ask.

"I was in a hurry, and I didn't think much about it, but now I remember." You can't blame Min'er, after all, she is a real ten-year-old child from the ancient countryside.

"Okay, the hour is almost up, your Uncle Zhang and your father are coming to their house, go to my house to cook for them, and there is no food left on this day." Aunt Zhang said as she took the two sisters and locked the door and left.

Because Mr. Yin and Yang showed the hour at the third quarter of the year (10:45-11:00), starting from home, and burying at the first quarter of the afternoon (12:15-12:30) is the most auspicious. So everyone didn't have lunch, and they should have been in charge of the meal after they were done, but in this case, the main family can only give a few pennies to one person. It's also a two-phase satisfaction, and the money is much more affordable than rice.