Chapter 41: Deed of Sale
The carriage stopped steadily outside the courtyard wall of Luozhi's house, and Mujia Village was silent.
"Grandpa, I'm back," Luo Zhi's crisp voice came.
"What did you buy again? Why did you come back by mule cart? Old Man Mu got up and walked to the car door, lifted the curtain of the car and saw that the little granddaughter was holding a box in her arms, and Luo An and Ah Shu were empty-handed.
"Where are you singing today? The three of them didn't buy anything, so it's worth renting a mule cart and coming back? ”
Luozhi couldn't hide his embarrassment and glanced at Steward Lin, and hurriedly jumped out of the car and introduced, "Steward Lin, this is my grandfather."
"Grandpa, this is Steward Lin."
The old man and Steward Lin greeted each other, and countless thoughts passed through the old man's heart: Whose butler is this Steward Lin? How could Luozhi know a character like a housekeeper? What is this butler doing in his house? Did the master let it, or was it just him......
When Old Man Mu looked at Lin Lu, Lin Lu was also looking at Old Man Mu. Seeing that the old man was dressed in new clothes and a pair of old shoes, his face was slightly tired but his expression was complacent, and he nodded secretly.
Although Lin Lu is said to be a slave of the Lin family, he follows his master to see a lot of knowledge, and he is very accurate in seeing people, knowing that this family should not be the empty-headed, slippery and slippery family.
Luozhi welcomed Steward Lin into the house, and the old man helped lead the mule cart to the backyard, fetched a basin of water, cut a few handfuls of water spinach and put it in a wooden basin to feed it, wash his hands, and then entered the hall from the backyard.
Lin Lu saw that the old man was acting safely, and couldn't help but glance at the family.
Luozhi didn't have time to tell Grandpa about Zhuangzi, so he quickly cleared all the chili peppers in the house.
"Steward Lin, that's all for my family, it's all here."
"Pepper Tree in the Mountains"
"Will there be too much movement in this daylight when you go straight over? Today I see that the village is quiet, and there should be many villagers chopping firewood in the mountains,"
"If we go into the mountains by the road we used to do, it's hard to say when you meet acquaintances!"
"In that case, then it's not too late to act at night," Lin Lu finished speaking, then picked up the basket and left directly. Steward Lin came and went, but no one in Mujia Village saw it.
Coming out of Luozhi's house, Lin Lu drove the mule cart to the official road, thought about it, and then turned the head of the car and went to Zhuangzi in Majia Village.
There are many Zhuangzi in the Lin family, like Mujia Village, which has more than 3,000 acres of land, there are five Zhuangzi, and then there are more than 30 other Zhuangzi of different sizes. If the many Zhuangzi of the Lin family are all called Lin, the account office will be blind, so except for the largest five Zhuangzi of the Lin family, the other Zhuangzi are taken according to the place in order to distinguish them.
Lin Xiyong sent Luozhi to this place of Zhuangzi because it is in the north of Ji'an Town, so it was called Beizhuang at the beginning, and later, Zhuangzi was built in the north of Beizhuang, which is bigger than this Beizhuang, and this Beizhuang was renamed immediately, called the old Beizhuang, and the newly built Beizhuang is called Dabeizhuang.
The head of the old Beizhuang is surnamed Liu. This Liu Zhuangtou heard that Lin Lu, the big butler who usually only served in front of the eldest young master, came to Zhuangzi coldly, and he didn't know what was going on, so he greeted him in a panic.
Lin Lu didn't get out of the car, but only called Liu Zhuangtou to the front of the car and said in a low voice: "Liu Zhuangtou, I'll wake up with you."
"This old Beizhuang has let the young master give it away today."
"It was given to Mu Luozhi in the Mu family's village."
"From now on, you'll do it yourself."
After saying this, Lin Lu didn't say anything more, and drove away on his own mule cart.
Zhuang Qiantu left Liu Zhuangtou in the thunderbolt on a sunny day.
The Lin family is benevolent and righteous, and the grain produced in the land left by the village servants is forty percent, which is one percent more than the three percent of the general village owners and servants. Therefore, although the life of the old Beizhuang Zhuang servant is not as good as that of the village villagers, it is much better than other people surnamed Zhuangzi.
Liu Zhuangtou didn't expect the sky to change overnight, and the entire Zhuangzi suddenly changed the owner, and he was still a villager, and he was still a woman when he heard the name with "branch". Isn't this Houcun Mujia Village? Liu Zhuangtou thought: There are no rich families in this Mujia Village. If ordinary people want to become rich, don't they have to pressure Zhuangzi to make more money?
It can be seen that Yu Zhuangtou sighed, their hard days are coming.
The old man had long wanted to ask this Steward Lin what was going on, but when he saw Steward Lin leaving, he opened the box directly,
There is a stack of paper in the box, starting with the word "land deed" on the head, Mr. Mu has never read a private school in his life, and he doesn't know much about the word, but he knows the word "land deed".
However, the small words under the title deed, Old Man Mu didn't know it. However, this does not prevent the old man from knowing: "This is a land deed." ”
"What's the matter, you're buying land again?"
"No, I didn't see you take the money when you went out in the morning."
"What's the matter, you're going to kill me in a hurry, hurry up!"
Luozhi saw that Grandpa was really anxious, so he told the ins and outs, and the old man was so shocked that he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.
Seeing Grandpa pinching the title deed blankly, Luozhi got up and closed the courtyard door. At this point, the old man finally came back to his senses, and his beard was so excited that he was unkempt.
"Such a big Zhuangzi is really our family?"
"It's not a dream, is it? This, this, this is hundreds of acres of land! ”
Old Man Mu's face was red, his mouth was chattering, and he was so excited that he couldn't be more excited.
"Grandpa, this genuine title deed is in your hands, can it be fake?"
Old Man Mu thought that there was no shortage of food and clothing, and the family lived in peace and security, which was his greatest blessing, but he still had this great blessing waiting for him in his life!
For the villagers, land is their "life", "the foundation of survival, the source of food and clothing."
Although the previous chili pepper can get dividends, his old man finally feels that something is wrong, once someone recognizes the beauty of this chili pepper and imitates it, the family's financial road is also broken, and now this chili pepper is completely handed over to Young Master Lin, in his hands it is safer than in the hands of Luozhi, the family does not have to be afraid, both are cheap, what a good deal!
It can only be said that it is not a family that does not enter the door, what Old Man Mu thinks in his heart is really not bad with what Luo Zhi thinks, and he is worthy of being a family.
The old man couldn't help but think that the people of Mujia Village had built the village for more than 50 years, and the two families of the rich Rulizheng and the patriarch were only more than 110 acres, and the water and dry fields of his own Zhuangzi were nearly 200 acres......
"Sister, our family will never be afraid of going hungry in the future" Luo An pulled the corner of her clothes, the little guy was hungry, that feeling was deep in his bones, he didn't want to be hungry again in his life.
"Of course, every day in the future, I will give my family Luo'an steamed white rice to eat."
Luozhi has a deep sense of security, which she has been looking for since she came through, and now she is not panicked at all, with this Zhuangzi, that is, the family does nothing, just lies down and eats, and there are one hundred and fifty taels of silver a year, and this day is also very good to live in the city.
"This title deed, this is a golden pimple," the old man said with a trembling beard, returning the title deed to Luozhi Dao.
Before this, Old Man Mu had already flipped over and looked at this thin piece of paper countless times.
"There are so many wild boar meat at home, why do you bring them out to eat?" The old man asked, looking at the food box on the dining table.
"Master, when I open this food box in a while, you must be calm and calm," Luo Zhi admonished.
Old Man Mu "......"
Luo Zhi opened the lid of the food box, and a burst of golden light flashed, almost blinding her dog eyes, the first layer of this food box was actually a neatly stacked horseshoe gold. All of them are delicate and small, and they are ingenious.
Old Man Mu, who just said that he had seen a big scene, stood at the table and completely lost his language ability...... Oh gold!
Luozhi was overjoyed, in her previous life, as a gold controller, Yao's shopkeeper did this too much to win her heart. How did he grasp her mentality of wanting gold and wanting to go crazy, she was really a god!
In her previous life, she only hated that her salary was not high, and at most she bought small rings, valuable gold objects such as bracelets and necklaces with a lower number of grams, and she was addicted to it before she wore it.
However, it is obvious that God still cares for herself, look at how much this golden, outrageously vulgar yellow and white thing is to her heart!
She couldn't put it down, picked it up one by one, looked at it, and counted, one layer side by side, two rows, four rows, and a total of eight food boxes on one floor.
She picked it up and took a closer look, not to mention, the gold was in good condition, and there was an anti-counterfeiting seal at the bottom of the gold ingot.
The two food boxes are two-layered, except for the first food box, the first layer is pure gold, and the others are ten taels of silver ingots, Luozhi calculates, there are two hundred and forty taels of silver alone, and eight eighty taels of gold.
The old man suddenly reached out and picked up a gold ingot and put it directly in his mouth, gritting his teeth, okay, he didn't break his teeth, and then looked at the gold ingot, there were two tooth marks with obvious clarity on it.
"Luozhi, this gold is real." Luozhi was thundered by Grandpa, what kind of artificial inspection method is this?
"In the past, when I went to the landlord's house in Majia Village to work as a long-term worker, I heard that this gold can bite out tooth marks, which is true, but if not, it is fake or not of high purity, and it is not good gold. I've never seen it, but I've always kept it in my heart," the old man looked at the gold in his palm and explained to Luo Zhi.
Luozhi can understand when you think about it, because among the metal properties of gold, toughness and ductility are particularly good. So when a piece of gold can't be judged by the naked eye, people just bite it with their teeth to see if there are faint bite marks, and if there is, it is considered real gold.
At that time, there were no modern sophisticated detectors and tools, and this method was a reliable method.
Luo Zhi suddenly remembered that the main book explained the documents that should be handed over to Li Zheng, but before he could send them, he quickly opened the box again, found the documents, and handed them to Grandpa, and Old Man Mu took two bags of snacks to Li Zheng's house.
Li Zheng was at home, and when he saw Old Man Mu coming to the door, he was warm and welcoming.
"Li Zheng," Old Man Mu and Li Zheng saluted each other, and then handed over the document and said, "The master of the county ordered me to send this document to you."
I heard that it was the document of the county's main book, and Li Zheng didn't dare to slack off, so he quickly took it and opened it to take a look, but he seemed to be taken aback.
"Guihe" Li Zheng asked suspiciously: "You bought the Lin family, the Zhuangzi in front of our village, Lao Beizhuang"
"No, no," the old man hurriedly shook his hand and said, "This Zhuangzi was not bought by me."
"It's the young owner of Xuanyuan Building, who sent my family Luozhi."
It's even more strange here: "Okay, why did the Lin family send your Luozhi Zhuangzi"
Old man Mu didn't dare to say that he had just exchanged chili peppers for a lot of other people's land, but in a blink of an eye, he told others what was going on.
But Li Zheng's words, if he didn't go back, he couldn't do it, so Old Man Mu immediately thought about it and said: "Li Zheng, a few days ago, my Luozhi left the family to make some food, and took it to Xuanyuan Building in the city to sell it."
"Today, the young owner of this Xuanyuan Building gave my family this Zhuangzi in exchange for the food recipe in my family."
Li Zheng wanted to ask what food recipe was worth a Zhuangzi, but remembering the power of the Lin family, he finally stopped thinking.
The Lin family is not mortal. The old lady of the Lin family is the only second-class jinshi in the county for decades, he has entered the Hanlin, entered the Privy Council, let go of the chief examiner, and finally became a marquis. Twenty years ago, although this old lady Lin was a minister, his title was inherited for three generations, and several sons and grandsons were still officials in the court. The ancestral tombs and ancestral houses of the Lin family are all in Ji'an County, and they are the home of Zhong Ming Ding Food in Ji'an County, so Li Zheng knows that the Lin family is by no means a family of leisure, and the more he knows about the Lin family, the more it is not beautiful.
The old man felt that this remark was really unconvincing, and now he saw that Li Zheng was no longer asking, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing off Old Man Mu, Mrs. Gui came over and asked Li Zheng: "Why didn't you ask Mu Guihe what kind of food he was eating?"
Li Zheng shook his head: "This is in the way of the Lin family in the city, so it's not good to ask more."
"However," Li Zheng changed his words: "You can inquire about what's new in Xuanyuan Tower in the city recently."
"After all, the restaurant buys food recipes to sell more food."
The next day, Mrs. Lizheng sent her eldest son Mu Yinglong into the city to inquire without mentioning it.
After returning home, the old man said to Luozhi: "God and Buddha bless, our family can be regarded as bitter and sweet."
Before, Guang Xing only talked about the earth, not the Zhuang servant. The family was quite embarrassed to hold a deed of sale with a box.
"This is the identity deed of 76 people in the village."
"Our family didn't even use short-term jobs before, but now there are so many more people at once, how do we arrange it?"
"Grandpa" Luo Zhi reminded: "Yesterday, I saw that Lin Lu's housekeeper was very powerful."
"This Steward Lin is so powerful, his Zhuangzi must also manage it well."
"Maybe we don't care about anything, we just need to collect the money on time."
Accidentally, Luozhi said his ideals.
Old Man Mu listened to Luozhi's words, put down the big stone in his heart, and immediately became happy: "You are right."
"The Lin family is not an ordinary family."
"The servants are very well-behaved."
"We don't understand, let's not mess with their rules."
"Let's just wait and get the money."
With the title deed and body deed in hand, Old Man Mu is confident that he will be able to receive the money.
Luozhi thought the same way.
At that moment, the old man asked Luozhi to put away the box again.