The county yahu department has Zhong Xiaoyi, an old acquaintance of the Gui family, and it is naturally very cheap to change the deed.

Whether it is buying land or buying a shop, it is all a manifestation of the prosperous days, and Zhong Xiaoyan is also happy for the Gui family.

It is not difficult to read and write, but why is it difficult to produce a noble son from a poor family? It is because of the compulsion of life that people cannot study without shirking.

Now that several of Gui Wu's nephews have risen, there is no need for Gui Wu to worry about Mujia Village; It was the Jiang family of the Yue family, and Master Jiang finally understood, no longer resentful as before, and began to regulate several sons-in-law, so that they had no time to worry about Gui Wu's side.

If it goes on like this, the time given to Gui Wu will be calm, even if he doesn't succeed in studying for a few years, he will have no worries.

Yang Yinzhu is just a scoundrel in the village in the end, but he is worried when he enters the official mansion, and when he sees that Gui Wu and Zhong Xiaoyan are familiar with each other, he regrets it even more, why didn't he burn Gui Wu before, so he thought about how to ease the relationship with Gui Wu.

Gui Wu ignored Yang Yinzhu's change in attitude, because Gui Chongyang pulled him down and talked about wanting to give the Yang family a "spicy strip" recipe.

Gui Wu knew that Gui Chongyang had given Zhou Lilac a recipe, not without objections, but because Zhou Lilac had become the Gui family's prospective daughter-in-law, she was not an outsider, and everyone was happy.

The Yang family is an outsider in the end. Although Gui Chongyang is well-intentioned, he must beware of doing bad things with good intentions.

"This recipe can't be given like this, not to mention that your Uncle Yang is honest and cowardly, and there is a-stirring stick Yang Yinzhu next to him, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep this recipe. There are also Yang Wei and the three brothers, all of whom are married to their own children, and now they have no money and nothing to fight for, and many parties are also prone to disagreement. Gui Wu shook his head and said.

Gui Chongyang was also worried about these things before, can he not give them directly? What to do?

Let him join the gang in the name of using Fangzi? Then all the troubles that might arise became his, and that was too irritable. He had the intention to pull the Yang family, which could be regarded as making up for it and repaying it, but he did not mean to carry the future and wealth of the Yang family's father and son on his shoulders all the time.

Gui Wu thought for a while and said: "If things are slow, you think about it, I will also think about it carefully, I must think of a proper way, after a few days of rest, I will go back to Mujia Village, and we will discuss it again." ”

Gui Chongyang nodded in response, it's not bad these days.

Gui Wu's side has already started preparing for the exam, and there is not much time, so he took everyone to the yamen to hand over clearly, so he asked someone to hire a car and send Yang Jinzhu and Gui Chongyang back to Mujia Village.

As for Yang Yinzhu, he did not return to his hometown, repaid the gambling debt of twenty taels of silver, took the rest of the silver, and planned to look for opportunities in the town.

On the way back, Yang Jinzhu was sullen. Seeing that his brother had lost his ancestral business, how could he be happy?

Gui Chongyang saw it in his eyes and did not persuade.

People are close and far relatives, and on weekdays, these people in the Gui family are relatives in Yang Jinzhu, but in the end, it is not as good as him and Yang Yinzhu are siblings of the same mother.

If Yang Jinzhu was disgusted with the Gui family because the Gui family bought his brother's land, then Gui Chongyang would have no choice. It's just one yard to one yard, even then he won't forget the kindness of the Yang family over the years.

Fortunately, Yang Jinzhu is used to being honest, even if he is angry, he is just a brother who does not fight to gamble, and he will not even be angry.

When he arrived at Mujia Village, Yang Jinzhu saw that it was still early, and said to Gui Chongyang: "Let's free up my hands for a while, and collect the four acres of land together, and the provincial Ming'er will delay for a day." ”

Gui Chongyang naturally has no opinion, why is he tired during the autumn harvest? It's because every family has to get up early and work late. It's not good to be greedy early in the morning, and when an autumn rain falls, the crops will be ruined.

One time less, I arrived at the second room of the Gui family.

The millet that has been brought back has been sent to the roof to dry one by one, and only when it is thoroughly dried will it be beaten down to grind rice or flour.

Looking at the two red deeds in Gui Chongyang's hand, the Gui family was pleasantly surprised, but because Yang Jinzhu was there, everyone was not too happy.

It is the Yang family, and they are also happy for Gui Chongyang. Gui Chongyang has long said that he wants to buy land, but few people sell land for no reason, who would have thought of such a coincidence?

As for his younger brother Yang Yinzhu, since Gui Chun fell into the water, the Yang family begged Yang Yinzhu's house, not only did he not borrow a penny, but he was also beaten down, and the relationship between sisters and brothers came to an end.

The Yang family was not greedy, thinking that the land bought by Gui Chongyang was the land of the Gui family, and he should share half of his own family, but he knew that Gui Chongyang was studying for his business, and the land of the long house would be Gui Chun in the future.

It is also a tenant land, and the tenant cousin is naturally stronger than the tenant outsider.

Yang Wei and Yang Wu brothers are also there, listening to this transaction, there is no surprise.

In the eyes of the two brothers, with their second uncle's unlearned and unskilled nature, it is not uncommon for him to lose all the land at hand one day. It's just that now there are four acres of land left in the second room, and they are all tenant out.

The rule of tenant land in the village is four or six or five or five.

Four or six points are the landlords and the tenants are six, and the autumn tax is paid by the tenants themselves; Five or five points, the landlord and the tenant divide equally, but the landlord is responsible for paying the autumn tax.

The agricultural tax stipulated by the imperial court is not high, but it cannot stand up to the various apportionments of the local government. Because if the average harvest of one mu of middle land is two mu, the landlords, tenants, and agricultural taxes are basically distributed in this way in four, five, and one.

Yang Yinzhu's family's land tenant to the Yang clan, talking about four or six points.

Speaking of which, Yang Jinzhu's family only has four acres of land, which is not enough to plant, and he also tenants ten acres of land from the Lin family, a large household in the village.

On Yang Yinzhu's side, the reason why he would rather give his eight acres of land to others than his brother is that he is afraid that Yang Jinzhu's family will cry poor and give less rent, and it is not clear, in the final analysis, it is still the heart of a villain.

The brothers Yang Wei and Yang Wu both pondered the issue of rations for the second uncle's family.

This year, the four acres of millet were planted by the second room, and they directly topped 500 yuan. The remaining eight acres of land, because it is tenant out, the negotiated autumn harvest is forty percent of the harvest, according to eight buckets per mu, one season is six stones and four buckets of grain with skin, and two seasons a year is twelve stones and eight buckets.

Twelve stones and eight buckets of grain, that is, two and a half stones of millet without millet land, is enough for a family of four.

But if four acres of eight acres of Zhongtian are sold, next year's rent will only be six stones and four buckets, and the ration deficit will be large.

Yang Wu and Yang Wu believe that with their second uncle's character, they can't say that they will have to fill the shortfall of rations at that time.

Yang Jinzhu said that the four acres of millet were collected, and the Gui family had no opinion, and the group pushed two wheelbarrows and went to the millet field at the foot of the mountain.

It took two hours, and when it was dark, the millet here was also finished, and the group returned to the second room of the Gui family.

Dinner is still millet noodles, but the dish has been changed from bacon stewed in snow at noon to duck boiled cabbage.

After staying up this day, even a few small ones are tired and don't want to talk, let alone a few laborers.

made an appointment to go to Yang's house to harvest autumn the next day, and everyone went back to their respective homes.

When he returned to the old house, Gui Chongyang handed over the two land deeds to the Mei family.

Mei's face and smile were stretched, and the heart she was carrying finally became steady. Even if the shops in the town do not buy and sell well in the future, Gui Chongyang has these ten acres of land under his name, and he has enough to chew.

Gui Chongyang wants to be a landlord, so naturally he will not be satisfied with only these ten acres of land, but he is young and single, and he is not in a hurry. He had already thought that Xiucai's tax exemption was 80 acres of land, and the initial goal was to buy 80 acres of land after the children's examination.

If Gui Wu's child test is also smooth, it will also be eighty acres of land. Two rooms and two hundred acres of land are enough for Gui Chun to take care of.

*

The next day, Gui Chun took Gui Chongyang and Mei Xiaoba to Yang's house to harvest autumn.

The Yang family has a total of fourteen acres of land, four acres of their own, and ten acres of the Lin family. Fourteen acres are all middle fields, and the wheat planted before and the soybeans planted after the wheat harvest can now be harvested.

The soybean seedlings are not as neat and easy to cut as millet seeds, and it took three days of hard work for the three major and three small to harvest the soybean seedlings of 14 acres of land.

On the fourth day, I began to beat the beans for two more days, and a total of nearly 30 stone of soybeans were harvested before the autumn harvest was completed.

Because the Lin family pays their own agricultural taxes, the Yang family has to pay fifty percent of the harvest. It's just that because the Yang family wants soybeans to use, the Lin family's soybeans are useless, and the harvest results of the autumn harvest are directly given at the time of wheat harvest.

In the wheat harvest in May, the Yang family only left 30%, and 70% was given to the Lin family, which was counted as land rent for two seasons a year. The Yang family left 30 percent, and there were also six stones of wheat, plus eight stones of their own four acres of land, a total of 14 stones, most of which were replaced with sorghum and millet for rations, but there were a lot left.

For the autumn harvest, the Yang family did not kill chickens, but they made a whole white bread and made a special trip to adjust a small pot of tofu filling, so although Gui Chongyang and Mei Xiaoba worked hard for a few days, they were also satisfied.

During this period, Yang Yinzhu's wife Wang and two sons next door never showed up. You must know that his two sons, the eldest son sixteen and the second son fourteen, are already laborers in the village.

Mr. and Mrs. Yang Jinzhu didn't say anything, obviously getting used to it.

When Yang Jinzhu's beans were harvested and the bean stalks were piled up, Wang showed up, but begged Yang Jinzhu for help: "Uncle, sister-in-law, I don't know where to go, but the harvest of the millet field cannot be delayed, so I have to ask the uncle and the eldest nephew to help harvest the autumn!" ”

Yang Jinzhu and his wife were stunned, and Yang Jinzhu's family was surprised: "The second child didn't tell you about the land sale?" ”

Wang was stunned: "Okay, what kind of land to sell?" Uncle, what's going on? ”

Yang Jinzhu frowned and said: "It was sold on the day the second child took two guests back to the village, four acres of millet land were sold for twelve times, and the millet on it was sold for five hundred yuan, and the eight acres of land when the family was divided were sold for four acres and sold for thirty-two taels!" ”

An honest man has an honest man's heart, in order to prevent his brother and daughter-in-law from spilling at this time, Yang Jinzhu hid the buyer of the eight acres of land is the Gui family's business.

When her husband came back that day to rummage through the cabinets, Wang still remembered, reacted immediately, gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, I don't go home for half a month, I came back to turn over the land deed, I'm going to find him!" After that, the wind and fire went immediately.

As an ordinary woman, it is difficult to find her husband's footprints without leaving the door; Here in the Wang family, there are two brothers, Wang Er and Wang Si, who are also gangsters, among which Wang Si is still Yang Yinzhu's follower, so it is naturally not difficult to find someone.

I didn't look for it before, or because my husband was deliberately lazy and didn't want the autumn harvest, so I ignored it, but I didn't expect that my property had shrunk by half, how could the Wang family not be annoyed? I have the heart to kill.

*

In town, outside Hong's pawnshop.

Mei Xiucai's face was full of defeat, his shirt was wrinkled, and he was no longer as arrogant as before.

He touched his sleeve pocket, and inside were two land deeds recorded in his name, one was nothing else, it was the remaining twenty-five acres of land in the second room of the Mei family; There is also a one, which is the ancestral property of 30 acres when the Mei family's house was divided, which is also recorded in his name.

Fifty-five acres of land, of which forty-five acres are in the middle field and ten acres are in the field, and on average, they can be sold for about 400 taels. If you don't sell the land, you can only get half of the silver if you pledge it to the pawnshop, so Mei Xiucai is very hesitant.

Not far away, Li Yinzhu looked at Mei Xiucai, touched his chin, and thought thoughtfully.