Because of the snow, the village chief's family was at home, and He Okang's daughter-in-law opened the door for them, and after seeing the basket they were carrying with half a cotton cloth and two packets of caramel in it, she said with a smile: "How many of you are here to find your father-in-law?" He's an old man, come in. ”

He Okura's daughter-in-law took them to the door of the main house where He Village Chief lived, and after shouting inside, she took the gift brought by the third grandfather and turned to leave.

"The old man of the Gu family is here, come in." He Dacang came out to pick them up and led them into the house.

Inside the house, Village Chief He was wrapped like a cotton ball, sitting on a Taishi chair, facing the brazier, and when he saw them coming, he said, "It's for the sake of clearing the wasteland." ”

Qin Gu Luo Tian's family had gone to see the wasteland, and he knew it.

The third grandfather nodded and said, "It's just for the sake of clearing the wasteland." Our family has just arrived, and we have no land, so we want to open up a few acres of wasteland to grow food, and ask the village chief to make it convenient. ”

Village Chief He didn't embarrass them this time, but only asked them which wasteland they liked? After learning that it was the thatched wasteland in the back village, he quickly agreed.

"There is no one to plant in that land, and you can go to the wasteland whenever you want." He also told them the rules of land reclamation: "Our Da Chu does not need to pay taxes in the first two years of land reclamation, and we must start collecting taxes in the third year, just like other fields, they are all two out of ten." If you want to get the title deed, you have to spend silver to buy it at the Yamen, and one or two pieces of silver per acre of wasteland. ”

Village Chief He took a sip of hot water, thought for a while, and said, "That's all, no, you can do it yourself." ”

Several men thought that the village chief would embarrass them, but they didn't expect it to be so easy to agree, and they were very happy.

The third grandfather remembered what Gu Jinli told him, and asked the village chief He: "Village chief, are there still owners of those old houses we rent?" Do they sell those houses? ”

Village Chief He opened his half-squinted eyes, looked at the third grandfather, and asked, "Do you want to buy those old houses?" ”

The third grandfather nodded: "Well, it costs a lot of money to buy land and build a house again, although those old houses are old and damp, they can still live in the future, if the owner is willing to sell them, and the price is not expensive, we want to buy them." ”

"Those old houses are a long time old." He Village Chief is old and doesn't remember much about the past, so he asked He Dacang to bring a booklet, looked through the work of half an hour, and said: "That old house was built by the people of the village, the land was not bought, there was no land deed and house deed, after the village people did not live, those houses belonged to the village, which was regarded as the public property of the village, if you want to buy it, you can directly bring the silver money to me, but if you want the land deed and the house deed, you have to spend silver money to buy it in the yamen." ”

The third grandfather and a few men were very surprised to hear that those old houses turned out to be public property in the village, so they didn't have to go to the owner of the house one by one.

The third grandfather asked, "Village Chief, what is the price of those houses?" ”

Village Chief He looked at the booklet in his hand and said, "An old house dirt yard costs five taels of silver." ”

Those old houses are very old, five taels of silver is considered expensive, and now it only costs eight or ten taels to build a new dirt yard.

Village Chief He thought that they were poor and had no money, and he was afraid that it would be too expensive, so he said: "Don't be too expensive, this is the price set by the village, if I change the price for you, I need several clan elders in the village to discuss it together, but the Lu family ...... It's troublesome. ”

The implication is that they don't want to be too expensive, otherwise they probably won't be able to buy it.

The third grandfather thought for a while with Qin Lao, and said, "We know, the village chief allows us to go back and discuss, and we will give you an answer after a while." ”

Village Chief He closed the booklet and said, "Okay." But hurry. ”

This has dragged on for a long time, and I am afraid that the Lu family will not agree to sell them the house. After all, if you buy a house, even if you are a real villager, it is not so easy to get rid of it.

"Oh, we know." The third grandfather said, leaving with a few men.

As soon as they left, He Dacang came over and said, "Dad, do you really want to sell those old houses to them?" If the Lu family comes over to question us, what should we do? ”

He Dacang looked at the back of the third grandfather and his party leaving, and said: "These families are too smart, they paid three taels of silver as soon as they came, and the Lu family was angry that they didn't knock out their arrogance, and they were trying to find trouble with their families?" I think I will use the house they live in to make a raft, and if you sell them the house, then the Lu family will make trouble for us. ”

Don't look at their family as the village head, but the Lu family is so domineering that they are about to go to the sky, and their family doesn't dare to provoke them.

Village Chief He said: "These families are all capable, then the Lu family is too arrogant, it's time for the Lu family to suffer a loss." ”

Since beating Old Man Lu and making a fortune, and his daughter marrying the county as a concubine, their He family has been bullied everywhere in the past 20 years. The Lu family is still poisonous, and they have instigated several sons and nephews of their He family, and if it goes on like this, this Dafeng Village will not have a foothold for their He family, not to mention, the descendants of the He family will also be brought to be unhuman, and in another twenty years, there will be more singles and bastards in the village, and when he dies, he will not have the face to see the ancestors of the He family.

As soon as the third grandfather and the others got home, they gathered everyone together and talked about the wasteland and the purchase of an old house.

Several families were very moved, especially the Chen family, she glanced at Gu Yumei and said: "Let's hurry up and buy this yard, otherwise the bastards in this village are always wandering around the yard, and they can't get rid of it. ”

Aunt Tian was very flustered and said, "This old house is not cheap, it costs five taels of silver, how can we afford to buy it." ”

Her family is poor, and now she is still in debt, and she can't afford to buy a yard with five taels of silver.

The third grandfather said: "It looks expensive to buy a yard, but now we have tofu to make a living, and after a month of hard work, we can earn these five taels of silver." ”

Luo's father said: "My family wants to buy this yard, if your family doesn't buy it, you can continue to live there, and give our family fifty yuan a month." This house is not my own, and my heart is always unsteady. ”

When Aunt Tian heard this, she panicked even more, if the Luo family bought that old house, their family would still be embarrassed to live there.

The third grandfather said: "Okay, let's do this first, and then we'll talk about it when we make enough money." ”

But in just two days, they had to buy these yards.

The cause was Gu Yumei.

The bastards in the village paid attention to her, wandering outside the courtyard of her house, saying ugly meat words, Gu Dafu was so angry that he called several men and beat He San and them together.

When He San's leper and a few bastards were beaten, he still shouted: "We are standing outside the old house in the village and talking, what is in your way?" You can't beat us! ”

But the families had been disgusted with them for a long time, so they beat them up in the same way, and escorted them to the village chief's house, and severely accused these bastards, and even put down cruel words, if they dared to wander outside the courtyard of their houses and say some indecent words, they would break their legs and send them to the official for investigation.

Qin Lao even asked Qin Sanlang to bring a stone the size of a basin, and smashed it with a punch in front of them, which scared He San's lepers so much that they peed their pants.

On the same day, the third grandfather took a silver ticket of fifty taels, and then went to the village chief's house and bought six old houses and dirt yards.

These fifty taels of silver tickets were hidden by Qi Yi in a cloth bag containing salt, specially for Gu Jinli's thank-you gift, she has been hiding them, just in case of emergency, and now they can be regarded as coming in handy.