Going home to eat, Tang Shijin remembered it again, and said to Yan Baiwei: "Ming'er, let's go to the county seat." ”

"Well," Yan Baiwei said, "What are you going to do?" ”

Tang Shijin said: "I want to buy this mountain before the beginning of spring...... I asked Brother Shen, and he said that he could buy it according to the wasteland, and when he bought it, dig a pond, build a new house, and build it on top of your house, and then I will hide on it and peek at you! ”

Yan Baiwei laughed twice, and said: "If you plan to build a new house, you will tear down my house, and it will not be good to go up, you look at my place, there is flowing water on the left is called the green dragon, and there is a big road on the right is for the white tiger, the wealth is abundant, the blessing is married, and the back is against the mountain, the sun and shelter from the wind, the feng shui is excellent." And it's too high to go any further, and it's tiring to walk. ”

He paused: "And that house was also borrowed by me at that time, there is no owner of the empty house, I don't have a title deed, so I simply demolished and built a big one, and I can live in your room when the time comes." Your feng shui is actually pretty good. ”

"Okay." Tang Shijin thought for a while: "Do you say I should build a courtyard or a courtyard?" ”

"Do you like courtyards?" Yan Baiwei said: "This location is not suitable for building a courtyard, it is better to build a pavilion garden according to the mountain, and I will help you find someone at that time." ”

"Okay!" Tang Shijin said: "When the time comes, you can help me see the sketch, I think that a learned person like you, the garden built should be quite elegant, although I am just a layman who loves money, but I also want to be elegant!" ”

Yan Baiwei smiled again and again: "Okay." ”

He took out an ink pen and drew a random picture on the paper: "If you want to dig a pond, just dig it here, and build a house here." He circled it.

Tang Shijin said: "Don't be so small, I want to make the garden bigger, Brother Lei, big brother and you, we all have separate yards...... What flowers do you like? I love to eat peaches, and when the time comes, my yard will be planted with peach trees! ”

Yan Baiwei smiled, what did he want to say, thinking that Tao Chengqi was now the eldest brother, and it seemed that it was not rude for him to live with him.

Then he said: "If you want to say that, it is really quite big, it is better to build it from here," and he made a stroke: "Build it from here." ”

Tang Shijin said: "I still want to buy some arable land, if the house is built here, then we will buy land behind here, buy one or two hundred acres." ”

"Buying land?" Yan Baiwei said: "If you buy land, you have to buy it from others, but I am afraid that it will cost more silver...... By the way, don't you still want to build a sake brewery? I see that you simply bought this vacant land together, this one is very empty, it is easy to do anything, and if you buy it together as wasteland, it should not cost a few dollars. ”

Tang Shijin said: "What's on that side?" ”

Yan Baiwei said: "It's just an open space, and there are only a few bamboos!" If only there was a map, I'll tell you in detail. ”

The two discussed with great interest, Tao Chengqi lay on the bed with his legs crossed, closed his eyes and listened, although Brother Lei was itchy and distracted from time to time, but he still tried to concentrate and concentrate on studying.

After breakfast the next day, they drove the carriage to the county seat.

Tang Shijin always felt that Yan Baiwei was not like a person who did such things as bribery, and the painting style was obviously wrong, so before entering, she mentioned the order: "You are a scarecrow, don't talk too much, otherwise people will think a lot, and there may be a lot of things in plain air." ”

Yan Baiwei said helplessly: "Got it." ”

When it comes to buying land, I usually look for a county bookkeeper, or a county master book, Shen Zhi directly found the master book, Tang Shijin gave him fifty taels of silver in advance, and asked him to give the master book, Shen Zhi went in and confessed.

When the two of them went in again, the main book was pleasant, and there was no nonsense, so he directly took out the map of Zhulin Village, circled the mountain, and said: "Well, there are almost 200 acres, and you have to add this piece?" Well, this piece is about 20 acres, and I will ask someone to take you to measure it. ”

Yan Baiwei thanked her, and then the master bookkeeper called two officials and asked them to take her to go through the formalities.

The land is still bought in the name of Brother Lei, because it was later discussed to add a piece, and there are dozens of acres, so in the end, a total of 218 acres of land were paid, which is also a small way for the lower-level officials to do things, the more zero the number, the more true.

Moreover, there is a doorway to go through the procedures before the quantity and go through the procedures after the quantity.

But in short, after paying the deed tax of 327 taels and close to 11 taels of silver, the deed tax of the Daqing Dynasty was 30 taels of 1, that is, 1/30 of the deed.

I didn't expect that hello, hello, hello, everyone, came out, but bumped into Guo Xiancheng head-on.

Guo Xiancheng said with a pleasant face: "What are you busy with?" ”

Shen Zhi arched his hand and said, "Lord Guo is busy? I brought a friend over to buy a piece of land. ”

Guo Xiancheng stretched out his hand to receive the official deed, but of course the official did not dare not give it, so he could only hand it over.

Then Guo Xiancheng took it and kept looking at it, as if there was something beautiful about this thing.

Shen Zhi glanced at Tang Shijin.

You must know that the title deed has not been stamped, this is called a white deed, it is useless at all, you have to wait until the measure is finished, and the government has stamped and approved, which is called the red deed, which is the real title deed.

So he wants to pinch them, and they have no way at all, this is a clear lie.

After all, Tang Shijin was born at the bottom, and he was used to seeing this kind of person, so he was very calm, so he took a step forward and said with a smile: "Lord County, you dropped something." ”

She bent down to pick it up, and then stuffed a small ingot of five taels to him.

These five taels of gold are equivalent to fifty taels of silver, Guo Xiancheng smiled and hid it in his sleeve: "Tang Xiaoniang's eyes are dexterous, thank you very much!" Then I won't delay you. ”

So he returned the deed to the scribe.

This is plain and expensive silver, Guo Xiancheng is really arrogant when he does things.

Out of the county office, Shen Zhi made an apologetic gesture at them, and said, "Then I won't accompany you, two brothers, it's hard work!" ”

Both of them smiled and said, "Don't worry, sir." ”

So a few people went home, informed He Lizheng, and then went to measure the land together.

Anyway, she bought the whole small mountain, and the two officials walked along the side of the mountain to measure it.

The measurement method of this era is 6 feet for the step, 240 steps for one acre, this small hill, looks inconspicuous, in fact, it is six and a half acres, plus the flat land that was bought later, there are also forty acres, but the official back and forth, according to the original 218 acres of record, and all according to the wasteland.

The wasteland is tax-free for the first three years, and even the subsequent taxes are very low, which is really cheap, even if it costs Guo Xiancheng more.

Tang Shijin quietly stuffed two silver tickets of twenty taels for the officials, and when he returned to the yamen and completed the formalities, Tang Shijin stuffed two more golden melon seeds over: "It's hard for the two of you to run a trip, I'm a daughter, it's inconvenient to invite two people to a banquet, even if this silver is to invite two people to drink." ”

A golden melon seed can be worth three taels of silver, and an ordinary table is only two taels of silver.

Out of the county office, Tang Shijin said: "Okay! The next step is to find someone to build a garden! ”

Yan Baiwei said with a smile: "I'll help you find it, make a map first, let's discuss it." ”