"It's him!" But Su Jinyao still recognized it at once, this man was the man who came back from the second bolt when he came back from the first time he went to Anji City. At that time, Su Jinyao realized that his (shēn) was unusual, and he also had a sense of blood. However, Su Jinyao adhered to the principle of not disturbing or provoking, and the two missed it without any intersection.

And when they met suddenly, although Su Jinyao recognized each other at once, he should have no impression of Su Jinyao. After all, Su Jinyao is a little girl now, not to mention the blood of a killer, she hasn't even grown yet, and she is very inconspicuous at all. In addition, now that Su Jinyao is riding a horse, the other party should not have seen her appearance clearly.

However, further on this road, there is only a small village in Pingshan Village, what is this killer doing in Pingshan Village? It won't be from Pingshan Village to Lijiatun, which is poorer and more remote.

Su Jinyao had the heart to explore, but since the other party didn't pay attention to herself, she couldn't just pull the horse to catch up now. That would be too obvious to target him, so if this man is really anxious, I'm afraid that he will cause a problem.

Therefore, Su Jinyao made up her mind, went to Zhang Lizheng as soon as possible, signed the household registration of Xiaocheng'er and the deed of their family's new house, and then hurried back. After all, the road (tǐng) was long, and the man was on foot, even if he walked fast, Su Jinyao estimated that he would be able to ride a horse and rush back before he reached Pingshan Village.

Even if it is really delayed and you can't go back for a while, the time will not be too bad. If this man really went to Pingshan Village, he would be able to find his whereabouts as long as he paid a little attention.

Su Jinyao urged again, and the big black horse spread its four hooves and almost rushed into Xiaozhang Village.

At this time, it was still early, and when Su Jinyao passed by the place where she usually sat in the car, Uncle Wang's carriage had not yet come. Erzhuo's leg is estimated to be not good, and his horse has been sold to himself, so he probably won't be out of the car.

Su Jinyao had only asked Su Xiangui roughly before, saying that Zhang Lizheng's house was in the south of Xiaozhang Village, and Su Xiangui couldn't remember the specific number of households. However, everyone in Zhang Lizheng's family must know it, and Su Jinyao only needs to inquire a little to know.

After asking a child who was squatting at the head of the village and playing under Su Cheng, Su Jinyao knew that Zhang Lizheng's house was in the south of the village, a large courtyard with a single family, and he could see it as soon as he passed, and he would not be wrong.

Su Jinyao thanked the child and led the horse to the south of the village.

There is a big road in the village where you can run a horse-drawn carriage. However, there is a small road to the south, and the households on both sides are still dense (tǐng), so Su Jinyao can only lead the horse and not ride, so as not to open the door suddenly or a child breaks out and bumps into it.

Finally came to the south head, and sure enough, as the child said, there was no need to look for or ask, and he saw a row of five large tiled houses, and the courtyard walls were higher than ordinary people's. And if you look at the courtyard wall and roof, you can see that this house has not been built for a few years, and it seems that this Zhang Lizheng's (rì)子 (tǐng) is good.

Su Jinyao came to the door, knocked on the door, and asked, "Is Zhang Li at home?" I'm from Pingshan Village, and I'm looking for Zhang Lizheng to write a household registration certificate. ”

"Yes, yes." A little girl's voice agreed, and the courtyard door opened. A little girl of seven or eight years old poked her head out and asked, "Are you looking for my grandfather?" ”

"Yes, I'm sorry for you, little sister, tell him that I'm from Pingshan Village." Su Jinyao said as she tied the big black horse to the stake outside the courtyard.

"Well, come in with me, grandpa is still eating, you have to wait a while." After the little girl finished speaking, she opened the courtyard door and let Su Jinyao in.

Su Jinyao followed the little girl into the yard and saw that the layout in the yard was really good.

Generally speaking, Xiaozhang Village is not too big, and the people who live in it are ordinary farmers, and each family's yard grows vegetables or raises chickens. But there is no vegetable patch and chicken coop in the front yard of this Lizheng house, but a lot of flowers are planted and a bamboo pergola is built. Grapes were planted around the shed, and the grape seedlings climbed up the bamboo shelf. There are also stone tables and stone benches under the pergola, and this arrangement looks a little elegant.

The little girl pointed to the pergola and said, "Little sister wait over there, I'll go and talk to grandpa." ”

Listening to this little girl's speech (tǐng) politely, and seeing the elegant layout of this courtyard, Su Jinyao's initial impression of this Zhang Lizheng was good. I think he may be a scholar who has not been in the middle for a long time, or maybe the master of the small official (shēn) has returned to his hometown after saying goodbye, so that he can be such a little village official.

After waiting for a while, the little girl came out with a chubby old man. Su Jinyao stood up (shēn) to take a look, and her previous good impression suddenly disappeared.

I saw that this one was fat and fat, with a horizontal face (ròu), rosacea, eyebrows and eyes of "triangular eyes". It's not like saying that he is a master at all, but like an unscrupulous and immoral nouveau riche.

Su Jinyao didn't judge people by their appearance, she also wanted to think better about Zhang Lizheng, who was said to be "not bad", maybe he was fat and rich, and he was still a person who made decisions for the people in his bones. But Su Jinyao is good at observing people, and she is even better at figuring out people's hearts, and after looking at Zhang Lizheng a little carefully, she can see from his obscene triangular eyes that this guy is absolutely full of fat brains and a belly full of feces and urine.

Zhang Lizheng was also looking at Su Jinyao, and then asked, "You are from the Liu family in Pingshan Village?" ”

Even if she had a bad impression of this Zhang Lizheng, Su Jinyao still replied politely: "Yes, my father's name is Su Xiangui, and there is an eldest sister and a younger brother in the family." My mother passed away the year before last. ”

"Oh, I remember, Yanagi's leg is lame. No, it seems to be paralyzed. Your Su family is the poorest family in Pingshan Village. Speaking of this, Zhang Lizheng glanced at Su Jinyao again, with a thick puzzle on his face, and asked, "You said that you have a sister above and a younger brother below?" Are you the second girl of the Su family? ”

"Yes, my name is Su Jinyao." Su Jinyao replied, and at the same time had already guessed why Zhang Lizheng had such a table (qíng).

Sure enough, I heard Zhang Lizheng say: "Aren't you a stupid girl? Do you have any other sisters in your family? ”

"No, it turns out that my brain is not clear, but it was better a while ago." Su Jinyao didn't want to talk about family affairs with Zhang Lizheng, so she said directly: "I came today, first, I want to ask Zhang Lizheng to open a household registration certificate for me and my brother; The second is that my family wants to build a house, please Zhang Lizheng mark the number of rooms of the new house on the deed, and then stamp it. ”

After speaking, Su Jinyao took out the deed that Su Xiangui gave her from her arms, handed it to Zhang Lizheng, and showed it to him.

Zhang Lizheng looked at the deed, then at Su Jinyao, frowned and said, "You came today, are there two things?" This is something to discuss. Come into the house with me, the pen and ink and the seal are all in the house. ”

Su Jinyao agreed and followed Zhang Lizheng into the house. And the little girl from before also followed Zhang Lizheng (shēn). It's just that after entering the house, Zhang Lizheng said: "Xiaoping, you go out to play, grandpa is going to do business here." ”

The little girl named Xiaoping agreed, and turned (shēn) out.

Zhang Li waited until he was sure that Xiaoping was gone, and then sat down behind the table in a big way. Because of his fat (ròu) one, the whole chair was stuffed, and the fat (ròu) on his waist was about to squeeze out of the chair, which looked a little disgusting.

Su Jinyao stood aside, trying not to sigh for the unlucky chair, and waited calmly for Zhang Lizheng to do something for her.

But Zhang Lizheng stopped talking, just picked up a booklet on the table, flipped through it, and put it aside; I picked up another one, flipped through it again, and put it aside. Finally, I opened the drawer and rummaged through it twice, before I raised my head and said, "Second girl of the Su family, I forgot where I put your household registration book in Pingshan Village." Tell me, how old are you, how old is your brother? I can only issue you a household registration certificate after I ask clearly. ”

Su Jinyao is so smart, she immediately understood what Zhang Lizheng meant. smiled slightly and said, "I'm eleven years old, born in February; My younger brother is nine years old and born in May. As he spoke, he took out a piece of broken silver from his sleeve, which weighed almost three points, stepped forward and put it on Zhang Lizheng's table, and said: "I know that my younger brother is still young, but I want him to go to the government-run school for the exam. ”

"Go to the government-run school, I've heard about it, it's a good thing." Zhang Lizheng said as he swept the piece of silver with the brush on the table, and swept the silver directly into his open drawer. But he said: "This is easy for you to do, when you are ten years old, I will immediately issue you a household registration certificate." But your brother is still a year away from reaching the age when the official family regulations for household registration, not to mention that he was not born in Pingshan Village, I don't remember this wrong, right? ”

Of course, Su Jinyao could also understand the meaning of Zhang Lizheng's words, that is, he was afraid of the lack of money. Then he took out another piece of silver, this time smaller, about half a cent, and still placed it on the table.

Zhang Li was looking at the piece of silver, his brows furrowed, and he still seemed to feel less.

Su Jinyao immediately said: "Lord Lizheng, let's come one by one, you first help our sister and brother open the household registration certificate, and there is no other thing (qíng) to ask you later." ”

Zhang Lizheng listened, yes, isn't there still oil and water to fish. Therefore, he nodded and said: "It is indeed a good thing to be able to go to the government-run school, although this age is a little worse, it is not incompatible." I'll open your household registration certificate for you. If your brother really can get in, you have to come back and thank me. ”

"That's certain, definite. If my younger brother learns well, maybe he will be able to take the test in the future. When the time comes, I have to thank Zhang Lizheng for your help. "Su Jinyao, this is something to say.

She is telling Zhang Lizheng that she should not be embarrassed all the time, "thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi", if Xiaochenger really becomes a talent, what kind of talent will be admitted to the examination, and it will be enough to raise his eyebrows in this countryside. If you mix it with an official and a half-job, it is estimated that this Zhang Li will come to slap their Su family instead.

Sure enough, after Su Jinyao said this, Zhang Lizheng's face changed, and he laughed twice, took out a pen and paper and began to write a certificate for Su Jinyao.

The first to write is from Xiaocheng. Su Jinyao stood aside and watched him finish writing, and then write her own. Su Jinyao deliberately said: "My name is Su Jinyao, elegant and elegant." ”

Zhang Lizheng immediately said: "Huh? Isn't it called Su Yao'er? I remember that your eldest sister is called Su Fei'er, the second girl is called Su Yao'er, and the younger brother is called Su Cheng, when did you change your name? If the name is changed......"

Su Jinyao hurriedly said: "I haven't changed my name, Yao'er is my nickname." At that time, my brain was not clear, and others called me confused, but now I am not stupid, so I will be called Su Jinyao. ”

Zhang Lizheng was also skeptical, but this time he didn't ask too much. Anyway, as soon as this household registration certificate was opened, Su Jinyao completely said goodbye to the name "Yao'er".

After the two household registration certificates were written, Zhang Lizheng took out a small box in his drawer, and when he opened the box, there was a seal, a name seal, and a cinnabar clay box. The two household registration certificates were stamped with seals and name seals, and then handed them to Su Jinyao.

Su Jinyao read it again, and what was written on it was very simple, but it was also very clear. That is to say, such and such a person, in which year and month he was born, where his ancestral home is, where he lives, and so on. Anyway, with the red cinnabar seal, as long as the name and household registration are not written wrong, it is no problem.

Then, Zhang Lizheng didn't put the small box away, but asked Su Jinyao to bring the deed of their house to him again.

Su Jinyao handed over the deed again. The one was taken and looked at, and then asked, "What, now that your family's rì is ready, it's time to build a new house?" How many new houses do you need to build? Where is it covered? Do the neighbors agree with your family building a new house? This must be said hello, otherwise there will be disputes in the future, and it will be difficult for me to judge here. It is difficult for this clean official to cut off family affairs, and neighbors and neighbors must also get along well. ”

Su Jinyao said: "It was built at my current address, but I plan to build a bigger one, so I moved it out of the village." My house is now the head of the village and still outside, there are no neighbors on the left and right, and no one is next to each other. The nearest one is dozens of steps away. How to build my house, the neighbors naturally have nothing to say. ”

Speaking of this, Su Jinyao took out another piece of silver, and this time the silver she took out was much more than before, enough for a penny. It's still on Zhang Lizheng's table. Then he said: "My family's current (rì) son is not good, and it is still the poorest family in the village." However, the house at home is so dilapidated that it will leak in the rainy season. It also took a lot of money to repair it, so I sold the jewelry left by my mother and borrowed a lot from the villagers, so I could barely build a new house. ”

While listening to Su Jinyao's words, Zhang Lizheng squinted his eyes and flicked the piece of silver with a brush shaft, still in his drawer, and then asked, "Then how many rooms do you want to build in your house?" ”

Su Jinyao never said that she wanted to build a few new houses, and she was also thinking about giving less if she could give less benefits. After all, it was the money she earned, and she didn't feel sorry for the cost of buying things for her family, but if it was cheap, a squire like Zhang Lizheng who only knew how to rub oil, of course she wouldn't want to. But now that Zhang Lizheng has been asking, he knows that this silver can't be saved. That's why he said, "Build five rooms." ”

"Build five new houses at once?" Zhang Lizheng raised his voice, his originally squinted eyes also opened, looked at Su Jinyao and said, "Your family is poor, it would be good to renovate the house." This time he built five rooms at once, but did he make a fortune? ”

Su Jinyao resisted the urge to slap Zhang Lizheng to death, and said with a smile: "I didn't get rich, didn't I say I borrowed money just now." At that time, I was just figuring it out, and I had to go into debt anyway, so I might as well borrow more. Besides, our three sisters and brothers are getting older, and they can all help the family to work more, and it's a big deal to pay off the debts for a few more years, isn't it still saving a few houses. In the future, my brother will marry a daughter-in-law, and he will not have to build a new house. ”

Zhang Lizheng still had the fat (ròu) on his face jumping wildly when he heard this, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "That's really borrowing a lot of silver." Otherwise, I advise you to build two fewer rooms in your house. Building three rooms can save a lot of money compared to five rooms. but you have saved your sisters' dowry and your brother's bride price for his daughter-in-law. ”

Su Jinyao really wanted to shout, our sister's dowry and my brother's bride price don't need your (cāo) heart, hurry up and stamp me I still have urgent matters. But after all, the county officials are not as good as the current ones, and Lord Yan is so difficult to see the little ghosts, if there is no Zhang Lizheng's seal, their family's new house will not be legal, and sooner or later there will be problems. If you wait for the house to be built and then let Zhang Lizheng go to find fault, the cost will definitely be more than at this time.

Su Jinyaosuo (xìng) took out a larger piece of silver, weighing three coins, and put it on Zhang Lizheng's table, and said directly: "Lord Lizheng, our family is indeed still in debt." But thinking about having a new house to live in, my sister and brother are all happy. I came out to do this this time, and I also rushed to show my face. If I had planned to build five rooms, but when I got the deed and went back, it would be three rooms, and my father would blame me, and my sister and brother would have to blame me for my lack of ability, and I would not be able to raise my head at home in the future. ”

In order to apply for the house deed, Su Jinyao gave one piece of silver before, and now she gives three dollars, which adds up to four dollars of silver. Silver is more expensive than copper plates, and a penny of silver is exchanged for at least one hundred and twenty copper plates, which adds up to almost five hundred copper plates, which is actually a lot. The reason why Su Jinyao gave him a big one in the end was also to be able to do this matter well at one time (xìng), and he didn't want to procrastinate.

But unexpectedly, Zhang Lizheng's eyes lit up significantly when he looked at the silver, and he said after receiving the silver: "But the official family at the top also has regulations, and it is already the limit for private households to build five rooms, after all, they still occupy a lot of land." This land belongs to the state, and people have to pay land tax when they build houses and occupy land, and I can't directly stamp the deed of your house here. What's more, if you build more houses, you have to go to the town to find the lord's instructions, and if you get to the town, your expenses will be even greater. I see that the benefits of your exchanges are all in silver, so it can be seen that your family still has some family background. Why don't you build it bigger and go directly to the town to talk to the old man? ”