"Master, if it really doesn't work, let's go to that person's father for a favor, what do you see?" As soon as Ding Huang went out, he remembered that there was still the adoptive father in the palace. If you borrow a little from him, will you be able to do it?

Or let him come forward and talk about it and see if he can pay it back on a monthly basis. If they could, they wouldn't have to take out so much money at once, and the pressure would be relieved.

"You go and ask about the situation first, and we'll make a decision. Don't ask until you have to. I heard that the noble man is not having a good time now, and he is also strapped for money. She is not the only one in this palace. Although our Ding family raised her, she is not related by blood in the end, and she is willing to bear the surname Ding, which is already a great gift to us. ”

Although Ding Chunqiu is a village head, he also knows what kind of effect this will cause if he comes forward. For only five hundred taels of silver, it is really unreasonable to ask someone similar to the national war to come forward.

Although he doesn't have any real power, many people will look at the face of the person in the palace and give some face. If he came forward in this matter, it would inevitably attract the attention of others. Now it's a special thing, and it's not good to make a fuss.

Besides, he didn't think that the Ding family had much silver now. In previous years, there were many people who were filial, and they were used to spending money lavishly. In the past few years, there have been fewer suddenly, but don't you all have to tighten your belts to get by?

Even if there is, I'm afraid I won't take it out to help his son pay off his gambling debts. This kind of thing is embarrassing to say it, and with the first time, there will be a second time.

Ding Huang deliberately left clues in Du Yi, and soon came to Du Yi, who was having lunch in Yi Kee Restaurant. Du Yi let people release the news before, she wanted to buy wasteland, wanted to contact her, at noon, to Yi Kee Restaurant immediately. She eats there every day, but all she needs to do is talk to the shopkeeper.

"Miss Liu, there is a woman from Lian Village, I want to see you" Shopkeeper Cao was outside Du Yi's box room, buttoned the door, and then said.

He didn't know why the owner let people call her Miss Liu, but the owner has his own measure, so he doesn't need to talk too much.

"Let her in," Doy's cold voice came from inside the door. This made Ding Huang, who was waiting on the sidelines and seemed a little anxious and uneasy, listen to it, like a heavenly sound.

After Ding Huang entered, he saw that there was only a chopstick on the table, and Du Yi sat at the reception table with a scarf on his face, and knew that he was disturbing people's meals.

"Miss Liu, I'm sorry to disturb your meal"

Ding Huang came to beg for help this time, and he had long lost his previous arrogance. When I saw two girls standing behind Du Yi, one left and one right, the humility that belonged to the peasant family in my heart was fully revealed.

She is from Lian Village, married Ding Chunqiu, and became the wife of the village chief, so she thinks she is superior. It's just that now, under the backdrop of Duyi, I suddenly feel that I have been beaten back to the circle.

"It's okay, I don't know if the village chief's wife has eaten, why are you coming to me now? Why don't we eat together and talk about it later? ”

Anyway, Du Yi is not in a hurry, she is saying this now just to make Ding Huang's family anxious.

"No, no, I've already eaten it. Miss Liu, I came here today to ask you. That, do you still want to buy wasteland? If you want to buy it, where and how much do you want to buy? ”

Du Yi was about to drink the tea he had originally held, but after hearing this, he put down the quilt again and said, "I originally took a fancy to the wasteland in your village and wanted to buy it." But the price is outrageously high, that's it. ”

When Ding Huang heard this, this Miss Liu just disliked the high price, and she was still very satisfied with the wasteland in their Lian Village, and she was relieved, and said: "The price is easy to discuss, my lord just woke up a few days ago, his brain is not clear, and he can't do enough to speak." If Miss Liu is interested, let's discuss. Don't know how much you want to buy and what is your budget? ”

"Mrs. Village Chief, have you done this thing? The amount I want to buy is not small, if it is dozens of acres, I don't want to buy it. "If you can't be the master, that's it.

When Ding Huang heard this, he wanted to buy more, and he was happy at the moment. Dare to love this Miss Liu, she is still a big buyer, since this is the case, hurry back and call the master over.

"I'll go back and discuss with my master, come over later, where can I find Miss Liu?" Ding Huang was afraid that after he went back, when he came over, Du Yi had already finished eating, and when the time came, he would pounce on the air, and it would be over.

Listening to Duyi's meaning, it must be at least a hundred acres. Even if one acre is one tael of silver, there must be more than one hundred taels. This is not a small income for a family that owes five hundred taels of silver.

Add the original silver and the borrowed silver, and sell some more things, and make do with it, and it's about the same. On the villagers' side, when the time comes, just find an excuse to prevaricate in the past.

However, this Miss Liu's generosity, how much to buy is still a problem. If they buy three or five hundred acres, their family will not have to smash the pot and sell iron, and they can also share some silver to the villagers.

"It's still here, I'll wait until the time, and if I don't come, I'll leave."

In the middle of the day, which is equivalent to two o'clock now, Du Yi thinks that he just woke up from a nap at that time, and he is also a little energetic. Looking at the current situation, this Ding Chunqiu is really anxious. Five hundred taels is neither more nor less, and it was calculated by Du Yi and the others after calculating their family property and how much they might borrow.

Less than 2,000 acres of land, the price is pressed, almost more than 1,000 taels to buy, and after paying off her gambling debts of 500 taels, it will be cleared. If you do the math, one acre of land is only six or seven hundred yuan, and the price is appropriate.

After the others left, Bai Mei closed the door and asked Ziding: "Taishi Yang stayed in the mansion of Governor Ding for dinner?" ”

"Miss Hui, yes, the Taishi will go over to help Miss do some good things first, and now I'm waiting for Ding Chunqiu of Lian Village to set up the land deed and go to the yamen for the record."

"Okay, wait a minute. Ziding, you bring someone over now and intimidate it, you must get this matter done today."

"Yes, Miss" When Ziding left, she was still sighing, who did you provoke, don't mess with her young lady. It's really terrible, if the village chief of Lian Village can speak well, one or two pieces of silver per mu is appropriate. Now I have to be designed, and I have been intimidated repeatedly, but in the end, the price is not even one or two.

After Ziding left, Bai Mei smiled and said to Du Yi: "Miss, you have made the slave deeply understand what it means to do anything for the sake of the end. There is also that sentence, there is no business without treachery. ”

Before Du Yi sat down to eat, he glanced up at Bai Mei: "What I want is the result, the process is not important." Besides, I didn't do anything unreasonable, who can say I did? ”

Bai Mei nodded, this is also true. If it weren't for the fact that the village chief of Lian Village was too greedy, it wouldn't be like this. There is a cause and effect for things to happen, and this fruit was planted by Nading Chunqiu himself, no wonder.

After Ding Huang got the news from Du Yi, he hurried back. I was afraid that there would be a delay on the road, so I deliberately spent 20 yuan of silver and rented an ox cart to sit back.

With this ox cart, she has to reduce the time on the road every time she goes back and forth. As soon as the ox cart entered Lian Village, she frequently looked at the sky, afraid that she would not be able to catch up.

"Okay, just stop here, I'll come over in a while, I have to go to the city, you wait for me to have a stick of incense" Ding Huang asked the ox cart to hear the door, and he ran home in three steps and two steps.

"Master, hurry up and go with me, Miss Liu wants you, the person who is sitting in the Lord, to talk. Listening to that wind, you have to buy at least 100 acres. By the way, you bring all the seals, write them directly on the spot when the time comes, and go to the yamen to transfer the money to the silver. ”

Ding Huang wanted to run away with Ding Chunqiu, but then remembered that it was still not possible without a seal, and pulled Ding Chunqiu back to the house to find the seal.

Ding Chunqiu, who originally heard that Miss Liu was going to buy so much land, was very happy in his heart. But when he was pulled around by Ding Huang's family, he couldn't help but get angry.

"What the hell are you doing, let go of me, isn't it just a seal, I've been carrying it with me a long time ago. Let's go, let's go now."

Ding Chunqiu shook off his daughter-in-law's hand and was about to go out. But seeing that his son was still lying on the bed, after thinking about it, he shouted to his daughter's room: "Xiang'er, my father and mother have something to go out, your eldest brother, you look at it."

"Hello" hid in the room to do embroidery lilac, heard her father's words, answered, and continued to embroider the work in her hands.

Her eldest brother, she doesn't care. Since he was a child, he has been a loser, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling everything, but he will not do things seriously like other men.

Now that she owes so much silver, she has been beaten back by the gambling house, and in her opinion, that is what she should be. If you have the ability to gamble, you must have the ability to bear it. Her father and mother are really, they have treated their eldest brother as a baby bump since they were children, but as a result, they are not all spoiled like this. A loving mother has many failed children, and when she gets married and has children, it will definitely not be like this.

As soon as Ding Huang and Ding Chunqiu took two steps out of the house, they saw an extremely familiar person, with a group of thug-like people, walking towards her.

"You, what are you going to do?" Ding Huang's voice was already trembling, wasn't this little white face who took the lead the same person who injured her son that day? I heard that this person has a great background, and even Governor Ding turned a blind eye to him.

"Where are you two going? It can't be that you owe me money and want to pay it back, right? Ziding glanced at the man behind him, and saw that he was holding a big wooden stick in his hand and knocked it on his hand, which looked scary.

"No, no, we're not going to run away, we're going to raise money. You will definitely raise money today, and you will return it tomorrow. Didn't you say a good tomorrow? I'm going to borrow it."

The little bit of bad things in Ding Chunqiu's house is known to everyone in the village. In front of the villagers, he didn't dare to say that he was going to sell wasteland, so he had to say that he was going to raise money.

"Really? In this case, Niu Er, you leave the two brothers to guard here. A few of us went with this old man, and if we didn't give the money, when we came back, we would cut off Ding Ziqiang's hands and feet in front of them."

"Yes, young master"

The man who was called Niu Er looked at the door of the village chief's house with a smile, as if he was watching some good show.

Ding Chunqiu and Ding Huang's legs were weak, how could their son provoke such evil. No matter how much Du Yi offered today, he would have to sell the land.

"This, this master, we rented an ox cart and came over, then ......" Ding Huang's face turned pale with fright, but he had to hold up a smile and carefully curry favor with Ziding.

"Young master, I came here on horseback, where do you say to wait, where I will go first. But I'll leave someone to watch you, and Hugh will run away."

Ziding's voice was extremely pressed and looked a little hoarse. It sounded quite imposing, and the vicious expression on his face made people feel intimidated.

"Yes, yes, I won't run. It's at the Yiji Restaurant, young master, you can wait there" Du Ling's hands tightly grabbed Ding Chunqiu's clothes, how hard she pinched, but she didn't feel the slightest.

Ziding didn't say a word, snorted coldly, and left with someone. A man with a large wooden stick in his hand was left behind, and he didn't know where to get a horse, and he stared at them viciously.

On the ox cart, Ding Huang's voice trembled, and he said to Ding Chunqiu: "Master, as long as the price is right later, let's sell it quickly." After returning the silver, Ziqiang was not allowed to go out to gamble in the future, and he had to be tied up. It's terrible to see people like this today. We don't have that much wasteland to sell. ”

"Well, I know it in my heart, let's whisper, be careful of being heard" When Ding Chunqiu said this, he looked at the man who stopped and waited for them in front of him, and his heart was spontaneously empty.

After Zi Ding returned to Yi Ji Restaurant, he explained the progress of the matter before and after, and then said, "Miss, it seems that it is okay for you to lower the price a little more." Now we just have to wait for them to come to the door, and the slave will go down and wait first."

After Zi Ding's report, the smile on Du Yi's face became bigger and bigger, and his eyes were full of satisfaction. That's right, she will see what Ding Chunqiu means later, if he is still a lion with a big mouth, then don't blame her for being polite.

"Miss, let Ziding go to the yamen with you later. When they got the money, they immediately got the gambling debts back. ”

"Well, this is nature, the purpose is waiting down there, isn't that what it means" Du Yi was in a good mood, and lay down on the couch in front of the window, ready to rest for a while.

Bai Mei saw that Du Yi was ready to rest, so she stepped aside and waited. After about a stick of incense, the shopkeeper Cao came in: "Boss, the woman came again in the morning, and brought a man." ”

Du Yi narrowed for a moment, and his spirit was much better, so he got up and walked to the box where he was at noon. When Bai Mei had just finished making tea, Ding Huang and Ding Chunqiu also came in.

"Miss Liu, our master is here" The flattering smile on Ding Huang's face seemed to be even more flattering than at noon.

"Sit" Du Yi raised his eyes and glanced at Ding Chunqiu coldly, and then said a word.

Because he wanted to negotiate a big deal with Du Yi, Ding Chunqiu did a lot of mental construction. After finally balancing his mood, he said, "I don't know the wasteland that Miss Liu fancies, but what along the coast?" ”

Naturally, he heard the flaws in it, and couldn't help but look at Qin Xiang strangely, playing well, what's wrong?

Among them, especially the family of the servant of the ministry, their own daughter won and they followed with a light on their faces, and now it is a matter of nine out of ten, how did there be a mistake?

Compared with the tension of the servant's family, Rong Yuan's family is much more relaxed, and they don't want Rong Li to win, the emperor's request has to be complied with, as long as they can play down, they are proud of her.

Of course, it's great to be able to play happily.

Suddenly, the eager sound of the piano appeared in everyone's ears like a storm, directly overshadowing Qin Xiang's previous piano sound.

The sound of the piano is different from the gentle and long of ordinary ladies, but the iron bones are awe-inspiring.

It was as if they were on the battlefield, where the smoke of gunfire was billowing and the battle was about to break out.

Obviously, Qin Xiang's piano sound was not much weaker than Rong Li's, and sometimes it was even higher than Rong Li, but they couldn't hear Qin Xiang's piano sound at all, and their entire minds were firmly locked by Rong Li.

In the Xuande Palace, from the emperor to the daughter, the expressions on everyone's faces were surprisingly consistent, and they held their breath and did not dare to be careless.

Even the breathing was a little lighter.

The strings in Qin Xiang's hands snapped, leaving a bloody mark on her hand, Qin Xiang unwillingly covered her right hand, and it was difficult to calm down in her heart.

What's going on?

It's obviously a situation that she must win, how can Rong Li easily get it back?

Rong Li's piano sound did not pause at all, the dense piano sound seemed to have entered a climax, and everyone's hearts were pulled by the strings at the end of Rong Li's fingers.

The more Xiahou Xiang listened, the more surprised he became, his eyes sparkled, that was the woman he fancied, so different!

It's just that I am secretly helpless at the same time as I am happy.

(End of chapter)