After the family discussed, they immediately went to the town to go through the formalities, pay the money, prepare for the survey, and handle the title deed of the land.

Probably because there is too much unowned wasteland, the procedures required are very simple.

The wasteland that the Huang family fancies belongs to Nanshan Town, as long as they go to Nanshan Town to measure the area, mark it, and pay the money to prepare the case. You can go to the county government to register, pay the handling fee and the land will belong to you.

After discussing the purchase of land, Huang Laohan went to the land management office of Nanshan Town without delay. The land management of the imperial court belongs to the household department, and a piece of wasteland in a small town only needs to pass by the town clerks.

Huang Laohan took his fourth son to find the mayor, and when the mayor heard that he had bought wasteland, he couldn't help but smile and immediately opened the door.

You must know that because there is a big mountain in Nanshan Town, there is too much wasteland that no one has cultivated. It is better for everyone to go to the wasteland than to fish, it is better to go into the mountains to collect some pine nuts and walnuts, and it is better to go to the wharf to carry the work, which is all cash.

As for land reclamation, it takes a lot of manpower and time to cultivate in order to raise good land, and you have to pay taxes after three years.

Knowing that the plot picked by Huang Laohan turned out to be the uncultivated wasteland outside the three miles east of the town, he couldn't close his mouth with joy. With a stroke of the pen, half buy and half give, buy 200 acres of wasteland and send it to the 200 acres of mountains and forests that are connected together.

This was an unexpected surprise, but Huang Laohan thought about it and discussed with the mayor whether he could move out a hundred acres of mountain land and replace it with beach land.

The mayor looked at Huang Laohan and was a little surprised, this old man is not a fool. You must know that there are trees, rocks, and beasts in the mountains, and they can be sold for money even if they have some firewood.

And what can the beach do?

Watching the water rise and fall?

The mayor of Huang Laohan bought wasteland and felt that this old man was in a demonic obstacle, and now he saw that he actually wanted to change the mountains for the beach, and he was directly sure that this old man had a bad brain.

The mayor looked at Huang Laosi behind Huang Laohan, and wanted to ask, did your father take medicine today?

Huang Laosi looked at the mayor's expression, and knew that he couldn't understand a little, so he quickly explained: "Our family used to build four stone houses in Huangjiawan, which was the money my father gave to the Qian family to go to sea and work hard. ”

"Therefore, my father refuses to go back to Huangjiagou to build a house, but we can't leave Nanshan Town, after all, it is difficult to leave the homeland, so I thought about buying a piece of land near the town, and our brothers built a house together.

Huang Laosi changed the topic as he spoke: "I heard that the town is going to resettle the victims from outside, I think you can take out the land around us and sell it to them." As long as they buy land and build houses, they are allowed to settle down in Nanshan Town. It won't be long before the scope of Nanshan Town can be directly expanded to more than double it, which is your achievement. ”

Huang Laosi's words made the town chief smile, yes, why didn't I think of it, just do it.

The mayor felt in his heart that this old man of the Huang family was not very good, how could he have such a brain when he gave birth to a son! It's a pity that the son can't be the master, otherwise he would definitely not agree to buy this wasteland.

After all, the arm can't twist the thigh, and the son can't hold down Lao Tzu!

After some bargaining, the Huang family bought 200 acres of wasteland, two taels of silver per acre, 100 acres of mountains and forests, and 150 acres of beach land.

You can grow grain, and the reclaimed sandy land is worth two taels of silver, which is why the Huang family bought wasteland and sent it to the mountains.

You have suffered a big loss, I feel uneasy in conscience, find something to make up for you, although it is not much, at least it can be regarded as a psychological comfort for yourself, I am a big man in the sky, there is no fish in the country.

Of course, the addition of 50 acres of beach land can be regarded as Huang Laosi's big idea for the mayor of the town, and this idea can indeed increase a lot of performance if it is played well.

Some people may think stupid, now there are many displaced people, and the county has issued a document, the ownerless wasteland can be reclaimed freely, two acres of land can be opened, and you can go to apply for household registration when you plant food, and the wasteland will belong to you.

The Huang family could have taken possession of that land in the name of clearing wasteland and then built a house near the land. However, the Huang family doesn't think so, they are afraid of taking advantage of small advantages and suffering big losses.

If this dock is actually built, how many pairs of eyes will be staring here, and what can you do if someone takes advantage of the loophole and steals this land on the grounds that it is unowned?

If you buy it, it's mine, no one can touch it, and whoever violates my land will be held accountable.

And what Huang Laosi said about arranging for the victims to go over there also means this, the 200 acres near the wharf are occupied by his family, and his own family eats meat, so he has to let others drink some soup.

With so many disaster victims, buying land and building houses, whoever wants to reach out has to think about it.

The two Tsing Yi officials who came to measure the land for the Huang family, locals of Nanshan Town, looked down and didn't look up, and everyone was familiar.

Huang Laohan paid the money, and it was almost noon when he came out of the mayor's office, and the two officials said, "Why don't we go home and have dinner and then go, anyway, there are hundreds of acres of land, and we can't finish surveying in a day or two."

Huang Laosi grabbed the shoulders of one of the officials: "What kind of food do you eat when you go home, Fifth Brother Zhang, you don't know that my family is making food." Brother Du, let's go, today the brothers will have a drink with the two brothers. ”

In Nanshan Town, there are two officials, one surnamed Zhang, and Uncle Zhang, who sells meat, are brothers. One surnamed Du is the cousin of Huang's daughter-in-law's niece and son-in-law.

In terms of either relatives or related households, I also went to the Huang family's small shop and got some oil and water.

Entering from the gate of Huang's house, he didn't even go to the store, he went directly to the hall, Huang's eldest brother came to talk with him, and Huang Laosi went out and told the three Huang Tao sisters to cook.

Other people's homes, relatives and friends, are all housewives cooking, the Huang family is not, the Huang family is three girls, for no other reason, these three girls can cook.

Yellow rice is responsible for washing and cutting, yellow peaches are responsible for boiling, steaming and stir-frying, soybeans are responsible for moving their mouths, and even small yellow pears can bring a small stool to help my sister peel green onions.

Then you can just take one of the kids from the family to help light the fire, just wait to eat.

Soon, Huang Guigui was busy serving vegetables to the hall house, leek and shrimp and eggs, ground three fresh, shredded edamame pork, Pingqiao tofu, sauerkraut fish, braised pork, braised chicken, and chowder soup.

Such a dish, not to mention in Nanshan Town, is Xiangyang Mansion, and those rich families are not easy to eat.

In the house, Huang Laohan took his four sons to accompany the two servants to drink happily, and after drinking, he looked at the sun, and he was a little westward, and it was estimated that it was more than three o'clock, so he quickly took the tools to measure the land.

Before eating, Huang Laosi quietly carried a red envelope in the hands of the two elder brothers, and the two of them glanced at each other and felt it with their hands, as if it was silver, and it was not small, so they couldn't help but be happy.

The two officials took advantage of the fact that they went to the thatched house to release water, opened it and took a look, obediently, it was really a big deal, one person had a five taels of silver ingots, which was not ordinary silver, it was plum blossom silver from Rong Baoxuan.

Rong Bao Xuan's plum blossom silver is specially customized by Rong Bao Xuan, with plum blossom patterns on it, and Rong Bao Xuan's imprint at the bottom of the silver ingot.

The two of them glanced at each other, and their hearts were like mirrors.

After eating, the Huang family followed the two officials and went straight to the wasteland in the east.

The fork ruler is made of bamboo, also known as the "five-foot pole", a bit like the English letter A, the distance between its feet is fixed, five feet, that is, a "step".

There is a folk proverb: "16 (fork ruler) long, 15 (fork ruler) wide, no more than one acre." ”

Zhang Ya was in charge of the measurement, and Du was in charge of the count.

The two of them measured and memorized one by one, and after walking dozens of steps, they felt annoyed to run, so they simply handed over the fork ruler to Huang Guigui and asked Huang Delei to take a pen and paper to count. Huang Laohan hurriedly said: "No, no, the two of them are still children." ”

Du Yashi waved his hand: "It's just that the child is sincere, it's okay, let them measure, measure it, let's just nail the marker down." ”

Huang Guigui measured it for half an hour and began to call the eldest brother: "Big brother, I'm tired, can you change me?" ”

Huang Laohan glared: "Roll the calf, dare to use your eldest brother, hurry up and roll over for me to measure it well, I measured it wrong, and I went back to peel your skin." ”

Huang Delei didn't dare to say anything when he heard it, he took Huang Dou's hand with a pen and paper, and followed his uncle one step behind, for fear that he would remember it wrong.

And the rest of the Huang family stood in the wasteland, watching Huang Guigui take Huang Delei and Huang Dou in the distance and carefully measure the land step by step.

Before dusk, Du Ya and Zhang Ya Nailed the last wooden stick with red paint into the soil, and the Huang family's 200 acres of wasteland were successfully measured.

Early the next morning, Du Yazhi and Zhang Yazhi came to Huang's shop early, and each of them ate a bowl of wontons and two cages of soup dumplings. Huang Guigui and Huang Delei sighed again, followed behind and worked for them.

In the morning, I measured 150 acres of beach land, went to Huang's house for lunch, and went to measure another 100 acres of mountain land.

The mountainous area was measured quickly, marked well, and roughly estimated the terrain, Du Ya and Zhang Ya went back first, and in the topographic book of the town, they used a red pen to carefully describe the terrain measured by the Huang family.

At this moment, this land is already the Huang family's, and tomorrow, I will take Huang Laohan to the county government to pay the handling fee, which is the last insurance.

In the evening, the Huang family set up three tables of banquets, and invited Uncle Zhang from the butcher shop, the brothers of the Zhang family from the cotton shop, and the niece and son-in-law of Huang's daughter-in-law to accompany Du Yashi and Zhang Yashi to drink.

After five flavors of food and three rounds of wine, everyone staggered away, and Huang Laohan lay on a rocking chair in the courtyard and beckoned to Huang Dou gently: "Doudou come here, grandpa asks you." ”

Huang Laohan didn't drink much, and with his five sons and a few eldest grandsons, he didn't have to drink too much to accompany the guests.

"Doudou, you tell grandpa, how much land has our family measured?"

"Well, my uncle's steps are too small, our family measured 260 acres of wasteland, 200 acres of beach land, and the mountains and forests were not carefully measured, and it just happened that the hill behind our family was a little small, so I let my brother circle it.

"Grandpa didn't hear clearly, how much land did our family buy?"

"Two hundred acres of wasteland, one hundred and fifteen acres of tidal land, and one hundred acres of mountainous land. It's measured, it's marked, and tomorrow Grandpa will go and get the title deed back. Soybean replied crisply.

Huang Laohan slowly sat up from the rocking chair, was stunned, and patted Huang Dou's hand gently: "Go, go play." ”

Huang Dou turned around and ran to his sister Huang Tao: "Sister, I'll take you out to play tomorrow." ”

"And I still have my ......" Huang Li hurriedly ran over: "The third sister still has me." ”

"Mmmmmm, I'll take you tomorrow, and the eldest sister, let's go to our field to pull weeds." Huang Dou grinned and touched the pigtails of the fourth sister.

Little brat, I'll make you cry tomorrow.