In my memory, my parents did hide a wooden box in the reclining cabinet, which contained some more valuable things at home, Yuan Ning quickly turned the box out when he entered the house, and saw the fine silver and two strings of copper coins inside, as well as a note with the eight characters of the five birthdays of his sister and brother, and his eyes were hot.

After rummaging through it, I soon found the notes and title deeds, and the people were not allowed to buy and sell land without permission, and they had to pay a certain amount of silver if they had to go through the government. Therefore, the transfer of private land is carried out secretly, and generally the people do not hold officials accountable.

Looking through the notes, although Yuan Ning is a science and engineering girl, but she can't help but have a calligraphy lover grandfather, the old man writes calligraphy is completely traditional characters, and every time she writes a word, she has to force her to observe the evaluation, so more than ten years, her ability to recognize traditional Chinese characters is not small.

The note states that Zhu Qiwen voluntarily gave Zhu Jiugu 17 acres of sloping land under his name for cultivation for a period of ten years, but the geometry of the rent was not specified.

Under the letter is the title deed, because the years have passed, the title deed has been yellowed, but the official seal on the top is still bright red.

She turned around and came out with two pieces of paper, and presented them to the old patriarch with both hands.

The old patriarch beckoned Sun Xiucai, who had been specially invited over, "Take a look." ”

The note back then was given by Sun Xiucai, so he recognized it at a glance, "That's right, this is it." ”

I was afraid that everyone would not believe it, so I read it aloud.

Yuan Ning frowned, "Third old lady, I don't understand it, such a note, it's not clear, how much rent my father has collected, and it hasn't been written!" ”

Zhu Jiugu hugged her arms and snorted coldly: "Your father ignored it!" This land is for me to be sown! If I'm not kind, black doesn't mention white, you little dolls can still know about this? It's because I'm a kind person that I want to come and explain this matter to you!

"You babies are still young, and you all rely on the help of the clansmen to farm the land, what about the more than ten acres of slope land, how do you serve it? If someone else is changed, they may not dare to take over, I am kind enough to discuss this matter, who knows that you dogs bite Lu Dongbin and don't know good people's hearts! Look for my faults when you enter the door, or you say, can I do it? I'm not that bastard! ”

Yuan Ning looked at her coldly, "So, I have to thank you for almost strangling me and almost killing my younger brothers and sisters?" Scold! I shouldn't have invited the third old lady over, and the third aunt shouldn't have been fighting, you should have beaten us all to death, and then out of kindness, you took our house and land! The big guy has to praise you for being kind-hearted!

"And a few of us, we should not fight back, scold or fight back, and let you ride to the neck and bully!"

She suddenly shouted, "Who are you?" Really, when our surname is Zhu, we are all fools, and we are all boneless, and we let you bully? You also have to ask these old and young masters with our surname Zhu if they agree! ”

In fact, this Zhu Jiugu herself is a bastard, not to mention her own clan, who in the village doesn't know? However, everyone can't afford to provoke such a sloppy settlement.

But now seeing her bullying a few children like this, she can't help but be enthusiastic, but because of the presence of the old patriarch, no one dares to speak first.

The old patriarch looked at Yuan Ning majestically: "Big girl, you are a junior, it is not appropriate to speak like this." ”

Yuan Ning sneered in his heart, and said with a stiff neck: "Third old lady, I don't dare to say that I am knowledgeable, but I still have at least the politeness, one of the grandparents, uncles, aunts and aunts present today is counted as one, which one of them I didn't say hello properly when I met?" ”

Everyone nodded one after another, these children in Zhu Laoqi's family are all good, and every time they meet, they take the initiative to say hello.

Yuan Ning raised his hand and pointed at Zhu Jiugu, his eyes turned red again, "Third old lady, we are always surnamed Zhu and are a family, but why is this person ...... Why ......?"

The old patriarch coughed lightly and looked at Zhu Jiugu more majestically: "Little Jiu'er, you don't talk like you!" Their children are ignorant, and you have eaten for nothing in the past 30 years? ”

Zhu Jiugu gritted her teeth, "Third grandfather, I ......"

The old patriarch ignored her and looked directly at Yuan Ning, "Big girl, you don't recognize her, no wonder ......" The two families have little movement, they are all bored and live their own lives, Zhu Jiugu's popularity is not good, whoever sees her walks around, and it is reasonable that several children of the old seven families don't know her, "This is your seventh grandfather's branch, you should shout Jiugu in terms of seniority." ”

Yuan Ning's expression was even more aggrieved, "I don't understand this, since they are all my own family, I know that my father and mother have just gone, and it is not easy for me to lead a few younger siblings to live, why did she run to the door to bully people?" If it weren't for the presence of the third aunt today, I can't say, the third old lady, how tall the grass on our grave will be this time next year! ”

"Duh!" The old patriarch reprimanded with a calm face, "Children's families, don't talk nonsense!" ”

Zhu Yuanning pulled his younger brothers and sisters to cry together.

The people inside and outside the courtyard couldn't help but feel sorry for the miserable appearance of these children.

The old patriarch was an elderly person, and he couldn't help but scold Zhu Jiugu fiercely, Zhu Jiugu couldn't raise his head, but compared to getting seventeen acres of land, being scolded was really nothing.

Therefore, after the old patriarch finished scolding, she reminded her old words: "Third grandfather, you are here today, let's discuss it, when the seventh brother and seventh sister-in-law planted those more than ten acres of land, it was really not very good, this is in my hands, I dare not say more, I can earn a family of five chewing for a year."

"These babies are so young, how do they know how to farm? Isn't it a waste of time then?

"What do I mean, I'll give me a little rent, and I'll just plant the land......" Things have come to this point today, it's impossible to take the land away for nothing, she has to retreat to the second, anyway, it's just a few little cubs, and they will clean up and obey in the future, how dare they make trouble! Speaking of which, today is also her own carelessness.

For the countrymen, the land is life, and if anyone does not farm the land well, or does not plant the land well, others will feel distressed when they see it.

The old patriarch hesitated for a moment and asked Yuan Ning, "What do you say?" ”

Yuan Ning's heart was cold, knowing that the scale in the old patriarch's heart was already biased towards Zhu Jiugu, he took a deep breath and said, "Third old lady, I only want to ask you one thing, do you think the two acres of land we have now are enough to support our five brothers and sisters?" ”

The old patriarch shook his head without hesitation, "But you were the one who wanted to replace it with two acres of fertile land!" ”

"Yes," Yuan Ning said firmly, "I did this." But my original plan was to open up a little more wasteland, and in addition to planting some vegetables for a few of us to eat, I wanted to plant some fruit trees, which would be easy to take care of. ”