was busy until the evening, and Qi Ning and Zhu took Zhu Wanfu back to the city before closing the city gate. In the evening, I invited Zhu Wanfu to have a roast duck meal, and arranged for him to live in a room with Zhu Ledger.

The next day, Qi Ning led Zhu Wanfu to the yamen with a thick stack of paper. Qi Ning found Master Zhou's house familiarly, knocked on the door and shouted, "Uncle Zhou." ”

Master Zhou said in the house: "Come in." It's Qi girl, what kind of wind blew you here? ”

"I'm not here to trouble Uncle, this is the head of Zhujia Village. Today, I beg you to help me separate this title deed, according to the deed on the list. Qi Ning put the paper on the table in front of Master Zhou.

"Sold so soon?" Master Zhou nodded at Village Chief Zhu, who gave him a gift, he knew about Qi Ning building a house and changing land, and he also advised Qi Ning to be cautious, but he didn't expect it to be done so quickly.

"There was a family that was originally working outside, so they didn't want a new house, so they sold their old yard and vegetable field to work in the south. There is only a small yard left, which can be kept for your own people in the future. It's a lot of covers. ”

Master Zhou read the list in detail, picked up the pen and carefully wrote the title deed for Qi Ning. I also read the documents that all the family members of Zhujia Village had fingerprinted, and wrote a land deed to Qi Ning.

"Girl, according to the law, you still have to pay taxes and silver, so be it, I will be in charge, you can pay two hundred taels, this is the minimum amount that I am exempted from in my office."

"Thank you, uncle, this is a silver ticket, you can take it." Qi Ning took out two silver tickets and handed them over.

Master Zhou inspected it and received it in the drawer.

"I left a big one for my uncle in front of the mountain in advance, and when it was hot, my uncle took his family to escape the heat."

Qi Ning pointed to the last row on the drawing, the second household on the east side, took out a bunch of keys and put them on the table. As Qi Ning expected, although the big yard was good, it was not as popular as the small yard, so Village Chief Zhu asked for two small yards and divided the two sons, and he followed the younger son.

"How can I ask for such a big gift from a girl? Put it away. "Master Zhou used to have a good relationship with Qi Ning and Jing Su, but now Jing Su is the commander of the guard army in the capital, a serious four-grade official. Where would he dare to accept a little master.

"Uncle, don't see outside, I didn't give you this for the deed, and our friendship doesn't need these, I don't have a father or a mother, thanks to your care over the years, or my shop business can be so prosperous, and I don't dare to go to me to make trouble, my gratitude to you is not something that a yard can express." Besides, your yard is in a row with the one I left for myself, we will be neighbors in the future, and I can go to your house to talk to my aunt in my spare time. Isn't my uncle willing to be a neighbor next to me, afraid that I won't be able to eat? ”

Qi Ning's good words came out in piles, although Jing Su is now an official in the capital, but the county official is not as good as the current management, and Master Zhou has indeed helped Qi Ning a lot, and Qi Ning also treats him as an elder.

"This, since the girl has said so, I am ashamed to accept it, let your aunt cook some good dishes another day, and invite you to dinner." Master Zhou pulled the key into the drawer.

"Thank you, Uncle Zhou, you are busy. We'll go first, and I'll go see my aunt another day. Uncle Zhou stayed. Qi Ning and Zhu Wanfu returned to Zhujia Village with a large stack of land deeds.

Zhujia Village was very lively, and many families cleaned their houses overnight and began to pack up and move, because the deadline given by Qi Ning was five days to demolish the old houses. Fortunately, most of them are adobe thatched houses, and it is not troublesome to dismantle.

Qi Ning asked Village Chief Zhu to gather all the people and issue them the land deeds one by one.

Some people excitedly fumbled for the words they didn't know on the paper, and tears came down.

They toiled for half their lives, lived in adobe thatched houses, and ate coarse grains, although they grew rice, they could not afford to eat themselves. Now that Qi Ning has let them move into a new house without spending any money, and they have reduced their rent, and now Qi Ning is the Guanyin who saves the suffering in their hearts.

"Everyone has collected the title deed, once it is lost, it will be a trouble, and in five days I will bring someone to measure the land, and whoever wants to rent as much land as he wants, will report it to me. It is still the rent that I said earlier that I will be exempt for three years, and I will receive 10% of the rent in the fourth year and 5 years later. Do you all understand? If you don't understand, ask now. Qi Ning looked at the people around.

"We all understand, we will all wait for the girl when the time comes." After that, everyone went back to move and pack up their things.

"Uncle Zhu, your family's big brother Xiuwu, don't you have a job now?" Qi Ning said to Zhu Wanfu beside him.

"I helped dry the house a few days ago, and it will be fine when it's finished."

"Let him go to the mountains and follow Qi Zhong to raise chickens and ducks, and then go to the city every few days to pull wine lees." The salary is the same as Qi Zhong's, 500 wen a month, let him work hard, and there will be rewards at the end of the year for doing a good job. Qi Ning planned to let Zhu Xiuwu drive the cart to the city to pull the wine lees in the future, and usually served chickens and ducks on the mountain and did some groceries.

"Hey, hey. Thank you, owner, I'll call him tomorrow. Zhu Wanfu happily trotted home.

"The owner." Sister-in-law Zhu looked at Qi Ning hesitantly: "I still owe you silver!" Do I have any more work to do? ”

"Sister-in-law Zhu, don't worry, did you send you your salary Zhu from the account room a few days ago?"

"It's sent, it's sent monthly."

"I've met your son a few times, he is very smart and clever, I want him to come to my shop to be a buddy and run the hall, like others, five hundred wen a month, and there will be a reward at the end of the year for a good job, and three hundred wen will be deducted every month to pay for the house, are you willing?"

Qi Ning liked Zhu Shishi very much, and wanted to let him run with Tie Niu first, and cultivate reserve strength for himself.

"I thank you, owner, I know that you are bent on helping our orphans and widows. I'll make sure he does a good job, and I'll call the stone over this time. ”

"Sister-in-law, don't worry, if you are free, help me dig some tender bamboo shoots, I will collect two pennies a catty, if you are too busy, you can accept other people's cheaper, and you can also earn some silver." Bamboo shoots are worthless all over the mountain, and the price of selling them in the market is only three pennies and two catties.

Sister-in-law Zhu thanked Qi Ning and bowed deeply, and trotted home to call her son.

Qi Ning waited for Sister-in-law Zhu to send the stone with a burden, so she went back with the stone.

When he returned to the store, he asked Tie Niu to take him to take a bath and find a house to live in, and instructed Aunt Qi and Zhao to make two sets of new clothes and two pairs of shoes for Shi Shi at night. The stone clothes really couldn't be taken out of the door, the patches were almost covering the original cloth, and the shoes were leaking toes.

Five days later, Qi Ning got up before dawn to eat, and returned to Zhujia Village with Handong and Zhu's account.

The village has been razed to the ground. This is also what Qi Ning said at the beginning, those wood and stones that can be used when they are dismantled are pulled back by the people in the village and kept for future use, and some people's houses are not enough to live in, so they plan to build a few more.

The adobe walls were also torn down, and even the brick courtyard of the rich man Zhu was demolished cleanly, and the bricks and tiles were pulled away by the villagers.

Qi Ning took a group of people around the old site of the village and carefully measured it all morning, the entire village area is more than 320 acres, the yard accounts for more than 160 acres, and the rest are the original vacant land, roads and vegetable gardens. The vacant land and roads did not cost money, and it cost nearly three thousand six hundred and fifty taels to buy the entire village.

The forty acres of land in the new yard plus the building of houses, each house earned five taels of silver, and also got a bamboo house and a room of furniture.

One back and forth is equivalent to no loss or profit on the dry land. It is equivalent to 3,650 taels of silver to buy 320 acres of paddy fields, and Qi Ning still earned more than 1,000 taels. Qi Ning took the drawn picture and returned to Zhujia New Village. When everyone saw Qi Ning coming, they summoned their family and neighbors to huhula and come around.

"Whoever moves me a table, and those who want to rent land come to me to report the number."

Without waiting for the table to come, everyone rushed to report the number.

"I'm not going to say anything, although I have waived the rent for three years, you have to put the land back for yourselves, and you have to dig the aqueduct yourself."

"It's not called a job, I took a few kids and it was ready in a few days. It's too late to plant. A man patted his chest.

"Even if there is ready-made labor at home, the girl just rest assured, we will do a good job."

"But in the first year, everyone plans to plant beans first, so that the beans can be loosened, and then change to paddy fields next year." Village Chief Zhu said.

"You can do these things yourself, as long as you serve the ground well, the life of the big guy will get better and better."