Chapter 50: Buying Land
Ren Hanyue didn't know what the Ji family's father told the old village chief, anyway, the final result was that Ren Zixian's subordinates were nothing but the same in front of those fishermen, and all the fishermen who studied with them gave them enough respect and attention.
In addition, those fishermen also paid for three meals a day for their respective "masters", although they could only provide fish and shrimp cakes and other things, but compared to the things they and their families ate, they had obviously left the best for Ren Zixian's subordinates.
The days passed in this atmosphere of overall harmony and occasional reaction, until December 18, the third year of Yongguang.
On this day, Deng Qin, who was ten months pregnant, gave birth to a pair of twin sons for Deng Xibin.
Deng Xibin, who has been staying at home because his wife's delivery is approaching, is anxious at first, then ecstatic, and his stupid appearance doesn't know how many jokes he caused, but he didn't care about it, and only watched his two sons giggle every day.
By the time Deng Qin's two little babies were washed, the work of teaching the villagers to identify and clean shellfish was finally over.
The female relatives of Ji, Wang, and Ren all came to Deng's house early in the morning to assist Deng Xibin in handling the trivial matters of washing San.
As for the little radish heads of the Ren family and the Ji family, they are too young, and no one expects them to do even the work of washing vegetables and selecting vegetables, so a few little babies ran outside early to play with the children in the village.
Seeing that the Ren family sent people to teach their families how to identify and clean shellfish, more than eighty percent of the families in the village sent their daughters to add pots to Deng Xibin's two sons on this day.
Although most of the fruits they add are longan, lychees, red dates, peanuts, chestnuts and other worthless happy fruits, it makes no difference whether they are more or less for the Wen Po who is responsible for washing the three, but there are so many people who pray for good luck for the newborn baby, and the Ren family, the Deng family and other people who really care about the child are very happy.
When he heard Ji Wushi say that he didn't expect so many people to come before, and the reserved table was not enough to be distributed, Ren Zixian immediately sent Gu Feng and Tang Yu to the town to urgently book a banquet.
The shopkeeper of Wu Da, who put food first, was very face-saving, and after instructing the kitchen to make the banquet that the Ren family wanted as quickly as possible, he personally prepared a courtesy for the man to bring to the Deng family.
When the large black lacquer food boxes were moved off the carriage one by one, the villagers who originally thought that the Deng family was only going to entertain visitors to eat noodles were dumbfounded.
When the banquet was put on the table, the woman who had eaten it whispered, "Oh my God!
The Deng family, or it should be said that the Ren family's generosity shocked everyone, and the curious woman couldn't help but pull the women of the same village who had a good personal relationship and bit each other's ears, "Doesn't it mean that this Deng family is just a servant of the Ren family?
The woman who was pulled by her was also puzzled and envious, "Who knows what's going on! If we knew that being a servant could do this, then we might as well be a servant for the Ren family!"
Not to mention that they are ordinary fishermen who are struggling on the food and clothing line, even in the relatively wealthy old village chief's family, no one has ever seen them give up a dozen taels of silver to wash their children and grandchildren.
What's more, this Deng family is just a servant of the Ren family!
If it weren't for the fact that when Ren Zixian came back, Deng Qin's family was already pregnant for several months, they couldn't help but wonder about the origin of these two children.
The women who ate with their mouths full of oil returned to their homes with a stomach full of envy and jealousy, and then the rumor that the Ren family was very rich spread as fast as long feet.
If it weren't for the fact that the twenty-two people, including Ren Zixian, Deng Xibin, Gu Feng, and Tang Yu, would not be easy to mess with, the Ren family would not know how many bad people would covet it.
The father of the Ji family specially called Ren Zixian over for this matter and told him, he first talked about the disadvantages of being rich and famous, and then reminded Ren Zixian to beware of the idea of bad people beating the women and children in the family.
Ren Zixian knew that what the old man said was right, he thanked the father of the Ji family with a deep gift, and after returning home, he arranged for his twenty subordinates to take turns in the village to guard the women and children of the Ren family and the Deng family.
After three or four days of such peace, Ji Yayu, who had been busy for nearly twenty days, finally managed to get together nearly 300 acres of fine and medium fields that the owner intended to sell.
After receiving the message he had people bring, Ren Zixian and Deng Xibin went to see all the fields that Ji Yayu had collected, accompanied by Brother Ji.
Brother Ji, who was responsible for helping Ren Zixian and Deng Xibin inspect the quality of the land, carefully looked at all the plots, and told Ren Zixian about the fertility of these fields, the good or bad geographical location, and the reasonableness of the price of the owner of the fields.
Ji Yayu was a little depressed, Brother Ji's attitude of completely standing on the buyer's position, and those who were picked on his own fields by him couldn't control their faces turned blue, if it weren't for the irrefutable facts that Brother Ji said, and Ren Zixian, who was said to have people and money, was a kind of attitude that he would believe whatever Brother Ji said, and the owners of those fields would not be able to help but sneer.
They endured their anger and warned themselves over and over again in their hearts not to be impulsive - even if Ren Zixian didn't buy it, their good land could continue to be sold to other families, for the sake of Brother Ji's few words of truth, they really couldn't offend someone like Ren Zixian, who was not easy to mess with at first glance.
However, to their surprise, Ren Zixian did not stop buying their fields because Brother Ji picked a lot of problems with them, he just smiled and asked Ji Yayu to discuss with them and let them come up with a more reliable price.
Brother Ji's words are there, if the owners of those fields want to make this deal, it is inevitable to make a slight concession on the price.
Those who were in a hurry to use the money quickly made concessions, and the few who were not very short of money proposed to Ji Yayu to wait and see for a while.
Ren Zixian doesn't care, anyway, the only silver he can take out to buy land is the 2,300 taels he got from selling recipes before, and these money can only be used to buy land, and he can only buy about 200 acres when he is full.
For those who are willing to make concessions, the combined land is enough for him to spend the money.
In the end, Ren Zixian bought 100 acres of high-grade land and 100 acres of medium-sized land through Ji Yayu, and in addition to the 2,300 taels in his hand, he also borrowed about 100 taels from his family.
This one hundred taels is usually accumulated by Deng Xibin's hunting, Yao Yuzhi and Deng Qin's embroidery, in addition to these, now there are only less than one hundred taels of scattered silver left in the Ren family's money box for domestic use.