On this day, Zhao Yunlan was drying quilts in the yard, and the village chief came to Li's house with two officials.

Zhao Yunlan hurriedly washed her hands, and asked Li Mingren to greet the official first, Zhao Yunlan went to make three bowls of tea, and now that the economic conditions are good, Zhao Yunlan will prepare some tea at home. The village chief picked up the teacup and sighed that the life of the Li family had changed so quickly.

Many people in the village knew that an official had gone to Li Ping'an's house, but they were curious, and they ran to Li's house to join in the fun. Old man Li was working in the field, and when he heard someone calling him, saying that there was an official errand at home, he didn't care about taking a hoe, so he ran home, and Li Mingli had to pick up the hoe behind him and run along.

The Li family has arrived, and everyone in the village has been arranged by Zhao Yunlan to sit in the courtyard, and everyone who has not enough stools doesn't care, so they found a place to stand. The official drank tea, rested for a while, took out the paperwork and read it out in front of everyone. The approximate meaning is that the prefect approved Zhao Yunlan to plant peppers, and only Zhao Yunlan's family was allowed to plant, and the villagers were not allowed to destroy it at will, steal it, and once they found it, they would eat the board. The prefect of Liu asked the county magistrate of Xihe County to approve a piece of land in Qingshui Town to specialize in planting peppers, and Zhao Yunlan was responsible for the specific matters, and the county magistrate of this land was intended to approve it in Lijia Village.

There was an uproar in the village, originally guessing what this pepper was, and then being surprised because Zhao Yunlan was valued by the prefect. Li Ping'an felt a burst of pride in his heart, take a look, this is the daughter-in-law of my old Li family.

Li Mingren was also proud: Take a look! This is my lady.

Zhao Yunlan took the paperwork, and the official messenger planned to go back to the county office, Zhao Yunlan hurriedly asked Li Mingmei to get a few pieces of soap and some sweet potato flour and give them to the two official brothers.

Originally, the official didn't want to ask for any benefits, after all, this was the case that Governor Liu personally went to the county government to find the county magistrate of Xihe County to explain. But Zhao Yunlan insisted on giving it, and the official saw that it was just sweet potato flour, and he didn't notice the few pieces of soap, but he didn't think it was a valuable thing, so he accepted it and hurried back to the county. When they returned to the county, they saw that there was soap in the package, and now the people in the county basically knew about the scented soap, and the two were a little apprehensive, and decided to tell the county order, and the county order pondered for a few seconds: "It's okay, you can take it." ”

Since the Li family village knew that Zhao Yunlan was helping the prefect do things, everyone was in awe of the Li family. The villagers of Lijia Village found that Li Ping'an's family was still the same as before, and they did not take any shelf, so they resumed their previous attitudes, and they should have made fun of Old Man Li as usual, but they were faintly envious of Old Man Li This is a simple person who enjoys great blessings.

The days passed like this, Li Mingli was sixteen years old, Zhao Yunlan got up early in the morning and made a bowl of longevity noodles for Li Mingli, lay down an egg, and the Li brothers also came back. Wang made a new set of clothes for Li Mingli, and the old man Li wrapped a small red envelope for Li Mingli, the red envelope was indeed very small, and Li Mingyi didn't need to open it to know that there were only ten cents in it. Lee Ming-in wrote a birthday congratulatory message to Lee Myung-li. Li Mingyi also gave a red envelope, but he had one or two or six dollars. Mingming and Mingmei gave Li Mingli a small hoe made of silver. It's not okay to give Li Ming Lile.

After the family had eaten, the village chief came to inform Li Mingli to go and see Ding Tian. Most of the fields in the mouth are next to the Li family's fields, and Yongye fields are the mountains that Zhao Yunlan and they were optimistic about before. The people in the village had no opinion, but they were happy that Li Mingli asked for that remote mountainous land.

The formalities were completed smoothly, and Li Mingli could be regarded as having his own land. As soon as Zhao Yunlan saw Li Mingli's field division paperwork, she immediately couldn't wait to go to the village chief to buy the rest of the mountain.

The village chief didn't ask much, thinking that Zhao Yunlan was helping the yamen now, so he nodded directly and agreed. Zhao Yunlan bought the remaining hill and spent 112 taels, plus various handling fees for the land deed, a total of 120 taels were given to the village chief.

The village chief saw that Zhao Yunlan was happy, so he asked: "Before, the official said that he would divide a piece of land in our village, do you have a good idea of which land?" ”

Zhao Yunlan thought for a while, yes, this place was chosen by me, and then looked up at the village chief, thinking that since the village chief asked herself, she must have a plan, and asked, "Is there any spare land on the village chief's side?" ”

The village chief did not hide it: "Next to the hill you bought." ”

Zhao Yunlan thought about it, yes! The surrounding mountains are empty, and the people in the village are reluctant to share that piece of mountainous land, hey, the mountain grass is still quite lush, and it should be okay to grow peppers. Zhao Yunlan looked up at the village chief, "Uncle village chief, then ask for that piece!" Trouble the village chief's uncle to go to the county government and say it, just zoning that piece of land! ”

Village Chief Li was happy, this land was finally wanted. Zhao Yunlan is also happy, now that the imperial court has requisitioned that piece of land, she can borrow the manpower and material resources of the government to open a road down there! Zhao Yunlan was playing fast in her heart. After coming out of the village chief's house, he trotted all the way home.

Zhao Yunlan called Li Mingren and Li Mingli: "Xianggong, help me draw up the contract, after writing it, please send the contract to the third brother, let Brother Deng take a look at it first, if there is anything you don't understand, you can discuss it again, if there is no problem, let Brother Deng sign it first, if you move over, you still have to wait a little longer, and the place to live here has not been thought out yet." ”

Li Mingli thought for a while: "Sister-in-law, there is a relatively flat place in the mountain, but you can build a hut, and it is enough to live in Brother Deng's family." ”

Zhao Yunlan thought about it, that's fine, it's just that she has to clear out there quickly and then build the house.

Zhao Yunlan planned in her mind, and asked Li Mingren to draw a plan after writing the contract. Zhao Yunlan watched from the side and couldn't help but say, "Hey, when will I be able to build the house I live in!" Li Mingren didn't dare to squeak when he heard it.

After Zhao Yunlan got the title deed and documents of the mountain, she asked Old Man Li to help find someone in the village to reclaim the mountain. Zhao Yunlan gave a salary of 20 wen a day, it was cold, there was not much crop work, many people wanted to go outside to see if they could find helpers, now there is work to do in the village, every household knows about it and rushes to work, I am afraid that there will be no quota in the evening, which makes the old man Li busy and dizzy, what uncle wants to find the old man Li for a while, and what kind of five aunts pull the old man Li to talk for a while.

In the end, Zhao Yunlan came out and said, so that everyone should not worry, there is other work ahead. Zhao Yunlan drew up a task, and the mountain land rented by the county only said that the pepper was planted, but the mountain pepper stored in the Liu Governor's Mansion was not enough to be planted, so Zhao Yunlan had to put the mountain aside first and organize her own mountain first.

In this way, it will take a group of people to hoe the grass and reclaim it, and the large stones that have been reclaimed will be moved to the side to repair the road, and this road will also need a group of people, and then a house will be built for Deng Yong's family, and a group of people will be needed here. Zhao Yunlan began to recruit people after the plan, and basically recruited Zhao Yunlan, who was able to work hard in the village.

The county order allocated a sum of money to Zhao Yunlan, but Zhao Yunlan didn't think about fake public and private interests, two pieces of mountain and two account books, and Zhao Yunlan recorded these accounts one by one. Zhao Yunlan walked around the mountain several times, and finally found a barely smooth way down the mountain, and it was closer to the village, so it only needed to be leveled again, so it seemed that the two mountains were not remote. Of course, Zhao Yunlan still opened the money for the road repair with the county's account.

Deng Yong has been waiting at home since he signed the contract, and after waiting for a long time, no one came to pick him up, so he asked a neighbor to help take care of the family first, and he came to Lijia Village to see the situation.

Zhao Yunlan saw Deng Yong looking over there from afar, and hurried over: "Brother Deng, we haven't done it here yet, you still have to wait, the house is still a few days away from being built, and I will send someone to pick you up then." ”

Deng Yong was very moved, didn't say anything, and helped move the wood together.

Zhao Yunlan was worried that Deng Yong's wife would be inconvenient at home, so she urged Deng Yong to go home first.