The head of the grange spoke first: "Guys, do you plan to sell or exchange that piece of land?" ”

Xia Chun asked rhetorically: "What do you say about selling, and what do you say about changing?" ”

Tian Fu had already calculated it in his heart, and smiled slightly: "At the current price, sell the land for 4,000 yuan per mu, and we will exchange two acres for you for one acre." ”

"What? Grange head, you can't be mistaken, right? Shu Yan immediately stood up and asked Tian Fu: "It wasn't this price last time, it was obviously 5,005 baht, how did it change to 4,000 yuan per mu?" And the land exchange is not such a way to change, you said that you can exchange three acres for one acre, how can it become two acres for one acre now? ”

Tian Fu sneered: "Last time was last time, now is now, current price, do you understand?" ”

When Xia Tingchang heard it, it was obvious that the Shi family wanted to deliberately lower the price and bully the two children, is this worth it?

"Don't quarrel with the two of you, whether this deal is based on the price agreed upon last time orally, or the current price, as long as both parties are willing, it is reasonable. If the head of the grange insists on the current price, it is okay. ”

Tian Fu was happy when he heard it, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, the transaction should be at the current price now." ”

Shu Yan blushed anxiously: "Grandpa Xia, why are you ......?" ”

"Yan'er, you sit down first." Xia Chun waved his hand to him, then turned to Tian Fu and said, "Now that the Great Jin Emperor Weijia is in the sea, the war has subsided, except for Sun Wu who still lives in Jiangzuo, the world is already peaceful. The imperial court encouraged the displaced people to return to their hometowns, and the common people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the land price was sure to rise year by year. As a pavilion chief, as a Chinese witness, I have experienced a lot of land sales in the past two years, and there has never been a drop in land prices. ”

"What are you fighting for, what are you going up and down, it's so boring!" Shi De listened from the sidelines, he didn't understand these things at all. He felt impatient, what four thousand, five thousand, isn't it just a few five baht, is it worth fighting for like this? He is the same age as Shu Yan, Shu Yan has already run independently for the livelihood of the whole family, and he is still basically in an infant state. He saw that Shu Yan was so excited about this matter, and felt funny, how did he know how many winter clothes a thousand five baht money could make for Shu Han's family, and how much medicine could be grabbed for Father-in-law Xie and Zhixin's mother!

The head of the Grange was silent.

Shi Deben said something unintentionally, Zhixin listened to it, but thought he was talking for their own family, she was angry at the Shi family's rebellion, rubbed her feet and stood up, crossed her waist, and said angrily: "Father-in-law Xia, their Shi family is not trustworthy, let's go, don't trade with people like them." ”

When Tian Fu saw that Zhixin wanted to leave, he immediately panicked. He thought: "The construction of a water mill by the Ru River is something that my master has been planning for a long time, and if this is messed up, the master of the house will never spare me." Although he was a little flustered, he pretended to be calm again, and his face returned to calm: "Hmph, even if you don't think about the people on both sides of the Ru River, you should always think about your family, don't think I don't know, both of you have a patient waiting for this money to take medicine." ”

Zhixin was hit by her, and she didn't want to mess up the deal either. Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, there is nothing at home, even if I don't buy any New Year's goods, but my mother's illness may happen again one day, and if I do it again, I really have no money to buy medicine.

Shi De heard on the side that Zhixin's family didn't even have the money to catch medicine, and said puzzledly: "Your family doesn't have five baht money, don't you even have gold, silver, pearls and jade or something?" ”

In a word, it almost amused everyone. Shu Yan and Zhixin didn't refute him, because they understood that Shi De was really ignorant of the world, and he was not malicious to ridicule them.

Ah Miao was beside him, lying in Shi De's ear and whispered: "Young master, don't talk nonsense, people will laugh, of course they have no money, otherwise how could they come to sell land?" ”

"Oh, if they really don't have any money, Ah Miao, go to my house and bring them my golden locks."

Tian Zhuangtou hurriedly stopped: "Little boy, that golden lock was worn by you since you were a child, how can you give it away easily, the old lady will be angry." Today you just have to sit and don't worry about anything, and just sign at the end. ”

Shi De felt bored, so he instructed Ah Miao, "Go and get pen and ink Danqing." When Ah Miao heard the command, she knew that he wanted to paint, and that painting was better than talking nonsense and making jokes here, so she hurriedly brought over the paper, pen, ink, and paint. Shi De is only 14 years old, but he has been painting for several years. Unlike Shu Han's family, his family has never been short of paper, and he can practice whenever he wants. Shi De's calligraphy is good, and he is even more hobby of painting. He glanced at Zhixin and began to paint.

The crowd did not have him leisurely and continued to negotiate. Neither side was willing to make concessions, neither dared to miss the deal, and it was a stalemate.

After being silent for a long time, Chief Xia Tingchang spoke first to mediate: "I don't think it's better to do this, take a compromise approach, half sell and half exchange." ”

The head of the grange asked, "Why do you sell it for half and exchange it for half?" ”

"It's that the Shu and Han families use their high-quality land to exchange for the Shi family's second-class land, and then the Shi family replenishes the difference, what do you think?"

In fact, this method is also what Dr. Shu meant. Before leaving, Dr. Shu instructed Shu Yan that this field could not be sold, and no matter how much money it sold, it would always run out one day, and it would be terrible to have no food and clothing. It is best to use a compromise method: use your own good land to exchange for a slightly inferior land, and use the difference in price to solve the urgent need, and the source of food and clothing will not be cut off in the future, and the Shi family can also build his water mill, and the people can also get convenience.

When Tian Zhuang heard this, it was not a matter of such a stalemate, and it was good to break the stalemate, "Please tell Pavilion Chief Xia to be more specific." ”

"Yan'er, you can tell me the specific change." Xia Tingchang thought that it was not appropriate for him to say it directly as an intermediary, his role was to mediate between the two parties, and if the Shi family was suspicious of the high price, he would be able to match it.

Shu Yan understood, so he said: "I think this is good, one acre for another, but we don't want the kind of last land you said last time, that kind of land that your wealthy family has a use, at least it can be used as a racetrack, but it is useless for us at all." We want a second-class or a third-class class. If it is second-class land, one mu for one mu, and each mu will give us the difference of 2,500 yuan; If it is a third-class land, one mu for one mu, and each mu will give us the difference of 3,000 yuan. ”

Unexpectedly, Tian Zhuangtou kept shaking his head: "No, no, it's too high." ”

Xia Tingchang immediately played the role of a middleman: "I think so, whether to change to the second or third class, this choice is decided by the Shi family, as for the price difference, I will make a decision for you, the second class will make up 2,000 yuan per mu, and the third class will make up 2,500 yuan per mu." ”

Tian Zhuangtou showed a hesitant look: "Pavilion Chief Xia said so, I can't make the decision either, I'll go and ask my master." ”

Tian Fu turned to leave, and Xia Chun stopped him: "Tian Zhuangtou, if General Shi agrees, you can take the title deed by the way; If he doesn't agree, please get back to us as soon as possible, and we'll go back, but we'll never give in again. ”

Shi Hui's elegant meeting was not over, and after listening to Tian Fu's explanation, without thinking, he handed over a land deed of third-class land to Tian Fu, and notified the account office to withdraw 95,000 baht.

According to the third-class land, the price difference per mu is 2,500 yuan, the Shu family is 20 acres, the Han family is 10 acres, the Shu family and the Han family add up to a total of 30 acres of land, it should be 75,000 yuan is enough, why does Tian Fu have to pay 90,000 yuan? It turned out that Tian Fu reported to Shi Hui that the price difference per mu was 3,000 yuan, not 2,500. In this way, he received fifteen thousand private money from it.

Tian Fu first withdrew the 15,000 money from the tent and took it out of the house with his henchmen. Why did he dare to take private money so blatantly? When talking about the transaction, Ming Shi De and Ah Miao were also present? It turned out that Tian Fu knew that Shi De was a gentleman, and he was still young, so he didn't care about these things at all; What about Ah Miao, her duty is to serve the little young master, as for the price to talk about, basically she doesn't care much, and as a slave, she can't talk nonsense in Shifu, so Tian Fu is very relieved.

Tian Fu, Shu Yan and Zhixin exchanged land deeds, and the two parties signed the contract and wrote the documents. It's time to sign and draw, Shu Yan signed it first, it's time for the Han family. Zhixin is a girl, after all, she is an outsider, and it is inconvenient to sign, although Ruoxin is small, but after all, she is the root of the Han family, so Ruoxin will sign it. On the Shi family's side, Tian Fu can't do it for him, and he must sign it for the Shi family.

During this time, Shi De was engrossed in painting, completely unaware of the content of the conversation, and when he was asked to sign, he was still seriously smearing something with black paint. Everyone was waiting for him, but he ignored him.

After a long time, Shi De excitedly raised the painting to Zhixin and said, "Okay, okay, the painting is finished, what do you think of Zhixin?" ”

Zhixin turned her head to see that the painting was a cardamom girl, wearing a red dress, wearing a double bun, fair skin, crossed her waist, pouting, and glaring angrily, which was exactly what she was angry just now, and the painting was vivid, especially a pair of eyes that had just been seriously painted with black paint, which was even more expressive, and the left side of the painting was also marked with the words "skin like clotted fat".

Zhixin was about to lose her temper, and blamed Shi for painting herself without her consent, but when she saw this painting and painted herself so beautifully, half of her anger disappeared: "Without my consent, how can you paint me casually?" ”

"Who said it was you who painted, there are more than 100 women in my house, and you can paint them casually, what does it matter to you!" Shi has to be cheating.

"You——? Hum! ”

Seeing Zhixin's helpless appearance, Shi De then held up another painting, smiled at Zhixin, and said in a long voice, "It doesn't matter if that painting is yours or not, but this one may be you-"

Zhixin looked at the painting, which depicted a girl with a corner of talent, dressed in dirty clothes, black hands and face, messy hair with a few thatches, shoes on her feet and exposed toes, and the left side of the painting was also embellished with four words: "skin is like ink". Zhixin suddenly remembered that this was the image of being sarcastically applied when she was weeding in the fields by the Ru River a few years ago, and her little face immediately turned red with anger: "You-bastard, tear it up quickly!" Zhixin reached out and grabbed it.

Shi had to dodge, and when he saw Zhixin's flushed face, he was even more proud: "Why should I tear it, is this you?" Is this you? If you want to admit that you painted it, I'll tear it up right away. ”

Shu Yan was also disgusted with Shi De's pranks, but he was angry and angry, and he had to admire Shi De's talent in painting. When he saw the first painting, he was really surprised, Zhixin in the painting was vivid, and he couldn't help but admire Shide's painting skills, which were indeed exquisite. Shi De's second painting was painted little by little by recalling the scene many years ago, which surprised Shu Yan even more, Shi De was not only good at painting, but also his memory was quite strong.

Of course, Zhixin didn't want to admit it, so she was ashamed and angry, and came to grab the painting.

Shi De hid behind a few cases, then ran out of the house again, sticking out his tongue at Zhixin outside the door.

Shu Yan persuaded Zhixin: "If he loves to paint, he will paint, his hand is on him, he can paint as much as he likes, in his house, you can't catch him, let's sign it quickly, get the money and go back to Aunt Han and Gonggong Xie to get medicine." ”

Zhixin also thought: She and her younger brother have been out for a long time, I don't know how my mother is now, anyway, I can't help this bastard, it's better to let him go, paint how you like, and go home early is the right thing.

Shi De saw Zhixin sit down and no longer grab the painting, so he didn't feel at ease, so he asked Ah Miao to take the painting to his room first, and then sat down. He didn't even look at the paperwork before signing his name. Xia Chun looked at the signatures of Shu Yan, Ruoxin, and Shi De, Shu Yan's vigor, Shi De's elegantness, Ruoxin's words are also very good, but after all, they are still young, slightly immature, and the words of the three people are all excellent calligraphy.

Although Xia Chun is the pavilion chief, he is just a small official who does not enter the stream, he has not read many books, and his handwriting really can't be compared with the three of them, but helplessly, if you are ugly, you will be ugly, who made himself the middleman, he signed his name in the position of the middleman. After the four of them finished signing, they stretched out their index fingers at their respective names and drew three lines at the three knuckles to show the drawing.

After Shu Yan finished drawing, he looked at his fingers, and a thought suddenly flashed in his mind: Now I, Ruoxin, and Shi De are still young, and their bodies have not yet matured, and when they grow up in the future, their fingers have become longer, isn't this charge painted in vain, and Zhixin and I will definitely not regret it, but I don't know what the Shi family thinks. He was thinking nonsense here, but he heard Shi De say, "Hey, you two don't have to pay in the future!" ”

"Why should we go back on it?" Zhixin asked him.

"We are still young now, and the words we write in the future will definitely change compared to now, plus our fingers will definitely become longer in the future, and the handwriting and drawing will be different, and when you run out of money, don't regret it and cheat."

Everyone was a little surprised when they heard this, and they couldn't help but be impressed by Shide. Others didn't think of this, Shi De, don't look at the usual don't ask about the world, but when you are smart, you are far better than others.

Xia Tingchang smiled and said, "Don't worry, there is me in the horizontal and vertical side!" ”

"You- at such an age, what if you die?"

Shi De's words made Xia Tingchang's face turn pale with anger: "You wealthy families control the government, you are the only one who oppresses the people, how dare the people fight with the wealthy!" ”

Tian Zhuangtou thought to himself: Although Shi De's worries are reasonable, how did he know at a young age that his father had connections everywhere from the imperial court to the county, and only the wealthy bullied the poor, but he had never heard of the poor bullying the wealthy, so he was not worried at all.

Shu Yan said: "Shi Gongzi, I also thought of what you said, don't worry, people don't stand without faith, we won't regret it." ”

Zhixin said angrily: "Who is such a scoundrel as your family? Not only is he a scoundrel, but he actually curses Grandpa Xia! Hmph, Brother Yan, let's go, we don't want to stay here for a moment. ”

Tian Fu led them to the account office to collect the money. Shu Yan and Zhixin have never seen so much money when they are so big, Shu Yan's family is 55,000 baht, and Zhixin's family is 25,005 baht. That's enough to keep them going for many years.

Zhixin lowered her head and was thinking about something, she pulled Shu Yan and said, "Brother Yan, the five-baht coin is so heavy, and the market is unstable, why don't we change some silk and silk or something to go back." ”

Silk and silk could also be used as currency at that time.

Shu Yan also agreed: "Okay, anyway, the Shi family has money, grain, silk, and silk." ”

The Shi family's treasury has what they want, the five baht money is piled up into a mountain, the silk and silk are also stacked all over the house, and the grain in the granary is countless. Shu Yan and Zhixin both changed some silk silks, and several people took money, hired cars, and hurried back to Shujiazhuang.