The village chief, about forty years of age, was dressed in gray burlap, and slightly better than the rest of the village was that his clothes were washed white but not patched.

Behind him was a mud house, with a fence in the yard, some firewood piled up in the house, and no chickens and ducks.

Jin Xi blessed him, and he wiped his hands on his sleeve a little crampedly, feeling a little nervous.

"I can't do it, I can't do it"

"Come in and sit down, nobleman"

Although there were only a few girls who didn't get out of the carriage, and they were only wearing cotton clothes and no silk and satin, but that's it, the village chief also knew that their identities were extraordinary, at least much better than the people in their village.

The village has just passed the autumn harvest, and the grain of each family is returned to the house, but there is a lot of work.

Most of the villagers are busy in the fields, and only a few women who are responsible for cooking and washing the house have some time to spare.

The older ladies gathered outside the village chief's house and watched as the village chief welcomed the people from the carriage in.

The village chief's daughter-in-law poured two bowls of water and put some coarse tea in them.

"The family is poor and can't afford to buy good tea, don't dislike a few nobles" The village chief was a little nervous, even if the other party didn't look old, he didn't dare to slack off.

Dou'er Village is remote and far away from the county seat, if it weren't for the fact that the official errand had to come to collect taxes every year, he wouldn't be able to repair the official road.

Even so, the road was narrow and rugged, and most of the people in the village never went out, and no outsiders came in, except for a few merchants who walked through the streets and alleys to sell some goods in the village.

This is the first time that this carriage has entered the village.

"The village chief is polite"

Bai Xia sat upright, took a sip of tea with a smile, although it was only a small sip, it made the village chief feel at ease.

He had never received any distinguished guests, and he was very nervous.

Sitting on the chair, looking at Bai Xia in front of him and a few maids in front of him, he wanted to ask them what they meant, but he didn't know how to speak.

"That's the case, the village chief, my young lady's surname is Xia, the family suffered a disaster during the drought, and came to Xuzhou to join relatives, but after arriving in Xuzhou, the relatives don't know where they went, and our master and servant have nowhere to go, I happened to pass by Qingyang County, I heard that although Douer Village is poor, it is a quiet and peaceful place."

"When my young lady came to look for relatives, she sold her family's ancestral homestead and land, and it was not good to go back, and she wanted to find relatives, so she wanted to buy a house here for you to settle down."

Yu Dahai also followed, and without Bai Xia opening his mouth, he explained to the village chief the intention of several people.

When the village chief heard this, not only did he not look happy, but his face was embarrassed.

Outside the village chief's house, someone probed his brain and looked inside.

"This ...... It's not that I won't keep you, it's just that there has never been a precedent for our village to keep outsiders."

"This young lady looks like she is from a rich and noble family, and our country is not suitable for taking it in, so how many of you can take it...... Why don't you go to the county seat to see? ”

Although Dou'er Village is poor, it will never take in outsiders easily.

Nowadays, most of the villages are one village and one clan, and at most two ethnic groups live together, and the chief of the village is in charge, the village chief manages the daily affairs, and the patriarch is the actual person in charge of the village.

So because of this, even if the village is poor, it is very united.

If something happens to one family, it can really cause the whole village to come out.

Don't say Xuzhou, this is also the case in other state capitals of Daxia.

Before coming here, Bai Xia and the others had already gone to several villages, but they were all rejected.

Originally, there were more than a dozen people, but in order to eliminate the vigilance of the villagers, their manpower was reduced little by little, until now, only the three girls of Bai Xia and Yu Dahai, a man in the prime of life, remained.

"It's not a secret, my young lady also wants to go to the county seat to buy a house to live in peace, but Qingyang County really doesn't have a suitable house to sell to us, and the surrounding villages have also been visited, if there is no way, we won't come all the way here" Seeing that the village chief was unwilling, Yu Dahai made a face and said the truth.

"I saw that the roads in the village were muddy and the houses were very simple, and my young lady came here to hire people to work, and it was also considered to bring some income to the people in the village."

"And although my young lady is far away to join her relatives, she really wants to wait for her relatives to come back, so she is looking for land to live here, and we also have some relationships outside, and we know some businessmen who sell grain, if I can let my young lady stay here, I may be able to make the life of the big guy better."

Yu Dahai approached the village chief, took out a silver horn from his sleeve pocket, and stuffed it into the village chief's hand.

"You are accommodating, this idea is a sweet mouth for the big guys in the village"

After speaking, Feng Jinxi, who was standing on the side, also took out a small packet of caramel from the package he was carrying.

Dou'er Village is so poor that it only eats one meal a day, and every household basically has no silver deposits, this silver horn is afraid that there is not half a penny, where did the village chief take so much money, and he has some intention in his heart, and he thinks about the rules left by his ancestors, and he will never accept people with foreign surnames, and he is in a dilemma for a while.

"Alas, look at how polite you are, don't you just want to buy a house in the village, I see that there is a house in the village, which was originally lived by our cousin, and he went there for a few years, and now it is deserted, if this young lady doesn't mind, what is it like there?"

"It's just that it's out of the village, and it's outside the village."

"The rules of our village really can't be messed up, if they do, the clan elders will have to break our legs."

The village chief hadn't spoken yet, he kept staring at the movement outside, and saw the village chief's daughter-in-law with a silver horn in Yu Dahai's hand walking out with the excuse of adding water, and as she spoke, she gave the village chief a look.

The village chief himself was a little moved.

It's not for the silver scorn and caramel candy, it's purely for the grain merchant that Yu Dahai said.

This year's harvest in the village is not good, last year's drought in Ganzhou still affected the weather here, confiscated how much grain came up, after paying the tax, everyone tightened their belts to live.

Usually no one left the village, but when there was no food, he took some of the children in the village out.

The price of grain is still 50 wen a catty.

It's ridiculously expensive.

These days, he was worried about how the people in the village would live, so he met Bai Xia and them.

"Boss, you see that Miss Xia is only so old, what a poor person"

The village chief's daughter-in-law added water, and she was not ready to leave here, for fear that the village chief would follow the rules and really drive people away.

But she saw that the young lady was wearing a silver bracelet on her hand, and although her clothes were only cotton clothes, they were brand new without a single patch.

It is said that the eldest granddaughter of her family is not much younger than this Miss Xia, but her face is black, she doesn't have a few hairs, she is thin and thin, and she looks like a refugee.

She kept giving the village chief a look.

The meaning is nothing more than that this is a few girls' homes, what problems can there be, and it looks soft and weak, and there is no situation that cannot be managed.

If it is really like what they say, you can hire someone to do the work, and you can also bring some income to the village, isn't it better than now? (End of chapter)