Shen Xiaolou raised her head, a snowflake fell on her face, her brows furrowed, she knew that it would snow, she wouldn't go out. After hesitating for a while, she decided to move forward, and scolded her stomach as she went: if her body in the last days, let alone snow, she would not be afraid of the knife.

The snow was falling heavier and heavier, the wind was blowing snowflakes all over the sky, her eyes were almost unable to open, Shen Xiaolou regretted it, she should have gone back just now. She straightened up and stood for a moment, then walked straight towards Zhuangzi next door.

"Open the door, is anyone there?" Shen Xiaolou slammed the courtyard door hard.

It took several shouts before a voice responded, "Who?" Here it comes. Then the footsteps got closer.

The door opened, and a middle-aged man appeared in front of Shen Xiaolou, "Are you?" He looked at Shen Xiaolou, his eyes full of suspicion.

Shen Xiaolou was confident, "I'm the Zhuangzi next door, aren't you Zhuangzi going to sell?" I'll come over and take a look. "She was going to quietly probe the situation, isn't it snowing heavily? I just found a place to escape from the snow.

"Are you Miss Shen?" The man asked tentatively.

"Yes, it's me." Shen Xiaolou generously admitted it, and the person in his heart really knew her, and nine times out of ten it was the steward that Yang Zhuangtou said, "Steward Zhang?" ”

"Yes, yes, that's me." The suspicion in this person's eyes was gone, but his expression became very strange.

Shen Xiaolou knew what he was thinking, but he felt that it was too shocking for her to come to the door alone to talk about business. She pretended not to understand, "Isn't Steward Zhang inviting me in?" Or is Zhuangzi already making a move? ”

"No, no, no, Miss Shen, please come in! Look at me, I didn't expect Miss Shen to come to the door in person, I was too surprised for a while, I was sluggish, I was sluggish! Steward Zhang quickly came back to his senses and laughed with him, and his chubby face looked more loyal and honest.

Shen Xiaolou followed him into the courtyard, and with a sweep of his eyes, the layout of the entire courtyard was in full view.

The yard was large, but much more modest than hers, with three main rooms bare. There are two trees on the east side of the courtyard, one thicker and the other thinner, which look like fruit trees, but they are also bare, and I can't tell what kind of fruit trees they are.

"Zhuangzi is simple, and I don't even have a cup of tea, so I ask Miss Shen to forgive me." As soon as he sat down, Steward Zhang apologized and explained that he usually helps the master take care of other industries in the city, and he doesn't often come to Zhuangzi, so he has come more diligently recently, "It's a coincidence today, if it weren't for this heavy snowfall, I would have returned to the city." ”

"It doesn't matter." Shen Xiaolou smiled, even if there was tea, she wouldn't drink it, it was no better.

She looked around the room, except for a table and two benches, there was not even a brazier in the room, and it really didn't look like someone lived in it permanently.

"Miss Shen wants to buy Zhuangzi?" Manager Zhang didn't take Shen Xiaolou, a little girl, in his eyes at all, and went straight to the point.

"That's what I mean." Shen Xiaolou nodded reservedly.

"Don't tell the girl, this deal is really cost-effective, one hundred and fifty acres of land, only five hundred taels of silver, where can I find such a low price? That is, our master is in a hurry to exchange silver for ordinary times, how can he be willing to sell it? It's not down, our master has a good future, only the share of land, how can there be takeout? Isn't this a temporary turnover on hand? ”

Speaking of this, Steward Zhang still had a painful face, and then said in his heart: "Our two families are next to each other, how many years of friendship, if we want to sell land, we naturally have to close to our neighbors first, if we go over the neighbors and sell to others, don't say Miss Shen, you will feel uncomfortable, doesn't this make people poke our backbones?" It's not like that, everyone is particular about people, and they all know the roots, Miss Shen, do you say this is the reason? ”

"Yes, Steward Zhang is right." Shen Xiaolou nodded again and again, his expression extremely convincing.

In fact, she just echoed it, and didn't believe a word in her heart. Ha, don't say a word, she doesn't even believe in a single punctuation mark.

The smile on Steward Zhang's face deepened, and he was very glad that he was in Zhuangzi today, otherwise he wouldn't have seen this Shen girl, Yang Zhuangtou was so shrewd, how could there be a little girl who was so foolish?

What does the little girl know? Isn't it just what he says?

Thanks for this timely snow!

"Miss Shen is so discerning when she falls in love with our Zhuangzi......" Steward Zhang continued to speak, and saw Shen Xiaolou sit up straight suddenly, "What sound?" She listened with her ears sideways.

Steward Zhang's eyes flashed, and he said casually: "What's the sound?" Miss Shen misheard! ”

Shen Xiaolou insisted: "No, there is definitely a sound, right in this room, my ears are very sharp, I really heard it." ”

"Oh, probably a mouse." Manager Zhang said casually, "Miss Shen, let's talk about Zhuangzi." ”

Shen Xiaolou suddenly said, "Oh, it turned out to be a mouse, I said why there was a sound." These rats are so annoying that they not only plague the food, but also make people unable to sleep in the middle of the night. Hey, where did Steward Zhang go? And then and so on, and so on. ”

"Who's to say it isn't? In the countryside, everything else is fine, but there are too many mice. Steward Zhang smiled and continued the previous topic, "Our Zhuangzi are all good fields, fertile, and the two Zhuangzi are easy to cultivate together, so I said that Miss Shen has vision." ”

Shen Xiaolou agreed, "Isn't it?" Usually if you want to buy land, you can't meet such a suitable one, I take a fancy to your Zhuangzi's land, and the price is also appropriate, but ......" She hesitated, "What about the master of your village?" For such a big thing, I don't feel at ease when I don't see the Lord's house! Can the chapter steward be the Lord? ”

"Yes, why can't that? The master has left this matter to me. Steward Zhang took care of everything, and said very understandingly: "It is reasonable for Miss Shen to have concerns, isn't this my son-in-law really busy?" A few days ago, I hurriedly took people to the south to buy things, or ......"

"That's not right!" Shen Xiaolou stood up suddenly, and walked to the east room in three or two steps...... Before Steward Zhang could react, she pushed the door of the east room open, "Wow, what a big mouse!" ”

Shen Xiaolou was stunned by what he saw, only to see a person tied to the bed, his mouth blocked, his eyes closed, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

The smell in the room was also extremely unpleasant, Shen Xiaolou was very familiar with the smell of blood, and the reason why she pushed the door was because she smelled blood.

"This, this?" Shen Xiaolou was extremely shocked.

Seeing that the matter was revealed, Manager Zhang looked flustered, but he quickly calmed down and stared at Shen Xiaolou with a fierce look, "Miss Shen, I'm sorry, who made you unlucky and nosy?" "Just a thin girl, he can strangle her to death with one hand and bury her in the yard, who knows?

"You, you ......" Shen Xiaolou was frightened, trembling, and didn't know if he was frightened or what's wrong, so he didn't run but caught up.

Steward Zhang was happy, this little girl was still weird, he smiled and raised his hand high, but his feet slipped and the whole person fell straight backwards. only heard a "bang", and the back of Steward Zhang's head hit the ground...... Hearing this sound, Shen Xiaolou's shoulders shrank, and she had a headache for Steward Zhang.

Seeing Steward Zhang squirming on the ground, Shen Xiaolou picked up the bench on the side and pointed it at his head, very well, he didn't move.

Shen Xiaolou breathed a sigh of relief, and when she raised her head, she was facing a pair of black eyes, she pointed timidly to the ground, "He, he fainted by himself." ”