In this era, selling land is very simple, the buyer and the seller take the title deed to find Lizheng, and the buyer opens a document to the seller, and Lizheng stamps it, and that's it. Li Zheng's family, the village chief of Xichao Village, the buyer and seller Li Mu and Erxi, as well as Erxi's mother Wang Sun, Li Mu's mother Li Yang (Wan Niang).

Wang Dali, the village head, squatted quietly in the corner, taking two mouthfuls of cigarette bags and pots, and his mood was very complicated. In fact, Erxi's ancestors had a field of property, and then it was squandered, from the generation of Erxi's grandfather to make a living from fishing, and now he should be happy to see that Erxi's generation has a field of land. It's just that he can't bear to suffer Li Mujia.

Xichao Village and several nearby villages have not bought or sold land for hundreds of years, and land is the lifeblood of the peasants, so how can they be sold? This is the bad behavior of our ancestors and ancestors!

Erxi was also a little apprehensive, and said, "Brother Amu, it's too late for you to regret it now." ”

Wan Niang Ai pulled Li Mu's cuffs: "Husband......" Her heart is broken now, she really wants to split her husband's head to see if there is grass growing inside!

Li Mu shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and Li Zheng officially stamped the sales documents and handed them to the two of them.

Wang Sun's hugged Erxi and cried with joy, and his dream of many years came true. How envious she is of the ladies of the tenant family, and how envious she is when she goes to the river to wash clothes together every day and listens to everyone talking about whose harvest is how. Because her in-laws' family had no land, how many eyes did she suffer when she returned to her parents' house......

Wanniang also sobbed, her husband was really stupid. She touched the silver in her arms, fortunately the silver is there, and she must hide all the silver in the family in the future, but she can't let her husband squander it like this again.

Li Mu, who got the paperwork, was also very interested, turned around and grinned at Wan Niang, and said with a smile: "Wan Niang, how much silver do you have there? Tomorrow we will find a carpenter to decorate our fishing boat!"

Wan Niang twitched the corners of her mouth, and the silver in her arms was covered tighter: "Our family has no silver, Wan Niang spent all the silver today." ”

Li Mu patted his head and smirked: "It's okay, my husband caught a lot of fish today, and I will push them to the town to sell them while it gets dark, and I should be able to sell them for a lot of money." ”

Back in the village, Li Mu went to Erxi's house and took a donkey cart to the town to sell fish, but Erxi called him and said to accompany him.

There is a two-happy door, and a cart of fish is sold to the restaurant, although the price is lower, but it saves time and effort. After settling the silver from the account room of the restaurant, there were more than three taels, and Li Mu bought some fishing gear, and then he and Erxi went home. When he was about to leave the city, he bought two catties of beef and a few jars of wine.

On the way, Erxi said: "Amu, I didn't expect you to give me the two acres of land you planted, and the autumn harvest will be soon, and I am a little unhappy." In the future, if you have to go to the town to sell fish every day, you will use my donkey, you are welcome. ”

Of course, Li Mu nodded unceremoniously in agreement. In fact, fishing boats can be driven directly to the town's wharf, but they have to pay some berthing fees, so Erxi has always used his own donkeys to transport fish. Li Muke didn't have the idea of saving the hundreds of dollars in parking fees.

When he returned home, Li Mu handed over the money from the sale of the fish to Wan Niang, and there were more than two taels left in addition to the money to buy wine, meat, and fishing gear. Wan Niang took the silver and hid it behind the wooden box on the kang while Li Mu was not paying attention.

Wan Niang's idea is very simple: save more money and save it until her husband is completely stupid to buy food to eat.

Dinner was cooked by Li Mu himself, including stewed pork with beans, stir-fried meat with potato chips, beef cumin and steamed salmon. Wan Niang began to disagree with her husband to go to the kitchen, Li Mu really had no choice but to tell the truth: "Wan Niang, the food you fried is really hard to eat." ”

When the stir-fry is served, the rice is cooked, and the bean stew is still making a gurgling sound in the pot, and the beans should be stewed for a while to absorb the flavor.

Looking at a sumptuous dinner, Wan Niang felt distressed: Husband is really too bad to live. She secretly made up her mind: she had to hide the family's money in everything.

Opening the rice bowl, Li Mu frowned, pointed to the rice bowl and asked Wan Niang: "Why is there still coarse grains in the white rice?"

Wan Niang was straightforward and said: "This is already a luxury, only outsiders can only eat fine rice!"

Li Mu decided not to argue with her, and when life gets better and better in the future, her small-scale peasant consciousness will slowly be changed.

The two were happily eating dinner, when there was a knock on the door, Li Mu thought it was Erxi or the village chief's son Tian Zhuang who came, and quickly got up to open the door.

"Why are you?" Li Mu frowned, and Yang Zhankui and Yang Zhanmin and his wife stood outside.

Letting people into the house, Yang Zhankui didn't speak with a cold face, as if someone owed him a hundred taels of silver. Zhang Zhanmin's pregnant mother-in-law said: "Father-in-law asked us to ask, why did you sell the family's land privately." ”

Feelings are coming to ask for sin.

Li Mu sandwiched a piece of salmon with chopsticks, ate the rice, and said vaguely: "I'm looking for you, I will take back the land rented to you by Wan Niang after the autumn harvest, and I don't want you to rent it." ”

Wan Niang lowered her head to eat, and the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law stared at the food on the table and swallowed their saliva. Li Mu didn't see it, and he didn't plan to let them serve on the table.

The eldest brother Yang Zhankui still didn't speak with a cold face, and the sister-in-law said bitterly: "Brother-in-law, do you know how difficult it is for your family's land to come by? It was saved by Father Li all his life, how can you say that you will sell it?"

At this time, Yang Zhankui snorted coldly and said, "I see what face you have to see Daddy Li in the future!"

Li Mu put down the chopsticks in his hand, raised his eyebrows, and sneered: "You also said that this is what my father left me, and it is my business whether I am a seed or a seller." Are my brothers and sisters-in-law crossing the line?"

Yang Zhankui was so angry that he couldn't speak, and pointed at Li Mu's hand and trembled. Yang Zhanmin's face was not very good-looking, and said: "No matter how you say that the Li family and the Yang family are also in-laws, now that Father Li is gone, and Wanniang's father and mother are still alive, how can you just watch your juniors defeat the ancestral property?"

The second sister-in-law also said with a big belly: "Look at what you are eating, my God, I have never seen these delicacies of the mountains and seas, how much money does this cost?

At this time, the village chief Wang Dali walked in with a wine jar, looked at the people in the room, and put the wine jar on the table, "What's the matter?"

Li Mu smiled bitterly, "Uncle Dali, let you see a smile." ”

Wang Dali shook his head unmindingly, looked at the Yang family, and asked, "Tell me, what's going on?"

Yang Zhankui's mother-in-law told the matter again, it was nothing more than Li Mu's defeat of the ancestral property and a great rebellion......

After they finished speaking, the village chief asked Li Mu, "What do you think?"

Li Mudao: "The land was left to me by my father, I can plant it if I want to, sell it if I want to, even if I throw long grass, it is also my Li family's land." Who cares if my family eats bran or drinks and eats meat?"

As he spoke, he sighed and continued: "I am not an ungrateful villain. I remember who came to deliver things in the most difficult time of my family, and I can't forget who came to the door to pay the debt. ”

The village chief's face turned unsightly in an instant, and he looked at several people of the Yang family coldly, smiling without smiling, and said: "I remember that I told the people in the village that Ah Mu was seriously injured and fell into a coma, and there was only one child left in the family, Wan Niang, who was on the top, which was not easy. Wanniang, this child has a thin face, and she doesn't open her mouth to the villagers until she has to do it, but if she opens her mouth, she really can't do it and comes to me, I'll help! How can someone come to the door to ask for debts now? Yang family boys, if someone comes to ask for debts, you don't help your mother's brother? Even if you are weak, you can come to me when you encounter this kind of thing in the future, or that sentence, I will help!"

Li Mu comforted Wanniang, and several people in the Yang family blushed, especially Yang Zhanmin, who came to ask for debts, and was even more embarrassed. I got up to say goodbye, and when I was leaving, I happened to meet Erxi and his wife with their children over and took a look. Erxi knew what was going on as soon as he saw everyone's faces and the sobbing Wanniang, and when the Yang family was gone, Erxi pulled Li Mu to sit down and said, "Brother Amu, if you regret it, tell my brother, let's go to Lizheng and change the documents back." ”

The village chief smiled and nodded to Erxi, "Yes, this is the good son of my Wang family!"

Li Mu comforted Wan Niang, asked her to heat up the meal, and beckoned everyone to take a seat, and said with a smile: "Brother Xizi, Uncle Dali, if one day my house can't open the pot, I don't ask you to give me a bite of food to eat, can you give Wan Niang a bite of food?"

The village chief and Erxi were both stunned, and the village chief patted his heart and said, "Boy, uncle said a year ago that as long as uncle is alive, he can't let you and Wanniang starve to death." ”

Erxi also stated: "The most difficult time for my family was when Daddy Li helped us, and I haven't forgotten this kindness." If you have a field, you can't starve to death, it's a big deal to work hard, I will go to open up the wasteland when the farm is slack, when the Amu brothers want to go back to the field, they will inform my brother, and my brother has nothing to say. ”

Li Mu was greatly moved, and laughed: "Brother Xizi, what do you think of my fishing methods today?

Two joys and one embarrassment, the stone that pressed on his heart this day finally landed. The village chief didn't know why, but after inquiring, he learned that Li Mu had caught more than two tons of fish today, and he had sold it for more than three taels of silver.

The village chief smacked his lips and even said "amazing". Two acres of crops in the case of a very good harvest, that is, four or five taels of silver. Li Mu's catch of fish today is more than half a year's income of the village people.

The meal didn't end until midnight. This is still Tian Zhuang came to his father and dragged the village chief away. When he left, the old man's tongue was hard, and he was clamoring for wine.