Travel to ancient times and become rich women with your bestie

"Manager Wang, you are joking. Now is the time when rice is forming ears of rice. If we harvest the rice now, what will happen to this year's harvest?" Zheng Yuan raised his head and still talked to Manager Wang with a smile.

Manager Wang had a look of disdain on his face: "What does their harvest have to do with our gambling house? Since the land deed is already in our hands, it means that the land has already belonged to our gambling house. We are willing to give them a few days, which is already a kindness on our part."

"Manager Wang, you are wrong. Although the white deed is in your hands, the red deed with the government seal is still on file with the government. It clearly states that the land belongs to Chen Houjin's family in Lao Huaiqing, but it does not state when the land was sold to your gambling house."

Although they really didn't know how land deeds were traded in ancient times, the two original bodies were also oblivious to the outside world and didn't even know what dynasty it was now. How could they expect that there would be any regulations regarding the sale of land in their memories?

However, in the history class before, I also roughly understood that in ancient times, land deeds and house deeds transactions needed to be stamped with the official seal to take effect. The contract in the hands of the common people is a blank contract without a seal, because the contract is not free to register with the government, and it requires paying taxes and a little red envelope, so the common people are generally unwilling to register with the government.

Most of the time, the white deed in the hands of everyone becomes the only proof of ownership of the land and real estate. Generally speaking, transactions based on white deeds are tacitly accepted by everyone, and no one is willing to go to the government office to cause trouble for these things.

However, the situation today can also occur due to the irregularities in transactions. Once the white deed is lost, the person who picks it up will most likely come to claim the land.

The villagers, who had been honest all their lives, had built up their family business with the meager wealth accumulated from generation to generation. They only knew that a piece of deed represented the ownership of the land, but had no idea about the ins and outs of these transactions.

But fortunately, it is precisely because of the difference between the red deed and the white deed that they were able to find a way to help Chen Houjin's family today.

"Hmph! The two sisters-in-law don't need to scare me, Wang. My brothers and I have been collecting debts for decades, and they have seen a lot of this. What red deed or white deed? The deed is in my hands now, and the land belongs to our gambling house. Hey! Old man, are you going to collect the rice? If not, we will immediately send someone in to check. If you really don't want to give me the land, you can use the things in your shabby house to pay off the debt."

Manager Wang naturally knew that formal land transactions needed to be registered with the government, but their gambling house had collected a lot of land deeds over the years, and they would go directly to the door to ask for them and force them to pay money. Who would think of spending that much money to register with the government?

The officials were even more corrupt than them, knowing that the deeds in their hands were not legitimate, and they tried to rip them off. The money they paid to pay tribute to those corrupt officials was almost as much as the price of the land they were trading. So they usually went to their homes to scare them and force them to pay silver to redeem the land.

He had never thought that he would meet two women who knew the law in this village after collecting money like this for so many years. Manager Wang didn't want to get entangled with them, so he just turned his head and glared at Chen Houjin.

Chen Houjin shivered when he was stared at, and his legs almost went limp again. But he had just heard what Zheng Yuan said, and the government still had a land deed with the official seal, so he felt a little more at ease and decided to listen to them.

"We definitely don't acknowledge this debt. If you have anything to say, just talk to my two nieces-in-law."

"You! Okay, you don't want to accept my toast, so you have to drink a penalty, right? Smash it!" Manager Wang was so angry that he ordered people to smash the yard.

Chen Jiadong and several children rushed forward to stop the men who were about to start a fight. Chen Xuecai and Chen Houjin also reacted and stood over. The villagers who were watching the excitement outside the yard saw that a fight was about to break out, and a group of young and middle-aged men also rushed in.

Seeing that the situation was tense, Duan Minmin smiled and said, "Hey, Manager Wang, don't be angry. Everything can be discussed. You guys broke into other people's houses and damaged other people's finances. There is really no room for mercy. If my uncle, Hou Jin, was forced to go to the government office to file a complaint with you, I'm sure the owner of your gambling house would not want to offend the government officials. It's really not worth it for a gambling debt of a few dozen coins. What do you think, right?"

"What do you mean by a few dozen coins? That's two taels of silver!" Manager Wang was furious and revealed how much silver the thief owed the gambling house.

The two of them curled their lips. Great, it will be easy now that they know how much money is owed.

"Oh my! Two taels of silver! This damn thief made several gentlemen suffer so much for these two taels of silver. He really deserves to be struck by lightning." Zheng Yuan covered his mouth exaggeratedly, looking like he really sympathized with the debt collectors.

"Don't talk about those nonsense. We have to decide on the land today. If you don't want to give it to me, you can redeem it with money."

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin looked at each other. Sure enough, the ultimate goal was to get money. Because no one in the village was willing to give up the land they had cultivated for a lifetime, and the people in the gambling house didn't want to cause trouble for themselves with the land deed. They knew that the villagers would compromise in the end, so they usually smashed and threatened before asking for money.

"Use silver to redeem? I don't understand what this means. The land deed originally belongs to my uncle Hou Jin's family. Why do they need to pay money to redeem it?"

Seeing that Manager Wang was about to get angry again, Zheng Yuan continued, "However, although this matter is mainly because your gambling house did not check the financial affairs of the guests, it led to this situation. But you all came all the way here to blame my aunt for not keeping her family's land deeds. How about this, my uncle Hou Jin's family is also kind people, and they are willing to pay one or two taels of silver to compensate for the gambling house's losses, how about it?"

"One tael of silver? These land deeds are worth at least thirty taels of silver. You want to get rid of them with just one tael of silver?" Manager Wang jumped up in anger.

"What the hell is this one or two taels of silver? I didn't agree to it, Widow Zheng. You can give it yourself if you promised!" Liu Cuilan also jumped up when she heard Zheng Yuan's words.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin's faces turned black. "You are so ungrateful, Liu Cuilan. You really can't tell good from bad."

Fortunately, Chen Houjin was a reasonable person. He knew that Zheng Yuan and the others were trying to help him reduce his losses, so he turned around and slapped Liu Cuilan in the face: "Shut up! If you say anything more, I'll send you back to Meihuapo!"

Liu Cuilan covered her face with her hands, looking aggrieved but not daring to say anything. She retreated sobbingly.

The two of them didn't care about what Liu Cuilan said, and said to Manager Wang: "That's right, one tael of silver. This matter is mainly due to your gambling house. If the thief owes you money, you can go and find him. We are very kind to pay one tael of silver. If you still insist on asking for the thirty taels of silver, then we can only risk our entire fortune to go to the government office and beat the drum."

"I think your boss is the one who is most reluctant to get involved with the government. If he knew that you didn't receive the bill and caused such a big trouble, I wonder if Manager Wang can withstand your boss's anger?"

Zheng Yuandu, the manager, didn't dare to really go to the government with them. There were so many illegal things that happened when running a gambling house, and they usually avoided the government. If they were caught by the government, it would not be a matter that could be settled with a few dozen taels of silver. The government officials were worried that they couldn't catch them, and they came to the door on their own, and the government would let them go without spending a lot of money.