Super rare beast girl, run away! The emperor's uncle is coming!

Old Lady Xu followed a group of villagers who were watching the fun and walked towards the back mountain.

Xu Lizheng followed the crowd with a sigh, analyzing the pros and cons with Qu Qingchen as they walked. Although there was a lot of wasteland to be reclaimed, the price would be too high if it was sold together with the mountain behind it.

The price of cultivated land is much higher than that of good farmland.

Qu Qingchen hesitated as he looked at his mother beside him. Liu sighed:

"Uncle Xu, I know this too, but it's obvious that Master Hou is trying to make things difficult for our family. If our family is labeled as a fallen merchant, then the two children will..."

Xu Lizheng also thought of this and sighed deeply. In the end, he could only helplessly call out to Aunt Cui Lian beside him and ask her how much money she had at home, and give it to her to deal with the emergency first.

Liu shook her head and was about to refuse when her daughter stopped her:

"Uncle Lizheng, Aunt Cuilian, don't worry. I've been prepared for this. I've wanted to buy this piece of land in the back mountain before, but I never had the chance. Now is a good opportunity."

She secretly leaned over to Aunt Cui Lian and whispered a few words in her ear. Aunt Cui Lian's pupils instantly dilated, her mouth opened wide, and she stared at her in disbelief.

Xu Lizheng looked at his wife in confusion, looking back and forth at the two of them.

"You are so brave, girl. You really scared your aunt to death. Now I feel relieved, you!"

Aunt Cuilian reached out and poked her forehead. Xu Lizheng raised an eyebrow. Although he didn't know what happened, he could feel that everyone looked confident, even his own wife...

Old Lady Xu, who was standing behind the crowd, frowned, raised her eyebrows with a look of disdain, and kept muttering to the village women next to her:

"Hmph! I, an old woman, don't believe that Liu can come up with so much money."

At this moment, Dashan hurriedly caught up with the crowd with the booklet from home and came to his father.

"Huh... Dad, I got the booklet."

As soon as Xu Lizheng took the booklet, he heard the voice of Hou Shiye.

"How about Xu Lizheng? If I remember correctly from this booklet, this piece of back mountain is worth 2,500 taels of silver, of which more than 70 mu of wasteland can be reclaimed."

When the onlookers heard this number, they all gasped. How could these poor people like them afford more than two thousand taels of silver?

Many people have never seen so much silver in their entire lives.

Mr. Hou sneered with a smug look on his face and glanced at Xu Lizheng and Qu Jingyao's family.

Xu Lizheng's hand holding the booklet couldn't help but tremble. He looked at Qu Jingyao and Liu beside him with concern.

"How about it? Do you still want it?" Hou Li raised his eyelids and eyebrows and looked at Qu Jingyao with a smile.

Liu and Qu Qingchen looked at her with frowns on their faces:

"Yaoyao..."

She reached out and patted the back of her mother's hand, then raised the corners of her lips and replied firmly, "Yes, of course."

The surrounding villagers all tried to persuade Liu and Yao, saying that this was no joke, and that it was not a small sum. If they couldn't come up with it...

"If you can't produce it, it will be considered as deliberately disrupting the government's work and you will be punished!" Hou Li coldly responded to the words of the surrounding villagers, his eyes full of ridicule.

Old Lady Xu was also fearless at this time and walked forward boasting: "Even if Liu sold herself, she couldn't come up with so much silver. In my opinion, they are deliberately disrupting the officials' work. They should be arrested and beaten with a stick and put in jail."

Old Lady Xu was still feeling proud after she finished speaking when she heard Hou Li scolding her coldly with a gloomy face.

"What? Do I need your guidance in my duties?"

As soon as Mr. Hou said this, Old Lady Xu shrank her neck and forced a flattering smile on her old face.

"Master, what are you talking about? How dare I be your master? This is not the behavior of Liu..."

Without waiting for Mrs. Xu to finish her words, Qu Jingyao said with a cold face, "It's better to worry about other people's business."

She hadn't even finished sorting out the affairs of the Qu family yet, and she was still looking for trouble with her family. She laughed sarcastically and said:

"Brains are a good thing, huh... but unfortunately she just doesn't have one."

Facing Qu Jingyao's sarcasm, although Old Lady Xu was upset, she did not refute. She wanted to get the money from Liu...

Qu Jingyao didn't give others a chance to speak. She shouted to Master Hou to measure it first so that she could prepare the money.

Hou Li saw that even after all that was said, the Liu family and their son were still so stubborn. He looked at them suspiciously. Could they really come up with all that money, or was there something going on behind the scenes...

"Go and measure!" After Hou Li finished speaking, Xu Lizheng sighed helplessly and hurried forward to follow him. He couldn't let Yao girl suffer any loss.

Hou Li's eyes never left Qu Jingyao. Seeing that she was still determined at first, he wanted to see if this girl really had such great ability.

Half an hour later, more and more villagers gathered around, including many members of the Qu family, all whispering about how they wanted to laugh at the Liu mother and son.

"Do you think the Liu family can really come up with that much silver?"

"It's hard to say. When Liu married into the Qu family, she did bring quite a bit of dowry. It was the largest dowry in the surrounding villages. Even now, no one has surpassed her dowry. Who knows, she might still have..."

"If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten it, isn't it?"

The more they talked, the happier they became. Liu's mother and son ignored them. Qu Qingchen and the head of the village followed the yamen runners to measure the wasteland.

Hou Li was still waiting for Qu Jingyao to admit defeat and submit. It would be nice to bring this little girl back home, which would be better than letting her be wasted by that stupid brother-in-law.

He placed his hand on his chin, a calculating look flashing through his eyes. He raised the corner of his lips and glanced at the several yamen runners coming towards him from a distance: "Miss Qu, how are your money preparations going?"

Qu Jingyao smiled coldly and noticed the people coming over. Among them, her brother and the village head had worried expressions on their faces.

She reached into her sleeve pocket and after searching for a while, her face suddenly froze. Liu and Bai Guo beside her both noticed something was wrong with her.

"What happened to Yaoyao? Is it..."

"master......"

Hou Li saw Qu Jingyao's expression change slightly, he suddenly laughed out loud, raised his eyebrows arrogantly and said:

"Why? You can't come up with that much money? But it doesn't matter. As long as you give in, I still need a concubine in my house. As long as you agree to pay the money, how about that?"

Liu's face darkened, and her eyes gleamed with anger.

"you......"

Qu Jingyao frowned and looked at him, her lips curled up coldly. So he was waiting for her here! Hehe...

It’s true that everyone related to the Wu family is not a good person!

The surrounding villagers were talking among themselves, pointing at Qu Jingyao, with strange looks in their eyes.