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"Master Hou, your calculations have been so deceptive that they've practically crashed into my face. Do the County Magistrate and the Marquis know that you, while working under them, dare to abuse your power for personal gain?"

Qu Jingyao slowly brushed the hair by her ears, and her eyes suddenly became sharp.

Bai Guo, who was standing beside him, looked at Hou Li as if he was looking at a corpse, cold and emotionless.

A small legal advisor actually dared to set his sights on his master, so she didn't mind taking his life with her own hands!

Hou Li was choked by Qu Jingyao's words. Looking at the group of peasants around him staring at him, his face suddenly became gloomy and he stared at Qu Jingyao with gloomy eyes.

"Master Hou has finished measuring..."

Listening to the report from the returning yamen runner, Hou Li raised the corners of his lips again, and looked at Qu Jingyao with a determined look in his eyes.

"Yao girl, this wasteland has a total of 72 acres. Are you sure..." Xu Lizheng walked slowly to Qu Jingyao with the measurement results in his hand.

Liu glanced at Hou Li, who looked very proud, then turned around and reached out to pull her daughter's arm, wanting to say something but stopping herself.

"Miss Qu, you heard it too. I will cancel the remaining balance of the seventy-two acres and calculate the total amount at two thousand five hundred taels. How about that? Take the silver. I'm waiting to report back to you."

A cunning light flashed in Hou Li's eyes, and he stared at the few people with a smile.

Qu Qingchen also sensed something was wrong with his mother and sister, and hurriedly frowned and stepped forward:

"Mom, what's wrong with my sister?"

Qu Jingyao's face looked very ugly at this moment. She had actually forgotten for a moment that the space was being upgraded. She was unable to withdraw the silver and money. Now Hou Li obviously did not want to let her go.

Just when everyone was anxious, Hou Li continued to chase closely.

"If Miss Qu can't come up with the money, would you consider my suggestion?"

Liu's face suddenly darkened, and she growled angrily, "My daughter, Liu Yunshuang, will never be anyone's concubine."

After hearing what his mother said, Qu Qingchen had nothing to understand. He glared at Hou Li with his cold eyes.

Qu Jingyao slowly raised the corners of her lips, raised her eyelids, and asked Hou Li with a sharp cold light in her eyes. She guessed that with his request to take a concubine, the Marquis' wife would be more willing to spare no effort to choose a suitable candidate for him!

A fierce look flashed across Hou Li's eyes, and the look he gave her became a little deeper.

"Since you are unwilling to accept my kindness, I can only order the yamen runners to handle the matter impartially. Someone, take them back to the yamen, and also take back those who couldn't come up with the money."

As they were talking, the yamen runners were about to step forward rudely. Xu Lizheng anxiously began to plead with Master Hou, but he was ruthlessly pushed away.

"How can you have the dignity to plead with me? Don't you know that you are aiding and abetting the evil and preventing the government from doing its job?"

"I dare not, I dare not, but Master Liu's family..."

Xu Lizheng also wanted to do his best to plead for their family.

Liu looked at the approaching yamen runners and grabbed her son and daughter beside her in panic, not knowing what to do. She was now deaf to the sarcastic and mocking voices around her.

Qu Jingyao lowered his head and frowned slightly. Baiguo was already prepared to fight with those yamen runners.

"Got it, Baiguo, go home and get the ginseng you got earlier."

While speaking, Qu Jingyao whispered a few words in Baiguo's ear. Her eyes lit up instantly and she nodded happily. Before leaving, she did not forget to glance at Hou Li warningly.

"Master Hou, please wait a moment. Although I don't have any cash, I'm lucky. I found a 500-year-old ginseng on the mountain. I think Master Hou should know the value of this ginseng. I can definitely buy this wasteland and the mountain behind it. Don't you agree?"

As soon as Qu Jingyao finished speaking, the surrounding villagers were in an uproar! They had lived in Lingshui Village all their lives and had never found any ginseng, let alone ginseng that had been there for five hundred years!

Everyone looked at Qu Jingyao with envy!

Hou Li's smiling face suddenly turned cold, and the little plan in his mind suddenly fell through. He stared at her with gloomy eyes, trying to discern the truth in her words.

She was afraid Hou Li would try to make things difficult for them, so she added fuel to the fire and continued, "If Master Hou wants cash, I'll have my family go to town and sell the ginseng right away. I think three thousand taels won't be a problem."

As soon as Qu Jingyao finished speaking, she pretended to call her brother beside her to harness the cart.

"Wait... I'm not an unreasonable person. I'll do as you say and use that person's contribution to offset the tax. Your family's population tax will also be deducted..."

Hou Li thought about it again and again and decided that it would not be a loss for him to accept the ginseng. Besides, the county magistrate had said a while ago that the back mountain and the wasteland could be sold for two thousand taels of silver.

He could reap a lot of benefits this way, so why not? As for Qu Jingyao, this little bitch still has a long way to go!

"Master Hou is so straightforward. Thank you very much, Master."

As they were talking, Baiguo had already returned to Liu and the others with the ginseng. The villagers around them stretched their necks to look at them, wanting to see what this five hundred year old ginseng looked like.

How could this girl be so lucky that a ginseng could be sold for three thousand taels of silver? They couldn't even imagine it!

Many people looked at Qu Jingyao with strange eyes. They did not notice that the head of the Qu family standing behind the crowd had just heard what Qu Jingyao said, and the look he gave the mother and son was even more gloomy and terrifying.

Liu, who was beside him, murmured to him, "I heard that Liu wanted to leave the clan, but she has such a trick up her sleeve. I can see that this bitch has no good intentions."

Qu Hongsen snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves and turned to leave the crowd. Liu quickly caught up with him, and before leaving, she did not forget to glance at Liu and her son.

Bai Guo lifted a corner of the red cloth wrapped around the ginseng, raised an eyebrow and whispered in Qu Jingyao's ear: "Master, this one is relatively young, almost five hundred years old, but people who don't know medicine can't tell."

Bai Guo said with the corners of his lips curled.

Qu Jingyao smiled at her reproachfully and gestured for her to hand the things over to Hou Li.

Baiguo raised her eyebrows and walked up to Hou Li with a cold face. Without waiting for her to say anything, Hou Li grabbed the cloth bag from her hand with shining eyes.

"Master Hou, what about the capitation tax..." Qu Jingyao raised her eyebrows and asked again deliberately.

Hou Li waved his hand and shouted to the yamen runners behind him to mark the adult tax for their family and collect it according to the original rate.

After hearing this, Liu finally felt relieved.

Hou Li took the deed handed over by Xu Lizheng, took out the seal he carried with him from his sleeve pocket, and stamped it without hesitation.

Finally, he put the ginseng in his arms like a treasure, with a gleam in his eyes.

Xu Lizheng had a look of joy on his face. He turned around and told Qu Jingyao to keep it safe. The entire back mountain of Lingshui Village was now under her name.

Just when writing the deed, Xu Lizheng took it upon himself to fill in Yao Yatou's name.

Qu Jingyao also discovered this, which saved her a lot of trouble in the future. She didn't tell anyone. She was thinking in her heart that after her brother got married, she would set up a female household of her own.

It just so happened that in the Yuan Shao State, women were required to have land under their names in order to establish a household. I just didn’t know if my mother would object at that time!