Taking away my family's luck? I won't stand it!

Upon hearing that the Yuan family had four branches, the eldest was very strong, the second was good at archery, the third was good at handicrafts, and the fourth was preparing to take an examination, the village chief was very happy, especially since the fourth child of the Yuan family was going to take the examination next year. In the future, Lihua Village would have a scholar, so he agreed without hesitation to let the Yuan family settle in Lihua Village.

The Yuan family was overjoyed to hear the news. Old Lady Liu gave the village chief a piece of silver and said, "Village chief, we are fleeing famine and are in urgent need of a house to live in. Could you please take us around?"

The village chief hesitated for a moment but still accepted it, then took them around the village.

After looking at several vacant courtyards, the Yuan family was not very satisfied with any of them. Either the courtyards were too small or there were not enough rooms. In short, there was no house suitable for them to live in.

Until they reached the foot of the mountain in the village and a large courtyard 500 meters away from Lu Mansion.

The whole house is a bit shabby with blue bricks and gray tiles.

There is a reception room as soon as you enter the courtyard. There is a patio in the center and a corridor on both sides. Walking through the door to the backyard is the main house. There are seven rooms in the main house, three rooms on each side, and each main house also has a small ear room.

There is a large vegetable garden behind the yard. On both sides of the vegetable garden are pig pens, chicken pens, a toilet, and a woodshed. It seems that the previous owner spent a lot of thought in building this yard.

The Yuan family looked at the yard and liked it more and more.

"This yard is really nice. Although it's a little run-down, we can live in it after we clean it up. We'll take it. If there's any vacant land, we'll buy it too."

The more Mrs. Liu looked at it, the more satisfied she became, and she immediately decided to settle down here.

The village chief looked embarrassed and said, "This yard has been vacant for more than 20 years. The wood on the roof is a bit rotten. You should look at a few more yards."

It was obvious that this yard had a story.

"Village Chief, please tell us what you want to say. We finally found a courtyard that suits our taste. You should at least explain why, right?"

The village chief sighed and continued, "More than 20 years ago, the family that lived in this courtyard was a wealthy family in Lihua Village. Their surname was Lin. They were kind and friendly, and they were also very good to their neighbors."

One day, the daughter of the Lin family went to the county town to play and passed by a mountain. She was spotted by the leader of the mountain bandits and was abducted to be his wife. The Lin family organized people to report to the authorities that night when they learned the news, and followed the officers and soldiers up the mountain to find their daughter. That night, screams were heard from the mountain and flames shot up into the sky. The Lin family and the officers and soldiers saved the daughter of the Lin family and other decent women who were abducted by the bandits at a huge cost.

But the leader of the bandits escaped with his men. The Lin family and the county magistrate thought that these bandits had fled somewhere else, but they didn't expect that they had hidden in the mountains of Lihua Village. They took advantage of the Lin family's downtime to sneak into the Lin family in the middle of the night and killed more than ten people in the Lin family.

After that, this yard became a haunted house, and every night one could hear the shrill screams from the night the Lin family was murdered.

"This yard is filled with resentment, it's unsuitable for anyone to live in!"

The Yuan family didn't care about evil spirits, but they also felt very sympathetic towards what happened to the Lin family. Such a kind family died at the hands of bandits.

They also hated the bandits to the core. If it weren't for their Yuan family's daughter Fu Niu'er, they would have probably died at the hands of the bandits long ago.

Yaoyao said that the reason why the villagers of Lihua Village could hear noises coming from inside the yard every night was simply because a weasel had made its home here.

Old Mrs. Liu felt someone pulling her clothes a few times, and she lowered her head to meet Yaoyao's smiling face.

"Yaoyao likes it here, right?"

"Ah, um!"

Yaoyao nodded, and the flesh on her face swayed up and down.

"Okay, grandma will buy this!" Grandma Liu was touched by the cuteness of her precious granddaughter, and her drooping face was filled with smiles.

The village chief was surprised that Old Lady Liu didn't discuss the important matter of buying a house with her family but asked a baby directly. He asked, "Sister-in-law, why don't you reconsider it? This house is really uninhabitable."

To be honest, the village chief didn't let the Yuan family buy this yard because it was for their own good.

"We'll stay here. We don't believe in ghosts or not."

Old Mrs. Liu said that with Funiu at home, they had escaped all the way, and they were no longer afraid of ghosts. What they should be afraid of were living people, living people with evil hearts.

The Yuan family nodded in agreement. They also liked this courtyard; it was large and spacious. Even with the bright sun outside, they couldn't feel the heat here.

It is a good place to live, warm in winter and cool in summer.

Seeing that the Yuan family insisted on buying the yard here, the village chief had no choice but to agree.

"I have the title deed and the house deeds for this courtyard. If you want them, give me two hundred taels of silver, along with the fifteen mu of Lin family land."

You can buy such a big yard and fifteen acres of land for only two hundred taels. This is a bargain price!

"I have one more condition, which is that you have to burn incense to the Lin family on the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month." The village chief made a request.

The Yuan family said that there was no problem with this, it was as they should do, and there was nothing wrong with burning incense.

"Whose name is this yard in?"

Old Lady Liu carried Yaoyao out of the house, and when she came back, she brought Yaoyao back to Shen Chulan, and told them to clean up the house here. She took Yuan Laoer and Yuan Laosi and followed the village chief to the town.

The adoption went very smoothly. Today was the fifteenth day of the lunar month, and Old Lady Liu went to the street to buy a roast chicken and some incense and candles.

When the village chief saw that Old Lady Liu was sensible, he nodded secretly.

When they returned to the village entrance, the village chief said, "Give me the things you need to offer to the Lin family. Forget about it today. I will take you to the Lin family's tomb on the first day of next month."

"Thank you, Village Chief." Old Mrs. Liu said gratefully.

After returning to the courtyard, Old Lady Liu quickly arranged accommodation.

She and the old man lived in the main house in the east, the eldest Yuan lived in the south house, the second Yuan lived in the west house, the third Yuan lived in the north house, the fourth Yuan lived in the northeast house, and the three boys lived in the southeast house. There was also a room used as the fourth Yuan's study. Each room had a small ear room, which was used as a washing room.

The yard in the south is not like their original house. There is no kang, only a bed. Old Mrs. Liu feels that although the winter in the south is not as cold as that in the north, it is wet and cold. Who can withstand such a wet and cold weather?

So the kang still needs to be arranged.

Although this yard has everything, there are no firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, rice jars, water jars, tables, chairs...

Old Lady Liu took out a silver ingot and asked Yuan Lao Da, Ye Wan and Yuan Lao Si to go to the town before dark to buy the missing things as soon as possible.

Xiao Ci knew that the yard bought by the Yuan family was right next door to his own, so he brought his servants over to help clean up the yard.

He held Yaoyao in his arms and sat by the patio, playing with her.

A few guys are jealous of what they see. If you want a sister, why don’t you just ask your mother to give birth to one for you? Why do you keep clinging to our sister every day?

The villagers were shocked when they heard that the Yuan family had bought the haunted house at the foot of the mountain.