My best friend is living a famine-stricken life; you're going crazy, I'm farming.

Seeing that the two remained silent, the middle-aged man explained, "You're lucky to have met such a lucky person. If it weren't for the urgent need to sell, this house would be worth at least ninety taels of silver."

Upon hearing that it was urgent to sell, Yang Fenglan and Xu Yingying exchanged a knowing glance.

Xu Yingying started circling the house. "A house that costs ninety taels, you're selling it for fifty taels? Uncle, is this a haunted house?"

Yang Fenglan shivered and rubbed her arms. "Speaking of which, I suddenly feel that this backyard is a bit eerie."

The middle-aged man's expression suddenly became somewhat unnatural, and he hesitated before saying uncertainly, "No, that's not it."

Yang Fenglan glanced at Xu Yingying again: Could it be that you really guessed right?

Xu Yingying feigned surprise, "It really is a haunted house?"

Seeing that he could no longer hide the truth, the middle-aged man sighed and sat down on the steps, then began to wipe away his tears. "When those refugees came to loot and smash things, I went out. My wife fought with them to protect our belongings, and then those people beat my wife and my three-year-old child to death."

"Actually, it can't really be called a haunted house. I've lived here for several months and there's been no ghosting. I'm all alone, and staying in this sad place would only remind me of people, so I decided to sell the house and go back to my hometown."

Recalling the image of his wife and children dying, the man broke down in tears again, "We had so many children, but none of them survived. That was the first child I raised with such difficulty. These beasts, these beasts!"

The man cried his heart out, disregarding the presence of others.

Yang Fenglan and Xu Yingying exchanged a glance, their eyes revealing the same reluctance.

I casually mentioned whether it was a haunted house, hoping to find a reason to lower the price.

But after crying and wailing like that, I felt that it would be utterly inhumane to try to bargain.

"Fenglan, how much money do we have left?"

Yang Fenglan earned a total of sixty-seven taels of silver from selling agarwood and ginseng, some of which she had saved beforehand.

During the famine, the grain I stockpiled didn't cost much because I bought it early. The expensive items were the cloth for making clothes, the cotton I had stockpiled, as well as oil, salt, sugar, and vinegar, which cost me about fifteen taels of silver in total.

There are still over fifty left.

"Enough to buy," Yang Fenglan said softly.

"Then let's buy it. Anyway, we still have some food, enough to get by. We can earn the rest later."

"But there's half of yours..." We agreed before that you would keep the money for your best friend, but you turned around and used it all to buy a house. That's really not fair.

Xu Yingying didn't care, probably because the money came too easily and she didn't feel bad about spending it.

"Of course I own half of the house, so are you not planning to let me stay here? Or do you not want me to be your partner?"

With Xu Yingying saying this, Yang Fenglan naturally couldn't back down any longer, "Of course we should work together."

"That's it."

After making up their minds, they quickly paid the money, and the man led Yang Fenglan and the other woman to the yamen to exchange the house deed.

Because Xiao Yuanshan had given instructions, the officials handled the matter quickly.

I received the property deed at noon.

With tears welling up in Yang Fenglan's eyes, she asked, "Yingying, can we say that we've established a foothold in this ancient world?"

I worked for many years in my past life and still couldn't save enough for a down payment on a house. I never thought that my dream of buying a house would come true here.

"Why doesn't that count?" Seeing her sisters happy, Xu Yingying also smiled.

After lunch, the two did not delay and immediately left the city, heading south around the mountain.

By the time I got home, it was already completely dark.

Everyone assumed the two wouldn't be returning today, so they went to bed early.

The two of them went to bed quietly without washing up.

So much so that when Zhou Jingyi saw the two of them come out of the house the next day, he thought he had seen a ghost.