Otherworldly Days

Yesterday I made an appointment with Lizheng to ask people in the village about buying land. Cao Xiangnan came to Lizheng early in the morning with two steaming baskets of steamed buns. , will call him uncle.There is a child in the family. Cao Xiangnan also likes this kind of small animal now, and he will hug and tease it a few times.

"You're so greedy at such a young age." Mrs. Lizheng couldn't help laughing when she saw that her grandson, who never wanted others, wanted Cao Xiangnan to hug her.

What Lizheng likes most now is to eat such a bite of food sent by the Cao family boy. Mmm, delicious, delicious."

Seeing the few buns left, seeing his wife's eyes, and beating him if he continued to eat, he reluctantly stopped.

"Alan, I'm going out with the kid." After eating enough, he was about to go out to work, and Li Zheng said to his wife, "Go, go and finish things for Xiang Nan before coming back." It's very interesting, if you can't do it well, don't come back.Mrs. Lizheng was feeding her little grandson, and she didn't care about Fu Lang who was about to go out, and waved him to help himself.

The two went out to find two families in the village.

People in the village would shout when they saw Lizheng, and when they saw that Cao Silang's leg was healed, there was inquiry in their eyes.

The last time everyone saw Cao Silang was in the Cao family compound, his leg was still broken when he met Cao Silang, and he didn’t know how many days he could live. Together, they don't know what they are going to do.

Seeing someone looking at him, Cao Xiangnan also smiled and nodded to him. He was not very familiar with these people in the village.

Since moving to live outside the village, Cao Xiangnan's family rarely came back to the village. The last few times he came here, he still went to Lizheng's house.I went to Chen Hong's place that day, and met Cao's second child, and other people in the village hadn't met much, and even if they met, they would pass by without paying attention to anything.

There are only three pieces of land near his place that have been deeded, and the rest can be done at the Yamen.They went to the other two first, but the one they didn't expect to go was Li Mei's, who had just sent it to him this morning.

"Lizheng, why are you here, Cao Silang?" Li Mei was a little surprised to see Cao Silang coming to his house.

Li Mei welcomed them in. There was only one old father in his family, and Ah Mo passed away a few years ago.Lizheng explained the purpose of coming, and it is useless to throw the land outside there, and with Li Mei here, his father also knows that the recent dishes at home are collected by the Cao family boy, and he has not arrived at the old man. To the point of confusion, even if you sell your favor, the land is also sold.

As for the price, there are some facets, and the calculation is reasonable.

Cao Xiangnan gave them the money on the spot, got the land deed from them, and set up another written document, and just waited for the time to go to the Yamen to settle an account.

The other family I went to was Cao Xiangnan's uncle's family. Nine out of ten people with the same surname in this village were related, and he was no stranger to this.They explained that they wanted to buy the land, but Cao Laoyan didn't respond immediately, and said later that they would think about it.

Cao Xiangnan knew in his heart that they wanted to raise the price.

Lizheng is also a sensible person, and he nodded, "You can put the land where you put it. After passing this village, there will be no such shop. There are also many lis in the village, and the money for good land is there. "

So it means that if you want to increase the price, this price is good, and you won’t increase much. If you don’t sell it, we have other land, and we don’t necessarily have to buy your piece.But the fact is also the same, his uncle's land is separated by a piece of land, if he can't buy it quickly, it's okay not to buy it.

"Sell your land for a few dollars now, and put it in your own pocket. You don't need to ask others for money if you want to do something. If you want to keep that piece of land, you can let it go, and I will come to you." That's it." Li Zheng stood up and said to Cao Xiangnan, "Let's go."

"Wait..." Seeing that they were about to leave, Cao Laoyan called to stop them.

There are two boys in his family, neither of them is filial, and they don't want them to live together when they start a house.The two elders still live in this old house. On weekdays, the two elders make a living by farming and selling some things. The land is still in his hands. It can’t grow anything there, and it’s useless to leave it there. , it is better to exchange some money and live a good life with my wife for a few days.

People in this era talk about the word "filial piety", but if you can't even eat, who cares whether you are filial or not, and what your reputation is, so it's not that there are no people in the village who don't want to raise parents Such people.

"Come on, just do as you said, the land will be given to you." Cao Laoyan said.

There was also a smile on Li Zheng's face, "Old Yan, this is it."

Later, Cao Xiangnan got the land deed, made a written document and stamped his fingerprints, and quickly took it down.

When going out, Cao Xiangnan saw a large group of hens raised in the yard of their house, and asked casually, only to know that so many hens were raised in their house to sell their eggs for money.It was not easy to know from Lizheng when they came here, he said, "Uncle Wu, send your eggs to me in the future, and I will take as many as you want."

"Really, really?" Uncle Wu still couldn't believe it.

"Well, really, I will pay you the price you sell in the village." Cao Xiangnan thought of the tea eggs of later generations. It would be good to make tea eggs to sell, and it would be fine if they were marinated into marinated eggs.

With shopkeeper Liu there, as long as the food is delicious, he doesn't have to worry about selling it. Otherwise, they can sell it at their stall, so it should be pretty good.

The faces of Cao Laoyan and the two elders were full of unconcealable joy. Compared with selling a piece of land once and for all, they were more happy that someone would collect the eggs in the future, which meant that the future life of the two elders would not be a problem.

They walked out of Cao Laoyan's house.

"Boy Cao, why are you collecting so many eggs?" Lizheng now knows that Cao Silang has opened a food stall in the town, but why is he collecting so many eggs? It will be a long time before his wife has a baby Bar.

"Sell!" Cao Xiangnan only had one word, but he didn't say how to sell it.

"Stinky boy." Seeing that he didn't say anything, Lizheng didn't ask.

Before I went, I knew that his third uncle was difficult to deal with, but I didn't expect that they didn't even have the intention of letting the other party in.As soon as he proposed that he wanted to buy the land, his third uncle didn't even give him room to discuss, and waved his hands directly, "No sale, no sale..."

"Third Uncle, that..." Cao Xiangnan wanted to say something, but the door closed in front of him.

"..." Cao Xiangnan.

The two stood at the door and looked at each other, Cao Xiangnan had no choice but to go with Lizheng. On the way back, he also got some information about the third uncle from Lizheng. Time is not fair.

"There are a lot of things in the village. Although I am Li Zheng, there are some things that I can't stop. Some people in the clan." Mentioning those people is just like the matter of the separation of the Cao family courtyard. Zheng clearly knew that what they did was unfair, but they couldn't change anything. After all, one's power is limited.

At the beginning, many of the fields in the hands of the third uncle were robbed by the brothers, and no one in the clan helped him, even the patriarch favored his brothers, so it is not surprising that they mentioned buying land now , They were driven away without even a room for negotiation.

"If you want to buy that land, you still have to run a few more times and tell third uncle well, otherwise we won't be able to take over the land unless he nods." They are not those bandits, Li Zheng and Cao Xiangnan Said.

"Well, I know, I'll make a few more trips by myself." Cao Xiangnan said.

When he got home, Cao Gang was already waiting for him in the yard. He followed the carriage to the town, delivered the rice noodles, and they went to the Yamen.Cao Xiangnan stuffed two liang of silver to the principal, explaining their intention of coming.

The master put the silver into his sleeve as if nothing had happened, and the smile on his face became warmer.

Cao Gang standing on the side saw Cao Xiangnan's movements, and his eyebrows twitched.

"The land over there in Cao's Village, I remember that there is a large area of ​​land that is deserted. Okay, I will go with you." The chief took the money and it was easy to do things, and it happened that the yamen agreed to take people with them. Run with them and get this done.

"That's good, I'll trouble you sir." Naturally, he didn't want to make a trip twice when he came to the yamen for business. Cao Xiangnan was unabashedly happy.

Their carriage stopped at the gate of the yamen, and they invited the chief to go up, boarded the carriage together, and went to Caojia Village.

The two yamen servants who went with them were helping to measure the land. Cao Xiangnan took the opportunity to give each of them two pennies of money, and managed all the money in place.The yamen servants in the yamen earn a few pennies a month, and the Qingshui yamen has little oil and water, so these small yamen servants don't have much money.

Usually there is something going on in the village. It takes them half a day to get out of the village, and they don’t even have a copper coin. Now the owner’s carriage picks them up, and they are so generous. A little more.

"Measure that piece of land as well?" The chief asked, pointing to the piece of land beyond, "All the prices will be calculated according to the price of the mountain land."

"Sure, then thank you, Mr. Xiangnan." This was almost a free gift, and Cao Xiangnan accepted it with a smile. A lot of land was given to Zhang.

The final land was twice as much as the land he had initially budgeted for, but the calculated amount was about the same. After deducting the money spent on management, he still made money. It was worth buying this land.The opposite piece of land was bought together, under the name of Cao Gang.

Go back to the yamen and get the title deed done. Once the title deed is in hand, the land will be theirs.

No matter what era it is in, it is always right to ask people to do things for some benefits, and the effect of doing things with half the effort is also obvious.

Later, they also went to the building materials shop in the town to ask how the materials were sold. The two of them ran around before returning to the stall. The things at the stall were almost sold out, and when they were sold out, they packed up their things and went back together.