The village chief invited the village chief over and asked him to be a witness. In front of all the villagers, he wrote a document in triplicate, signed by Xia Tieniu and his wife, Xia Yuanqiu's sister and brother, the village chief and ten villagers present. Press the fingerprint and it's done.
There are three copies of the document, one for each family, and the other is kept by the head of the village, fearing that it may be used in case of another dispute in the future.
The chief dispersed the crowd watching the fun, turned to Yuan Qiu and said, "My child, I've suffered a lot from you."
Yuan Qiu shook his head, with a look of relief on his face: "It's not hard, sooner or later, with this receipt, I can avoid a lot of trouble in the future, but I would like to thank you for your help, Yuan Qiu made a mental note. "
The head of the village waved his hand: "What does this mean? I'm supposed to help you. No—this is the land deed you asked me to apply for. I have already applied for it. I happened to go to town today, so I got it back for you."
Yuan Qiu took the land deed and looked at the neat handwriting and the crimson seal on the deed. His originally unhappy mood completely cleared up.
As soon as Li Zheng left, Xia Yuanhao curiously pointed to the land deed in her hand and asked, "Sister, what is this?"
Yuan Qiu spread out the land deed. The name of the owner of the land deed was written with Xia Yuanhao's name. He was the only male in the family. According to the custom here, he inherited the house, so it was natural for him to write his name.
"This is the title deed of our house. Your name is written on it. This house belongs to you and is the only thing left to you by your parents. But now my sister wants to knock it down and rebuild it. Do you agree?"
Yuan Hao recognized his name. The ink characters under the bright red seal were exactly his name. His sister replaced the land deed with his father's name on it with his own name, and expanded the area from only three points to one acre. Land, although in Xipo Village, these are nothing. Every household has a homestead and a house. But for Yuanhao, this is the first thing that belongs to him in his life.
"Sister, just do whatever you want. No matter what you do, Hao'er will support you and will always be on your side." Yuan Hao stuffed the land deed back into Yuan Qiu's hand.
Although it was a day late, the Yuanqiu family's house was finally knocked down. Under the command of Liu Si, more than 20 people were busy on the Yuanqiu family's homestead, laying the foundation, moving bricks and mud, and the division of labor was clear. The progress is naturally fast.
Now is the slack season, and everyone is from this village. The salary of fifteen coppers per day is five more than the ten coppers paid by others to build a house. It is also close to home. Who doesn't cherish this job? I'm just afraid that if I don't do a good job, I'll lose my job.
When Xia Tieniu and his family learned that the Yuan Qiu family's house was under construction and hired more than 20 people to work on it, they were paid fifteen coppers a day in cash and never missed a day's payment. They knew they had been cheated.
"Dad, this bitch Xia Yuanqiu clearly didn't give away the one hundred taels of silver. Didn't she clearly lie to us?" Xia Yuanling was so angry that she stamped her feet.
Xia Tieniu didn't know that he had suffered the loss of being mute. He was upset at this time. After hearing his daughter's yelling, he immediately widened his eyes and said angrily: "You know how to yell at home, wasn't that **** also there? You were there at that time Why didn’t you see it?”
Xia Yuanling saw that her father's anger was transferred to herself, and she went crazy with anger: "Dad, it's obvious that you fell into her trap, why are you blaming me now? In a place like that, how could anyone Do I have the right to speak?"