Hearing this, the village chief said with a straight face, "There is one more thing. All the ponds and land in Yang's village, including the hillside, will be sold. If any of you are interested, you can come to my house to find me."
sell
Everyone became curious, and asked directly if they had a good relationship with the village chief's family.
The village chief didn't mean to hide it for them, and said, "They bought the silver from the hillside. The Xu family asked the gambling house in the town to borrow interest. They agreed to double it in a year. Now something happened to their family. People approached the mayor and insisted that they pay it back now, if not, they would have to go to the county government to make a decision.”
"I asked. Mrs. Yang said that she sold the pond and the land and returned them to the other side. It only costs twenty taels."
Ten acres of sloping land cost ten taels. The five acres of wasteland here, except for the house, plus the pond, if you want it, it should be fine.
But if you don't want it, it seems a bit tasteless and a bit expensive.
Immediately someone said, "It's almost the same to add to the house."
If you add the house, it is a good deal. Just one house is more than ten taels of silver.
The village head glared at the person who spoke, "You are the only one who is clever. There are some things you don't know. The Xu family committed a crime. All the houses and land belonging to the Xu family will be handed over to the public. Therefore, those who want to buy the Xu family's house and land Anyone can go to the town to find the mayor."
That is to say, the house where Yang's mother and daughter live now is already owned by Xu Changjie, so the mother and daughter cannot continue to live in it at all.
"That's too expensive." Someone shook his head.
In fact, it is not expensive. The five mu of land next to the house is now poor land, and the harvest is not good, but it really cannot be compared with wasteland. If you want to buy land, you can still do it.
But apart from Li Qinghe, no one in the village bought the waste forest.
Therefore, the land of the Yang family's mother and daughter is likely to fall into their hands.
After the matter was finished, Li Qinghe took Xi Yu home. When passing by Li's house, he found that Zhao Wanwan was already there, holding a child in her arms. It was Zhao Tianfu's, her half-brother.
Seeing her there, Li Qinghe opened the door and went in, and heard her say, "Father, I just ask you to help us with work, and you will pay the wages. The wages will be paid after the autumn harvest. For the sake of so many years of love, if you don't If you help us, no one in the village will help us. You can't watch me and my mother go hungry, can you?"
"Pay money after the autumn harvest." Li Qinghe answered, "Then you can invite anyone? Why do you have to invite my father?"
Hearing the voice, Zhao Wanwan turned her head and frowned slightly, "Sister, I've lived in this house for several years anyway, are you all just ignoring any affection?"
mutual affection
Li Qinghe sneered, "When your life was good, we couldn't get any light. Now that we are down and come back, do our Li family have to be entangled with your mother and daughter? Even if my father marries another, you will still be with the blind Can't you see it?"
"Our Li family has nothing to do with your mother and daughter!"
After saying that, she looked at Liu Shi who was silent at the side, "Aunt Liu, you should let the dog go when you see her coming, why bother talking nonsense with her?"
Liu Shi smiled awkwardly, and glanced at Li Fu.
Li Qinghe understood what she meant in an instant, this was an attitude of being jealous of Li Fu.
Li Fu had already stretched out his arms to hug Xiyu, and seeing Zhao Wanwan's face about to cry from the corner of his eye, he said, "You go. I have done my best to raise a daughter for Zhao Tianfu, and it is impossible to raise a son for him. I Li Fu doesn't owe him anything. He doesn't say whether he owes it or not, and you don't have to come to the door in the future, and I live a good life."
It would be false to say that Li Fu didn't feel disappointed in Zhao Wanwan, a stepdaughter who didn't come to the door after she became a talented lady, but now that she really came to the door, it was just like that. I didn't feel too happy, but a little disappointed.
Because it proved that the mother and daughter really regarded him as a fool who indulged them without any bottom line.
Zhao Wanwan cried for a long time, but refused to leave.
Li Qinghe was annoyed, and said directly, "Aunt Liu, I'll bring a dog back later."
"You also see my jokes, don't you?" Zhao Wanwan couldn't bear it any longer, and yelled, "My body was cold because I did too much work in your house, and I didn't even ask you to pay for it. Now you guys despise me instead, I can't be a talented lady, it's all because of you."
A woman's body is cold, and it is indeed related to frequent contact with cold water, especially if it happens to touch cold water in winter when menstruation occurs, she will definitely catch a cold.
However, this couldn't be blamed on Li Fu, could it
Li Qinghe wanted to speak, but her father over there said in a deep voice, "When your mother brought you to my house, I thought I treated you well and never treated you badly. You shouldn't blame me for the cold. I have orders Have you ever done anything?"
It was all under Qian's orders, and even because she was lazy, Zhao Wanwan was in charge of this family inside and out.
Zhao Wanwan's tears were about to fall, Li Qinghe sneered, "Your mother didn't protect you, but you blamed your stepfather? Who in the whole village doesn't know that my father raised you, and then you turned your face when you became a scholar girl?" recognize someone?"
"Our Li family has done our best to your mother and daughter, and you are not allowed to come to our door in the future!"
As he spoke, Li Qinghe took her by the collar, carried the two siblings out of the Li family's yard, pushed them out, and slammed the door, "Get out."
It's all like this, it's just tearing up the face. In the future, anyone who wants face should not come to the door.
If Li Fu doesn't help himself, it won't matter how many times they come to the door. Besides, people's hearts are made of flesh. Didn't he feel nothing about Liu's daily management at home and outside, asking about the cold and warm
In the past, he would treat Zhao Wanwan kindly, but it was because he cared about Qian Shi, but now that Qian Shi has lost that little affection, he would not even see Qian Shi, so how could he be tempted by Zhao Wanwan's persuasion
After returning, Li Qinghe really sent a dog there, and every time he saw the mother and daughter, he would start howling from afar.
And here, after Zhou Chengkang came back, Li Qinghe asked about the quarrel between Boss Zhou and the two.
"I don't know what it is for?" Zhou Chengkang shook his head, "Brother said that someone always came to buy tofu at home, and sister-in-law is more hospitable..."
He didn't say the next words, but Li Qinghe already understood.
Boss Zhou looks very aggressive on the surface, but he is actually narrow-minded. But in Luoyue Town, it's rare for husband and wife to make up because of this kind of thing. Many people quarrel behind closed doors, even if there is a real relationship, they will not quarrel.
After a quarrel, within two days, Boss Zhou sold the yard in the town, and the couple moved back to Zhou's house.
Did not expect this result!
People go to high places, not to mention that more and more family businesses are going to the county town, how could they move back to the village
Li Qinghe didn't ask why, but within two days after moving back, Zhang Haiyao brought the child over to talk to her.
"It's my sister-in-law who wants to buy someone, saying that the reason why they will be robbed is because their family has no servants to serve." Zhang Haiyao shook her head with a smile, "Brother refuses, because he thinks it's unnecessary, so he can keep the money. My sister-in-law just wants to buy A couple, and said that your family has someone to take care of..." She lowered her voice, "You don't know, sister-in-law quietly bought some more gold bracelets."
Li Qinghe was dumbfounded.
It seems that Mrs. Mei really likes these things, and she will wear them even if she buys someone to serve them. Maybe it's because she doesn't want to do housework anymore.
Housework is cumbersome, so no one is willing to do it. It can be seen from the usual times that Mei doesn't like it either. Don't look at Zhang Haiyao's natal family being richer than them, but even if they are rich, they don't look dirty. Just look at Xi Wei, the clothes on her body are always clean.
Anyway, outsiders don't know why the two are making peace and separation. Maybe it's these trivial things. The two blame each other and quarrel every day. .
It's all right now, I moved back, and I went to the town to sell tofu every day as I did when I just got married. After knowing that they sold the yard in the town, many people came to borrow money.
Boss Zhou is much more generous than his younger brother, but he can basically borrow whenever someone comes to the door. But there is one thing, you have to write an IOU, and you have to make money, although it is not as black as a gambling house, you still have to charge 10%.
Because of the need to charge interest, many people come to borrow money, but not many people are really willing to pay interest to borrow.
In the blink of an eye, it was May, and the weather was getting warmer and warmer. On this day, there was a yamen messenger at the entrance of the village.
It happened that there were so many people enjoying the cool air at the entrance of the village, and I was quite surprised. Those yamen servants were carrying big knives, as if they were here to arrest people. Followed all the way from a distance, watching the Yacha go straight to Zhou's house.
Boss Zhou and his wife were taken away.
People in the village were talking about it, and they didn't know what happened. As soon as the people over there left, Zhou's mother came over, holding Xili by the hand. He walked in and said, "Fourth brother, hurry up and ask, what is the boss doing?"
Li Qinghe and the two of them didn't know either, but it was okay to send Zhou's mother to the town to inquire about it, not because they were worried about him, but because they were afraid of implicating themselves, so they had to know the reason, right
Zhou Chengkang's mother and son came back in the middle of the night, and they learned the whole story from the mayor. It turned out that Boss Zhou picked up a few bags of silver when he went out to sell tofu in the morning, adding up to dozens of taels. moved back.
The reconciliation, the fear of being robbed and wanting to buy someone to start a dispute, and the fact that Mei's hospitality made Boss Zhou unhappy are all fake, all to cover up the most basic reason for the two of them to move back home.
Zhou Chengkang held the bowl, "Brother said he picked it up, but they didn't admit it, they insisted that he participated in it."
It turned out that it was the person who ran away from the Yang family last time, and anyone who went to the county town was caught. But two of them who were going up the mountain ran away. After hiding on the mountain for so long, they couldn't stay any longer. After going down the mountain, the two ran to rob the rich family in the town, thinking of making a vote and then leaving.
But helplessly, the family resisted desperately, and accidentally killed the husband and wife. When they got to the street, the more they thought about it, the more frightened they became. of. In the end, he simply divided up the money and threw half of it. The more people he picked up, the more crimes he could share with them.
It happened that Boss Zhou, who got up early in the morning and sold tofu, picked it up, and he also picked up all three bags of silver thrown away by others at once. On one side, he insisted that he picked it up by himself, but on the other side, the two insisted that he also participated in it, and that he killed it.
The one who can testify for Boss Zhou is Mei. She can prove that he did not go out that night, but her testimony is not countable, and the couple who were killed there have no evidence.
Boss Zhou said that the silver was picked up, but no one saw him pick up the silver, so he couldn't tell, and was taken to the county government prison that day.