The magnificent sunset covered the top of the mountain, and Ye Chuqiu and others sat in a carriage, facing the setting sun, and headed home.
Li Youmei and Chai Chunfang, the two sisters-in-law, were also worried about the matter of buying land, so they kept an eye on the carriages and horses at the foot of the mountain. When they heard that they told their children that Ye Chuqiu and the others were back, they quickly put down their work and ran away.
come over.
As soon as Ye Chuqiu got off the carriage, Li Youmei ran over and asked eagerly: "Sister-in-law, how was your visit to the Yamen today? Did everything go well?"
Ye Chuqiu waved his hand, and Li Youmei's face immediately turned ugly, "Isn't it going well?"
"It's been a tiring day outside, why don't you let us drink some water?"
Lin Qingyun said something, and Li Youmei followed Ye Chuqiu into the house with a look of annoyance.
Zhao Hehua came forward slightly, poured a basin of hot water for Ye Chuqiu, and asked her to wash her face. Seeing this, Li Youmei hurriedly walked to the table and poured Ye Chuqiu a cup of tea. When Ye Chuqiu came over, she quickly
The tea was handed to her, "Sister-in-law, you drink tea."
Seeing her being so attentive, Ye Chuqiu smiled slightly, took the tea she handed him, took a sip, then slowly put down the teacup, looked at her eager face, and said, "Don't worry, everything goes well."
"Everything went well? That means it was done?" Li Youmei's face was filled with joy after hearing this, and Chai Chunfang on the side was also very happy.
Ye Chuqiu took out two documents and the land deed from his arms, "Here, your family has one acre of land. Starting tomorrow, you can go to the fields to clear up wasteland."
"Very good."
Li Youmei took the land deed and documents. Although she was illiterate, this did not prevent her from reading them again and again before reluctantly handing them to Lin Qingyun.
"Don't rush to be happy yet, come on, sign the IOU."
Ye Chuqiu took out two more IOUs and handed them to them.
"It should, it should, my boss, come and sign the IOU."
Li Youmei quickly pushed Lin Qingyun to the front, and after he signed the signature, she said: "Sister-in-law, thank you very much for this matter. I have been disrespectful to you in the past. You don't remember the faults of villains. Why don't you please
Forgive me."
"Ha~"
Ye Chuqiu glanced sideways at her and chuckled lightly. She had apologized to her eight hundred times, but the next time she encountered something related to her personal interests, she would still quarrel with her.
Ye Chuqiu has long been accustomed to this kind of person. She will be a good helper for you when you are in public. But compared with her own family, Ye Chuqiu is an outsider again.
"I asked Manager Nie to handle this matter today. She is the one you should thank." Ye Chuqiu took a sip of tea and said with a half-smile.
"Manager Nie, who Erhu and the others call him, is the regular customer who buys your braised food?" Li Youmei asked.
"Well, that's him. He's on errands in Qi Mansion and knows people from the Yamen. I'll leave it to him this time. Speaking of him, I have something to tell you."
"What's up?"
"The latest news I got is that a new county magistrate is about to take office in Dunchuan County. As long as the refugees who follow the new county magistrate to Dunchuan, each person will be allocated five acres of land. Will you go?"
"Each person is given five acres of land. Is this such a good thing?"
As soon as they heard this, Li Youmei and the others started talking about it. She even felt that the land deed she had just received no longer tasted good.
"Sister-in-law, are you lying to us? Is this true?"
"Yes, you won't wait for us to go, and this land won't be given to us, right?"
Everyone was a little excited when they heard the news. After all, there are a lot of people in the second- and third-bedroom apartments, which can be divided into two or thirty acres of land.
"I'm not sure about this." Ye Chuqiu said, "Anyway, it was Manager Nie who told me."
"What Manager Nie said, it shouldn't lie to us, right?" Chai Chunfang said.
"Where is Dunchuan? If it's not far, you can really try it. There are seven people in our family including Qiao'er, and we can allocate thirty-five acres of land, which is much more than the land in Linjia Village.
." Li Youmei thought about it, feeling very happy in her heart.
"Okay, don't think too much about it, I was also there at the time."
Seeing everyone talking about it, Lin Qingyun waved his hands and said: "Don't worry about these acres of land. There will be no pie in the sky. There was a plague in Dunchuan the year before last!"
Plague, you also know what it means. If we ordinary people are infected with the plague, can we still survive?
Just like our Dalin Village, didn’t we have land before? What’s the result? After three years of drought, don’t we still have to flee the famine?
Can you escape the drought? Where are you going to escape the plague? If someone discovers you, you will be hacked to death!"
Lin Qingyun threatened them all, and everyone who was so enthusiastic just now was as if they had been poured cold water on them.
It's a plague, let's forget about it.
Although it was the plague the year before last, what if the plague breaks out again?
It’s good to have land, but you also need life seeds.
"I won't go, I won't go. Let's do some small business, plant a few acres of land, and live a leisurely life." Li Youmei immediately waved her hands and said.
"Yes, yes, we don't want to escape again." Chai Chunfang also said.
"Fleeing from famine? What do you think? If a plague breaks out, the city will be closed down immediately, but you won't have a chance to escape from famine." Lin Qingshi on the side also threatened.
Ye Chuqiu saw that everyone was full of enthusiasm and was thinking about how to dissuade them. Unexpectedly, the word "plague" frightened them directly.
"Okay, since everyone doesn't want to go to Dunchuan, let's drop this matter. Now I will tell you one more thing. Tomorrow, one person from the family will follow me to catch Wu Ming on the mountain road." Ye Chuqiu said again.
"Ah?" Li Youmei was startled, "What are you going to do to catch him? Where to catch him?"
"Go and look for them on the difficult and dangerous roads near Lin'an Village. Since they want to be bandits, there are only a few roads." Ye Chuqiu said.
"But..." Li Youmei still hesitated, "Why do we still have to catch them?"
"Then Wu Ming took away so much money from your family, and you don't want to get it back?"
Ye Chuqiu glanced at her and said: "Let's not suffer this loss. We didn't have time before. Now that I have my hands free, I naturally have to deal with him!"
"Although Wu Ming is my cousin, he is very cruel. Sister-in-law, I think we might as well forget it. If we lose the money, we will lose it. He gave us most of it anyway." Li Youmei retreated somewhat. This kind of
She can't afford to offend a vicious person.
"No, you took him in before and allowed him to become a disaster. This disaster should be eradicated by us." Ye Chuqiu said: "Stop being so nagging, just ask the big leopard to come with me tomorrow morning to arrest the person."
"Okay, but Dabao is going to open up wasteland with his father tomorrow. Can I ask Erbao to help you?" Li Youmei said.
"That's okay." Ye Chuqiu nodded. Anyway, asking them to come out is to enhance their sense of participation, enhance their sense of responsibility, and strengthen family cohesion. Specifically, the main force in arresting these people is still herself, so it doesn't matter whoever she asks.
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"I understand, sister-in-law, can we still do business tomorrow?" Li Youmei asked again.
"You can go home and discuss your own business. Anyway, tomorrow, I will let Er Hu and San Hu do business." Ye Chuqiu said.
"Okay, let's go too, sister-in-law, please wait for us." Li Youmei said quickly after hearing this.
"Okay, you can just talk to Erhu about these things from now on. Now I will leave the braised food business at home to him for the time being."
"Okay, okay."
Li Youmei nodded, turned around and said a few words to Erhu, asking him to wait for them to go together tomorrow morning.
After saying this, it was getting late. Zhao Hehua came over and asked Ye Chuqiu in a low voice how much rice he should cook. Lin Qingyun and the others felt embarrassed and kept saying that they would not eat here, so they got up and left.
After they all left, Ye Chuqiu breathed a sigh of relief, let Zhao Hehua cook for his family, and then went to find the two tiger cubs to play with.