Chapter 202 You Have Short Legs

Yu Changhe and Sun Fengshou inquired with people at the entrance of the village about the location of Lizheng's house in Taohua Village, and then drove to Lizheng's house.

The surname of Lizheng in Taohua Village is Qi, and his name is Qi Baochang. He is an old man who is nearly sixty years old.

After Yu Changhe took out the household registration document and explained his purpose of coming, Qi Lizheng immediately introduced two pieces of land suitable for living to Yu Changhe.

There are two pieces of land, one is in the east of the village and the other is in the middle of the village.

There is a dilapidated thatched house in the center of the village. Judging from the degree of decay of the collapsed wooden frame, we know that the house has been collapsed for many years.

Qi Lizheng said that an old widow with no children lived in this area. The old widow was old and died a few years ago. After no one lived in this shabby cottage, it collapsed after being washed by the rain several times. .

Qi Li was going from east to west, and he made a rough gesture, "From here to there, can you take a look at this place?"

Yu Changhe was not very satisfied, "This place is a bit small..."

Sun Fengshou said to Yu Changhe, "Brother-in-law, I think this one is pretty good, how about I build the house here?"

Yu Changhe said, "Aren't you building next to us?"

Sun Fengshou scratched his head, "We all live here in the same village, so what's the matter if we live next to each other?"

Yu Changhe nodded, understanding what Sun Fengshou meant.

Then Qi Lizheng took them to the east of the village again, this area is open, close to the foot of the mountain, it can be as big as you like.

Qi Lizheng pointed to the two families next to him, "This area is a bit remote, and there are only two of them. One family is named Li, and the other family is named Ding."

Yu Changhe walked around, measured the approximate area with his feet, and asked Qi Li Zhengdao, "From the side of the road to the back, all the way to the rock wall, how much money is it?"

Qi Li opened his bean-like eyes wide, "What?"

Although Yu Changhe brought decent gifts when he entered his house, including sugar and tea, and they came in a horse-drawn carriage, so they seemed to be wealthy, but Qi Lizheng is still being held by Yu Changhe's family. It's a big deal, I'm shocked!
Qi Li was suspecting that he was deaf and dazzled, and had misheard, "Say it again!"

Yu Changhe gestured again, and said loudly, "I want everything from here to the bottom of the rock wall. How much is the land?"

Qi Lizheng heard it clearly this time, this man really wanted to buy such a big place, but why did he buy such a big place?

How big is this house?Are there such people in the family?
Yu Changhe's operation stunned Qi Lizheng.

Qi Li was stroking his long beard and persuading Yu Changhe, "You didn't get close to look, you don't know, the land behind is full of crushed stones, it will take a lot of time to clean up...

Even if you remove all the stones, the land should be hard, no crops will grow, and it will not work as a vegetable garden. To be honest, the land is useless..."

Yu Changhe said, "We don't grow anything, but we want to build a workshop there in the future."

His niece said, grow peppers, open workshops, and make hot pot bottoms.

When Qi Shanhe heard that it was a workshop, his eyes lit up immediately.

To open a workshop, it must use labor. It is all in the same village, and it must be used by the people of Taohua Village. It is a good thing.

Once this workshop is completed, the people in their village will also have an extra income.

In the past few years, the imperial court has increased taxes, imposed corvees and conscripted soldiers, and their life in the village is extremely difficult now.

Qi Shanhe beckoned to his youngest son who had been following him, "Go back and call your brothers over to measure the land!"

Qi Shanbao agreed, turned around and ran away. After a while, he came back with his three brothers.

"Measure the land!" Qi Li raised his arms and shouted, and the sons immediately stood on one side.

"You go this way, you go that way..."

It took several people more than an hour, and repeated steps to measure several times back and forth, and finally determined that the area of ​​the land was more than [-] mu.

Qi Lizheng looked at Yu Changhe and said, except that the real estate land is more expensive, which is six taels of silver per mu, other mountain lands are not worth much, just give a few money to make sense.

When Yu Changhe saw that Qi Lizheng didn't say the exact price of the mountain, but let him look at it, he also knew that Qi Lizheng wanted to befriend him.

In the end, Yu Changhe gave one hundred taels of this land plus the one in the village.

Qi Lizheng did not expect that Yu Changhe would not take advantage of any advantage, and the price of the mountain land was actually given at the price of one tael per mu.

According to the previous price, the mountain land was one tael of silver per mu, but there was no market for it these years, and it was never sold at all.

If no one buys it, why would anyone buy it?And you can't grow food, so who has more money?

In fact, Qi Lizheng said that the number of acres of this mountain land and how much to sell it for is very good. As for going to the government to apply for the land deed and stamp it, that is a procedure. Or how much it sold for.

Qi Li just saw that Yu Changhe was not someone who took advantage of small advantages, and his affection doubled at that moment.

When he led Yu Changhe to measure the cultivated land, he immediately told his sons loudly, "Take a big step..."

Then, he looked back at his youngest son, Qi Shanbao, "Don't measure it, you have short legs..."

Qi Shanbao: "..."

I am sixteen, I have grown enough, where are my legs short?

Yu Changhe bought another ten acres of land. Moreover, the ten acres of land are not connected, but one piece to the east and one piece to the west.

The field is overgrown with weeds, so we have to grow them ourselves, and after weeds we have to raise them.

There are many people in Taohua Village and few fields, and there is no fertile land to sell. If you want to cultivate land, you have to buy wasteland and develop it yourself.

This kind of wasteland is very cheap, two taels of silver per mu, and because the wasteland has to be cultivated, there is little grain harvested in the first three years, so the reclaimed wasteland can be exempted from paying taxes and grains in the first three years.

The land deed is for ten acres, but the land that Qi Li is assigning to Yu Changhe is far more than ten acres.

After Yu Changhe and Sun Feng collected and paid the land money, they drove Qi Lizheng to the government in a carriage, and the land and house deeds were approved on the same day.

Yu Changhe left Qi Lizheng to have lunch at home, and then drove Qi Lizheng back to Taohua Village in a carriage.

Before leaving, Yu Changhe brought two bottles of liquor to Qi Lizheng at Taotaoju. After getting along with each other for a day, Yu Changhe and Qi Lizheng were already called brothers and brothers, and the two felt a kind of hatred for each other Feeling late.

In the evening, Yu Changhe took out a pair of deed papers to Sun Fengshou, which were the land deed and house deed with Sun Fengshou's name on it.

Ten acres of land Yu Changhe gave Sun Fengshou five acres, Mrs. Sun and Sun Fengshou gratefully accepted it with tears in their eyes.

Mrs. Sun wiped away tears for her old mother, "Mother, after the house is built, I will find a matchmaker and give my brother Zhang Luo a wife. Maybe in a few years, you will have two more grandchildren!"

Mrs. Sun was overwhelmed by Mrs. Sun's words, and hugged Mrs. Sun and cried loudly.

In the next few days, Yu Changhe and Sun Fengshou began to drive the carriage, non-stop running towards Taohua Village.

Sun Fengshou was in charge of hiring people to clear the land and open up wasteland, and Yu Changhe was in charge of buying the wood and blue bricks for building the house.

(End of this chapter)

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