delicious farm girl

Chapter 284 Buy Another Hundred Mu of Land

The whole family is busy inside and out.Now that they heard the sound coming from the door, they all stopped to look, and naturally they all found Master Zhao.

Immediately, a big question mark appeared in the hearts of the whole family——It's New Year's Eve, Mr. Zhao can't celebrate the New Year at home well, why did he come to them?
And take a closer look, Mr. Zhao is wearing coarse clothes today, with a coarse cloth scarf commonly used by village men on his head, and a layer of dust on his face.And it's only been a long time, the flesh on his face is gone, and his entire cheek is sunken.At first glance, they almost didn't recognize him!

Mr. Zhao twitched the corners of his mouth, and smiled with difficulty on his face: "I take the liberty of visiting today. I have an important matter to discuss with you. As soon as the discussion is over, I will leave. I will definitely not delay your New Year's Eve dinner!"

Su Ran looked at Li Er over there, and Li Er nodded his head. "Listen to you."

Su Ran also nodded. "Come in first!"

"Okay!" Knowing that she agreed, Mr. Zhao nodded quickly, and then opened the door and came in.

At this time, Sister Xiao was full, but it was a pity that the little girl still refused to sleep, and was still hugging Li Er's arms, so Li Er could only continue to hold her.

Su Ran led Mr. Zhao to her main room, and she told Li Er by the way: "Go and invite Mr. Yuan over."

"En." Li Er nodded, and went to find Mr. Yuan with his daughter in his arms.

Soon Mr. Yuan came over, the four of them sat down in the main room, and Mr. Zhao took out a few land deeds from his arms. "This is a total of [-] acres of land of my old Zhao's family in Wushan Town, including [-] acres of good land, [-] acres of barren land, and [-] acres of sandy fields. Now, I will sell them all to you!"

Su Ran was stunned by his words.

One hundred acres of land, he sold it all?Is he crazy or stupid?
When Mr. Yuan heard this, he couldn't help being startled. "Master Zhao, what happened in your house?"

These words were like a thin needle, gently piercing the pustules in Mr. Zhao's heart, instantly causing bitter blood and tears to flow out of his brain.Master Zhao's eyes turned red immediately, and two old tears rolled out.

"His surname is Chen is not human!" Master Zhao scolded through gritted teeth.

Su Ran and Li Er looked at each other again—as expected, it was because of Mr. Chen again.

Mr. Yuan also narrowed his eyes slightly: "What did he do again? Tell us quickly!"

"He... In order to get revenge on me, he even got my son hooked up to gamble, and even tricked him into taking out a usury loan. Now that the interest is rolling, he already owes 1000 taels of silver!" Master Zhao cried out in grief.

Oh my god!

Hearing this, Su Ran and the others were shocked.

"Master Chen... this is too much!" Su Ran shook his head weakly.

In the shopping mall, you guys are fighting openly and secretly, and it's fine if you play some dirty tricks.But now, it is very immoral to use other people's sons as rafts and try to lead people astray.He clearly wanted to make Master Zhao lose his heir!Moreover, it is obvious that Master Zhao has been suppressed by them, but they still want to do this, which seems a little too dark.

Moreover, in a remote country like theirs, even if ordinary people took out all their wealth, it would be no more than a few dozen copper coins at most.The country gentry are richer, but a hundred taels of silver is not bad if you add the fields and so on.Master Zhao was considered to be a figure on a par with Master Chen in the town before, and the family business was quite rich, but it was far less than 1000 taels of silver!Now that Mr. Chen has given them a foreign debt of 1000 taels of silver, he is not only trying to mislead Mr. Zhao's son, he is trying to ruin Mr. Zhao's family!

"Is it because of the things between you and Mr. Chen?" Su Ran asked softly.

Master Zhao nodded heavily. "Aside from that, what else can there be? My surname is Zhao because I think he can't live anymore, so I want to seize the time to fight his son, but I also plan to fight them openly! But who knows, his surname is Chen is so insidious, he has been pretending to be sick in the backyard, but none of the previous things escaped his eyes. Now that he comes out, it has only been a while, and all those who were unkind to his son before will be punished by him. Revenge! Now he is doing this to me again. I know that I have always been a thorn in his side. Even if he has fought me before, he has always been worried, and he has long wanted to kill me. This time he happened to find me again. He made an excuse, so of course he started attacking me. However, no matter how bad I am, Zhao Li, I will not submit to him! He wants to take all the money and fields in the town into his own hands so as to dominate one side, but I am not as good as him I mean! At least I won’t sell the property in my hand, if I want to sell it, I’ll sell it to you too!”

That's what he's here for today.

Su Ran and the others couldn't help but lower their faces.

This is a very serious matter, which cannot help them not to think carefully.

Of course Master Zhao also understood.He gave them a little time to think, and then said slowly: "I know, although you have torn faces with Mr. Chen, but you don't plan to fight him for a while, you don't have the skills yet To that point. However, I was also forced to do nothing! The surname Chen obviously has no plan to let us pass this year, and the debtors are already blocking my door! I still sneaked out over the wall. Now When I get the money, I will go back to pay off the debt. After paying off the debt, I will take my family back to the countryside to live a hard life, and I will never come to this ghost place again!"

He was also forced to come to Su Ran and the others at this time.This is his last stand.

Su Ran took a deep breath.

She looked at Li Er again, only to find that both Li Er and Mr. Yuan were looking at her.

"Sister-in-law, what do you think?" Mr. Yuan asked.

Su Ran paused. "Such a big thing, sir, you ask me?"

"That's right, didn't you make up your mind about these things at home? It used to be like this, and of course it will still be like this in the future. I'm just here to help you keep things in order. Don't rely on me for making up your mind, I don't understand , I don't care!" Mr. Yuan quickly waved his hand.

Li Er also nodded. "It's all up to you. If you think it's okay, then take it!"

After Master Zhao heard this, his eyes were even more radiant with hope.

He looked at Su Ran eagerly: "Miss Li, you are a person with ideas, I know this, otherwise I would not come to you directly with the title deed today. Now, in this town, you are really the only ones who can match the surname Chen If you back off at this time, the power of the surname Chen will become stronger and stronger. You don't know, these days, all the squires in our town are forced to hang themselves by him! Those He has more or less taken over a lot of land and business under his name. It’s just that now he’s doing things in a secret way, and many people don’t know about it!”

Of course they had expected this.How could Master Chen be at a disadvantage?However, hearing him talk about the inside story here, Su Ran was still shocked again - she didn't expect that Master Chen had already achieved this step in the aristocratic family in just a few months!

On the surface, he was very angry with their family.When sister Xiao was full moon, he asked someone to send a generous gift over.When he was young, his people came to their foot shop to order dozens of jars of meat sauce, as if they planned to establish a good relationship with them.

Although he knew that he was deliberately paralyzing them.But when the cruel reality was truly torn apart, Su Ran was still a little startled.

In this case, they really have to take countermeasures.After all, after the squires are done, if Mr. Chen is powerful enough, they should be the last people he will deal with.

This person's purpose is clearly to dominate the whole town!

"Okay, we bought your land." Su Ran nodded immediately, "It's just that, with so many lands, we can't afford so much money in one go."

"It doesn't matter, you give as much as you have. What I want now is not money, I just want to hand over the land to a proper person, and never let these lands fall into the hands of the surname Chen!" Master Chen said through gritted teeth. .

"That won't work. Since it's a business, you must go at the market price. You can pay as much as you want for these lands. We will give you as much as we have now. For the remaining balance, we will issue you an IOU first, and wait until later. If you have money, we will return it to you slowly." Su Ran insisted.

"That's fine!" Master Chen nodded immediately.

Su Ran immediately asked An Ge'er to invite the village chief to be a middleman.

Now that the situation is urgent, there is no time to measure the land.Everyone just made a rough estimate based on the land deed, fifty mu of fertile land, five taels of silver per mu, that's 250 taels.Thirty mu of barren land, three taels of silver per mu, and another 90 taels.There is also 40 mu of Shatian, which counts as two taels of silver per mu, a total of 380 taels.Added together, it is [-] taels of silver.

"You all bought so much in one go, I'll order less, 350 taels!" Master Zhao said.

Su Ran and the others didn't spend the money they saved this year, they kept it all in their hands!Now that the accounts were settled, Su Ran took out the money and did the calculations, and found that they all had 180 taels of silver on hand!Of course, the big head came from a large batch of thank you gifts sent by the Luo family last year, and they took it to the county to exchange for more than 100 taels of silver.In addition to the savings from opening a foot shop and selling rabbit meat this year, there are so many.

Su Ran gave Mr. Zhao all the silver notes, broken silver, etc., and then asked Mr. Yuan to write an IOU for him. Li Er pressed his fingerprints, and the transaction was completed.

Mr. Zhao solemnly handed over the stack of land deeds to them, then took the money in his pocket, turned around and walked away slowly.

After he left, Su Ran turned around and gave Li Er a bleak smile. "Now, we have completely declared war on Master Chen."

"Well, it's good." Li Er nodded immediately, his expression still calm.

(End of this chapter)