The county yamen household department has an old acquaintance Zhong Xiaoli of the Gui family, so it is naturally very cheap to change the gift.

Whether buying land or shops, it is a manifestation of life booming, and Zhong Xiaoli is also happy for the Gui family.

It is not difficult to read and recognize words, but why is it difficult for poor families to have noble children? It is because of the pressure of life that people cannot study without hesitation.

Now that Gui Wu's nephews have all risen, Gui Wu doesn't need to worry about Mujia Village; even on the Yue family's Jiang family, Master Jiang finally understood that he no longer lived in resentment like before, and began to deal with his son-in-law, so that they had no time to bother Gui Wu.

If this continues, Gui Wu will be calm. Even if he fails to study for a few years, he will have no worries.

After all, Yang Yinzhu was just a scoundrel in the village. After entering the government, he was frustrated. Seeing that Gui Wu and Xiaoli Zhong were familiar with each other, he felt even more regretful. Why didn’t he burn the hot stove of Gui Wu before, he thought about how to ease the relationship with Gui Wu?

Gui Wu ignored Yang Yinzhu's change in attitude because Gui Chongyang pulled him down and talked about the fact that he wanted to give Yang's "spicy strips" recipe.

Gui Wu knew that Gui Chongyang gave Zhou Dingxiang a recipe, but because Zhou Dingxiang became the prospective wife of the Gui family, he was not considered an outsider, and everyone was finally happy.

The Yang family is an outsider after all. Although Gui Chongyang is a good intention, you should beware of good intentions and bad things.

"This prescription cannot be given like this. Not to mention that you, Yang Dadi, is honest and timid. If you have a messing around with Yang Yinzhu, you may not be able to protect this prescription. There are also three brothers, Yang Wei and the others, who are all married and have children. Now they have no money and nothing to fight for. Multiple prescriptions are prone to quarrels and cause trouble." Gui Wu shook his head and said.

Gui Chongyang was also worried about these things before, but he didn’t give it directly? What should I do?

He was asked to join the group in the name of using prescriptions? Then all the possible troubles would become his, which was too irritating. He wanted to help the Yang family, which was considered to be a compensation and a reward, but he did not always mean to carry the future of the Yang family father and son on his shoulders.

Gui Wu thought for a while and said, "Things will be smooth, you can think about it carefully. I will think about it carefully. I will always think of a proper way. After a few days of rest, I will go back to Mujia Village and let's discuss it."

Gui Chongyang nodded and agreed, but it was not bad for the past few days.

Gui Wu's side has already started preparing for the exam, and there is not much time left. He took everyone to the yamen to hand over clearly, so he asked someone to hire a car to take Yang Jinzhu and Gui Chongyang back to Mujia Village.

As for Yang Yinzhu, he did not return to his hometown, paid back his gambling debts and took the remaining silver, intending to find opportunities in the town.

On the way back, Yang Jinzhu was depressed. How could he be happy when he saw his brother defeating his ancestral property?

Gui Chongyang saw it and did not persuade him.

People are divided into different relatives and distant relatives. On weekdays, these people from the Gui family are relatives in Yang Jinzhu, but they are not as good as those of him and Yang Yinzhu.

If Yang Jinzhu had a grudge against Gui family because the Gui family bought his brother's land, Gui Chongyang would have no choice. It would be just one code to complete the same code. Even so, he would not forget the kindness of the Yang family over the years.

Fortunately, Yang Jinzhu is used to being honest. Even if he is angry, he will only be a brother who is not up to gamble, and he will not even be angry.

When he was about to arrive in Mujia Village, Yang Jinzhu looked at it early and said to Gui Chongyang: "I will free up my hands later and collect the four acres of land together. I will save it a day to delay tomorrow."

Gui Chongyang naturally has no objection, so why are you tired during autumn harvest? It is because every family has to get up early and go to bed late. But it is impossible not to get up early and go to bed late. When an autumn rain comes, the crops will be ruined.

After a while, I arrived at the second bedroom of Gui's family.

The transported millet has been sent to the roof for drying. It must be thoroughly dried before the grinding rice or flour will be polished.

Looking at the two red deeds in Gui Chongyang's hand, the Gui family was surprised, but because Yang Jinzhu was there, everyone was not happy.

Even Yang is also happy for Gui Chongyang. Gui Chongyang has long said to buy land, but few people sell land for no reason. Who would have thought of such a coincidence?

As for the younger brother Yang Yinzhu, since Guichun fell into the water, Yang asked Yang to Yang Yinzhu's house. Not only did he not borrow a penny, but he was scolded, and the relationship between brothers and sisters came to an end.

Yang was not greedy, thinking that the land he bought in Gui Chongyang was the land of Gui family, and he should share half of his family. Instead, he knew that Gui Chongyang was studying as a career, and that the land he had to have a long house must be planted in Guichun in the future.

It is also a tenant land, so the tenant's relatives are naturally better than those of the tenant's outsiders.

Brothers Yang Wei and Yang Wu are here too, and there is nothing unexpected about listening to this transaction.

In the eyes of the two brothers, with their second uncle's ignorant nature, it would be uncommon to lose all the land at hand one day. However, now the second house has only four acres of land left, and they are all rented out.

The rule for tenant land in the village is four or six cents or five cents.

Four or six cents are the landlords, the tenant is responsible for paying the autumn tax; fifty or five cents are equally divided by the landlord and the tenant, and the landlord is responsible for paying the autumn tax.

The agricultural tax stipulated by the court was not high, but it could not withstand the various levies on the ground. After a few moments, various taxes would have to reach 10% of the acre of land. Because if the average harvest of two acres of land is two acres, the landlords, tenants, and agricultural taxes are basically distributed in four, five, and this is how it is distributed.

Yang Yinzhu's family's land was rented to the Yang clan, and the conversation was about four or six points.

Speaking of which, Yang Jinzhu's land only has four acres of land, which is not enough to plant, so he also rented out ten acres of land from the Lin family, a large family in the village.

The reason why Yang Yinzhu would rather rent out his eight acres of land to others instead of planting it with his own brother is because he was afraid that Yang Jinzhu's family would cry and give him rent. He couldn't explain it clearly. After all, it was the heart of a villain.

Both Yang Wei and Yang Wu brothers were thinking about the food rations issue of the second uncle's family.

It’s not bad this year. The four acres of millet were planted by the second house, and it was directly worth 500 yuan. The remaining eight acres of land were left, because they were rented out, and the 40% harvest of autumn was negotiated. According to the eight dou per acre, each acre is six stones and four dou with skin grain in one season. Two seasons a year is twelve dou and eight dou.

Twelve stones and eight dou of food are just two and a half stones without rice fields, and a family of four is enough.

But after selling eight acres of land, four acres, the rent for next year will be only six stones and four dou, and the food deficit will be huge.

Yang Wu and Yang Wu believe that with his second uncle's character, he would have to fill the food that was deficient at the time.

Yang Jinzhu talked about collecting the four acres of millet, but the Gui family had no objection. The group pushed two wheelbarrows and went to the millet at the foot of the mountain.

After two hours, when it was getting dark, the millet here was collected, and the group returned to the second bedroom of the Gui family.

Dinner was still fried dough, but the dishes were stewed from the bacon at noon and replaced by old duck and cabbage.

After enduring this day, only a few young people were so tired that they didn’t want to talk, let alone a few laborers.

We made an appointment to go to Yang's house to Huqiu the next day, and everyone went back to their own houses.

When he returned to his old house, Gui Chongyang handed over the two land deeds to Mei.

Mei's face and smile stretched out, and her heart finally calmed down. Even if the shops in the town are not going well in the future, Gui Chongyang has this ten acres of land, so it will be enough to chew it.

Gui Chongyang wanted to be a landlord, so he would not be satisfied with only these ten acres of land, but he was young and was not in a hurry. He had already thought that the scholar's duty-free land was 80 acres, and the initial goal was to buy land after the child test.

If Gui Wu's children's test was successful, it would be eighty acres of land. Two bedrooms and two hundred acres of land would be enough for Gui Chun to take care of it.

*

The next day, Gui Chun took Gui Chongyang and Mei Xiaoba to Yang's house to harvest Qiu.

The Yang family has a total of fourteen acres of land, four of its own, and ten of the Lin family. The fourteen acres are all medium-fields, and the wheat they planted before and soybeans planted after the wheat harvest can now be harvested.

Soybean seedlings are not as neat as millets. It took three days to harvest all the bean seedlings from the fourteen acres of land.

On the fourth day, I started to beat beans for two more days, and collected nearly thirty stones of soybeans in total, and it was considered that I had finished harvesting autumn.

Because the Lin family paid the agricultural tax itself, the Yang family had to pay 50% of the harvest. It was just because the Yang family wanted to use soybeans, and the Lin family used soybeans and soybeans were useless. The autumn harvest was given directly at the wheat harvest.

In May, the Yang family left only 30% of the wheat harvest, and 70% gave it to the Lin family, which was counted as rent for two seasons a year. The Yang family left 30% of the wheat, and there were also six stones of wheat. Together with the eight stones produced by its own four acres of land, there were only fourteen stones in total, most of which were replaced by sorghum millet for food rations, but a lot of them were left.

For the autumn harvest, the Yang family did not kill chickens, but instead made white bread and made a small pot of tofu stuffing. Therefore, although Gui Chongyang and Mei Xiaoba worked hard for several days, they were satisfied with their food.

During this period, Wang, the wife of Yang Yinzhu next door, and his two sons, never showed up. You must know that his two sons, the eldest son, the second son, and the second son, were already laborers in the village.

Yang Jinzhu and his wife didn't say anything, they were obviously used to it.

After Yang Jinzhu's beans were harvested and the beans were piled up, Wang showed up, but he begged Yang Jinzhu for help: "Uncle, sister-in-law, I don't know where to go, but the harvest of the millet is not delayed. I have to ask my uncle and nephew to help harvest autumn!"

Yang Jinzhu and his wife were stunned. Yang Jinzhu's family said in surprise: "Didn't you tell me about the second child selling the land?"

Wang was stunned: "Okay, what's the land sold? Uncle, what's going on?"

Yang Jinzhu frowned and said, "It was sold on the day my second son took two guests back to the village. Four acres of millet land were sold for twelve stalks, and the millet on it was sold for 500 yuan. When the eight acres of land were sold for 4 acres, thirty-two taels!"

Honest people have the same mind. In order to prevent his sister-in-law from making trouble at this time, Yang Jinzhu hid the buyer of the eight acres of land, which was the Gui family.

Wang still remembered the abnormality of her husband coming back that day and rummaging through the cabinets. He immediately reacted and gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I haven't stayed at home for half a month. I'm back to turn over the land deed. I'll go find him!" After that, he immediately went there.

If it were an ordinary woman, it would be difficult to find her husband's footprints if she didn't leave the door. Wang's family has two brothers, Wang Er and Wang Si, who are also gangsters, among which Wang Si is still Yang Yinzhu's follower, so it is naturally not difficult to find someone.

I didn't look for it before, but I just ignored it because I was a husband who deliberately was lazy and didn't want to harvest in the autumn. I didn't expect that most of my property had shrunk. How could Wang not be angry? I had the desire to kill people.

*

In the town, outside the Hong family pawnshop.

Mei Xiucai's face was full of grayness, and his Confucian shirt was wrinkled, and he was no longer as arrogant as before.

He touched the sleeve bag and found two land deeds recorded in his name. One was nothing else, the twenty-five acres of land left by the second house of the Mei family; the other was the thirty acres of ancestral property when the Mei family was separated, and it was also recorded in his name.

The 55 acres of land, of which 45 acres of medium-sized land and ten acres of land can be sold on average about 400 taels. However, if the land is sold, it will be very important to make a lot of noise and everyone knows it; if the land is not sold, if you pledge it to the pawn shop, you can only get half of the silver. Therefore, Mei Xiucai was very hesitant.
Chapter completed!