The autumn harvest will be around one month later. Usually no one will sell land at this time, but I am idle. Gillian still sends Guo Xing to several famous teeth shops in Beijing to inquire about the news. It is best to have twenty acres of fertile land connected to one piece. If there is no such thing, it is okay to make up a few pieces of land into twenty acres.

Guo Xing went to four stores in one breath, and the remaining small teeth were unreliable, so he simply did not go.

As Ah Jiao guessed, the few people selling land are urgently needed to use money and they can’t afford to make some land transfers. They are scattered, and the four yarn shops can get twenty acres of land together, but they are too scattered and inconvenient to manage. However, these four yarn shops have received a large order from the seller, and the seller has to release thirty acres of fertile land in one go.

Gillian, Liu, and Cui Niang were all staring at Guo Xing and asked him to introduce the seller as soon as possible.

Guo Xing worked hard on the road, first drank a large bowl of water, and then continued while wiping his sweat, "The seller's surname is Shi, who lives in Tongzhou and buys the land in the suburbs of Beijing. This Mr. Shi is a rich man, and he also has two or three hundred acres of land in Tongzhou. Then he kept an outdoor room in the capital, and the thirty acres of land was sent to the outdoor room. He had been hiding this matter for more than ten years, and the big house had no idea about it, but he made a fuss this year. The big house was cruel enough, so he directly asked his son to come here with his family slaves and ruined the crops of the thirty acres of land. He vowed to make a life-and-death battle. Master Shi had no choice but to agree to sell the land here and never contact the outdoor room again."

Gillian listened to the lively event with relish and asked Guo Xing again: "There are so many dignitaries in the capital. How long has the thirty acres of land from the Shi family been hanging out? Why haven't it been sold yet?"

Guo Xing said: "It's been two months since I was hung out. Although Mr. Shi paid for it, the landlord wrote the name of the outer room. Now the landlord sells the land is Mr. Shi's big house, and the land deed is still in the hands of the outer room. The Shi family went to the outer room and flipped it over, but they couldn't find the outer room and hid the land deed. The outer room refused to sell it. The transaction documents could not be signed at all. Some buyers were interested in the land and wanted to bypass the Shi family and sign the documents with the outer room and give the money to the outer room. However, the Shi family was guarding the outer room in the house. The outer room was afraid that the silver for handing over the land deed was stolen by the Shi family, so they would rather not sell it. The two families were consuming it all the time."

Cui Niang scratched her head: "Then who belongs to this place?"

Guo Xing said: "The young master of the Shi family went to the government to ask. The government said that if Mr. Shi could provide evidence to prove that the money he paid for the land was paid by him. Even if the land belongs to the Shi family, more than ten years have passed, Mr. Shi could not provide evidence. After learning about it, he went to the government and asked the government to punish the crime of destroying her land in the big house. However, the government said that the outdoor room was also considered a member of the Shi family. This matter was considered a family matter and was an internal strife in the family. As long as no life was caused, the government would not care."

In other words, the Shi family cannot get the land deed and cannot sell the land. Although the land deed is hidden in the outer room, as long as the Shi family's sons guard her, she will not be able to sell the land or farm, and will be insulted and harassed by the Shi family's sons.

Gillian didn't want to talk about other people's right and wrong, she just wanted to buy land.

The thirty acres of land are in a very good location. Although it was ten acres more than she wanted to buy, her aunt gave her a dowry of 100 taels when she got married, and Gillian could take out more than 200 taels of cash at one go.

Silver is not a problem, the problem is how to buy this piece of land.

Gillian was impatient. She was anxious to make money when she opened a shop for the first time. Now she had the idea of ​​buying land, and there was still a lot of land in front of her, so Gillian wanted to buy this land immediately.

That night, Gillian tossed and turned and couldn't sleep anymore.

Zhao Yanping listened to her flipping and suddenly said, "I have a solution, maybe I can try it."

Gillian immediately sat up and asked him what he could do.

Zhao Yanping pulled the man into his arms and told her.

Gillian thought this idea was feasible, but it was not the kind that was definitely feasible, so Gillian began to worry about gains and losses again.

Zhao Yanping had no choice but to take out the old way to deal with her excitement and insomnia, squeezed her strength and fell asleep after being tired.

The next evening, Zhao Yanping took Jiao to visit Mr. Shi's outdoor room.

The house where the outdoor room is also a three-in-one house, but at this time the front yard was occupied by Mr. Shi's youngest son and his wife. The couple took a group of subordinates to take the house tightly and only served three meals a day for the mother and daughter of the outdoor room. If the land deed is not handed over for a day, they will not be able to restore freedom in one day.

When he learned that Zhao Yanping and his wife were here to buy land, and the fifth-rank official took action personally, Master Shi San and Grandma Shi were very polite and regarded them as guests of honor. Grandma San also complained to Ah Jiao, saying that her mother-in-law worked hard in her hometown. Her father-in-law carried her to raise the outdoor room, and her mother-in-law did not kill her. She was willing to share the house with the outdoor room. She just wanted to sell the land and completely cut off her relationship with the capital. However, the outdoor room was greedy and wanted to have the land.

Gillian naturally had to express sympathy, and then proposed that the couple persuade the outdoor room surnamed Huang, which might be able to convince the other party to hand over the land deed.

Master Shi San and Grandma Shi looked at each other, but they could only agree to Zhao Yanping's official position.

The couple also wanted to follow him and watched. Gillian smiled indifferently, "We can go by ourselves. If you follow me, she thought we were the lobbyists you invited, so she must be unhappy."

She smiled kindly, but Zhao Yanping's face was cold. She was frightened by his official power, Master Shi San and Grandma San stopped obediently.

Gillian and Zhao Yanping came to the backyard and finally met the Huang family's mother and daughter.

Huang is about thirty years old, his eldest daughter is ten years old, and his younger daughter is only five years old.

Huang's appearance was beautiful and had a cold face. After Gillian reported her identity, Huang looked at Zhao Yanping a few more times and said after a long time: "I have heard of Lord Zhao's reputation. Everyone outside said that you are a good official. Then ask Lord Zhao to think about it for me. If I hand over the land deed, they won't count it. If they took the money, they would have taken the house and drove away the three of us. How should we live? To be honest, the one with the surname Shi is more than enough to be a father to me. If my parents hadn't coerced back then, I wouldn't have made him an outdoor room. Now he shook his sleeves and went to avoid Qingjing, and he didn't even care about his own daughter. What can I do?"

Zhao Yanping looked at the two timid little girls and asked Huang: "What do you mean is that as long as the Shi family promises not to steal the house again, will you agree to sell the land?"

Huang said with a tense face: "I have to give half of the money for selling land. They have plundered everything worth a lot of money in my family. I need the money to raise two daughters."

Zhao Yanping said: "Mrs. Shi is fighting for one breath. If you want to share the land with her, in her opinion, it is because you want to be on an equal footing with her. She will definitely not agree. I can fight for you sixty taels, plus this house, which is enough to support you, mother and daughter."

Huang smiled and said sarcastically: "She won't give me a penny. Before you, a wealthy housekeeper suggested that they would give me enough money to buy land from Shi's family and give me one hundred taels alone. But what's the use of me with only silver? The Shi family won't give me a book of concubines. They can snatch any amount of money I have, and the government will not care about it."

A Jiao was shocked and said, "It's all so much, why don't they give you a book of concubines?"

Huang sneered: "They were afraid that I would take the concubine's books and refused to sell the land again, so they immediately reported to the official and rushed them out."

Gillian was silent. Both of them were guarding against each other.

Zhao Yanping signaled the two girls to go to the house, and then said to Huang: "I will bargain with the Shi family. If they are willing to sell me at a price of 5 taels per acre of land, I will advise them to exchange the land deed with you with the concubine book. When you get the concubine book, they will leave, I will give you another 60 taels of silver. In this way, we will still buy the land at the original price. If you two have no relationship again, what about?"

Huang said bitterly: "I refused to give up before, insisted on giving money and putting my concubine's letter together. Now I suddenly let go. They must have guessed that you will secretly compensate me. If I have a cheap price, they will definitely not agree. They would rather continue to waste it."

Zhao Yanping said: "But only we know where you hid the land deed. I don't want to be a complete evil person. I will help you a little and at least get the book of the concubine. The Shi family will always believe this reason."

Huang said in shock: "You, do you know where I hid the land deed?"

Zhao Yan glanced at the backyard and said, "Give me time, I should be able to find out, but as my identity, if you cheat them now, the Shi family will definitely believe it."

Huang suddenly burst into tears. The Jingzhou case handled by Zhao Yanping had already been circulating in the capital. Even if she was trapped at home, she had heard of the discussions of the Shi family's servants. She believed that as long as Zhao Yanping was determined to help the Shi family, she would be able to find her land deed. In that case, she would not get a penny and might be swept out by the Shi family and be homeless.

It was Lord Zhao who was kind-hearted and willing to give them a way out.

If she could get the book of a concubine, keep the house, and have sixty taels of silver to accompany her, what else could she have to worry about?

Because it was Zhao Yanping, Huang believed in him.

"Okay, as long as you can convince the Shi family to sell the land at a low price, I will get the land deed to exchange for the concubine's book."

After discussing with Huang, Zhao Yanping took Jiao to see Master Shi San and Grandma Shi San.

The Shi family's big house really doesn't care how much money the land can be sold. As long as it is not too low and as long as the buyer does not pay for the Huang family, the Shi family's big house calculates this anger.

Zhao Yanping said that he knew where the land deed was hidden. Master Shi San had no doubts, but was a little dissatisfied with Zhao Yanping's refusal to tell him directly.

Faced with the favor of Mr. Shi San and trying to get the position of the land deed, Gillian looked at Zhao Yanping and replied: "If we tell you, what if you snatch the land deed, you will not write a book for the concubine, and drive the Huang family and daughter out of the house, forcing the three of them to death, and spreading the reputation of my official, what should we do?"

Master Shi San’s forehead was sweating, and his mother really thought so. His father disagreed and his mother agreed to leave the house for Huang. His thoughts were guessed by the official wife. Master Shi San forced himself to smile and said in panic: "Madam, we are too worried. Our Shi family is not that bad yet. Don't worry, Xiaomin will go back to discuss with his mother. When the matter is done, Xiaomin will invite his wife to come. Our three families will sign all the documents."

Gillian was very satisfied.

Tongzhou is so close to the capital. At dusk the next day, Master Shi San came to personally invite Gillian and Zhao Yanping to sign the documents.

Gillian brought 150 taels of silver, and asked Zhao Yanping to take 10 taels of silver and a fifty taels of silver.

At a table, Zhao Yanping, Jiao Gillian sat on the side, and Mr. Shi San and his wife sat on the side. Huang finally came with the land deed.

After the handover, thirty acres of land became the item in Gillian's pocket. The Shi family thought they had achieved their goal and returned to Tongzhou in a mighty way.

Zhao Yanping gave the Huang family sixty taels of silver as agreed.

Huang pulled his two daughters and knelt down, and from then on, he was grateful to Zhao Yanping and Gillian.
Chapter completed!