Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 172 Buying a Homestead

"Sister-in-law, wait a moment."

Shen Yuanshan was cleaning the house.

Although I say tidying up, there is actually nothing to tidy up. I just need to find out the clothes I used to wear.

After a while, the two men went out with a rope, moved a small stool and sat at the kitchen door, letting them go into the house.

"Sister-in-law, where is Brother Rongshan?" Shen Wanqing asked. She had never seen him before.

"I'm going to the headman's house. I'll be back soon."

Go talk to him about buying the land.

Shen Zhong's home.

Inside the hall.

Shen Rongshan explained his purpose and took out a string of copper coins, a total of two taels: "I want to buy the land west of Aunt Lan's house."

"Rongshan." He took a puff of his pipe and said slowly, "The land is too small. You have a large family, and even if you build a house, it won't be big enough to live in."

"Uncle advises you to keep the money in your hands. When you have saved enough, you can buy a large piece of land for housing."

"You have two younger brothers. They want to get married and have children. They need a house."

“Uncle, I didn’t buy it to build a house. I plan to build a shed. In the future, I won’t sell goods to nearby villages. Let them come and buy.”

He said calmly, "Is that so."

Shen Rongshan nodded: "Well, uncle, I only have so much money, and I have to save some money to buy goods in town."

Shen Zhong thought for a while and said, "Okay, two taels is two taels. I won't charge you more. I will give you the land deed in two days."

"Hey, thank you uncle."

He was about to get up and say goodbye when he heard him say this again.

"You are a capable person, and your family will have a better life in the future. You are not young anymore, it's time to have a child."

"You can love your wife, but you can't be too compliant with her. You are a man, and you can't be bullied by a woman."

Shen Rongshan thought he had heard something from the villagers, so he explained, "Uncle, Wen He has a soft temper. When there is something going on at home, we always discuss it."

Shen Zhong glanced at him and remembered what Ji Wenhe had said to reject him that day.

I used to think she was a person who didn't like to interact with others and was easy to control.

Later I heard from the villagers that she was chasing people with a sickle, but I thought they were exaggerating.

But after that day, he finally saw clearly that Ji Wenhe was not a soft-hearted person. No, he was a man with a sharp tongue. He was extraordinary.

From the outside, it seems that Shen Rongshan is the boss of this couple, but I guess she has the final say at home.

"Uncle doesn't mean anything else. You two should live a good life together. It's time to have a child."

"Uncle, I understand." Shen Rongshan didn't want to continue this topic, so he stood up and said, "Uncle, I'm going home first."

Shen Zhong nodded: "Yeah."

He put on a straw raincoat and a hat, said hello to the people in the kitchen, and turned to leave.

Qin Hehua ran to the main room and saw two taels of money on the table. She asked hurriedly, "Buying land again? Wasteland?"

How come he has so much money? It seems like he really made a lot of money from selling goods.

“It’s not wasteland, it’s homestead.”

"Which homestead?"

"The piece of land west of Shen Erniu's house."

"That piece of land would cost at least two taels of silver. You sold it to them for two taels? Wouldn't that mean we would suffer a huge loss?"

Shen Zhong motioned for her to keep the money: "He only has so much money, he has to keep some for himself to purchase goods."

"I didn't give him a discount when I bought farmland and wasteland before, so I have to give him a lower price this time."

Qin Hehua held the copper coins and counted them carefully.

He glanced at her unhappily: "What's the point of counting? He can't give you a penny less."

I counted it carefully and it was exactly two taels.

"How do you know if there is any shortage if you don't count? What if he gave you a few cents less?"

"Rongshan is not that kind of person."

"This guy just came back after three years away. Who knows if he has learned bad things while he's out there? Don't trust him too much."

Qin Hehua felt a little resentful towards their family, so she asked them to help with the rice planting, but no one came.

Shen Zhong knew what she was angry about and put down his pipe: "It's okay for people to be busy with their own business. Don't learn from that petty person. It's annoying to see."

She rolled her eyes and fiddled with the coins in her hand.

"Oh, I dreamed of Shen Dadong last night."

I dreamed that he was standing beside my bed, staring at me with sinister eyes, without saying a word.

He wanted to speak, but found that he couldn't open his mouth and his body couldn't move.

After waking up from the dream, I looked at the bedside in panic, but there was nothing there. I didn’t dare close my eyes for the rest of the night.

Qin Hehua looked at him and said, "Boss, do you think Shen Dadong knew that we were the ones who went to the town to file a complaint?"

Now that the person is dead, she is not afraid at all.

But the person in front of me was not afraid when he was alive, but he was afraid when he died.

Shen Zhong raised his head, looked at the rain outside, and murmured, "Let's go to town tomorrow and buy some paper to burn for him."

"I buy paper to burn for him? What are you thinking? He's already dead, what are you afraid of?"

"Can he still crawl out of the grave?"

Qin Hehua glanced at him with disdain. What was there to be afraid of a dead person?

"When you dream about him one day, and see him standing by your bed, staring at you without blinking, you will be scared."

"Why would I dream about him, Boss? If word gets out, the villagers will think I'm having an affair with him."

She stood up angrily, muttering as she walked.

"I can't beat a living person, so what can a dead person do to me?"

Shen Zhong still remembers the pair of eyes in his dream, which were filled with resentment and stared at him viciously as if they were poisoned.

What I said to him in his yard was to make him think that it was his fault.

Even if he found out that it was him who went to the town to file a complaint, what could he do to himself?

And what he said was not wrong. The fault was all his. If he had been taught well when he was a child, he would not have become like that when he grew up.

In the end, the body was torn into pieces, and not a single complete body was left.

Shen Zhong raised his hand to his forehead and sighed softly.

On the other side, Shen Rongshan returned home, hung his raincoat on a tree branch, and went into the kitchen.

Ji Wenhe walked in and asked quietly, "How is it, did you buy two taels?"

The land was fifty square meters, and he was given three taels in total.

After some discussion, they decided to take out two taels first, and if Shen Zhong disagreed, they would slowly increase the amount.

"Well, give us the title deed in two days."

He didn't tell her anything else, lest she be upset.

Shen Rongshan handed her the remaining string of copper coins and said, "Do you want to build a shed like the one in our yard, or do you have other ideas?"

Ji Wenhe turned his head and looked outside the house, thinking for a while: "That's it, keep it simple."

"Anyway, we won't ship goods when it rains, but we have to put up some shelves. We can't sell them on the ground, because that looks dirty."

"The wooden frame should be simple, and it should be able to bear the weight and not fall over."

Shen Rongshan nodded: "Well, I can't wait for the rain. I'll go to the mountain to find a few large flat rocks to put underneath."

"I can use the old door panel at home to put it on top."

Ji Wenhe went into the house to get a rope and sat on a small stool: "Do you think we can sell some vegetables?"