Seeing how anxious and flustered Master Xu and the village head were in buying houses, courtyards and land, Xu Tiezhu couldn't understand why they were buying anything. Wouldn't it be better to just lie down and take a nap?

Master Xu and the village head's family have much more land than him. In fact, Master Xu owns more than 200 mu of fertile land, making him a landlord in Xujia Village.

He made over 30,000 taels of silver just from selling land, why is he still messing around?

He thought this and then said it aloud. Master Xu was so angry that he pointed at him and cursed, "You only think about eating and drinking for your whole life? More than a thousand taels of silver is a lot, but if you just sit around and eat it all up, your descendants will only be able to beg for food, do you know that? Before your parents died, they tried to leave you twenty acres of land. What are you going to leave for your descendants?"

Upon hearing this, both Xu Dalang and Xu Sanlang became anxious.

Xu Sanlang was only thirteen years old, but he knew that his father and mother held all the money, his older brother also received a portion, and he received nothing.

"Dad, let's hurry up and buy a shop! The shop has a yard in the back, we can do business in the front and live in the back, it'll be a big brick house!"

Xu Tiezhu said, "I don't dare go to the city much. There are too many street kids there, and we can't afford to mess with them."

"Then let's go to town." Xu Sanlang gritted his teeth and said, "Father, how about you give me some money? I'll open a shop, settle things down, and then take you and Mom to the city to enjoy a better life?"

Enjoying life is fine, but asking for money is not!

Liu Ermei clutched her pocket tightly, not trusting anyone else to have the money; she only felt truly at ease when it was hanging on her own waistband.

Xu Sanlang blushed with anger: "Fine, we won't pay. We'll all sit here and wait to watch the big tomb at the gate. Maybe we'll even run into a prince in a sedan chair when we go out tonight."

Before Xu Tiezhu's family could reach a consensus, they heard a commotion at the village entrance, with someone shouting and crying.

Xu Dalang and his family quickly ran out to see what was going on.

Xu Erye's son and grandson looked terrified and cried as if Xu Erye had died.

"Uncle, what's wrong?" Xu Dalang asked hurriedly.

"The banknotes are all fake!" Master Xu's son exclaimed in a fit of rage.

Xu Dalang's blood was about to freeze.

The villagers who were still hesitating about whether to go out and buy land were stunned. They crowded around Xu Erye's son and grandson and returned to Xu Erye's house.

The village head rushed over, and Aunt Xu was so flustered that she ran over without even taking off her shoes to ask what was going on.

Master Xu, leaning on his dragon-headed cane, sternly reprimanded loudly: "Remaining calm in the face of trouble is basic manners. What are you all shouting about?"

His eldest grandson said irritably, "At a time like this, what are you still pretending for? Let me tell you, the banknotes are fake!"

"What's wrong?" Master Xu swayed slightly. His wife tried to help him up, but he glared at her, and she quickly pulled her hand back in fright.

“Father, that man named Su Zhe is a swindler. He tricked us out of the land and gave us fake banknotes that were indistinguishable from real ones.”

Are you sure?

"It's confirmed! We're going to buy a prime shop. The owner wasn't comfortable with it, so he took us to a bank. One of the clerks there checked them and said they were all counterfeit banknotes, and the stamps were hand-carved fakes."

While crying, Master Xu's son showed the counterfeit banknotes to Master Xu. His grandson added, "The people at the bank said that these seals were probably carved from radishes."

As soon as he finished speaking, Master Xu's eyes rolled back and he fell straight backward.

After listening to all the villagers at the door, they immediately rushed home, took out their banknotes, and hurriedly compared them with those of Master Xu!

Exactly the same!!

Those who had banknotes were crying their eyes out.

They dared not confront the government officials, but with bloodshot eyes, they took hoes and went to smash and destroy the homes of the village head and Master Xu.

After being revived by the doctor, Master Xu was beaten and scolded until he fainted again.

The village head's family owned more than 80 mu of land, and he and Master Xu had also embezzled 20% of the villagers' money, so they had the most counterfeit goods on hand.

Not feeling reassured, he took the fake banknote to a bank in the county to verify it, and there he ran into the young clerk squatting at the bank's entrance (Xie Zhaozhao: Isn't this Xiu Ning?).

When Xiu Ning heard that they were from Xujia Village, he sighed and said, "How come you received so many counterfeit banknotes?"

After confirming that the banknotes in his possession were all counterfeit, the village head stumbled to the county to report the case.

Lord Ying has gone to investigate the people's conditions and is not at the yamen.

The constable took the case and immediately went to investigate. He went to the bank first and, sure enough, met a "young clerk" at the bank's entrance.

The young shop assistant insisted, "It's a fake banknote."

Xujia Village.

A luxurious carriage slowly passed by at the village entrance. Someone lifted the curtain, looked at the frenzied villagers, and smirked.

"Guanyan, go and collect all those banknotes. Tell them that you are the young master of the bank and that you need to collect some counterfeit banknotes for research."

"Master, how should we accept it?"

"One tael for one sheet."

"Pfft!" Xie Zhaozhao reached out and pinched Zhou Shaoyu's chin. "Your Majesty is so wicked!"

Zhou Shaoyu looked at her with his dark eyes: "Is my wife flirting with her husband?"

"Tell me, did you accept those counterfeit banknotes to destroy evidence of your crimes?"

"Who said those were counterfeit banknotes?"