Chapter 185 Borrowing Land

When Mrs. Xu saw Xue Zhuang trying to drive her away, she refused to accept it and continued to yell, "It was the horse that kicked me. I admit that I didn't take good care of the child, and I don't want any compensation.

Yan'er! Are you so cruel as to watch the Xu family's only child go back like this?

My parents must be so sad. I'm afraid everyone in the village will say that the Xu family's daughter and her husband are heartless people who don't even recognize their relatives and can't even tolerate a child."

In the countryside, people can be drowned by spit!

Xu Yan'er was absolutely afraid to resist Xue Zhuang's words now. Xiaobao had a large area of ​​broken skin and blood on his forehead. If she left immediately, she didn't know how the villagers would laugh at her when she returned.

She could only plead with Xue Zhuang again, "Brother Zhuang, let Xiaobao and sister-in-law stay here for two days before leaving."

Xue Zhuang's words just now, telling him to get out immediately, were also scary. If he left with injuries like this, not to mention whether the Xu family would make trouble, even the neighbors he had just seen would gossip about him.

Seeing Xu Yan'er pleading for mercy, he agreed: "Leave as soon as your injury is healed. Don't stay for a single day."

Seeing that her self-torture trick of sacrificing her son had finally worked, Mrs. Xu stopped shouting and just coaxed her son to bandage his wound and buy him some candy.

Everyone knew that the injury was not caused by the horse, so it naturally had nothing to do with Song Liyun.

But the child fell down while feeding the horse, so Song Liyun was not stingy and took out a hundred coins.

However, she did not give it to Xu's sister-in-law, but gave it to Xu Yan'er, asking her to buy some things for the child.

Mrs. Xu saw this and wanted to snatch the money away.

There is one good thing about Suijin Town: not many people come to watch the fun, especially the fun between Song Liyun and Xue Zhuang's families.

Some people who were just peeking out have now dispersed.

After returning to Baolinju, Song Liyun was busy with her own work and put Xue Zhuang's family affairs behind her.

A day later, Xue Zhuang went to Baolinju.

"Miss Song, what do you say we should do? The county government said that according to imperial law, military households cannot purchase civilian land and can only use their own military household land for housing."

Xue Zhuang was so anxious that he pounded his legs. Yesterday he asked Mr. Zhang to go to the county government office to inquire about the land sale deed, but he didn't expect to get such an answer.

In other words, military households only have the land and houses that they registered with at the garrison for the first time, and they cannot purchase more.

The allocation of land and houses to military households was both a benefit and a restriction.

Xue Zhuang regretted it very much. When he chose the house, he deliberately chose a courtyard in the town because of its good location.

Although the courtyard is large with three main rooms and four side rooms, it is still spacious for a family of several people to live in, it cannot be compared with Song Liyun's Baolinju.

He now wants to build another courtyard and turn it into a house with two entrances and two cross-courtyards. After Xu Yaner gives birth to the child, he will bring his mother to live with him.

At this time, everyone envied Baolinju for its large area, which was at least equivalent to five or six courtyards in the town.

But everyone has forgotten that this is a haunted house. Someone died here before and no one dares to live there.

At this time, Song Liyun was also worried: she had paid so much silver, although Mr. Zhang would return it, she was unwilling to accept it!

I don't know if there is anything Wei can do.

As soon as this thought comes into mind, it is denied.

The garrison must have known about this law, otherwise when the land was sold in Suijin Town, the garrison would not have wanted to buy more land itself, and the government would not have taken any action.

In fact, both sides have a tacit understanding.

The vacant land and dilapidated houses in the town belong to the government. The only things the guards can allocate are a dozen or so ready-made houses, and other than that, there are abandoned lands outside the town.

If it exceeds these regulations, the government will not process the land deeds or house deeds, and the transaction will naturally fail.

"Then what should we do?" Song Liyun said slowly, "Should we follow the villagers' example and find a town resident's account to buy land?"

In fact, this method is very risky. If you buy land using someone else's household registration, and they deny it, all the names and fingerprints will belong to someone else, and you will get nothing.

Xue Zhuang said lightly: "I can find a household registration to buy a house, what about you, Miss Song?"

He had accumulated some connections during the past six months in town, so it shouldn't be difficult to resolve the issue.

He just felt that since he was a military household, whatever the garrison said to the town government in some aspects did not count, and he was not used to it.

Song Liyun thought for a moment and said, "I can do it too!"

The people she wanted to buy land for also had registered residence. Han Ming and Yunniang were both from Suijin Town.

I’m just worried that Han Ming was a fugitive slave and had no household registration, so he needs to restore his household registration.

This worry disappeared in an instant. With his current relationship, it would be easy for Han Ming to become a citizen.

Mr. Zhang and the others just need to provide a certificate saying that Han Ming is from the town.

Many houses were burned down in Suijin Town that year, and documents such as household registration and road permits were destroyed. They are now being replaced.

One more household means more taxes to be collected and one more household to perform labor service. As long as the person is not a fugitive of unknown origin, the local government will be more than happy to have him.

The two of them quickly discussed a countermeasure and prepared to go back to make their own plans.

Before Xue Zhuang said goodbye, Song Liyun asked Yunniang to pick up a piece of cloth, wrap it up and give it to him: "I heard yesterday that Xu Yan'er was pregnant, but I haven't congratulated you yet.

I don't have any gifts here, just some scraps of cloth to make a shirt for the child. If you don't mind, take it back!"

The cloth is the softest and closest-fitting silk cotton.

These were the few feet of leftover scraps that Song Liyun had bought in the provincial capital after making pajamas for Xiao An and Song Zhenping.

Although it is a small amount and adults can’t make anything with it, it can be used to make two sets of close-fitting clothes for babies.

This cloth is not available in Jin Town. It is inconvenient for Xu Yan'er to go out. Xue Zhuang is a man who doesn't understand those things. The sister-in-law of the Xu family who takes care of the pregnant woman does not seem reliable.

Now Xue Zhuang is still loyal to her, and Song Liyun is also willing to show some care for her subordinates.

Xue Zhuang naturally accepted it with great gratitude.

He heard some words from the brothers in the garrison talking, saying that after the town was built, many people in the camp would move their families there.

These are just gossips for now. After all, there is nothing in Suijin Town right now, and people are not willing to come here to suffer.

There are only two military households in the town now. Song Liyun is valued by the garrison and has ways to make money.

I must take this opportunity to establish a good relationship with the Song family, otherwise once someone else comes, the important position may be taken away.

Xue Zhuang only stayed in Baolinju for an hour.

After he left in a hurry, Mrs. Xu pulled Xiaobao out from behind a tree beside the road.

Mrs. Xu looked at the road leading to the river, then at Baolinju, with a proud look on her face.

My day's work was not in vain.

When Song Liyun came to see Xue Zhuang a few days ago, she noticed something was wrong.

Xue Zhuang always looked at people with a nose that was not a nose, eyes that were not eyes, and his chin was sticking up to the sky. He even didn't take his sister-in-law from his natal family seriously.

But when he saw Song Liyun, he looked fawning and the two of them even hid in the house and closed the door to talk.

What does this mean!

There's also all that nonsense about how we're all military households and should get along well.

Humph, anyone with eyes can see that the relationship between the two is not ordinary.

Only my brainless sister-in-law would believe it.

(End of this chapter)