Lin Weiming returned home with Lin Wanyue, carrying a land deed.

The little pink butterfly peeked at the location on the land deed, then found a time and floated out with Laifu.

Ning'an Village is nice, but it's not lively enough, especially at night when it's completely silent.

Little Pink Butterfly is a ghost. Unlike humans, she doesn't need to sleep every night. She inevitably gets bored at night, so she drags Laifu along to go out for a night walk.

After looking around, I'm quite satisfied with the new house.

Unlike the little pink butterfly, Liu Junlan and Xue Fu couldn't float over directly to see the house. They could only look at the size of the house written on the land deed and knew that the price was cheap, so they were satisfied.

"Mom, you have no idea what that real estate agent is like! He's really awful!" Lin Weiming complained to his mother angrily.

“Yesterday when he took us to see the house, if it weren’t for my Wanwan being smart, I probably would have been fooled by him! He actually dared to take us to see a haunted house, a house where so many people died, and he still dared to ask for over a hundred taels! I’m so angry.”

Lin Weiming regretted not kicking An Yazi a few more times when he talked about it.

On the way back, the father and daughter chatted, and Lin Weiming learned that the house worth three hundred taels that An Yazi had initially introduced to them was actually haunted by two female ghosts.

It's probably because the house is so haunted that it can't be sold, so they're trying to sell it to outsiders like them.

Lin Weiming vividly recounted the process of buying the house, while Lin Zihan and Lin Ziqiu listened with great interest, their eyes shining, as they ate the snacks their father had brought back from the county town.

"It's your own carelessness. You're such a grown man, and you still have to rely on your daughter to buy things. You're really useless. Luckily, our Wanwan is smart." Liu Junlan gave him a disdainful look.

Xuefu smiled and said, "Since Wanwan has seen the house, there's naturally nothing to worry about."

...

Although the house has been bought, we can't move in right away.

The house that An Yazi bought was originally intended to be rented to scholars who went to study at the academy. It was not well renovated. The empty house only had white walls and didn't even have a bed.

Even if the Lin family buys a house in the county town, they can't possibly dismantle all the furniture they have now and move it there. They can only find someone else to make furniture and repair the house.

“Mother, I see that things in the fields are quite busy. Why don’t you take Wanwan to the city to prepare for the house repairs? I’ll stay home and do the work,” Lin Weiming suggested after thinking for a moment.

March is the busy season for farming, and every household is busy in the fields.

Lin Weiming felt that although dealing with those brokers was both exhausting and infuriating, it was still easier than working in the fields.

He planned to stay home and do the chores, leaving Liu Junlan to handle these matters.

"You good-for-nothing! How old are you? You were cheated once and you're afraid to go to the city? We'll be dealing with them a lot more often in the future."

"You're the pillar of our family. If you don't step up, do you expect to rely entirely on me and your daughter?" Liu Junlan said, taking a sip of her cold tea.

"Mother...that's not what I meant. I was just worried you'd get tired," Lin Weiming explained, sounding aggrieved.

"Father, don't worry, I'll help Mother with the second son," Lin Zhongyuan said.

He has now passed the imperial examination and become a scholar. Those classmates who used to threaten him don't even dare to talk to him anymore, let alone bully him.

Moreover, as soon as he starts working, many people come to help him.

Everyone greeted him with smiles, and Lin Zhongyuan was having a very happy time lately.

He would be even happier if Master Cui didn't force him to write two poems every day!

Lin Weiming had no choice but to take charge of repairing the house.

This time, I don't need to bring Lin Wanyue along.

Liu Junlan felt sorry for him for not taking good care of his daughter. When he left, the little girl was fair and clean, but when she came back, she had a few small red bumps on her skin.

Speaking of this, Lin Wanyue didn't expect that at this time, inns were not places you could just stay in.

The bed looked clean, but there were bugs on it!

Lin Wanyue was caught off guard and fell into the trap.

She was determined to go to the villa that evening to get some medicine for herself.

"Hehe..." Lin Weiming laughed awkwardly. He was thick-skinned and never expected his daughter to be bitten by an insect.

That evening, Xuefu opened the box, counted out five taels of silver, thought for a moment, then gritted her teeth and took out another five taels of silver to put together.

A total of ten taels of silver.

She carefully wrapped it in a handkerchief and handed it to Lin Weiming, carefully instructing him: "Although Zhongyuan is good at studying, we don't know when he will pass the imperial examination and become a scholar."

"Even if you pass the exam, you may not get a suitable official position. Our family will have to live there for many years. So you need to be careful when you do things. You need to pay attention to the furniture materials you choose and the bricklayers you hire."

"Honey, don't worry! I have experience now. The way we built our house is the same over there." Lin Weiming reached out and pulled his wife into his arms: "I promise you'll stay comfortably."

Xuefu pushed him away, "I'm talking to you about something serious! With you and the child around, how could I not be comfortable living here? But the house has to be made comfortable no matter what, or I'll pinch your skin!"

The two laughed and joked together until the moon was high in the sky, then they fell asleep in each other's arms.

…

The next day at breakfast, Xuefu had already packed his things for his trip.

Since they were unfamiliar with the area and Lin Weiming had been deceived once before, Xuefu decided to let him stay outside for a while longer, find a suitable person to repair the house so it was habitable, and then come back to pick up his family.

“Weiming.” Liu Junlan sipped his porridge, picked up a piece of pickled vegetable with his chopsticks, and asked, “How much silver did you bring? I don’t know how much things are priced in the city. Should we bring more? If we don’t have enough money, it will be too much of a hassle to go back and forth.”

Liu Junlan's words struck a chord with Lin Weiming.

His mother really loves him!

"Mother, I think so too!" Lin Weiming had just opened his mouth when he felt his instep being stomped hard.

Xuefu quickly said, "Mother, I've already given him ten taels of silver. I'm just worried he'll squander it. There are so many temptations in the city, and I'm afraid he, a grown man, won't be able to resist. If you think it's not enough, I'll go get some more."

Lin Weiming looked at her expectantly.

"Oh." But Liu Junlan only said, "Ten taels of silver? That should be enough. You're right, there are many tricks in the city, and he's not very bright. If he gets swindled out of his money, it's better to make him make a few more trips."

"And if you're easily swayed by those women in brothels, then all that money will really be wasted."

Lin Weiming: "..."

Lin Weiming's lips twitched: "Mother, I think you think too highly of me."

"No, I really underestimated you."