Yesterday, Cao Xiangnan and Li Zheng made an appointment to go to the village to ask about buying land. In the morning, Cao Xiangnan came to see Li Zheng with two steaming baskets of steamed buns. Li Zheng's grandson is not afraid of him anymore and calls him uncle. There is a child at home, and Cao Xiangnan likes this kind of small animal now, and will hold it and tease it.

"He is so greedy at such a young age." Mrs. Li Zheng saw that her grandson, who never wanted others, wanted Cao Xiangnan to hold him, and she couldn't help but smile.

What Li Zheng likes most now is to eat the food sent by the boy from the Cao family. The taste is really delicious. He ate a whole basket of buns in two bites. While eating, he said from the bottom of his heart, "Mm, delicious, delicious."

Seeing the remaining buns and the look in his wife's eyes, as if she would beat him if he continued to eat, he reluctantly stopped.

"Alan, the boy and I are going out for a while." After eating a full stomach, it is natural to go out to work. Li Zheng said to his wife, "Go, go and finish the work for Xiangnan and come back." It's very meaningful that if you can't do it well, don't come back. Li Zheng's wife was feeding her little grandson, and didn't care about her husband who was going out. She waved her hand and let him do it.

The two went out and went to find two families in the village.

The people in the village would call out to Li Zheng when they saw him. When they saw that Cao Silang's leg was healed, there was curiosity in their eyes.

The last time they saw Cao Silang was when the Cao family split up. At that time, Cao Silang's leg was still broken, and it was unknown how many days he could live. Now he is healed and walking with Li Zheng. No one knows what they are going to do.

Seeing someone looking at him, Cao Xiangnan smiled and nodded to the other party. He was not very familiar with these people in the village.

Since moving to live outside the village, Cao Xiangnan's family rarely came back to the village. He went to Li Zheng's house several times recently. I went to Chen Hong's place that day and met Cao Laoer. Other people in the village didn't meet him much. Even if they met him, they just walked by and didn't pay much attention to anything.

There were only three plots of land near his place that had been signed, and the rest could be done at the government office. They went to the other two houses first, but they didn't expect that the one they went to was Li Mei's family, who had just delivered the land to him this morning.

"Li Zheng, why are you here, Cao Silang?" Li Mei was a little surprised to see Cao Silang coming to his house.

Li Mei welcomed him in. There was only an old father in his family, and his mother had passed away a few years ago. Li Zheng explained his purpose. The land outside was useless if it was just left there. In addition, with Li Mei around, his father knew that the family's recent vegetables were all taken away by the Cao family boy. He was not so old and confused, so he sold the land just to show his favor.

As for the price, with Li Zheng, it was fair.

Cao Xiangnan gave them the money on the spot, got the land deed from them, and signed a separate document. He only had to wait until the time came to go to the government office to transfer the ownership.

The other family he went to was Cao Xiangnan's uncle's family. In this village, most people with the same surname are related, and he was no longer surprised by this. They explained that they wanted to buy the land, and Cao Laoyan did not agree immediately. Later, he said he would think about it again.

Cao Xiangnan knew in his heart that they wanted to raise the price.

Li Zheng was also a wise man. He said, "It doesn't matter where you put the land. There will be no such shop after this village. There are many in the village. The money for good land is there."

So what he meant was that if you want to raise the price, this price is already good. It won't be much higher. If you don't sell it, we still have other land and we don't have to buy yours. But the fact is that there is a piece of land between his uncle's land and this plot of land. If this plot of land cannot be sold, it doesn't matter if you don't buy it.

"Sell your land for a few bucks now, put it in your own pocket, and you don't have to ask others for money when you need to do anything. If you want to keep the land, just keep it. That's all I have to say." Li Zheng stood up and said to Cao Xiangnan, "Let's go."

"Wait..." Seeing that they were about to leave, Cao Laoyan stopped them.

He has two boys at home, neither of whom is filial. They don't want them to live together in the new house. They still live in this old house. On weekdays, they make a living by farming and selling things. The land is still in his hands. He can't grow anything there, and it's useless to leave it there. It's true. It's better to exchange it for some money and live a good life with his wife for a few days.

People in this era always talk about "filial piety", but if you can't even have food to eat, who cares whether you are filial or not, or what your reputation is, so there are people in the village who are unwilling to support their parents.

"Okay, just as you said, the land will be given to you." Cao Laoyan said.

Li Zheng also smiled, "Laoyan, that's it."

Later, Cao Xiangnan got the land deed, signed the document and stamped his fingerprints, and the land was taken away quickly.

When he went out, Cao Xiangnan saw that they raised a large group of hens in the yard of their house. He asked casually and found out that they raised so many chickens to sell them for money after they laid eggs. When he came, he knew from Li Zheng that the two elders were not easy to deal with. He said, "Uncle Wu, in the future, please send your eggs to me. I will take whatever you have."

"Really?" Uncle Wu was still a little bit unconvinced.

"Yes, really, I will take it from you at the price you sell in the village." Cao Xiangnan thought of the tea leaf eggs in the future. It would be good to make tea leaf eggs and sell them. It would also be good if they were pickled into salted eggs.

With Liu's shop there, as long as the food is delicious, he will not worry about not having a market. Otherwise, they can also set up a stall there to sell it. It should still be good.

The faces of Cao Laoyan and his wife were filled with joy. Compared to selling a piece of land all at once, they were happier that someone would collect the eggs in the future, which meant that their future life would not be a problem.

They walked out of Cao Laoyan's house.

"Cao boy, why are you collecting so many eggs?" Li Zheng now knew that Cao Silang had opened a food stall in the town, but why would he collect so many eggs? It would take a long time for his wife to give birth.

"Sell!" Cao Xiangnan only had one word, and he didn't say how to sell it.

"Stinky boy." Li Zheng didn't ask when he saw that he didn't say anything.

He knew that his third uncle was not easy to deal with before he went there, but he didn't expect that when they arrived, he didn't even want to let them in. As soon as he proposed to buy the land, his uncle refused to give him the remaining land that they had discussed, and simply waved his hand, "No, no..."

"Uncle, that..." Cao Xiangnan wanted to say something else, but the door was closed in his face.

"..." Cao Xiangnan.

The two stood at the door and looked at each other. Cao Xiangnan had no choice but to follow Li Zheng. On the way back, he also got some information about the uncle from Li Zheng. It was also because the people in the clan were not honest, and the village chief was unfair at that time.

"There are many things in the village. Although I am the chief, there are some things that I cannot stop, such as some people in the clan." Speaking of those people, it was just like the division of the Cao family compound. The chief knew that they were unfair, but he could not change anything. The power of one person is limited.

At that time, many of the fields in the hands of the third uncle were taken away by his brothers. No one in the clan helped him. Even the clan leader sided with his brothers. So it is no wonder that when they mentioned buying land, they were driven away without even a chance to discuss.

"If you want to buy that land, you still have to go a few more times and talk to the third uncle properly. Otherwise, we can't occupy the land without his approval." They are not those bandits, the chief said to Cao Xiangnan.

"Well, I know. I'll make a few more trips myself." Cao Xiangnan said.

When he got home, Cao Gang was already waiting for him in the yard. He followed the carriage to the town, delivered the rice noodles, and then they went to the government office. Cao Xiangnan stuffed two taels of silver into the person in charge and explained their purpose.

The person in charge put the silver into his sleeve as if nothing had happened, and the smile on his face became much warmer.

Cao Gang, who was standing on the side, saw Cao Xiangnan's actions and his eyebrows moved.

"The land over in Caojia Village, I remember that there is a large piece of land over there that is unoccupied. Okay, I'll go with you." The person in charge was easy to get things done after taking the money, and since there was nothing to do in the government office, he agreed to take people with them to make a trip and get the matter done.

"That's good. Thank you for your help, sir." He naturally didn't want to go twice if he could only go once to the yamen to handle business. Cao Xiangnan's face was full of happiness.

Their carriage stopped at the entrance of the yamen, and they invited the person in charge to get on the carriage, and then they went to Caojia Village.

The two yamen runners who went with them were helping to measure the land. Cao Xiangnan found an opportunity to give each of them two guan of money, and the money was in place. The yamen runners in the yamen only had a few guan of money every month, and the money in the Qingshui yamen was not much, and these small yamen runners had even less money.

In the past, if there was something going on in the village, the yamen runners would have to walk for half a day to get things

done, and they didn't even get a penny. Now the master's carriage came to pick them up, and the man was so generous, so the two yamen runners took the money and measured a little more land. "Do you want to measure that piece of land as well?" The person in charge pointed to another piece of land and asked, "The price will be calculated according to the price of mountain land."

"Okay, then Xiangnan, thank you very much, sir." This was almost like giving it away for free. Cao Xiangnan accepted it with a smile. It seemed that the money was not wasted, and the person in charge was also very generous. He saw that the two yamen runners who measured the land gave him a lot more land.

The final piece of land was twice as much as he had initially estimated, but the money was about the same. Excluding the money he spent on handling the matter, he still made a profit. The purchase of this land was simply worth it. The land opposite was also bought together and was in the name of Cao Gang.

Go back to the government office to get the land deed done. Once the land deed is in hand, the land is theirs.

No matter what era it is, it is always right to give someone a little benefit when you ask them to do something. This will make things twice as effective with half the effort, and the effect is also very obvious. Later,

they went to the building materials shop in the town to ask how to sell the materials. The two of them ran around before returning to the stall. The things on the stall were almost sold out. After they were sold out, everyone packed up their things and went back.