After returning home, Shi Qingluo took out a few pieces of rock sugar and handed them to Erlang.
"Erlang, give these candies to your friends and ask them to hang around the door of the old house to see if anyone comes to visit before dinner."
"If anyone gives you useful information, give him an extra piece of candy."
Sugar is very expensive these days. People in the village are reluctant to buy sugar for home use, let alone for children.
Most of the children in the village have never eaten sweets since they were young.
Rock sugar was not available in Daliang, so she made it just to sweeten the mouths of Xiao Xiaomei and Erlang. It is more convenient to eat than white sugar.
Let the children keep an eye on them so that they can find out who in the village may be related to the Wu family.
When I become rich in the village in the future, I will never bring the other party along to play.
Erlang looked at the rock candy with some reluctance, "Sister-in-law, this is candy, do you really want to give it to them?"
Shi Qingluo smiled and rubbed Erlang's head. "If you want someone to do something for you, how can you get it done without giving them some benefits?"
“You can only gain if you give.”
“You need to learn to look further ahead. Things that can be bought with money or made by yourself are not a big deal. There is nothing to be reluctant about.”
"Just finish eating and I'll do it again."
Erlang is very sensible and well-behaved, but his vision is still too limited. I will have to teach him to see further in the future.
Erlang nodded, not quite understanding, "I understand, sister-in-law. I want to bribe the people who work for me with something, so that they will pay more attention."
“We should be generous when we should be generous, and not lose because we are reluctant to give up.”
Shi Qingluo smiled and nodded, "Yes, our Erlang is really smart."
Erlang likes his sister-in-law to praise him, "It's all because of my sister-in-law's good teaching. Now I'm going to find my friends."
"Go ahead." Shi Qingluo waved his hand.
Xiao Hanzheng did not interfere with how his young wife taught her younger siblings.
He also didn't want his younger brothers and sisters to become the kind of people who are easily fooled. His wife taught them well.
He looked at Shi Qingluo and asked, "What kind of house do you want to build? Do you have any ideas? I'll draw it."
Shi Qingluo replied: "I have a lot of ideas."
"Come on, let's go back to the house and draw it. I also want to change the structure of the house. I don't want to use the current style."
She took Xiao Hanzheng's hand and walked towards the room.
Xiao Hanzheng held it back and went into the house together.
He took out a pen and paper and wrote down Shi Qingluo's requirements and suggestions bit by bit. After summarizing them, he picked up the pen and started drawing.
On the other side, an old woman in the village went to visit Old Xiao's house.
Her son worked as a waiter in the Wu family's inn. He had just come home specially to ask her to instigate Old Lady Xiao to cause trouble.
So she came here on her own initiative.
After arriving, she kept mentioning that Xiao Hanzheng's family had earned six hundred taels of silver from the Wu family, and her tone was full of envy and jealousy.
He also hinted at something, saying that if he had a few hundred taels of silver, he could do so many things, and he could buy so many things when he went to the capital, and so on.
Old Mrs. Xiao and the others appeared calm on the surface, but they were in great pain inside.
They kept comforting themselves that there would be countless six hundred taels waiting for them after they arrived in Beijing.
In addition, Shi Qingluo and Xiao Hanzheng were not easy to deal with, and they had to rely on them for advice, so they could only endure it.
It must be said that Shi Qingluo's early suppression was very effective, otherwise the Wu family's plan would have succeeded.
The old woman had done enough to instigate, so she left.
She knew the temperament of Old Lady Xiao and others. Not expressing her opinion did not mean not causing trouble.
Mr. Xiao’s family has six hundred taels of silver, and the Xiao family will definitely not let it go.
She was just waiting for the Xiao family to make a fuss so that she could let her son go to the Wu family to collect the reward money.
But when it was dark, she didn't notice that Old Lady Xiao went to Mr. Xiao's house to make trouble.
I can't help but feel a little disappointed and want to wait and see tomorrow.
She didn't know that as soon as she left Old Xiao's house, two children from the village excitedly ran to Erlang and sold her.
"This man's son seems to be working as a waiter in the county town. It looks like the inn is run by the Wu family."
The young wife is very capable and everything is under her control.
Shi Qingluo said, "Nine out of ten times, it was the waiter who came back and asked his mother to go and instigate the old lady."
Once this is confirmed, "We should never bring his family to play in anything from now on."
She is very generous when she is generous, and she is also petty when she is petty.
She will not show mercy to anyone who wants to plot against her or has already plotted against her.
This was especially to Xiao Hanzheng's liking. He raised his hand and smoothed the hair beside her ear, "Okay, I won't play with them."
The two stopped talking about this matter and discussed drawing the general appearance and features of the new house to be built.
Watching her husband draw basically the house he wanted to build, she found that he was an excellent painter.
The key is that he is really nice and does everything according to his own wishes, such as building separate toilets, washrooms, and shower rooms.
She wanted a flush toilet and a shower, so she had to run plumbing.
Iron is very expensive and the government has restrictions on the purchase of iron, so it is impossible to use it to build pipelines.
So her husband helped her to order ceramic pipes, which were cheap and had no restrictions.
When the time comes, install it outside and wrap it with straw, so it is easy to replace if it breaks.
After dinner, Shi Qingluo took Xiao Hanzheng for a walk near the bamboo forest by the river, and they discussed the drawings together.
When it was getting dark, the two of them walked back hand in hand.
The next day, the clan leader asked his son to go to the county town to inquire about the price of the bamboo forest mountain and how to get the mountain deed.
In the morning, the clan leader's son came back, and the clan leader asked someone to call Xiao Hanzheng over.
A quarter of an hour later, Xiao Hanzheng returned home.
"Madam, the mountain in the bamboo forest can be bought for thirty-five taels of silver. You can go and do it now."
"Then the government will send someone to measure the area, and I will go to the county town to apply for the land deed."
He found that since Mo Qingling became the county magistrate, the efficiency of the county government has increased a lot.
In the past, it would take several days to get it done.
What's worse, if the card is blocked intentionally, there may be no news for a month or two without money being put in.
Xiao Hanzheng had been thinking that if the former county magistrate was still alive, he would have to find a way to bring him down.
Fortunately, Mo Qingling came.
Shi Qingluo pointed to the small wooden box containing the silver and said, "Take the silver and go with the clan leader's son to do it."
She did not hide the money separately, but put it in a small wooden box, so that either she or her husband could take it when they needed it.
In ancient times, if you wanted to go to the county government or other places to do business, the men in the family were required, and women basically did not get involved.
Unless there were special circumstances, she would not deliberately violate these rules, so she was not planning to go with them.
Xiao Hanzheng nodded: "Okay, I'll do it."
Sure enough, Xiao Hanzheng got the mountain deed that day.
He also hired craftsmen who specialized in house repair in the county town to be responsible for the construction and overall control, and recruited people in the village to assist in the repair.
Not only do they receive ten cents a day, but breakfast and lunch are also included.
Now that the busy farming season is over, many strong men in the village have come to the Xiao family to help repair the house.
Shi Qingluo also asked Xiao's mother to invite several women with whom she had good relationships and good character to come and cook.
The next day, craftsmen came from the county town and construction of the new house began.
The people in the old house were depressed when they heard this, and they were anxious to sell the old house and land one after another, wanting to leave as soon as possible.
This way you won’t have to see it and won’t be bothered by it anymore.
(End of this chapter)
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