After dinner
The midday sun is scorching, shining strongly on the earth. The air is stuffy, and the seedlings in the field are wilted in the sun. This is the best time to take a nap.
But thinking about her best friend still in dire straits, Liu Zhiyi couldn't sleep anymore. She simply asked someone to harness the carriage and called the Shen brothers to go out.
After the carriage had been swaying for half an hour, the three of them first arrived at the largest pawnshop in Tianshui Town and walked in together.
It was noon, and the lobby of the dental clinic was empty except for a middle-aged man in his forties sitting at the counter, dozing off with his head supported by one hand.
The man, wearing a brand new gray fine cotton gown and looking very happy, heard the noise and glanced towards the door. When he saw someone coming in, he immediately stood up and said enthusiastically, "Hey, three guests have arrived. Please come in. Are you here to see the house?"
These words were said to Shen Dazhuang.
He was the strongest and tallest among the three, and looked older, so the broker naturally thought he was the one in charge.
Liu Zhiyi stepped forward and said, "We want to buy land."
The man was surprised for a moment, but quickly adjusted his attitude. In their line of work, what kind of scenes haven't they seen? Smiling, he invited the three of them to sit down and personally served them tea.
Then he brought out a few thick booklets, put them on the table and pushed them to the three of them, asking them to look through them.
"My last name is Chen, and everyone calls me Chen Ya Ren. May I know what your name is, young lady?"
"My last name is Liu, and these are my two cousins, whose last name is Shen."
"Hello, Miss Liu, and hello to the two Mr. Chen." Chen Ya Ren bowed politely to each of the three.
The three of them quickly stood up and returned the greeting.
"I wonder what kind of land you'd like? If you haven't decided yet, you can take a look at these brochures. They list all the land our firm has for sale. You can take a look and see if there's anything you like."
Due to limited time, Liu Zhiyi did not look through it.
"I want a large piece of arable land, good or bad, just a large, continuous piece, preferably not too far from here."
Chen Yaren's eyes lit up for a moment.
After thinking for a moment, he said, "According to your requirements, there are two suitable farms nearby. One has 300 acres, and the other 600 acres. Both are top-quality farmland. They are not far away, only a few miles away. I wonder which one you would like?"
Liu Zhiyi made the decision without hesitation.
"If the price is right, I'll take both."
Chen Yaren's eyes widened suddenly. He didn't expect that these people, who were dressed in ordinary and low-key clothes, were so generous. They wanted to buy hundreds of acres of land just like that. What kind of family did they have to be so arrogant?
"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"
Liu Zhiyi saw that the other party was standing there with eyes wide open and not saying anything, so he asked in confusion.
"No problem, of course no problem."
Chen Yaren was overjoyed, smiling so much that his teeth were showing. He looked at the few people with extremely warm eyes, as if he was looking at his own adoptive parents.
After some bargaining, the price was temporarily set at eight taels of silver per mu of land. After viewing the land and if there was no problem, they could sign the contract and go to the government office to handle the transfer.
While there was still time, Chen Yaren went to the back hall to make some arrangements and found someone to look after the store. He then took Liu Zhiyi and the other two and rushed to the farm without stopping.
"The land on the farm is probably already planted by now. You can choose to buy the crops along with it, or you can wait until the autumn harvest to take over the farm. You can rest assured about the price; I guarantee you'll get no cheating."
Liu Zhiyi doesn't like procrastination and decides to make a quick decision.
"If the land is indeed as you say, I'll buy it along with the crops."
After saying that, he looked at the two brothers of the Shen family.
"Brother, I don't know much about the land. It will be up to you later." They have been tending the land with their parents since they were young. They are considered old hands and have no problem judging the quality of the land.
The two nodded and said at the same time, "Don't worry, Sister Zhiyi, leave it to us two."
After a busy afternoon, I finally finished inspecting the land.
It was almost the same as what the broker said, so I paid the deposit and made an appointment to take people from the government office to measure the land and go through the formalities the next day. Then I went to the street to buy without stopping.
Clothing for more than 300 people required a lot of material. Liu Zhiyi didn't hesitate to go to the cloth shop and said, "Boss, I want 300 pieces of coarse cloth and 300 pieces of fine cotton cloth."
other side:"……"
"Go away, you little girl, where did you come from? You are interfering with my business. Get out of here now, or I will be rude to you."
Liu Zhiyi: “…”
"How can you talk like that? We really are here to buy fabric." Shen Erzhuang angrily stepped forward to argue with the other party, but was stopped by Liu Zhiyi.
The other party sneered with disdain.
"Buy cloth? Considering the way you're dressed, I'd believe you said you needed three feet of cloth. But three hundred pieces? What a joke! You're still young and already boasting, aren't you afraid of getting your tongue stuck?"
The three of them were all wearing fine cotton robes that looked quite new, but did she know how much three hundred bolts of cloth were worth? Even the worst material would cost several hundred taels.
"you……"
The two brothers of the Shen family were so angry that their chests heaved violently. Liu Zhiyi just looked at the shopkeeper expressionlessly, turned around and left the cloth shop, and went to a cloth shop right across from him.
The sharp-nosed and monkey-faced shopkeeper was still sneering, but he never expected that after a while, the guys in the shop opposite ran off happily to rent a few horse-drawn carriages, and everyone in the shop, including the shopkeeper, was busy moving the cloth out.
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