Chapter 102: The Village Headman's Test
"Yu Lizheng, do you think we can buy some land in the village?"
At this moment, Yu Li was sitting on the only four-legged stool in the room, deep in thought, and Shen Fugui asked cautiously.
After breakfast, the two brothers went to Yu Lizheng's house.
Fortunately, the old man told them in advance last night that his home was at the east end of the village, otherwise the two of them would not know where to look for him.
As soon as I arrived at the headman's house, I saw the old man coming out of the house with a hunched back, as if he was about to go out.
When he saw the two brothers, the old man's face turned a little pale.
Shen Fugui was worried for a moment, thinking that the old man was unwell.
But Old Man Yu soon suggested visiting the Shen family.
Old man Yu was excited all night last night.
But in the second half of the night, he finally realized that the scene of a group of snakes greeting each other was only one side of the family's story. What if they had some unique secret method to drive away snakes?
He wanted to personally verify how to break the curse of their Bear Village.
Old man Yu suddenly couldn't sleep.
I could only fall asleep when the rooster crowed.
Early in the morning, as soon as it was light, he went to find several of his nephews in the village and offered to help repair the house of the outsiders who had come yesterday, and to get to know the family at the same time.
However, before he could even utter a word, these lazy guys refused.
Old man Yu was so angry that he felt uncomfortable in his heart.
After returning home, his wife said he was meddling in other people’s business!
Old man Yu was so angry that he sat down for a long time before he felt a little better.
Who can know the pain in his heart?
Their Bear Village cannot be without him!
Now, most people in the village have decided to leave everything to fate.
Perhaps in a few decades, there will be no one left in their Bear Village, and perhaps it will be called Python Village again.
After all, there are more snakes here than people.
The snakes in Xiaoaoling are even more terrifying. In the first half of the year, a group of men including Maodan from Ershunzi's family went out of the mountains to purchase snakes, and the number of snakes was twice as many as usual.
The villagers were terrified.
I was afraid of alarming them and getting bitten a few more times, or being surrounded by snakes.
However, Old Man Yu saw hope from the Shen family last night.
He was the one who was buried in the earth soon.
But he has a grandson, and his little grandson spends all day scratching on the ground with a wooden stick, which makes him feel distressed.
There are only about thirty households left in Gouxiong Village now.
Moreover, there are fewer and fewer children in the village.
Yu Lizheng was very nervous and placed all his hopes on the Shen family.
Follow the two Shen brothers to the thatched hut.
I saw that the family had cleared all the weeds in the yard.
Two women were using brooms made of freshly tied weeds to clean the cobwebs and dust in the house. Although smoke and dust were billowing, the courtyard seemed to be full of life.
Old man Yu felt much more relieved and had more hope in his heart.
When Old Mrs. Wu and her daughter saw someone coming home, they immediately cleaned up the main room.
They also brought in a few rotten chairs that had just been cleaned outside the yard and asked people to sit down. The mother and daughter then busied themselves boiling water and making tea.
Old Man Yu was deeply touched when he saw this positive, hardworking and motivated family.
have a look!
They have only been here for less than a day and they have already treated this place as their home.
The people of Bear Village have been trapped here for generations and have resigned themselves to their fate.
Since people have already regarded this place as their home, they cannot bully the only outsider like other villages do.
Yu Lizheng immediately proposed that the house would belong to them from now on.
But he would only arrange the transfer if he paid eight hundred coins or one tael of silver to the village.
This money was not collected by him, but was to be collected by the clan to be used for clan sacrifices and other matters.
If exiled prisoners from nearby villages wanted to live in villagers' houses or buy land to build houses, the land alone would cost a lot of money. Five taels was considered a small amount, and many would pay eight or ten taels or more.
Yu Lizheng didn't ask for too much.
Shen Fugui understood this and was naturally overjoyed.
He had heard long ago that many exiled prisoners would be beaten with sticks by the locals before arriving at a certain place.
Because local residents were afraid that the exiled prisoners would cause trouble, most of them would kill them in advance to show their power.
Therefore, many exiled prisoners lived a difficult life.
After all, they have a clan.
There are at least a few hundred people under one clan name, and at most thousands of people.
Exiled prisoners are already inferior due to their status. If they have conflicts with local people, the local clans have the right to deal with them directly before the matter is reported to the government.
And the result of dealing with it is mostly that you suffer losses.
But Shen Fugui felt that the village they entered was a little different.
So far, let alone those who come to cause trouble.
Even the local villagers did not take the initiative to approach them.
Now, the village head actually offered to let them own the thatched cottage for just a little money. They were so happy.
Although the thatched hut is dilapidated, it belongs to them.
They can build a house here directly, it is their house!
"You mean one ounce of silver?"
Shen Fugui only heard the key words at the end and automatically ignored the eight hundred coins at the beginning.
Yu Lizheng carefully looked at the clothes of the two men in front of him. Although they were a bit old and had traces of fresh scratches, he guessed that it would be difficult to get one or two taels of silver.
Thinking of the faces of the village elders, he took a deep breath, looked at the two of them as if he had made a great decision, and said, "I know it's not easy for you to get here. I'll arrange the transfer for you for 800 coins!"
Shen Fuyou's eyes lit up on the spot.
He immediately expressed his desire to buy land.
"It's okay to buy land," Yu Lizheng looked at Shen Fuyou, "but the land in our village is currently cultivated. If you want to farm, you can only cultivate it yourself, measure it, and pay a transfer fee."
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