Chapter 75 Buying a House and Land

"Xiaoshan, have you discovered it a long time ago?"

"Not too early. I just found out today."

Xiaoshan told the secret he heard in the utility room today, but he did not mention that Jiang Wan was there.

Lian Dahai was even angrier after hearing this. It turns out that He Hua also knew about the baby swap! !

When did she know?!

Even Dahai himself was so angry that he felt dizzy. He didn't even dare to think about what his wife would do if she knew all this. She would probably be so angry that she would vomit blood.

Before, the second son even said thank you to me, thank me for giving him a good son!

He knows it too!

In the whole family, only he was kept in the dark. Lian Dahai was so angry that he really wanted to burn down the family.

"My dear, I'm sorry for wronging you. Let's keep this a secret from your mother for now. I'll talk to her about it after we divide the property tomorrow."

Xiaoshan nodded. The matter had already been exposed and he was no longer in a hurry.

The father and his two sons dragged the drunken people to the bed. Xiaohe took the initiative to invite Xiaoshan to sleep with him, and Xiaoshan agreed immediately.

The two brothers actually had a good relationship since childhood, but when Xiao He grew bigger and they got on a boat, they rarely saw each other and talked to each other a day, so they seemed a little estranged.

Now that they knew they were brothers, they became closer again.

Lian Dahai simply tidied up the house and looked at Lotus's room before going back home. There was still no movement at all.

Forget it, I'll settle the score with them tomorrow.

The village gradually became quiet, and Jiang Wan and her daughter returned to the small stone house.

Jiang Wan did not learn to read today. She took out all the money in the house, placed it on the bed, and counted it carefully.

Excluding the eight ounces of silver I spent on buying fish today, there is now a total of six ounces of silver and four hundred and thirty coins left at home.

The big one was the grouper I sold before, but as my family needed to buy more things, I spent most of it and had only five taels of silver left. The six taels of silver came from the conch meat and oyster sauce.

Today, we boiled three pounds of oyster sauce and sold it for six hundred coins. However, the shopkeeper Yu still felt that it was not enough and urged us to boil more.

They said they were going to develop other new dishes.

Jiang Wan gathered the silver into a pile. Fourteen taels of silver plus a pile of copper plates was all the money in the family.

"Mother, I want to go to the village chief to buy land tomorrow."

Buy land?

Yin Huaixi became serious when he heard it.

"Wanwan, do you want to build a house?"

Jiang Wan nodded.

"It's quite safe to live in the small stone house, but it's too small for you, mother, to make medicine or see a doctor. Besides, the oyster sauce business is a long-term business, and you can't make it every day at your uncle's place. Most importantly, this is not our house. I don't feel at home living here."

She stroked the cute silver baby and gritted her teeth.

"It will have to be built sooner or later anyway, so it will be more convenient for us to live in if the house is built sooner."

Although she liked her uncle's family very much, she wanted to have her own little kitchen with her mother, where she could cook whatever she wanted and eat whatever she wanted.

When cooking at my uncle's house, my aunt would feel bad if there was a little more oil, and it was difficult to make different dishes. The whole family chewed their food slowly when eating, and she was embarrassed to drink soup in big gulps.

"I want to build a stone house, but we can't afford it right now. But we can build a cheaper brick house. Did you notice when you came to the city before? Almost all the houses in the city are made of bricks. They are pretty and can withstand typhoons."

"I saw it, but the green bricks should be expensive."

Yin Huaixi didn't want to discourage her daughter, but she felt it was a stretch to build a brick yard at only a few taels of silver.

"How about this, tomorrow we go to the village chief to ask about the price of the land, and then ask how much it will cost to build a house with green bricks. We are now receiving oyster sauce every day, and if the price is not too exaggerated, then we will build a green brick house."

Jiang Wan was about to nod, but suddenly froze again.

We have just arrived in the village. Isn't it too eye-catching to build a blue brick house all of a sudden?

What if there is a night when someone has bad intentions and sneaks around...

Jiang Wan shuddered, and most of her thoughts on building a big brick house disappeared in an instant.

If you don't have the ability to protect yourself, you'd better not show off your wealth too much.

She thought about it for a long time that night, and finally came up with an idea at dawn.

She and her mother went to the village chief's house early in the morning, just as the village chief had just finished his meal.

"What's the matter that brought you two together?"

Yin Huaixi nodded and explained the purpose of his visit.

"Village Chief, I want to ask if I can buy the small stone house where Wanwan and I live? How much does it cost?"

"Oh? You want to buy the little stone house?"

The old village chief was delighted that the house could finally be sold!

"Are you guys rich? This house is not cheap."

"Village chief, please name a price. If we have enough money, we will buy it. If not, there is nothing we can do."

Yin Huaixi looked as if he was short of money.

The old village chief raised his eyebrows. This was a show. If he hadn't heard the waiter say that the mother and daughter had sold a seven-star grouper last time, he would have believed it.

After selling the grouper, the mother and daughter had at least five taels of silver. Even if they spent some of it, they made a lot of money from selling snail meat recently.

Thinking about the money spent on building the small stone house, the old village chief pondered for a moment and gave a very fair price.

"If you buy the little stone house, I will give you 12 ounces of silver for it and the land."

"Ten taels?!"

Both mother and daughter frowned; this price was obviously beyond their expectations.

Is the stone really that expensive? A room of just over 10 square meters costs 10 taels of silver?

Neither of them felt that the village chief would cheat them, so the price should be real.

This is too expensive...

Jiang Wan suddenly didn't want to buy it anymore, as it didn't seem worth it.

The old village chief stroked his beard and smiled, "Don't be fooled by the small size of the house. The land we bought together is not small, it's half an acre."

A small half acre!!

Jiang Wan's almond-shaped eyes suddenly lit up again.

One mu of land is more than 600 square meters, and half a mu of land should be at least 100 to 200 square meters.

If it’s included in the land, she thinks ten taels of silver is enough!

Jiang Wan blinked at A Niang, and Yin Huaixi understood.

"Village chief, can the ten taels of silver you mentioned be less?"

He is willing to bargain and seems to really want to buy.

The old village chief shook his head.

"Neither the land nor the house belongs to the village. I am only selling it on behalf of someone else. The lowest price the original owner offered was ten taels. If you can't come up with that much money right away, you can pay five taels first and then write an IOU to the village, and you can pay it back slowly in the future."

Yin Huaixi thought about it and felt that owing money was a very unpleasant feeling. Besides, he could afford ten taels of silver now, so he just bought it.

"Village chief, we will buy this house and land. But can you please not tell anyone that you have sold it to us? Just consider it as us renting it."

"Of course. Well, I have something to do later. When I'm done, I'll take you to the city to find the original owner to exchange the contract."

The mother and daughter nodded understandingly and prepared to go home first. When they walked into the yard, Jiang Wan suddenly turned around and asked the old village chief a question.

"Grandpa Village Chief, are green bricks expensive nowadays?"

"Bricks... I'm not sure how much they cost these years, but six years ago they were three cents a piece."

The old village chief was wondering in his heart, does this girl want to build a brick house?

Can’t cover it?

Unless she has hundreds of taels of silver, she can't build a house on that piece of land. Otherwise, it's just an idea.

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(I'm a bit stuck today, so the second update will be late, around 8 or 9 o'clock! (〃｀ 3′〃))