"Don't worry, the money is yours. If you don't want to lend it, no one will force you!"
Village Chief Lin continued to reassure her, hoping that Yue Jiuyue wouldn't lend money to anyone, otherwise, what if she couldn't get the money back? That was the emperor's reward!
This sister-in-law has a name on the emperor's side. If she is bullied in the village, and the eunuch finds out when he comes again, it will be the same as the emperor finding out. Then he, the village chief, will definitely be finished.
Therefore, he could only try to appease Yue Jiuyue.
"Um, village chief, I came here today to ask how much it would cost if I wanted to buy the hill behind my house?"
Clan Chief, Village Chief: \(◎o◎)／!
Buy the mountain!
Such a large investment!
However, if Lin Yueshi wants to buy the mountain, then their village will have money to buy irrigated land!
"Chao Dongniang, have you thought it through?"
The clan chief was quite old and saw things much more clearly than his son. He was certain that Lin Yueshi hadn't come to complain.
He hadn't expected Yue Jiuyue to come to their house for anything; he was just sitting there watching his son's performance. He never imagined she was there to buy land.
Buying land at this time inevitably reminded him of the previous incidents where people were clamoring for loans, so he couldn't help but overthink things.
Could it be that Lin Yueshi came up with this "good idea" so that the village could have money to buy water, but didn't want to lend the money to the villagers?
Unexpectedly, Lin Yueshi was such a younger generation who was wholeheartedly for the good of the whole village. Thinking back to before the two women came, he was thinking about how to get Lin Yueshi to lend them the money willingly. His old face turned red with embarrassment.
"Sir, I've made up my mind, but I need to ask about the price first, because I'm afraid I don't have enough money."
Yue Jiuyue wasn't quite sure about land prices at that time. The land owned by the original owner's family was all wasteland cleared from the mountains. The original owner's mother-in-law's fertile fields were not allocated to the original owner's family at all. Moreover, wasteland was not all the same, and the prices were different.
"You'll have to ask your eldest cousin about that."
He is now the clan chief, and the buying and selling of land in the village is all managed by the village chief. He cannot take over his son's job under the guise of doing what is good for the village; that would be overstepping his bounds.
"Oh? You really want to buy land? It's really not that bad. I'll figure out how to pay for the water. If not, I'll borrow some from the magistrate. I'm already somewhat acquainted with the magistrate thanks to your family."
Why buy a mountain? If ten acres aren't enough, just cultivate another acre. If that's still not enough, keep clearing land. There's no need to buy an entire mountain!
He was terrified! He was afraid that if Yue Jiuyue regretted it later, with Huang Di backing her up, what could he do to her? In that case, even if they pooled the resources of the entire village, they still wouldn't be able to repay that huge sum of money!
So it would have been better not to have used the money in the first place.
Yue Jiuyue had no idea that Village Chief Lin had thought so much. She thought that maybe it wasn't the right time yet, and if it didn't work out, she could wait a few more days. Anyway, the mountain couldn't be moved.
"Alright then, if the village chief thinks that the hilltop is ready to be sold to my family, then I'll buy it. I hope the village chief can give me a cheaper price then."
"Okay, okay, fine, fine."
As long as Lin Yueshi doesn't cause any trouble and stays at home quietly and behaves herself, everything will be fine.
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