When Madam Xu saw that Xue Zhuang wanted to send her away, she was indignant and kept shouting, "It was the horse that kicked him. I admit that I didn't watch the child properly, and I don't want compensation."
Yan'er! Can you really bear to watch the only son of the Xu family go back like this?
How heartbroken her parents must be! The villagers will probably all say that the Xu family's daughter and son-in-law are heartless people who can't even tolerate one child.
In the countryside, people can drown from all the spittle!
Xu Yan'er was now absolutely unwilling to disobey Xue Zhuang's words. It was evident that Xiao Bao had a large patch of broken skin and was bleeding. If she left immediately, she didn't know what kind of joke the villagers would laugh at her when she got back.
She could only plead with Xue Zhuang again, "Brother Zhuang, let Xiao Bao and his wife stay here for a couple of days before leaving."
Xue Zhuang's words telling him to get out of there immediately were quite frightening. If he leaves with his injuries, not only will the Xu family cause trouble, but the neighbors who saw him earlier will also gossip.
Seeing Xu Yan'er pleading for mercy, he readily agreed: "Leave as soon as you recover, don't stay even for a day."
Seeing that her son's self-inflicted injury had finally succeeded, Sister-in-law Xu stopped shouting and instead coaxed her son to bandage his wound before buying him candy.
Everyone knows that the injury wasn't caused by a horse kick, so it has nothing to do with Song Liyun.
The child fell while feeding the horses, and Song Liyun, not being stingy, took out one hundred coins.
However, she didn't give it to Sister-in-law Xu, but to Xu Yan'er, asking her to buy some things for the child.
Sister-in-law Xu saw this and wished she could snatch the money away.
One good thing about Broken Gold Town is that there aren't many people watching the excitement, especially the excitement from the Song Liyun and Xue Zhuang families.
The people who had been peeking around just moments before had now dispersed.
Back at Baolin Residence, Song Liyun busied herself with her own work, putting Xue Zhuang's household affairs out of her mind.
A day later, Xue Zhuang went to Baolinju.
“Miss Song, what do you suggest we do? The county government says that according to the laws of the imperial court, military households cannot purchase residential land owned by civilians; they can only use their own military household land and houses.”
Xue Zhuang was so anxious that he pounded his legs. Yesterday, he asked Old Master Zhang to go to the county government to inquire about the land sale and the deed, but he didn't expect to get such an answer.
In other words, military households only own the land and houses they registered with at the time of their initial registration at the garrison; they cannot purchase more.
The allocation of land and houses to military households was both a benefit and a restriction.
Xue Zhuang was filled with regret. When he was choosing a house, he deliberately chose a courtyard in the town for its good location.
Although the courtyard is a large one with three main rooms and four side rooms, it is still spacious enough for a family of several people to live in, but it can't compare to Song Liyun's Baolin Residence.
He now wants to build another courtyard house, turning it into a two-courtyard house, so that he can bring his mother to live with him after Xu Yan'er gives birth.
At this time, everyone envied Baolin Residence for its large size, which was at least equivalent to five or six courtyards in the town.
But everyone forgot that this was a haunted house, a place where someone had died and no one dared to live.
At this moment, Song Liyun was also worried: she had paid so much silver, and although Old Master Zhang would return it, she was unwilling to give it up!
I don't know if Wei has any solutions.
The thought was dismissed as soon as it crossed my mind.
The garrison must have known about this law, otherwise, when the land was sold in Suijin Town, the garrison did not ask to buy more land themselves, and the government had not made any move.
Actually, both sides had a tacit understanding.
The vacant land and dilapidated houses in the town belong to the government. The garrison can only be allocated a dozen or so existing houses, and the rest is land outside the town that has been abandoned.
If the property exceeds these regulations, the government will not process the land and property deeds, and the sale will naturally fail.
"Then what should we do?" Song Liyun said slowly. "Should we do what the villagers do and buy land through a town resident's account?"
This method is actually very risky. If you use someone else's household registration to buy land, and that person turns their back on you, all the names and fingerprints will be someone else's, and you will end up with nothing.
Xue Zhuang said casually, "I can find a place to buy a house. What about you, Miss Song?"
He had built up some connections in the town over the past six months, so resolving this matter wouldn't be difficult.
He just felt that since he had become a military household, there were some things that the garrison and the town could not do, and he was not used to it.
Song Liyun thought for a moment: "I can do it too!"
She also has the household registration to buy the land; both Han Ming and Yun Niang are from Suijin Town.
The only concern is that Han Ming was a runaway slave and has never had a registered household, so he will need to have his household registration restored.
This worry vanished in an instant; given his current connections, it would be easy for Han Ming to obtain citizenship.
Grandpa Zhang and the others can provide a certificate stating that Han Ming is from the town.
Many houses in Suijin Town were burned down back then, and documents such as household registration and travel permits were destroyed. Now they are being replaced.
An additional household means an extra tax to be collected and an extra household to perform corvée labor. As long as the household is not a fugitive of unknown origin, local officials would be more than happy to accept it.
The two quickly came up with a plan and prepared to go back and make their own arrangements.
Before Xue Zhuang took his leave, Song Liyun asked Yunniang to pick up a piece of cloth, wrap it up, and give it to him: "I heard yesterday that Xu Yan'er is pregnant, but I haven't congratulated you yet."
I don't have any gifts here, just some scraps of cloth to make lining shirts for the children. If you don't mind, please take them back!
The fabric is made of the softest and most comfortable silk cotton.
These were scraps of fabric left over from when Song Liyun bought them in the prefectural city to make pajamas for Xiao An and Song Zhenping.
Although it's a small amount, adults can't make much, but they can make two sets of close-fitting clothes for a baby.
There's no such cloth in Suijin Town, Xu Yan'er can't easily go out, Xue Zhuang is a man who doesn't understand those things, and that Xu family sister-in-law who takes care of the pregnant woman doesn't seem reliable either.
Xue Zhuang is still relatively loyal to her, and Song Liyun is not stingy in showing some care for her subordinate.
Xue Zhuang naturally accepted it with immense gratitude.
He overheard some conversations among the garrison brothers, who said that after the town was built, many people in the camp would move their families there.
These are just idle chatter for now, after all, there's nothing in Broken Gold Town right now, and people don't want to come here to suffer.
Now there are only two military households left in the town. Song Liyun is valued by the garrison and has ways to make money.
I need to take this opportunity to build a good relationship with the Song family, otherwise, if someone else comes, my important position might be taken away.
Xue Zhuang only stayed at Baolin Residence for an hour.
After he left in a hurry, Sister-in-law Xu pulled Xiaobao out from behind a tree by the roadside.
Sister-in-law Xu looked at the road leading to the river, then at Baolin Residence, with a smug look on her face.
My day wasn't wasted.
Two days ago, when Song Liyun came to see Xue Zhuang, she sensed something was wrong.
Xue Zhuang always looked down on people, his chin practically pointing to the sky, and he didn't even respect his wife or sister-in-law.
But when they saw Song Liyun, they were all fawning over her, and the two even went inside and closed the door to talk.
What does this mean?
And then there's all that nonsense about how we should get along well since we're both military households.
Hmph, anyone with eyes can see that their relationship is unusual.
Only her clueless sister-in-law would believe that.
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