Sure enough, upon seeing that the Su family had already marked the location and that workers were frantically digging into the ground, the female villagers swarmed over and stopped all the work.
"What are you doing? We're in our own home. What's it to you? What right do you have to stop us?" The younger member of the Su family was outraged when he saw this and immediately stood up.
"Don't you people have any sense of reason? You've blocked our front door, what right do you have to stop us..."
"Don't go too far. We're all from the same village, why make things so awkward?"
Faced with the Su family's shameless remarks, everyone's faces turned very ugly, but no one answered them. Instead, the village chief walked over from behind and watched the Su family's behavior.
"As the village head, I know that the foundations of every household's house are limited in number. Your house foundation is only this small, so why are you continuing to dig and build here?"
The wiring for your house is here, not here, and all of this belongs to the village. What right do you have to claim it all for yourself?
The village chief's words made the Su family members' faces turn extremely ugly. They turned pale and then red, but they didn't know how to refute him.
"Call out your elders. I want to ask you what Su Jian is trying to do."
"This is clearly the back of my house. I can build whatever I want behind my house. What's it to you? I think you're just greedy for money!"
"That's right, are you bullying us Su family members because we're few in number?"
"You Sus, have you no shame? This is clearly village land. You came to fight without warning. Do you think we're all dead?"
"You say this is your Su family's land? Show us your land deeds. How big is your land area? Let's see if this land belongs to your Su family. If it does, we'll turn around and leave without a word, no matter what you build on. If it doesn't belong to your Su family, you'll have to compensate us double..."
"Why should I..."
"These are village properties, not belonging to your Su family. You can't just take them or build on them as you please. If we hadn't discovered this today, wouldn't you have been taking advantage of the village for nothing?"
The villagers' comments made the Su family members blush, but they didn't know how to refute them.
"Brother Su, I know you were in the courtyard building. How dare you do this? Don't you have any respect for me, the village chief? Otherwise, don't blame me for being impolite!" The village chief now utterly despised the Su family and immediately called to the people around him.
"Go directly to the county government and tell them that someone has illegally occupied the village's land!" His words excited the villagers, but the Su family's faces turned even uglier.
Su Laoda and Su Laoer were already a little guilty about this matter, but after hearing what the village chief said, they had no choice but to bite the bullet and come out.
“Village chief, what are you saying? Why do this? We’ve lived in this village for almost 30 years, and we’re part of Moonlit Village after all.”
"Pah! What do you mean by 'one of us'? Why didn't you pay when everyone else was paying with the machine? Now that we've separated you from the village, you're trying to take advantage of us. This is shameless behavior!"
"That's right. Your Su family doesn't lack this money, but you're unwilling to spend it. You're not very familiar with the people in the village, so you look down on them. Now, you're considered part of the village, but we don't treat you as part of the village anymore. You're outsiders."
"I used to think you Su family members were quite polite and kind, but who would have thought you were so wicked? Now you want to freeload off our village's land? Don't even think about it!"
The villagers' words were incredibly harsh towards Su Laoda, and Su Laoer's face turned bright red.
"Then what do you suggest? Anyway, you've blocked my doorway so much that even carriages can't get through. You have to give us a way out, right?"
"Whose doorway is this crowded? It's hard for even one person to pass through. Aren't you bullying us?"
"You deserve to be bullied. If either of you had just chipped in a few taels of silver, this matter would have been resolved. You were the ones who refused to pay, and now you're accusing us of bullying you. Who's bullying whom?"
"I've seen shameless people before, but I've never seen anyone as shameless as you. You're throwing away the watermelon to pick up a sesame seed!"
The group spoke eloquently, showing them no respect whatsoever, which made the Su family members' faces turn very ugly.
"Enough with the talk. You want this area? Then pay up and buy it!"
"Yes, I'll pay for it!"
"You still want to bully us? You think you can get something for nothing? Don't you know we're not stupid?"
The village chief, his face grim, looked coldly at the Su family: "Eldest Su and Second Su, don't say we're making things difficult for you, don't say we're being harsh. You don't treat yourselves as fellow villagers. Now that it's a fait accompli, the courtyard wall can't be demolished. It's because you weren't willing to pay those few taels of silver back then."
Your way out is indeed a bit difficult right now, and we see it as serious, but if you want to take over this area, you'll have to pay up.
Not much, five taels of silver per family! You can build whatever you want in this designated area; it has nothing to do with us. I will also include this area in your land deeds.
If you can't come up with this money, don't even think about building a gate or anything like that here.
When everyone heard that the village chief wanted five taels of silver per family, they were secretly delighted, because they had really gained a little but lost a lot.
The family could have easily settled this matter for two or three taels of silver, but who would have thought they'd end up paying five taels to buy the land? Not only that, but they also have to pay to build a gate. This is absolutely outrageous!
The eldest and second eldest Su brothers didn't look too good either, because the land they had planned was at most a small courtyard with a wall.
If we're going to make each member of the family pay five taels of silver, then why bother with all this trouble when we were asking them to pay three taels in the first place?
“Village chief, isn’t five taels of silver too much? Five taels of silver can buy two acres of land…”
"Your land can buy two mu of land for five taels of silver. In that case, sell all your land to me!"
"Exactly, the two acres of land you mentioned for five taels of silver is wasteland, isn't it!"
"Brother Su, Brother Su, don't blame me for being ruthless as the village chief. It's just that you two have done things that are really too ugly."
The village is evolving with the times, and everyone is willing to change. It's just that your two families are so difficult to deal with.
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