"What's wrong? Is her house there?" Granny Wang also craned her neck to look at Li Dachui's notebook.
She was puzzled when she saw Granny Jin. Logically speaking, since they had been related by marriage, the village should have informed Granny Jin of the arrival of her family.
She initially gave Granny Jin a discount of two coins so that she could maintain a respectable image with the Jin family and avoid causing trouble for the village.
To everyone's surprise, this foolish woman was ungrateful. Not only did she not accept her kindness, but she also tried to take advantage of her and made a scene.
"I didn't see her house!" Li Dachui wondered, quickly flipping through the pages again before confirming, "There really isn't a house there!"
Jiang Qinyu looked at Granny Jin and asked, "How did your family move to Dingshui Village?"
At first, Granny Jin hesitated a bit, but when she saw that Jiang Qinyu was just a young woman, she became bolder and said defiantly, "Liu Dashuan's family from our village didn't want to come anymore and gave this spot to my family! We moved in openly and honestly, you can't kick us out!"
She spent all of her family's savings, a full eight taels and six qian of silver, to get this spot!
“Liu Dashuan?” Li Dachui scratched his head. “There is indeed a Liu Dashuan in Xiahe Village who is going to move in. He is skilled at castrating pigs. Our village is short of someone like that, so the village committee approved his family’s application.”
Dingshui Village plans to raise pigs on a large scale. However, unlike wild boars, live pigs will have a fishy and unpleasant smell if they are not castrated from a young age, making them unpalatable to many people.
That's why Liu Dashuan's family from Xiahe Village was selected.
"Since they don't want to come, let's take back this spot," Jiang Qinyu said calmly, then turned to leave.
Granny Jin suddenly cried out, "You can't do this! How can you just take it back like that? I bought this spot with my own money!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, is our village already so sought after? You have to spend money to buy it in?" a villager from Dingshui Village asked, puzzled.
"Hey, you don't know this, do you? If our village weren't so strict, there would be plenty of people from outside who wanted to move in. It wouldn't be impossible for someone to try and use the quota to make money."
Jiang Qinyu frowned upon hearing these words, stopped in her tracks, and said to Li Dachui, "Uncle Dachui, could you please go to each household and carefully check to see if there are any households that are different from those on the list?"
"Alright, alright, this was really our oversight. It was too chaotic today, and we didn't even check with everyone to see if the people who came were the ones who were supposed to be there." Li Dachui slapped his forehead, somewhat annoyed.
Jiang Qinyu smiled reassuringly and said, "This is not Uncle Big Hammer's fault. Someone deliberately tried to sneak in. We've never encountered anything like this before, so it's normal that we were caught off guard."
“That’s true, then I’ll go and ask each household now.” Li Dachui put away his notebook and was about to leave when Jiang Qinyu called him back.
"Uncle Big Hammer should call a few more people, and also invite Uncle Village Chief. Those families who used tricks to get in are not suitable to stay in the village," Jiang Qinyu reminded.
People strive for better things, and everyone wants a better life, but they shouldn't have kept it from the people of Dingshui Village, trying to explain things only after the facts were confirmed.
If a family is truly of good character, even if they exchange their spot with someone else, as long as they inform the Dingshui Village Committee in advance and get confirmation from the committee, they are not prohibited from entering the village.
But if they try to get away with it by deception, Jiang Qinyu will not accept it at all.
Li Dachui understood Jiang Qinyu's meaning after a moment's thought, and immediately nodded, saying, "I'll go call for help right away!"
Since we can't let anyone infiltrate, and a conflict might break out between the two sides, it's always good to be prepared.
After giving her instructions, Jiang Qinyu left, ignoring Granny Jin's wailing.
She knew the Jin family; they had led the charge in seizing Dingshui Village before, and now they wanted to move in again? Ha! Dream on!
Granny Jin did do a good deed. If she hadn't caused this commotion, she wouldn't have known about buying and selling quotas.
"Madam, the carriage is ready." Qin Shen led the horse out, his eyes shining as he looked at Jiang Qinyu.
Hehe, that talisman Madam gave me before was really useful! I haven't needed to use my internal energy to resist the cold since then!
No wonder Ah Ping said it was better to follow the lady than the general; it turns out there was a real reason behind it.
As for where the things in the lady's hands came from, does it matter? He only cares about the benefits he can gain by following the lady!
Besides, he didn't believe the general was unaware of the lady's special qualities. Surely the general had discovered them when the lady went to the border town last year?
When the lady went to the border town, the border town had water. Then a severe cold came, and cotton and cotton-padded clothes suddenly appeared. He was with the general almost all day long, so how could he not understand the strangeness of the situation?
For him, the good of the border troops and the good of the generals were all that mattered; he didn't care at all where those things came from.
The same applies now. Although he knows that those suddenly appearing items may be in the hands of the lady, he only needs to be sure that the lady will never harm the border troops or the general.
"I'm just going to see Lord Wei, Vice General Qin, you don't need to come along, do you?" Jiang Qinyu was still not used to ordering Qin Shen around.
After all, she is a legitimate military officer with a rank. She is just going to confirm something with Wei Chengzhong, so there is no need for him to come along.
“Madam, what you say is quite innocent,” Qin Shen said, looking at her with a completely innocent expression. “The general has ordered me to stay by your side, so naturally I must do my job for you without leaving your side and protect your safety.”
His skills are not as good as A-Ping's, but with the two of them around, at least the lady can be guaranteed to always have someone by her side.
Jiang Qinyu thought of Lu Yanzheng and felt helpless, so she let him be.
So, when Granny Jin tried to run up and stop Jiang Qinyu's carriage, Aping flicked a paper ball without blinking, and Granny Jin fell to the ground, knocking out her teeth.
The villagers stood by gloating, and no one went to help her.
Granny Wang felt a sense of triumph. In the past, she would have stomped on Granny Jin a few times, but now she was different. She felt it was unnecessary. Would stomping on her earn her more money?
If she can't, why bother with all that effort?
The commotion at the village entrance quickly subsided. When Granny Jin saw Village Chief Li and Li Dachui leading a group of people to go door to door to inquire, she panicked and hurriedly ran back to her new home, which she hadn't even lived in for a day.
However, it was too late by then.
Village Chief Li and Li Dachui quickly finalized the decision. Including Granny Jin's family, a total of three families were replaced. If the normal procedures had been followed, none of these families would have been able to move into Dingshui Village.
Without a doubt, the three families were driven out of the village that very day.
This incident did not affect the other newly moved-in families. When Jiang Qinyu returned in the evening, she saw a lively scene of the whole village visiting each other's homes.
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