Aunt Yang's guess was absolutely correct. After Ji Fengshou knew that her house was the village chief's, he was so enthusiastic that he wanted to drive the mule to take off on the spot. He soon found the house with the crooked tree at the door according to what Aunt Yang said.
A group of idle people in Xiaotian Village followed Ji to the village chief's house.
As soon as Aunt Yang landed, she rushed home in a panic: "Boss! Come out quickly, something big has happened!"
The village chief was so frightened by his wife's loud voice that he almost fell off the kang. When he heard her scream, he ran out without even putting on his shoes.
"What happened?!"
As soon as the village chief walked out of the house, before he had time to look at his wife, he saw that his yard was full of people, most of whom were strangers.
His face suddenly darkened: "What? What are you doing? Are you trying to bully me?"
Aunt Yang pointed at Ji Fengshou and the others and said, "Old man, they said they came to see you."
The clan leader straightened his clothes and felt very decent. "I guess this is the head of Xiaotian Village? We were just assigned to Xiaotian Village by the county and settled here. Here is our certificate. Take a look at it first."
The village chief frowned suddenly, and the villagers behind him started discussing in a buzzing voice.
"What do you mean? Are there going to be so many outsiders coming to our village?"
"Look at how skinny they are. Will they always need our help?"
"It's a good opportunity for them to come. It's the off-season for farming, and they came because there's nothing to do..."
The people in Oda Village looked at them with disgust, sizing them up and down with a critical eye.
The people of the Ji family also knew that they were on someone else's territory, so they stood upright with awkward hands and feet, watching the village chief looking down at the certificate without saying a word.
"This is too sudden. Why didn't you tell us in advance that everyone has arrived?" The village chief sighed and put away the certificate in his hand.
"How about this? There are too many of you. Aren't there thirty-two households upstairs? Let your household heads come in to discuss things, and the rest of you wait at the door. My house can't accommodate so many of you!"
The village chief put on his shoes and pointed outside the yard, asking them to go out first.
Hearing his words, the clan leader was relieved: "No problem, I'll let them out right away."
The clan leader called everyone out first: "Whoever is the head of the household, come in and discuss with me. Everyone else, please wait a moment!"
Ji Fengyi and Ji Fengshou from Ji Changying's house both followed him in, while the others watched the mules and horses outside.
There were a total of thirty-two households, and except for Lin, all of them were men, which made her stand out in the crowd.
The village chief frowned and said, "You have no right to speak for us men! Go get your man over here!"
Lin's face flashed with embarrassment, but she quickly adjusted herself: "My husband is dead, and now I am the head of the household."
Ji's people couldn't just stand by and watch, so they also helped to speak out and prove: "Yes, her husband is gone."
The village chief gave her a slightly ominous look, then turned to the clan leader and said, "Now I'll give you two choices. One, I'll give you a piece of land and let you build your own house."
"Secondly, there are abandoned houses in the village that you can renovate and live in, but you'll have to pay for them."
"Which one do you choose?"
The clan leader was really at a loss for a moment: "Brother, we are new here and don't know anything. How do you think we can do this well?"
Seeing the other party's respectful attitude, the village chief's expression brightened a little. "It's too late to build a house in this weather. If it snows soon, someone will freeze to death here. Even if you pay, no one will come to work for you!"
"Renovating the old house will give me more time. Maybe I'll even have time to buy some food to keep for emergencies when I can't leave the house. Although buying a house will cost some money, it's better than freezing to death!"
Ji Fengyi and Ji Fengshou had already heard from Gou'er that the winters here were extremely cold. The village chief's suggestion made sense to them, and Ji Fengshou couldn't help but ask, "How much does this old house cost?"
This question was also of great concern to others. The village chief was delighted when he heard this: "The prices of houses are different. If you are really interested, I can take you to see them."
After a brief discussion, the group decided to go and take a look together.
When they learned that they were planning to buy the old house in the village, the people surrounding the mule and horse dispersed and rushed home excitedly to look for the key.
Zhou sighed: "If you don't leave now, I really want to hit someone."
Just now, a group of people insisted on riding horses. They refused to move unless they were allowed to ride, and kept talking non-stop.
Zhou felt as if there were hundreds of ducks quacking around her.
"You can't just hit people, but if you really feel uncomfortable, you can't keep holding it in."
Ji Changchuan took the opportunity to educate his mother.
Zhou pouted and looked unhappy.
The news that someone had come to the village to buy the old house quickly spread throughout Xiaotian Village.
Many villagers came out excitedly with their keys and introduced their houses.
Seeing their enthusiasm, Ji Qingyu couldn't help but look at the village chief suspiciously: "Why are there so many vacant houses in the village?"
The village chief felt uncomfortable hearing his flowery words: "How can we not have more houses? When the foreign tribes are short of food, they will come over the mountain over there to rob us. Whoever dies, the house will be inherited by his brothers."
Ji's people were horrified: "There are foreigners invading the village?"
The village chief disagreed: "We are at the border! What do you think?"
The people of Ji were in a panic. Why was there fighting and killing even when they arrived at the place?
Ji Qingyu couldn't help but look at his hand holding the pen, and began to consider how likely it was that he would give up literature and take up martial arts.
"You'll get used to it slowly. Here, everyone kills people! It's like a game!"
The villagers next to them looked at them badly, expecting to see their faces change drastically or be so scared that they dared not make a sound.
I didn't expect that Ji's people were still calm when they heard about the murder, which made me feel disappointed.
"We want connected houses. Is there any suitable one?" Ji Chenyan stopped talking about this topic and asked something else.
There are houses that are connected together, but there are no houses with more than 30 households connected together.
In the end, everyone can only discuss among themselves who to be neighbors with.
Unexpectedly, Ji Fengshou's house became so popular. After looking around, he found that everyone else had booked a house and he didn't like any of them.
The village chief was ecstatic and led them further and further away, finally stopping at the gate of a courtyard:
"My yard is made entirely of bricks. It's very sturdy! I guarantee your house won't be drafty in the winter."
"And this yard, look how big it is! When the time comes, you can grow vegetables here and some flowers here. It will look so beautiful and grand!"
"And in the rooms, every room has a kang, also made of bricks. When you light it up at night, you'll be toasty warm!"
The village chief was not at all indifferent to buying as he was just now, and he continued to introduce the products with a happy look on his face.
No matter how much he talks, it can't hide the fact that the house is in a state of disrepair.
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