Li Youdi was also sincerely doing the best for the Mo family. After discussing the price per acre of land, he said, "If you want to buy all the land, I'll go talk to the Yamen Li Chao and see if it can be cheaper."
After hearing what Li You said, Mo Tingyu went to see if he could get it cheaper and immediately said gratefully: "Then thank you first, Youdi."
"It may not be cheaper, I'll ask first."
"I know that the officials have the final say on everything in the yamen."
Thinking about what he said, he went to Cuilong Mountain to take a look. He was busy building the workshop every day and didn't have much time, but he didn't want to delay the Mo family. Building houses and buying land were all his family's business. The house matter was also a day away from him, but the matter of buying the land still required him, the village chief, to run errands, so he said: "Uncle Mo, we will go look at it early tomorrow morning. If we still think it is suitable after looking at it, I will Go to the Yamen and ask about the price."
"Okay, we'll go there early tomorrow morning." Since we had already decided to buy it, Mo Tingyu thought it would be better to do it earlier so that the two children would worry less.
After the agreement, Mo Tingyu turned around and walked back, while Li Youdi naturally moved bricks to repair the house.
It was said to be early in the morning, but it was really early in the morning the next day. When it was hazy, Li Youdi went out and walked to Mo's house. When he came to the door of Mo's house, he shouted: "Uncle Mo!"
Mo Tingyu also got up early, but looking at the weather, he thought it was too early to go out and call Li Youdi. Unexpectedly, he didn't call, but someone came to call him, and he quickly responded: "Hey!"
As soon as the sound fell, others followed and left the house, "Have you eaten?"
Li Youdi stood in the yard and responded: "Eat, Uncle Mo, have you eaten? If you want to eat, we will go now."
Mo Tingyu replied repeatedly: "After eating, I said I would go out to find you after a while."
Then the two of them walked towards Cuilong Mountain while talking. The two of them walked much faster than Mo Ziwan and the other kids. They reached the foot of Cuilong Mountain in two quarters of an hour.
In the winter morning, it was so foggy that the two of them could not see the other side of the wasteland. Looking at the layers of fog in front of them, it seemed that the wasteland was endless.
"Uncle Mo, if you buy such a large piece of land, you have to hire a lot of people to take care of it." Li Youdi knew how big the land was, but now that he was standing on the side and looking at it, he felt it was even bigger.
"Clean up slowly. First clean up one area and plant it, then slowly clean up the rest." Mo Tingyu didn't say that he would hire someone to take care of it right away. He only said that he wasn't in a hurry, and he wasn't in a hurry at all.
The two stood and watched for a while, then said a few words and then walked to the other end. When they got to the end, they looked around again before walking back again, "What do you think? If it's decided, I'll go there right away." Ask the county."
"It's settled, the kids said this is a suitable place for growing medicine. I'll go to the county with you and we'll do it together in a while." Mo Tingyu still remembered that the two kids said they wanted to buy it again before going to bed last night. Anyway, at home All the money was earned by them.
"Okay, let's go to the county now. You can bring one tael of silver per acre with you first. If you don't use it up, you can take it back." Li Youdi warned. They had already decided to buy it. It's still early today. , after a while the people from the yamen came to take over the land, and then they directly paid the money to get the land deed, so as to avoid having to make another trip.
"I'm ready, I just have to go to the Yamen to do it." Mo Tingyu said honestly.
Li Youdi smiled and said, "As soon as Uncle Mo bought this piece of land, the family's land increased several times."
Mo Tingyu: "I dare to buy more just because this land is cheap. If it's like other places, I don't dare to buy like this."
After walking out of Cuilong Mountain, the two of them didn't go back to the village and went directly to the Yamen.
When they arrived at the county seat, after Li Youdi entered the Yamen, Mo Tingyu was waiting at the door. After a while, Li Youdi walked out. When he came out, he was followed by two officials, one of whom was carrying a round-the-city policeman. A circle of straw rope.
Mo Tingyu became inexplicably nervous when he saw the official. Fortunately, Li Youdi explained the situation, "Uncle Mo, these two officials are here to help us measure the land."
"Oh, okay." Mo Tingyu responded nervously and then said to the two officials: "Thank you two officials."
Before the two came out, they were specifically told to be polite to them, "Old man, you're welcome, this is our
What needs to be done, let’s go quickly. If we measure it earlier, we can get it done sooner. "
Seeing that the two of them were so polite, Mo Tingyu felt less nervous and said, "It's time for you to take a trip."
"This is what we eat, so it doesn't count as tired." The official replied.
The two officials were very polite, but Li Youdi and Mo Tingyu relaxed a little, talking and laughing along the way.
After Mo Tingyu and Li Youdi walked back and forth to the foot of Cuilong Mountain, it was already an hour later. The fog in the mountain dispersed a lot, and from a distance only a thin layer remained.
After the two officials arrived at the place, they each took a few steps to take a look and looked at the situation in the field. After looking at it, one of them said: "This piece of land looks neat and wide, but the I'm afraid the rocks and trees are difficult to clean, and if you want to plant crops, you may have to spend a lot of effort cleaning them."
Mo Tingyu continued: "I still have a few acres of good land at home. I will clean it up slowly when the land is finished. I thought wasteland is cheap, so I bought it first and cleared it up slowly. After the stones and other things in the land are cleared, , raise it for another two years, and you should be able to grow crops by then."
Mo Tingyu didn't say anything about wanting to grow medicinal materials.
The official replied: "Okay, once you decide to buy it, we brothers will measure the land for you first. After the measurement is completed, we will go back to the Yamen to complete the formalities."
Mo Tingyu once again affirmed that he would buy it, "Buy, I must buy it."
After Mo Tingyu agreed, the officer carrying the straw rope took off the rope from his shoulder, took out one end and handed it to the other officer, and then the two of them walked and measured the wasteland.
It took more than half an hour for the two of them to measure it, "Sixty-three acres, but there are indeed a lot of stones and trees in this land. I will give you eight hundred cents per acre, and I will give you a fraction of the two acres." You erase it and prepare forty-eight taels of silver."
Eight hundred cents per acre, this is an unprecedented price! In the past, the worst ones cost one or two silver coins.
Not only Mo Tingyu was surprised, but Li Youdi was also very surprised. He mentioned it when he was just in the Yamen, but he didn't say the price at that time, and he didn't even look at it. How could he tell me the specific price? He just asked. In other words, if you buy more, can you give me a cheaper price? But the bargain he was talking about was definitely not that one acre was much less, but that the whole piece of land could be reduced by three to five taels of silver, which was already huge. But now, after calculation, it was a total of more than ten taels of silver less.
This is more than ten taels of silver. With these more than ten taels, you can buy a lot of land, not to mention that there are still three acres of land without silver, which is more than two taels of silver.
What surprised Li Youdi was still behind.
After measuring the land, it was already noon. No matter what, Mo Tingyu had to invite the two of them to go home and have a meal before going to the Yamen to go through the formalities. "It's already noon. I've worked hard for you for so long. Let's go back first." If you have enough food at home, it’s not too late to go to the Yamen to do something.”
Normally, the two officials would have agreed immediately, but today they were much more polite. Naturally, they refused at first. However, Mo Tingyu felt that the two of them were friendly and easy to talk to, and since they were about to have lunch at noon, they were sincere. I want to invite the two of them to my home for dinner.
Mo Tingyu invited, and Li Youdi also persuaded him. The two officials reluctantly followed Mo Tingyu and Li Youdi to Mo's house in the village.
Although there was no meal preparation for the two of them in advance, the duck and lunch meat were ready-made in the workshop. Li Linsong ran back to get a duck and a large piece of lunch meat.
While Li Linsong went to get it, Mrs. Du quickly fried a sweet and sour cabbage and a shredded pork with sauce in the kitchen, and mixed a plate of dried bamboo shoots.
After all the dishes were served, not only did the two officials have their mouths full of oil, but even Li Youdi also had a full stomach. Sighed again: The Mo family is really living a good life. If there was no such good food during the New Year in the past, today there is nothing prepared but a table full of meat. If we prepare this, we still have to set the table. full.
After the two officials finished eating, they thought they understood why the boss asked them to be polite to the Mo family. The roast duck and luncheon meat sold in the restaurant in Qingqing County were made by the Mo family.
Not only did the two of them eat with their mouths full of oil, but when they returned to the Yamen, Mo Tingyu also prepared a bag of things for each of them, waiting to be given to them when they entered the county.
The two people who were eating and getting things didn't need to remember Master Bo's instructions at all now, and they were already doing their best to serve Mo Tingyu.
With the help of the two people, Li Youdi took the land deed in his hand just a quarter of an hour after entering the Yamen.
Today's visit to the Yamen made Li Youdi stunned. Why is this different from before?
Not only was the price much cheaper, but everything went smoothly, and even Mr. Cha's attitude was very polite.
Li Youdi clearly remembered how he used to come to the Yamen to do things. It was good not to be embarrassed in the past, but now they are still helping him run around, not to mention taking the initiative to give him so much money! I feel like an uncle today watching them busy.
Li Youdi left the Yamen in confusion. As I walked, I was still thinking about what was going on. Could it be that the county magistrate saw that they were not serious about their work before and punished them severely, so now they are doing things well.
Mo Tingyu didn't understand what Li Youdi was thinking. He only knew that the county magistrate managed the yamen well, so they were able to do things smoothly.
Mo Tingyu, who had never come to a yamen to do anything, didn't understand the difference between how yamen handled things before and now. He believed in his heart that Wei Changfeng, the magistrate of Cangxi County, was a good official.
If the county magistrate is not a good official, he will not think about the people, let alone do things for the people.
Mr. Wei is a good official, so the people in the yamen are kind and easy to talk to. They are not like the rumors say, where the officials are all serious and have a fierce look on their faces. I also remembered that the last time I sued the kidnapper at the Yamen, Wei Changfeng didn't hurt them, he was very polite to them, and he also cared about Wan Wan. After thinking about this, I became more convinced that Wei Changfeng is a good official, "The officials in our county government are all very kind and efficient in handling things. These are all managed well by Mr. Wei!"
