Running with the ball in the lean years, the evil mother-in-law and the whole family regretted it

Chapter 139 The late emperor died
When she got home, Bai Taotao asked Nanny Tan to take thirty taels of silver and give it to Wang Chen.

With the money, Chen Defu went to Chen Lizheng in the evening and bought the entire piece of wasteland that Bai Taotao mentioned, including a piece of sloping land next to the wasteland.

Although the sloping land cannot be used to build houses, it can be used to grow vegetables. In the future, the small fast food shop will need a lot of vegetables. If they grow some themselves, they can just buy the meat and bring it back.

When the villagers saw Chen Defu buying land to build a shop under the workshop, many people went to him to find out more about the situation. As a result, there were a lot more villagers buying land the next day.

Even if you can't get close to a workshop, it's fine as long as it's in the village or next to the hilltop of Baitaotao.

If the land on the other side of the river didn't belong to Shihe Village, everyone would probably have bought all the land there.

If there is plenty of land, it makes sense, so just buy it.

It is a good thing for the villagers to think of buying land. Maybe some land here will be of some benefit.

Chen Defu bought the land, and he will be very busy next.

He was left to oversee the work of clearing land and building shops. Chen Wang still had to make buns and sell them at the door of the workshop every day.

Selling for one day will earn one more day's money, so the couple would rather work harder. If they can make money, they will have a future.

In the blink of an eye, it was mid-February, and the villagers finally had the last critical step left to build their houses, namely the roof beams and roof tiles.

For the sake of fun, everyone discussed it and decided to go up to the beams together on the same day. This way, it can be regarded as witnessing the reconstruction of the home after the disaster, and it is also crowded, and everyone eats and drinks together.

The time is set for three days later, February 18th.

But just when the villagers had made an agreement and were about to start preparing these matters, the county sent someone to deliver the documents from Shangjing.

Immediately, Chen Lizheng anxiously summoned everyone to discuss matters under the old locust tree in the village.

"Li Zheng, people from the county came just now, and you are so anxious and summoned everyone to discuss things. What happened?"

"You're not recruiting troops again, are you?"

"When will this battle end?"

"Isn't that right? If the war continues like this, the young people will be gone. Isn't it the turn of us old people to go to the battlefield?"

"That's right, that's right~~"

Seeing the anxious fellow villagers talking to each other, Chen Lizheng quickly raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet: "Folks, don't be anxious. It's urgent to send the documents from above, but it's not about recruiting troops. Please be patient and listen to me first." explain."

After saying that, the villagers were relieved to hear that it was not about recruiting soldiers.

Chen Lizheng saw that everyone finally calmed down, so he continued: "There are two things in the documents that came down from above this time, one good thing and one bad thing..."

Before Chen Lizheng finished speaking, someone shouted from below: "That goes without saying, let's talk about the good things first, and then the bad things."

Chen Lizheng: "The good thing is that the higher-ups know that most of our grain last year was not sold. Now there is a shortage of food in the north and there is a shortage of food at the border, so the government will come out to buy the grain in our hands." As soon as these words came out, the villagers were most concerned about Of course it’s the price of food.

So someone asked: "At what price are the higher-ups going to buy it? They won't bully us people, right?"

"Yes, yes, the government comes out to purchase grain. Knowing that we are collecting grain, doesn't it mean we have to sell it even if we don't want to sell it?"

Chen Lizheng: "Don't worry, everyone, the new emperor knows the difficulties of our people, so the price of grain will be increased. The purchase price of raw grain will be raised from 150 cents and 100 catties to 200 cents and 100 catties."

"Two hundred coins and one hundred pounds? Doesn't that mean that for every hundred coins, we can get fifty more coins by selling it?"

"That's not the case. Last year, my family didn't sell even a kilogram of grain. We had more than two thousand kilograms of gross grain in ten acres of paddy fields. It's time for the summer harvest soon. Don't be afraid. We can sell two thousand kilograms and eat the rest by ourselves. , I can get an extra tael of silver this time.”

"No matter how much it is, more is a good thing, a great thing. Even if it is fifty cents, it is not the price of two kilograms of meat."

"Yeah."

"Hahaha~~~"

While the villagers were rejoicing, Chen Lizheng hurriedly interrupted everyone, "There is another piece of bad news, that is, the late emperor has passed away. Our entire northern country needs to observe three months of silence for the late emperor. Within three months, we are not allowed to do anything big or small." Banquets. Don’t laugh in public. If you are reported by someone, it will be a serious crime of beheading. So in the next three months, everyone must be careful about what they say and don’t laugh out loud. "

As soon as these words came out, the villagers began to whisper again.

"I heard that the late emperor was seriously ill, but I didn't expect that he would leave so soon."

"If we have to observe three months of silence for the late emperor, wouldn't it mean that we can't hold the wine ceremony we just decided for three days later?"

"Then you have to do it quietly."

"Then this is noisy. Shangliang is meant to be lively, but it's just like being a thief."

"Who says it's not the case? But it's better to be quiet than to be denounced and beheaded."

"If you really want to be lively, it's not impossible to make it more lively after three months. Anyway, good times and auspicious days are the most important thing. You can't just wait until three months for the beam to be lively. ? Then where to live? The temporary residence on the other side of the river is not a long-term solution."

"The house has been built, so we definitely can't wait until three months before putting up the beams and roof tiles. If it rains a few times and the house is flooded, the house will be built in vain."

"That's right, this house needs to be put up with beams and covered with tiles as soon as the weather is good, but we can't wait any longer. It's not as important as the house whether it's wine and wine or not. This time everyone is working hard for this house. It was built out of my family's savings, and I even borrowed ten taels of silver from Youyi's wife to build this house. I have spent most of my life's savings on it, so it's not going to cause any problems again. "

"Yes, nothing is as important as the house."

Chen Lizheng was naturally not worried about the fact that Shangliang could not hold a banquet. What he was most worried about was the safety of their entire village. Since their village was getting better and better, more and more people were staring at them, waiting for an opportunity.

For the sake of everyone, Chen Lizheng emphasized to everyone with a serious face: "Okay, everyone is already aware of these two things. Those who haven't come remember to convey them to each other. Everyone will definitely be able to get them during these three months." Be careful. There are a lot of people watching our village now, and people from other villages come and go every day. If someone with an intention gets their hands on it, it will be a life-threatening incident, but we must keep it under control. ”

"Especially when you are in the workshop, you must pay more attention. If you make a mistake in the workshop, don't implicate the entire workshop, including Youyi's wife's family. Do you understand? Youyi is now General, you have to be even more careful about this kind of thing and don’t let others catch you.”

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