The little ancestor of the family

Chapter 39 Convincing the Villagers

Ye Xinran suddenly realized that this was exactly what Li was planning.

"But if it starts raining in a few days, your plan will fail!" Ye Xinran reminded.

"It's okay. No one has been on Milu Mountain for so many years. Who knows what good things might be hidden there!

I can’t compensate you!”

The village head is full of confidence.

Ye Xinran agreed with this.

It is said that if you rely on the mountain, you can eat the mountain. With such a big mountain behind you, you can always find a way to make money.

Even if she is of no use to the village in the end, she will still have other uses.

After finishing their work, the two planned to hurry back to the village.

As soon as he walked out of the side hall, the county magistrate came over again.

"Zhang Yasuo, don't fool me this time. You can pay me back after the New Year..."

Before he could finish his words, the county magistrate saw Ye Xinran next to the head of the village.

"Ye family girl, why are you here?"

It can be said that Qiao Zhengshan watched Ye Xinran grow up.

When Ye Xinran was disfigured, his wife even complained to him, asking why Lord Lu arranged this marriage for them when they were clearly not a good match.

It was such a pity that her bright and handsome son would have to be with a disfigured woman in the future.

However, Qiao Zhengshan felt that Ye Xinran had good character and with the advice of his mentor, he never thought of canceling the engagement.

Who knew that his family didn't dislike Ye Xinran, but Ye Xinran disliked his family. When they were about to reach the age of marriage, Mrs. Ye suddenly said that Ye Xinran had fallen in love with a hunter in the countryside and had an affair with him.

The Ye family felt sorry for the county magistrate's family, and in order to fulfill the marriage contract, the Ye family was willing to marry their youngest daughter.

Both the lady and Zi Yu agreed to this matter, so the county magistrate did not ask too many questions.

As soon as he saw Ye Xinran, the county magistrate suddenly had an irresistible thought. He wanted to ask Ye Xinran, isn't his son better than a hunter?

It was hard to ask such a question, so Qiao Zhengshan could only ask, "Ye family girl, are you doing well now?"

Unexpectedly, Ye Xinran's eyes immediately turned red when she heard the question: "Uncle Qiao, my parents forced me to remarry someone else. They were so cruel to me, their daughter!"

In just one sentence, Ye Xinran neither said whether she was living well or not, nor said why she wanted to break off the engagement in the first place, but she left County Magistrate Qiao with a lot of room for thought.

It turns out that Ye Xinran did not marry voluntarily, so why did the Ye family say that?

Is there any hidden secret in this?

Seeing the hesitation in the county magistrate's eyes, Ye Xinran knew that her goal had been achieved, so she pulled the head of the village and said to the county magistrate: "Uncle Qiao, we'll leave first, otherwise there will be no car to go back to the village later."

The village head walked out with her and had already learned a lot from the few words she had just exchanged.

Looking at Ye Xinran's expression, I thought she was willing to marry Xiao Huaian, but unexpectedly, she was still thinking about the past.

"Oh!" the head of the village sighed.

I turned my head to look at Ye Xinran, but found that her eyebrows were raised, the corners of her mouth were curled up, and she looked very smug, which was completely different from her previous appearance.

"Madam Ye, what are you so happy about..."

Wasn't she the one who was heartbroken just now?

"We have bought Milu Mountain. Isn't it worth us to be happy?" Ye Xinran looked at the head of the village with a smile on her lips.

"No, I just don't understand. Weren't you crying just now? I'm not meddling in other people's business. Madam Ye, you're married now. You should be more reserved when it comes to people from the past."

Ye Xinran knew what the headman had misunderstood, so she said, "Uncle headman, I'm not holding on to our past feelings. I just said that just to make my parents unhappy. They treated me like that, so I have to give them something in return."

How could the village head not understand what she meant at this age?

It turns out that she wanted to use the county magistrate to take revenge on her parents!

This child is really cunning, you mustn't offend him in the future!

As they were talking, the two had already found Niu Er's ox cart. Ye Xinran asked Li to wait for him there. She went to buy some pork and a rooster and a hen, and then got on the cart and went back.

The head of the village looked at the chicken bought by Ye Xinran, and his doubts were alleviated.

The villagers raise hens for laying eggs. If not for hatching chicks, no one likes to raise roosters.

The wife in Huai'an bought a rooster, which means she is preparing to hatch chicks. It seems that she is going to live a good life!

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When I returned to the village, a group of people were waiting at the entrance.

Some people had already heard the news and knew that Li Zheng was going to buy Mi Lu Mountain.

Now everyone is anxiously waiting for the result, and no one knows whether the village head has bought it.

Seeing the ox cart, a group of people immediately surrounded it, and Niu Er had no choice but to stop the ox cart.

"Village head, have you really bought Milu Mountain? Where did our village get the money?"

"Uncle Lizheng, it will cost a lot of money to buy Milu Mountain. It would be great if we could share the money with everyone so that we can have money to buy food!"

"Uncle village head, the river has dried up again today. If this continues, my family will have no harvest this year. How are we going to survive?"

Listening to the noises coming one after another, the village head waved his hand and stood up from the car.

"Why are you in such a hurry? I can tell you about this kind of thing when I get home!

But since everyone is here, I will tell you one by one."

He looked around and continued:

"I did buy Milu Mountain. I spent 200 taels of silver, and I still owe the county government 300 taels."

"Ah?" Everyone gasped.

“It cost so much money!”

"This amount of silver may seem like a lot, but think about it. There are more than 200 households in the village. If taels of silver are divided among them, how much can each person get?"

"I don't know how to calculate this, Erzhu, can you?" Dazhu asked quietly.

"How can I do that? I can only count within 10 grand."

"Then you are not as good as me. I will count 12 big bucks!"

Seeing that no one answered, the head of the village answered himself: "I have calculated that each household will only get more than 600 coins. Think about it, how much rice can you buy with this 600 coins? How long will this rice last for your family?"

"That's not much. A bushel of rice costs 23 coins now!"

"It's not much, but it can last for a while. What's the point of buying a mountain?"

Everyone was still discussing in low voices.

The village chief continued, "The water in the river will soon dry up, and the rice in the fields will soon run out of water.

If you can't find a new water source at this time, how much money will you lose this year? Have you calculated this account?"

"Uncle Village Chief!" Erwang's father said in the crowd, "I heard Erwang said he found a water source in the mountains.

But Milu Mountain is so far away, how can we bring the water down?

For so many years, we have never seen water flowing down from the mountain. The water disappears before it even flows down the mountain. How can we use it?"