klisemfg Chapter 216 Absolutely Not
Chapter 216 Absolutely Not
It was impossible for Shen Huai to take it, and he was not going to put the clan members' land under his name immediately this time.
But after discussing with Mrs. Hu, he spent dozens of taels of silver to buy ten acres of medium-sized farmland outside the village, wrote the names of his two nieces on each of them, and bought gouache for them.
Third Uncle specifically went to him to talk about the tax exemption for hanging fields, but he left disappointed.
Seeing Shen Lingzhu and her sister washing things by the stream, he snorted coldly. The two girls had private land at such a young age. He really didn't know what Wu Huai was thinking.
Shen Lingzhu glanced at his receding figure and couldn't help but shake his head. "When I first met Third Grandpa, I thought he was an elder who cared about the younger generation."
"Don't gossip about other people." Shen Miaozhu glanced at her, "After these small clothes are hung up, let's go check out the fields outside the village.
The location written on the title deed doesn’t seem to me to be some medium-sized field.”
"Chief Xia dares to fool your uncle now?" Shen Lingzhu didn't think so.
Shen Miaozhu raised her head and sighed, "It is larger than ten acres.
The extra piece seems to be sandy land, the lower field among the lower fields."
"Is there a trap?" Shen Lingzhu asked reflexively.
Shen Miaozhu wrung out the water, picked up the basin and stood up, “As long as uncle remains in office or gets promoted, it won’t happen.
But it would be best if we could see it firsthand, as the sandy land can also generate profits.”
Shen Lingzhu immediately thought: "Growing watermelons and peanuts? That's a good idea."
After hanging up her brothers and sisters' clothes, she couldn't wait to lead the two little donkeys.
Hu, who was playing with the child in the yard with Shen Huai, waved and asked her, "What are you doing?"
"Let's see if the land uncle bought can be used to grow a season of watermelons." Shen Lingzhu didn't keep her in suspense.
Erlang and the fourth sister also climbed over the cradle and cried to her. The two children just wanted to touch the little donkey.
Shen Lingzhu picked up her sister and touched her hand, which made her younger brother scream.
"Come, come, let daddy hold you." Shen Huai couldn't bear to see any child suffer injustice.
He took Erlang’s hand and placed it on the donkey, saying, “That piece of land was grown by Xia Li, and he gave me half an acre of sandy land on the side as a gift.
It’s not possible to grow anything else, but it’s okay to grow some peanuts during the summer harvest.
I'll go with you guys later." He grew up in the village and was familiar with many plots of land.
Shen Lingzhu didn't think Xia Li was that generous. "Uncle, you don't have to accompany me. The fields are full of people applying fertilizer and weeding, and it's very close to another plot of clan land."
It also borders the land of Dahuang Village, so maybe one of my grandfather's lands is also there.
"But why did Xia Lichang give it to you? Didn't he pay for it when he bought it?"
"He, like Xia Tongsheng, bought our land at a low price through Miao Sili. Seeing that I was determined not to take it back, he felt a little guilty." Shen Huai did not dare to let the children catch the donkey any more, and signaled Shen Lingzhu to put the fourth sister back in the cradle.
Mrs. Hu brought hot towels to the children while wiping their hands and said, "As long as the Shi family falls one day, the court will redeem the two hundred acres of land and return it to us.
"If you, Xia Lichang, give us the half acre of land that he got for free years ago, you can gain our favor now, and then you can ask us for a concession and give us a small amount of silver instead of returning the land."
"You think long-term." The brains of ancient people were really extraordinary. Shen Lingzhu asked himself if he could think of so much.
She glanced at Nanny Xu who was in the kitchen making complementary food for the two little ones, and the subject suddenly changed 180 degrees, "Nanny Qian asked for leave again?"
Mrs. Hu was also helpless: "Her mother-in-law is not feeling well."
"Uncle, how about changing the wet nurse?" Shen Lingzhu mentioned it several times, but the aunt did not agree. It was time for the uncle to make a decision.
Shen Huai pondered for a moment and said, "Madam, how early do you plan to wean the children?"
"One year old?" Mrs. Hu had personally fed two children and had figured out long ago that babies who started eating complementary foods would drink less and less milk.
She thought about it and still advised Shen Lingzhu, "There's no need to find another wet nurse. Xu has always been here, and Sister Qian comes occasionally, so they complement each other.
Xiao Zhuzi, being a daughter-in-law is completely different from being a daughter-in-law."
Shen Huai always stood on his wife's side, and his own children had to stand behind him. "In the future, when our three daughters get married, they must bring two families as dowries to serve their parents-in-law."
"Okay." Shen Lingzhu expressed helplessness about his uncle's choice. Should he say that his uncle was a wife-obsessed person?
She said this to her senior sister when she and her senior sister persuaded her uncle not to escort her and went to Nakata alone.
Shen Miaozhu said: "It's pretty good. I heard that Mr. Chi also loves his wife."
"If you don't tell me, I won't even remember him." Shen Lingzhu hoped that Mr. Chi and his wife would come back later.
When the two arrived at the edge of the newly bought land, they saw the newly erected boundary stone and a large piece of white land next to the boundary stone where no winter wheat was planted.
Shen Miaozhu grabbed a handful of soil and compared it with the soil in the wheat field, "It's definitely sandy, and the soil in the wheat field is not good either.
Two acres of peach trees can be planted in the wheat field, and watermelons can be planted in the sandy land.
I will go north and you west to determine the exact area of the sand."
After saying that, he tied two ropes to the boundary stone and asked Shen Lingzhu to pull them.
As she was walking, she suddenly saw a fast horse taking a shortcut through the wheat field. She couldn't help but shout, "Stop! You will be punished for trampling the crops."
The man on the horse seemed not to hear and continued walking. Shen Miaozhu dropped the rope and ran to stop him.
Seeing this from a distance, Shen Lingzhu dropped the rope and ran towards this side. Before he got close, he saw the man get off the horse, put down his hand to hold down his senior sister, and seemed to be pushing her back on the horse.
She gritted her teeth, accelerated, rushed forward, and without saying a word, launched a series of kicks.
The man was caught off guard and was kicked down into the wheat field by her.
Shen Lingzhu glanced at her stunned senior sister, then angrily stepped on the chest of the person on the ground: "Where did you come from? Do you want to be planted in the ground?"
"Little bamboo, move away." People in the nearby fields noticed something was wrong and ran over, some of them even shouting loudly.
Seeing Shen Lingzhu kicking someone and about to punch him, a member of the Shen family ran over and said, "Absolutely not."
"Little Bamboo, you can't do that."
"You kid, no matter how angry you are with your father, you can't hit him."
"..."
The sounds coming from all directions made Shen Lingzhu stunned. She looked at her senior sister who was still a little dazed, and then looked at the person on the ground who did not fight back and was still smiling.
"Dad? Why doesn't he look like him?" The main reason was that she didn't recognize him, and her original memory was already very vague.
Fortunately, the other person was very thin and dark, and looked completely different from the white-faced Mr. Chi mentioned in the village.
"Uncle Eight, let me help you." Shen Jiazi was the first to run up and helped Shen Chi up.
"Little Zhuzi has become stronger." Shen Chi sat up with a smile and reached out to pinch Shen Lingzhu's face, but she subconsciously opened her hand.
"Xiao Zhuzi, it's... Dad." Shen Miaozhu just saw the person and felt a sharp pain in her heart. She knew very well that it was not her.
After silently reciting the Rebirth Sutra several times, I finally calmed my pounding heart, "He's just lost weight."
"Where's my mother?" Shen Lingzhu reacted very quickly, grabbing Shen Chi's clothes with her small hands, and covering up her previous mistake with anxious eyes.