After dressing as a superb old woman, I am bound to the power system

After seeing off Mr. He's escort, it was time to start worrying about his own affairs.

Qiao Lan took out the title deed of the Duan family's ancestral home and placed it in the middle of the table.

Before Duan Yuexiu went to take the imperial examination, his family had 50 acres of land. Before he went to Beijing to take the exam, he sold 20 acres to pay for his expenses. When he became an official and had more money, he bought 200 acres to commemorate his ancestors.

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Every inch of land in the capital city is at a premium, and the fields in this remote village are not considered valuable. Duan Yuexiu has enough money to buy all the best farmland. In the eyes of the original Duan family, these two hundred acres of land are not considered valuable.

thing.

In order to prevent the land from being cultivated and abandoned, it was rented to surrounding families at a very low price.

The rent was paid to Duan Yuexiu's grandmother's natal family, the Du family, and the keys to the old house were also given to them as payment for their help in guarding the house.

The keys were given, the money was given, but the title deed was not given.

Perhaps Duan Yuexiu had thought of something before he died. The second thing he entrusted to him was to keep the title deed of his ancestral home well and hide it.

The items that belonged to the Duan family in the capital were confiscated, and all the account books and land were taken away.

The land in the ancestral home was purchased many years ago. No one except Uncle Sun and Duan Yuexiu knew about it. The box containing the land deed escaped the raids and was hidden by Uncle Sun, and then handed over to the old lady after the official left.

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The children went to play in their new house, where the three sons of the Duan family and the Wang family were sitting. The Wang family had not planned to come, but Qiao Lan strongly requested that she come, and the family had to send a representative.

A group of people looked at the land deed spread out by the old lady and found that the names on it were Duan Yuexiu, Qiao Lan and several sons of the Duan family.

There is still a document like this in the yamen. To buy or sell land, you need to go to the yamen to go through the formalities and then stamp it with the official seal. This is not a matter that can be solved with words.

"This is the most valuable thing in the house!" Qiao Lan said quietly, glancing at everyone's expressions.

Qiao Lan: "I don't plan to sell this land. I want to take it back and grow it myself. What do you think?"

Mrs. Wang: "Mother, my daughter-in-law will obey your orders."

Mrs. Wang feels that she is a housewife, and she should just listen to her mother-in-law.

"Mother, my son listens to you." Duan Mingjing said with determination.

Duan Mingqing and Duan Mingchen had no objections, but Duan Mingchen was a little confused, "Mom, what do you plan to plant on this land?"

What to plant?

Qiao Lan's eyes were filled with doubts about farming. The system's agricultural power course required land. She could just follow the system when the time came. Then she said, "Watch it first, wait until I go to the fields to take a look."

Duan Mingchen nodded, and his mother probably went to the fields to see what other people were growing.

"Farming is one thing, but I want to talk about another thing." Qiao Lan put away the land deeds and turned her attention to her few cheap sons. "You are not young anymore. You should go out to work and bring money to your family."

Money. Don’t blame me as a mother for forcing you. You are all married and have a career. You can’t live on the land left by your father..."

"This family doesn't support idle people. You can bring me at least...one hundred yuan every month to add to the family income! Rice won't fall from the sky, and I can't pick it up if it does." Qiao Lan said, looking at Duan Ming.

Jing paused for a moment.

"Those who can't find a job will go home and farm..."

Hearing these words made Duan Mingjing feel bitter in his heart. Forget it, go out to work. This work can only earn one hundred cents a month?

Is this life meaningful?

Mr. Duan Er, who had first learned about the suffering in the world, began to worry.

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The Du family on the other side are also worried.

Before the Duan family returned to their hometown, these lands were managed by the Du family. The people in the countryside were illiterate, so renting land was mostly negotiated verbally without signing any documents, relying on the word "honesty".

The Duan family has a good reputation in the local area, and Duan Yuexiu is an official in the capital. Many people are willing to rent their fields, even from other villages. However, Duan Yuexiu did not agree because he was afraid of trouble, and only rented it to people in the same village.

people.

Putting aside these external factors, Duan Yuexiu's land rental price back then was 30% cheaper than others. Even in the countryside, with more than 200 acres of land combined, the annual rent was indispensable.

Duan Yuexiu gave everything to the Du family and asked them to keep it.

In addition to the apparent land rent, there were also many things brought over by the country people, which made the Du family fat and built a spacious tile-roofed house in a few years.

But who could have expected that the Duan family is back!

It would be okay if he went home to worship his ancestors, but since he had fled from the capital, he might have to live here for a few years.

Wouldn't the two hundred acres of land be taken back by the Duan family?

For this reason, not only the old man of the Du family, but also the following sons were extremely anxious.

In a very spacious and bright large tiled house, several middle-aged and elderly people with slightly similar looks gathered together, all of them looking anxious.

Du Sanlang was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, "Dad, if the Duan family takes this land back, what will we do?"

Mr. Du looked sad and sighed, "It doesn't belong to our family at all. If you want to go back, you have to go back."

"No, I just passed the Tongsheng test! The gentleman in the academy said last month that I have a talent that can be developed, and I will definitely be an official in the future. If I don't have money, how can I send my son to study?"

Du Dalang was even more anxious, and the child was his biological son.

Since Duan Yuexiu became an official in Beijing, many families in Lanyu County have sent their children to school, hoping that their descendants will become the next Duan Yuexiu.

"Without the land rent, the family has no money!" Mr. Du frowned.

"But without the land rent, the family has no way to bring in money!" Du Dalang frowned.

The rent of these two hundred acres of land has brought about earth-shaking changes in the Du family's life.

The family used to be too poor to open the pot, and they were hungry every meal. Now they live in a spacious tile-roofed house, have meat to eat every month, and their children and grandchildren can read and write.

If there is no rent, all of these will be gone!

Besides, in this world, if it were so easy to make money, the Du family would not be hungry long ago.

Mr. Du: "If it's gone, it's gone! Who made you so incompetent that you have been idle for so many years without doing any work? Why do you still expect me to rob and steal it?"

Mr. Du rolled his eyes and glared at his sons.

Du Erlang remained silent until he suddenly said, "How about I use my aunt's excuse..."

Mr. Du held a tea cup and snorted: "Duan Yuexiu is not your aunt's biological grandson! If he was really the kind of relative of our family who has broken bones and connected tendons, those two hundred acres of land would already belong to our family!"

When the Du family married their daughter, Duan Yuexiu's father had already gone out to make soy sauce. In the ten years since Du's marriage, she had not given birth to a single child, and many people in the village had broken words at that time.

It was said that the girls of the Du family had problems and could not give birth to children. This situation improved after Duan Yuexiu became a scholar.