Mountain wild man Ziwang and his wife

Chapter 40
"This place is a little smaller than Yin's, and you give 60 taels of silver." Li Chang said, he was right with Shen Xiao. In fact, more than half of the 60 taels of silver would go into the pockets of those officials in the county government. In the end, it fell to the imperial court's account and topped the sky with 20 taels of silver.

This kind of barren land and fertile land are two different attributes, and some people in the yamen have ways to fool the court and fill their pockets.

Shen Xiao happily took out the money.

"I have to trouble you one more thing. Please help me find some people to repair the house. I need good craftsmen. Meals are not included. They bring their own dry food. I just pay a higher wage."

The reason why he didn't ask the villagers to help him build the house was because most of the villagers listened to Yin Gui, and when Yin Gui made a little trouble inside, those villagers would mess with him and delay the construction period, and it would be over.

Of course, that's the worst possible possibility.

But Shen Xiao didn't want to take the risk.

He wants to build the house early and then marry Xiao Taozi.

"And I don't know what to buy to build a house. Can you help me find a reliable master? If I give you money, he will cover all the work and materials?"

Li Chang said: "If this is the case, I am afraid that the money spent will be a lot more."

Shen Xiao said: "I don't understand, money is not afraid of spending too much. This is a good time for hunting skins. If I have time to worry about these miscellaneous things, I might as well go to the mountains a few more times."

The head of the village also admired Shen Xiao. It was as easy for him to go hunting in the mountains as drinking water for others, but if hunting was really easy, there would be so few hunters in the ten miles and eight villages around Niutoushan Mountain.

Needless to say, which Orion family doesn't have any injured children or grandchildren, or people who died in the mountains and whose corpses can't be seen...

Hunting is a job that takes one's life and one's life, but anyone who can live on will not be too hard to think about becoming a hunter.

"If you want me to say that if you have enough money, it's serious to buy some fertile land. After all, hunting is not a long-term solution." The chief advised, "We still have to plan for old age."

"Well, I'll get the house out first, and then I'll buy the land when I earn money." Shen Xiao didn't argue with the village chief, he knew that the village chief was also kind.

"Since you trust me, I'll let you know about it. It just so happens that my second brother-in-law does this. Tell me first what kind of house you want to build."

Shen Xiaodao: "To build a brick house with two entrances, the two entrances have five rooms and seven beams on the front, and the wing rooms on both sides are built with five beams, and the ground has to be paved with bluestone bricks. By the way, it needs to be repaired far away. Stables, and make a circle around the land..." The stables and animal sheds are farther away, and in case the family has more people in the future, it can be expanded in the future.

The chief's eyes widened, this boy opened his mouth and said seven girders and five girders, and he also needed to pave the ground with bluestone bricks and build a fence, which would cost too much.

His family's house in the town is not bad, only three main rooms are houses with five beams.

The others are three girders, and a house with three girders is spacious enough. In the houses of ordinary people, there is only one girder in the middle, and the rest are only one or two pairs of thin girders, and a bed can be stuffed in the house. and simple furniture.

"The house is too big, and it's cold even if you burn charcoal in winter." The head of the village advised Shen Xiao, "The key is the high cost." No house like this can't be repaired for more than 30 taels of silver, plus the fence and wages... ...Ze Di also costs 50 taels of silver.

In the village, spending ten taels of silver to build a brick and tile house is impressive enough.

Shen Xiao: "So I would like to trouble you to help me find a master who can make earth dragons."

The chief was speechless.

In addition to the earth dragon... the price of this house will be more than 60 taels.

"This is 100 taels, 60 taels is the land money, and 40 taels is the fixed money... You can help me with your troubles and try to fix it within a month. You can ask more people, and you can tell me how much it will cost to repair the house. And silver."

"You child... that's all, that's all, I'll find someone for you right now, and I'll see where the price is set tomorrow at the latest." The village chief collected the money, and when Shen Xiao left, he told his wife about it. .

The old lady regained her spirits when she heard it: "How much money does Shen Xiao have? To build such a good house all of a sudden, the landlord's house is just like this."

"It can't keep up with the landlord's house. The house of the landlord's house is at least several times bigger than what Shen Xiao said, and Mi Fei said 200 taels or more." A four-entry house, meeting a big landlord... That house is so old-fashioned, it can be worth more than a dozen three-entry houses.

"But Huaishu Village has no landlords, Shen Xiao is the first in Huaishu Village!" The old lady said, "No, old man, see if you want to tell him about our family Liuya. "

The village chief thought for a moment after hearing the words: "Don't you usually dislike Shen Xiaoke's wife?"

The old lady pursed her lips and said: "Usually, didn't I see him down and out, look at what he was wearing and what his family lived in... Can I push my granddaughter into the fire pit?
But looking at it now, Shen Xiao is a man with screws and flesh in his shell, who can spend so much money to repair a house at once...

I reckon he still has it in his hand.

Oh, hunting makes so much money... Pheasants and rabbits are not expensive. He wants to support the big family of the Wu family, and he can still get so much money... Where did this money come from? "

"The hair is long but the knowledge is short. You look at those hunters who sell some pheasants and hares all day long, and at most sell roe deer or something, but you don't know that Shen Xiao can go to the deep mountains. He has good skills and can hunt foxes and so on. , A piece of leather for these things can sell for tens or even hundreds of taels."

The old lady covered her mouth in surprise when she heard the words: "Old man, let me tell you, you must promise him the six girls of our family!

If this marriage is formed, Liu Ya can have a good life in the future, let alone help the two boys. "

The head of the village said unhappily: "Don't make up your mind, Liuya's looks are not worthy of Shen Xiao at all." What was the old woman thinking.

"Hey, I said you are a dead old man, what's the matter with Liu Ya, you have big breasts, you are easy to give birth to, and you work neatly, so why can't you be worthy of Shen Xiao?

Don't you forget, with Shen Xiao's reputation of restraining his wife, whose daughter would dare to marry him? "

The village chief said: "In the past, no one was willing to marry their daughter to him because they thought he was poor. Just wait and see, when he builds the house... the matchmaker will break the threshold!

Don't get involved in this matter, let's not be that ungrateful person. "

The old lady was unhappy when she heard this, and immediately quarreled with the village chief: "What is ungrateful, he is a foreigner who has no one to rely on, it's not that you helped him gain a foothold in Huaishu Village?

Our Liuya is not bad, let me tell you old man, the matter of Liuya is settled like this, next time Shen Xiao comes, you don't tell me I will! "

"Why don't you listen to..."

"You bad old man dares to spoil my mother's important matter, and my mother will hang herself in front of the ancestral tablet of your old Feng's family!"

(End of this chapter)