The wife of a peasant girl is a little sweet

Chapter 26 Integrity
After the family finished eating the dumplings, Su Wan picked up the bowl that had been set aside beforehand, and said to Qin Shi and Su Laifu, "Father, mother, I'm going to visit the village chief's house."

"To the village chief's house? But for building a house?" Su Laifu was taken aback for a moment, then asked with a smile.

"Well, go and discuss with him about buying a homestead." Su Wan nodded and smiled.

"Okay, go, be careful on the road, do you want Qianqian to go with you?" Su Laifu nodded, but his heart was extremely excited. He thought it was just a wish of Su Wan, but he didn't expect to put it into action so soon .

"No need dad, I know the way in the village, I will go back as soon as I go."

Su Wan went out with dumplings. There were no entertainment programs in the ancient villages, and they were all poor people. They were reluctant to light the lamps with oil. As soon as it got dark, they went to bed early.

Therefore, the village was very quiet and dark, except for the occasional barking of dogs.

Su Wan came to the village chief's house based on her memory, and saw that the light was still on in the main room, so she reached out and patted the wooden door.

"Who is it?" After a while, a question came from inside, the voice of Aunt Liu, the wife of the village head.

Aunt Liu is a bit mean, and she didn't think it was anything at first, but because she slapped Su Zhana, she could no longer have a good impression of her.

However, now that I have to ask others, I always have to live with my face.

"Aunt Liu, it's me, Su Wan." Su Wan raised her voice and answered.

The door opened with a creak, and Aunt Liu's slightly fat body appeared in front of Su Wan.

"Girl of the Su family? What's the matter with coming to my house so late?" Aunt Liu looked Su Wan up and down and asked with a strange expression on her face.

"Ms. Liu, I've made dumplings at home. I'll give you a bowl. I want to talk to the village chief." Su Wan said with a smile as she passed the bowl in her hand.

"Oh, come in then." Aunt Liu took the bowl and let Su Wan in.

Although the life of the village head's family is better than that of most villagers in the village, people who are not on the festival are also reluctant to eat dumplings, let alone dumplings made of pure white noodles.

Aunt Liu's expression on Su Wan improved a lot, she led him into the main room, and said to Liu Dazhu who was sitting on the edge of the kang smoking dry cigarettes: "The head of the house, Su Wan is here."

"Oh, girl Wan, why are you here so late? What's the matter?" Liu Dazhu raised his head, tapped the cigarette pouch in his hand on the sole of his shoe and asked.

"Village Chief, I came here to discuss with you about buying land and building a house." Su Wan said with a smile.

"Buying land to build a house?" Liu Dazhu was taken aback, "Girl Wan, this is not a trivial matter, you can make the decision?"

"Well, you know about my family's situation. It's not a problem for our family of five to be squeezed into that small firewood house. We can make do with it now, but it will be sad when winter comes. So, I want to build a new house." Su Wan nodded and said.

"Hey, what your grandma did is really unreasonable." Liu Dazhu nodded sympathetically, and then said worriedly: "It's just that it's not easy to build a house. It's just the materials and labor. , it will cost a lot of money, the situation of your family..."

Liu Dazhu didn't go on. He knew that when the family was separated, they didn't even get a grain of food, let alone money. Without money, they might not even be able to build a thatched house.

"I know this. Don't worry about the money. I have already thought about the materials. I want to ask the village chief to help me with the land and labor." Su Wan smiled sincerely.

Liu Dazhu was a little surprised, but he couldn't ask where she got the money from, and whether it was enough to build a house. Since she could come to him, she must be ready.

"Then have you figured out where to build the house?" Liu Dazhu asked after lighting another bag of cigarettes.

"After thinking about it, there is a piece of wasteland at the foot of the mountain at the entrance of the village. I don't know who owns it, so come and ask the village chief if you can sell it to me."

"Will it be a little remote there?" Liu Dazhu frowned and asked.

"No, I like to be quiet, and it's more spacious there." Su Wan said with a smile.

"Okay." The village head nodded and said: "That piece of land belongs to Chen Fusheng's family. Brother Chen and his wife are old, and Fusheng hunts every day, so they don't have time to take care of it, so it fell into a wasteland, or else Tomorrow, I will accompany you to the Chen family, whether they agree to sell it or not, and how much they want to sell, depends on their opinions."

"Okay, then thank the village chief, but I have to go to the town tomorrow, and I will trouble the village chief when I come back in the afternoon." Su Wan thanked the village chief happily and left the village chief's house.

When I got home, I talked to Mrs. Su Laifu about the situation, and went to bed early.

At dawn the next day, Su Wan and Su Qian quietly went out again. This time they each carried a beetle on their backs, and went to the river by the village to catch two baskets full of river crabs.

When they got home, Su Wan was busy tying the crabs with straw. Qin got up and made a pot of noodle soup. Su Wan and Su Qian each drank a large bowl of hot water to dispel the coldness of going down to the river to catch crabs.

Autumn is the best season to eat river crabs. At this time, river crabs are the most plump. When winter comes, river crabs will hibernate in the mud, and male crabs and female crabs will easily die after mating. Then try to catch them It is difficult.

So, grab more now when you can, and when it gets colder, you won't be able to go into the water.

After Su Wan and Su Qian had breakfast, they each went out with a basket of river crabs on their backs, and took Wang An's ox cart to the town.

When the two arrived at Deshun Zhai, they saw that Huang Youde, the shopkeeper, was waiting at the door himself. When he saw them coming, he greeted them with joy.

"You two little girls, I've waited for you to come, I'm afraid you won't come."

"Why is shopkeeper Huang in such a hurry?" Su Wan asked a little strangely.

"Oh, you don't know, little girl, those eight legs you left yesterday, oh no, river crab, hehe." Huang Youde stroked his mustache, hehe said with a smile: "Those river crabs, I will let the cook follow your instructions." The recipe is done, and the taste, tsk tsk, is simply too good. I decided to start launching new dishes today, and I will definitely make a lot of money. If you can't deliver the ingredients, wouldn't I lose money? "

"It turns out that's the case, then I'll consider whether to sit on the floor and raise the price." Su Wan rubbed her chin and said thoughtfully.

"Hey, little girl, you..." Huang Youde's expression changed, but when she saw the smirk on Su Wan's face, she breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "You little girl, you are really naughty. "

"Haha." Su Wan laughed and said, "Don't worry, shopkeeper Huang, what I value most is honesty, and we will pay as much as we have agreed."

"Haha, don't worry, don't worry." Shopkeeper Su welcomed Su Wan and Su Qian in with a smile, and weighed the crabs. The two baskets weighed thirty catties, which was 30 taels of silver.

Shopkeeper Huang gave Su Wan a silver ticket of 50 taels, saying that the extra 20 taels was a deposit, and he was afraid that she would not come to deliver the crab tomorrow.

But Su Wan smiled and asked shopkeeper Huang to exchange the banknotes for silver ingots.

Shopkeeper Huang was a little helpless, this little girl was really difficult to serve, she asked for a silver ingot when she was given a silver ingot yesterday, and she asked for a silver ingot when she was given a silver ingot today.

Su Wan has her own plan, and she will be of great use in exchange for silver ingots.

(End of this chapter)