Mountain People

    It takes about two months to live, plus the medical expenses, the total cost is 30 taels, Gu Shuixiu and the others have deducted part of the medicinal materials, and it will cost about 27 taels. Even if they didn't sell tigers and black bears, the couple could get the money.

    It was just that when Gu Mingde heard the twenty-seven taels, he was so frightened that he almost stood up and wanted to go home.

    Gu Mingde has to live in the hospital for the past two months. The Gu family can't leave. Gu Shuixiu and his wife are busy building the house, so they can't stay for a long time. Finally, they negotiate with the doctor. After a while, the food and lodging were all covered by the hospital, and Gu Shuixiu had to pay a tael of silver for food, mainly to make Gu Mingde eat better.

    After finishing the affairs here, Gu Daniu stayed in the hospital to take care of Gu Mingde, while Gu Shuixiu and his wife went to the yamen to inquire about buying mountains.

    In fact, there is no yamen in Panlong Town. The biggest official is the mayor.

    Gu Shuixiu and his wife thought they had gone wrong when they arrived at their destination. It was because this place was completely incomparable with the county government in Linhai County.

    There were two guards at the entrance of the house, Gu Shuixiu explained his intention, one of them looked at them for a moment and went in to report.

    After a while, the man came out to invite Gu Shuixiu and his wife in.

    There was a middle-aged man sitting in the room, with a bookish aura, who didn't know, thought it was the master of which college.

    Gu Shuixiu and Dong Chenghu immediately salute the mayor.

    The mayor put down the brush in his hand and looked at the couple in front of him with an inquisitive face. They were only wearing ordinary coarse linen clothes. How could they have money to buy mountains?

    "You said you want to buy mountains?"

    Dong Chenghu nodded at Gu Shuixiu's gesture, and said a little uneasily: "Mr. Mayor, I'm a hunter in Qingping Mountain. I want to ask how to sell this mountain?"

    The mayor raised the corner of his mouth with interest, and his tone softened a lot, "This Qingping Mountain stretches for thousands of miles, and even a part of it is not from our Yongjia County, which mountain do you think you want to buy? "

    When Dong Chenghu heard the mayor's tone, he seemed to be a little bit polite, and immediately said loudly: "It's the Cuizhu Mountain in Qingping Mountain."

    "Cuizhu Mountain?" The mayor frowned and thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't remember the name of the mountain.

    A young servant next to him whispered a few words in his ear, and the mayor suddenly realized that he immediately went to the bookshelf to pull out a booklet and checked it for a long time before returning to his seat superior.

    "I remember that there was a registered mountain resident in Cuizhu Mountain, who seems to be a hunter, called Dong Yitao. Generally, this kind of inhabited mountain cannot be bought and sold. If you want to buy or sell, you must negotiate with the residents in the mountain. Deal." The mayor is a little embarrassed, it's fine if it's an uninhabited hill, anyway, Qingping Mountain is so big, it's not a problem to sell a few hills at will, and it can increase the income, but it's different if there are people living in it, if it's casual He sold the achievements that caused public resentment and it was over.

    Dong Chenghu was a little stunned when he heard the name Dong Yitao, until Gu Shuixiu kicked him.

     "Mr. Mayor, Dong Yitao you said is my father, we have always lived in this Cuizhu Mountain, and now we are the only couple left in the house. If I want to build a house in it, my mother-in-law said that you need to buy land to build a house, and we don’t know how to calculate this land, so we just ask if we can buy a mountain?”

    When the mayor heard this, he almost sprayed the tea in his mouth. What kind of weird reason is this? Because I don't know how big the land to buy, so I directly buy the mountain? Does this man look like a rich master?

    "Can you afford to buy a mountain?" The mayor frowned, obviously not thinking that the couple could afford the money.

    Gu Shuixiu tugged on Dong Chenghu's clothes, and smiled lightly: "Mr. Mayor, just look at how much money this Cuizhu Mountain will cost. If it is possible, we will also borrow it. If you really can't afford it, just treat us as bothering you."

    As soon as the mayor heard Gu Shuixiu's tone, he knew that this woman was not simple. He immediately accepted the contempt, and ordered someone to fetch the geographical records, which recorded in detail the size, soil quality, mountain condition, landform, vegetation and so on of each hilltop of Qingping Mountain.

    The mayor studied for a long time before raising his head, and a calculation flashed in his eyes, "I have seen the Cuizhushan you want to buy, this mountain is not big, and there is no flat land, if you build a house , but it is not so easy to cultivate farmland, so this mountain is also cheap. If you really plan to build a house and settle down in Cuizhu Mountain, you may consider buying the two surrounding valleys together.

    Although this valley is not big, it is mostly flat land, and there are streams passing through it. It is very suitable to get arable land. If you buy it together, I will give it to you. It is cheaper. "

    Dong Chenghu was a little surprised and a little uneasy, and asked tentatively, "How much money does it cost to buy it together like this?"

    The mayor laughed when he heard the words, and his tone was even more gentle, "Not much, this bamboo mountain is not big, and it is not worth much money, the soil in this valley is fertile and the flat land is a little more expensive, but you guys If you buy it together, I will consider you five hundred yuan per mu, and the total of Cuizhu Mountain plus the two valleys is five hundred mu. The total is two hundred and fifty taels.

    This is the cheapest price. You must know that a good paddy field costs five taels per acre, a good field costs four taels per acre, and a medium-sized field three taels per acre , 2 taels of silver per mu for inferior land, and 800 yuan per mu of wasteland. I'll give you five hundred dollars because of the amount of money you buy, and because there's not a lot of people there, otherwise it's definitely more than that. "

    Gu Shuixiu slandered in his heart, the mayor looked at Swan, but he did not expect it to be an old fox. The area of ​​the Cuizhu Mountain is larger than those of the two valleys, and they are all mountain peaks and stone walls. The land is less than half, and there is only their family there. Even if they don't buy others, they won't buy it!

    But after thinking about it, this land is still relatively solid. It happened that they brought out three hundred taels of silver, and spent two hundred and fifty taels to have the remainder.

    It's just that they can't make the mayor feel that they are very rich, so Gu Shuixiu said with some embarrassment, "Can the mayor give us some time to raise money, if it is fast, we will come to buy it tomorrow Mountain."

    When the mayor heard this, he nodded clearly. Anyway, he was not in a hurry when the mountain was there, so he asked the servant to send the couple away politely.

    The two left the mayor's yard, and Dong Chenghu asked inexplicably: "Shuixiu, we have enough money to buy mountains, why do we have to wait until tomorrow?"

    Gu Shuixiu didn't say it clearly, she dragged Dong Chenghu away before she said, "We are just ordinary mountain people, how can we get so much money? If it is too easy for us to get money, we must be worried about by the mayor. I don't want to be in trouble in the future."

    Only then did Dong Chenghu understand Gu Shuixiu's deep meaning, and he was a little scared at the moment. Fortunately, he didn't refute Gu Shuixiu's words in front of the mayor at that time, otherwise it would be a bad thing.