kingnovel Chapter 444 Buying Land and Settling Down
Chapter 444 Buying Land and Settling Down
At this time, Wen Shengxi came in with a big bowl of noodles with two poached eggs on top.
"Brother-in-law, it's time to eat." She called out and turned around to put the noodles on the table.
Wen Wuyan walked forward, looked at the big bowl of noodles, and said to Wen Shengxi with a smile, "Please bring a small bowl, Shengxi, so your sister can have some too."
"Okay."
"I will not eat."
"It's too much. I can't finish it." Wen Wuyan saw Gu Qingqing was about to get up from the kang, so he hurried back to help her put on her shoes.
Wen Shengxi saw this scene before she went out and was extremely envious. Her brother-in-law was so good to her sister. If she could find a man who was half as good as her brother-in-law in the future, she would be satisfied.
The little girl who was daydreaming was jumping and running, but as soon as she walked out of the hanging flower gate, she was bumped into by Zhao Bei.
The little girl screamed again in fright.
"Be careful?" Zhao Bei quickly pulled her up, preventing her from falling to the ground.
Zhao Bei saw her stand firm, then he said, "Why are you running so fast?"
Wen Shengxi didn't pay any attention to what he said at this moment, because all her thoughts and attention were on her left wrist, which was being tightly grasped by Zhao Bei.
At that moment she actually forgot to pull her hand back and just stared blankly, wondering in her heart why it was different from her dream and it didn't hurt at all?
Just as the two were in a daze, Zhao Dong's voice sounded at the gate at an inopportune moment, "Zhao Bei, you ran so fast, did you really see Wu Yan coming back?"
Zhao Dong was standing outside the door at this time, looking up at the sky and shouting. He did not re-enter the yard until he heard other sounds coming from the yard.
Zhao Bei saw Brother Dong coming in, shook his hot hands, and stammered, "Well, well, I haven't seen Brother Wuyan yet. Just now, well, someone said that Brother Wuyan was having dinner with sister-in-law in the inner courtyard, and I didn't have time to go in."
Zhao Dong simply ignored Zhao Bei's panic and his red face, walked past him and went straight into the inner courtyard.
He had seen Zhao Bei holding Wen Shengxi's hand just now. If he hadn't been worried about catching them in the act and embarrassing them, why would he have gone back outside after entering the door and then shouted!
"Wuyan, I heard you were back?" Zhao Dong shouted as he walked in the corridor, as a reminder to the people in the house.
Inside the house, Wen Wuyan, who hadn't eaten yet, simply placed his bowl of noodles on a round table outside, and walked to the door and said to Zhao Dong who was walking over, "Brother Dong, I just heard Qingqing say that you were looking for me, and I said I would go find you after dinner, but I didn't expect you to come first."
"I want to ask you something, so when I heard Zhao Bei say he saw you come back, I came here." Zhao Dong said as he walked into the house.
Gu Qingqing, who had followed Zhao Dong out, saw that he wanted to talk about something. Although she didn't know what it was, she saw that he cared so much about it, so she thought it was a big and important matter, so she couldn't just stand by and listen.
Just as she turned around to go back to her room to avoid suspicion, Zhao Dong stopped her and said, "Master, if you have nothing else to do, come and listen. You have a lot of ideas, and you may have other opinions."
Gu Qingqing raised her eyebrows upon seeing this, then sat down at the round table.
Zhao Dong looked at Wen Wuyan who hadn't eaten yet and said, "It's okay, it's not a big deal, just eat your food and listen to me."
Originally, Gu Qingqing wanted to have a bite of the noodles in Wen Wuyan's bowl, but now seeing Zhao Dong and the others there, she saw Wen Shengxi take it, but shook his head at her implicitly, indicating that he didn't want it.
"Brother Dong, what's the matter?" Gu Qingqing asked.
Zhao Dong rubbed his hands together, and said with agitation and anxiety, "We want to buy land in your Niutoushan Village, and we want Wuyan to help us negotiate with the village chief."
"Cough... cough, buy land?" Wen Wuyan almost coughed out the noodles he had in his mouth.
Gu Qingqing raised her hand to pat him behind his back, but her eyes fell on Zhao Dong. She asked excitedly, "Brother Dong, do you want to buy land? Do you want to settle down here?"
Zhao Dong's face was filled with joy, and he nodded heavily. "We brothers have been wandering outside for many years. Every time we go to a place, we want to settle down, but at that time, we always feel uneasy, so we keep moving around. We don't know why we came to Niutoushan Village this time, but we all feel that living here is stable. So we want to settle down here while we earned more than twenty taels of silver some time ago."
Wen Wuyan spoke a little faster than usual. "Brother Dong, I'm very happy that you can settle down here. After I finish eating, I will go to ask the village chief."
Gu Qingqing was also happy, because these people had really helped her a lot. Although she could find people to help with the work in the village by paying money, she still felt closer to them.
"Brother Dong, do you think the land in the village is interesting?" Gu Qingqing asked curiously.
"Hahaha, this is also one of the reasons why I came to you first."
Gu Qingqing was slightly surprised when she heard this, and thought to herself, could it be related to her as well?
Then she heard Zhao Dong say, "We have our eyes on the land to the west of your house. Let's see if you are willing to let us live next to you."
"Brother Dong, it's too polite for you to say that. How could we not want to? We'd love to have you." Wen Wuyan was very excited when he heard him say that he wanted to settle down next to his home.
"That's right, Brother Dong. If you build a house here, we can still keep each other company. It's better than being alone here." Gu Qingqing had a smile on her face all the time. People are social animals after all. The more people there are, the more lively it is.
"I just don't know what the land price is like here?" Zhao Dong hesitated.
"Brother Dong, there have been few land transactions in the village in recent years. Let's go to the village chief's house to ask later. This is all mountainous land and not for farming, so I think it shouldn't be expensive." Wen Wuyan comforted him.
Afterwards, Wen Wuyan slurped the noodles faster, and Zhao Dong talked about how much silver they had and their requirements for the place.
After Wen Wuyan finished his meal, he said to Zhao Dong and Zhao Bei, "Let's go together and see what the village chief has to say."
Gu Qingqing stopped him and said, "Wuyan, go and tell the village chief about the production of local eggs, and let the county officials record it."
Wen Wuyan suddenly turned around, looked at her and asked with a smile, "Do you want to go with us?"
Gu Qingqing glanced at Zhao Dong and Zhao Bei who were walking to the door without noticing them. She glanced at him from a distance and said, "No."
At this moment, Wen Wuyan suddenly felt as if he had returned to summer again.
Not long after they left, Xiao Nuannuan and Xiao Gu Qi, who were sleeping in the room, woke up. Gu Qingqing simply called Wen Shengxi and found two bamboo baskets, each filled with only half a basket of potatoes.
Two people, one carrying a child on their back and the other pulling a child, walked towards Niu Yuzhu's house.
As soon as I entered the house, I saw Niu Li washing clothes in the yard. "Auntie is at home, come on, help me take some." Gu Qingqing said to her and shook the basket behind her.
"Oh my God, what are you doing?" Niu Li said as she stood up and ran towards Gu Qingqing.
When she saw that the box contained earthen eggs, she was so shocked that she almost jumped up. "Oh, I want to slap you twice. Why are you carrying such a heavy thing? Can't you find someone to carry it? Come on, there is a bench over here, sit down and have a rest."