Chapter 1921

  The carriage stopped at the gate of the county government. The people of the Xia family had already arrived. They drank two cups of tea. After hearing the report that the people of the Zhou family were coming, the patriarchs and elders of the Xia family immediately put down their tea cups and sat up.

  As soon as they looked up, what they saw was Xia Xia who was carried in.

   Patriarch Xia and others:...

Lao Zhoutou and the Xia family asked Mr. Zhuang to go first, and the three followed behind. Man Bao and Bai Shan Bai Erlang didn’t know why, they waited on the three very diligently, and waited for them to sit down before looking at each other. Chief Xia and others.

  Neither side knew each other, and was a little embarrassed, Xia Xia leaned forward and sat up slightly to introduce the two sides, "Madam, this is our patriarch."

Regardless of what he thought, Man Bao stepped forward with a look of respect, and said with his hands: "Zhou Man has seen the patriarch."

   Patriarch Xia quickly stretched out his hand to support, and simply took her hand and said with excitement: "Like, really like, you look a lot like Xinniang."

  Lao Zhou's head could not help but think: Obviously they are more like their Lao Zhou family, where is it like a younger sister-in-law?

  Man Bao followed with a look of depression.

When the county magistrate Zhai arrived, Man Baocai followed Clan Chief Xia to meet all the clan elders and clansmen who came, and then Clan Chief Xia and the old Zhoutou Qian clan met the ceremony and talked about Xia Yanlai. When he entered the door, Clan Chief Xia was saying Beginning with Xia Yan's contribution to the family's help and association, he quickly turned to salute when he saw the magistrate of Zhai County.

   County magistrate Zhai saw that they were so friendly to each other and couldn't help raising his eyebrows, and then squeezed out a smile. With a smile, they asked both parties to sit down. After standing up to the upper position, Zhou Man owed himself to Zhou Man. First, he asked Zhou Man to sit down.

  Man Bao smiled and said, "The county magistrate, please sit down. I'll just sit down."

Although the people of the Xia family had some preparations, they were surprised to see that the county magistrate Zhai was so polite to Zhou Man.

   County magistrate Zhai just sat down, then looked at both sides and said, “Since both sides are here today, then we will open up when we have something to say, so as to avoid suspicions and conflicts in the future.”

  He turned his head and said to Patriarch Xia: "Patriarch Xia should have known, right? Lord Zhou came to Shangzhou to find relatives. The two sides should already be able to determine the relationship, right?"

   Patriarch Xia just remembered that they weren’t sure yet, so they looked at Zhou's side.

  Zhou Dalang immediately took out his brother-in-law’s household register, as well as the book of the young aunt in the bag that he found in the mountains.

Patriarch Xia had seen it and sighed: "This is indeed the household registration of Zhou Yin and Xinniang. They are the same person. I didn't expect them to be... Silver is not a person without a conscience."

  Lao Zhou’s family members couldn’t help but look at each other when they heard this sigh, as if...the relationship doesn’t need to be very stiff?

  Sure enough, I heard Patriarch Xia say to Man Bao: “I didn’t expect to see the big lady in my lifetime, and I can also explain to him when I see your grandfather in the underground.”

  Man Bao lowered his head and looked regretful.

  Xia Xia heard that they were talking nonsense, so he took the initiative to speak: "Patriarch, when will the things left by Brother Yan be given to the big lady?"

  He said: "I plan to let Xiao Rui vacate the shop for her in a while, and the rent for so many years will also be handed over to her, and I will ask the patriarch to be a witness at that time."

   After that, he fumbled into his arms with a trembling hand, and couldn't feel anything for a while, Xia Rui could only come forward and take out the yellowed paper for him.

Xia Xia shook his hands and opened it, and said, "This was signed by Zhou Yin and I back then. I rented his shop and gave him 18 taels of silver a year, because he asked me to collect the rent for him to see the house. This is considered to be my occupation. It’s cheap, but for the past twelve years, I have confiscated any rent, so I plan to add ten taels of silver to it every year..."

Patriarch Xia raised his eyebrows and raised his eyes and smiled and stretched out his hand to press Xia Xia's hand and said: "What is the urgency of the third brother, I have been keeping the renters in the field for Xinniang. Besides, you have worked for them for so many years, even Xinniang. He and Zhou Yin came back personally, and they won't want you to have this extra share."

  Man Bao was taken aback for a moment and immediately nodded, "Yes, Uncle Gong smashed me."

  Xia Xia didn’t care about Man Bao’s words, and just stared at Patriarch Xia and asked, "You said you charged her the rent?"

   Patriarch Xia nodded, “Of course, didn’t I always rent a piece of Xinniang’s land? You rented it to me back then.”

  Xia Xia sneered in his heart. He rented him three yuan back then, but he didn't think about saving all the land, so Xia Xia didn't feel much anger in his heart.

Patriarch Xia turned his head and Man Bao sighed: "In these years, your parents never come back, and the land can't be deserted. There are no guesses in the clan, so I rented out the land later, and I rented one of them. Yes, one piece was leased to Xu Lichang, and the other piece was rented out to people in the clan."

"It's just that you don't know. We farm the land by relying on the sky for food. The past ten years have not been droughts or floods. Not to mention making money. It's not bad to be able to plant the seeds," Chief Xia said: "Fortunately, I still paid for it in the early years. I saved some rent, and I'll bring it to you when I look back."

  Man Bao looked at Patriarch Xia with a touched expression: "Patriarch Grandpa, you have been very grateful that you have been able to take care of the fields for my family over the years. How can you ask for your rent again?"

   Patriarch Xia said: "It is your duty to rent land to the renter."

Man Bao shook his head and said with a sigh: "If my parents weren’t surprised, they would have to go home every year. Before I came, I didn’t think that the property left by my parents was still there. It's just a thought."

   After all, Man Bao took it out of his arms and collected it well, but it was just a yellowed land deed.

   Patriarch Xia saw that she was still wrapped in oily paper, and it was because the others were as old as a fox and couldn’t help but change their expressions. They didn’t want to, what about deceiving ghosts?

   Patriarch Xia did not expect that Zhou Man would meet people and talk nonsense at such a young age. On the surface, it was the same, but his thoughts were different.

  He put away the last little thought in his heart, insisted on giving the rent to Zhou Man, and even decided to go back and improve his account books so that Zhou Man could check it.

Of course, Man Bao couldn’t take it anymore, she kept refusing, she really didn’t want it, she didn’t want to take the meat out of people’s mouth, and then vomited it out, it would be angered by the public. , Too offensive.

Moreover, compared to the fields that need to be cultivated and managed, she wants the house in Songhua Alley more, so she vehemently declined, and then sighed: "Leave it to the patriarch and the uncles and brothers in the clan. Rest assured, it is the house where my grandparents lived before..."

She said with a sad expression: "I was young when I left home. I only vaguely remember that a date tree was planted in our yard. Every fall, I would bear a lot of green dates. As long as my mother wanted to eat it, my father and My grandfather took pictures for her to eat, and I wanted to go back to the house to accompany my grandfather and grandmother to see where they lived."

   Everyone in the Xia family: ...what about a liar? It was only a few months when you left. Can you remember this?

  Everyone became more and more sure that her heart was filled with sesame seeds. Sure enough, there is no simple one who can be an official, especially the one who has been an official in Beijing at such a young age.

  However, there is indeed a jujube tree in the yard of the Xia family, which was planted shortly after Xia Xin was born.

See you tomorrow

  　　

  　

  (End of this chapter)