Chapter 1921

The carriage stopped at the gate of the county government. Xia's people had already arrived and had drunk two cups of tea. When they heard the report that the people of the Zhou family were coming, Xia's clan leaders and elders immediately put down their tea cups and sat up.

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

Xia clan leader et al:

Old Zhou tou and Xia Shi asked Mr. Zhuang to go first, and the three came in after them. Man Bao and Bai Shan Bai Erlang didn't know why. They waited on the three very attentively. After they were all asked to sit down, they looked at the opposite clan leader Xia and others.

Both sides didn't know each other. It was a little embarrassing. Xia Xia Xia sat up and introduced both sides, "big lady, this is our patriarch."

No matter what he thought, man Bao came forward with respect on his face, bowed his hands and said, "Zhou man has seen the patriarch“

The Xia clan leader quickly reached out and held her hand. He simply took her hand and said excitedly on his face: "like ah, really like ah, you look very similar to Xin Niang."

Old Zhou tou couldn't help thinking: obviously, he is more like their old Zhou family. Where is he like his sister-in-law?

Man Bao followed with a depressed face.

When Zhai county magistrate arrived, man Baocai followed Xia clan commander to meet all the elders and people who came. Then Xia clan commander and Qian family of old Zhou tou talked about Xia Yanlai after they met the ceremony. When he entered the door, Xia clan commander was talking about Xia Yan's contribution to family harmony in his life. When he saw Zhai county magistrate, he turned around and saluted.

Seeing that they were so friendly to each other, Zhai county magistrate couldn't help but pick their beauty, and then squeezed out a smile. With a smile, he asked both sides to sit down. When he stood at the top, he owed himself to Zhou man. Please sit down first.

Man Bao said with a smile, "county magistrate, please sit down. I'll just sit down."

Although Xia's people had made some preparations, they were surprised to see that Zhai county magistrate was so polite to Zhou man.

Zhai county magistrate just sat down, then looked at both sides and said, "since both sides have arrived today, we will open up if we have anything to say, so as not to create resentments and contradictions in the future."

He turned to head Xia and said, "head Xia should know that Lord Zhou came to Shangzhou to look for relatives. The relationship between the two sides should have been determined?"

Xia clan leader remembered that they were not sure, so he looked at the Zhou family.

Zhou Dalang immediately took the registered residence of his uncle, and the book of his aunt in the burden found in the mountain.

The summer clan saw, sighed, "this is indeed the registered residence of Zhou Yin and Xin Niang, the same person. I didn't expect them to be fourteen years ago... Alas, I said that the mother of Hsin Niang was filial, and Zhou Yin was not a man without conscience."

The old Zhou family couldn't help looking at each other when they heard this sigh, as if... The relationship doesn't have to be very stiff?

Sure enough, I heard clan leader Xia say to man Bao, "I didn't expect to see the big lady in my lifetime. I can tell your grandfather when I go underground."

Man Bao lowered his head and looked sorry.

Xia Xia heard that they were talking nonsense all the time, so he took the initiative to say, "clan leader, when will you give the big lady those things left by Yandi?"

He said, "I'm going to ask Xiaorui to vacate the shop for her in a while. I'll also give her the rent for so many years. I'll ask the patriarch to testify at that time."

After that, he felt in his arms with a slight shaking of his hand. After a half ring, he couldn't find anything. Xia Rui had to come forward and take out the yellow paper for him.

Xia Xia shook his hands and opened it and said, "this is what I signed with Zhou Yin. I rented his shop and gave him 18 liang of silver a year. Because he asked me to collect the rent and look at the house for him, I took advantage of him, but I have confiscated any rent in the past 12 years, so I plan to add 10 liang of silver a year..."

The Xia clan leader picked his eyebrows and eyes, smiled and stretched out his hand to hold Xia Xia Xia's hand and said, "what's the hurry of the third brother? I've been collecting the rent for Xin Niang all the time. Besides, you've worked for them for so many years. Even if Xin Niang and Zhou Yin came back in person, they won't want you to have more."

Man Bao was stunned and nodded immediately, "yes, Grandpa broke me."

Xia Xia didn't care about man Bao's words. He just stared at family leader Xia and asked, "you said you took a lease for her?"

Xia clan leader nodded, "of course, I've been renting a piece of land of Xin Niang. You rented it to me that year."

Xia Xia sneered. He rented him three yuan, but he didn't think he could save all the land, so Xia Xia didn't have much anger.

Family leader Xia turned around and sighed with man Bao, "over the years, your parents never came back, and the land can't be desolate. There are also guesses in the family, so later I rented out all the land, one of which I rented, another to Xu Lichang, and the other to the people of the family."

"Just you don't know, we depend on the weather to feed on the land. In the past ten years, it's either drought or waterlogging. Don't mention making money. It's good to be able to plant the seeds," Xia said. "Fortunately, I saved some rent in my early years. I'll bring it back to you later."

Man Bao looked at patriarch Xia with a moved face and said, "Grandpa patriarch, you have been very grateful for taking care of the land for my family these years. How can you ask for your rent again?"

Xia clan leader said, "it's my duty to rent land to the tenant."

Man Bao shook his head and sighed on his face: "if my parents didn't have an accident, 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, so the land deed I collected was just a thought."

After that, man Bao took it out of his arms and collected it well, but there were some yellow land deeds.

When clan leader Xia saw that she was wrapped in a layer of oil paper, he couldn't help but change his face. He didn't want to cheat the ghost?

Clan leader Xia didn't expect that Zhou Mancai would talk to people at such an age. It's a set on the surface, but what he thinks in his heart is different.

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

Of course, man Bao can't ask for it. She really doesn't want it. Even if she pulls out the meat in people's mouth and spits out what she eats in her stomach, she will commit public anger and offend people too much.

Moreover, compared with the land that needs to be cultivated and taken care of, she wanted the house in Songhua Lane more, so she tried to refuse, and then sighed: "give the land to the patriarch and his uncles and brothers. I'm very relieved that it's the house where my grandparents lived..."

She said with a sad face: "when I left home, I was still young. I only vaguely remember that we planted a jujube tree in our yard and produced a lot of green jujubes every autumn. As long as my mother wanted to eat, my father and grandfather would shoot her to eat. I wanted to go back to the house to accompany my grandparents and see where they lived."

Xia's people:... What about lying to ghosts? It was only a few months when you left. Can you remember this?

Everyone was more and more sure that her heart was filled with sesame seeds. Sure enough, no one could be an official, especially one who was an official in the capital at such a young age.

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