It was noon without wind and it was summer again. There was no pedestrian on the streets of Xiwan. Even the dog was lying under the shade of the trees, spitting his long tongue.

But even if I stay in the house, I still feel extremely stuffy.

Butcher Zhang asked the three newly-looked concubines to bring him a pot of iced bayberry soup. The two little girls who spent five taels of silver each bought this year were waving the round fan of the catkins weaving, and fanning the butcher Zhang.

Butcher Zhang opened his arms, revealing his big bulging belly and his black-haired chest.

"Didn't you eat? Fan hard."

His dislocated arm had already been taken up, but he was still angry. One hundred taels of silver, but he couldn't sleep at night when he thought about it, and it was not delicious to eat anything. One hundred taels of silver is a lot, enough to buy fifty big pigs and two hundred stones of rice. The little girl can buy twenty, and she can also marry a beautiful concubine.

But now it has been snatched away by the Liu family's second lance.

Not only was he robbed of a hundred silver, but he was beaten up. When he thought about the scene that scared that day, he felt extremely embarrassed and angry.

At this time, a sound of footsteps came from outside, "Who is that?"

"Master, it's me." The housekeeper replied outside, "The fifth brother is back."

Zhang Butcher Zhang suddenly felt energetic, "Lao Wu is back from Suokouhe, please call him in."

The servant Lao Wu came in with great silence, and the butcher Zhang hurriedly said, "How is the situation?"

"Master, good news." Lao Wu wiped the sweat from his head and flicked the wind with his clothes. "Then Liu Erlangzi did go to the Liu family to celebrate his birthday and also gave him a famous painting, which is said to be very expensive. However, he seemed to have a holiday with Liu Jinwu's seventh prince, and he had a fight at the door of the Liu family. Then, Old Master Liu met Liu Erlangzi, but soon sent him out. According to the news I inquired from the Liu family, this Liu Erlangzi went to the Liu family to recognize relatives, claiming to be a relative of the Liu family, but the others did not admit it at all."

Butcher Zhang's face turned red, "Are you saying that Liu Erlangzi is not a relative of the Liu family at all?"

"The Liu family said there was no such relative."

"Hahaha!" Zhang Butcher Zhang laughed, and the breath in his chest for several days was always swept away. "That's great, this Liu Erlangzi dared to trick me into my head. This time, let's settle the new and old accounts together."

Butcher Zhang immediately waved his hand and asked the butler to call the servants and the butcher shop staff, "Let's go to the Liu family to settle the score with Liu Erlangzi."

Just at this hot noon, butcher Zhang brought no less than twenty people to the Liu family mansion with murderous intent.

Mr. Liu was teaching his grandson Liu Hong to study in the front hall. Baoer had just packed up the table and washed dishes and chopsticks on the stove.

The two ladies from the Liu family were embroidering flowers in the boudoir upstairs, and cicadas kept shouting on the old tree outside the house.

At this time, the door of the Liu family's faintly hidden was suddenly knocked open with a bang.

"The surname of Liu, come out for me!" Zhang Butcher Zhang led a crowd of people in and shouted loudly.

The white cat resting by the patio was frightened and fled away with a meow.

Liu Xiu put down the book, stood up and greeted him.

"Mr. Zhang suddenly came to the door, I don't know what's going on?"

"What's the matter? You still ask me what's wrong? Liu Erlangzi, let him come out." Butcher Zhang glared and shouted loudly.

"Brother Jun is out and is not at home. If you have anything, you will tell me the same thing." Liu Xiudao.

Butcher Zhang snorted coldly, "Okay, I won't say much nonsense. Two days ago, Liu Erlangzi ran to my house, injured my master and servant of the Zhang family, and stole 100 taels of silver. Now, what do you think about this?"

"Is there any misunderstanding in this matter?" Old Dad Liu looked ugly, and the worry finally happened. He advised his son that the money of the butcher Zhang was so easy to get, but his son was confident at the time, so he didn't persuade him to the end. Now it seems that this butcher Zhang is really hard to deal with.

It was just that he endured it for two days before he started attacking, so why?

"Misunderstanding? You will misunderstand your mother, Lao Soru, I will tell you today that for the sake of our neighbors for many years, I will not report to the official position and give you a chance to settle the matter privately. Otherwise, you know that my son-in-law is the county magistrate. If you sue, you will have to destroy your family."

"I am willing to settle the matter privately. I will send the 100 taels of silver and your medicine fees to the door." 100 taels of silver is not a decisive amount, but Dad Liu can only choose to settle the matter at this time, otherwise, if he really wants to sue the official, they will not be the opponent of the Zhang family.

"Very good. Since I am willing to settle it privately, I will give it up. Before sunset today, 500 taels of silver will be sent to my house, and the matter will be settled. Otherwise, we will see you in our yamen."

"Five hundred taels?" Old Dad Liu was surprised.

"Five hundred taels are still for the sake of neighbors for many years. Otherwise, it would be better to sue the yamen and Liu Lao Er robbed and punished one for hang. If you want money or someone, you can choose it yourself." Zhang Butcher Zhang knew that Liu Erling's so-called brother to Liu Jinwu's son was just a lie, and he was full of confidence.

Usually when he has nothing to do, he has to think about where to tear off some meat, let alone now that the Liu family has completely offended him. This time, if he doesn't let the Liu family break up, he will not be surnamed Zhang. Otherwise, if he dealt with the Liu family, how can he gain a foothold in Xiwan Town in the future?

"Don't think about using the Liu family to scare me. I already know that Liu Erlang went to the Liu family to catch up with him, but he didn't know your Liu family at all. Those who know each other would immediately collect 500 taels of silver and hand it over, otherwise we will meet in the yamen."

After hearing this, Dad Liu was really shocked. Liu Jun failed to recognize his relatives in the Liu family?

Then, if this happens, the Zhang family will no longer be able to be suppressed.

"Five hundred taels are too much. Look at this, we will definitely pay you a hundred taels of silver. In addition, I am willing to pay another ten taels of medicine. That pig can be regarded as giving you apologies. How about it?"

"Bah, you think it's so beautiful. Ten taels of silver. Are you sending the beggar? My eldest son is a juren, my second son is a prison student, and my son-in-law is a county magistrate. Your son broke into my Zhang family and beat people and robbed money. Don't you cherish the chance of giving you an innocent child?"

"But five hundred taels of silver is really too much, and we can't afford so much money."

"If you don't have money, it's easy to deal with. Your family still has more than 100 acres of good paddy fields. In this way, if you take out 50 acres of land as compensation, you will be worth 500 taels of silver. If you think so, you will settle it."

Dad Liu said anxiously, "That's the best paddy field. Now it's at least twenty taels of silver per acre, not ten taels of rice per acre. Those fifty acres of land are worth one thousand taels of silver."

"Hey, you still have to bargain with me? If you don't want to, then let's meet in our yamen." Butcher Zhang was fearless.

Mr. Zhang shook his head and refused. The 100 acres of land in the Liu family were also passed down from ancestors, and forty acres of land were the dowry of the eldest daughter-in-law, which could not be regarded as the public property of the Liu family. Moreover, fifty acres of land are worth 1,000 taels of silver, so how could it be sold at half a price?

Besides, in Macheng, it is difficult for you to buy land even if you have money. Good paddy fields like the Liu family are even more expensive and have no market.

"Or, sell it alive." Zhang Butuhu's son sang to his father.

"It's okay to sell your live stock. If you sell your 100 acres of land to me, just take advantage of the money." Butcher Zhang took advantage of the situation and robbed him.

In the south of the Yangtze River, due to the large population and small land, the land is precious, and most people are unwilling to sell the land unless they are absolutely necessary. Later, there were two ways of buying and selling land, namely selling and selling live.

The so-called ultimate sale means selling the ownership of the land to the buyer at a certain price, and no rights to the land from then on.

Live selling means retaining the ownership of the land, but selling the land use rights. Live selling means selling the tenant rent. After the land is sold, the tenant rent can still be collected every year, and the grain produced from the land is generally used to offset the rent.

If you are not allowed to sell it, you can sell twenty taels of silver per mu of paddy fields like the Liu family. If you sell it live, you can only sell about four taels of silver per mu of land, but you can still collect a rented grain every year. The general market is that each mu of land will not be subject to a bumper and drought every year. You should pay the Wugusi to pay the burden and send it to your door after the autumn harvest, which must not be short.

However, in this way, after the land is sold, the right to farm and use will belong to the buyer.

The butcher Zhang had already made up his plan. The Liu family had about 130 acres of land, so he had already raised a compensation of 500 taels of silver to settle the amount privately, and then said that he would never buy the Liu family's 50 acres of land. Of course, the Liu family refused. At this time, he retreated and asked to buy the more than 100 acres of land from the Liu family.

At the price of one acre and four taels of silver, the 130 acres of land from the Liu family can be purchased to offset the compensation.

For modern people, marriage cannot be obtained without a house. For ancient people, land was the top priority, which meant the livelihood of a family. Even for rich people like Zhang Butcher, who monopolized the slaughter business in the Xiwan market, had endless desire for land.

Even if you can't buy it, you have to buy it.

The permanent tenancy rights of 130 acres of land are also very good. You can buy the tenancy rights first, and then buy them when you have the chance in the future, and get the ownership.

This smart way of buying jobs was first invented from Huizhou people in Huainan, but now this method has been circulated in Jiangnan.

Zhang Butcher Zhang is very good at making a plan. This time the Liu family has lost such a big handle in his hands. He made this request. How can the Liu family still make the mistake without being obedient?

Dad Liu was so angry that he almost fainted.

But he knew that he did not have the power to refuse at this time. With Zhang Butcher's personality, if he did not agree to him, he would definitely use more despicable means. If he sued, it would be a bottomless pit.

After gritting his teeth, Liu Dad said, "The Liu family has 130 acres of paddy fields, which are all good land, but forty acres of them are dowry brought by my daughter-in-law, which is not considered to be the public property of the Liu family. In this way, I will sell the 90 acres of paddy fields of the Liu family to you to compensate. Then every autumn, you will give me four stone rice every acre, and the matter will be settled like this. How about it?"

Butcher Zhang looked at Dad Liu carefully, and saw that he had reached the limit of gritting his teeth, so he was not too forced at the moment, for fear of backfire. It would be nice to get a living buyer of 90 acres of land at once. One acre and four taels of silver are equivalent to 360 taels of silver. He was just fed away by Liu Erlangzi, and now he has returned three or four times. Besides, in the place of Xiwan, Macheng, you have no land to buy even if you have money.

As for the little injury I suffered, it is not worth mentioning.
Chapter completed!