The Daily Life of the Husband and Wife Selling Dog Food Through Time Traveling

Chapter 58

At this time, a man's voice came from the room: "Ninny, who are you talking to?"

The little girl responded, and then yelled childishly: "Father—a lot of people are looking for you!"

After a while, a tall and strong man came out of the room: "Who is looking for me?"

When the man saw Jiang Ning and Li Zhangshi and his party, he was slightly taken aback, and said doubtfully, "You are..."

Jiang Ning cupped his hands at him: "Under Jiang Ning, are you Li Zheng of Gantang Village?"

The man nodded, the doubt in his expression still remained: "I am, what's the matter with you?"

"I don't know if I can go into the house and talk about it?"

The man picked up the little girl and said, "Of course." As he spoke, he led the group into the yard.

After sitting down, Director Li explained the purpose of his visit: "We are members of the Shen family. We were ordered by the master to collect the land rent for the second half of the year, but I just heard that you have already paid the rent?"

Hearing this, Li Zheng was very surprised: "The Shen family? Didn't the Shen family already sell this field?"

Sold out?Jiang Ning was thoughtful, but Director Li frowned, and his tone became lowered: "When was it sold? Our boss didn't even hear the news."

"You don't know?" Li Zheng put down the little girl and let her play by herself, and then replied, "It's been about a year." When he said this, he suddenly remembered something, and said, "Wait a minute." Then he hurried into the house.

When he came out, he took a small wooden box in his hand and opened it. Inside was a small stack of yellowed papers, which were all receipts for paying the rent. Manager Li immediately took it out and examined it carefully. Lizheng explained: "The following Those were all given to the Shen family in previous years, and the three above are all given to the Wang family."

He said, picked up the three cards, looked at the sun, nodded and said in affirmation: "Yes, after the spring of last year, the Shen family and the Wang family sent people over together, and the Shen family collected two months' rent. Afterwards, he personally told us that these lands had been sold to the Wang family, and the land deeds were clearly written and stamped with official seals."

Manager Li looked at the three receipts for a long time, his brows were frowned, and then he handed it to Jiang Ning, saying, "You also have a look."

Jiang Ning nodded slightly, took the four receipts, and checked them one by one. On one of them, it was clearly written that the landlord was replaced by the Wang family, and all future rent payments will be handed over to the Wang family. The rent details are clearly listed, with white characters In black and white, stamped with the seal of the landlord, the seal of the Shen family, the official seal of the government, and Li Zheng's fingerprint, it proves that this piece of paper is indeed genuine.

Jiang Ning stared at the seals for a long time, then stroked the seals with his fingers, couldn't help laughing, his eyebrows were slightly curved, and he looked very happy, Director Li couldn't help but look sideways: "Master Jiang?"

Jiang Ning smiled: "Director Li, look at the seal on it, is it real?"

Director Li frowned deeply: "It's because it's true that I have a headache."

Jiang Ning put down the receipt: "Why?"

Li Zhangshi said: "The Shen family's seal is genuine, and the government's seal is also genuine, there is no forgery."

Jiang Ning reached out and stroked the crease of the receipt, and said, "Where is the other seal of the Wang family?"

"Their family's seal, of course, cannot be faked. The young master's move...is really..." Director Li took a deep breath, stood up, and said, "We have to go back."

Jiang Ning returned the receipt to Li Zheng, and thanked him again. The group returned without success. On the way, Director Li found Jiang Ning and suggested to visit other villages in the afternoon. Jiang Ning naturally had no objection.

According to Li Zhangshi, the Shen family rented a total of [-] hectares of land in Chongyang to four villages. The group spent a whole day visiting all these villages. The moon star is thin.

Li Zhangshi walked forward with his hands behind his back, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and his brows were deeply wrinkled. Jiang Ning walked behind him. After a while, he suddenly turned around and asked, "What do you think of the third young master?"

Jiang Ning was slightly taken aback, but before he could answer, he waved his hand and sighed, "Why do I ask you this... Forget it, just pretend I didn't ask."

A group of people walked back to the inn under the moonlight. Director Li seemed to be so angry that he didn't even have dinner, so he hurriedly told everyone and went back to his room.

Early the next morning, when Jiang Ning got up, when he arrived at the lobby, he saw Mr. Li coming in from the outside, his face was full of uncontrollable anger, and his brows were twitching, as if trying to hold back the rage.

When he saw Jiang Ning, he came over and said, "Master Jiang, we are leaving for Yuezhou today."

Jiang Ning was surprised: "So fast?"

Director Li glanced at him, he didn't seem to want to say more, he just said: "That's right, since the matter can't be done, it's better to go back and report to the Patriarch early."

Hearing what he said, Jiang Ning naturally had no objection, nodded in agreement, and Li Zhangshi walked away.

After a while, Jiang Ning saw him come down the stairs in a hurry, took a letter, handed it to an attendant, told him something, the attendant nodded repeatedly, agreed, and went to the backyard.

The entourage fed the horse grass and drank water, and led it to the back door. As soon as he went out, he saw Jiang Ning standing outside and asked him with a smile: "Master Li told you to go back first?"

The entourage was stunned for a moment, then nodded quickly: "Yes, the convoy's pace is slow. Director Li said that the matter is urgent, so he asked me to go back and deliver the letter first."

Jiang Ning smiled, took out a letter from his bosom, and said, "Since that's the case, I also have a letter here that I would like to ask you to deliver."

Seeing this, the attendant hesitated a bit: "This..."

Jiang Ning said: "Don't worry, this letter is for the third young master."

Hearing this, the attendant immediately felt relieved, readily agreed, accepted Jiang Ning's letter, led the horse out of the gate, and walked along the alley.

Jiang Ning stood for a while before leaving.

At noon, Director Li led the people back and set off again. The convoy traveled northward for about ten days, and arrived at a small village. They stopped for a while. When people were exhausted, everyone went to the car behind to drink water. Underneath, the buckets filled with water were all empty, without a drop of water, and the area was full of forests and mountains, and there was not even a river in sight. The horses were so thirsty, let alone people.

Director Li scolded the entourage who was sorting out the daily necessities bloody. After scolding for a long time, his mouth became more parched.

In the golden autumn of September, the weather was still very hot and the air was dry. Jiang Ning slightly squinted his eyes and looked not far away, stopped Li Zhangshi who was furious, and said: "There is a village here. I think there should be a well. , I'll take a few guys over to have a look."

Manager Li thought for a while and nodded in agreement. Jiang Ning ordered a few entourages, asked them to carry buckets, and walked to the village. After walking a few steps, he saw a ten-year-old boy squatting on the side of the road playing. He walked over and asked, "Son, is there a well near here?"

The little boy looked up at him, then sized up his followers, and said, "Do you want some water?"

Jiang Ning nodded and said, "Is there a well in your village?"

The little boy stood up and said, "No, the water in the village needs to be collected ten miles away."

Ten miles, that's too far, Jiang Ning was hesitating, the child continued: "I can sell you water, do you need it?"

His tone was very old-fashioned, and Jiang Ning couldn't help laughing. Seeing that Jiang Ning didn't speak, the little boy squatted down again and stopped talking to him.

Jiang Ning smiled and said, "How much water do you have to sell to us? What is the price?"

Hearing this, the little boy raised his head and said, "It's enough for all of you to drink, more than enough to drink horses, eighty Wen a barrel."

Eighty renminbi a barrel of water is indeed a bit expensive, several attendants looked like idiots, and one of them said: "Master Jiang, don't listen to this kid fooling around, even fairy water is not so expensive. Yes, there must be a well in this village, let's go and see."

Before Jiang Ning could answer, the little boy snorted, "If you can find a source of water within ten miles of this village, I will pay you eighty Wen."

He paused, then said to Jiang Ning: "Water is [-] Wen a bucket, and I will give you hay for horses, no money."

Jiang Ning thought for a while, and agreed, "Then according to what you said, where is the water?"

"My house." The little boy stood up and left, Jiang Ning followed.

The attendants were all startled, and then they wanted to persuade, but Jiang Ning stopped him with a smile, and said: "In the current situation, if there is no drinking water, people are exhausted, the progress will be delayed instead, it's only [-] Wen, so I will pay for it. "

The attendants were originally worried that they would be scolded by Li Zhang when they bought the water and went back. Now that Jiang Ning took it all by himself, they were naturally very happy, carrying the wooden bucket, and followed the little boy.

When they arrived at the entrance of the village, a group of children were playing there. When they saw strangers, they were not afraid. They gathered around them as if seeing strange things, and followed them like a group of little tails, and followed them all the way to the gate of the little boy's house.

When he saw the courtyard, Jiang Ning was slightly surprised, and looked at the little boy leading the way, and couldn't help but said, "This is your home?"

It’s no wonder Jiang Ning asked, because the yard was so dilapidated, the fence was crookedly inserted into the mud, and the gate of the yard hung loosely, as if it would fall down if touched. Looking at the house again, it didn’t look like It looks like it can live.

The little boy skillfully opened the courtyard door, entered the courtyard calmly, stood aside again, waited for Jiang Ning and his party to come in one after another, and said, "Of course it's my home."

After he finished speaking, he led them into the room that seemed to be about to collapse. Jiang Ning followed him in calmly. The following followers looked up at the almost crumbling eaves, hesitantly daring to take a step.

The little boy didn't care, and pointed to a large tank of water in the corner of the house, and said to Jiang Ning, "It's all here, you measure it, and I'll sell it to you for how much there is."

Jiang Ning took a look, and there was sunlight leaking in through the gaps in the tiles above his head, falling into the large tank filled with water, and sprinkled small round bright spots. The water is indeed crystal clear and very clean.

At this moment, the little boy suddenly said again: "I won't take your money, I will give you the water for nothing, can you promise me one thing?"