Chapter 11 chapter Ten

Zhou Shuancheng wanted to sell the land, Zhou Kewen couldn't sit still.That is the ancestral land of their old Zhou family, how can they sell it casually? Zhou Kewen knew that he couldn't and couldn't stop the land sale.The land was owned by Zhou Shuancheng, and it was distributed to others when the family was divided, and they had the right to dispose of it.To keep this piece of ancestral land, he has to buy it and put it under his own name.But Zhou Kewen knew it was impossible, not because he couldn't afford it, but because Zhou Shuancheng would never sell it to him!Selling to him is equivalent to Zhou Shuancheng slapping himself in the face.Zhou Shuancheng is a strong person, he held back his strength to compete with his brother, how can he sell his land to his opponent, isn't this a self-inflicted humiliation?Besides, this land is still the ancestral land of their Zhou family. Doesn't this make his brother laugh at him as a prodigal son?

The feud between Zhou Shuancheng and Zhou Kewen was forged when they separated. Earlier, when the two brothers were still living together, Zhou Shuancheng asked openly and secretly to separate the family.At that time, Zhou Shuancheng was married and had no children. Zhou Kewen already had two sons and was going to send them to school.He made a fuss by himself, and even urged his mother-in-law to make a fuss.Zhou Niuwa was so troubled that he had no choice but to agree to separate the family. To divide the family is to divide the family property, and this requires the middleman to speak, and the middleman is usually the uncle.At that time, the pockmarked wife was still alive, and his natal brother came over to be the referee.This uncle doesn't want to divide the property but wants to divide the people first, that is, to determine the ownership of the two old people first.According to the rural practice, when the old people divide the family, they usually belong to the old and the young. This is because the parents generally love the old and the young the most. Bring your own share of property to the young and old.Due to such considerations of interests, generally young and old would welcome their parents to live with them.

But things are different when it comes to Zhou Shuancheng.He kept asking his uncle how much his parents' property could be divided, and his uncle was not happy, saying, are you looking for money or family affection?As far as your family's wealth is concerned, can't you figure it out by dividing it into three shares?Of course Zhou Shuancheng could figure it out. Once he did the calculation, he knew that it was not worth it. Although his parents could still help him with some work, it would soon become him to support them.Although they can bring a piece of property, they will become medicine pots when they are old, and they will spend money every two days. It would be better if they die immediately if they get a sudden illness, but if they get a chronic disease and are paralyzed and bedridden for a long time, not to mention spending money on medical treatment , Even shitting and urinating will exhaust you to death!Don't want these two encumbrances, although he will share less family property, but he will earn no less than this without any worries.Zhou Shuancheng is determined not to have his parents.

This made Zhou Niuwa's old couple very sad, and it also made Zhou Kewen very angry.He taught his younger brother, all goodness and filial piety are the first, why are you such a bastard!Zhou Shuancheng replied, I am a bad guy, but you are a good guy and you should take care of the elderly. certainly!Zhou Kewen said loudly. When the contract of separation came out, Zhou Shuancheng almost died of anger.Although there are three shares of property, the two brothers don't even share one-third of the entire property, leaving most of the rest to their parents.Uncle's explanation is that your family was basically poor before, and then my sister helped you to make a fortune. The family property was created by your parents in their entire life. Of course, they have to take the big money.They almost started from scratch back then, and now you start your own business from scratch.Zhou Shuancheng immediately understood that it was not his parents who took the lead, but his brother who took the lead!I did the calculations myself, but I didn't expect to be counted in someone else's name.

Zhou Shuancheng repented and asked to support his parents.Zhou Niuwa and his wife are also willing. After all, they are still young, and they always feel that they have not fulfilled their obligations to him.The old uncle said that this is a matter between the two of you, as long as your brother agrees. But Zhou Kewen refused immediately, no way!He said that I was not greedy for property, but worried about putting my parents in the hands of an unconscionable person.Then he counted his parents, why are you so clueless?Don't say you are willing, you admit the hardships and sufferings, but I don't want to, you were born and raised me, I have the responsibility to let you enjoy the blessings, you can't do it if you don't enjoy it!Just follow me, not going anywhere.

In this way, Zhou Kewen put most of the property of the Zhou family into his own name, and Zhou Shuancheng hated it when he thought about it.Later, further deduction made Zhou Shuancheng feel that the division of the family was actually a conspiracy, and that his brother colluded with his uncle to plot against him.Why did his uncle violate the rules and divide people regardless of property at the beginning?Generally, the division of the family is to first divide the property into equal shares, and then the brothers choose freely.This was obviously a trick to trick him into being fooled, why didn't he see it at the time?Of course, some people in the village scolded him that he deserved it, that he was too selfish, but who has no selfishness, so his brother has no selfishness?Without selfishness, why didn't he give up his parents anyway? Wasn't it just for the sake of the property?It's just that his selfishness is more magnanimous. His brother is more cunning and hypocritical, and he puts selfishness better than publicity.

It was precisely because his elder brother got a big fortune that he was left so far behind that he couldn't keep up until now.Not only can't catch up, but it's falling further and further away. Because of this, he hated his brother and his uncle, and later broke off with his uncle, and never communicated with him again. After the news of Zhou Shuancheng's land sale came out, Zhou Kewen took a snack to Liujiagou to find the rich man Liu Bentou, and ordered the four acres of ancestral land from him.Liu Bentou was baffled, he said why did you buy your brother's land and ordered it from me?What have I to do with him?It's something out of reach. They didn't entrust me to sell it, and I didn't plan to buy it either.Zhou Kewen explained the twists and turns, saying that he was asking for his help to buy the land and then resell it to him.Liu Bentou said that even if I am willing to help, I may not be able to buy it. The seller is willing to sell the land, and the buyer is willing to buy it. No one can buy and sell by force.

Zhou Kewen said that it was nothing more than a price issue. If the price you offered was what he wanted, he would definitely sell it.Zhou Kewen asked Liu Bentou to estimate the price of the land.Liu Bentou was familiar with the land. They belonged to the neighboring village. It was not a very good land, with a slight slope and could not store water.But he still quoted a high price, thirty silver dollars. Zhou Kewen knew that Liu Bentou was blackmailing him, and the current price of the land was probably more than ten silver dollars at most. Since he wanted something from others, he had to endure it.Zhou Kewen said, how about this, I will order from you for 40 yuan per mu of land, it will be fine.

What if someone offered a higher price?This is not guaranteed.Liu Bentou said. This dog day is making progress.Zhou Kewen cursed Liu Bentou in his heart, but on the surface he still smiled and said that there will be no one like me. What if?Liu Bentou said.It seems that he is bald and is about to pluck his hair. Qian Zhou Kewen definitely won't add any more, but Liu Bentou's words reminded him that sometimes accidents happen in the business of buying and selling. It's hard to buy this land.Zhou Kewen blinked his eyes a few times before he came up with an idea.He said to Liu Bentou, I have a way to prevent others from robbing you, so don't worry.

Liu Bentou was still not reconciled, saying that it was the ancestral land of your Zhou family, and you would regret it if you asked someone else to buy it! Zhou Kewen twirled his beard and said with a smile, put your heart in your eyes. When Zhou Kewen came back from Liujiagou, he turned to Jiangzhang Town. He bought a small earthen jar with a cover at a porcelain shop, tied it with a rope and carried it in his hand, and then went to a butcher shop to buy a pair of pig offal and put it in an earthen jar. inside.When people asked him on the road, he said that he had made soy sauce, which aroused people's envy, saying that the fortune of this rich man was prosperous, and the soy sauce was packed in earthenware cans.At that time, soy sauce was a rare commodity, and ordinary people just dripped it a few times during the festivals.

In the middle of the night that night, Zhou Kewen carried the shovel and the earthen pot, slipped into the ancestral field, took advantage of the darkness to bury the pig in the middle of the field, and placed three walnut-sized ginger stones on top of the soil.After finishing all this work, he woke up the guys early and instructed them to set up a cattle cart to irrigate the ground. The land under Zhou Kewen was all paddy fields. He dug a well and installed an animal-powered waterwheel, which was the first in Zhoujiazhai.The animal-powered waterwheel is powerful, and the water pumped out is very powerful. It pours along the channel. Zhou Kewen is holding a shovel to watch the water in the field. If he is not careful, the water will break through the furrow and flow to the neighbor's field. in.The land was on a slow slope, and the water rushed down, soaking the land quickly.The traces of digging last night were submerged in an instant. As long as the water dries up, no one will see anything unusual here. Zhou Kewen immediately changed the water back, and then cursed himself for being old and useless, and he couldn't even look at the water anymore.The guys changed him back and comforted him that tigers always take naps. The next day, Zhou Kewen saw Zhou Shuan's family man Baisuo set up a car to sell grain in Jiangzhang Town, so he followed him and took the opportunity to drag him to a restaurant, treated him to a meal of steamed mutton, and then whispered to him After talking for a while, Baisuo nodded, put a few silver coins in his arms, and left with a smile. Four days later, it was the day to inspect the land. The people who wanted to buy the land were brought to the land by Zhou Shuancheng, and everyone had to inspect the land on the spot.Land inspection is a necessary procedure for buying land. The seller introduces his own land and makes it as good as possible. The buyer knows that there are many fakes and few real ones, so he must inspect it on the spot, including the topography, land boundary, fatness and thinness of the land, etc. . During the land inspection that day, Zhou Shuancheng took his clerk Baisuo with him, and Baisuo was carrying the shovel.You only need to see the terrain with your eyes, but you have to use a shovel to dig out the boundary stones buried under the soil.As for the fatness and thinness of the survey site, it is even more difficult. You have to select a few points in the ground and shovel them down to see how thick the mellow soil is, and how deep you dig to meet rocks and sand. If the soil layer is too shallow That is the leaky paddy field. Zhou Shuancheng has confidence in his land. Although the land has a slight slope, it is definitely a fertile field. He has to add a thick manure to the field every year. After years of accumulation, the soil is so smelly that even cattle are unwilling to plow the land.When Baisuo was shoveling soil here and there under the direction of the buyer, he stood at the top of the field holding a purple sand teapot and savoring it carefully.Suddenly, the buyers in the middle of the field screamed and ran to the ridge in a hurry. Zhou Shuancheng didn't know what happened, so he asked Baisuo, what's the matter? Baisuo panicked, he called Zhou Shuancheng, shopkeeper, come and see, it's too...too old! Zhou Shuancheng ran up to take a look, slapped Baisuo, and cursed, telling you to talk nonsense!Zhou Shuancheng was very angry. If he said such unlucky words at this critical moment, wouldn't it be his fault?To kill him! Zhou Shuancheng saw a dangerous scene: a pool of fresh flesh was shoveled out, and it seemed to be still wriggling in the sun. There was no corpse, no hair, only this solitary monster.This is indeed the legendary Tai Sui!Tai Sui is an evil spirit, and whoever encounters it will be unlucky. People often say who dares to break ground on Tai Sui's head, which shows that everyone avoids this evil thing. Where is Tai Sui?Zhou Shuancheng suppressed the panic in his heart, and said to everyone, a dead chicken, I let the guy bury it in the ground to fertilize it. No one believed his words, and the buyers left one after another. This is a fierce field, who dares to buy! Zhou Shuancheng grabbed the hesitant Liu Bentou, who said I don't want it, don't hurt me!Zhou Shuancheng begged him to say, you can give me some money, this land is yours. Zhou Shuancheng has no way out now, this land can't be kept, it will be a hindrance to others.Before the news spreads, sell it quickly and get as much as you can get. In the end, Liu Bentou bought the four acres of land at a price of ten yuan per mu, and he made a lot of money by changing hands. Zhou Kewen breathed a sigh of relief after getting the ancestral land. Although he had gone through all the troubles, he had a clear conscience.Knowing that Zu Tian finally fell into Zhou Kewen's hands, Zhou Shuancheng was both angry and happy.Annoyed that his land was transferred to his brother's name, happy that let this fierce land hinder him.