Chapter 67 – Land Deed
Yang Cao’s matter was but a minor interlude. Afterwards, when the foreman arrived with a large group of people, Gu Yu quickly put it out of his mind.
Gu Yu had originally planned to do a few things after breakfast, but who knew that the foreman was a very honest person. He said they would build the house today, and had no intention of being late.
However, Gu Yu did not immediately lead them to the place where the new house was to be built. Instead, he asked them to wait outside for a moment before quickly running to the village chief’s house.
“Village Chief, the craftsmen for building the house have arrived. Is the land deed ready?”
“It’s ready. A person from the Yamen came to measure the land yesterday afternoon. I went with them, and they finished everything before I returned.”
“Then I must thank you very much for your help, Village Chief. Otherwise, I would have been so overwhelmed that I might not have been able to finish it.”
“It’s alright, I’ve already accepted your gift, so I can’t just ignore it.”
Upon arriving at the village chief’s house, Gu Yu directly asked for the land deed.
Before he got his hands on the land deed, Gu Yu did not dare to build the house so carelessly. If nothing else, what if the land purchase matter changes? If they had already started building the house halfway, would they continue afterwards?
So, while speaking with the village chief and seeing the village chief hand over the land deed, Gu Yu glanced at the words on it before acceptably putting it into his embrace.
“Gou Dan, can you read?”
“My maternal uncle taught me for a few days, but I can only recognize a few words roughly.”
“Oh, although you are not young anymore, if you have the opportunity to study, you should still study! As long as you read more, your entire person will also change, and then it will be…”
“Village Chief, the craftsmen are still waiting at my house. I’ll be leaving now!”
“Hey! Wait, I’ll take you there. Although the land has already been measured, you don’t know where the boundary stones are supposed to be placed. If you use too much or too little land, it won’t be good.”
Seeing that the village chief was rambling and about to nag again, Gu Yu directly interrupted his speech.
Then, using the excuse that the craftsmen were waiting, Gu Yu was about to leave the village chief’s house, but who knew that the village chief’s subsequent words made it impossible for Gu Yu to refuse.
Fine, let’s just go.
As the village chief said, the matter of land must be taken seriously! Otherwise, if any disputes arise in the future, it will be troublesome.
“Gou Dan, yesterday quite a few people in our village went up the mountain, shouting that they wanted to make big money! They truly don’t know the immensity of heaven and earth. Is the mountain area a place anyone can go to?”
“Yes! My wife was injured when she went up the mountain a couple of days ago. It really broke my heart.”
“Alas, everyone is just trying to make a living, and no one has it easy.”
“Yes, that’s why I don’t let Mengyao go up the mountain anymore. From now on, I will be the one to make money, so she doesn’t get injured on the mountain again… Even though the money being spent now is what she earned, I can’t bear to let Mengyao take risks anymore.”
Before the village chief could say anything, Gu Yu directly spoke up and blocked the village chief’s subsequent words.
After directly choking back the village chief’s words, Gu Yu still put on a look of pampering his wife, making it impossible for the village chief to say anything.
After Yang Cao’s request at the Gu family’s doorstep failed, he immediately went to the village chief to persuade Gu Mengyao to go up the mountain to search for someone.
After hearing this, the village chief also found himself in a dilemma.
In his opinion, he did not want to get involved in this matter, but since Yang Cao had already come to him for help, he could not refuse.
Speaking of which… It was Yang Cao’s father’s greed for the silver earned from selling wild boars that led to him being unable to come down from the mountain now, so he deserved it.
As a result, Yang Cao was now asking him for help, wanting to persuade Gu Mengyao…
It wasn’t that the village chief didn’t want to help, but who would be willing to do such a thing?
After all, the wild beasts in the mountains were very fierce. Even Gu Mengyao’s father, such a brave man, had died silently on the mountain, and they hadn’t even seen his corpse.
Originally, the village chief wanted to risk his old face and say a few words to beg Gu Mengyao, but now that Gu Yu had spoken, the village chief knew it was hopeless.
Didn’t he hear him doting on his wife and not letting her go up the mountain?
