Chapter 61: Measuring The Land
After bandits destroyed the farmland and robbed the villages, the old women in the village were left with nothing to do but gossiping other people while the men in their families went to Chunshan Town to find temporary jobs.
Driven by curiosity, an old woman stood up, patted the dust off her clothes, and said, "I’m going to see whose guest the owner of that horse carriage is."
After saying that, she walked away quickly. Behind her, several other old village women looked at each other for a moment, then stood up and followed her.
At the same time, in front of Duan Yixin’s house, the coachman jumped down from the driver’s seat, set up the small stepping stools next to the carriage, and then helped Cao Jianbo’s assistant get off the carriage. When the assistant saw the dilapidated thatched house in front of him, the corner of his mouth twitched uncontrollably.
He stared at the dilapidated courtyard and thought, ’This young lady is really interesting. She can buy land for sixty taels of silver, but the house she lives in looks like it can be blown away with a gust of wind. How stingy is she in her daily life? Her future husband will be miserable.’
As the assistant was thinking about it, a handsome man suddenly sneezed three times in a row inside a tent in the far northern border area.
"Achoo~! Achoo~! Achoo~!"
When his personal assistant saw this, he was surprised and asked worriedly, "Wangye, are you alright? Do you have a cold?"
The man touched his itchy nose and replied calmly, "I’m fine."