Transmigrated To Another World: General, I'm Not Your White Moonlight - Chapter 58

Buying Land (3)
Thinking of this probability, Duan Yixin asked, “Is there a limit to the size of land that can be purchased at one time?”

Cao Jianbo looked at her calm expression for a few seconds and replied, “There is no limit on how much ​​land you can buy at once.”

Duan Yixin tilted her head slightly and asked in confusion, “Since there are no restrictions, then there should be no problem for me to buy twenty acres of land, right?”

When Cao Jianbo heard her question, he couldn’t help but chuckle and said, “Young lady is right. Now that you have decided, I will write the land deed for you.”

Before he could pick up the writing brush, Duan Yixin said, “Da Ren, in addition to this land, I also want to buy the land around my house.”

“Did you bring a map for the location of that land?” Cao Jianbo asked.

Duan Yixin turned to look at Tang Sanniu and said, “Village chief, can you take out the map of the land around my house?”

Tang Sanniu came out from his thoughts, quickly took out the map, and handed it to the local magistrate’s assistant.

Cao Jianbo looked at the map and said, “The price of this land is one tael of silver per acre.”

He raised his head from the map, looked at Duan Yixin, and asked, “How much land do you want to buy in this area?”

Duan Yixin thought for a while and said, “I want to connect my house with the farmland, so I will buy all the land between the two locations.”

Hearing her answer, Cao Jingbo did not even show any reaction and began to draft the land deed. Different from Duan Yixin and Cao Jianbo’s calmness, Tang Sanniu felt dizzy listening to their conversation. He couldn’t help but think that they talked about buying land like they were buying peanuts.

After Cao Jianbo stamped the two new land deeds with his official seal, he handed them to his assistant.

He then turned to look at Duan Yixin and said, “The price of the first land is two taels of silver per acre, so the total is forty taels of silver for twenty acres of land. As for the second land, the price is one tael of silver per acre, so the total is twenty taels of silver for twenty acres of land. After paying the money, you can go back with my assistant to measure the land.”

Duan Yixin nodded and took out her money pouch. After counting the money for a while, she handed the silver ingots to the assistant.

Seeing her take out six silver ingots amounting to sixty taels of silver without hesitation, Tang Sanniu couldn’t help but think that Grandpa Duan indeed left some money to Duan Yixin besides the dilapidated house before he died. Thinking of this, he felt that his second grandson really couldn’t tell the difference between good and bad.

If he had not terminated the marriage engagement, Duan Yixin could have joined his Tang family with a large dowry and supported Tang Zizheng’s education with this money instead of spending it to buy these wastelands. It’s a pity that no matter how much he regrets it, the marriage engagement has been terminated, and Duan Yixin’s life has nothing to do with them anymore.

Not knowing what Tang Sanniu was thinking, Duan Yixin bowed slightly at Cao Jianbo and said, “Thank you, Da Ren, for your help. This commoner girl will take my leave now.”

Seeing her already left with the assistant, Tang Sanniu also bowed to Cao Jianbo and followed them out. Seeing the three people leaving, Cao Jianbo tapped his fingers on the table for a while before saying, “Someone, come.”

A guard came in, clasped his fists, and asked, “What are your orders, Da Ren?”

Cao Jianbo looked at the guard and said, “Investigate the origin of that young lady and what she did after the bandits attacked the villages.”

The guards nodded and said, “This subordinate accepts the order.”

After the guard went out to perform his tasks, Cao Jianbo picked up his writing brush and continued to read the memorial and process the documents.

At the same time, the imperial morning court had just concluded in the imperial capital city. The ministers and military ministers came out of the Junshi Xianhe Hall, where morning court was held every day, and chatted in a low voice.

Only a few ministers remained in the huge and grand Junshi Xianhe Hall. When they saw the imperial censor walk to the side hall with the chief eunuch, they couldn’t help exchanging glances.

In imperial court politics, even a small action can set off a big storm. Not to mention that the emperor personally summoned the imperial censor. A sentence of impeachment from this imperial censor was enough to send nine generations of ministers and military ministers to the execution platform.

This imperial censor was also a first-ranked minister who served under three generations of emperors. His small move would cause a huge storm in the imperial court. While the ministers were still thinking about what would happen in the imperial morning court tomorrow morning, they walked out of the Junshi Xianhe Hall calmly.

Seeing that most of the ministers and generals had left, Xin Yuzheng, the chief minister of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices, and Guan Zhiyao, the chief minister of the Court of State Ceremonial, walked out side by side.

Due to the close connection between their responsibilities and work, the two of them became close friends after taking office.

The two of them walked out of the Junshi Xianhe Hall and then made their way to the Wu Men Gate. Along the way, Xin Yuzheng said, “I don’t know what the Emperor’s purpose is in summoning Ceng Yu Shi Dafu privately.”

Guan Zhiyao knew his friend’s gossipy nature and said in a low voice, “Brother Xin, we are still in the imperial palace. You should be careful with your words. The walls have ears.”