Chapter 199: Sincerity of Chopped Hand 3
The two of them were taken aback for a second. After they returned to their home, they looked after Zhang Tieyuan. When Zhang Tieyuan woke up, he explained the situation to his son, daughter, and daughter-in-law. The three of them rushed over again to apologize to Qi Qingyao. They knelt on the ground and talked over each other in circles.
Qi Qingyao waved her hand.
“Okay, okay. No need to apologize. Now that you’re tenants, have a representative from your family come back to sign an agreement with me.”
Zhang Tiezhu said he would do it.
Qi Qingyao did not mind; they were just tenants and it did not matter who gave their signature.
After signing the agreement, Zhang Tiezhu and his wife Zhang Caixia went home first.
Jiang Yeqian looked at her in bewilderment after these uninvited guests left, “Why would you agree to the offer of a gambler?”
Qi Qingyao thought of how Zhang Tieyuan had been before. “I think he probably hasn’t gambled or drunk alcohol since then. That is to say, I think he quit.”
Quit? “What if he gambles again?”
Qi Qingyao thought for a while and said, “Then I rather look forward to the next time he’ll gamble his life with me.”
Jiang Yeqian, “…”
…
The news of Old Man Zhang’s family signing a contract with Qi Qingyao and becoming her tenants soon spread throughout Linquan Village.
“I heard that Old Man Zhang’s family got their house back.”
“What? They got it back?”
“How is that possible? The Eleventh Daughter won the gamble, how can they still get the house back?”
“Don’t listen to their nonsense. Who said they’re getting back the house? I heard that the land and farm still belong to the Eleventh Daughter and that Old Man Zhang’s family are now her tenants! Other than having enough for themselves, the rest belongs to the landlady’s family.”
“What did Old Man Zhang’s family do to show their sincerity? Surely they didn’t just open their mouths and say they want their land back?”
If that was the case, the Eleventh Daughter must be very easy to convince.
“About that…do you know what I heard?”
Someone said mysteriously.
“What?”
“I heard that Old Man Zhang chopped off his hand! To express his sincerity.”
“Chopped off his hand???”
Everyone who heard this quickly turned green.
This Old Man Zhang, was he so bold?
That was impossible, right?
Was Old Man Zhang not just a greedy and lazy drunkard and gambler?
“It seems that he chopped off his left hand.”
“I heard that he chopped off both his hands.”
“What nonsense are you saying? How can he work the fields if he chopped off both his hands?”
“…”
That was a fair point.
He must have chopped off his left hand. Even so, Old Man Zhang sure was bold.
Could he have changed?
There was a lot of discussion about this in the village.
On the other hand, the relatives of Old Man Zhang’s family were all overjoyed to learn that Old Man Zhang’s family had become the Eleventh Daughter’s tenants. They wished they could personally come over to congratulate them but there was no rush, as Chinese New Year was in a few days. When the time came, they would prepare some generous gifts to properly congratulate Old Man Zhang’s family.
In their eyes, the Eleventh Daughter was simply a person of wealth and power in this village!
Even if they were not the kind to settle scores, they knew that it was not easy to build that building with so much wood and by hiring so many masters. Besides, the Eleventh Daughter was rich enough to stay in an inn in town for a month!
Old Man Zhang’s family was now the Eleventh Daughter’s tenant. Farming the land for the Eleventh Daughter was tantamount to being affiliated with a rich person.
From now on, if anyone bullied Old Man Zhang’s family, would that not be tantamount to bullying the Eleventh Daughter?
As the saying went, find out who the master was before beating the dog!
Old Man Zhang’s family was so fortunate…
…
After settling the agreement with Old Man Zhang’s family, Qi Qingyao, who had stayed in the new house for two days, said to the children, “Let’s go. I can’t stand it anymore, let’s go back to the inn!”
The children, “???”
‘But, this is a new house, are we not going to stay here?’
The children looked at their mother in confusion.
Qi Qingyao said apologetically, “It’s not that I don’t want to stay, but the village is inconvenient! I have to cook for you every day! And it’s freezing in the winter.”
Xiaobao pouted and grumbled, “But this is our home…”
At his young age, he did not understand why his mother did not want to stay in their home but rather wanted to live in the inn instead…
Qi Qingyao comforted him, “This is just a house in the village, we’ll have a house in Qingzhou City in the future.”
The children were clearly attached to their new home.
Qi Qingyao gave a light cough. She did not want to tell the kids that their mother did not like to cook, so she said earnestly, “It’s nice to stay in the inn. The ‘sky’ room upstairs is simply a luxury suite. You can eat whatever you want as long as there are chefs and ready-to-use ingredients in the kitchen…”
Xiaobao cocked his head, “??”
Everyone said their home was nice, but his mother said the inn was nice…