Infinite Doomsday: I rely on space to stock up and bully the scum

Zhao Jiaqi, who was full of energy and playing with his classmates yesterday, was covered in bruises today. He lay weakly on the bed, with tears on his face not yet dried. He was crying and his voice was hoarse.

How cruel.

Jiang Jiang couldn't help but change his opinion of Zhao Daqiang. It is said that even a tiger will not eat its own cubs, but when this man gets cruel, he will even beat his own grandson to death.

Although any discerning person could tell that Zhao Jiaqi's injuries were recent, with this excuse, Jiang Jiang's family would be unable to defend themselves.

Zhao Bin, who was walking at the end, closed the door silently. He said nothing, but stared at Jiang Jiang and the other two fiercely.

The whole room was filled with a strange and silent atmosphere. Apart from Zhao Jiaqi's occasional sobbing, no one spoke.

The first one to break the calm was Zhao Daqiang. He didn't believe that until now, Jiang Jiang and others had not seen the situation clearly.

He has the witnesses, the physical evidence, and the connections with the county government, so he has the advantage.

"Jiang, don't say that I won't give you a chance. We will buy eight acres of good land and eight acres of dry land at normal prices. That's it."

It's really a big mouth.

Jiang Jiang sneered. In ancient times, fertile land has always been in short supply. Not to mention buying land at normal prices, even at a premium it might not work.

Not to mention anything else, even if someone in the village wants to sell land, the villagers will definitely be given priority at the same price.

Not to mention, from the farmers' point of view, selling land is a sign of having no way out. Unless it is absolutely necessary, no family would sell the land passed down from generation to generation.

To put it in simple terms, as long as Jiang Jiang agrees to sell the land today, even if the family has money, in a few years when Li Dongliang proposes marriage, many people in the village will not marry their daughters to Jiang Jiang's family.

Two acres of good land and six acres of poor land are not enough to provide food and drink for such a large family.

Money is useful, but land is the lifeblood of farmers.

"Impossible! We agree to your previous conditions and compensate you with ten taels of silver."

"You also said that, that was the previous condition. Now we only accept the land."

There was another long silence.

Li Xu whispered in Jiang Jiang's ear: "Mom, why don't we just fight them? I'll take care of anything that happens!"

Jiang Jiang ignored her silly son's nonsense and just gave Li Sheng a silent look.

Li Sheng immediately grabbed his eldest brother and said, "You can't speak anymore."

"Two acres of dry land at most, no more."

When Zhao Daqiang heard Jiang Jiang's counter-offer, he was not angry but smiled instead.

He is not afraid of counter-offering, but he is afraid of being rejected outright. Once he has made an offer, he is not afraid of not being able to negotiate it down.

The two sides exchanged silver back and forth.

Finally, Jiang Jiang's family sold five acres of fertile land and five acres of dry land to the Zhao family, receiving half for money and the other half for grain.

Although Zhao Daqiang didn't know why Jiang Jiang wanted to exchange grain for money, he didn't care. His family would contribute part of the needed grain. As a clan elder, it wouldn't be a big problem for him to receive the remaining grain from the village.

The Zhao family did not reveal any information about this matter until the two families went to Li Shuming to transfer the land, and then everyone learned about it.

Everything has been settled. Jiang Jiang has harvested two hundred and twenty taels of silver and an equal amount of grain, which almost plundered all the grain in Zhaojia Village.

The Zhao family harvested five acres of fertile land and five acres of dry land, including the growing rice. Because of this, the Zhao family also compensated Jiang Jiang with an additional 300 kilograms of rice.

"Alas, without these fields, what will your family do in the future?"

Just when they saw their lives getting better and better, they never expected that in the blink of an eye they would lose even their own land.

As the village chief, Li Shuming is really disappointed with his children.

Jiang Jiang tried hard to suppress the curled corners of his mouth, pretending to be sad and said: "If it really doesn't work, let Li Xu and Li Sheng go to seek refuge with their relatives. Even if I have to sacrifice my reputation, I will let anyone in the family starve."

It's a two-way street, so even if Li Shuming wanted to stand up for Jiang Jiang's family, he had no way to do it.

Zhao Daqiang was unhappy when he heard this. He bought the land at a normal price, and he did not follow those rich families who forced people to buy land at a low price and make them slaves.

Li Shuming ignored him completely. Zhao Daqiang was the elder of Zhaojia Village, not from their Daxi Village.

Within a few days, the news that Jiang Jiang's family sold their land spread throughout the village, and those who were originally jealous of them suddenly felt pity for them.

In several nearby villages, many families are related to each other in some way, and many people also know the truth: Jiang Jiang's family was cheated by Zhao Daqiang.

It’s just that the people don’t fight with the officials. They bought the land at a normal price, so they didn’t get criticized and could only suffer in silence.

The happiest person was Liang Xiaohua. When she saw Jiang Jiang fall, she went to the town to buy two taels of meat for the first time. When others asked her about it, she said that there was a happy event in her family recently.

"What a bullshit happy event! I think she is just gloating over other people's misfortune!" Li Chunhua was very angry. As soon as she heard the news, she ran directly to Jiang Jiang's house to inquire about the situation.

"But why did you sell so many fields? Are you still unable to make a living? What are you going to do with the money? It's not as good as the land." Li Chunhua looked worried.

"Don't worry, the land has been sold. I'm thinking that with the money I can buy a shop in town. I can open a shop in town myself or rent it out to collect rent."

"That's true. Didn't you guys do quite well with the sweet water stall you ran before?" Li Chunhua then remembered that Jiang Jiang was a promising man and that she was worrying in vain.

Seeing that Li Chunhua cared about me so much, it would be a lie to say that I was not touched.

Although everyone in the village knew that she had sold the land, they were not aware that she received half silver and half grain. This was a good thing to do as it would avoid any trouble.

It is predictable that there will be many people coming to her house to borrow money in the future. After all, she has several hundred taels of silver.

In order to avoid the limelight, Jiang Jiang took the two brothers Li Dongliang and Li Changyuan to the town every few days.

In the past few days, the brothers Li Dongliang and Li Changyuan have been frowning all day long. They feel that if they had not beaten someone, their family would not have been forced to sell the land.

This huge sense of guilt was enough to overwhelm two immature teenagers.

Even though Jiang Jiang has said it many times, a blessing in disguise, maybe selling the land could be a good thing.

But even Li Laibao, the youngest in the family, knew that land was a valuable thing and could not be sold casually.

Finally Jiang Jiang had to resort to her ultimate move. She said that she was planning to open a shop in the town and needed money. If the shop made money, the whole family would no longer have to work so hard on the farm.

These days, Jiang Jiang took the two brothers wandering around the town all day long, under the pretext of looking for suitable shops.

Children are very temperamental. Without their parents, they complained all day long, but now they have become lively again.

At noon, Jiang Jiang took the two brothers to have lunch at Baixianglou as usual.

Baixianglou is owned by the Zhou family. The owner knows Jiang Jiang and always gives her a discount every time she comes to dine.

Today Jiang Jiang ordered braised pork trotters, scrambled eggs with leeks, and sweet white rice. Several people ate until their bellies were full.

"Mrs. Jiang, how is the food?" Manager Zhou from Baixianglou came to reminisce about the past.

Jiang Jiang gave a thumbs up and said, "It tastes as good as always."

But Shopkeeper Zhou looked worried: "Alas, everyone says the food tastes good, but the business of Baixianglou is getting worse day by day."