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Chapter 34 The Deed of Sale

Dahua stayed for a while and whispered: "Sir, I have written a letter to the second, third, fourth, and fifth ladies. Can I ask someone to pass it on to them?"

Zhang Sheng scratched his head and thought to himself that the second wife is Peony, and who is the third wife, the fourth wife, the fifth wife? It should be Shanshan Tongtong Orba? I don’t know how to arrange the order?

He smiled and said, "Of course, this is OK."

"I'll ask Xiaohua to come in and bow to the husband together. If there were no husband, Xiaohua and I wouldn't know what to do now." Dahua said, tears in her eyes.

Zhang Sheng was most reluctant to see this. It was an equivalent exchange, and they didn't owe it to themselves at all. He smiled and said, "Let's have a meal together another day. Don't you say Hu Dazhuang is still waiting to see me? It's a bit late now, please ask him to come in."

"Yes, yes, I'm sorry sir." Dahua hurriedly wiped the corners of her eyes and walked out.

When she walked to the door, Zhang Sheng suddenly smiled and asked, "Who is the third lady? How did you arrange it?"

Dahua was stunned, her little face was a little panicked, and she stuttered: "We, we called in private for the convenience of calling, no, no, no order." How dare they interfere with the matter that the owner didn't say? They were just excited just now and accidentally let it go.

Zhang Sheng smiled and waved his hand to signal that she could leave.

Hu Dazhuang came in and there was another situation. When he received the Chinese cigarette thrown by Zhang Sheng, Hu Dazhuang nodded and bowed: "Mr. Xie, Mr. Xie."

Zhang Sheng asked, "The land rent is almost the same, right?" In these farmlands in Dongshan, Zhang Sheng's new regulations are to collect land rent before New Year's Day every year, with low grain for money, and it is collected at a 30% discount on the land rent of Hu Dongsheng era. As for their grain, the Zhang family will load and sell it together, and the travel expenses will be paid by the Zhang family. The price of grain sold in this way is much higher than that of farmers in Hu Dongsheng era. The farm always has the right to speak more than idle.

Hu Dazhuang laughed and said, "It's almost done. You can read it. This is the account book." As he said, Hu Dazhuang delivered a thick detailed account to his desk.

Zhang Sheng nodded: "I'll turn around and ask someone to check it out." This is Gu Yanni's job again, so Zhang Sheng naturally doesn't have the patience.

Hu Dazhuang smiled again and said: "According to what you said about rent reduction and interest reduction, fourteen families gave them grace, but there were two families who couldn't get the money out and the interest could not be paid. Moreover, I think they could not collect the money for ten or eight years, so they asked their wife and daughter to sign a contract for sale, and there was..." Picking up another account book and looking at it, "There are 23-year-old women, 18-year-old women, 9-year-old girls, and 28-year-old girls."

Zhang Sheng was stunned and said, "What's the contract for selling your body? Besides, there are such poor families in the suburbs of the county? There is no rent for a year? Didn't there be any disaster in the area last year?

Hu Dazhuang smiled apologized and said, "It was when Hu Dongsheng was there, and the profits were high. Some people owed a lot of money. I think my ancestors can't pay it back for generations. You said you must clean up this time. I think you can only do this."

Zhang Sheng couldn't help but frown. The usury loans of the Hu Dongsheng era were transferred to his name. What he told Hu Dazhuang was to collect some meaning and make it clear if the accounts could be cleared. The original intention was to think that it was not that true. Who knew that Hu Dazhuang would have misunderstood, and he forced the population to be bought directly.

"Don't do this like this. You should not be responsible for collecting the debts Hu Dongsheng had when he was owed. I'll ask someone to sort out and take a look. As for the contracts for sale, isn't this a transaction for the people?" Zhang Sheng frowned and said, "What era do you think is it now?" Although Guobang does not have a code, it will quote the civil and criminal laws of the mainland most of the time, and the transaction for the people seems to be not legal.

Hu Dazhuang was so scared that he was shocked and quickly explained: "This is not considered trafficking in people, right? We all do this in the countryside? Child brides and other ordinary things are different from ours?..."

Zhang Sheng shook his head. In fact, there are still child brides and buying and selling women in some poor areas in the mainland. Not to mention the minority ethnic minorities in southern Xinjiang. The old customs and bad habits are indeed not easy to eradicate.

"I have brought everyone, I have brought them all." Hu Dazhuang said carefully.

Zhang Sheng frowned: "Everyone sent back to sell the body contract and burned it."

"Yes, yes..." Hu Dazhuang agreed repeatedly, his face turned pale due to fright.

Zhang Sheng looked at his watch and said, "Okay, go back, I have to rest early."

Hu Dazhuang wiped his forehead and said that he would have to think more about what he wanted to do in the future. It was really hard to guess what County Magistrate Zhang thought.

In the next few days, Zhang Sheng stayed in Dongshan for several days to cook. New Year's Day passed and it was the New Year. Zhang Sheng, as the governor of the county and the gentry, visited the orphans, widows, and poor families, and distributed rice, flour, fish and meat. He was busy for half a month.

When Zhang Sheng heard Principal Wang say that the people of Dongshan now have polarized their evaluations of themselves. Some people think that they are the great charity who worship them, and some people who hate and are afraid of calling themselves "Zhang Paiwei".

The former is mainly the villagers below, especially those who are gradually getting rid of poverty by planting medicinal materials, and they feel that they are a great charity.

The people who called themselves "Zhang Paiwei" mainly came from the county town and the suburbs. After forcibly auctioning Jin Shengchang's shopping mall, it was already rumored in the county town that he was plucking his hair was even darker than Hu Dongsheng. Hu Dazhuang urged the tenant farmers to owe money and forced the tenant farmers to sell their wives and daughters, which even contributed to the fire.

However, Zhang Sheng didn't care how others evaluated it. His right and wrong, merits and demerits in Dongshan were commented on by future generations.

In the evening, when I returned to the mansion from the special training base in the suburbs of the county, Hu Ma was waiting and sent Zhang Sheng a white towel for Zhang Sheng to scrub. Hu Ma Ma said that a man who called himself Jinyanguo came to visit him just now, and now I don’t know where he went.

Hu Ma is the housekeeper of the mansion now. He is a native of Dongshan. He has been a mother in the Hu family and is also the nurse of Hu Dongsheng's eldest son. When Dahua and Xiaohua were the housekeeper, she worked as a maid here and worked hard to do her best. After Dahua and Xiaohua went to the county's No. 2 Junior High School as a teacher, Zhang Sheng asked Hu Ma to temporarily manage the affairs of the mansion, but Hu Ma was good in other words, but there was only one thing that was that she was more mean to her servants and beat and scolded other maids.

Zhang Sheng has no time to deal with this matter in the past two days, and he also thinks that if he has time, Yu Qian finds a distant relative to take care of the affairs in the house, knows the truth, and does not have such a dispute over interests that is not powerful locally.

I heard that Jin Yanguo came to Dongshan and came to visit him in the mansion, so Zhang Sheng knew that he must have something private, and he didn't even call one. Are you afraid of being tracked?
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