Chapter 109 Sweet Fruit

Housekeeper Tang sat opposite the village chief, and his wife served them some coarse tea, saying:

"Housekeeper Tang, we don't have fine tea in the countryside, all our tea is homemade, picked from the mountains. I hope you won't mind."

"That's fine, don't worry about it, sister-in-law," Housekeeper Tang said to the village chief's wife before addressing the village chief's earlier remark.

"Village chief, we came to you seeking help to negotiate the purchase of those cultivated dry lands at the entrance of the village."

The village chief had also watched the delivery of timber at Hongji's gate earlier, and had guessed that Housekeeper Tang was intending to build houses.

"Those lands were cleared by everyone. In Nanyue Country, law encourages clearing new lands. Farmers who clear lands can pay a small fee to the court, and the lands will then belong to them.