I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 323 Buying Property in the State Capital

Wang was beaten dumbfounded by him. No matter how she acted in the past, Bai Jun would always save her face in front of the younger generations and relatives. He would beat and scold her in private. But this time, he beat her directly in front of a group of younger generations. It was clearly the limit of his patience.

Not to mention that he also said that if Wang acted like a troublemaker again, he would immediately send this greedy woman back to her parents' home.

Bai Jun's eyes and expression were so scary that Wang, who was stared at by him, didn't dare to say anything. She didn't even dare to argue with Bai Jun about the slap he had just given her.

Seeing this, Bai Chong felt embarrassed to continue staying at Bai Jun's house. He stood up and said, "Brother, it's good that you, Jingtai and Jingming can understand us. I have other things to do, so I'll go home first."

He said that Wang really had no memory. It was obvious that his elder brother would no longer tolerate her, but she still couldn't change her greedy and unreasonable nature. Wasn't she just asking for trouble?

After thinking about it, Bai Chong repeated what Ning Cuizhi asked him to convey to Bai Jun and his son in front of Bai Jingyan's brother Bai Jingkang.

Bai Jingkang was completely confused. He had no idea why his third uncle suddenly came to tell him this. He was only happy that his third uncle's family bought a house for his sister, and he didn't feel jealous at all.

He didn't understand, but his mother and wife understood it very well. After Bai Chong left, Qi pouted and told her son about what Wang had done.

Bai Jingkang felt both amused and helpless when he heard this. His aunt-in-law, that was his third uncle's money, how could she be dissatisfied with how they spent it?

"This person is really..." If she wasn't an elder, Bai Jingkang would have wanted to scold her.

Thanks to Ning Cuizhi, Gu Wenxuan had heard the aunts and sisters-in-law of the Bai family gossip about the subsequent twists and turns of this matter. Those women also praised Ning Cuizhi and Qi for their good tempers, saying that Wang was lucky to have sisters-in-law like them.

Gu Wenxuan told Bai Jingzhou these gossips with a smile, and then gossiped with Bai Jingzhou about why Mu Jingzhi had not yet announced the engagement.

The Mu family is now a popular new noble family in the court, so it should not be difficult to arrange his marriage.

This is indeed the case, but Mu Hanzhi does not look down upon those families who propose marriage for the sake of the interests represented by his status.

In his generation, of the three children in his family, he and his sister had all been married a long time ago, and his wife was introduced to him by the empress dowager.

However, before the unification of the world, his family had been hiding in a safe place, living next to his sister's family, so no one in Xingzhou knew that he actually had a wife and children.

When he openly appeared in the court, his wife and children were naturally brought to his side.

As for Mu Jingzhi, he is neither as smart nor as experienced as Mu Hanzhi. Mu Hanzhi would not dare to propose marriage to Mu Jingzhi based on interests.

After all, although he didn't ask Mu Jingzhi to help him, he also didn't want his younger brother to be a drag on him.

Therefore, he decided to let Mu Jingzhi study hard for a few years, work hard to pass the imperial examination and raise his own status.

As for Mu Jingzhi's marriage, Mu Hanzhi asked his sister to help find a suitable candidate in private.

The two chatted about a lot of things, and then went back to the house to wash up before it got dark. Tomorrow, Bai Jingzhou and the other three would return to the state capital, so they had to get up early.

Nothing happened that night. Early the next morning, she had breakfast with Bai Jingzhou and the others at a steamed bun shop on the street. Then, she sent them out of the city. Gu Wenxuan then took a carriage back to Baijia Village.

The people in the village were still as busy as usual. After Gu Wenxuan returned, she also started working with everyone else.

After the winter storage work after the autumn harvest was completed, Gu Wenxuan took Jia Yuelan and Bai Jingxin to the provincial capital for a short stay.

In fact, her original plan was to take everyone from the Bai family and the Gu family with her, but the elders of the two families were reluctant to leave behind a lot of family affairs, and they also didn't want their children to miss school, so in the end only Gu Wenxuan and the other two went to the state capital together.

After Gu Wenxuan moved to the provincial capital, in addition to sending delicious food to Bai Jingzhou and his friends every now and then, she also made appointments with two brokers introduced by Bai Jingzhou and asked them to help recommend houses, shops, farms, etc. inside and outside the provincial capital.

She didn't think about the best or second-rate ones, as it was not her turn to buy them.

What she wanted to buy was the top-notch third-rate or fourth-rate ones, or the ones that had some shortcomings but were within her acceptable range.

For example, the premium is quite serious, or the location of the shop is not the best.

For example, there are two-story houses located in areas where scholars live near provincial schools, academies, and private schools, and there are three-story houses that are relatively good in all aspects and were sold by local gentry for various reasons.

For example, some of the things that the powerful and wealthy businessmen look down upon are still quite good for a small family like theirs, or some farmlands, wastelands, and barren mountains that she can use for other purposes.

Bai Jingzhou had investigated the two brokers in advance. They had good personal reputation and resources at hand. With their help in the initial screening, Gu Wenxuan's property acquisition could be said to be very smooth.

It took her less than a month to exchange most of the silver she brought to the provincial capital for purchasing property for a thick stack of red deeds.

They stayed in the state capital until the beginning of the twelfth lunar month when the academy was closed for the holidays, and then Gu Wenxuan, Bai Jingzhou and others returned to Baijia Village together.

What follows is the customary gift-giving and gift-receiving process before the New Year. Those who live far away will give the gifts in advance or ask someone to deliver them, while those who live nearby will wait until after the 15th day of the twelfth lunar month to give the gifts, or deliver them in person if possible.

It is worth mentioning that when they sent New Year gifts to the Peng family, County Magistrate Peng revealed to them his position change.

Because of his outstanding political achievements, County Magistrate Peng was promoted to the position of Xingzhou Tongpan. After handing over official duties to the new county magistrate after the New Year, he would bring his family to the provincial capital to take up his post.

Although the position of Tongpan in this dynasty was only of the sixth rank, its powers were very great. Not only did he manage state affairs together with the prefect, he was in charge of military and civilian affairs, money, household registration, taxes, labor service, and trial of lawsuits, but also the prefect and the Tongpan had to sign all official documents of the state before they could take effect.

When there is a war, the Tongpan is also responsible for raising money and grain, and collecting the administrative money and the general money.

In addition, the Tongpan also had the power to supervise and recommend officials of the state to the court. If the prefect committed any illegal acts, the Tongpan could also directly report the prefect's illegal acts to the court.

County Magistrate Peng was extremely happy to be able to move up a step from the position of county magistrate he had held for so many years.

At the same time, he was also very grateful to Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan. After all, his "outstanding political achievements" were partly due to the efforts of these two people.

So even though he would be promoted and leave soon, he still smiled and reminded Bai Jingzhou and the others, "In the future, our two families should visit each other more often."