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Chapter 144 You Solve It!

"Someone must have taken silver under the table to have sold the land in advance! Before, a mu of wasteland was a taels of silver, buy one get one free. Now, it's two taels per mu, and this piece of wasteland is several thousand mu. That's thousands of taels securely pocketed!"

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The commoners' speculations grew more and more outrageous.

The Ruo brothers arrived at the Governor's Office only to hear these disgruntled voices.

They knew then that they could no longer purchase the land, so after listening for a while, they hurried back home.

Ruo Shui relayed the incident at home.

Granny Lei frowned, "Won't this implicate Zhang County Magistrate? After all, we know him, and he gave us a discount when we bought the wasteland. If people with ulterior motives find out, they might dig this up and use it against him."

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