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"": ""Knock, knock, knock."
Someone knocked on the door.
Su Jian set down the half-finished winnowing basket he was weaving, walked to the courtyard gate, and opened it.
"Jin Jie?" Su Jian looked utterly astonished.
This was a rare sight indeed.
The Jin Family usually avoided him like the plague, yet here was one of them on his doorstep.
"Uncle Su, bring Su Su over to our place. Let's talk about signing those papers." In the sunlight, Jin Jie's smile looked warm, even radiant.
"Signing? Your parents agreed?"
For a moment, Su Jian's heart skipped a beat.
The courtyard they were living in actually belonged to Su Su's paternal grandmother's family.
Su Su's mother had passed away years ago.
Recently, both elderly grandparents had died as well.
Misfortunes never came alone. The old man's house had collapsed too.
Su Su had happened to leave her old company and bring home all the money she had saved over the years. Combined with his own savings, it had been enough for Su Jian to decide to build a new house.
Building a rural home now required signatures from the neighbors.
The Jin Family refused, claiming that Su Jian's house would block their sunlight and ruin their feng shui.
With no other options, Su Jian had agreed to build it no higher than the original house, but the Jin Family still refused. They said he would have to give up half his land. How could Su Jian possibly agree to that? Both sides had remained at an impasse.
He had tried thinking of ways around it, such as digging out the foundations and secretly flooding them, but people watched him too closely. Wherever there was a reservoir nearby, they gave him no opportunity. Even the weather refused to cooperate;