Transmigrating into a Turbulent Era as a Soldier, Starting with Marrying a Wife

But the truly explosive news came on the third day.

That guy Li Yuan actually dug out two even larger earthenware jars from the wasteland.

This time, he found more than fifteen strings of copper coins.

Fifteen strings! That's a fortune in Dongxiang Village.

At this point, the clerk Gou really couldn't sit still anymore.

Of course, he didn't believe the ridiculous idea that the wasteland was some kind of immortal's money-raising ground.

But he was certain that buried beneath that wasteland was a hoard of copper coins belonging to some wealthy man from a previous dynasty.

And judging from the fact that Li Yuan could find earthenware jars full of money with a casual dig,

the amount of copper coins buried beneath that wasteland should be considerable.

These past two days, watching Li Yuan dig up money was even more painful for Clerk Gou than losing money himself.

He secretly regretted not having transferred that piece of land to his name earlier.

If he had, all that money would have been his, Gou's.

Now, everyone in the village knew that the land belonged to Li Yuan.

His eyes darted around as he thought about how to turn that wasteland into his own.

Clerk Gou felt a bit troubled in his heart.

He regretted giving Li Yuan that land deed.

If Li Yuan didn't have the deed,

Clerk Gou could simply change it in the field register and file it with the military fort's household registry.

That would have made the wasteland his, but now it was much more troublesome.

Unwilling to give up, Clerk Gou paced around the room for a few circles, his eyes darting again, and he hardened his heart.

He took out the field register that hadn't been sent out yet and selected a few pieces of riverside land he wanted to keep.

Then, he wrote a new land deed for Li Yuan.

In this new deed, Clerk Gou replaced Li Yuan's wasteland with several fertile pieces of riverside land.

Afterward, Clerk Gou changed the name of the cultivator of that wasteland in the field register to his own.

He carefully checked it to make sure there were no flaws and immediately sent his men to the military fort to file the field register.

Once this field register was entered into the military fort's household registry, no one could change it.

Now, according to the documents of the military fort, this wasteland belonged to him, Gou.

However, there was still one troublesome matter.

Clerk Gou had to exchange the deed in Li Yuan's hand for his new one.

Otherwise, if Li Yuan took the deed to the military fort to appeal, it would be very troublesome for him as well.

But he was confident that he could use this new deed to exchange for the old one in Li Yuan's hand.

He was exchanging seven acres of wasteland for seven acres of good riverside land.

If Li Yuan knew what was good for him, he'd better take what he could get.

Having done all this, Clerk Gou took the new land deed to look for Li Yuan.

At this time, Li Yuan was still digging around in the wasteland.

But his luck today was clearly not very good; he hadn't dug up anything from morning till now.

The onlookers in the distance saw Clerk Gou walking over.

He walked up to Li Yuan, took out a piece of paper, and began arguing with him.

The idle onlookers looked at each other, and one of them asked,

"What is Clerk Gou doing here?"

"What else could he be doing? He's here to snatch the land, of course."

"He must have seen Li Yuan digging up copper coins in this wasteland every day and couldn't restrain himself anymore."

"When has this Clerk Gou ever had any shame? Relying on his military fort commander relative, who hasn't he bullied in this village?"

At this time, a long-faced soldier's household member narrowed his eyes and said,

"Do you think Li Yuan will obediently give up the land?"

Several soldier's household members exchanged glances.

A tall soldier's household member said,

"Who would obediently give it up? Who knows how many copper coins are still under that wasteland?"

"I think Li Yuan was a strongman during the selection of soldiers; he shouldn't give in so easily."

The villagers who were watching originally thought that Li Yuan would not easily give in.

Clerk Gou was clearly robbing him, and they thought Li Yuan would definitely fight to protect this treasure land.

But unexpectedly, Li Yuan only argued with Clerk Gou for a few words, then took the new land deed and obediently left.

This disappointed those idle onlookers who wanted to see a good show.

Watching Li Yuan leave,

Clerk Gou was now extremely proud of himself.

Luckily, he had delayed sending the field register by a few days.

This gave him the opportunity to temporarily change the field register and seize this treasure land.

Li Yuan had just argued that the money jars buried under the wasteland had already been dug up, but he didn't believe such a lie.

He believed that what Li Yuan had dug up was only a drop in the bucket.

The reason why Clerk Gou wanted to exchange Li Yuan's seven acres of wasteland for good land wasn't because he was kind.

His purpose was to shut Li Yuan's mouth and prevent him from appealing.

Because appealing would not benefit Li Yuan; if he appealed, the copper coins he had dug up in the past few days would also be forcibly taken back by the military fort.

After all, nominally, the land belonged to the military fort, and the copper coins dug up also belonged to the military fort.

Now, the clerk had exchanged the wasteland for good land, and Li Yuan had dug for three days and obtained dozens of strings of coins.

He had already gotten enough benefits, and appealing would only lead to mutual destruction with the clerk, which would not be worth it.

In fact, at this time, Li Yuan seemed outwardly dissatisfied that Clerk Gou had taken away the wasteland.

But in reality, he was secretly overjoyed.

He knew very well what else was under that land.

Li Yuan had already dug up all the money jars he could dig up, guided by the light beam.

Today, he was digging there just to put on a show.

These past few days, Li Yuan had observed that Clerk Gou was very concerned about this land.

With the clerk's greedy nature, he would definitely not be able to sit still if he kept digging up earthenware jars of copper coins from the wasteland.

He would definitely try to find a way to take the land back.

He had the land deed in his hand, which stated the number of acres, so the clerk couldn't just snatch it.

He could only replace it with the same number of acres.

And in order not to anger him, he might even use good land to exchange for it.

As Li Yuan expected, this Clerk Gou directly used seven acres of good riverside land to exchange for these seven acres of wasteland.

Li Yuan, of course, would not refuse such a good thing.

He could only pretend to be aggrieved and reluctantly accept the new land deed.

The matter of Clerk Gou robbing Li Yuan of his treasure land quickly spread throughout the village.

This caused the villagers to talk about it.

Many people pointed fingers at the clerk behind his back.

Many people said that the clerk was acting domineering and unreasonable.

But at this time, Clerk Gou was blinded by money and couldn't care less about his reputation in the village.

He took a few of his men and used ropes to fence off the wasteland, and also erected a wooden sign.

On it was written, "Outsiders are not allowed to enter and dig."

Then, this Clerk Gou took a shovel and a few of his men and began digging frantically in the wasteland.

The villagers who had nothing to do were watching on the edge of the wasteland.

They wanted to see if Clerk Gou was like Li Yuan.

If he could dig up a money jar with a casual dig.

The result was that he dug for a whole day, from morning to sunset.

Clerk Gou had his men dig countless pits in the wasteland, but they didn't see a single earthenware jar of money.

At this time, Clerk Gou was trembling with exhaustion.

He was cursing incessantly in his heart.

Could it really be as that kid Li Yuan said?

Had he already dug up everything under this wasteland?

Clerk Gou was feeling anxious.

Suddenly, a "bang" sound came from the wasteland.

The clerk quickly turned his head to look.

It was his man's shovel that seemed to have dug up something.

The sound sounded like an earthenware jar.

The clerk quickly led his men to dig open the pit, and sure enough, they saw a half-buried earthenware jar below.

Moreover, this earthenware jar looked bigger than the few earthenware jars Li Yuan had dug up a few days ago.

According to the volume of this earthenware jar, it could possibly hold hundreds of strings of copper coins.

Clerk Gou was overjoyed; he was going to get rich this time.

And it was going to be a big fortune.

He quickly shouted for his men to work together to dig the entire earthenware jar out.

Then, he couldn't wait to open it.