Clerk Shi glanced at Gu Jinli and said, "These two mountain tops are quite large, totaling about 250 acres. We're charging your family one silver tael per acre, so the two mountain tops come to 250 silver taels."
The two mountain tops produce pine oil, and they are connected to the manor. If they were sold normally, they could at least fetch four silver taels per acre. But County Magistrate Xu is selling them to the Gu Family as if they were wasteland—it's practically a giveaway.
Gu Jinli listened and was overjoyed: "Thank you so much, uncle!"
Clerk Shi waved his hand: "Don't thank me just yet. These two mountain tops are being sold together with the manor. If you want to buy the mountain tops, you have to buy the manor too, and the manor isn't as cheap. Inside the manor, there are 80 acres of paddy fields, 40 acres of dry land, 20 acres of wasteland, plus several houses that the servants of the Zou family used to live in. To buy all that, you need..."
