Then, Chief Lu signed his name on the document and stamped his thumbprint on it, agreeing to sell the two acres of barren land in his house. The heads of the other three families were illiterate and couldn't sign their names, so they all stamped their thumbprints to express their agreement to sell the one acre of barren land to the Xue family.
Chief Lu took the document in his hand, then took out the title deed for the two acres of barren land owned by his family, and the one acre of land owned by the three families, but he was not in a hurry to pass it to Xue Yan and Jiang Yue.
Instead, he took out ten pieces of silver from Xue Yan's pocket and gave four pieces to Chief Lu, while the other three families each received two pieces. Only then did Chief Lu pass the document and the title deed to Xue Yan.
Xue Yan passed it to Jiang Yue.
