Lord of the House

Entering Moling Lake and disembarking, you can enter the city through Dongping Gate of Dongcheng Gate, and also enter the city through the Water Gate of Wumiao Lake of Moling Lake. There is a waterway connected to Longzangpu in the city.

Lin Fu and the others entered the city through the Water Gate of the Wu Temple, and the boat sailed into Longzangpu.

Both Zhao Hu and Liu Yueer came to Jiangning City for the first time, and some were dumbfounded by the prosperity of Jiangning in front of them.

"My dear, I thought Shanglinli was the most prosperous place in the world, but I don't know how much Shanglinli is in Jiangning City?" Compared to before leaving the inn, Liu Yue'er seemed to let go of one thing on her mind. People are also more lively, and they are surprised and surprised when they open their eyes to see the prosperity and confusion in front of them.

Zhou Pu, Zhao Hu, and Chen Enze sat on the bow of the boat at will, with their feet hanging down. Xiaoman was afraid of falling into the water. He was far away from the side of the boat. Lin Bing stood with his hands behind his back, watching this city that even Yanjing was not as prosperous as possible. , there is an illusion of being involved in history and elusive.

The Longzangpu where the boats go is also the famous Qinhuai River after a thousand years. Even if the Longzangpu has not changed its name to the Qinhuai River at this time, it still has 80 to 90% of the scenery of the Qinhuai in later generations. The houses are row upon row, and the arcades on the shore are biting one by one, and there is no end in sight. The Linshui Stone Street is crowded with people, dressed in red and green, which contrasts with the crimson doors and courtyards of the white water and gray walls. On the water surface of Longzangpu, the boats are arranged vertically and horizontally, there are Wupeng light boats, there are painting boats with buildings like buildings, there are sharp-pointed merchant ships whose sides are as high as the water surface, there are ships that carry grain, and there are paint and transport ships. There are boats carrying tung oil and silk cloth, as well as passenger boats that only carry into the city, and there are also cruise boats that simply visit Longzangpu, crowding the water surface more than 20 feet wide.

Lin Fu and the others set off from Kuah in the early morning and crossed Chaotiandang. It was already afternoon when they entered the city. Some prostitutes in Jiangning City also began to come out to have fun. Amidst the hustle and bustle of the city.

Lin Fu and the others got off the boat at the pier in front of the Tianhan Bridge and put their luggage and packages into the carriage. Liu Yueer also got in. Zhao Hu sat in the front of the car and Lin Fu also sat in the front of the car. Xiaoman lifted the curtain of the car. He got up and showed Zhao Hu the way. Zhou Pu and Chen Size rode on horses and followed behind the carriage.

Liu Yueer was still thinking about where she would stay with Lin Fu and the others on their first day in Jiangning, when she felt the carriage stop. She was surprised to see what was going on, and saw a young woman jumping on the When the carriage came, I heard Xiaoman greet the woman: "Sister Feng, why are you here?"

"Miss guesses that you should go to the city, let me wait for you on the street first, but she wants to come, but it's inconvenient..."

When Liu Yue'er saw that this woman was beautiful and dressed as a servant, she just thought she was going to get into the carriage, and smiled at her from her side. The woman glanced at her, didn't say anything, just sat down at the door of the car, but Liu Yue'er inadvertently saw a dark red mark on the base of her neck as white as snow jade from her collar, which seemed to be a Scar. She only thought she was blind, this woman looked upright and beautiful, how could there be a scar on her neck? Wouldn't it be abused by the husband's family? She didn't know that the woman sitting at the door of the carriage was Feng Peipei, the fourth lady of the famous female horse thief in Huai Shang.

When Su Mei returned to Jiangning, she hoped that Lin Fu would come over and be dependable. She asked Feng Peipei to choose a house for Lin Fu and the others.

The house is just behind Dustpan Alley, and there is a family in the middle of Su Mei's apartment house, Baiyuan, at the head of Dustpan Alley. The original owner of the mansion had run down his business in Jiangning, and he escorted the mansion in the city to a pawnshop and hid in the countryside.

Afraid of leaving behind nothing, Su Mei did not rush to take down the house, but asked Feng Peipei to lead them to the pawnshop to buy the house as soon as Lin Fu and the others entered the city. The mansion has passed the deadline, the **** shop can handle it by itself, and there is no need to worry that the original owner will come back to redeem the house after living there.

Si Niangzi sat at the front of the carriage door, took out a small Jinpa bag from her arms and handed it to Lin Fu: "Miss, let me give this to you..."

Lin Bie took it and opened it, but it was a few pieces of gold coins. He smiled and said to Feng Peipei, the fourth lady, "We have some silver on us..."

The official gold-silver ratio is 1:10, but in fact, a tael of fine-quality gold can only be negotiated to nine taels of silver. Don't look at those few gold coins, they are worth more than three hundred taels of silver. Liu Yue'er was leaning against the wall of the carriage, and her eyes were also looking at the few gold coins in Lin Fu's hand. She thought that this Lin Juren was really amazing. As soon as she arrived in Jiangning City, a wealthy lady ran over and stuck it upside down, and she was so shocked as soon as she made a move. Given such a large sum of money, why is everyone in Shiliang County saying that he is a useless sour scholar? She had been thinking about Xiaoman's identity yesterday, but now she figured it out. It turned out to be the maidservant of the rich lady.

Liu Yue'er's new widow, although she became a widow after ten days of marriage, but her neighbors have since regarded her as a woman. In the past, the owner would avoid her by chewing his tongue, but this time he took the initiative to pull her. She went in and chewed her tongue together. After listening to it a lot, Liu Yue'er also knew that those young ladies in Shiliang County had a tryst with their lover for fear of not being able to catch their lover's heart, and for fear of losing their virginity and abandoning them in the future, so someone asked the maid to satisfy the lover instead of herself. She thought that Lin Fu was really lucky. A wealthy lady fell in love with him, and she would send her personal maid to warm the bed for him first.

Liu Yue'er was sitting against the wall of the carriage, looking at Lin Bing's eyes and looking at the bag of gold coins in his hand, thinking that Lin Juren should have some ambition not to spend a woman's money. Lin Bie said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "To buy an ordinary house, do you need so much gold?" Although he said so, the expenditure was beyond Liu Yue'er's expectations, and he wrapped the gold scorpion in his hand and put it in his arms. , a bit of refutation.

Liu Yue'er was slightly startled when she saw it, wondering if it was the right decision to follow Lin Juren to be the cook, but it would be even more difficult to stay at Gu's house, so she could only sigh silently in her heart.

At this time, Longzangpu turned a corner, and the riverside stone street also turned. I saw a magnificent towering building on the other side of the river. Compared with the bungalow on the side, the tall building was about five or six feet tall, which was higher than theirs. When entering the city, the tower on the water gate of the Wu Temple is even more majestic.

Liu Yue'er had seen such a towering building in Shiliang County, as if dazzled by Jiangning's prosperity, half-opened her mouth and asked Xiaoman: "Which family is that, is it a palace in Jiangning city? ?"

"Where is the palace?" Lin Fu came back and said with a smile, "Crossing the river is Donghuamen Street, and that building is the pavilion building where 'Liangyuan sings and dances, and drinks like a knife to relieve sorrow'. The business of the building is the same as your family's business in Shiliang County, it's just a tea hotel, but the scale is slightly larger..."

"A little bigger?" Liu Yue'er covered her lips and chuckled, "It's not just a little bigger..."

The skyscrapers after a thousand years may not be able to arouse the surprise of the world, but the fiefdom building, which is the first of the thirty-six main stores in Jiangning, rises from the surrounding low-rise bungalow buildings, with "four-storey high and five-storey connecting each other" The building that was built was unusually majestic.

This fan building is not an ordinary restaurant. This dynasty implemented the monopoly of tea and wine, and the government-run koji workshop produced koji, and only a small number of hotels were determined to sell the koji to a small number of hotels. These hotels with brewing rights are also called genuine stores. There are 36 genuine stores in Jiangning City, with Fanlou as the head. Thousands of other small and medium-sized hotels in Jiangning City must buy from these 36 genuine stores. Sold after drinking. However, the dignitaries who can spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy a drunk are naturally unwilling to drink boring wine, and often call in some singing and dancing girls to help the fun, commonly known as "pointing flowers".

Su Mae became famous among the fan towers.

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Dustpan Alley in Yongxingfang faces Fanlou across the water. To the east of Dustpan Alley, there is a stone bridge called Zhouqiao connecting the north and the south.

After identifying the mansion at the ground, in order to avoid being bumped into by acquaintances, Si Niangzi left first with Xiaoman dressed as a boy. Lin Fu and the others followed Si Niangzi's instructions and went around to Beixunmen Street, west of Dustpan Alley, to find Hu Ji Pawnshop, who sold the house.

Lin Fu originally only wanted to buy an ordinary house in the city, but although the name of Dustpan Alley is not very pleasant, it was named after a dustpan-shaped pond at the end of the alley. Dustpan Alley in the east of the city is mostly from wealthy families. It is not easy for Lin Fu to buy an ordinary house near Sumei Alley in the east of the city, relying on the Baiyuan Garden of Sumei Residence.

After finding the **** shop, Lin Fu and the others first visited the house under the leadership of the **** shop clerk.

The street gate near the alley is ordinary, and the first yard entering the gate is very shallow, which is the outer yard. The street door faces east, and on the east side of the outer courtyard is a row of four upside-down houses with their backs facing the street. The main courtyard is through the hanging flower gate. The three rooms in the north are built tall and facing the south. It is the main room. There are three wing rooms on each side. The tall courtyard wall in the south is separated from the people in the south. There are waist-high lotus jars and potted flowers, and an osmanthus tree is also planted. Passing through the main house and behind it is the backyard. There is a row of south-facing, low-rise back houses, which are generally used for warehouses, miscellaneous rooms, maids, and wives.

The whole house plus the penthouse has a total of 20 rooms, no matter where it is placed or what era it is placed in, it will be considered a mansion.

Although Lin Fu and the others sold 20 horses to the village camp for 3,000 taels of silver, the money belonged to Qin Chengzu and the others. They were going to buy a large amount of necessary materials and transport them to Changshan Island for a foothold. Most of the money was given to him. Wu Qi stayed in Shanglin, and they only brought two hundred taels of silver for this trip.

Not as maddening and desperate as housing prices after a thousand years. In this era, wealthy families usually buy land and build houses in the city themselves, without exploiting real estate developers, and there is no tax or tax, so housing prices are relatively cheap. Just like Liu Yue'er hired the Gu family as a cook at a high price of 3 taels of silver, her annual income of 36 taels is almost enough to buy a small yard in Jiangning City.

Before Lin Fulai, he just wanted to spend seventy or eighty taels of money to buy a house in Jiangning City that he could live in, but he didn't expect to buy a mansion.

It's no wonder that Su Mei specially asked Si Niangzi to give him a small packet of gold coins, just because he was afraid that he would not have enough money; the pawnshop of this house asked for three hundred taels of silver.

Changshan Island depends on each other in life and death, and will help each other in the future. Lin Fu doesn't mind spending money from Sumei. Besides, if he lives nearby, he can take care of any emergencies in time.

Three hundred taels of silver and nearly 400,000 coppers are worth a lot of money even in Jiangning City, where the world is rich. Lin Bingxin thought about tearing up his face with Du Rong in public at Chaotianyi yesterday, and swearing that he could not stand against each other. , is to attract the attention of Du Rong's opponents, and to live in a dilapidated place in Jiangning, it is inevitable that others will despise him.

Lin Fu immediately set up a document with the pawnshop, folded the gold coins donated by Su Mei into silver and counted it to the pawnshop, and took the land deed, house deed and the original owner's deed back, even if he just entered Jiangning. settled down.

In this way, there is no need to prepare another house for Liu Yue'er, and let her live in the back shed in the backyard, and the four horses can also be put into the barn in the backyard.

Lin Fu and the others only brought some simple luggage, and many things had to be added in Jiangning. There is a little advantage in doing business with a pawnshop. A pawnshop does not only accept valuables before pawning a loan. Generally, household items can be mortgaged, and if accumulated over time, the pawnshop is enough to open a second-hand grocery store. Lin Fu and the others just bought a house for a lot of money. The **** shop also generously offered half-sell and half-off for those household items, and prepared a car for Lin Fu to deliver to the house.

Lin Fu thought that he was still missing something, not to mention that Zhao Hu and the others had just entered Jiangning for the first time. Lin Fu participated in the township exam in Jiangning last time. In fact, he was not very familiar with Jiangning City. He saw a few men gathered there at the entrance of the alley. These are all idlers in the city. They are usually at the end of the street. If someone sends them to run an errand, they can earn a dozen or twenty copper coins to live on.

Lin Fu had been paying attention to these people at the entrance of the alley. At this time, he walked to the street and beckoned a thin-faced young man whose clothes had been patched but washed cleanly: "We don't have anyone here to go to Dongshi to buy things, you How much does it cost to help us go on a trip?"

"What are you buying?"

"Are you literate?"

"I know a few."

"Then wait a moment," Lin Fu entered the room and wrote a list to him. "Look, buy all these things and deliver them, how much extra do you have to charge?"

"There's a lot of stuff. I'm going to buy it today and send it back. I'm afraid I won't be able to run by myself. I want to call someone else to come with me. It's a total of forty money." Gao Gao, "We have to buy all these things, we have to go to several places, and you are in a hurry to use them..."

"Okay, you go and buy things for me first, and I'll give you the money when I get back." Lin Bie handed a small silver ingot weighing five taels to the young man.

Can't see Zhao Hu, Chen Enze and the others, Zhou Pu took the big package that he didn't know what to pack and walked to his own room, Liu Yue'er saw Lin Fu standing in front of the hanging flower hall so recklessly The small silver ingots were handed over to strangers to buy things. When the idle youths walked out of the front yard, they couldn't help but come over to remind Lin Fu, "Why don't you worry that he won't come back after taking the money? He may not be able to earn that much in half a year. Lots of money. These gangsters are also found in Shiliang County. They usually earn some running money. Sometimes they even do things like stealing when they are brave. They are nothing like bandits. , he just turned around and said that we didn't give him money, and we couldn't do anything to him?"

"You don't need to be suspicious, you don't need to be suspicious—because the other party is a stranger you've met for the first time, naturally you can't just doubt it." Lin Fu said solemnly.

Liu Yue'er was speechless, thinking that Lin Juren was really a nerd. Seeing a little impatient on his face, she wondered what the **** did that rich lady like about him, and she even gave him money and gave the maid to him to play with? She resigned and ran to the shed in the backyard, where she saw Zhao Hu and Chen Enze packing up their horses, and said to him, "Brother Zhao, is your master reading too much?" She already knew that Zhao Hu was long gone. Going to the village camp in Linli, Lin Fu has become a domestic servant.

Zhao Hu asked her what happened? Liu Yueer told Zhao Hu what had happened just now, and complained, "Why don't you understand the thought of guarding against others? Even if someone gives him money, UUkanshu www.uukanshu.com can't stand cheating. ."

Zhao Hu laughed, but couldn't explain anything to her, he just touched his head and said, "I don't know either."

Liu Yueer, who was Gu Wuchen's wife, was forced to come over, and Liu Yueer herself didn't want to come over with Lin Fu, but she knew that staying at Gu's house would be even more difficult. Besides, the new widow would not be long, and she didn't want to be Gu Wuchen. concubine. Although Gu Wuchen was only over forty years old, he had suffered a lot during the army and looked a little old.

In the front yard, Zhou Pu hid a crossbow, a hard bow and the Mo Dao he had forced back from Wu Qi in the bedroom. Although officials and servants of the lord's children can walk with protective weapons, crossbows, hard bows, and mid-length weapons such as swords are forbidden, and they are not used in normal times.

He heard Lin Yue's words in the main room, he walked out with a smile, and asked Lin Fu, "Would you like me to go out and follow you?"

"No, we don't know each other well. It will be very obvious when we walk in the crowd. It's not easy to hide. Let's wait for his money to be greedy," Lin Fu said with a smile. Ask Zhou Pu, "Among those idlers at the entrance of the alley, who do you think was sent by Du Rong?"

"The man sitting in the corner with a pole holding a daze is not an ordinary idle guy, and the young man with new robes but two patches is also very suspicious. Others can't see it. Three generations of ancestors can see it." Zhou Pu said, "Why don't you find one of the two to help you run?"

"Most of them won't give my money," Lin Fu said with a smile. Even if Zhou Pu's eyesight is not as good as Wu Qi's, his decades of experience will not be much worse, "If the money is greedy for others, we can also grab it. Those two people said they were a group..." My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter