There are two types of houses that can be bought and sold on the market. One is private property, and a sale sign will be hung on the door to indicate that it is for sale. Price is negotiable separately. Another kind is the property of sin. It will be collected and sold by the Yamen. Zhang Yan's predecessor originally had two shops, but they were confiscated and sold as criminal property, which almost caused the Zhang family to be completely destroyed.
The property of sin does not always exist. Generally speaking, if you want to buy a house, especially a house in a better location, you can only find it yourself.
The Zhang family is not suitable to live in any luxury house now. A house with seven or eight rooms, its own well, water house, and a small courtyard is enough for a single family.
This kind of house exists in Chengbei, and you can often see it being sold.
After walking around a few times, I saw three houses with for-sale signs. The internal layout of the houses is similar. The only one has a small bathhouse, which is very useful when it's cold in winter. So Zhang Yan didn't negotiate much with anyone and just asked for the house with a small bathhouse.
When you buy a house, you still have to look at the furnishings inside. There are only some basic tables, chairs and benches, many of which are very old. There are also many areas where dust has fallen off on the walls. The blue bricks in each house are also of varying quality...all need to be regularized. What's more, this house will be used as a front for the eldest brother when he gets married.
It must be done beautifully.
You don’t need to trouble others to find people to build a house and make furniture. Carpenter Liu has this kind of connections. He took Zhang Yan around and found enough people. According to Zhang Yan’s requirements, the house can be organized as early as the beginning of next month. good.
This torment lasted past noon. Zhang Yan didn't go home for dinner as usual, but instead went to the bookstore in the East Market. If you want to find a painter, the most convenient way to find a painter besides your own acquaintance is to go to the bookstore. There will always be a painter sitting there.
However, Zhang Yan had his own plans in mind, and he had certain requirements for the painter. You can give him more money, but the style of the painting must be what he has in mind. Finding a suitable painter like this is actually slower than buying a house before...
After we found a painter and communicated well, it was almost time to finally come up with the finished product. Zhang Yan didn't eat lunch or dinner. Although he was a little rushed, he was still very satisfied with what came out.
"Why did you come back just now?"
"Hey, finding a better painter is more troublesome than I thought before. I started at noon and have been busy until just now. I spent a little extra money to get it out."
"More money? Why are you in such a hurry? Is it necessary?" Wang Lanping understood what her second son was doing. But I was very dissatisfied with the extra money in order to hurry up and felt that I had spent money in vain.
"Mom, painting is a delicate job. He has to draw it bit by bit according to my instructions, and sometimes it needs to be modified so that it looks like it. It's better to finish the painting in one go than to paint a little bit in a day, right?" Zhang Yan Yan defended himself with a smile while filling his stomach. Of course, he would not admit that he did not want to waste time in the bookstore every day. Give the painter more money and let him paint faster, which will save him trouble.
"Brother, is this the master's blessing that you asked someone to draw? Can I open it and have a look?"
The liveliest person in the family is naturally Zhang Huiyuan. She and her eldest brother Zhang Shun had not been back home for long, and they had just eaten. I was very curious when I saw the scroll box that Zhang Yan brought back. I heard my mother talk about the blessings during dinner before, how could I still hold back at this moment?
"Well, go wash your hands first, and then take them again." Zhang Yan waved his hand to stop the little girl's hand from reaching for the scroll. This thing still has some of the most basic things he pays attention to. At least you must clean your hands before touching.
"Oh." Zhang Huiyuan heard the unquestionable tone in her second brother's tone and didn't think much about it. She ran to the kitchen, scooped out water and washed her hands twice. After coming out, he proudly asked Zhang Yan to check it. After Zhang Yan nodded in agreement, he cheered and picked up the box containing the scroll on the table.
Except for Zhang Yan, who was busy cooking rice, everyone else in the room looked curiously at the box Zhang Huiyuan picked up.
The most mysterious and most unconditionally trusted person in the Zhang family is the "Old Master". But there are very few things about this "old master". Even his name was never mentioned by Zhang Yan. Anyway, the question is "I don't know."
Now that the old master's appearance has been drawn, the Zhang family's curiosity has naturally been aroused.
"Eh? Second brother, why are there three scrolls? Have you painted three?"
Three pictures? When painting a blessing, one picture is always enough. Why paint three pictures?
Zhang Yan still didn't stop the Kuaizi in his hand. While chewing something in his mouth, he replied with a hint of humor: "Three masters."
"Ah? Three?! Wasn't there only one who saved us back then? Why are there two more?" Zhang Huiyuan, who was the closest to the master, raised the question based on Mohu's memory. And Zhang Yan had never said before that there were three masters.
Zhang Yan continued to eat seemingly nonchalantly while explaining: "In the beginning there was only one master chef, and then there were two more as he learned more. What I learned was accumulated slowly through one of them. So. When my mother said she wanted to make a fortune picture for my master, I drew all three of them. You don’t want to miss something like this, right?"
"Yeah!"
Even though she was very dissatisfied with Zhang Yan's behavior of hitting him with a stick and risking his own life, even Zhang Huiyuan, who liked the second brother the most, rolled his eyes. But what can be done? Isn't it the second brother who has the final say whether there is one master or three? Moreover, the word "Xue Xue" is very weird. It is not impossible that those old masters have more quirks and don't want others to know about them.
Besides, the Zhang family really couldn't think of a reason why Zhang Yan would lie about this kind of thing.
When Zhang Huiyuan unfolded the three portraits, the other three people in the room except Zhang Yan all stared wide-eyed.
The three people in the portrait have different expressions, but they all look very peaceful. They were all old men with long beards and buns, sitting cross-legged on a kind of pedestal that they had never seen before. There is a golden circle of rays of light behind his head that looks like a sun disk.
The Zhang family didn't speak for a long time, and they didn't know why. When they saw the three people in the painting, they always felt an inexplicable sense of solemnity. I didn’t even dare to look into the eyes of the person in the painting.
"Okay, put it away. After the new house is neatly arranged, I will worship the three of you." Zhang Yan noticed the dull atmosphere in the room, took the portrait in the little girl's hand, rolled it up and put it away, and did not let the family continue. look.
When Zhang Yan put away the scroll, the other three members of the Zhang family breathed a long sigh of relief and started talking and joking again. The topic subconsciously shifted from the portrait to the new house and the subsequent marriage of eldest brother Zhang Shun. They didn't know why they instinctively avoided those three portraits.
Only Zhang Yan knows the reason best. Because the three people in the painting are not old masters, but the three highest deities in the Taoist sect.
The painting in the middle scroll is "Yuanshi Tianzun of Yuqing", on the left is "Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun", and on the right is "Taiqing Daode Tianzun".
It is also commonly known as the "Three Purities".
The Three Pure Ones have the power to penetrate the heavens and the earth, so how can ordinary people look directly at them and make false assumptions?
