As for Zhuangzi, anyway, his uncle's house is no different from his. If he wants to go there, he can go there at any time, so it doesn't really matter whether he buys it or not.
Thinking of this, Zhou Zixu seemed to suddenly become enlightened. I bought the house within a month.
Later, a concierge and a cook were added, so that when he or his teacher took a bath, Zhou Zixu would live directly in his house, so he wouldn't have to rush for time.
The prerequisite is that you have to apply with the chief of the prison, but this is a simple procedure, and the other party will not be embarrassed. This is the case for many students of the Imperial College who live in the capital.
Lin Yuanqiu also went to stay with Zhou Zixu twice and found that he was much more comfortable with his time. Immediately, I was aroused to want to buy a house.
After counting the current savings, it was no problem to buy an ordinary three-bedroom house, so I went to Yahang to find a house.
If the family has a large number of people, it is natural to buy a bigger house. In fact, Lin Yuanqiu felt that it was more appropriate to enter the courtyard four times rather than three times. It's just that for the price of nearly five thousand taels, he doesn't have enough money on hand, not to mention that Sijin Mansion rarely sells it, so even if he has money, he may not be able to buy it.
Not to mention the ones with four entrances, there are three entrances. The ones I finally found were not the type I wanted. Either the front yard was too narrow, there was a lack of cross-yard, or there were only two or three back rooms.
So the search took more than a month.
Therefore, when he heard that Li Yaqi said that there were officials' confiscated property for sale at Rongsheng Yaxing, Lin Yuanqiu came over after class.
Guan Yashi's income was guaranteed by droughts and floods, and his attitude towards guests was certainly not as hospitable as that of Shi Yashi. Seeing that Lin Yuanqiu was still young, he couldn't be the person in charge of the family, so after hearing that he wanted to buy a house, Yashi easily Pointing to the wall where the paper was posted, he said, "The rest are all posted here, you can see for yourself."
Lin Yuanqiu didn't care. No matter how mature he was, his eighteen-year-old face was obvious, and it was normal for others to be perfunctory.
He'd better take the time to look at the house.
Thinking like this, Lin Yuanqiu turned around and looked at the wall carefully.
Zhuangzi, shops, houses, fields, everything is really there. However, Lin Yuanqiu saw that most of the properties posted on the wall were circled, and he knew that this meant that they had been sold.
So looking at so many, there isn’t much left.
There are still two houses in Sanjin, but judging from the area marked above, they should not have a cross-yard. Looking at the price, one is 2,800 taels and the other is 3,000 taels.
Now that you're here, you can't go in vain.
Lin Yuanqiu planned to go and see both of them later. Maybe he would be satisfied if he went to see them on site. After all, the price was here.
But when he was about to tell Yaqi that he was going to see the house on site, the corner of his eye glanced at the piece of paper that said Sijin House. It seemed that there was an area that was not circled. Lin Yuanqiu hurriedly walked over to take a look. Sure enough, it was not for sale. There is another one at the fourth entrance to the house.
Holding back his excitement, Lin Yuanqiu hurriedly took a closer look. Lin Yuanqiu knew Nanluogu Lane in the east of the city. The residences of many officials in the capital were there.
Looking at the area of the house, it was one hundred and eighty square feet. Lin Yuanqiu calculated in his mind that one acre is sixty square feet nowadays, so one hundred and eighty square feet means three acres of land. From this point of view, this four-acre house You must have brought something with you across the courtyard when you entered the house.
When Lin Yuanqiu saw the final selling price, he was stunned. Three thousand six hundred taels?
Did you read it correctly? This is a house covering an area of three acres.
Thinking of the Zhuangzi he bought, Lin Yuanqiu thought to himself, there must be something to say about this house, otherwise the money would be more than a thousand taels less than the normal price, which would be too strange.
So what is going on.
Lin Yuanqiu was ready to go and have a look.
It's not easy to see a house. After hearing Lin Yuanqiu's words, the fat-faced arrogant man took out a bunch of keys from the drawer and put them on the table, "The house inspection fee is five taels per household, and the key deposit is twenty taels!"
Lin Yuanqiu was surprised. Did you mean to let him see it by himself?
Also, it actually costs five taels of silver to look at one house, so if I look at three houses, wouldn’t I have to pay fifteen taels of silver? Sure enough, official teeth are different.
After thinking about it, Lin Yuanqiu was still not ready to see the two three-entry houses. In the end, he only took the key to the fourth-entry house.
Yashi Street is not far from Nanluoguxiang, it takes about half an hour to arrive.
After entering the alley, Lin Yuanqiu quickly found the house. With its green-gray brick walls and red-lacquered wooden door, it doesn't look any different from an ordinary house from the outside.
So why is the price of this house so much cheaper than the market price?
Lin Yuanqiu didn't have to wonder for long, and the question was soon answered.
Because when Lin Yuanqiu opened the courtyard door, walked around the screen wall and entered the front yard, he was shocked by the several mud puddles in front of him.
Is this digging holes to plant trees?
But it doesn't look like it. How could anyone plant a tree in the middle of the yard? Also, why is the front door of the house in the front yard overturned?
When Lin Yuanqiu entered the house and took a look, well, there were several holes dug in the house. Then he saw that there was also a one-foot-square hole dug under the Arhat bed in the side room. Lin Yuanqiu immediately thought of "property raiding" in his mind. Character.
So, which corrupt official’s house was confiscated?
As if to confirm Lin Yuanqiu's guess, Lin Yuanqiu also saw many messy scenes in the next few courtyards. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the ground was dug three feet in some places. Even in the east courtyard, Lin Yuanqiu I also saw that one of the wing rooms had been demolished and only one wall was left.
I guess it is for this reason that no one cares about this house.
After all, if you don't repair it after you buy it, how can you live there? And if you don't have a thousand taels of silver, you won't be able to repair it.
Lin Yuanqiu did the math. Three thousand six hundred taels, plus one thousand more taels, isn't it the current standard market price, and it also requires the energy to repair the house. He just said, how can there be so many in this world? It's cheap to pick up.
After visiting various dental shops for more than a month with no results, Lin Yuanqiu quickly made a decision to buy this house.
He had just taken a closer look. Although the house was overgrown with weeds and full of potholes, which made it a little unbearable to look at, except for the wing room across the east courtyard, the other houses had not suffered any major damage, including the dozens of meters long road. veranda.
In Lin Yuanqiu's view, as long as the main structures of dozens of houses are not damaged, other repairs are not a big problem.
After making up his mind, Lin Yuanqiu walked around the large house covering an area of nearly three acres. When he found that it was exactly what he saw, he locked the door and returned to Yahang.
When the fat-faced arrogant man heard Lin Yuanqiu's words about buying a house, he was startled for a moment. He thought to himself that he had really made a mistake. He didn't expect that this person could actually make the decision to buy a big house at such a young age. But this kind of It is not possible to buy a regulated house just by buying it. Otherwise, this house would have been bought by those rich men two days ago, and it would not be able to survive today.
Therefore, the fat-faced arrogant man shook his head, "I'm afraid it won't work. The gate of this house is equipped with golden pillars, which are used by officials. There is a clear document in the court. To buy a house regulated by officials, you must at least have the title of civil servant."
Officials can be awarded after passing the examination, so they are also included in the ranks of officials.
Lin Yuanqiu thought there was something wrong when he heard Li Yaqi say no just now. Now that he heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief. He had brought the election documents with him. This was what Li Yaqiu reminded him yesterday.
In the Jing Dynasty, the gates of mansions were regulated. Especially in the capital, there could not be any violations. For example, the Guangliang gate was reserved for princes and dignitaries, while the Jinzhu gate was regulated by officials. As for ordinary people, , it can only be Ruyi Gate, Suiqiang Gate and other others.
It's not that he looks down on Lin Yuanqiu because of his fat face, but he feels that the person in front of him is only seventeen or eighteen years old. Not to mention being admitted as a Jinshi or becoming an official, I'm afraid he can't even be considered a candidate.
Therefore, when Lin Yuanqiu took out the cloth bag containing the banknotes and documents from his arms, and then handed over the election documents, the fat-faced charlatan was simply stunned.
Therefore, when dealing with people in the future, the fat-faced arrogance always had the words "never look down on others" in his heart, and always alerted himself. In this way, he avoided several disasters.
After paying the money and completing the deed, Lin Yuanqiu was left with only thirty-two taels of silver in the end, of which twenty-two taels were the deposit returned to him by the fat-faced charlatan.
But it's okay. When I deliver the painting to Shopkeeper Zhu tomorrow, I will have money again.
As for the money to repair the house, it seems that we can only save it first.
But for those pits in the house, Lin Yuanqiu felt that he could fill them in one by one in his spare time.
In addition, Lin Yuanqiu planned to let Lao Zhangtou and his wife live in the house, and someone must guard them.
There was also the door key. Thinking that the people looking at the house came by themselves with the key, Lin Yuanqiu immediately went to the grocery store to buy a new lock, and then replaced the copper lock on the door.
It was almost time to arrive at the Imperial Academy.
It was the hottest time in August. Lin Yuanqiu had been busy for half a day, and the clothes on his back were already soaked with sweat.
He went to the water room to take a shower first, and then went to the dining hall. Otherwise, he would definitely lose his appetite for eating if he was covered in sweat.
This time all the painting orders have been completed, so he has plenty of time tonight.
Thinking of the unfinished Three Character Classic, Lin Yuanqiu quickly took out a stack of paper from the camphor wood box, then added water to the inkstone to rub the ink, and then began to write.
Looking closely at the paper with writing on it, there are three words "Imperial College" printed on the top, which is the reward for this quiz. In this quiz, Lin Yuanqiu ranked first again. As an encouragement, the Imperial College gave out rewards to the top ten students.
Counting this time, this was the ninth time that Lin Yuanqiu had received a reward, and with the papers obtained, Lin Yuanqiu had already used them to copy the dowry book belonging to Chun Yan.
The Three-Character Sutra written at the moment was the dowry Lin Yuanqiu had prepared for his little sister.
The marriage between Chuncao and Wang Wenchang was decided last year. In Lin Yuanqiu's view, although it was not yet time for the two sisters to get married, such time-consuming dowry documents should be prepared earlier.
Thinking about his sister's marriage, Lin Yuanqiu soon thought about himself.
When he went to the Qin Mansion last time, his wife suddenly asked him if there was any marriage news at home.
Lin Yuanqiu thought to himself that his wife definitely didn't want to marry him.
Needless to say, Ms. Zhao really had this idea. Her niece happened to be at the age of proposing marriage this year. She heard her husband often praise his two students, so Ms. Zhao had already paid attention to Lin Yuanqiu, who had not yet promulgated marriage.
Gentle and elegant, with a slender figure, he speaks in an organized and calm manner.
Also, I have heard from my husband that Yuan Qiu's understanding is very good. If there are no accidents, there will definitely be no problems at all in Chunwei the year after winning the exam.
Therefore, for such a good young talent, Zhao naturally thought of his younger sister's daughter.
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Chapter 129 Cleaning up
Zhao didn't tell Qin Yu about her inner plan, thinking that she hadn't decided yet, so it would be better to ask her sister about her intentions before raising the matter with the master.
With this in mind, Zhao went directly to her sister's house.
Xiao Zhao was naturally happy to hear that the eldest sister was here for her daughter's marriage.
In her opinion, the eldest brother-in-law holds an important position in the Ministry of Etiquette, and the circle of daily contacts must be wider than that of her family, the Taipusi Shaoqing, who is in charge of carriages and horses. She thinks that the blind date must be good.
But when Xiao Zhao heard that the person he was talking about was his eldest brother-in-law's student, he hesitated a little. His status as a scholar was acceptable, and since his eldest brother-in-law would accept him as a disciple, there would definitely be no problem in learning.
It's just that the man's family situation is not too bad.
The poor family is in decline. Even if its children pass the Jinshi examination, without a capable family to support them, it may be difficult to gain a foothold in the officialdom.
However, Xiao Zhao changed his mind again. This is the student of his eldest brother-in-law. In other words, there is no reason for a teacher not to help his students, so he shouldn't have to worry too much about his official career.
Thinking about the fact that although the other party is from a poor family, his great-grandfather was a well-off fourth-rank political official, it can be seen that the family property must be indispensable. In this case, if his daughter marries him, he will not have to live a hard life. .
The more she thought about it, the more she felt it was good. Xiao Zhao was about to say that she would talk to her husband about it in the evening and would give a reply soon.
But she heard Zhao say, "It's not Mr. Zhou, it's Mr. Lin. The one from the Zhou family has already agreed on the marriage."
It turned out that when Mrs. Zhao heard her sister Zuo's words about her family being poor and then about her decline, she knew that she must have misunderstood and hurriedly corrected her.
"Is it Mr. Lin?" Little Zhao couldn't believe it.
After seeing Mr. Zhao nodding in confirmation, he immediately became unhappy and said, "This is not acceptable. If it were Mr. Lin, I would not accept it."
"Why?"
Ms. Zhao was really puzzled. In her opinion, the master's student was not bad in appearance or literary talent. Could it be that her sister was still dissatisfied with him?
Seeing her eldest sister's surprised expression, Xiao Zhao felt a little unhappy, "Why, my sister can also ask this. In the eyes of an aunt like you, a niece can only be worthy of a poor one? The eldest sister doesn't want to Think about Mr. Lin's background, he is a real mud-legged man!"
