After thinking for a while, Lin Yuanqiu turned to the other side of the wall again. Maybe it was because it was plastered with white ash, but there were no cracks visible here. Also, this wall is standing alone without any support. It would be unreliable to break the opening to get something. Don't let the whole wall fall down and get crushed.
Lin Yuanqiu felt that the simplest and safest way at present was to knock down this wall directly.
Originally, this wing room was to be rebuilt, so it wouldn't cause any problems if it was knocked down.
Thinking like this, Lin Yuanqiu pulled out a rafter from the old wooden beams piled on the ground. It had been exposed to the sun and rain for a long time, and the nails at the connection had long been rusted, so it was easy and no trouble to take it down. What kind of energy.
However, after taking the rafter in hand, for safety reasons, Lin Yuanqiu knocked hard on the ground to see if there was any rot. Don't push the wall hard and it will break. This is a very dangerous thing. .
Fortunately, the remaining wall is only about four meters high including the peaks. In addition, after six or seven years of exposure to wind and sun, it has long been weakened.
So after Lin Yuanqiu checked that there was no problem with the rafters, found the spot three-quarters of the way up the wall, and then pushed the rafters against it more than a dozen times, the wall fell to the other side.
There was still some noise after the "boom". Lin Yuanqiu stared at the other side of the wall, wanting to see if any neighbor next door would poke his head out.
Facts have proved that he was overthinking. They were dozens of meters away from here, and there was an alley in the middle. How could he hear them?
Lin Yuanqiu acted quickly and quickly found a mahogany box from the broken bricks. He wiped off the dust on it and found that except for a few bumps, there were no other problems.
Looking at the size of the box, it is similar to the wooden box I used to put chess in my previous life. It is three or four inches thick and about seven or eight inches long.
I'm afraid only this size makes it easier to seal into a brick wall.
Lin Yuanqiu held the box and shook it. It weighed about three kilograms, but based on the materials used in the box, two-thirds of the weight came from the wooden box itself.
Therefore, it is unlikely that there are gold and silver treasures inside.
Is it an account book? The kind that records bribes given and accepted?
While Lin Yuanqiu was guessing, he picked up a piece of broken brick and smashed it on the copper lock. The copper lock was small and it didn't take much effort to smash it. It only took three or two hits to break the lock open.
Then when he opened the box, he was shocked by the thick stack of paper in the box.
It's a banknote! !
Lin Yuanqiu suppressed the surprise in his heart, reached out and flipped through, and found that the thick stack was full of them.
At this time, Lin Yuanqiu did not dare to stand in the yard. He quickly held the box and entered the main room in the yard. After closing the door, he poured out all the banknotes and started counting them. Perhaps because he was really nervous, he kept counting. Lin Yuanqiu, who was good at counting the money, actually counted it five times in a row before he could count the amount of the banknote clearly.
There are twenty-six thousand taels in total. The minimum denomination is one hundred taels and the maximum denomination is one thousand taels. There are several bank accounts, including Guangyi, Fengtai, Chengxin and Changyu.
As for Lin Yuanqiu, after being surprised, he was still in trouble.
To be honest, he really had no intention of taking this ill-gotten wealth for his own use.
But he was not so stupid to ask Lin Yuanqiu to hand it over. Don't let people think that the house was not clean and send people to dig up the whole house again. Then he would not be able to find a place to cry.
Therefore, after much thought, Lin Yuanqiu finally decided to bury all the banknotes in the ground and prepare to talk about it later.
As for where to bury them, Lin Yuanqiu quickly thought of a place, which was in the four east wing rooms of the third courtyard.
Because according to current living rules, these four rooms will definitely be allocated to his parents in the future.
To be honest, Lin Yuanqiu couldn't think of anyone else besides his father who he trusted the most in the world.
So the banknotes were buried in my parents' house. If I wanted to take them out later, I didn't have to worry about them being noticed by others.
Even if his father finds out by then, he will never tell anyone.
He did it as soon as he thought of it, and soon Lin Yuanqiu found a clay pot with a lid from the small cubicle next to the kitchen. Then he put the wooden box into the pot, closed the lid and carried it to the third courtyard. The east wing.
The floor of the house is entirely paved with uniformly sized stone slabs. The joints of the stone slabs were originally glued with glutinous rice mortar, but they were all dug up during the house raid.
So Lin Yuanqiu didn't waste much effort. He found the window of the bedroom and lifted up two pieces of bluestone that had just been covered.
Then he used a hoe to dig a hole. Lao Zhangtou had just backfilled this area not long ago, and the soil inside was still a little loose, so Lin Yuanqiu quickly dug out a hole more than one meter deep.
Then he carefully put the jar in, then backfilled it, and finally covered it with the stone slab again after the soil was compacted.
After finishing all this, Lin Yuanqiu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He decided that from now on, he would continue to do whatever he should do, as if what happened today never happened.
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Li Yaqiu was in charge of the bricklayers and carpenters who repaired the house, and even the purchase of materials. Lin Yuanqiu thought this method was good. With Yaqiu as the middleman, he didn't have to worry about cutting corners.
Lao Zhangtou and his wife have returned from Zhuangzi. This time, they harvested more than 700 kilograms of beans. They left the bean seeds behind and sold the rest for more than three taels of silver.
Lin Yuanqiu is not a stingy person, not to mention that Xu Laoshi and his wife planted these on their own initiative.
So just like last year, Lin Yuanqiu directly took half a tael of silver to Xu Laoshi.
As for Lao Zhangtou and his wife, they also gave them two hundred coins.
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Because there are so many students from other places, the Imperial College’s annual vacation is scheduled on the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Students whose homes are far away can also ask for leave from the teaching assistant and go back three days early.
Lin Yuanqiu did not go home last year, but spent New Year's Eve at Zhuangzi. It had been almost two years since he left home, and he couldn't wait to go back.
So after the final exam, Lin Yuanqiu went to talk to Assistant Professor Liang about going home early.
Assistant Liang had no excuses, and considering that Hengxi Town was more than a thousand miles away from the capital, he specifically extended the time to report for the start of school after the new year.
Although it is only two days, for those who have a long journey and have to travel a lot, even one more day is good.
Lin Yuanqiu bowed and bowed to the other party, "Thank you, Assistant Professor Liang."
Since he became Master Qin as his teacher, Lin Yuanqiu found that both the teaching assistant and the chief of the team had taken good care of him and Zhou Zixu.
He knew that the reason why the teaching assistants were polite to them was entirely for the teacher's sake. Therefore, you must not take other people's politeness as a natural blessing and bring shame to the teacher.
After lunch, Lin Yuanqiu packed up his book box and planned to go to Sibaozhai to deliver the paintings to Shopkeeper Zhu.
In September, Lin Yuanqiu increased the price of his Bodhisattva paintings, adding two taels of silver to each painting's original price.
He also informed Shopkeeper Zhu that from now on, orders for Bodhisattva paintings should not exceed twenty pieces per month, and orders for five-piece kang screens should not exceed ten sets per month.
It is said that things are more valuable when they are rare. Lin Yuanqiu felt that although the paintings he painted were Bodhisattva paintings that were in huge demand, he had to control the quantity, otherwise sooner or later they would be sold on the street and be priced at cabbage prices.
Shopkeeper Zhu could only agree to Lin Yuanqiu's request.
Originally, Shopkeeper Zhu thought that Sibao Zhai’s profits would definitely be much less in the future.
Unexpectedly, after he told the customers about the price increase of Bodhisattva portraits and the stipulated order quantity, none of those customers turned around and left because they thought the price was too expensive.
When the accounting was done at the end of the month, shopkeeper Zhu suddenly discovered that not only was Sibao Zhai's profit not less, it was actually three taels more than last month.
This kept Shopkeeper Zhu entertained for several days.
As for Lin Yuanqiu, since the amount of drawings was reduced by one-third, he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed and had more time to spend on his studies.
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In two days, he will set off back to Hengxi Town. Before going back, Lin Yuanqiu plans to send the new year's gift to the teacher.
As for what to send, he and Zhou Zixu had already bought it yesterday. In addition to tea and snacks, there were also cloth and bacon.
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Chapter 131 Returning Hometown
Carrying tea cloth, cakes and bacon, Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu went out together.
Before going to the Qin Mansion, the two of them had to go to Zhang Gui's place first. The chickens and rabbits delivered by Zhuangzi yesterday were placed in the shop, and they had to be sent to the Qin Mansion together.
In the past two years, the number of chickens raised in Zhuangzi has increased from a dozen at the beginning to about forty now. The same goes for rabbits. Last year, there were only five rabbits in total. As a result, there were less than one year old. Now there are more than 60 rabbits raised in Zhuangzi.
Lin Yuanqiu was certain that if he didn't manage enough weeds on his farm, he wouldn't have been able to raise so many.
Also, given the reproductive capacity of rabbits, this number will double before long.
Lin Yuanqiu had already thought about it. After the New Year, he would ask Zhang Gui to go to an inn or restaurant to see if he could sell some of the rabbits in the village. Otherwise, if there were more and more rabbits, he would definitely be unable to resist them.
Speaking of which, the original origin of these rabbits has to be told when Lin Yuanqiu accidentally discovered a nest of hares while hunting last year. When he saw that the rabbits were still small, he carried them down the mountain and let Xu Laoshi raise them first.
Originally, Lin Yuanqiu's plan was to raise them to eat meat, but Xiaoya, who pulled grass and fed them every day, didn't think so.
As long as she thinks about the fluffy and fleshy little rabbit being eaten, the little girl doesn't care whether the young master will be angry or not.
No, every time Lin Yuanqiu went to Zhuangzi, the little girl would find a bamboo basket, put the little rabbits in them, drag them around, and then quickly disappear.
At first, Lin Yuanqiu didn't react. He just thought the little girl was taking the rabbit for a ride.
But later I saw Xu Laoshi's face was red and he looked very embarrassed every time, so he gradually came back to his senses.
Lin Yuanqiu felt funny in his heart. He was not the one who insisted on eating this bite of rabbit meat. Besides, it's normal for little girls to like rabbits, so I have nothing to blame.
So he ordered, "If you like it, keep it."
It is precisely because of this sentence that the rabbit team in Zhuangzi quickly "grew".
When buying new year gifts this time, Lin Yuanqiu thought of the chickens and rabbits on Zhuangzi, so he asked Xu Laoshi to send some over.
Also, Lin Yuanqiu plans to give a few snacks to the teaching assistants tomorrow, so that only two packs of snacks every time will be too monotonous.
Thinking of this, Lin Yuanqiu once again felt the benefits of having Zhuangzi.
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Qin Yu is taking a break today. He knows that Yuan Qiu and Zixu will go home for the annual vacation in two days, so he has been busy arranging homework for the two of them these days.
We have one and a half months of annual leave this time, so we can't leave the two boys idle.
Qin Yu automatically ignored the fact that the Imperial College had a lot of homework.
Thinking of Zhou Zixu's shortcomings in essays in this final exam, Qin Yu took another piece of paper and wrote a dozen essay questions on it.
It is said that diligence can make up for weakness. Qin Yu feels that writing more and practicing more will definitely be beneficial.
Therefore, when Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu got the assignments assigned to them by the teacher, and then thought about what the teaching assistants had assigned them, they suddenly felt that the joy of taking the annual vacation was gone.
This is too much homework.
Thinking this in their hearts, the two of them muttered it unconsciously.
When Qin Yu heard this, he stared and said, "What's too much? During the annual vacation, I would have to write more than ten pages of policy papers every day, let alone Mo Yi's poems and poems."
Zhou Zixu was a little unconvinced, but he saw that his share was one more than Brother Lin's, so he couldn't help but said, "Teacher, you don't have to rush back and forth at that time."
The implication is that excluding the time spent traveling back and forth, they have to answer many more questions every day than you, teacher.
