Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 404 Conflict erupts
Although Fan Ning encouraged Zhu's family to run a newspaper, he could not participate, and the farther away from the newspaper was better, there could be no trace of him in it.

Following Xue Zongru's suicide, Ouyang Xiu's case was also delimited, and the court will not pursue the subsequent matter. Even if this matter is over, the newspapers that hurt Ouyang Xiu deeply will also die down, and the two newspapers will no longer mention this matter. , but few people know that the "Tabolo" paid a fine of [-] yuan for refusing to publicly apologize to Ouyang Xiu.

The final result seemed to be fair. Ouyang Xiu paid a heavy loss of reputation and collapsed his body. Xue Zongru also paid the price with his life. The official career is basically ruined.

Another two days passed, and this afternoon, as soon as Fan Ning returned to the mansion, the housekeeper greeted her and said, "I want to report to you, the owner of the Wu Mansion next door has just come, and I want to talk to you about selling the house."

Fan Ning quickly asked, "Where is he?"

"When he saw that the official was not there, he went back to the next door. If the official wants to see him, he can come over at any time."

Fan Ning nodded, "Just ask the butler to invite him here!"

The housekeeper left in a hurry, and Fan Ning did not enter the mansion, but waited at the gate of the mansion. Not long after, a middle-aged man walked quickly.

After entering the door, he bowed his hands to Fan Ning and said with a smile: "Wu Ying is the owner of the next door. I have been a neighbor for four years. This is the first time I have seen Fan Zhiyuan."

"It's also the first time I've seen Wu Yanei. The main reason is that I'm working overseas, and the houses are basically closed. I just came back not long ago."

"Indeed, I have admired the name of Fan Zhiyuan for a long time."

Fan Ning had already investigated the Wu family next door in advance. The concubine Wu and the princess had passed away, leaving only one son, Wu Ying in front of him. The family is relatively rich, and there are four houses in the capital alone, and the next door is one of them.

Fan Ning invited Wu Ying into the mansion. Wu Ying came to Cuiyun Peak and carefully admired this strange stone in the capital. My neighbor, if I had known about it, I would have come over to appreciate it more.”

"Wu Yanei can come and watch at any time!"

The two sides are just talking, since the Wu family is going to sell the house, there are very few opportunities to come back.

The two went into the living room and sat down. A maid came in and served tea. Then Wu Ying said slowly: "This was originally my father's property, but it was given to me later. I only lived here for three years, because there is no In order to take care of my family, I moved back to the old city. After my father passed away five years ago, I inherited the main house, and I never came here again."

Fan Ning nodded and asked with a smile, "How did Wu Yamen think of selling the house?"

Wu Ying said with a smile: "My other houses are all in the inner city, and they are relatively close to each other, but this house is far away, and it is not convenient to come here. To tell you the truth, I planned to sell it three years ago. I didn't find a suitable next home, and I didn't want to sell it to a businessman. In the end, I didn't sell it. My wife met Mrs. Zun a few days ago and chatted for a while. Mrs. Zun seemed to say that the house is too small, so I thought I was going to sell it too. Zhai, I will fulfill all of you."

Fan Ning leaned forward and said, "I am ashamed to say that this house actually occupies a large area, but its layout is quite special, especially this Cuiyun Tower was built by the emperor and cannot be demolished casually. There are too many wasted places, too few houses, and it is indeed not enough to live in. Even my parents have to live elsewhere. If Wu Yanei is willing to sell the house next door, I am willing to sell it. It will be based on the market price, and neither party will suffer. How about it? "

Wu Ying chuckled, "Fan Zhiyuan is a straightforward person! I am also willing to deal with a cheerful person. Three years ago, I asked for [-] yuan for this house, and it is still the same price now. This price is fair!"

"Two thousand strings per mu, to be honest, this price is slightly lower than the market price!"

"Of course it depends on the person. Three years ago, a businessman wanted to buy it, and he asked for [-] guan. I still don't want to sell it to him. I just want to make a friend with Fan Zhiyuan. For friends, of course, I will use the friendly price."

Fan Ning secretly admired his ability to speak. In fact, his house is only worth [-] guan, mainly because it is relatively old and needs to be repaired, and there is no pier behind it, so it is worth less than [-] guan. The price is required to cover the transfer of ownership, and the government still has strict restrictions on the purchase of houses by businessmen.

Fan Ning estimated that the real reason why he didn't sell it three years ago was because of the difficulty of transferring ownership, but he didn't have this problem with Fan Ning, so [-] guan was a fair price, but they didn't say a fair price, but a friendly price.

Fan Ning smiled and said: "Thank you Wu Ya Nei for your kindness, I am willing to make Wu Ya Nei a friend, if you need help in the future, just come to me, I will definitely try my best to help."

This is what Wu Ying wanted, and he smiled slightly, "Thank you Fan Zhiyuan for being considerate, I will arrange for a housekeeper to come over to handle the transfer of ownership tomorrow, and after the transfer procedures are completed, I will pay the rent, copper money, silver, and I will pay for the house." Both are acceptable."

Wu Ying was very thoughtful, and he arranged for a housekeeper to come over to handle the transfer, so that Zhu Pei could also deal directly with the housekeeper.

"Thank you so much!"

Wu Yingran got up to say goodbye, and Fan Ning kept sending him out of the house. At this time, Zhu Pei stepped forward and asked happily, "Is it settled?"

Fan Ning nodded with a smile, "Twenty thousand coins, the next door will be ours in three days."

"Great, I've been thinking about how to re-layout all day today."

Zhu Pei pointed around the Cuiyun Tower and said, "I want to turn this forest and the surrounding area into a lake. The Cuiyun Tower is on the island, and a stone arch bridge will be built to connect it to the back house. What do you think, my husband?"

Fan Ning nodded and smiled, "As long as you like it, I have no objection!"

Zhu Pei was overjoyed, hugged her husband's arm and said coquettishly: "I knew my husband would agree, we have to move out for two months temporarily, my husband has no objection!"

"Okay! How about we temporarily move to Furong Lane, where the place is quite big, there are quite a lot of houses, and life is also convenient."

Zhu Pei originally wanted to move to the third grandfather's house, but she had no problem with her husband wanting to go to Furong Lane.

"Then I'll arrange for someone to clean it up, and when the house is bought, we're ready to move!"

Fan Ning and Zhu Pei are looking forward to the life in the new house, but Ouyang Xiu's house is full of gloomy clouds. Although Ouyang Xiu's reputation has been restored, his life cannot go back to the past.

First of all, his body broke down, which was mainly related to his unrestrained drinking and flirting over the years. The Xue Zongru incident was just the last straw that broke the camel's back. In addition, his high myopia caused cataracts, which made his eyesight worse. It gets so bad that it has to be served all the time.

The second is his wife's attitude. The death of her brother Xue Zongru filled Xue's heart with hatred, but she gave birth to three sons and two daughters to Ouyang Xiu, so it was impossible for her to divorce her husband.
In addition, Mrs. Xue was already very strong. Now that Ouyang Xiu's body is weak and his eyesight is blurred, he still counts on his wife to take care of him for the rest of his life. .

At noon that day, Mrs. Xue came to the east courtyard like a gust of wind. She walked into the small courtyard and stared at Ouyang Qian viciously.

Xue Zongru died in prison, and Xue's heart was full of pain, and she vented her anger on Ouyang Qian. If she hadn't gone to the remonstrance court to file a complaint, why would her brother be arrested and die in prison? Well, the root cause of all this is the woman in front of me.

Ouyang Qian felt the stepmother's anger, she felt uneasy, put down the book quickly, and saluted, "See mother!"

"I'm not your mother. My daughter will never kill my uncle. I won't bother you anymore. Let me tell you that I want to rent out this small courtyard. You must move out before noon tomorrow. If you If you don’t move, I’ll kick you out.”

Ouyang Qian turned pale with shock, "Where do you want me to move?"

"That's your business. You can go out and rent a house by yourself. That's the decision."

"How can I have the money to rent a house?"

Xue sneered and said, "Don't pretend to me, you think I don't know? Where did you get the money for food these few years, and you bought books and paper and ink, and there are men outside who support you, and you still have no money Renting a house? I used to save face for your father, so I didn’t mention it, now! If you don’t move out, I’ll let the neighbors know, so where do you put your face?”

Ouyang Qian blushed immediately, and felt a burst of shame in her heart. She nodded, "Okay! Since you won't allow me, I'll just move out. I'll say goodbye to my father, and I'll move out tomorrow."

"what ever!"

Xue said coldly: "If you want your father to know about your scandal, you can just say it."

Ouyang Qian shook her head, "I'm innocent, there's nothing scandalous about it, I can go, but I have to tell my father."

Ouyang Qian ignored her and walked quickly to the backyard.

Xue sneered for a while, she thought her father could keep her, dreaming!

(End of this chapter)