Chapter 28 South Street House
After eating a bowl of noodles, Gu Rao wanted to go to see the house with Bie Ye, but Bie Ye stopped her and sent her back to the inn, telling her, "You can wait for me at the inn, we won't find a suitable house so quickly."

"When I find the right one, I'll take you to choose it."

"You are packing your luggage again today, and you are riding a bumpy bullock cart. You must be tired long ago. Go take a nap to refresh yourself. Maybe you will go to see the house together tomorrow."

Gu Rao nodded.

"Then go early and come back early. If you can't find it today, you can look for it tomorrow. Don't worry too much."
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Gu Rao was alone in the inn, locked the door, and then entered the space by herself, first took a glass of spiritual spring water, after drinking, all the fatigue was swept away.

Then I soaked in the hot springs next to the bamboo house. After soaking in the hot springs, I boiled a pot of scented tea with Lingquan water.
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When it was dark, Bieye came back in a hurry.

Gu Rao frowned and asked, "Why did you come back so late?"

Bie Ye smiled and said, "I found three suitable places, and they happened to be rented out for a long time. I'll take you to see them tomorrow."

Gu Rao looked at the two oiled paper bags in his hand.

"What did you buy?"

Bieye opened one of the oil-paper bags and said, "I saw a shop selling beggar chickens, so I bought a whole one and asked the boss to cut it into small pieces. Let's eat."

Gu Rao asked, "Have you eaten it yourself?"

Bie Ye hummed.

Gu Rao directly reached out to touch his stomach, but only touched the hard abdominal muscles, she couldn't feel whether he had eaten or not, but based on her understanding of him, she knew that he was not willing to spend money to feed himself.

"eat together."

"You bought a beggar's chicken. It happened that I went out today and bought some scented tea, teapots and other furniture. I have already cooked it. Drinking scented tea can relieve my boredom."

Bie Ye took a sip of herbal tea first.

"It's delicious and sweet."

Gu Rao asked amusedly, "Scented tea tastes like flowers. I used roses this time, so you only tasted sweetness, didn't you taste the fragrance of flowers?"

She didn't add sugar to it, the sweetness is the sweetness that comes with Lingquan water.

Lingquan water has the effect of washing the essence and cutting the marrow. People who drink undiluted Lingquan water for the first time will have all the impurities in their bodies excreted.

Gu Rao usually prefers to eat vegetarian food. She originally thought her body was clean, but after drinking the undiluted Lingquan water for the first time, she felt like she had just come out of a construction site.

Bie Ye is a person who loves flesh and blood, if he is given undiluted spiritual spring water for the first time, he may be no different from the one fished out of the mud.

Fortunately, after a month of gradual progress, the impurities left in Bieye's body have been almost eliminated, and there are not many impurities accumulated every day due to eating whole grains or other reasons, so she has dared to give Bieye now. Drink undiluted spiritual spring water.

The sweetness of undiluted Lingquan water will be more obvious than that of diluted spring water.

Bie Ye took another sip.

"I was too thirsty just now, I just focused on the cow's drink and didn't taste it carefully, but now I can taste the fragrance of flowers."

"tastes good."

Gu Rao smiled and said, "If you like to drink, drink more, and I will cook more for you in the future."

Bie Ye nodded.

Another oil paper package contains two meat buns and a vegetable bun, a white flour steamed bun and a brown sugar steamed bun.

Gu Rao ate a chicken leg, a small piece of chicken breast, a bite of vegetable buns, a bite of meat buns, half a brown sugar steamed bun, and the rest went into Bieye's stomach.
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Early the next morning, Gu Rao and Bie Ye went to the steamed stuffed bun shop first, drank a bowl of porridge, ate a few steamed buns and steamed buns, and then went to see the house with Yaren.

The first set of small courtyards is located on the East Street, with earthen walls and green tiles. Entering through a somewhat dilapidated crimson door, you can see a small courtyard with trees planted on the left and right sides, which is not too big.

On the left side of the yard is an earth wall that separates it from the next yard, on the right side there are a bedroom and a kitchen, and near the door there is a small utility room.

Gu Rao asked suspiciously, "Where's the hut?"

The tooth man smiled and said, "Our town is different from the countryside. The country people use dung to cultivate the land, but the people in our town don't farm the land. The dung is useless."

"In addition, the houses in the town are densely populated, and the land is expensive. Building thatched huts is not only a waste of land, but if the feces in the huts are not cleaned up in time, the whole street will stink."

"That's why not most houses are built without huts."

"But you don't have to worry about having no place to go to the toilet. You can just go to the toilet in the barrel and the chamber pot. Every morning, there will be dumpers going from house to house to collect the feces."

Gu Rao, "..."

I can't imagine the picture of going to the toilet in a bucket and cleaning it up after a day of accumulation.

This is not as good as the countryside!
"Is there a house with thatched huts?"

Yaren nodded, and then looked at Bie Yedao, "The people living in the East Street are generally small traders, or the family conditions are average, but there are many wealthy families living in the West Street, and the houses are built more carefully than here. Almost all of them are built with huts, which occupy a larger area than the houses here.”

"But the rent must be doubled."

"look……"

Bie Ye said without changing his face, "She is in charge of our family's money, just follow her request and take us to see the house."

Gu Rao tugged at his sleeve and asked, "Didn't one of the three houses you saw yesterday have a hut?"

Those three houses were selected by Bie Ye all afternoon yesterday. If she doesn't like them all, wouldn't his efforts yesterday afternoon be wasted?

The houses on West Street are for rich people, and they are not rich people. They only have fifty taels of savings, so they need to save a little money, or rent a house without a hut and make do with it.

Don't think about it.

"There is a house on South Street with a hut. It is built by the river, with its back against the river and facing the street. It is very close to the stone bridge. It has two bedrooms, a kitchen, a utility room, a hut, and a There is a small yard, and there is a washing table made of stones in the yard."

Gu Rao's eyes lit up, "Then let's go and see this directly!"

——It is built by the river.

That alone was enough to make her heart flutter.

The toothman reminded, "Madam, the owner of that house originally wanted to sell the house, but they couldn't sell it for a while, so they wanted to rent it out. However, they are too lazy to take care of it, so they asked for a minimum rent of three months." year, and half a year's rent, so the price is a bit high, I don't know if you can accept it."

Gu Rao asked, "How much is the annual rent?"

The dental man first compared ten with both hands, and then stretched out five fingers of one hand.

Gu Rao frowned slightly.

"15 taels of silver?"

The tooth man nodded.

Gu Rao, "..."

15 taels of silver a year, 45 taels of silver in three years, plus 52 taels of rent for the first half of the year, a total of [-] taels and [-] taels of money will be spent at one time.

She and Bie Ye's savings are only 51 taels of silver.

Just barely enough.

However, even if it is just enough, it is impossible to rent a house and not even eat afterwards, right?What should I do if I spend all the money on renting a house and spending money on food and clothing in the town?
"never mind."

"What about the other set?"

Bie Ye didn't miss Gu Rao's bright eyes after listening to her description just now, which is enough to show that she likes the house on South Street very much.

"Let's look at this set first."

Gu Rao pulled him aside, leaned close to his ear, covered his mouth with his hand, and whispered, "You didn't count? We don't have enough money!"

 Catching bugs: changing lakes to rivers

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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