Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 374 Thoughts
Cao Zhongren showed an embarrassed dry smile: "Well... Master Wei said so, I only introduce business. The main reason is that this location is good, and the price is naturally higher than other places. It is more suitable for me to demolish these houses and rebuild them. Don't you mean it? It's better than the house that has been built for decades and looks good on the outside, but in fact many places have been eaten by moths. This house has a large area, and if the house is not bad, you won't be asking for this price. "

Du Jinning was too lazy to talk to Cao Zhongren.Anyone in this line of work can speak with their mouths, and he is justified on both sides.Whether to buy or not, how much to lower the price, you can decide after seeing the house.She doesn't want to talk nonsense with Cao Zhongren here.

She asked, "Will this house collapse? Can we get in?"

"It won't fall. It looks dilapidated, but it's actually quite strong. I brought a few people to see it these two days, and nothing happened." Cao Zhongren hurriedly said, "It's just that the moss on the aisle is relatively small. Duo, be careful when you go, don't get slipped.

"Then you lead the way, let's go in and have a look." Du Jinning said.

"Okay, please come with me." Cao Zhongren took the lead and went down the steps first.

Qi Muyuan turned his head and looked at Du Jinning: "If you buy this house, you won't be able to live in it for a while; and building a house and buying furniture will be a lot of trouble."

"No." Du Jinning nodded in agreement.

But it can't stand that this place is close to Qi Mansion, and it can still be rebuilt.

This made Du Jinning want to buy it.

If it was like the Qi Mansion, with many houses and small courtyards built here, Du Jinning might have directly denied it in his heart.

You must know that the houses of such aristocratic families are passed down from generation to generation.As long as there is no war in the country and the people's peace, it is common for generations to live for hundreds of years, but it is repaired every year and looks good.And this kind of family often has a lot of secret affairs. It is common for a maid to be killed today, a aunt to throw a well tomorrow, and an illegitimate child to be buried in the backyard of the latter.Living in such a house would make her feel guilty.

The Du family's small third room has a small population, and there are still four women in Yishui, with insufficient yang energy, so even if they buy it, there will not be many people.A family of four plus a dozen servants can live in a quarter of the place no matter how scattered they live.If you bought a house like that, there would be few places to live, and most of the remaining houses would be empty to keep snakes, insects, rats and mosquitoes, and it would be gloomy at night, it would be scary to think about it.

But if these old houses can be demolished, the ground is turned over, and new houses are built, and a garden can be designed according to one's own ideas, then it will be a brand new house.Thinking about the appearance of Suzhou gardens, Du Jinning felt a little excited.If she could build a garden that looked like a Suzhou garden, she would not lose money in buying this homestead even if it cost a lot of money.

And in her opinion, the Wei family is just bluffing, just wanting to see if they have been taken advantage of.If not, they can only honestly bid.At that time, she can just use the dilapidated house as an excuse to pay more, and it will not be difficult to think about it.

A group of people walked through the hall and walked to the back, and saw that they entered the courtyard again, and the houses in the courtyard were still as dilapidated as the front.

Going further back, there is no house, but a big ruined garden.Probably the house is going to be sold, so I asked someone to tidy up the weeds in the front two courtyards. The back garden is too big and I don’t have time to do it. Now the weeds are full of weeds. If it didn’t come in from that gate, Du Jin Ning almost thought that he was in the wilderness.

Seeing this scene, Du Jinning was even more satisfied.

The smile on Cao Zhongren's face was even more embarrassing, and he said: "There are two courtyards at the back. If the two young masters want to take a look, let's go in. Two days ago, I asked someone to cut the grass on both sides of the road, so you can still go in." of."

Qi Muyuan looked at Du Jinning.

Du Jinning liked the house in his heart, but he didn't show it at all on his face. He kept frowning tightly, showing a very dissatisfied look.

Hearing the words at this time, she nodded lightly: "Then go and have a look." If you don't look, how do you know how big the garden is?

Cao Zhongren exchanged glances with the hunchbacked Uncle Wei, and the smile on his face became warmer.

Because of the good location, they let the wind out, and many people have visited the house in the past two days.It’s just that some entered the gate, saw the dilapidated appearance, and went back without even going down the steps; some sincerely wanted to buy, but only went to the second courtyard, and the courtyard behind was so barren that no one wanted to come in, lest they would run into someone. Snakes, rats and ants.And those who came here to see the garden and went back have nothing to say.

Only the little Mr. Du in front of him still wants to go in, which shows that he sincerely wants to buy it.

Liu Gao and Ma Biao came together, they called Qi Muyuan and Du Jinning first, ran to the nearby tree and cut off two branches, the two took the lead, beating the weeds on both sides of the road all the way ahead.

This is "threat the grass to scare the snake". If there are snakes and insects on the road and on both sides, they will run away if they are so disturbed, lest everyone accidentally step on or be bitten.

After walking like this for a while, Du Jinning saw a stone bridge with a gurgling stream under the bridge, which looked quite clear.After crossing the bridge, there is a small courtyard.This small courtyard is only more dilapidated than the previous two.Du Jinning only gave up after taking a look outside, and didn't go in.

"Where is the other yard?" she asked Cao Zhongren.

Cao Zhongren pointed in one direction: "Northwest corner."

Du Jinning raised his feet and looked there, but apart from the weeds all over the sky, there was no house at all.

"Okay, let's go back, we don't need to look at that yard again." Du Jinning said.

That's all there is to see or not, this yard is like this, and that yard is not much better.She now has a certain understanding of the area and topography of the garden, and that's enough.

All in all, she was quite satisfied with the situation.The area is large enough, the terrain is flat, and running water is brought in.This running water saved her a lot of trouble.

When Cao Zhongren and old man Wei heard this, they felt a chill in their hearts.

The group retreated the same way, and Liu Gao and Ma Biao still led the way, and went back to the corridor at the gate.

"I don't waste my time." Du Jinning said directly, "1000 taels of silver, if you sell it sincerely, that's the price. If you don't want to sell it, forget it. This house is so desolate that it has to be demolished and rebuilt. The house, the house is intact and there are quite a lot of houses, only about 2000 taels of silver. To build these houses, there is no more than a thousand taels of silver that can’t be taken down at all, and it will take a lot of effort, energy, and time. "

"This price is not good. My nephew said that it will not be sold without 500 taels of silver." Uncle Wei said.

"Then there's nothing to talk about." Du Jinning turned around and said to Qi Muyuan, "Let's go, let's go back."

(End of this chapter)