Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 42 The Hu Family and the Lu Family

It is said that Xu Qing said goodbye tomorrow at the end of the banquet, and many people understood a lot of meaning by themselves.A group of people are eager to move, but they are afraid of getting the wrong meaning, waiting for the first rafters one by one.However, there was a manager of a livestock store, for some unknown reason, first came to Xu Qing's door to send a title deed or something, and wanted to give Xu Qing his livestock store.

Xu Qing was also taken aback. Although he likes to make a small fortune, there is no such thing as a free pie in the sky, and this is a shop.After Xu Qing asked Xiaoyue Liu San, he realized that the shopkeeper just took a fancy to his privilege of exempting some taxes, and recorded the shop under Xu Qing's name. In fact, the livestock store is still in the hands of the shopkeeper, and Xu Qing can get the original tax. This is a clever way to evade taxes.

In order for officials not to buy and sell by force and to confuse the market, officials of the fifth rank and above in the Tang Dynasty were not allowed to enter the market in person, so many high-ranking officials had to buy some of this kind of property in their families.

After asking the ins and outs and weighing all the pros and cons, Xu accepted the title deed without hesitation.It doesn't matter if you accept the land deed, but it suddenly dawned on those well-dressed families outside. When they heard that Xu Qing had accepted the things, Huo, all the big cars and small cars crowded into Xu Qing's house.

The quiet Xuzhuang in the past was broken by the sound of carriages. The small roads in Xuzhuang obviously couldn't bear such repeated crushing, and became dilapidated and dusty.

Xu Qing was tired, he received a few gifts, and found that more and more people came, felt something was wrong, and began to feel a little scared.Although this was not illegal in the Tang Dynasty, Xu Qing was always uneasy. Who knew how these shops, land deeds, and goods came from, and there were some shady things behind them!

When the moon is full, it will lose money, and when the water is full, it will overflow. In order to cherish the reputation and protect ourselves, we thank guests behind closed doors!The gate of Xu Qing's house was closed again, like a colorful tiger descending from the mountain. Once it appeared, it retreated back into the mountain in a timely manner, and let all the hunters who were eager to try and have different goals be punched in vain.

"Master, someone from the Hu family is here..." Old Uncle Zheng ran over to report.

"The Hu family, that Hu family?" Xu Qing frowned. Even though the door was closed to thank the guests, some unwilling people came scattered here and there, which annoyed Xu Qing.

"The Hu family in Hongshan Township competed with the master for short-term labor last year, but this year their land has been assigned to the master. They are now the master's tenants!"

"You go to meet him, don't even ask for gifts..."

"Yes, master..." Old Uncle Zheng has now completely become the housekeeper of Xu Qing's family. Unlike Xiaoyue who is a woman and Liu San who is disabled, Old Uncle Zheng is familiar with ten miles and eight villages, and his ability and virtue are also reliable, so he is even better.

Uncle Zheng walked away for a while, then turned back again:

"Master, the Hu family said they would sell the house to you instead of giving gifts."

"Sell a house? Let someone come in, let me ask." Xu Qing thought about it. It would take at least half a year to build a new house, and Xu Qing promised that Xun Xueer would marry her this month, so he could only stay in this small house. There is a wedding banquet, but the place here is small, and the servants can't live there. Will Xun Xueer be wronged?Better ask first.

After a while, a person came in with his head poking his head, it turned out to be Butler Zhao, Xu Qing grinned, hehe, not bad, acquaintances are easy to handle.

In a few words, Xu Qing meant that he had just arrived at the Hu family. It turned out that the Hu family had been squeezed out in Luonan County, and it seemed that Xu Qing was also influenced. After all, the Hu family had misunderstood Xu Qing before.Being squeezed out like this made it difficult for the Hu family to stay in Luonan. Besides, Xu Qing had to pay taxes on their land, which made them feel bad, so they wanted to buy a house and run away.After much deliberation, the only ones who can buy and need to buy are Xu Qing's family.

"Steward Zhao, I understand what you mean... The Hu family moved out. The house, fields, bricks, tables, chairs, etc., and several craftsmen are all mine?" Xu Qing asked.

"If you go back to the lord, everything inside the house belongs to the lord. The tenants and craftsmen outside the house also belong to the lord." Steward Zhao returned tremblingly, without the usual expression.

"What about the Hu family's maid?"

"Eh, er, this is not too much. The Hu family wants to go back to their ancestral home to settle down, and the maid also has to take them back."

"Okay, how much money can it be done?"

"Two thousand...2000 taels of silver..." Butler Zhao said cautiously.

"Well, you go back first, I'll discuss it with the housekeeper." Xu Qing waved him away noncommittal.

In the Tang Dynasty, in the center of the first-tier cities, the kind of house with furniture packaged and repaired, two stones and five liters of wheat per foot. "Chi" here is the unit of area, which is regarded as a square foot. Each square foot of Tang is about 0.03 square meters, which amounts to more than 20 taels of silver per square meter.If it is in other cities, or even in the countryside, the price is much lower, probably less than [-] square meters, and this only counts the tiles on the head, not the garden pond at the front and back.

Xu Qing asked Mr. Zheng and others, and they also said that it was the price, and they had been to Hu's house to do part-time jobs before, and they all said that the house of Hu's house was good.Xu Qing asked how it compares to the current Xu Mansion. Uncle Zheng said that the house of Hu's house was twice as big as Xu Qing's, and the whole yard was more than five times larger.

Xu Qing was very happy, so he should hurry up and discuss with Guan Xuan to let them stop building the house, transfer the money for building the house, and just buy it.It's just that I have to see it for myself before I buy it. It seems that I have to arrange a time to go to Hongshan Township for a visit to the Hu family's house.

Just when Xu Qing was thinking about the new house, old man Zheng came in again:

"My lord, people from the Lu family are here too, can you see me?"

"Hey, interesting, what day is it today, why are all these troublemakers here."

Xu Qing sat in the room and waited for a while, when a half-old man walked in:

"Master Xu, Lu Shi, a grassroots man, greets you..." Lu Shi bowed.

"The Lu family is also a family of officials and eunuchs, Master Lu doesn't need to be too polite." Xu Qing said politely.

"Master Xu, I already knew about my nephew. I taught him a lesson, and he won't bother him anymore..." Lu Shi meant that what happened to Xun Xueer was their fault. "My nephew is born of a concubine, and no one is willing to discipline him. He caused trouble everywhere with his family's prestige, and the villain kowtowed to the lord to make amends."

"Oh? What does Master Lu want?" Xu Qing looked at Lu Shi who kowtowed and sneered, the Lu family took the initiative to let go, it is impossible not to order something.

"The secret recipe of candied haws..." Lu Shi said an unexpected condition.

The matter of Xun Xueer did not have much impact on Xu Qing, but for Xun Xueer's consideration, the last trace of hidden danger must be eliminated, after all, the county government's judgment is not worth the gossip.And candied haws are not that important to Xu Zhuang now, so it's not impossible to let them out.

"Why do you want this?" Xu Qing asked curiously.

Lu Shi thought that Xu Qing would not agree, so he knelt down and said sadly:

"My house is a concubine of the Lu family. The Lu family is now in decline, and it is maintained by pumping old blood. Before, they never took care of me. They only left a few Susukida and a few properties for me. Now every time I asked for money to manage my work, but they all came to me for it, and if I didn’t obey, they threatened me to wait for my wife and children.”

"I know that Mr. Xu's candied haws are selling well, so I want to earn some private money so that I can save myself a way out."

"Well, every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite... It's another tragedy of a concubine." Seeing his pitiful appearance, Xu Qing also asked Mr. Zheng to tell him how to make candied haws. Can be demonstrated with something else.After learning the skills, Lu Shi was very grateful, and said that he would give Xu Qing half of the money he made, but Xu Qing didn't take it seriously.

(End of this chapter)