Farmhouse Golden Phoenix

Chapter 88

The courtyard is on Dongdajie. There are eight main roads in the county, and Dongdajie belongs to one of them.However, although this street is called Dongdajie, it actually runs through the east and west sides of the entire Taiyuan County.

And the easternmost side of Dongdajie is the house mentioned by the Chinese.There are two large copper rings on the black gate. At this moment, an iron chain is hanging on the copper rings, and a large lock hangs from the middle.

The middleman stepped forward to unlock the lock, took off the iron chain, and then pushed open the gate: "This house has just been tidied up, and the family moved out only half a month ago, and the yard is still tidied up. It’s all in place, everything on the furniture, take a look.”

There are three or four rooms in a row behind the gate wall, and there are other gates on the left and right sides and in the middle.The gate on the left is open, it is a stable, the gate on the right is open, it is a separate small yard, and there is a small room outside, which should be the place where the gatekeeper usually stays.

The gate in the middle is opened, and it is the second courtyard.The layout on the left and right sides is exactly the same, there is one big room, and there are two small rooms on the left and right sides.There are still two small houses behind the gate.The one on the left is the toilet, and the one on the right is the kitchen.

The third entrance is a larger courtyard, with large houses on the front. In addition to the houses on the left and right, there are several houses in the other two directions.In the middle, there is a small garden with rockery, plants and ponds.However, that pond is not running water, and in the past few days, there has been some stench coming out of it.

Bypassing the big house, there is a row of back rooms behind.

This house is two or three times larger than what Su Jingsen said before, and there are more rooms. After calculating it, there are more than 20 rooms in the second and third entrances, except for the inverted rooms in the first entrance.

"How much does this recipe cost?" Su Jingsen couldn't hold back her heart, and her face became a little uneasy. Before, Mr. Shen said that to buy a house in the capital, even the youngest would pay 3000 taels for entering the courtyard.With so many houses, you must be considered a junior, right?

"Not much. The one who lived here before was a child of a big family. He wanted to go out to study, just like the two children in your family. He went to Qingsong Academy. Then he will take the exam next year, and he will go to Beijing this year. He bought it for 2000 taels back then, and now he is in a hurry to sell it for only 800 taels." The middleman said with a smile, carefully observing Su Jingsen's face Seeing that he hesitated, he hurriedly said: "Look at this yard, you can get anything you want, you bought it, and the yard you entered can be rented out."

"You have also seen that there are huge crowds of people who come to Taiyuan County to take the exam for talents every year. There is no place to live here. You can rent at least five or six houses to five or six people." The middleman spared no effort to persuade. : "Besides, if you have two children in your family, if you buy this house, you will have grandchildren in the future, and you don't need to buy another house. It's so convenient for a family to live together, don't you think?"

"Besides, this is the closest house to Qingsong Academy. Come, come, come and have a look with me." The middle man said, pulling Su Jingsen out, and everyone followed, standing on the street, the middle man pointed out : "See? Go forward three miles, you will arrive at the gate of Dongcheng, go out of the city directly, and then you will see Qingsong Academy. If you go to school on horseback, you only need one stick of incense every day. It is estimated that two sticks of incense are taken by carriage. Time, walking must not exceed three sticks of incense, how convenient it is for children to go to school, don't you think?"

Su Jingsen couldn't help but nodded, and the man laughed and said, "Brother, I won't lie to you, if you buy the house sincerely, I can negotiate the price for you, the previous owner was in a hurry Make a move, after all, I went to the capital earlier, so I can find a house to live in, right?"

"How about it, do you want it or not? Let's just nod and shake our heads. It's really not good. Let's go to see another house. It's just two streets behind. It's in an alley. It's pretty close. It's just a house. It’s not as big as here, and it’s not ostentatious.”

After the middleman finished speaking, Su Jingsen stuffed a silver ingot: "To tell you the truth, I really want this house, but my money is a little tight. When I came here, I sent my son to take the exam. With so much, if my brother can help me negotiate the price, I will take this house."

One thousand and eight, that is really fatal.However, if it can reach about [-] yuan, then you must buy it.

The middleman squeezed the silver in his hand, Su Jingsen smiled again: "I don't treat my brother badly, if I can talk about 100 taels, I will give him a red envelope of five taels of silver." 200 taels is ten taels, 300 taels is 15 taels, which is almost as high as the commission he can get for selling this house.

After the calculation, the smile on the middle man's face became brighter and brighter: "Okay, I will talk to the owner of the house again if I have my brother's words. Where is my brother living now? I have news later, I will I'll send it to you."

He wasn't afraid that Su Jingsen would lie to him. After all, after buying this house, he was required to be a witness when he had to transfer ownership and go to the yamen to write paperwork. Pay it in.

"We live in Yard No. [-] of Yantai Hutong now. Please take care of the matter of this house. I will treat you to a drink later." Su Jingsen explained the address with a smile, and then said a few words politely, before talking to the middleman. When they left the door, they each went in different directions.

"Let's go and have a look at this Qingsong Academy. Can't you sign up for a few days? By the way, have you got your scholar papers?" Su Jingsen turned his head and asked while talking, Su Zhiping shook his head with a smile: "Father, you don't need a scholar." Document, didn’t you say it before? This Qingsong Academy recruits students, don’t look at these, as long as they pass the assessment.”

"Assessment? Is it the same as the exam?" Su Jingsen hurriedly asked, and Su Zhiping shook his head: "I don't know about that. By the way, Dad, does our family have that much money? If we bought such a big house, we must hire a woman." My mother can’t do it alone, and our family will live in the county, and we have to buy land, is there enough money?”

"That's enough, you don't have to worry about this. Over the years, Dad has saved a lot. Later, when the middle-aged man came to our house to talk about the house, we will also take care of the land by the way. This month's rent It's about to expire, so we won't rent any more. After buying the house and land, let's go back quickly, and it's going to be August [-]th, so we'll go back and tidy up the house, and we'll live here in the future."

Su Jingsen said while thinking: "When I come back this time, I will take your grandparents to live for a while, and then go back after the Chinese New Year."

"That's right, grandpa and grandma have worked hard all their lives, and now they should enjoy their blessings." Su Zhi'an said on the sidelines: "By the way, those lands in our family have been reclaimed later, so let's rent them out quickly. Anyway, we No more planting."

A few people were talking, they went out of the city gate, and then looked east, there was a row of tea sheds along the official road.Then, from the side of the official road, a small path came out obliquely.Looking farther along the path, about four or five miles away, you can vaguely see a rather large mountain gate.

Su Jingsen drove the carriage onto the path, which could only accommodate one carriage.

When we reached the gate of the academy, everyone could see the mountain gate clearly.Simple is simple, there is a large plaque on two pillars, with the four characters of Qingsong Academy written on it.It's just that you can see it if you look carefully.The pillars are made of white granite, with various patterns carved on them.The font on the plaque is also carved from black lacquered stone, majestic and majestic, which makes people solemn at first glance.

Five steps away from the back of the mountain gate is the real gate, with blue brick and tile walls and red lacquer gate, at first glance, it is very big.

Su Qinghe estimated that it was at least twice as big as her previous university.

The door was closed at the moment, Su Zhiping stepped forward and knocked the door, and soon an old man came and opened the door: "Who are you? What's the matter?"

"Student Su Zhiping and my younger brother Su Zhian came to the academy to study. I wonder if Qingsong Academy still recruits students?" Su Zhiping hurriedly asked respectfully. The old man looked Su Zhiping up and down, nodded, and opened the door: "Come in. Well, no matter when Qingsong Academy recruits students, how much have you learned? What books have you read on weekdays?"

Su Zhiping answered on the side, and Su Zhian added a few sentences from time to time.The old man asked more and more carefully. Su Qinghe watched from the side, and couldn't help guessing wildly in his heart. When reading novels, he wrote that the main character randomly met people when he was studying. They were all masters or seniors. Lu's, actually a dean or something?

Just as she was thinking about it, she heard the old man over there say: "Looking at the level of your brothers, you probably want to enter metaphysics. You follow me to the head of the metaphysics to have an assessment, and then decide which class to go to."

While talking, he walked around two courtyards, came to the third courtyard, reached out and knocked on the door, and when someone came out, he briefly explained the situation: "These two are here to study, and they have just passed the scholar exam. Probably able to learn metaphysics, you take them to meet the dean."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and nodded at Su Jingsen and the others, and left quickly.

Next, Su Qinghe and the others were taken over by another person, who didn't say much, directly took him to the door of a room, knocked on the door, repeated what the old man said before, and then left.

Su Qinghe didn't care, and only looked at the person standing in the middle of the room, about forty years old, with palm-length beard, wearing a blue gown, wearing a headband of the same color, with very bright eyes, and a kind smile on his face: " What is your name?"

Su Zhiping and Su Zhian stepped forward to answer one by one. Su Jingsen and Su Zhangshi dared not show their air when they were beside them, because they were afraid that their son would not be able to come here to study if he had not passed the test.

The gentleman asked a few questions in detail, and then asked the little boy to bring a pen, ink, paper and inkstone: "You are here to write an article and a poem. The article is about the joy of having friends coming from afar, and the poem is about the Mid-Autumn Festival." .”

Su Zhiping and Su Zhian hurriedly saluted, each found a table, and began to write with a pen.

(End of this chapter)