Liu An Hua Ming You Yi Village

Chapter 189

When they arrived in the capital, they first found an inn to live in, and then Hu Xin took his servants to find someone to hire a house.

There are also many dental shops in the capital, and there are also many people looking for someone to hire a house at this time. It is really expensive to rent a house near the Imperial Academy.

Na Yaxing showed Hu Xin the listing and said, "One is a courtyard house, which is only one street away from the Imperial Academy. There are four main rooms, two east and west wing rooms, and a kitchen. This one will take a month A rent of eight hundred Wen."

Such a small house needs [-] Wen. It seems that renting a house in Beijing is really expensive.

Hu Xin felt that it was a bit small, not to mention anything else, even the servants could not accommodate them, not to mention there was no place to entertain guests.

The man continued: "There is a bigger one over here. Although it is also the first entrance, there are six inverted rooms behind the main room, three in the main room, three in the east and west wing rooms, and a kitchen. There is a utility room, and there is also a barn for livestock, and the rent for this house is one or two yuan a month."

"In addition, there are two-entry and three-entry houses. The starting price of the two-entry house is two taels a month, and the starting price of the three-entry house is five taels of silver a month. I think that you are a newcomer, and you don't need such a big house. "

Those two-entry and three-entry houses are often rented by wealthy and powerful families in the capital for their relatives or relatives of relatives, or even worse, for outsiders.

Some bought it after renting it, but judging by the appearance of this customer, it doesn't look like it.

Hu Xin said: "Please take me to see the two houses mentioned earlier."

Hu Xin prefers the second house. The house is big enough, and they brought their livestock over. The inverted house at the back can also be used by the servants, and the wing room in the front can be used as a study room, and the other can be used for entertaining guests.

Just to see what it looks like first, if it is too old, it is useless to ask for it.

One tael or two, which is enough to feed a family for a year in the countryside, but in the capital, it is only one month's house rent.

Sure enough, every inch of land is worth every inch of gold.

The man saw that this man really wanted to buy, so he took the key to the door and took Hu Xin to see the house.

After seeing the house, Hu Xin decided on the second house on the spot. He paid half a year's rent at once, wrote the rent paperwork with Yaxing, took the key, and let Tianfu and Yantai stay in the house first. Come to the inn to find Du Yu.

Du Yu was very happy when he heard that the house had already been rented. The efficiency is really fast, but the monthly rent is only one or two yuan a month, which is really expensive.

"Big cousin, have you ever asked, how much is the house sold here?" Du Yu asked.

Anyway, sooner or later you will have to buy a house, so it is better to inquire slowly.

"A house like ours today costs 500 taels."

500 taels!It’s too expensive, my cousin said it’s just a one-way house, similar to a courtyard house, only 500 taels, really expensive!

In the past, they could buy a Zhuangzi in Qingyang County for 200 taels.Even their yard in Yunyang County is only more than 100 taels.

After packing up their things, they checked out of the inn, and they took a carriage to the rented house, which was near the Imperial Academy, which was a distance of 600 meters, so that my cousin would not be afraid of being late when he went on an errand.

It's just that this house has been around for some years, and the red paint on the gate has all fallen off.

Going in and looking, there is a path paved with broken blue bricks leading to the main house, which is not bad.There are three east and west wing rooms on the left and right, and three rooms in the main room. Going from the left and right sides of the front to the back, there are the six inverted rooms, which can be used by the servants.

The kitchen is on the west side of the gate, not too big or too small, and the barn is in the corner closest to the back, and it is also very small, enough for two horses.

There is not even a tree in this yard, but there are weeds on the ground.

As soon as Du Yu gave the order to the people, they went to their own jobs. The servants had six rooms, three for men and women, and she didn't give them any specific allocation.

The first thing to do was the three main rooms where Du Yu and Hu Xin lived. The inkstone and Tianfu had already been cleaned.Xiaoya and Xiaomo were busy spreading the bedding.

With a little decoration, people can live in it. Together with Mrs. Yao, who cooks, and Mrs. Chen, who cleans, they cook simple meals for everyone, using dry goods brought from their hometown.

And the people in the middle already know that the water here is in a well on the street here, and someone needs to dig it. The driver and the gatekeeper are a pair of brothers, named Bai Lu and Bai Shou respectively. One of them had already fetched water with the bucket in the yard, and the bucket was the inkstone they borrowed from others.

So, I simply ate a little food to maintain my physical strength. Hu Xin and Du Yu told everyone to go to rest quickly. This day is busy enough, and tomorrow is a new start. Like this grocery shopping or something, You have to start worrying about that.

Hu Xin still has a few days to report at the Imperial Academy, so he still has time to accompany Du Yu to get things done, such as where to buy vegetables and daily necessities, etc., all need to be explored.

They are not in the same family, there is no fixed place to deliver food and daily necessities to them, and they do not have their own shopping place. Everything has to be started from scratch.

They all have to be purchased from outside, which is not a small fee.

Moreover, Du Yu also wanted to see how other people's nobles lived. She also had a reference, didn't she?
As for making money, it depends on the opportunity. When the opportunity comes, then it's not a problem. She can't come forward to do business to make money. If she can find a business-minded person to help her do things, then it will be very good ?
But such people are hard to come by.Come on step by step.

Anyway, my Zhuangzi can still maintain the current life, even the uncle said that he will give them some money every month, and the big cousin still has a salary of three taels of silver every month, which can also be used.

The next day, there were people selling vegetables at the door from their side. It is estimated that they often sell vegetables here. They knew that there were people living here, so they came here.

Du Yu asked Mrs. Yao to discuss the price with them. If the price was right, she would come over to deliver food once a day from now on.

If they want to pay for vegetables every day or once a month, they can do it. This is Hu's house, a concubine of the Hanlin Academy, and it also means to let everyone know each other.

Presumably they also know that the conduct of the people who work in the Imperial Academy is not bad.

But for the first day's food money, Du Yu asked Mrs. Yao to give it. After all, everyone is not familiar with it, and it will be fine in the future.

Du Yu also started to teach Xiaoya and Xiaomo how to read and write. From now on, they will be his right-hand men, and they will have to rely on them for helping with bookkeeping.

In the next few days, I bought daily necessities and other things, and the days were settled down. Hu Xin went to the Imperial Academy to report, and as a scholar, he studied in the Imperial Academy.

Du Yu also asked him if he needed to bring things to the upper officials of the Hanlin Academy. The eldest cousin went there on the first day and learned about the situation. After seeing that everyone didn't give them, he realized that the Qinggui of the Hanlin Academy was not talking about it. For fun, not for giving gifts, but after getting to know each other well, you can invite people to eat and drink at home.

Mrs. Qin from the Mi family found Du Yu, who had already left the Mi family. Du Yu knew what she meant and said to her, "If you come to my side, I'm afraid the money I'll give you won't be high, after all, the situation here You also know that everything is just beginning."

Mrs. Qin said with a smile: "I have no children, and now I am old. I don't want to die in the future, and there will be no one to collect my body and bury it. I don't ask for anything else. I just hope that I can have a place to retire. Someone Send me to the end, what do you think?"

Du Yu didn't mind raising an old man. After all, Mrs. Qin had helped her before, so she said, "If you still like me, stay here. You can take care of my wives."

Mrs. Qin said: "Okay, then I'm not going to be polite, as long as you don't dislike my long-windedness."

Tim Fu is very happy with Mrs. Qin's arrival. After all, Mrs. Qin was very kind to him before. Mrs. Yao smiled and said, "I think Tian Fu likes you so much, why don't you let Tian Fu recognize you as a grandmother."

It's normal for people to recognize their relatives now.Mrs. Yao was not unhappy because Mrs. Qin came to take care of her.

Mrs. Qin hurriedly waved her hands and said, "Tianfu has a father and a mother, why do you recognize me as a godmother?" Usually, the godmothers are maids or servants bought from outside without father and mother, Need to find a backer in the house, so there are many godmothers and daughters.

Moreover, some godmothers can receive monthly money instead of goddaughters, and often have to deduct more than half of the monthly money and only give a small part to the goddaughter.

In the past, there were people in the Mi family who recognized several goddaughters and then earned monthly money from them. Mrs. Qin hated such people.

This Mrs. Yao obviously didn't know about this kind of thing, and it was just out of good intentions to say that she recognized her god-in-law, but Tianfu had parents and family members, so he couldn't do it himself, so he didn't even think about it.

Only now did Mrs. Qin know that Tian Fu's parents had been bought back by Mr. Hu, and now they are still working as the manager in the countryside, which is also very good.

She feels good here now, the population is not large, but the host family is also very kind, but not weak and bully. She manages these people well, and she has done her part. She didn't ask for her own body deed, this feeling, she remembered it in her heart.

Getting acquainted in this area, Du Yu also met a few of her husband's colleagues, all of whom were in the Imperial Academy, but some of them were officials in the Imperial Academy, and belonged to her husband's boss or husband.

Some are just like their husbands, they are good scholars, and they also rent nearby, and they will be appointed officials directly after they are dismissed in three years.

There are also Shu Jishi, but if they have a house in the capital, they belong to the children of the capital. The family background is strong, or they are from the father's generation, or someone in the family is an official.The place where people live is not in this generation.

(End of this chapter)