"Yo, I can't see it, Brother Zhao, you are such a righteous person?"

Aunt Bai quipped, and seeing Zhao Guoji's embarrassed face, Fang Zhengse said: "Now I have handed over the business of viewing the house to your brother Zhuzi." But since it is to be secluded, I vaguely heard him mention that there is a courtyard in Liangjia Lane, which is secluded, but the yard is larger, and it is next to the outside of the city, and it has been empty for a while. However, the house is well repaired, the yard is paved with bricks, and there is no worry about rain, and the asking price is not low, five taels of silver for rent. ”

Zhao Guoji listened to it and hurriedly said: "I'm not afraid of the big yard, it's just too far." ”

"It's so far away? It's so secluded and so close that I can't really remember it for a while. ”

Aunt Bai frowned and thought for a moment, and asked casually: "You don't have a female dependant at home, even if it's a few steps away, shouldn't it matter?"

Jia Cong's little nose wrinkled, turned his head to Jia Huan, and complained in a low voice: "If the house he rented is too far away, won't we be able to go over to play in the future?"

Jia Huan looked like an adult, and sighed loudly: "Alas!"

Zhao Guoji arched his hand and said: "Please ask my aunt to bother more for me." Don't hide it from my aunt, I'm renting now, if I like it appropriately, I will buy it in the future. ”

Aunt Bai thought again: "There is also a house, it is in Willow Lane, which was originally an official's abandoned garden, it is very quiet inside and outside, the mountains and rocks and flowers and plants, the area is quite large, and there is living water, but the house is too small and not cost-effective." ”

Jia Cong heard the word "waste garden", his eyes lit up instantly, he wore a trip to the Red Mansion, did not visit the Grand View Garden, visited the garden in the book, it was like going to Beijing without seeing the □□, and he always felt that something was missing.

Now the Grand View Garden has not been built, the original garden of Rongguo Mansion, the early circle has been changed to Jia Yu's yard, although it is also a flower and tree support, but Jia Yu's concubines are numerous, the house has long been not enough to live, and it has been expanded again and again, even if there is still a little scenery, in the ridicule and abuse of chickens and geese, it has lost its artistic conception.

The Huifang Garden of Ningguo Mansion is famous in the book, but when Jia Zhen's family invited everyone from Rongfu to the banquet, no one would remember to bring Jia Cong or Jia Cong. No one deliberately targets it, just ignores it as a matter of course.

Therefore, Jia Cong has been wearing it for some time, but he only went to the street to appreciate the ancient market style, and he was not fortunate enough to see the original scenery of the ancient garden.

Now that I hear that there is a house that has been converted from an abandoned garden, Jia Cong inevitably feels itchy and wants to go sightseeing.

However, Jia Cong has an adult soul, although he is curious, he knows the importance of it, and the garden scenery is good, but compared with the money scene, it is nothing, and the wealth is moving! Zhao Guoji hesitated for a moment, and said with difficulty: "Willow Lane...... It doesn't seem too close, huh?"

Aunt Bai laughed: "You kid is really confused, why did you forget that there is a shortcut in Willow Lane? ”

Zhao Guoji suddenly touched his head and said, "I haven't been there for a long time, I can't remember." ”

Saying that, Zhao Guoji pondered for a while, rubbed his hands and said: "This house is a garden, and I want to rent ......."

Aunt Bai waved her hand and smiled, pointed outside, and whispered: "The master of the house is a lifter, blind and deaf in reading, and rushed to Beijing to take the entrance examination. Later, he fell off the list, and his father died, not to blame himself for not reading the book thoroughly, but he said that he was unlucky, and found a fortune teller to calculate, but it turned out that this house was in his way. Originally, it was only sold and not rented, but such a house, the house is narrow, who would like to buy this, and those who read are taboo Feng Shui. The man hurried back to his hometown, fearing that the house would be uninhabited for a long time, and the beams and trees would be rotten, and even more worthless, so he relented and rented it...... You don't study the imperial examination, and you don't think the house is small, but you don't have these taboo concerns, and the rent is higher, but if you look at the suitability, it is not without room for discussion. ”

"This ...... Or go into the house and see it...... My annoying aunt and eldest brother pay more attention to a few places for me. ”

Zhao Guoji pondered for a moment and smiled at Aunt Bai. "Look at my old foolishness, it's time to like it. Don't worry, when the pillar comes back, I will tell him that he has been home outside all the time, well-informed, and there is no house that he doesn't know, and he will definitely be able to find you who agrees. When I have the news, I will deliver it to you. ”

After deciding the matter, seeing that the sun was sinking in the west, Zhao Guoji didn't dare to take Jia Cong and Jia Huan to hang out anymore, and hurriedly led the two back to the house.

However, two days later, Bai Yazi asked someone to bring a letter, saying that the house was there, and asked Zhao Guoji when he would go to see it?

Zhao Guoji told Jia Cong again, and Jia Cong took advantage of the time to pull Jia Huan together, and Zhao Guoji took him to see the house, and followed Bai Yazi all the way to see more than a dozen houses, Jia Cong didn't like it.

It's either too close to the street, or it's uninhabited, or the neighborhood is too welcoming, or it doesn't feel right.

In short, it is a little far from the door of Jia Cong's imagination, not disturbing each other, and living a dull life.

Before Jia Cong wondered if he was too demanding, he finally saw a house in Willow Lane, which was the house that Aunt Bai had introduced with not very good feng shui.

The renovation of the abandoned garden proves that there are not many neighbors around, and the decay of the willows and willows in it, the dry grass chirping, and the yin qi is pressing, and it proves that the feng shui is not good, and the neighbors who are a little more enthusiastic are not very willing to come to the door to hang out.

Of course, Jia Cong is most satisfied with the fact that this house was originally an abandoned garden of the official eunuch's family, although it has been rebuilt, but the general structure has not changed much, the pavilion that leads the water around, the pavilion built by the mountain, the pond is flooding, and the breeze is rippling.

Now the pavilions and pavilions are gone, but most of the water in the mountain stone pond is still the same, the people who rebuilt it at the beginning, it is estimated that they have insufficient energy to completely transport out the mountain stone and fill the pond water.

Therefore, I can only forcibly make a courtyard with two entrances all the way, and the price is that the room is extremely compact and the layout is also very strange.

Except for some people who will feel secluded and elegant, the first image of a normal person when they see this house is definitely that they will definitely get rheumatism or claustrophobia after living for a long time.

However, Jia Cong doesn't care about the number of rooms, the rooms are small, it doesn't matter, the three rooms of Xuetanchun are opened into one, and no matter how generous it is.

As for rheumatism, without this pool of water, Jia Cong is still not satisfied?

This pond water leads to river water, and when the business becomes bigger in the future, you can buy a house, and you can get a small wharf with a slight change, and it is very convenient and hidden to transport goods in and out.

After seeing the house and negotiating the price for two days, Jia Cong and others followed Yazi to the landlord and wrote a deed to rent the house, paying eighteen taels of silver in advance and six taels of monthly rent.

Jia Cong didn't ask for the extra two taels of silver, so Zhao Guoji gave Yazi a drink.

After renting a house, Jia Cong didn't bother the two masters, and bought two stupid boys from Bai Yazi, and originally wanted to buy a big-footed woman who did laundry and cooking.

But Baiyazi didn't have it, so I went to outsiders to buy it, and I was afraid that I would buy something with bad character, so I gave up for the time being.

After cleaning the house, Zhao Guoji found an ordinary restaurant according to the customs of Beijing, ordered two tables of banquets, invited the neighbors to eat, and then moved in.

Jia Cong rented this house, naturally not for Zhao Guoji to live and play, and as soon as the set raw materials were delivered, he began to experiment with the formula of soap.

However, Jia Cong didn't let Zhao Guoji be idle, he asked Zhao Guoji to ask around where the gentleman taught well, and whether he was willing to make up some tuition fees in his free time?

This is not Jia Cong's plan to study hard for the imperial examination.

Jia Cong is a generation that grew up under the cramming education of the head cantilever cone.

When he was studying, there was no education advocated by the Chinese people, except for studying or studying, there were no sports activities, leisure and entertainment, and even playing a soldier ball and watching a movie would be scolded and discouraged.

finally climbed out of the mountain of books, although Jia Cong will also miss the life at that time, but let him continue this kind of hard reading days, his brain is not broken.

However, like everyone who has come from being bored with learning, Jia Cong also adheres to the mentality of wanting them to study and progress towards his younger generations.

Perhaps in the eyes of some people, this is the hopeless sustenance of the loser, but there is no doubt that this is also a profound lesson learned after hitting the head and bleeding in the face of reality.

Although Jia Cong jokingly called Jia Huan his younger brother, in fact, Jia Cong regarded Jia Huan as a junior, so it was natural that he chose the most promising path in ancient times for Jia Huan.

It doesn't matter if Jiafu's family learns the wrong people's children, there are good gentlemen outside, and if they have money, they are afraid that they won't be able to hire a gentleman who is willing to teach seriously? Anyway, everyone in Rongfu is happy to see Jia Huan skipping school.

As for what Jia Huan did after skipping school, no one really cares.

Compared with copying scriptures for Mrs. Wang in the house, Jia Cong felt that it was better for Jia Huan to make up classes outside the house.

Jia Cong wanted to ask Zhao Guoji to invite Mr., although Zhao Guoji didn't know the reason, he didn't dare not be unsatisfied, so he ran around to inquire.

In the evening of this day, Zhao Guoji turned into the back street of Rongguofu, and was hurrying with his head down, when he was suddenly slapped on the neck, and people laughed: "You kid is here, you can make me easy to find!"

Zhao Guoji looked back, Ni Er?

Instantly, his face turned white with fright.