Chang'an City, which is about to enter winter in late autumn, is not lonely at all.

The layers of fallen leaves on the official road outside the city are woven into a large heavy carpet, and this carpet is constantly filled with pedestrians.

A convoy accompanied the pedestrians in the distance, the car in front of it was moving more and more slowly, and the curtain of the car behind it was lifted, revealing a head with a black face and narrow eyes, and then a tall little lady jumped out of the car.

She looked at the tall walls of Chang'an City from afar, and exclaimed in her mouth: "This is Chang'an, it's really big!" ”

Another little lady who was almost the same jumped out of the car, and said as she walked: "How many bricks and stones do you need to build such a tall wall?" ”

In the car in front of her, a long, white, tender and handsome little lady poked her head out and beckoned to the two: "Seventh sister, eighth sister, come and talk." ”

The two little ladies smiled and agreed, and jumped into the carriage in front of them after they went up, and the people in the carriage lifted the curtain of the carriage, and several people looked at the city wall that did not know how many miles long.

These people are naturally the Qi family, and the people who spoke before were naturally Qi Baoling and Qi Baobox, and it was Yun Yao who called people behind.

Qi Baoling sat on the edge of the wheel, put his legs down, and a pair of big feet swayed twice from time to time, but his eyes looked at the city wall of Chang'an City from time to time: "How many bricks and stones do you have to build this, and how many manpower can you build it?" ”

Qi Baobox smiled: "Anyway, there are a lot of bricks, who knows how many." ”

Yun Yao thought about it, and already had a number in her heart, but she showed Qi Baoling the same analysis with her fingers: "I heard that the city wall of Chang'an City is nine thousand zhang in circumference and three zhang high. Thick two zhang, today's blue brick size is about four inches high, two and a half inches thick, so, to one zhang long zhang high city wall to calculate, about 20,000 bricks, so three zhang high city wall to use 60,000 bricks, 60,000 times 9,000 zhang is 540 million bricks. ”

"How much does that cost?"

No one thought that Yun Yao only glanced at it and instantly calculated how many bricks were used in the entire Chang'an City, not to mention Qi Jing and Baoling sisters, even the coachman listened.

"It's not easy to fire green bricks. Nowadays, it is labor-intensive and expensive. Five bricks for a penny, if you calculate it this way, you can buy five thousand bricks for one tael of silver, then. 500,000,000 bricks are 500,000 taels of silver. Forty million bricks are forty thousand taels of silver. This is just the price of masonry, and the labor cost is more expensive than masonry, so it can be regarded as 600,000 taels of silver. Coupled with the glutinous rice soup to be poured into the brick joints, a rough calculation shows that the city wall can only be built with 1.5 million taels of silver. ”

Yun Yao quickly calculated the accounts again, and then calculated the sales situation in her shop, as well as her own time and production capacity, and smiled: "Give me another four or five years, I estimate that I can also build such a city wall, if I can open a shop in Chang'an, I can make ...... in only two years."

Before she finished speaking, Yun Yao asked Qi Jing to cover her mouth: "Don't talk crazy, it's time to enter the city and put down the curtain." ”

Qi Baoling and Qi Baobox snickered: "Yes, it's almost into the city." ”

Baoling turned around and got into the car, stretched out his hand and lowered the curtain, and the car quickly arrived at the city gate, and slowly entered the city with the flow of people.

As soon as you enter Chang'an City, you feel that there is a world of difference from outside the city, although there are a lot of people outside the city, but there are really not too many, but the city is really crowded with people, the twenty zhang wide Suzaku Street is full of people, and the sound of small business on both sides of the road is even more so that people's ears can not have a moment of quiet.

Qi Jing opened the curtain and said to the coachman: "You go and inquire about how to get to Ping'an Fang, let's hurry home and clean up before making plans." ”

The coachman sighed and shouted to the car in front: "Zhou Da, inquire about how to get to Ping'an Fang." ”

The driver in front of him told the car to stop, Zhou Da jumped out of the car and asked the people on the side of the road a few words, and then got into the car and walked forward for about a quarter of an hour to turn around and head east.

Ping'an Fang is not difficult to find, along the east-facing road of more than five zhang walked for half an hour, and then turned north to arrive.

Most of the people living in Ping'an Fang are officials below the fifth grade, and most of them are Qingliu from poor families, so although the whole Ping'an Fang is clean and the street is wide, most of the houses are not big, and none of the houses are carved and painted to look magnificent.

From a distance, it is a gray and simple piece, with blue bricks and gray tiles arranged neatly, and more than a dozen roads criss-cross, looking like a chessboard.

The house that Yun Yao bought was in the sixth house in the second row to the north.

When the convoy arrived at the door of the house, Yun Yao poked her head out to look at the gatehouse, and when she saw the one she saw on the drawings, she confirmed that it was this one. She took out the key and asked someone to open the door, and the gate opened to give a glimpse of the front yard.

Qi Laoniu and Qi Gu also got out of the car, saw the door of the house open, and went straight into the yard, Qi Jing helped Yun Yao, and also got out of the car and entered the courtyard, and the Yinzhu sisters and peony peony followed.

In the first courtyard to go around, see that this courtyard is not spacious, in addition to the gatehouse in the south of the courtyard, there are a few inverted houses, there is a horse shed on the east side of the house, there is a small toilet on the west side, and there are five main houses in the north, Qi Gu looked at it a few times and smiled: "This is for the people to live, right?" ”

Yun Yao nodded: "I see, in the future, several coachmen and janitors will live here, although the place is not big, but there are few people in our family, this place is completely enough." ”

After a courtyard enters, push open a door on the east side of more than a zhang and enter the courtyard in turn, this two into is the residence of the head of the family, five main rooms, three wings on both sides, the yard is wide, the house is also built higher than the first entry, although it is also a building of blue bricks and gray tiles, but in the end it is neatly cleaned up, it is more elegant.

Two pomegranate trees were planted in the courtyard, a piece of bamboo was planted at the root of the south wall, and some flowers and plants were planted in a black clay pot.

Pushing the door into the house, the furnishings in the main house are not much different from the Qi family's house in the village, they are all cases, eight immortal tables, and some chairs and the like.

I have seen the second courtyard, the third courtyard is the residence of Qi Jing and Yun Yao, the main room is the hall and bedroom of two people, the east wing is Qi Jing's study, and the west wing is for the girls who serve the two.

There is also a small gate on the northwest side of the second courtyard, which opens to a small courtyard with a small garden, and the three small main houses in the courtyard seem to be the residence of the girl in the family.

The three courtyards are not the same as the one into the two, the three into two small courtyards, and a small garden, the fourth into three small courtyards, there is no garden, the fifth into only a few rooms built slightly, the rest of the place is a big garden.

There are no rockeries in the garden, and there are no small bridges and flowing water, all of which are planted with some ordinary flowers, and then some bonsai and the like, there is a small artificial lake on the west side, and a small pavilion is built by the lake, and there is nothing left, however, a few houses have been built on the north and east sides, which should also be a boudoir for the girls in the family.

The family expressed their satisfaction after seeing it, although the house is large, it can be ordinary everywhere, there is no outstanding place, it is very suitable for the identity of the family, and it will not provoke people and will not cause jealousy.

In addition, this house is really big, much larger than the houses in the Qi family's village, and the living is also very spacious.

After everyone had chosen the courtyard they wanted to live in, Yun Yao saw that she couldn't fire today, so she asked Song Xi to inquire and went to the nearest restaurant to ask for a few good banquets, and everyone came back to deal with it first, and waited for tomorrow to start cooking again.

Qi Jing and Qi Laoniu discussed, earlier there were few people in the family, and Liu's sister-in-law cooked alone, but now that there are many people, there must be a big kitchen, and there are a few more cooks.

In one day, Qi Gu took Yun Yao and Yinzhu to clean up the house, put away all the clothes and jewelry they brought, and the people seized the time to clean the courtyard, and cleaned up the original kitchen, added a lot of pots, stoves, chopsticks and the like, and bought some firewood to prepare for the fire.

Waiting for Qi Jing to buy people back, the family was almost the same, he asked the nursing homes he bought to unload the bulky items on the car, or use them by everyone, or put them in the warehouse, and they have been busy for several days, and the Qi family can be regarded as cleaning up, and there is no mistake.

Qi Gu and Yun Yao saw that the family was all in order, so they discussed warming the house first, and then went to visit the Guan family and the Xie family.

On this day, Qi Baozhu set the menu and handed it over to the kitchen, and the kitchen made several tables of dishes according to the menu, the family owner sat at one table, and the next person sat at two tables to eat a meal.

After warming the room, Yun Yao took peonies and peonies to pack some special products brought from Zhenting Mansion and small toys with local characteristics bought along the way, and then asked someone to go to the Guan family and the Xie family to send a post.

The Xie family soon had a reply, it was a mother-in-law of the Xie family who came with the girl, only saying that the old lady of the Xie family was waiting, and asked the Qi Gu family to come over whenever they wanted.

After that, the second wife of the Guan family also sent someone to speak, saying that she was not busy the day after tomorrow and invited the Qi family to come over to play.

On this day, Qi Gu asked Yun Yao to take the Sibao sisters to Guan's house, Yun Yao gave gifts after she passed, and thanked Guan Er Wife, Xie Guan Er Wife helped her buy a house, and sent someone to help guard the house and sweep the house.

Yun Yao is very good at talking, good looking, plus the things she gave are kind, the second wife Guan likes her very much, and the two of them talked a lot, and after that, Yun Yao proposed to ask the aunt of the Guan family to go to the Qi family to teach them some etiquette things.

Mrs. Guan Er should have heard Mrs. Guan San talk about it, and immediately said that she would send a trustworthy mother-in-law to invite Mrs. Guan Jiagu with Yun Yao.

After deciding this matter, Yun Yao didn't want to stay for a long time, and after saying a few words, she took the Four Treasure Sisters back.

After turning around and picking a time, Yun Yao went to a small mansion behind the Guanyin Temple with the mother-in-law of the Guan family to invite Mrs. Guan to her home. (To be continued.) )