Old lady Qu is now in a hurry to wait for money, and with his decades of experience in officialdom, he knows that the official reinstatement of a six-rank official like him, and taking out 300 yuan, is already a big deal, and it is basically a sure thing. With two hundred left, you can also buy a decent small mansion in the capital. At the moment, he arched his hand and said: "Ling Lang's marriage, you don't need to tell the old man to help." It's just that the old man doesn't believe in his words, and he goes back on his word, which is really embarrassing. ”

"The old man's words are not right, the old man must not underestimate the matter of looking for a daughter-in-law for the dog, I am afraid that when the time comes, I will have to work hard, my legs and feet will be broken, and my mouth will be dry. If you can marry a good couple, the Zuo family will benefit a lot! ”

The old lady who said a few words couldn't close her mouth, and arched her hand: "Don't worry, with the sponsorship of the old man Zhu, plus the acquaintance of a group of old friends, it shouldn't be difficult to find a good daughter-in-law with the right house." ”

Zuo Gui's father laughed again: "It's just a good match, I'm afraid it's not ......."

"I know, if you can accept a concubine, Lao Yu understands that this matter is related to Zhi'er's lifelong happiness, in fact, Lao Yu is more anxious than you!"

The two looked at each other and laughed.

Old lady Qu said again: "However, this mansion is indeed only worth 400 yuan, I can't accept your high price of 500 yuan, and it is also a matter of duty to find a daughter-in-law for Ling Lang, even if you want to thank the media, it is not as huge as 100 yuan, but the old decay does need money." In this way, this hundred yuan is considered an old loan, and when the old official is reinstated, this money must be repaid. ”

Zuo Gui's father pushed it a few more times, but the old lady Qu insisted on refusing to overcharge, so he had to promise to buy a house for 400 yuan, borrow 100 yuan, and return it to the Qu family in the future.

After saying goodbye from Old Man Qu's house, Liang asked, "Master, where did we get so much money?" All the money in the family adds up, only seventy-eight and a few hundred wen, and I have to prepare for you to wrap up. ”

"Don't we have good land?"

"Huh? Selling the land? ”

"Yes, we have 170 acres of private land, and now the price of one acre of land has risen to 60 acres, and we only need to sell 80 acres. - At the beginning, we didn't agree to buy the land, but Zhong'er insisted on buying it, and now the price of the land has risen so many times, it is really a windfall. It is also thanks to these fields, otherwise, I would really worry about where to find this huge amount of money. Now, sell 80 acres of land and buy this old house, we also have a decent house, and we can also get back a good daughter-in-law who is satisfied, this business is cost-effective! ”

Zuo Shaoyang suddenly said: "You can't sell it!" ”

"What did you say?" Zuo Gui and his wife asked in unison.

"I said I couldn't sell the land!"

"Why?"

"The price of land will rise! Now it's a loss! ”

"If you don't sell the land, where will you find this money?"

"Sell grain!" Zuo Shaoyang said, "We now have almost 1,000 acres of land, even if we collect rent according to 40%, according to the price of grain before the war, we can receive thousands of yuan, and in another month or two we will harvest in the autumn, find a way to borrow money first, and then sell the grain and return it." ”

Zuo Gui's father groaned: "Your brother-in-law said, now the uniform field system, every household has a field, plus the official army helps spring plowing and sowing, today so far it is a good wind and rain, today's autumn harvest should be a bumper harvest, and I am afraid that the price of grain will fall." ”

"Yes, no matter how much it drops, it won't drop to five cents a bucket, right? Even if it is reduced by half, there will still be 500 pieces. ”

Zuo Shaoyang remembered that the history teacher said that as one of the signs of the richest era in history, the price of grain was extremely low, reaching an unprecedented price of five cents per bucket of rice! The teacher didn't say what year this happened in Zhenguan, maybe he said, Zuo Shaoyang didn't remember it. But it shouldn't be the first few years of Zhenguan.

In the past, Zuo Gui's father didn't care much about grain prices and field prices, but now that he has to use money, he has to care. Wen Yan nodded and said, "This is reasonable, but if you want to borrow, where can you borrow it?" ”

Zuo Shaoyang was confident: "Shopkeeper Yu!" Ask him to borrow it, and return it after selling grain in the autumn of two months, and the interest rate will be set by him, so it should not be very high. You can use the house as collateral! ”

Father Zuo nodded slowly: "Well, Shopkeeper Yu can get this money." There's still half an hour before the curfew, let's go, let's go now! ”

Shopkeeper Yu was very happy, after listening, without saying a word, he immediately asked his son to take out a box, which was full of silver ingots, and said that it was inconvenient for them to go all the way to the capital, and it was inconvenient to carry copper coins, so all the silver taels were given, a full five hundred taels. If you don't sign the document, don't mortgage it, just say it and count. And after the autumn, only the principal will be repaid, and not a penny of interest will be required.

The Zuo family was overjoyed, and after thanking them, they immediately went to the Qu family's old house with a box of money.

The old man Qu was very happy to see that they got the money so quickly, and immediately took out the house deed, immediately found Li Zheng as Zhongzheng, signed the deed of buying and selling the house, collected the house price, and delivered the house deed, so far, the old house of the Qu family was officially returned to the Zuo family. It's just that the Zuo family also took on a foreign debt of 400 yuan because of this.

I used to owe nine guan money, and I haven't changed it for several years, and I was almost swept out of the house in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and now I owe four hundred guan, Zuo Shaoyang doesn't feel anything, but Zuo Gui and his wife are hanging in their hearts, fortunately, there are still thousands of acres of good land, and there is a mansion here, it's a big deal to sell the mansion, and it can still be repaid.

After completing the house delivery procedures, Mrs. Qu wrote another 100 IOUs to Zuo Gui's father. Zuo Gui accepted the guilt. The two families agreed that the next day, the old lady Qu's family and the Zuo family would go to the capital together.

Because it may take a long time to think about going, I brought Bai Zhihan with me to take care of Zuo Shaoyang.

When it came to renting a carriage, the two families went to the medicine cabinet together and discussed renting two more carriages from their medicine store.

Zhu Yao's medicine store often has to run business, and there will be no shortage of carriages, so he immediately agreed, and sent two carriages to transport Old Man Qu's family to the capital the next day.

After the agreement, the family returned to the Qu family's old house, and when they passed by the fragrant tea shop, Zuo Shaoyang blinked his eyes and saw Huang Qin closing the door of the tea shop, his expression was very indifferent and desolate, and it was distressing to look at. Counting it, it is more or less his own fault, and under the agitation of the mood, he said: "Dad, you go back first, I'll go to the tea shop to talk to my little sister, if you say it's late, you miss the curfew, you may live in the tea shop, don't worry, I'll come back tomorrow morning at five watches." ”

Zuo Gui's father and they knew that they were only afraid that it would take some time for the couple to part, and they had some regrets to say goodbye, so they nodded and agreed.

Zuo Shaoyang came to the door of the tea shop, Huang Qin was about to go up to the last door panel, when she suddenly saw a person standing in the night, she was startled, and when she saw that it was Zuo Shaoyang, she was about to speak, but she saw that Zuo Shaoyang raised a food signal to silence her, and hurriedly stopped talking again, looking at him.

Zuo Shaoyang walked over and said in a low voice, "Let's go to the river and talk, okay?" Just go where we went last time. I'm going to the capital tomorrow, and I'm afraid it will be months before I get back. I have something to say to you. ”

Huang Qin looked at him and fixed herself.

At this time, Sang Xiaomei's voice came from the back room: "Sister-in-law! Come and eat! ――Is there anyone outside? Immediately there was a sound of footsteps, and when I heard the footsteps, I knew that it was Sang Xiaomei.

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly pointed to himself, and then pointed in the direction of the river, and then turned around and hid in the dark night in the corner of the house.

Sang Xiaomei poked out, saw that the street was empty, and said, "I said, it will be curfew in a while, how can there be people, close the door and eat." ”

Huang Qin silently closed the last door panel of the store.

Zuo Shaoyang came out of the corner of the house, glanced at the closed door of the tea shop, walked quickly across the street, turned into the alley and came to Qingfeng Temple, bypassed the temple, and went down to the river.

It was raining lightly, Zuo Shaoyang didn't bring an umbrella, although the rain was light, but after a long time, his head and shoulders were quickly wet. Fortunately, it is a hot summer, the weather is very hot, and the rain just feels cooler.

Zuo Shaoyang stood by the river, looking at the way he came and waiting.

It was dark and raining, so I couldn't see the situation in the distance, but I guess I could feel it when a figure came by, or I could hear the sound of stepping on the pebbles.

But no, nothing, except for the drizzling rain and the roar of the river.

The bang rang, it was a notice that there was a curfew coming soon, and the people outside should go home as soon as possible.

Still didn't see Huang Qin's figure, Zuo Shaoyang sighed, lowered his head and walked back. After walking through the river beach and on the grass path, you will be on the verge of arriving at Seifuji Temple. Suddenly, he saw a figure under a small tree, thin and slender, who stood up and asked, "Who?" - Sister-in-law? ”

The figure came over, walked past him, and through the dim light in the distance, he saw clearly that it was indeed Huang Qin. She went to the river without saying a word.

Zuo Shaoyang followed behind, stepping on the cobblestones, crookedly, and said: "Sister-in-law Qin, don't go, just say it here, it's curfew soon, we won't be able to go back if we delay it any longer!" ”

Huang Qin didn't seem to hear it, and just walked forward.

Zuo Shaoyang had no choice but to follow, after the two came to the river, she did not stop, walked up along the river, it seemed that she was the only one strolling by the river, as if she didn't know that there was a Zuo Shaoyang behind her.

After walking for a while, I heard the sound of bangs, and the curfew officially began.

Zuo Shaoyang seemed to be talking to himself: "It's a curfew, I can't go back, I can only stay by the river for one night, don't go forward, it will be troublesome to be seen by the night patrol!" ”

Huang Qin still didn't hear it, and continued to walk along the river. Zuo Shaoyang had no choice but to follow nervously, thinking that if he was patrolled by the river and found himself alone with his sister-in-law, he would be full of mouth and couldn't tell. He regretted that the decision was a little hasty.

At this moment, Huang Qin turned around and walked straight into the river, dripping with water, which startled Zuo Shaoyang, and said urgently: "Sister-in-law Qin, what are you going to do?" ”

Huang Qin ignored it, and walked towards the center of the river with the water, her long skirt dragging on the water, floating down the water.

(To be continued)