Cui Ping was a little embarrassed, as the saying goes, a wife is not as good as a concubine, of course he wants the concubine to sit down, but his wife is next to him! He can't be the master.

Pei Shi pretended not to hear, she raised her glass with both hands and said with a smile: "General Li, today's hospitality is not good, I neglected you, this glass of wine is a gift from my housewife to General Li." ”

"Where! Where! Madame is too polite, I am the one who disturbs me today. ”

Li Qing'an said a few polite words and had a toast with the couple, at this time, Pei Shi stood up and said, "General Li, please use it slowly, I will be out of company." ”

She smiled and bowed slightly, gave the concubine a look, and the two retreated together.

Li Qing'an watched her walk into the inner room, then nodded, and smiled at Cui Ping: "Why don't you set up your own door?" ”

Cui Ping sighed, "I'm ashamed to say it!" My father-in-law married his daughter to me, I thought I could have any interest, but now I don't even have a house, and I have to live in the Cui family's mansion. ”

Recently, Li Qingan also had the idea of buying a house, and he couldn't help but ask with great interest: "I don't know how the housing prices in Chang'an are now?" ”

Referring to the house price, Cui Ping shook his head and said with a wry smile: "This house price and rice price synchronization, Tianbao first year, rice is only ten Wen, a house is only a hundred money, like Chongye, Jingshan, Xuanyi, Lanling, these few Feng Shui best workshops, but this year the price of rice has risen to 55 Wen per bucket, and the house price has also increased fivefold, last month, I looked at a three-acre house located in Fengle Fang, more than 20 houses, the opening price is 700 guan, even if the counteroffer, at least 600 guan is wanted, where can ordinary people afford it, hey! I'm also a member of Liupin, and when it comes to scenery, I don't even have my own house. ”

"Doesn't the staff have a good fortune and a Yongye field? Why can't you even afford a house? Li Qingan said with a smile.

"Hey! Don't mention it. Cui Ping waved his hand and said: "According to the routine system, I have five acres of job field, two acres and fifty acres of Yongye field, which may have been the case before, but now, this is just a quota, in fact, the court only gave me less than half, and I have to buy the rest myself, in fact, even if I give it all, it will only be one or two hundred yuan of income a year, and I have to adjust the wind and rain to do it, where is this enough to buy a house?" Besides, I have two times a month, 100 stones of rice every year, plus the money of the public party, it is only 100 yuan a year, I have saved for a few years, married a wife and concubine, and has spent almost enough, and I can't make ends meet! ”

The more Cui Ping spoke, the more depressed he became, "How can it be like your border army, as long as you fight and make meritorious contributions, a reward of a few thousand taels of silver, and a reward of a few hundred silks, we are just working hard." ”

Li Qingan held the wine glass, he suddenly remembered that although he had been promoted, the post field and Yongye field did not seem to have increased, and it was still a few acres of thin fields in Bahuan City, and no one had mentioned the salary and rice to him, could it be that they wanted to rely on my Lao Li's salary?

"Don't worry, take your time, by the way, how much money do you have to buy a house?"

"Don't mention it! Don't mention it! Cui Ping waved his hand again and again, he was not a little bit worse, how could he open his mouth, although he was embarrassed to borrow money, but he had to find a chance to ask Li Qingan to help, otherwise this meal would be in vain.

Cui Ping poured another glass of wine for Li Qing'an and said with a smile: "I persuaded General Li to buy a house in Chang'an as soon as possible, this house price is with the price of rice, I heard my father-in-law say that this year, Jianghuai suffered a big flood, and there was a drought in the east of the river, and the price of rice will definitely rise after the year, and the house price will also rise." ”

"Won't it come down?"

"Drop?" Cui Ping shook his head and said: "It's not the Kaiyuan period now, it's easy to rise and it's hard to fall!" ”

Hearing Cui Ping's words, Li Qingan secretly thought: "I am going to buy a house in the past two days." ’

"And if I want to buy a fully furnished house with a back garden, how much does that cost?"

"If it is with a back garden, it is at least five acres, I know of one, located in Qinrenfang, the price is 1,000 yuan, and the price is a little more, at least not less than 900 yuan."

"Hmmm! Then when did the member Wailang introduce me to the introduction? ”

"That's no problem, I know the seller, I'll tell you about it tomorrow."

The two drank a few more glasses of wine, and at this time, Li Qingan asked with a smile intentionally or unintentionally: "I heard that Cui Youcheng's son will be admitted to the Jinshi next year, is there such a thing?" ”

Cui Ping was stunned for a moment, and said with a dumb smile: "Where did General Li hear the rumors, my uncle's eldest son Cui Yao is an official in a foreign country, and the second son Cui Ming died of illness two years ago, and he has no other sons, but he has two daughters." ”

"Oh! It's a pity to die young, it's a pity to leave orphans and widows, which is sad. ”

"It's worse than this, my cousin is about to get married, the other party is the granddaughter of Jiang Jiao, the former Duke of Chu, although the family is ruined, but because it is a marriage since childhood, and the woman is good-looking, so the Cui family decided to marry her and enter the door, that is, he planned to use Xilai to fight the illness, but Cui Ming died of illness two days before the marriage, leaving a widow."

"Then she can't remarry?" Li Qingan smiled: "I'm just a little curious, just ask, I don't mean anything else." ”

"Generally, you can remarry, anyway, you haven't really passed the door, as long as the woman's parents propose it, the marriage contract can be dissolved, but my Cui family doesn't want the widow to remarry, so they resolutely refuse to withdraw from the marriage."

As soon as Cui Ping said this, he suddenly saw the lady beckoning to him in the inner room, he quickly got up and said with a smile: "General Li sit down for a while, I will come when I go." ”

"Outsider, please!"

Cui Ping walked into the inner room quickly, and he was about to ask, but Pei Shi pulled him into the room and said in a low voice: "Why do I think that this General Li is here for your cousin." ”

Cui Ping frowned, and hurriedly asked, "How do you see it?" ”

"Based on my intuition, isn't that Jiang Wuyi very peugeot? I guess this General Li must have taken a fancy to her. ”

Cui Ping hesitated for a moment and said, "If that's the case, he came to the door to ask me?" ”

"That's right! So you have to be bold and make conditions, and he will agree. ”

"But my uncle may not be willing to agree, and my grandmother, she has always been resolute in not allowing the woman to remarry."

"Don't think about this, let him help you first, and talk about that woman's affairs later."

Pei Shi pushed him, "Go quickly!" Remember, make demands. ”

Cui Ping nodded, returned to the dinner table, he laughed dryly, raised his wine glass and said, "Come!" General Li, I'll give you another drink. ”

"I respect you too."

The two had a drink, Li Qingan couldn't find a topic to ask Jiang Wuyi about it for a while, Cui Ping squeezed his fists, and suddenly smiled: "General Li, I have something I want to ask you for a favor, I don't know if I can ...... it."

Li Qingan smiled: "Tell me, if I can do it, I will definitely agree." ”

"That's the case, I am a Jinshi in the first year of Tianbao, belonging to the Qing capital official, can be promoted to more than five grades, but the five grades are a big threshold, it is too difficult to rise, you have to have political achievements, and I spend every year in Shangshu Province, do the same thing every day, do the right work, do wrong, to make some political achievements, it is really difficult, and I am with another staff member Zheng Deyu, who has been a member of the staff for 20 years, is not to break the threshold of the five products, I thought, if I can be transferred to the field as an official, Maybe I'll be able to make some political achievements. ”

Li Qingan blinked and smiled: "I understand what Wailang means, but I'm just an officer in Anxi, and I don't know any high-ranking officials in the ministry, how can I help you?" ”

Cui Ping hurriedly said: "Of course I know that General Li can't do it himself, but..."

Speaking of the word 'but', Cui Ping smiled a little embarrassedly, "As long as General Li helps me with this, I will definitely try my best to help General Li inquire about today." ”

Li Qingan picked up his wine glass and glanced at Pei Shi who was hiding behind the door, he squinted and smiled: "How do you want me to help you?" ”

Cui Ping was overjoyed, and hurriedly approached Li Qing'an, and said in a low voice: "As long as General Li says a ...... to Gao Weng"

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