"Hey, Brother Li, there's a piece of paper posted here, it may be a notice from the government!"

Xu Xian'er pointed to a yellow-brown piece of paper on the wall not far away and said.

Li Dang took a closer look, and sure enough, it was an old notice, obviously because of the sun and rain, the text on the notice was a little blurry, but Li Dang still roughly saw the content on it.

The notice said that the annex of this Cai Mansion had been confiscated a few days ago, and now the Hangzhou Mansion has been entrusted by the Third Division to conduct a public bidding auction of this courtyard, and the person with the highest bid can become the owner of this courtyard.

"Great!" Li Dang clapped his hands and said: "Zhong Lingyu is beautiful here, the scenery is unique, if you can have a big yard here, you can go boating on the lake in your spare time, I am afraid that even the gods will be envious of that day." This time, I must buy this house for my husband. ”

Li Dang knew that in the Northern Song Dynasty, after the official eunuchs committed crimes and their residences were confiscated, there were often three ways to dispose of them, either confiscating them for public use, or the emperor transferring them to other ministers, or selling them by public bidding and turning them into cash.

The government has a set of strict regulations on public bidding, which is often carried out in the form of hidden bidding, and the one with the highest price wins the open bidding. The bidding procedures and requirements for this type of implicit bidding are almost identical to those of later generations.

"This is really a wonderful place, I heard that after Tao Zhu Gong Fan Li returned to seclusion, he and Xi Shi Niangzi lived in both habitats, and built a house by the West Lake, I don't know if it is in the lonely mountain?" Wen Wan also agreed with Li Kang's proposal.

"It's a pity!" Li Dang sighed, "I just don't know the date of the bidding, and I don't know if the registration time has passed." ”

The second half of this notice. The handwriting of the date of the public tender and the relevant procedures was so vague that the three of them could distinguish it for a long time. I just didn't see it clearly.

"It should be fine!" Xu Xian'er stroked the notice with her jade-like fingers, turned back to Li Dang and Wen Wan and said, "The seal on this door is still intact. I guess this courtyard hasn't been auctioned yet, so let's go to the government to have a look, maybe it's still too late. ”

Li Dang nodded, he had no interest in touring, and he was about to go back with Wen Xu and the others.

"Robbery, someone robbed the carriage!"

Li Kang and Wen Wan had just returned to the Duanjia Bridge, only to hear their coachman shouting loudly.

Someone actually started the carriage for his own travel, Li Dang was furious, and strode towards the place where the carriage was parked.

Got to the carriage. Li Dang fixed his eyes and saw that a stout and tall young man, holding a long whip in his hand, had just untied the reins of a banyan tree tied to the shore and was about to turn over and get on his horse.

And the coachman who had brought him fell to the ground, not knowing what kind of blow he had suffered, and he couldn't get up, his hands and feet were swinging, and he was just shouting for help.

"Leave the carriage!"

Li dared to take an arrow step. He threw a punch and slammed it into the boy's head.

"Huh!"

From the cold wind brought out by Li Kang's punch, the young man sensed that Li Kang's strength was very great. He didn't dare to take it hard, and hurriedly shrank his head to dodge.

Li Dare did not give up and continued to shoot with his legs. He saw that the young man's martial arts were not weak, and he used almost all the strength of this foot, and he saw everywhere his toes went. Carrying sand and sand and gravel, he attacked the boy's lower plate.

The boy looked burly, but his hands and feet were very nimble. He saw Li Dare come over. Hurriedly pulling the reins on his hand, a tall leap up. The body somersaulted in the air and landed impartially on the horse's back.

"Brother!" The young man bowed his hand to Li Dang: "I'm sorry, Wu has something important to do, borrow your carriage and use it, and you will pay it back the next day!" ”

The young man said, waved his whip, scolded, and galloped wildly.

"Be careful! Get out of the way! ”

Li Dang fell short, and as soon as he stood up, he saw the carriage galloping in the direction of the broken bridge like a cannonball. And on the broken bridge, there are two unmarried ladies who are standing with their own disgraced faces. Li Dang shouted a warning as he hurried forward, trying to catch the wheels of the carriage.

"Ahh

Xu Xian'er and Wen Wan saw the carriage galloping towards them, and neither of them knew how to dodge, so they closed their eyes and hugged each other tightly.

Ten zhang, three zhang, three feet!

Seeing that the carriage was about to crash into Xu Xian'er and Wen Wan.

"Appeal ......"

The young man snapped softly, and pulled the reins tightly with both hands, only to see the gray-brown horse stand up, and take several steps back before slowly dropping its front hooves.

The boy seemed to be glued to the horse's back, but it didn't fall, but the carriage behind him slammed into the horse's ass due to inertia.

"Up!"

Li Kang had already arrived, he held the wheel in his hand, roared, and lifted the whole carriage up, unloading the momentum of the carriage rushing forward.

I saw that the two carriages were idling, and the carriage did not enter at all.

"What a handsome kung fu!"

The young man exclaimed, he knew that he couldn't walk for a while, so he rolled off the horse and fought with Li Dang.

The two fought back and forth for more than a dozen rounds, where to tell the winner.

"Be careful!"

Xu Xian'er and Wen Wan had already come to their senses, and the two stood aside, cheering for Li Dang. In a hurry, they no longer called Li Dare Brother Li, but called out the name they wanted to call the most.

"Two ladies, stand back!"

Li Dare shouted loudly, he was afraid that this young man would capture Xu Xian'er or Wen Wan and threaten him as a hostage.

Li Dang obviously misjudged this young man, although he secretly glanced at Xu Xian'er and Wen Wan a few times, and there was an envious expression on his face, his footsteps did not move in the direction where the two of them were.

"Phew!"

Li Dang forced the young man back with a punch, and he himself took a few steps back, and said loudly: "Since Your Excellency has something important to do, why do you still want to fight with Li!" ”

The young man was stunned, he found that what Li Dang said was very reasonable, but when he saw that Li Dang was superb in martial arts, he just had some itchy hands and wanted to share the victory with Li Dang.

Li Dang saw that the young man was silent, and continued: "If Your Excellency wants to learn from Li, you can choose a day, why rush!" ”

The young man's eyes were dim, he found that what Li Dang said was not unreasonable, he nodded, suddenly his eyes flashed, and he pointed at Li Dang and said, "I really have something to do, can Brother Tai lend me the carriage temporarily?" ”

Li Dang shook his head: "This carriage is only rented by Li temporarily, but if Your Excellency really cares, Li can pay for this carriage!" ”

The young man raised his eyebrows and said happily: "Is that brother really willing to borrow my carriage?" ”

Li Dang still shook his head, he said: "Li sees that Your Excellency is superb in riding, since Li has decided to buy this carriage, and now there is a shortage of coachmen, if Your Excellency is interested, I am willing to temporarily hire Your Excellency as a coachman!" ”

"What do you mean?" The boy asked.

"Naturally, we will go back with Your Excellency to deal with urgent matters first, and then Brother Tai will send us back to our destination!" Li dared to say.

"No, no!" The young man's head shook quickly: "I'm going to be dangerous, I'm afraid it's not good to implicate my brother!" ”

"Li, I have never been a person who is afraid of things!" Li Dang said loudly.

The young man looked at Li Kang, Li Kang's arrogant and domineering appearance made him feel a little uncomfortable, or it hurt his self-esteem, he looked at Li Kang, raised his head and said, "Brother Tai, do you know who Wu is?" ”

Without waiting for Li to answer, the young man's head was raised higher: "In Xia Wusong!" The surname is Wu, and the single name is a loose character! ”

"Good, good! You are Wu Song, and Li is looking for you to be a coachman! Li Dare laughed. (To be continued......)