The group walked in peace, only walked half a tea kung fu, entered Ningxi Lane, entered from the alley entrance, walked along the high vermilion wall and walked another tea kung fu, and followed Zhao Yuanxun to stop in front of a gate.

The vermilion gate is magnificent, and the brass doorman glows golden in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Except for Zhang Shun at the front, everyone else opened their mouths wide.

Even though Chen Xin already knew that Zhao Yuanxun lived in Ningxi Lane before he came, he was still very surprised.

It's not that he hasn't seen the vermilion gate, nor has he seen the doorman inlaid on the gate. Thinking about the long, tall wall they had just walked on, I felt a sense of suffocation in my heart.

This house occupies a lot of land.

Zhang Shun couldn't help but sigh when he saw everyone's surprised look.

I think that when Zhao Yuanxun first arrived, he and his acquaintances were invited to a banquet with their families, and when they saw this house, they were as surprised as these colleagues.

He was born in a poor family, even if he has been an official for more than ten years, and he has been greedy for a little silver, he just has a small amount of savings. If you want to buy a house like this, you need to give everything you have. Ke Rao has silver, and he is the prefect of Gusu Mansion, so it is not easy to buy such a house.

Who can live in this alley without a deep background? is a wealthy businessman, they are also imperial businessmen, and they are inextricably linked with the magnates in Beijing, but it is not something that a prefect with a very shallow foundation like him can shake. It's almost impossible to get them to move out and buy their home.

He has been an official for so many years, from the county order to the prefect, and basically lives in the back house attached to the yamen; Even if the yamen is too broken, they buy a house to live in, and they always enter the courtyard in one or two times.

Thinking of the performance of his wife and children when they saw this house that day and went inside to enter the city like a hillbilly, Zhang Shun's heart was extremely sour.

The children of the poor family, compared with the noble family, what is worse than the background?

"Lord Zhang, Lord Hu, Lord Shi, colleagues, please." Zhao Yuanxun greeted everyone one by one and made a gesture of please.

"Lord Zhao, please."

"Lord Zhang, please." Several adults humbly entered the gate.

When you enter the gate, you are greeted not by the shadow wall of ordinary rich and noble people, but by a rockery. Behind the rockery is a wide arch with enough shadow to see inside a large pond and a cloister across the pond at a distance.

The group followed into the archway, and there was an open space in front of them.

The pond is very wide, like a small lake, with a pavilion in the middle and a painting boat. In the distance, the carved beams and painted buildings are a rich scene.

Rao is a group of officials from the prefect's yamen who have been to many wealthy merchants, and in the face of such a house, they all collectively lost their voices.

It's too trenched.

Everyone followed Zhao Yuanxun into the corridor on the left in a trance, and walked for a long time, and then they arrived at a hall - this is only the hall in the front yard. When I arrived at the back house, I don't know what kind of scene it was.

Ding Fugui, an old official in the bureaucracy, is over 60 years old, and he has been a small official in the yamen since he was in his early twenties.

He sat down in the hall, looked at the yellow rosewood furniture in the room and the Ruyao plum bottle on the desk, and couldn't help but ask Zhao Yuanxun: "Lord Zhao, is this house handed down by the ancestors, or is it newly bought?" ”

If it weren't for everyone's coaxing to treat guests today, and Zhao Yuanxun was also happy, he wouldn't have planned to invite everyone to the house as guests.

This house is too eye-catching, and it doesn't match the low-key he wants at all.

He smiled bitterly: "It was my daughter who asked someone to buy it, so it should be bought within this year." ”

At the beginning, the girl said that she had a house here and asked them to live there, but they thought it was an ordinary three-entry courtyard.

Who would have thought of coming here to take a look, but it is this kind of garden-style building that even the powerful and wealthy businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River can rarely live in, and the location is still so good. He and Zhu were immediately startled.

It wasn't until they confirmed with Zhou Chun again and again that they dared to enter the door. After entering the door, I was still shocked by the scenery inside.

Zhou Chun said that the girl sent someone to buy this house after making money. It was also a coincidence that it was able to buy it at that time.

As for what kind of chance is legal, Zhou Chun didn't say anything, and said that it was about the privacy of the former master, and they had promised not to say it.

Zhao Yuanxun and the Zhu family think that this house is too good, and they can't help it, Zhou Chun said, they don't live and it's empty, and they have to let people take care of it, it's too wasteful. Thinking that they didn't have such a good house to live in, and they spent money to buy or rent other houses, the couple hesitated for a moment, and then they stayed.

But it's just a corner of the house.

"Huh?" Everyone's eyes widened.

The answer was unexpected.

"Lord Zhao, do you mean......" Zhang Shun looked around the house with his fingers, "This whole house was bought by Ling Qianjin?" Is it your eldest daughter or second daughter? ”

Zhao Yuanxun's wife Zhu was interested in making friends with them, and invited his wife to the house from time to time to play, and the two also made an appointment to go shopping twice. While chatting, Mrs. Zhang naturally inquired about the population and situation of Suiping Bo Mansion.

Zhao Yuanxun had four daughters, the eldest daughter and the second daughter were married to the children of the official family in the capital; The third daughter came out and married a new jinshi. And the fourth daughter, Zhao Ruxi, is the one who won the second place in the middle school exam.

If this house is the property of the eldest daughter and the second daughter's in-law, it is normal to temporarily lend it to Zhao Yuanxun to live. The Great Jin Dynasty did not prohibit the son of a merchant from participating in the imperial examination, and if his third daughter was married to the son of a wealthy merchant in Jiangnan, it would be normal to have this house.

Zhang Shun only excluded Zhao Yuanxun's fourth daughter.

That young lady has not yet married, and it has only been less than two years since she returned to Suipingbo's mansion, so it is impossible to have such a house under her name.

But then Zhao Yuanxun's words made him incredulous: "No." It's my fourth daughter, and it's the one who got the second place in the exam. ”

"This ......" Zhang Shun almost said "how is it possible", but fortunately, he stopped the car in time and didn't say anything.

This house belongs to Zhao Ruxi, and when asked by colleagues, Zhao Yuanxun naturally would not tell his colleagues that it was his own. But he didn't want to talk more about his daughter's situation with these old men.

He turned his head and asked, "Is the young master back?" ”

"There is a lot of homework in the academy, and the young master only sent the little maid back to inquire about the news, but he didn't come back." The servant replied.

The academy where Zhao Jingtai studied was not in Gusu City, but at the foot of a mountain outside the city. College students generally choose to live on campus.

Zhao Yuanxun and Zhu wanted Zhao Jingtai to exercise his communication skills, Zhao Jingtai was also very yearning for collective life, and finally Zhao Jingtai took a small house to live in the academy, and usually did not go home, only came back on the tenth day off.

When Zhao Yuanxun heard this, he didn't say anything more and ordered his subordinates to set up a table.