When Lin Yao returned to the guest room, Lu Jinyan was sitting on a stool holding a big green dumpling and nibbling on it, and there was a plate of fried thousand silk boxes on the table.

"You're pretty good at eating all day long, and you'll go down and order snacks by yourself." Lin Yao walked to the table and sat down, picked up a thousand-thread box and ate it.

"Just... It's not like, this is like a jewel that I put on the table. Lu Jinyan's mouth was full, and his speech was a little slurred, Lin Yao waved his hand, signaling him to finish eating before talking.

Here Lu Jinyan was still eating hard, Lin Yao finished eating the thousand-silk box in his hand, took a handkerchief and wiped his hands, and stared at Lu Jinyan seriously.

Lu Jinyan was a little flustered by Lin Yao's eyes, and after reluctantly taking two more bites, he put down the Qingtuanzi, clapped his little hands, and looked at Lin Yao seriously.

The two of them stared at each other like this, and suddenly Lin Yao burst out laughing, Lu Jinyan didn't know why, and the expression on his face was a little messy.

"Why don't you blush," Lin Yao asked after laughing.

Lu Jinyan was a little dazed, feeling that Uncle Lin was a little abnormal today, "Why are you blushing?" ”

"But why do some people blush?" Lin Yao was a little curious.

Lu Jinyan stretched out his little fat hand and touched his chin, and glanced at Lin Yao again, "I don't know, anyway, I've only blushed three times, once after I broke A-Niang's jade pendant, I quietly hid it, and A-Niang asked me." Another time was when I was six years old, and I accidentally fell in front of everyone and gnawed on mud. ”

"What else?"

"And, there's just uh... A few days ago, when the jewel divided me into half a piece of sesame cake. Lu Jinyan's voice became lower and lower, he lowered his head a little embarrassedly, and hugged Qingtuanzi again.

Lin Yao put his hand on the table, tapped it slightly, shook his head after thinking for a while, and got up to arrange the lunch.

Lu Yunque skillfully put the rice in the pot and steamed it, then went to a small vegetable field in the southeast corner of the backyard and pulled out a handful of leeks, carefully chopped them, and fried them in the pot with two eggs, and took out a piece of naan cake that he had made a few days ago, cut it into small pieces, burned a pot of soup and threw it in, folded a few green vegetable leaves, and boiled them together.

When the soup was ready and the rice was steamed, Lu Yunque put the food on the table, and while eating, he thought carefully about the house.

In fact, I have seen this kind of deed and the actual transaction amount of the house sale and sale in general, this situation generally has two purposes, one is to reduce the tax, Yongxiu County real estate sales are frequent, the house sale tax is levied according to the proportion of the transaction amount, about one or two silver and a half penny tax, subject to the deed transaction amount. The other is more personal reasons, such as the tooth man who sells on behalf of the agent secretly conceals the price difference and eats the difference, etc., and Lu Yunque probably belongs to the second type.

Although eating kickbacks is a common thing in the Zhuang Zhai Ya industry, it is also shameful for most people, once it is put on the bright side, the Zhuang Zhai Ya people involved in this line basically can't get mixed up, so generally speaking, this kind of thing is a test of the ability of the tooth people, up and down handover, the county yamen road, these need to be done one by one, and at any time bear the risk of being discovered.

Lu Yunque took two mouthfuls of food and sighed, this second son of the Lin family doesn't look like a greedy person, I'm afraid it won't work to persuade him with tax money, but it seems that there is no other way, so let's go and try it first.

Thinking about it like this, Lu Yunque felt a little more relaxed, and after eating and cleaning up, he got up and went to the small room in the east, which was the study of the Lu family's father before his death.

The father of the Lu family loved to read very much during his lifetime, and he read a lot of books, and the small study room was full of all kinds of books, astronomy and geography, literary classics, all of which were covered. There are even some out-of-print books, and Lu Yunque's mother and daughter never thought of selling these books even if they were poor enough to eat.

Lu Yunque walked to the bookshelf and pulled out a book called "Gongben Composition Manual", and walked to a small table on the left side of the room. A piece of paper was laid on the table, and the four corners were pressed by several delicate square stone carvings, which read: Not only the sound flows out of here, but it will return to the sea to help the waves.

Lu Yunque carefully took the stone away, picked up the paper and looked at it carefully, turned around and put it neatly into a box in the southeast corner, and there were other papers in the box, each with a poem written on it, and there was already half a box.

After putting away the paper, Lu Yunque returned to the table, carefully looked at the book in his hand, and occasionally encountered an important place, so he took out a booklet and copied it carefully, and a finch flew to the edge of the window in the room and stopped, tilting his head to look at Lu Yunque.

By the time Lu Yunque finished reading, the sky was already slightly dark, and the bell for closing the workshop had already rang more than a dozen times, Lu Yunque cleaned up for a while, and then got up and went out.

On the second day, Lu Yunque packed up his drawing tools and went out, today it was time to paint a sketch of a house under the Dai family, this Dai is a famous businessman in Yongxiu County, there are several shops under his hands, and there are many properties under his name.

Mr. Dai is a big customer of Lu Yunque, not that he has a lot of houses for sale, but he often has houses to buy and sell. Yongxiu County is not like other counties where agriculture is prosperous, the people live, and most of the county taxes come from commercial trade.

This old man Dai usually loves to look at the house everywhere when he has nothing to do, and when he likes it, he contacts the tooth man to buy it, and he doesn't do much use, and occasionally rents some out, and most of the others are idle there. But sometimes the house is sold suddenly, and the price may be high or low, depending on the situation.

Many people said that he was panicked because he had too much money, but Lu Yunque took over his commission a few times, paid attention to the price and time of his previous houses, and suddenly found that Master Dai changed hands on so many houses, most of which were profitable, and often after Master Dai sold the house, he would always open a new shop.

About two minutes later, Lu Yunque rushed to the Dai Mansion in Rong Xiufang, and a mother-in-law wearing a navy blue short-sleeved robe received her, asked her to rest in the side hall for a while, and went to the steward to get the house key.

Lu Yunque sat quietly in the side hall, the Dai family was rich and rich, and even the tables and chairs in the side hall were made of good pear blossom wood, and the layout everywhere was all public, and even the furnishings in front of the door were composed of several different colors of flowers and trees, which attracted people's eyes very much.

The woman came back after a while, and there was a small servant behind her, and when she walked in front of Lu Yunque, she bent down and bowed, "Hello Lu Ya, my name is Shi Lei, Steward Zhang instructed me to take you to the house with the aunt of the Liu family to check." ”

Lu Yunque nodded, got up and walked out with the two.

The house is not far from Dai's house, and you will arrive after walking two squares. Lu Yunque was guided by the little maid, slowly looked at the house, took a simple charcoal pencil in his hand, and slowly drew on a piece of yellow paper.

The woman was bored, and sat casually on the pillars of a corridor, looking around.

Suddenly, a bush in the garden seemed to move, and then there was a sound of rustling, and the mother-in-law squinted and got up and walked over.

"What is the aunt of the Liu family doing?" The little girl turned around and saw her mother-in-law walking to the side, and hurriedly asked.

"Shhhh

Seeing this, Lu Yunque was also a little puzzled, walked to a high place, and watched the movements of the Liu family's mother-in-law.

With a bang, the mother-in-law of the Liu family slammed the bush open, and several fat big black mice suddenly burst out of it, and the action was so fast that people didn't have time to react.

The mother-in-law of the Liu family was shocked, and screamed in a panic, the little girl hurriedly walked over to appease, Lu Yunque frowned when he saw it, walked over quickly, lifted the bush and saw that there was a whole nest of rats inside! There were about a dozen of them, all of them had just grown hair, and some of the pink and white skins were exposed.

"Did you ever have a cat in this house?" Lu Yunque turned around and asked the two.

"No, this house has been bought for more than half a year, and it has been idle and no one takes care of it, where will there be any cats." The little guy replied.

Lu Yunque looked around for a week, and suddenly had some ominous premonitions in his heart.

"This rat nest is made outside the house, there are only a dozen mice in one place, how many do you say there are in the house? This house is mostly made of wood, so many rats, I am afraid that many places will be hollowed out, if this scourge is not removed, I am afraid that this house will not be long before it will collapse. ”

Lu Yunque walked to the edge of the corridor near the bushes, squatted down and knocked on the pillar with his ear, frowned slightly, and picked up the weeds at the bottom of the pillar, looked at it carefully, got up and looked at the nearby pillars like this, sighed, and made a few marks on the yellow paper with charcoal.

"Three of the five pillars are hollow, and there are signs of insect bites at the bottom, and the rest is probably about the same. The inside of the house hasn't been looked at yet, but it probably won't be much better. ”

Lu Yunque said while walking to the nearest room, slowly pushed open the door, a puff of dust came to his face, Lu Yunque covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves, waited for the dust to disperse, entered the door and carefully checked the bottom of the table and chairs, inspected the corner of the wall again, wrote a few words on the yellow paper, and said: "There are traces of rat and ant bites in the house, and after the two go back, they still tell Master Dai, it is best to get a few cats to come and raise them for half a month, and then get some insecticide medicine to sprinkle, otherwise this house may not be easy to get rid of."

The mother-in-law of the Liu family and the little maid glanced at each other, and the little maid walked up to look at the room again, and said: "Lu Ya people are bothered, the little one will report to the master when he goes back, thank you Lu Ya people."

Lu Yunque waved his hand, and carefully said the extent of the damage to the tables and chairs, and the little guy nodded in agreement while listening carefully.

Then Lu Yunque went to other rooms to check, the situation was similar, and after Lu Yunque roughly drew the layout of the house, the three of them walked out together, and when Lu Yunque said goodbye to the two at the door of the house, saying that there were other houses to see, and when he left, he repeatedly told him to report the situation, and the little girl nodded and agreed, and then the three of them separated.