In fact, according to her idea, renting a house in the east of the city is the best. Meng's mother moved three times, that is, she understood that the living environment is very important for a person's growth. The residents in the east of the city are either rich or expensive, and being neighbors with such people is very beneficial to Xia Qi's growth. When he goes out in the future, he won't look like he has never seen the world.

Moreover, the difference in income between treating rich and noble families and ordinary people is not half a point. What's more, you can expand your network! If Xia Zhengqian cured the prefect, how could Mrs. Xia dare to beat him whenever she wanted, and scold her whenever she wanted? At the beginning, didn't Mrs. Xia just cure a nobleman, borrow his momentum, make the old lady soften, and let Xia Zhengqian bear the name of his dead child, and raise him for so many years?

Treating a noble person, although there are risks, there are also benefits. Moreover, in Xia Jin's view, this risk has been reduced to a minimum. Because of this Linjiang City, although there is a prefect, as far as she knows, the prefect is a mediocre and incompetent person. Although Luo Weitao is confused in family affairs, he is extremely shrewd in official affairs. In this Linjiang City, he is the one in charge of the real power, not the prefect, otherwise no matter how long Aunt Zhang's hands are, it is impossible to transfer an eight-rank official away.

That being the case, she now has Luo Tuiguan's son as a backer, how dare this nobleman from Linjiang City show her and Xia Zhengqian's face?

Therefore, it is best to open the hospital in the east of the city.

But she was afraid that the expensive rent of the house in the east of the city scared Xia Zhengqian and Shu Shi so much that they couldn't sleep at night.

"Xia Gongzi rest assured." Steward Yu smiled, "Your conditions have been told to the villain. The house is in the east of the city. But the rent is not expensive. The important thing is that it is suitable for you, you will know it after you have seen it. ”

After a cup of tea to the west, Steward Yu took them into a corner. I turned to another street. This street is not as lively and noisy as the previous one, and there are shops and homes on both sides. The road is wide, flat and clean, and you can drive horse-drawn carriages, and Xia Jin walks here, and there is a feeling of walking in a small European town, leisurely and comfortable.

Walk down the street for a while. Steward Yu stopped in front of a house and said to Luo Qian and Xia Jin, "This is it." ”

Xia Jin raised his eyes to look at the mansion. Then he saw a vermilion gate open in the middle of the house, and the two sides of the gate were made of the façade. Looking at the scale, these two doors seem to be quite spacious. But it's locked now. I can't see what's inside.

"The family's surname is Tang." Butler Yu introduced, "His family is also a scholarly family. The only son was admitted to the Jinshi and was sent to other places as an official. The old lady and the old lady were taken by their son, and the house was empty. I wanted to come back from time to time to take a look, but I didn't want the two old men to die over there some time ago. Thinking that they will not come back to live in a short time, this house will lose quickly if no one lives in it, so they want to rent it out. ”

Xia Jin nodded.

She knew that successive rulers of China had implemented a system of avoiding their places of origin for officials.

For example, in the Ming Dynasty, large-scale regional avoidance was implemented. That is, the northerners are in the south, and the southerners are in the north. The Qing Dynasty's recusal system broke with the traditional practice of dividing administrative regions into administrative regions, and was limited to 500 li. That is, although officials are officials in other provinces, they must avoid areas within 500 miles of their original place of origin and residence.

This evasion system has played a great role in curbing and preventing local protectionism.

And the era she lives in now follows the avoidance system of the Qing Dynasty.

In other words, as long as Master Tang is still an official. It is impossible to return to the hometown, and the house will be rented out all the time. Or ten years. Or twenty years or more.

This is very important for tenants.

Otherwise, if you live well and spend money to repair the house, but you don't live for a year, and the landlord comes back and wants to take back the house, won't you lose a lot of money?

Steward Yu pointed to the faces on both sides and said, "These two shops were originally rented to a relative of his family to do the silk business. Later, the relative thought that the street was relatively deserted, so he quit the rent and found a new shop on the front street, which happened to be empty. ”

Luo Qian, who had been walking beside Xia Jin and had not spoken, spoke at this time: "According to me, it is just right to open a medical hall in this place." It's too lively, and it's not good for patients. Moreover, there are many families here, and it is convenient to visit a doctor. Opening a medical clinic here is better than the lively place on Front Street. ”

Xia Jin nodded approvingly.

Indeed it is.

"There is still a family of four here to look after the house. I told them to open the door. Butler Yu said, stepped forward and patted the door, and the door opened from the inside with a "ah" sound, and an old man came out.

The old man saw that Steward Yu had brought a few people, one of whom was richly dressed and handsome, so he knew that it was a nobleman and hurriedly greeted him.

"Old man Wang, my son-in-law and Mr. Xia came to see the house. You take out the key, let's look at the door first. Steward Yu said.

"Oh, okay." The old man saluted Luo Qian and Xia Jin, then took out the key from his arms and opened the door on the right.

Xia Jin entered the door and swept his eyes into the room, and he was extremely satisfied.

This door is very spacious, 100 square meters, two rooms are separated by wooden boards on both sides, and the middle room is about 40 square meters, which is perfect for people to see. There are two rooms next to it, one is used as a waiting room, and the other is either for Xia Zhengqian to rest, or to take in patients for the night, which are all excellent.

"The face over there is the same pattern as here." The old man said.

Xia Jin nodded.

The ancients paid attention to symmetry in building houses. The façade over there must have been built in the same period and to the same specifications.

"Let's go see the courtyard inside." She said.

Everyone followed the old man into the vermilion gate, and there was a wall in front of him, with a red word "Fu" written in the middle. Turning around the wall, there is a courtyard. Facing north is an outer hall, and there is a cloister in front of the east and west wings, and the cloister is connected to the hall.

Passing through the outer hall and going inside, there is another courtyard inside. This courtyard is slightly larger than the outside, in addition to the main house and the east and west wings, there is a small cross courtyard on the left and right. In addition to a jujube tree and a grape trellis in the middle of the yard, a small pond was built. A few fish swam around in it.

Xia Jin looked at them one by one and found that although the house had been built for twenty or thirty years, it was properly maintained and repaired. The four places are still very strong, even the colorful paintings on the beams are very bright.

"How much rent is this house a month?" Xia Jin asked.

This house, she really likes. But this location, this quality, this area, she is a little afraid to think.

Steward Yu stretched out a slap: "Five taels of silver a month." ”

Really!

"Let's go see the next one." Xia Jin said.

"Such a place. Five taels of silver is not expensive. Luo Qian looked at her, and Xia Jin's shadow was reflected in her slender and dark eyes.

Xia Jin glanced at him. Then he turned his face away, smiled lightly, and said, "Five taels of silver, it's really not expensive." But our family can't even pay the rent in advance. A new clinic opened. You still have to be famous, and you can't make much money at all in the first few months, and it's probably just enough to eat. ”

As she spoke, she looked at the empty courtyard and sighed deeply.

She has no ability, but because she has crossed into an ancient woman, she is tied up, and she has only earned twenty taels of silver in the past two months. And he didn't dare to take it out at once, for fear that Xia Zhengqian and Shu Shi would suspect that the way was wrong. Thus confined her to the house and never allowed to go out again.

Luo Qian said: "If you need it, I can lend you money." ”

"No, you don't." Xia Jin shook his head. "How big a bowl to eat, how many meals to eat. I don't have the money to rent a poor house, so I can live with peace of mind. ”

Luo Qian glanced at her quietly and stopped talking.

After being silent for a while, he suddenly asked again, "What kind of person is your master?" ”

Xia Jin looked at him in surprise.

I'm talking about renting a house. Why did he suddenly remember to ask her about her master?

But there's nothing that can't be said. She took out the original rhetoric and told Luo Qian again.

"I didn't expect that. Brother Qi actually had such an adventure. After listening to this, Luo Qian nodded. Although his expressionless face was as usual before, Xia Jin could see that there was a hint of yearning in his eyes.

Xia Jin went in and out of Luo's Mansion during this time, listened to the comments of his subordinates, and also understood Luo Qian's situation.

Luo Qian's father, Luo Weitao, although he was born in the Luo family, a famous family in Suzhou Province, is a concubine himself. I was probably persecuted by my mother-in-law when I was a child, and I fell into a psychological shadow, so I always felt disgusted with characters like my wife and mother-in-law.

Mrs. Luo is the daughter-in-law married by Luo Weitao's mother-in-law for him, and she is not likable from this point alone, but she is still very arrogant and will not be low. Therefore, the relationship between the husband and wife has not been harmonious since the day they got married.

If that's all there is to it, it's fine. After all, Luo Qian is Luo Weitao's biological son, Luo Weitao no longer likes Mrs. Luo, and he will not ignore his only son-in-law.

However, Luo Weitao also has a childhood sweetheart's cousin Zhang Yan'er, who is the niece of his biological mother, Aunt Lin. Aunt Lin's sister died in childbirth, leaving Zhang Yan'er in a pitiful situation, and Aunt Lin often took over the house to raise her. Therefore, this Zhang Yan'er can be said to have grown up with Luo Weitao and has a deep relationship.

Zhang Yan'er's family is low, and it is not possible to be a wife, so she can only be a concubine. Therefore, after Luo Weitao married Mrs. Luo, he accepted Zhang Yan'er as a concubine. This Zhang Yan'er was born beautifully, and the means were obtained, which further deteriorated the relationship between the husband and wife, who were not very harmonious, and for so many years, Luo Weitao spent the night in his wife's room only a handful of times. Because of this, Mrs. Luo did not conceive a child and give birth to Luo Qian until she had been married for five years and after Aunt Zhang gave birth to two concubines.

Mrs. Luo and Luo Weitao have a bad relationship, and Zhang Yan'er in the middle of the discord and tried her best to do her best, coupled with Luo Weitao's psychological shadow when he was a child, so he doted on the two concubines, but was indifferent to his only sister-in-law.

In this case, Xia Jin had already met Aunt Zhang in Luofu, and after seeing Luo Qian's eldest brother Luo Yu outside the teahouse, he had a number in his heart. Otherwise, she would not have chosen to cooperate with Luo Qian.

She knew that Luo Qian didn't want to mention this kind of thing to outsiders, so she didn't think she had seen this trace of melancholy hidden in him. She paced a few steps in the courtyard, turned her head and asked Steward Yu, "Are there two other houses, also in the east of the city?" ”

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