Qi Ning was stunned for a moment and immediately said: "Rich people are amazing, they are all used to throw away silver, hum!" As he spoke, he held the silver in his hand and weighed it, and there were two words on the back. This is a silver ingot, and it's the first time I've seen a real silver ingot.

At this time, a catcher about thirty years old stepped forward and arched his hand at Qi Ning and said, "I am the head catcher surnamed Wang in this county, called Wang Qingyuan." But the girl needs to find a place to stay? ”

"yes, but I don't know where to look?"

"There is a small courtyard for rent in the alley behind my house, if the girl is interested, you can go with me to have a look."

"Oh, that's good, I just don't know if the rent is expensive, I don't have much silver." Qi Ning said.

"Girl, come with me first, as for the rent, I won't ask you more." Wang Zhutou waved his hand towards the alley opposite.

"Then bother Brother Wang to lead the way." Qi Ning put the ingots into the baggage.

The two of them walked through the alley one after the other to a slightly narrower road on the west side of the main street of Qing'an City, which also ran north-south, and there were more people on the street than on the main street, and the shops on both sides were also full of small stalls. While walking, Wang Qingyuan introduced to her: Qing'an City, three main streets in the north and south, the middle one is the city gate when Qi Ning came, and the north is the yamen. From east to west is a street that leads to the east and west gates on both sides. Although West Street is not as prosperous and wide as the main street, there are many shops on the street, most of which sell small items, grocery stores, carpenter shops, etc., unlike the main street, which are all restaurants, tea shops, jewelry stores, silk and satin shops and other high-end consumption shops. Most of the people living on East Street are wealthy, and there are shops, but there are not as many as Main Street and West Street. Then there was the ring road that was around the city walls, and there were no shops there, only low bungalows. There are many small alleys in the city, extending in all directions.

When he arrived at the gate of a courtyard along the street in the west of the road, Wang Zhutou opened the lock on the door and looked back at Qi Ning and said, "Girl, wait a minute, I went in and got the key." With that, he pushed open the door and went in.

Qi Ning was looking around at the houses on the street and the small stalls on the side of the road, Wang Zhutou hurriedly came out with a key that looked like brass, and led Qi Ning into the small alley south of the courtyard gate, the alley was very deep and narrow, and after walking a few steps to the first courtyard gate, Wang Qingyuan opened the lock and opened the door, and a stream of dust scattered from above the wooden door.

"This used to be the backyard of my house, and I couldn't live so much alone, so I opened a door from here through the wall, and the girl came in and took a look."

Qi Ning nodded, crossed the threshold and entered the courtyard. The courtyard gate is in the southeast corner, the small square courtyard is not big, there are only three rooms in the north room, two small west wings, and a low thatched toilet in the south of the west wing. The courtyard was paved with stone slabs, and there was a well on the south wall, and a bucket with a rope tied to it was attached to the edge of the well made of blue bricks. There are a few bamboo poles for drying clothes by the well. Because there are no people, there are some fallen leaves and weeds in the yard.

"This house was originally rented as a bun, but then they moved out and have been idle since the Chinese New Year. The girl can go inside and see if the door is unlocked. ”

"Okay." Qi Ning pushed open the door of the main room, and the middle room was the living room, with a few simple tables and chairs, and there were beds in the middle of the room, which should be the bedroom. It's similar to what Qi Ning saw on TV. When I went out, I opened the west wing and looked at it, there were only two large cauldron stoves made of blue bricks, a cupboard, and a pile of straw in the corner.

"Brother Wang, this rent?"

"It turned out that renting to the bun shop was 400 wen a month, and the room money was paid once every six months, and if the girl was inconvenient in the money, she could pay less."

"Then pay half a year, are these enough?" Qi Ning took out a piece of broken silver and looked at Wang Qingyuan. She had five or six pieces of broken silver of various sizes in her purse, but she couldn't weigh them, so she took out a large one.

"It's too much, change it to a smaller one." Wang Qingyuan glanced at Qi Ning in surprise. The small number of people in this era is basically not weighed, and according to the size of the silver horn, it is almost known how many taels it is.

"And where's this?" Qi Ning changed to a slightly smaller one.

"It's about two taels."

"Oh, is that enough for this little one?" Qi Ning hurriedly took out the smallest silver horn and put it in the palm of his hand to show Wang Qingyuan.

"That's enough." Wang Qingyuan stretched out his hand and took the silver: "The grocery store on the street is also rented from my house, you can buy anything you lack in the future, and I will say hello to them in a while, and it won't be expensive for you." ”

"Well, thank you, Brother Wang."

"What's your name and where is your hometown? By the way, I'll give you a file in the yamen, so you don't have to go by yourself. ”

"My name is Qi Ning, complete Qi, condensed Qi. My hometown is from Ji County. ”

"Good. Then you pack up, I'm leaving. Wang Qingyuan handed the two keys tied to the rope to Qi Ning and left.

Qi Ning went into the house and put down his baggage, looked around and didn't find a basin, so he simply locked the door and went to the grocery store that Wang Qingyuan said just now.

Before Qi Ning could enter the door, a woman dressed in her forties and dressed up stiffly came out with a smile: "Hey, this is Miss Qi, right?" ”

"Yes, Auntie."

"Huh? My surname is Wu, and my man's surname is Zhu. You can just call me Aunt Wu. Wu was stunned because his aunt was the name of Qi Ning's hometown.

"Oh, Aunt Wu is good. I want to buy two large pots, a few wooden pots and kitchen knives for cooking or something, do you have them here? ”

"Yes, yes, come in. You don't have anything new here, I've got it all here. ”

Qi Ning's gaze moved up, looked at the eaves above the shop, and after only one glance, he moved the lotus step lightly and stepped in. This shop is similar to those antique shops in the tourist area in the previous life, but it is not the same. In the previous life, the store was neat and spacious, and the things sold were exquisite and fine. The houses here are not old, but they are quaint and low.

Qi Ning stood in the room, his eyes swept around: the room was about thirty square meters, surrounded by shelves, and the ground was also full of piles.

Wu enthusiastically helped Qi Ning choose a lot of daily necessities and oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and spent more than a tael of Qi Ning's silver. Wu called back the man who was chatting with his neighbor from the street, and helped Qi Ning deliver the things back to the yard.

"Thank you, Aunt Wu, please come and sit when you are ready."

"Hey, what's the gracious, they'll be neighbors from now on. By the way, you don't have firewood yet, today is the market day, you go to the stall in the south to buy it, it's not expensive for five cents and a big bundle. I have flint there, and when you come back, drop by, and I'll give you one. ”

"Hey, thank you, I'll go to the market first to see what to buy." Qi Ning followed Wu out and locked the door, followed the bustling crowd and walked around, buying some vegetables and rice along the way. When he was about to walk to the city wall, he saw piles of firewood on the side of the road, and Qi Ning stopped in front of an old man who looked a little loyal: "Uncle, how did you sell this firewood?" ”

"A bundle of five cents, thirty catties, all dried and chopped. You can just buy it back and burn it directly, and you don't have to split it. ”

"Uncle, you see that I can't hold it alone, can you send me ten bundles?"

"Okay, we'll all send it, the girl will lead the way, and I'll send it to you." The old man smiled and pushed out a wooden cart from behind the pyre.

"Uncle Lao, give it to me, and I'll give you money when it's time."

"Okay, Da Zhuang, send it to this girl quickly." The old man said hello, and a man squatting behind the pyre hurriedly came out to put the firewood on the cart and followed Qi Ning home.

Qi Ning unlocked the lock, turned to the man and said, "Big brother, help me move to the West Wing, it's the room where the food is cooked." The man nodded and carried bundles of firewood to Qi Ning to the kitchen, Qi Ning gave the money, and the man turned around and left without snorting.

"No wonder his dad beckons business, maybe he's a dumb person, right? It's a shame. Qi Ning closed the door and said to herself.

Now that everything is complete, Qi Ning took out a torn skirt from the baggage and tore it open as a rag and threw it into the wooden basin.

I went down the barrel on the edge of the well and tried back and forth seven or eight times before I found the trick to bring the water up.

About an hour and a half later, Qi Ning pounded his sore waist and splashed a basin of dirty water into the yard and sighed: "It's okay to finish cleaning, you have to buy some bedding first, or you will have to sleep on the plank tonight." Saying that, he locked the door and walked out of the alley to look, and it happened that the grocery store was diagonally opposite a cloth store, and Qi Ning went straight into the cloth shop.

Behind the counter, a thin, shrewd young man asked, "What does the girl want to buy?" We are a decades-old shop, and the cloth in the store is the best and cheapest in Qing'an City. ”

Qi Ning nodded slightly to him: "I'll take a look first." "Keep watching. The shop is quite large, but there are not many goods. On the counter were rows of twenty or thirty cloths of various colors, mostly cotton, only three or five pieces of silk, and a dozen bedding were stacked on the shelves against the wall.

"I don't know how this futon is sold?" Qi Ning asked.

"The quilt of cotton cloth is eighty wen a bed, and the mattress is seventy wen. The satin quilt is three or two and one bed, and the mattress is two or two and eight dollars. The young man pointed to and introduced that most of the shops on this street were middle-class and poor people, and those good embroidered silks were only sold in the middle street.

"Two cotton mattresses and one quilt. Can it be considered cheaper? By the way, do you have pillows? Is there any other clothing that suits me? ”

"Yes, yes, all of them. You buy fabrics in my house, buy clothes and rest assured, our family's ready-to-wear is made by the proprietress herself, and the needlework and style can not be picked out in the whole Qing'an City. The young man was very happy to see a big customer, and he was very happy to ask for so many things, so he ran to the counter and took out a few pillows with different colors of cotton and rice bran core, he didn't take the embroidery, and he knew that he probably wouldn't buy a very expensive one when he saw the girl in front of him, and turned around and pointed to the ready-to-wear hanging on the pole to signal Qi to gaze.

Qi Ning picked out a set of green and a set of moon-white cotton dresses and asked the price, and put on the futon pillow, pulled two sheets, asked for a few pieces of cloth, and spent a total of four and a half silver, this is still a teenager who wiped more than a dozen copper plate money, Qi Ning couldn't help but sigh his teeth. I didn't earn this penny, and I don't know the bottom of this flower! The young man learned that Qi Ning was not far from the opposite side, so he hurriedly helped to carry the things and follow Qi Ning to deliver them to his home.

Qi Ning asked the young man to put the things on the square table that he had just moved to the yard, and he carried the things to the house again and again, the bed in the east room was relatively spacious, Qi Ning laid out the futon, took the newly bought sheets and cloth, and went to the yard to wash the clothes and dry them on the bamboo poles.