Qi Ning came into the store, and the guy from last time hurriedly came over to greet her: "Miss Qi is here, what do you want?" The girl came just in time, and now everything has been sold at a loss. ”

"Your business is so good, why do you want to sell it at a loss?" Qi Ning looked at the empty house with few goods, and asked pretending not to know.

"Our host wants to take his family to Beijing to take the exam, and we can't raise money for a while, so we have to do this, hey." The young man who was about to lose his job looked annoyed.

"Is this shop owned by your owner or rented?"

"Naturally, it is the owner's house, our shop is handed down from the old lady, since the old lady went the year before last, it was me and the shopkeeper who took care of it in front, and the shopkeeper heard that the owner was going to sell the shop and look for other livelihoods." The young man's eyes flashed: "Doesn't the girl want to buy a house?" In front of this place is a shop, and in the back is a barn and the owner's own house. Very spacious. ”

"Let's see what the price is, if the price is right, it's not impossible to buy."

"That girl, please wait a moment, I can't do this kind of thing, I'll go to the back and ask the owner." The young man hurriedly ran out of the open back door, but the owner agreed, and when the shop was dealt with, he would give him a severance pay, he was also very conflicted, and he was afraid of unemployment and looked forward to getting more severance pay to buy a few acres of land for the family.

After a while, the young man returned: "The proprietor said that he would invite the girl to go back and talk in detail." ”

The two of them came straight through the back door to a boxy yard. The houses are all blue bricks, the north side is the three main rooms of the corridor, there is a lower ear room on each side, three wing rooms on the east side, a row of inverted seats in the south, three rooms in the west wing room are the shops along the street, the south side of the shop is a wooden courtyard gate, the yard is very spacious, the green brick paving, a plum tree, a bamboo table, a few bamboo chairs, the flower beds in front of the corridor are planted with flowers and plants, it looks very elegant. Qi Ning took a cursory look at the courtyard, and followed the guy into the living room in the middle of the main room, a person wearing a cyan silk robe and a scarf on his head, like a scholar in the TV series, was sitting on a chair with a tea bowl, and when he saw Qi Ning coming in, he stood up unhurriedly and raised his hand and arched: "The girl is polite." ”

"My surname is Qi, and I opened a lo-mei shop on the west side of the street, I don't know what Mr. is called?" Qi Ning thanked him and sat down at the bottom of the man's gesture.

"Xiaosheng's surname is Xu, and the girl calls me Xu Xiucai. The man came in and told him that the girl was interested in buying the house. But seriously. As he was talking, a fair-skinned woman in her twenties came in and served Qi Ning a cup of tea, and went into the inner room. Qi Ning hurriedly thanked him.

"Xu Gongzi." Qi Ning looked at the handsome scholar in front of him and asked, "I wonder what price you plan to sell for this house connected to the shop in front of you?" ”

"This, the price depends on the market in the city, four hundred taels." This Xu Xiucai is not a business material at first glance, and he doesn't understand it at all.

"Four hundred taels! That's the price of a new house! Your house is one or two decades old, and the valuable thing is a piece of land, and I have to repair it when I buy it, and it costs a lot. That's a bit expensive. But for more than a month, Qi Ning, who has followed the customs of the locals, spoke in a full ancient tone.

"The house is a little old, but it is all green bricks to the top of the brick house, and it is okay to live in it for a few decades, and the furniture in the house is newly made in the past few years, how about leaving it to the girl?" This Xu Xiucai is really a nerd who doesn't know how to do business, no matter how good the business falls into the hands of this kind of person, it won't take a few years to fail, no wonder his shop looks empty.

"The furniture is not worth a lot of money, I just don't want it, and it is inconvenient for my son to take it away. If you really want to sell, I see three hundred taels of heaven, and we are not through the tooth, Gongzi and I don't need to take a tap, just go to the yamen to pay some silver to transfer the account, and it is convenient and saves money, Gongzi said yes? Qi Ning looked at the furniture in the living room, it seemed to be made of good wood, strong and heavy, and the table was carved with hollow patterns.

"This, isn't three hundred taels too little? Do you want to hand over the tax money to the yamen? Xu Xiucai thought about it for a while, but he really didn't know how to bargain, and he was in a hurry to go to the capital to find a classmate who wanted to go through him and find a better academy to study for another year, so he was a little breathless.

"Originally, this tax money should be half of our two families, but since Childe is so refreshing, I won't talk about it much, just follow what Childe said." Qi Ning didn't know if the tax money was half of the family, but the Xiucai in front of her was even more incomprehensible, so she said in a firm tone.

Xu Xiucai went back to the house and went out with Qi Ning with the deed, and when Qi Ning went back and took the silver, they went to the yamen at the north end of the main street.

When I arrived at the door of the ya, I saw Wang Zhutou standing outside the door talking to a servant, and some acquaintances didn't need to wait any longer at this time, Qi Ning hurriedly greeted: "Brother Wang, it just so happens that you are here, I have something to ask you." Are you free? ”

"What?" Wang Zhutou turned around and looked at Qi Ning, who was excited.

"That's right, this Xu Gongzi's house is going to be sold, and it just so happens that I plan to open a bigger shop, so I negotiated with him, this is not to go through the formalities in the Yamen, but I don't know anyone else, so I have to trouble Brother Wang to help me ask what to do?"

"Oh." When Wang Zhutou heard that Qi Ning was going to buy a house, he felt a sense of loss in his heart: "You can go in with me, find the master to write a deed, and leave a file." ”

Qi Ning hurriedly thanked him, and followed Wang Zhutou into a room on the inside of the gate.

A lean old man with a goatee sat at the table: "The king is here, but is there something?" ”

"Master, this is Miss Qi, she wants to buy a house and pass the deed, you are tired to help with it."

Xu Xiucai took out the deed from his sleeve and carefully handed it to the master: "There is Master Lao Zhou." ”

"It turned out to be Xu Xiucai, I just heard that you are going to sell the house, have you already sold it today?"

"Yes, this Qi girl has lived in my house, they are all neighbors, so it's easy to discuss." Xu Xiucai explained dumbfoundedly.

The master carefully read the deed, then took out a piece of paper from the drawer, lowered his head and wrote for a while, and then asked the two of them to sign and draw separately, and gave a contract to Qi Ning. Qi Ning hurriedly took out six taels of silver to pay the deed tax according to Wang Zhutou's instructions, and couldn't help scolding in his heart, this yamen is really dark, a small shop can collect so much tax. Before leaving, Qi Ning sensibly stuffed a more than one or two pieces of broken silver to the master, as the old saying goes, the people do not fight with the officials, as the saying goes, there are people in the court who are easy to do, this master is the second child of this Qing'an City, and he will have something to do in the future, and he will open his mouth. The master quietly received it in his sleeve, and lowered his head as if he had nothing to do.

The two went out and thanked Wang Zhutou for sending it out.

"Brother Wang, thank you very much today, I'll invite Brother Wang to dinner another day." Qi Ning said diligently, although he will not rent his house in the future, but he is equivalent to the police chief of a county in his previous life, and he has some weight in this Qing'an City, and he still has to break the relationship.

Xu Xiucai also bowed and thanked him.

The two of them hurried back to the handover along the road they had come.

Directly from the street door into the inner courtyard of the cloth shop, Qi Ning only after Xu Xiucai allowed Xu Xiucai to take a closer look at each house.

It turns out that there is a small moon door at the corner of the south side of the east wing, behind the door is a small rectangular courtyard, only two north houses, there is a well in the yard, a thatched toilet, when it comes to the thatched toilet, there is no flushing toilet here, it is a low and narrow house, there is a wooden toilet inside, every morning there is a horse-drawn carriage on the street that collects manure and water, and the toilet that every household puts at the door is poured, and it is charged, fifty wen a month. This small backyard is really a surprise, Qi Ning feels that he has earned it.

After reading it, I also have a general plan for the future decoration, and there is not much money at the moment, so I will live in it first, and only decorate the shop.

Qi Ning took out three hundred taels of silver tickets from his purse and handed them to Xu Xiucai, and said that Qi Ning would come to collect the house the day after tomorrow. Qi Ning, who was happy and smug and painful, went home to cook while humming a song. My soul, a wisp of death separated by thousands of years, finally has a nest of its own in this different time and space.