Although Fanning encouraged the Zhu family to run a newspaper, he could not participate, and the farther away from the newspaper was better, and there could be no trace of him.

With Xue Zongru's suicide, Ouyang Xiu's case was also divided into paragraphs, and the court no longer pursued the following matters, even if this matter was over, the newspaper public opinion that hurt Ouyang Xiu the most was also silenced, and both newspapers no longer mentioned the matter, but few people knew that the "tabloid" paid a fine of 10,000 yuan for refusing to publicly apologize to Ouyang Xiu.

The final result seems to be fair, Ouyang Xiu paid a heavy loss of reputation and his body collapsed, and Xue Zongru also paid the price of his life, but those who really know the inside story know very well that Xue Zongru is just a ghost for the dead, and Ouyang Xiu's career is basically ruined.

Two days later, in the afternoon of this day, as soon as Fan Ning returned to the mansion, the housekeeper's wife greeted him and said, "Qiqi official, the master of the Wu Mansion next door has just come and wants to talk to the official about selling the house." ”

Fanning hurriedly asked, "Where are the others?"

"When he saw that the official was not there, he went back to the next door, and if the official wanted to see him, he could come at any time."

Fanning nodded, "Just ask the housekeeper to invite him!" ”

The housekeeper's wife went in a hurry, and Fanning did not enter the house, just waited at the door of the house, and after a while, a middle-aged man walked quickly.

When he entered the door, he smiled at Fan Ning: "In Xia Wu Ying, he is the owner next door, and he has been a neighbor for four years, and it is the first time I have seen Fan Zhiyuan." ”

"It's also the first time I've met Wu Yanei, mainly because I'm working overseas, and the house is basically empty, and I haven't been back for long now."

"Indeed, I have admired the name of Fan Zhiyuan for a long time."

Fan Ning had already investigated the Wu family next door in advance, Wu Juma and the princess had passed away, leaving only one son, that is, the Wu Ying in front of him, the viscount of Feng, who was appointed as the training envoy of the Xiangzhou regiment, hung a virtual official, and took a sum of money, but this family is relatively rich, and there are four mansions in the capital alone, and the next door is one of them.

Fan Ning invited Wu Ying into the house, Wu Ying came to Cuiyun Peak, carefully admired this piece of the first strange stone in the capital, he smiled at Fan Ning: "I have also heard of this Cuiyun Peak for a long time, and later I learned that it is actually next door to me, I would have come over to appreciate it if I knew it." ”

"Wu Yanei can come and watch at any time!"

The two sides are just talking, since the Wu family wants to sell the house, there are very few chances to come over.

The two entered the guest hall and sat down, a maid came in to serve tea, Wu Ying said slowly: "This side was originally my father's property, and then it was given to me, I only lived here for three years, because it was inconvenient to take care of my family, and moved back to the old city, after my father died five years ago, I inherited the main house, and I never came here again." ”

Fan Ning nodded and asked with a smile: "How did Wu Yanei come up with the idea of selling the house?" ”

Wu Ying said with a smile: "My other mansions are in the inner city, close to each other, and this house is far away, and it is not convenient to come, do not hide from Fan Zhiyuan that I planned to sell it three years ago, but I have not found a suitable home, and I don't want to sell it to a businessman, and in the end it was not sold, my wife met Mrs. Zun a few days ago, and chatted a few words, Mrs. Zun seems to say that the mansion is small, I think it is just right that I also plan to sell the house, so I will fulfill you." ”

Fan Ning bowed and said: "I'm ashamed to say it, this house actually covers a lot of area, but the layout is relatively special, especially this Cuiyun Building is built by the Son of Heaven, and it can't be demolished casually, although the area of the whole house is not small, but there are too many wasted places, there are too few houses, it is really not enough to live, even my parents have to live elsewhere, if Wu Yanei is willing to sell the house next door, I am willing to sell it, according to the market price, both parties will not suffer, how?" ”

Wu Ying smiled, "Fan Zhiyuan is a refreshing person!" I'm also willing to deal with refreshing people, three years ago I offered 20,000 yuan for this house, and now it's still this price, this price is fair! ”

"Two thousand guan per mu, to be honest, this price is slightly lower than the market price!"

"Of course, it depends on the person, three years ago, a businessman wanted to buy it, and the price was 25,000 yuan, and I didn't want to sell it to him, I just wanted to make a friend with Fan Zhiyuan, and for friends, of course, it was a friendly price."

Fanning secretly admired that he could speak, in fact, his house was worth 20,000 yuan, mainly because it was relatively old, and it cost money to repair, and there was no wharf behind it, it was worth less than 25,000 yuan.

Fanning estimates that the real reason why he didn't sell it three years ago was because of the difficulty in transferring ownership, but Fanning didn't have this problem, so 20,000 yuan was a fair price, but people didn't say fair price, but friendship price.

Fan Ning smiled and said: "Thank you Wu Yanei for your kindness, I am very willing to make Wu Yanei a friend, if you need help in the future, even if you come to me, I will definitely try my best to help." ”

Wu Ying wanted this sentence, he smiled slightly, "Thank you Fan Zhiyuan for looking at it, I will arrange a housekeeper to come over tomorrow to handle the transfer, and after the transfer procedures are completed, I will pay for the house, copper money, silver, and huizi I can accept." ”

Wu Ying was very thoughtful, and he arranged for a housekeeper to come over to handle the transfer, so that Zhu Pei could also deal directly with the housekeeper's wife.

"Thank you so much!"

Wu Ying got up randomly to say goodbye, and Fan Ning kept sending him out of the mansion, when Zhu Pei stepped forward and asked happily, "Is it negotiated?" ”

Fanning smiled and nodded, "Twenty thousand yuan, and the next door will be ours in three days." ”

"Great, I've been thinking about how to rearrange it all day today."

Zhu Pei pointed to the surroundings of Cuiyun Tower and said: "I want to turn this forest and the surrounding area into a lake, Cuiyun Tower is on the island, and then build a stone arch bridge to connect it with the back house, what does the husband think?" ”

Fanning nodded and smiled: "As long as you like it, I have no opinion!" ”

Zhu Pei was overjoyed, hugged her husband's arm and said coquettishly: "I knew that my husband would agree, we have to move out temporarily for two months, my husband has no opinion!" ”

"Yes! Or we will temporarily move to Furong Lane to live, where the place is quite large, there are quite a lot of houses, and life is also convenient. ”

Zhu Pei originally wanted to move to the third grandfather's house, but her husband wanted to go to Furong Lane, and she had no opinion.

"Then I'll arrange for someone to clean it up, and when the house is bought, we'll be ready to move!"

.........

Fan Ning and Zhu Pei are looking forward to the life of the new house, but Ouyang Xiu's mansion is gloomy, although Ouyang Xiu's reputation has been restored, his life can not go back to the past.

First of all, his body collapsed, which is mainly related to his uncontrolled drinking and amorous flow for many years, the Xue Zongru incident was just the last straw that broke the camel's back, in addition, high myopia caused cataracts, which made his eyesight extremely bad, and he had to be served all the time.

The second is his wife's attitude, the death of his own brother Xue Zongru made Xue's heart full of hatred, but she gave birth to three sons and two daughters to Ouyang Xiu, and it is impossible for her to divorce her husband.

In addition, the Xue family was already very strong, but now Ouyang Xiu's body is weak and his vision is blurred, and he is still counting on his wife to take care of himself in the second half of his life, Ouyang Xiu has no choice but to swallow his anger, looking at his wife's face and living a life, the big and small things in the family, the Xue family basically says nothing.

At noon that day, Xue came to the East Courtyard like a gust of wind, she walked into the small courtyard and glared at Ouyang Qian viciously.

Xue Zongru died in prison, Xue's heart was painful, and all her anger was vented on Ouyang Qian, if she hadn't gone to the court to complain, how could her brother be arrested, and how could she die in prison, so that after the Xue family was broken, the bane of all this was the woman in front of her.

Ouyang Qian felt her stepmother's anger, she was worried in her heart, and hurriedly put down the book, and said with a salute: "See Mother!" ”

"I'm not your mother, my daughter will never kill her uncle, and I won't talk to you anymore, let me tell you, I'm going to rent out this small courtyard, you have to move out before noon tomorrow, if you don't move, I'll beat you out."

Ouyang Qian was shocked, "Where did you ask me to move to?" ”

"That's your business, you can go outside and rent a house by yourself, that's it."

"But how can I afford to rent a house?"

Xue sneered and said, "Don't pretend to me, do you think I don't know?" Where did you get the money to eat in the past few years, and you still bought books and paper and ink, and there are men outside to support you, will you still have no money to rent a house? In the past, I gave your father face and didn't mention it, but now! If you don't move out, I'll let the neighbors know, and see where your face goes. ”

Ouyang Qian's face was flushed suddenly, and she only felt a wave of shame in her heart, she nodded, "Okay!" Since you won't let me, I'll just move out, I'll go and say goodbye to my father, and I'll move out tomorrow. ”

"Whatever you want!"

Xue Shi said coldly: "If you want your father to know about your ugly things, you can just say it." ”

Ouyang Qian shook her head, "I'm innocent, there's nothing ugly, I can go, but I have to talk to my father." ”

Ouyang Qian ignored her and walked quickly to the backyard.

Xue sneered, she still thought that her father could keep her, dream!