Chapter 51: The Economic Collapse
Leaving Yichang Street and walking in the direction of the south of the city, Li Molan did not mention his previous experience. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
After all, Lin'an City is the land of Daomen, and it is normal to want to come to Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger.
The feeling that woman gave him just now was particularly terrifying, making him suspect that it should be some masters in the Daomen, such as the elders of the Daomen, Lin'an City is so big, how many hidden masters there are, who can guess?
Small hidden in the wild, big hidden in the city.
Presumably, the strong people in this Lin'an City may emerge in an endless stream, and what they see today is just a glimpse.
Li Molan decided to be cautious in her words and deeds, and she must not expose her identity and the fact that Qin Li has the blood of the demon clan.
There is no conflict of interest between cultivators and demon beasts in the world, but that doesn't mean that this kind of alien won't be looked down upon.
Even countrymen who go to the city will be despised and ridiculed many times, not to mention an outlier with demon blood?
I'm afraid that it is easy to be regarded as a monster, and even cause greater disputes and even the attention of the Daomen.
This is something that Li Molan does not want to see.
When I came to the south of the city, there were many fewer rich merchants and nobles wearing brocade costumes among the pedestrians on the road.
The south of the city is the most chaotic area in Lin'an City, and most of them are ordinary people, busy in order to make a living.
The alleys here are extensive, and you should be able to buy some low-cost yards.
After finding the manager of the intermediary bank and clarifying the requirements, the three of them began to run around the south of the city.
The south of the city is very large, because Lin'an City is too big, if you want to walk from one end of the south of the city to the other, it will take half a day's work.
The three of them wanted to find a good place to live here, and they were busy all day, but they couldn't find a place that met the price in Li Molan's mind, but they could toss the unlucky manager of this intermediary bank enough.
The land in the south of the city is cheap enough, but Lin'an City is every inch of land, and you can see the clues from a small bowl of vegetable wontons.
Although Li Molan has five hundred taels in his pocket, it is often two or three hundred for a small courtyard.
And there were few people who changed hands and sold them, and after running around all day in a daze, it was fruitless, and even the young man himself felt a little tired when his body was far superior to others.
There was no harvest all day, and the panting intermediary manager went back beforehand.
Li Molan and Qin Li had no choice but to find an inn in the south of the city and stay for another night.
However, in the middle of the night, Li Molan was not idle, still shuttling through the brightly lit alleys and alleys, looking for suitable objects, or looking for some owners who had met during the day to discuss and bargain.
On the second day, the unlucky steward was quickly pushed out again by the other stewards of the intermediary bank.
It's just that Li Molan really made some achievements in the evening, and negotiated with the owner of Wutong Lane, and he could buy his small courtyard for two hundred taels, which suddenly made this unlucky steward cry with joy.
The three of them came to the gate of the small courtyard at No. 12 Wutong Lane.
They knocked on the pull tab on the door, and then they got the thing done, signed the paperwork, stamped the title deed, and so on.
Buying a house here is relatively simple, a piece of land title deed for a sum of silver, and then the owner can leave, and the buyer can move in.
Some of the bed boards and cabinets left by the owner could not be taken away, and they were also given to them, which was a windfall.
When everyone left, Li Molan and Qin Li looked at the small courtyard of No. 12 Wutong Lane, which was not too big, but the well house, wardrobe and kitchen stove were readily available, and felt some so-called happiness.
The two of them didn't have much luggage, and in order to save money, they didn't have anything to spend more money on except for buying some pots and pans.
But even so, Li Molan also knew that there were still more than two months, and the more than two hundred taels under her were definitely not enough to spend.
I have to think about some ways to make money, it's really not good to go to the tavern to apply for the second junior of the shop, and if I can't go to the deep mountains and old forests outside Lin'an City to hunt, there is no problem.
Today's weather is not bad, although yesterday's sky goose feathers and snow, but today is a rare sun, not to mention the snow wrapped in snow, the clear light shines on the body is very comfortable.
When the owner left, there was a lot of movement, and a lot of dust was raised, and the top priority was to clean the small yard and the houses in the yard.
This job was handed over to Qin Li to do, how can this big girl say that she was born in the countryside, this kind of work is easy to catch.
Li Molan went out to buy daily necessities.
When I walked out along Wutong Lane, I looked at the weeping willows that appeared from time to time in the spacious alley, and some neighborhood uncles chatting in the alley, and I was in a very comfortable mood.
At least the first part is solved, and how to make money and how to get living expenses after that is a question to be pondered tomorrow.
When walking in the red dust, life was much more difficult than now, and eating was often a problem.
Now such a day seems to hide many problems, but it can be said that it is much more comfortable than in the past, and Li Molan is not dissatisfied.
Besides, although the price of a big city like Lin'an City is expensive, but in March, he successfully passed the admission assessment and entered the Enlightenment Academy, and then passed the opening assessment to become an inner disciple of the Daomen, and the monthly salary was not rolling in.
Just like He Xingge can still carry thousands of taels of silver tickets when he goes out, that is the day of the gods.
Although the big trouble in their hearts was solved during the day, which made Li Molan and Qin Li feel very good, but at night, when the cold wind and the temperature plummeted again, the two of them really felt the pain of not having a fire pit to keep warm on a cold day.
They couldn't sleep around the stove to keep warm, so Li Molan had to use her true qi to ferry to the little girl, so that she wouldn't fall asleep in the cold.
It was pitch black outside, and so was the house.
Since there was only one bed board, Li Molan and Qin Li had to sleep on the same bed.
Fortunately, the life of these few days has made the two accustomed to such days, and there is an age gap that is not too small, so there is no embarrassment, and they will have to live together in the future, so they have to get used to it.
Early the next morning, it was snowing heavily.
Not to mention the entire Lin'an City, just this small Wutong Lane is covered with crystal snow, step by step.
The left and right walls are covered with hoarfrost, turning into two white walls, and the original color is not visible.
Li Molan went out early in the morning.
First went to Wutong Lane with Qin Li to have a bowl of wontons for breakfast, and then he walked out of Wutong Lane alone, and walked along the street in the direction of Yichang Street against the wind and snow.
As the outer gate of the Daomen, the Wudao Academy has a supreme status, and the inner disciples of the Daomen are all selected from these outer disciples of the Daoist Academy, which can be said to be the first threshold for entering the Daomen.
The opening assessment in March is the day of enrollment of the Wudao Academy every five years, and Li Molan must register in advance.
It is really a bit far from Wutong Lane in the south of the city to Yichang Street in the center of the city, and Li Molan trotted all the way for more than half an hour.
Yichang Street, covered with thick snow, is black and white, and this time the woman holding a black umbrella and dragging a black dress did not appear again.
The young man breathed a sigh of relief, and then thought that he was going to the Enlightenment Academy to apply for the exam, and immediately paid attention to his demeanor.
First of all, you must get rid of the martial arts temperament in yourself, and then try to put on a scholarly posture as much as possible, and try to make yourself look like you are full of bookishness.
A scholar is not necessarily a cultivator, but a cultivator must be a scholar.
I came to the end of Yichang Street, that is, the eastern area of the city, and it was already afternoon.
The gate of the temple is huge, and you can see the endless buildings behind it through the white walls and tiles.
The courtyard is patchworked, covered with white snow, and you can feel the smell of books through the walls.
There is an office next to the Godoin, or an admissions office.
At this time, there were not many people in the office hall, and occasionally people came in and out, and they were all young people wearing Taoist robes and scholarly shirts, and they looked like they had the temperament of a literati.
Of course, these people are not ordinary people, most of them are cultivators.
Many people find out that they have the talent of cultivation, and some of them will directly bid farewell to their original sect and come all the way to Lin'an City, the purpose of which is to be able to enter the Taoist gate and glorify their ancestors.
And their original sects didn't even have any opinions on this, and even encouraged those people to try to see if they could worship the Daomen, which was incredible.
The hall of the office is very quiet, and even if there are scholars and monks talking, they often go outside the office gate to talk, and there is no sound inside, so that people can't help but dare to speak loudly.
Li Molan walked in.
His teal scholar shirt is specially made, with a unique style, which looks extraordinarily colorful, and his excellent appearance attracts some attention.
Dressed in snow, the appearance is a little free.
He didn't mind these concerned glances, walked directly to the desk of the clerk, and said, "Hello, I want to apply for the entrance examination of the Wudao Academy in March. ”
"The registration fee is two hundred taels. ”
The clerk raised his eyelids and said lightly.
"Good...... Huh?" Li Molan was stunned, showed an expression of disbelief, and asked, "I have to pay for registration?"
When the clerk heard this, he looked at the turtle and said, "What do you say?"
Li Molan's face suddenly became extremely ugly.
"If you don't have any money, you go out. The clerk suspected that the kid in front of him was here to make trouble, and he didn't even know what to call for it?
All the scholars in the hall showed very interested expressions, and some of them laughed at each other quite obviously, and they secretly talked to each other, thinking that they were not saying anything good.
Where is the face?
Li Molan gritted her teeth and said, "Two hundred taels...... I...... I still have it...... I'll pay!"
At this moment, he didn't know how many grass and mud horses galloped by.
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