Chapter 60: Friends and Neighbors
Li Siye is relaxed at the moment, as comfortable as drinking fine wine, and he has finally lived up to this name, and he is about to enter the official career from today.
He decided to go to Dunhuafang to pick up his sister first, and it was not a problem to always live in someone else's house.
At the door of Wenji incense shop, Zhang Xiaojing and Tian Zhen were there, and they seemed to expect Li Siye to come here first.
Li Siye hurriedly went up to express his gratitude to the two: "Today's life-saving grace, Heiye is grateful, and he will be rewarded in the future."
Zhang Xiaojing stopped him from speaking: "You must not introduce me to the top in the future, I can't be their close minister, that would be tantamount to revenge for me."
Tian Zhen snorted and said: "My ambition is the border pass, if there is such an opportunity, I can introduce it, but if it is in the palace, then forget it." Also, I always remember the 20,000 yuan you said. ”
"Yes, of course." Li Siye walked towards the store and said, "You wait for me first, take my sister next, and I want to have a drink with you to express my sincere gratitude."
After Li Siye received Mei'er, he returned to Xuanyangfang with Zhang Xiaojing and Tian Zhen.
The outside of the courtyard was still clean, and he went in and opened the gate, and led them to the east wing, where he took down the baskets from the beams.
There was still a lot of money in the jug last time, and with this basket of coins, it was definitely above 50,000 yuan.
"I'll go get twenty hemp, Brother Tian Zhen, you count it slowly."
Counting coins is a fatal thing, this piece of Kaiyuan Tongbao has to be counted, and then used hemp grass to string a thousand pieces into a string, which takes a lot of effort.
The four of them counted the whole hour, and finally counted the number, which was fifty-three thousand and nineteen dollars. Li Siye counted out twenty strings and threw them to Tian Zhen: "Brother Tian, this is the money promised to you."
Tian Zhen blinked her eyes and stared hesitantly at the money on the ground: "Li Siye, is this money really for me?"
"Of course!"
Li Mei'er suddenly interjected and asked, "Brother, why do you want to give him money."
He touched his head, forgot to explain to the other master of the family, squatted down and said, "Mei'er, this brother saved his brother's life, this money should be given."
Li Mei'er nodded, and said to Tian Zhen in her brother's tone: "Take it, you deserve it." Brother Zhang should also take 20,000 yuan. ”
Zhang Xiaojing pinched his chin and said, "If I am short of money, I will open my mouth to Li Siye, there is no need now."
Tian Zhen put the money string on his shoulder, arched his hand and was about to leave, Li Siye hurriedly kept the two and said: "Two brothers, it's still early, you stay in the cold house, I'll go buy wine and meat, and let's drink a few bowls together."
Li Siye doesn't have any psychological burden, his family has money, and he doesn't panic, and he already has an official body, this prince is a seven-grade official, and there should be a lot of money every month.
There is a cooked butcher shop in Xuanyang Fang, and there is also a wine shop in Jinggong Fang nearby, he personally ran a trip and sold a large jar and eight catties of meat, which is enough for the three of them to be full of wine and food.
The three of them sat cross-legged on the straw mat in the east wing, you came and went, the wine bowls were staggered, until the sky was slightly darker, and a large jar of wine was drunk.
Li Siye was slightly drunk and sent the two who were also drunk out of the workshop. There were two beggars kneeling on the street, and Tian Zhen, who was so drunk that he swayed from side to side, broke one of the hemp ropes, and the copper coins spilled from the hemp ropes to the ground.
"Come and pick it up, I'm giving it to you!"
Li Siye didn't have time to stop it, and the two beggars went up and kowtowed while picking it up.
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Early the next morning, Li Siye got up early, washed his face on the courtyard well as usual, and practiced his fists and feet on the mulberry wood in the yard. After the bell rang 300 times when the curfew was lifted, he ran away from the propaganda square and ran along the streets of Chang'an City.
A pair of Jinwu guards finished their patrol and saw Li Siye running in front of them, and suddenly felt suspicious, and shouted: "Stop!"
Li Siye obediently stopped, and these soldiers surrounded him with fierce eyes, and asked the leader, "Why are you running wildly?"
"Exercise."
"You can just exercise your body and practice martial arts, what kind of body do you become when you run wild on the street like this?"
"I don't know." Li Siye gasped and asked, "Aren't you allowed to practice running?"
The soldiers looked at each other, and there seemed to be no rule in the ban that they couldn't run, so the chief had to wave his hand: "Okay, you keep running."
After this episode, Li Siye returned to the workshop, and the sycamore leaves outside the yard seemed to have fallen a few more, he went back to the courtyard and took a broom, and decided to do it again, and cleaned the outside of the yard of the's house and in front of his house.
He had just cleaned a few times, and the door next door creaked open, and the, dressed in a light-pigmented dress, led the old man to the door.
She looked at Li Siye, smiled, snatched the broom from the old man's hand and said, "You go back first, I'll clean up outside the courtyard gate today."
The old man obviously couldn't understand: "Big lady, is this the work of one of your masters?"
were a little unhappy: "I'm sympathetic to my subordinates, let you rest for a while today, can't you?" Get back. ”
Cangtou obediently let go of the broom and glanced back at Li Siye, which made Li Siye feel a little furious.
It seems that he will avoid contact with this alone in the future.
Li Siye was embarrassed to leave, so he had to distance himself from Xu Niangzi, but the two still ran into each other sooner or later. The put down the broom, raised her hand and gently brushed her sweat-soaked sideburns, and smiled at him with a slightly red face.
"Isn't Li Lang busy these days?"
Li Siye replied mechanically: "I'm not busy now."
"What kind of business is Li Lang doing now?"
Li Siye lowered his head and thought about it, but still decided to answer truthfully: "I just got an errand, entered the East Palace, and served as a thousand cattle for the prince."
"Li Lang is an official?" smiled in astonishment: "I should congratulate you."
But Li Siye could see from her face that she was an official, and this didn't seem to be very happy.
"I heard that I can't go home for a long time when I am on an errand in the palace, what should I do with my sister at home?"
Li Siye realized this problem, his sister was still young, and if he really stayed in the East Palace for a long time, he had to hire a servant to take care of the affairs of the family. There is such a business in the West Market, but if you rashly get a person who doesn't know the bottom of it, the consequences will be unimaginable if they have bad intentions.
Zhang Xiaojing and Tian Zhen can't help with this kind of thing, Zhang Lu and Zhang Luo's house are okay, Zhang Luo is unreliable, it's really worrying.
If you are looking for a maid at home, you may be able to ask the in front of you.
Li Siye paid attention, held the broom and said to the: "I want to hire two servants, preferably a maidservant, to stay at home and take care of my sister's diet and daily life, does the have such a candidate."
The was overjoyed, but she rubbed the falling horsetail on her head and thought, "It seems that there is, don't worry, wait for me to go back and give you Zhang Luo."
The old man of the's family poked his head out of the crack in the door and coughed loudly from afar: "Drink hum!"
Li Siye hurriedly carried the broom to the other side, lowered his head and swept away the remaining hay and leaves. The glared back at the door and went back with a broom.
Li Siye didn't have much hope for Xu Niangzi, so he decided to go to the West Market tomorrow to take a look, and choose one or two maidservants to come back, to choose the loyal and honest ones, and the ones who are loyal and treacherous in their hearts must also beware.
In the afternoon, he made a slingshot for children in the yard, and bought two beef tendons in the West Market the day before yesterday, which came in handy.
Before the slingshot was ready, there was a knock on the door outside the courtyard, and Li Siye shouted, "It's coming," while getting up to open the door.
The led the two to stand outside the door, and Li Siye took a look, and it turned out to be two mothers-in-law in their forties, with yellow and thin faces, like old trees and new bark.
"These two are the maidservants who have been in our house, absolutely loyal and honest, and will never do anything unfavorable to the master. My Ah Lang thought they were old and yellow, so he sent them out. It only costs 400 wen a month, Li Langjun, are you satisfied?"
Your husband disliked them for being ugly, so he sent them to my house?