Chapter Twenty-Five: The Waterfront House
In the small courtyard in the forest in the east of the city, Whisper was sitting on a bench in the courtyard, and Zhong Lisu was standing behind her and combing her long black hair that had just been washed.
The warm sun embraced the two of them, the catkins and emerald leaves fell without wind, and a pair of swallows flew low from the courtyard, hovering and not returning to the nest.
Spring may really be coming to an end.
"There are winged birds in the south, and they are not better than not flying...... Miss, does the flying winged bird necessarily be happy and heart-to-heart? ”
Looking at the pair of Feiyan in front of her, her eyes were a little red again, and she was sad until late when she heard her uncle tell the story of Liang Zhu yesterday, and her eyes were a little uncomfortable at this moment.
Regarding love, she is actually just ignorant, but it is always a beautiful thing for the two to fall in love, and the originally beautiful relationship is dyed with tragedy...... Uncle is a bad person.
Hearing the whispered question, Zhong Lisu's hand holding the wooden comb paused, and after thinking seriously for a moment, she gently straightened the whispering head, brushed the tip of her silky hair with the comb, and said to her with a smile: "Then only the birds themselves know." ”
"Then I think it should be, since I have decided to fly with wings, at least I should be happy in my heart!" Whispering puffed out his small mouth and slowly blew away the catkins floating in front of him.
"By the way, Miss, then I wish the girl and Yinxin to disguise themselves as men to study, why don't we try it another day. If the young lady pretends to be a son, she may be a few miles more handsome than her uncle. Thinking of the plot of the story, Whisper suddenly smiled and joked to Zhong Lisu.
"Sit down, don't mess around." Hearing her words, Zhongli glanced at her and patted her on the back with his hand.
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After briefly explaining the cooking method of the cake and the production process of some common tools to the shopkeeper Zhang, the three parties signed a preliminary agreement on the opening of a dessert shop.
By the time I left the restaurant, a half-crescent moon had already appeared in the sky, far in harmony with the sun that was about to set.
Chen Zhishu seemed to be in a hurry at home, and when she saw that it was not early, she left a message to come back another day and left in a hurry with a small bag of packaged snacks.
In fact, the time was only about three or four o'clock, and Situ Xi decided to go to the West Market to find some tooth people and ask if there was a suitable house.
There are some shops in the market that specialize in housing business, but there are not many of them.
After some inquiry, Situ Xi found a large-scale store.
The store was quite deserted at this point, with only two or three customers enquiring about it, and a notice board on the wall posted some information about the transfer of the house.
The tooth man in charge was entertaining customers, nodding to him to say hello, Situ Xi entered the store alone to take a look, and soon found that the housing resources on the notice were either too small in size or too far away, and there was really nothing suitable.
And most of the slightly more suitable houses are only willing to rent out and refuse to change hands.
Not very satisfied, when the group of customers just left the store, Situ Xi directly told his needs to the tooth man in charge of the store.
"If there is a slightly more spacious house, it is better to be some distance from the downtown area, but not far from the street."
"Honorable guest, don't the ones on the wall that are to your liking?" The man was a young man, and after listening to Situ Xi's question, he hurriedly came to his side to ask, and his attitude was excellent.
"Is there anything that is slightly better?"
"This ...... Better ...... It is said that there is a house on the edge of the water, it is a row of courtyards, a total of three houses, but the owner is only willing to sell them together, this price is really high, so it has not been sold, you see, childe......"
Negotiate water? Situ Xi thought about it, Jinsefang seemed to be on the edge of Qiashui, but he didn't know where this row of courtyards was.
Qi water flows through Xuan'an, and divides into two rivers in the city, one is the Fen River, the other is the Qiashui, the Fen River is in the south of the city, and the Qiashui flows through the middle section of Xuan'an City, crossing the east and west of Xuan'an.
"Oh? Can you take me to see it? Situ Xi took out some broken silver and handed it to the tooth man.
Weighing the weight of the silver taels in his hand, the tooth man smiled on his face: "Childe, please come here." ”
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Following the young tooth man around several ancient walls covered with tender green brocade, Situ Xi fell in love with the courtyard adjacent to the water at a glance.
The location of this row of houses is indeed good, it should be about the west point of Xuan'an City, and it is only ten minutes away from Xishi.
The nearby environment is very good, the sound of gurgling water flows under the window, there is no noisy city noise around, the air is very fresh, and the view is wider than in the woods in the east of the city.
The courtyard gate of the courtyard is also quite atmospheric, and you can feel an obvious sense of heaviness when you push it, and when you walk into the courtyard, the flowers and plants in it should have been carefully picked up, and it looks particularly neat.
The rooms in the courtyard are exquisite and spacious, antique, and there are ready-made furniture inside, which looks full of charm, and the owner should be a tasteful person.
"These houses were prepared by two old men for their children, the old man's son went to the middle school of Jinshi and moved directly to Dongshi, their family is not short of silver taels, the old woman wants to sell these three houses together to the same person, and does not want to sell them separately."
The young tooth man seemed to see the satisfaction in Situ Xi's eyes, so he smiled and explained to him the reason why the courtyard had been preserved to this day, and he didn't want to make the guests mistakenly think that there was some "hidden disease" in the house.
Through the window, Situ Xi found that the layout in the house looked very new, and there was no dust and leaves in the courtyard, obviously it was only cleaned today, and there was a separate study in the main courtyard, and the bookshelves were full of all kinds of books.
After a brief turn, Situ Xi felt that this house was really good.
"Honorable guest, are you still satisfied with this house?"
"What is the price?"
"It's not cheap, it's nearly a thousand taels."
"Okay, stay for me for now, and I'll make a decision in a few days."
He took out ten taels of silver and handed it to the tooth man, and he also opened a bill for Situ Xi.
I have to go home and discuss the specific things with Zhong Lixuan, if I buy a house and go back without saying a word, I always feel that it is not so good.
"By the way, about the price, didn't you say that no one has bought this house for a long time?"
Then there's the bargaining thing.