In the twenty-first year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty (1542), part of the land of Huating and Shanghai counties was divided, Qingpu County was built, and Qinglong Town was established.

——"Qingpu County Magazine"

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"Two thousand a month, no two prices."

"Auntie, can it be cheaper?"

Li Chunhua looked at the young man in front of him and said curiously: "How old are you, you should still be studying, why did you run out to rent a room alone?" ”

Zhou Chu took out his student ID card of Donghua University and explained: "My mother is undergoing chemotherapy in the Chinese Medicine Hospital, and I have to follow the escort." ”

Li Chunhua was stunned for a moment, took the student ID, looked at the young man's portrait on it, then raised his eyes to look at Zhou Chu, nodded and said: "Young man, it's okay, this single room is not suitable for you, I still have an old house with a semi-basement, it's quiet there, do you want to consider it?" ”

When Zhou Chu heard this, he looked at Huang Mao, who was broadcasting live in the single room next door, and the irritable subwoofer shook the door panel.

Li Chunhua said with a smile: "You have also seen that the other two young people are doing live broadcasts, and this is the case every night, your mother lives in this kind of environment, which is not conducive to recuperation." ”

Zhou Chu bowed slightly, and hurriedly asked, "Can that semi-basement be cheaper?" ”

Li Chunhua closed the door, took the lead out of this share house, and said while going down the stairs: "It's in the urban village next door, which used to be the tool room of my house, and after he left, I will use it as a warehouse, and I will take you to see it first." ”

One after the other, the two came to a building in the innermost part of the community, which is an old community with seven floors without elevators, trees shade the sky, and the residents are mainly elderly and migrant workers, and children are rarely seen.

The two of them came to the staircase of a unit, and the entrance to the basement was just below the staircase, east and west, door to door.

Li Chunhua took out a bunch of keys, opened the iron door under the stairs, pointed to the dim basement and said: "This is a large open room, more than 50 square meters, there is a ventilation window on the north and south sides, more than ten centimeters from the ground, don't open the window if it rains." ”

There are light bulbs in the basement, which are very old tungsten lights, and the switches are still the kind with pull cords.

Li Chunhua fumbled to turn on the light, Zhou Chu followed, and after a rough look, he asked, "Auntie, how much is a month here?" ”

Li Chunhua pushed the aluminum alloy glass window of the window open, and replied without looking back: "Give me five hundred, I'll give you all the water and electricity, as long as you don't mess around here, it's not easy for you to ......."

Zhou Chu's eyes moved slightly, and he looked at Li Chunhua gratefully, but saw her sneaking a corner of her eye.

There were some miscellaneous items piled up in the basement, and Zhou Chu's eyes fell on a stack of bags printed with the words "First Hospital", and he knew it in his heart.

Li Chunhua pointed to the objects in the house and said: "These old furniture can still be used, you watch yourself tidy up, now is the time to need money, you can save a little is a little, I wish your mother a speedy recovery." ”

Zhou Chu bowed to Li Chunhua gratefully, "Thank you." ”

Li Chunhua waved his hand indifferently and said, "There is a small supermarket at the door, you can buy some broom buckets or something, and this light bulb, it is better to change it, it is too dark in the house to be good for your eyes." ”

Zhou Chu stood there and listened, Li Chunhua talked about some things that should be paid attention to in the community, as well as the experience of accompanying cancer patients, which benefited Zhou Chu a lot.

"This is the key, I'll hand it over to you, on the first of every month in the future, you can send me the rent on WeChat, and if you have any questions, you can go directly to Building 2 503 to find me."

Li Chunhua seemed to be a little tired, and after a few more words, he said goodbye and left.

Zhou Chu sent her outside, grateful in his heart.

The house of five hundred in the magic capital has become extinct, although it is a basement, but it is already a gift to the current Zhou Chu's mother and son.

Zhou Chu has no father since he was a child, he was brought up by his mother, Zhou's mother teaches in a small county, her income is mediocre, and she can't give Zhou Chu a good growth environment, but fortunately, Zhou's mother herself is a teacher, and she has never been slack in education.

Three years ago, Zhou Chu was not only admitted to Donghua University, but also got a full scholarship, and now he will graduate next year.

As for Zhou's mother, pancreatic cancer is in the middle stage, she has undergone surgery and is undergoing postoperative chemotherapy, and her relatives are busy in her hometown, and the only person who can accompany her is his own son.

The money Zhou's mother has earned over the years has basically been spent on her son, and the family's savings are not much, even if they are reimbursed by medical insurance, they have spent all their family savings after fighting the disease for three years, and they have to borrow money from relatives and friends.

Zhou Chu himself calculated that the foreign debts of the two uncles plus his mother's colleagues totaled 280,000.

It should be no problem to work hard after graduation and strive to pay it off within five years.

Originally, he had already been sent to graduate school, but now it seems that it is not realistic.

"Let's clean up."

Zhou Chu first went to the small supermarket at the entrance of the community, bought some cleaning utensils, and then started the cleaning work non-stop.

Because there were no people, the basement was cold and abnormal, but fortunately it was not damp, and cracks appeared in many places on the cement floor, and the wet mop plowed, and the water stains were quickly absorbed by these cracks.

I heard that there have been a lot of subsidence in the magic capital due to the overdevelopment of groundwater, Zhou Chu observed for a while, and planned to go back and buy some quick-drying cement to plug it, otherwise he always felt that his heart should be panicked.

After cleaning the floor, the next step is to put up the furniture, which is the small warehouse of Li Chunhua's house, not only with old solid wood furniture, but also with some obsolete household appliances: fans, washing machines, dryers, gas stoves, everything.

Looking at these guys who occupied most of the basement, Zhou Chu began to pick and choose, and moved everything that could be used first.

Sweating profusely, he didn't notice what was going on under his feet.

The concrete floor, which was already full of cracks, quietly split into more than a dozen tiny cracks.

"What is this?"

Zhou Chu moved open the two bulky solid wood wardrobes, and suddenly the wardrobe door opened, and the contents were scattered all over the ground.

It was a few shabby clothes and quilt pillowcases, and one of them was a long strip wrapped in a white cloth that caught his eye.

Zhou Chu bent down to pick it up, and casually dismantled the strip of cloth, revealing an old pole.

However, without waiting for Zhou Chu's curiosity, the ground under his feet suddenly cracked, and a black wellhead appeared.

Feet empty.

"Oops,!"

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Ming Jiajing Renyin, midsummer.

It is the year of the uproar of the [Renyin Palace Change].

A perverted emperor of alchemy was almost killed by the palace maids, which is really a strange thing among wonders.

South Zhili Songjiang Mansion, new Qingpu County, county governance is located in Qinglong Town.

When Qingpu County was established, Xiuzhu and Huating two townships in the northwest were separated from Huating County, and Xinjiang County, Beiting and Haiyu were separated from Shanghai County, and the first county governor was Yang Yao, a native of Jianning, Fujian.

Qinglong Town crosses the vertical and horizontal waterways, connects the Yangtze River, and the water and land are to rush, and the residents have seventy percent of the surname Tang, and they operate bamboo and wood for a living.

Tang Guanglong is a skilled craftsman, nearly forty years old, with four daughters and one boy, the eldest daughter married to a teaching boy in Huating, the second daughter is in the boudoir, the third daughter, four daughters and one mother are still young, and the younger son is waiting to be fed in infancy.

On this day, the new well in the backyard of the Tang family was completed, and the whole family worshiped the dragon king of the well, and put on three animals and five fruits, so it was not lively.

In order to facilitate the draft, Tang Guanglong spent ten taels of silver and invited professionals to dig this well.

What is the concept of ten taels of silver?

According to Hai Rui's "Eight Discussions on Rejuvenating the Country", in the ninth year of Jiajing, "the people's grain (rice) was converted into five dollars and eight cents of silver per stone", and in the fortieth year of Jiajing, it became seven dollars, eight cents and five cents.

One stone of rice in the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to 144 catties today (probably), if you refer to the current price of 3 yuan per catty of rice, in the ninth year of Jiajing, one tael of silver is equivalent to about 745 yuan, and in the 40th year of Jiajing, it "fell" to about 550 yuan.

It was the twenty-first year of Jiajing, and I don't know about other places, but in a rich place like Songjiang Mansion, one tael of silver can buy one person's rations for three months, ten taels to dig a well, and five people to work for more than ten days, and the labor fee is really fucking expensive.

"Fourth Uncle Ancestor, I'm tired of you getting old."

Tang Guanglong handed over a brand-new bucket, according to the rules, the first bucket of water in this new well, it is best to find a respected and long-lived old man to fight, so that it can bring good luck and blessings to his family.

Tang Jili was very old, so he took the bucket tremblingly, walked to the well and bowed piously, and then threw the bucket into the well.

You don't need to fetch much water, just a little bit of fun.

After Tang Jili vaguely heard the sound of the bucket falling into the water, he began to pull the hemp rope up.

But suddenly a huge force came, so frightened that he almost fell into the well.

Tang Guanglong, who was standing behind Tang Jili, was also startled, and hurriedly stepped forward to support the old man's arms.

But I heard someone shouting in the well: "Whoever is on it, pull me up quickly, I can't swim, Gollum ......"