After returning from the Wenxi banquet, Zhu Ming's focus was not on the emperor, but happily went to rent a house.

I've been staying in the guest house, and I can't carry the money in my pocket!

As we all know, the prices in Tokyo in the Song Dynasty were extremely high, and even buying and renting a house was very expensive.

But the housing prices of the Huizong Dynasty have reached the point where they are unaffordable.

Due to the royal family and the magnates, they wantonly occupied the interior of the city, and even the houses of some wealthy merchants were forcibly demolished.

Naturally, it is impossible for these wealthy businessmen to go to live in shacks by the Cao River. They have paid for houses in the city, which has suddenly made large housing listings tight, and housing prices have rocketed up.

There are also many medium-sized families who, after being forcibly demolished by the imperial court, went to buy those ordinary houses.

There are also many well-off families who choose to rent a house in the city.

As a result, the prices of large and small houses have all risen, and the rents have also risen.

As early as eight years ago, the rent of houses in Tokyo had doubled compared to the beginning of Song Huizong's accession to the throne.

This caused many petty officials in the capital to complain that they couldn't afford to rent a house, so Song Huizong issued an edict accusing Kaifeng Mansion Yin of not doing a good job.

The imperial court attributed the reason for the increase in rent to the fact that the owner renovated indiscriminately, and the rent doubled with a casual renovation, and the conscience was simply very bad. Therefore, it is stipulated that if the area of the house does not increase when the house is renovated, the owner is not allowed to increase the price without permission, and the violator will be dealt with according to the overtime.

Have an egg?

Rent prices in Tokyo are now three times higher than they were 20 years ago!

Moreover, it is not easy to rent a house if you have money, otherwise Zhu Ming and the others would have moved out of the inn a long time ago.

"Come in and sit down, everybody!" Tang greeted warmly.

The Tang clan in front of him is the evil mother-in-law who forcibly dismantled Lu You and Tang Wan. He is only twenty-five years old this year, with a dignified and beautiful appearance, full of the charm of a young woman.

Lu Zai is about to go to Huaixi to promote Changping Envoy, the house is empty and empty, I heard that Zhu Ming and they don't have a house to live in, so they are willing to rent it out at a low price.

Tang instructed the servants to boil water and make tea, and personally brought out some snacks to entertain them.

Lu Zai introduced: "This house was bought by my father when he was a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, and he was later promoted to Shangshu Zuocheng (deputy prime minister), and he did not buy a new house again. The house is not big, there are only two courtyards, if you think it is expensive, you can also ask two more people to share the house. ”

"May I ask Lu Changping, how much is the monthly interest (rent)?" Bai Chongyan couldn't help but ask, although he made a lot of money selling tea, he spent a lot of money on the inn for three months. Moreover, I don't know when I'll be sent, so I can't predict when I'll get paid.

Lu Zai thought for a while: "Since they are all jinshi, they should be cheaper, and the monthly interest rate is 100 yuan." ”

This rent price is really hard to find with a lantern, after all, the house is quite large, and several people can share it together.

Moreover, it is located in the inner city and belongs to the prime location. If the inner city house with two courtyards is based on the market price, the monthly rent will be at least 200 yuan.

Zhu Ming arched his hand and said, "Thank you seniors for taking care of you." ”

Tang said, "If you want to hire slaves, there are ready-made ones here. Pick a few, and I'll resell the rest. They are all ten-year deeds, bought three years ago, and there are more than six years left in the contract. ”

Zhu Ming, Bai Chongyan and Min Zishun discussed and decided to invite Chen Yuan to share 25 yuan of rent per month.

Everyone bought two maids together, one to buy vegetables and cook rice, and the other to wash and sew.

As for daily cleaning, they brought their own entourage, and they couldn't keep Bai Sheng, Gu San and others to eat dry rice.

At noon, the Lu family stayed for dinner.

Lu Zai has not yet taken a concubine, and he has only one only son with the Tang family, that is, Lu You's brother Lu Song.

Lu Song is seven years old this year, and he already knows etiquette, so he said: "Song greets ......"

Well, it's not good to talk about seniority.

Because of Lu Tixue's relationship, Zhu Ming regarded Lu Zai as an elder.

But Lu Zai is only twenty-seven years old this year, about the same age as Bai Chongyan, and Min Zishun is already in his thirties.

Zhu Ming, Bai Chongyan, and Min Zishun are commensurate with each other.

It doesn't make sense.

Lu Jae said, "Call Mr. ”

Lu Song re-energized and said, "Song greets all the gentlemen." ”

Everyone sat down, and Tang personally poured the wine.

After drinking a few cups, Tang asked about their marriage, and learned that Zhu Ming had not yet married a wife, so he said: "It's a pity that the slave has to go out of Beijing with her husband, otherwise she will find a good wife for success." ”

Zhu Ming excused himself: "I'm young, so I'm not in a hurry for the time being." ”

Lu Zai said: "Success is not in a hurry, some people are in a hurry." If it weren't for the wedding banquet that angered the official family, I'm afraid someone would have already come to propose. ”

……

Zhu Ming and others went to see the house, but Xue Daoguang was ordered to enter the palace.

Several eunuchs and guards surrounded Xue Daoguang and escorted him all the way into the city, as if he was afraid that the Taoist priest would run away.

Zhu Qiu, who had just been demoted to the governor of Dazhou, took a carriage out of the city to take up his post, and his heart was extremely happy.

He lifted the curtain of the car, just in time to see Xue Daoguang entering the city, and sighed sympathetically: "Another one who has been forcibly requisitioned, pitiful, pitiful!" ”

Then the old gentleman came to the pier and cheered and boarded the boat to escape Tokyo.

Zhu Qiu was admitted to the Jinshi 27 years ago, and was dismissed by Zeng Bu because of the disadvantages of the acupuncture. Since then, he has devoted himself to the study of medicine, and even revised and annotated the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", and renamed it the "Nanyang Living Book" with a full twenty volumes.

This book has become a treasure book for doctors. And Zhu Qiu was forcibly requisitioned by Song Huizong because of this, and became a doctor of medicine in a daze.

He was obviously a doctor, but Song Huizong actually came to him every once in a while to ask him about the method of cultivation. (Zhu Qiu also compiled "Two Scenes of Inside and Outside", which is an acupuncture book, but it was regarded as a Taoist spiritual map by the contemporaries, and the author Zhu Qiu was also mistaken for a monk.) ）

Zhu Qiu was really unbearable, openly copied Su Shi's poems, and preached Su Zi's learning whenever he met people. Ask for a hammer to get a hammer, succeed in being demoted, and be released to Dazhou to live happily.

There are not a few people who have the same thoughts as Zhu Ming and deliberately anger the emperor in order to seek release.

said that Song Huizong was reading "Journey to the West", and he had been reading this book for two days, which can be called a waste of sleep and food.

The Tang and Song dynasties did not have long stories, and for the ancients, the power of "Journey to the West" was too great. Song Huizong was not only fascinated by the storyline, but also fascinated by the immortals in the book, all kinds of immortals, Buddhas, goblins and ghosts, which were completely in line with his imagination of cultivating the Tao and becoming immortals.

"Official, Xue Zhenren is here." The squire reminded.

Song Huizong was overjoyed, put down and stood up: "Hurry up and invite a real person to come in!" ”

Xue Daoguang recently got a job working for someone in a printing house, and he was wearing the clothes of a workshop guy at the moment.

Dressed like this, it was unexpected by Song Huizong.

In the past, all Taoist priests wore Taoist robes and combed Taoist buns when they entered the palace. And Xue Daoguang has nothing, and he has nothing to do with the Taoist priest.

Song Huizong suspected that this was a fake Taoist priest, and couldn't help asking: "Why is the real person pretending to be a Qianshou?" ”

Xue Daoguang made a Taoist priest and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the poor Dao cultivates Jindan Avenue, and does not pay attention to Taoist rituals, nor does he care what clothes to wear or what kind of hair bun to comb. ”

Song Huizong saw that his face was full of red light, and his complexion was better than that of most Taoist priests, and asked again: "Real people can have Taoism passed down from generation to generation." ”

Xue Daoguang took out a book: "I am about to dedicate it to the official family." ”

Song Huizong glanced at the cover, but it was "Notes on the Enlightenment Chapter".

He had also seen the "Enlightenment Chapter" before, but no one commented on it, and he couldn't understand it in many places.

Song Huizong said: "The real person will wait for a while, and I will take a look." ”

Xue Daoguang sat down on his knees and said no more.

Song Huizong opened this book, and it was full of Taoist poems.

After Xue Daoguang's annotation, the first poem talks about the difficulty of finding famous teachers and the truth of the truth, and also writes about cultivating the way to become an immortal is extremely desirable. The second poem says that after meeting a famous teacher, you should hurry up and learn the Tao, if you don't learn, you will be a fool.

Does this sound like a real estate advertisement?

The first two poems, after Xue Daoguang's incendiary annotations, have fascinated Song Huizong.

Looking at the third poem again, Song Huizong was so excited that he was short of breath.

It was here that Xue Daoguang divided into heavenly immortals, earth immortals, human immortals, and ghost immortals.

And what about Song Huizong?

In the past, it was only known that there were heavenly immortals, earth immortals, and autopsy immortals.

When it came to Xue Daoguang's annotation, Song Huizong finally figured it out.

It turned out that the group of Neidan Taoist priests under his command, their cultivation methods, could only cultivate low-grade ghosts and immortals.

And those Waidan Taoist priests obtained Taoism with the methods of talismans, alliances, wonderful methods, swordsmanship, and autopsy, and finally cultivated Nangong Lie Immortals (Zhongpin Immortals) at most.

You must follow Xue Daoguang's method in order to cultivate into a supreme ninth-level high-grade immortal.

Next, there is a detailed explanation of the method of Jindan Avenue, although Song Huizong did not fully understand it, his heart was greatly shocked. I went wrong in the past!

After reading the commentary on the fourth poem, Song Huizong asked, "Isn't this the method of men and women?" ”

Xue Daoguang asked rhetorically: "Who explained to the official family that it was a supplement for men and women?" Evil Sect Outside! The separation of men and women is divided into heaven and earth, yin and yang, guest of honor, and essence and blood. ”

Song Huizong was a little unconvinced, and the annotation said that "the two emotions are combined, the exercise is exercised, and the essence of the true qi is naturally condensed", and there were words such as "detachment is a woman, and a rebellion is a man", which is clearly the way of yin and yang. If you cooperate with the magic medicine offered by other Taoist priests, you will be able to cultivate the golden pill every day.

Let's look at the next poem, okay, the last one is just practicing the outer dan, and this one is the real inner dan.

Reading and reading, Song Huizong felt that what kind of outer Dan law phase, what yin and yang supplement, compared with the inner Dan, it was too rubbish.

Xue Daoguang's Taoism can be cultivated both inside and outside!

Song Huizong said his doubts while reading the "Notes on the Enlightenment of the Truth", and Xue Daoguang gave detailed answers to all of them.

The two chatted until dark, Song Huizong left Xue Daoguang to eat, took his hand and said: "I have to meet a real person today, I know the true way of the world, and I hate to see each other late!" ”

Xue Daoguang advised: "Cultivating the Tao and becoming an immortal is to be born, and you must enter the world before you are born." The official family must be benevolent and love the people, otherwise the Taoist heart is unstable, and the cultivation of the golden pill will not be able to achieve great consummation. ”

Song Huizong said sincerely: "What the real person said is very true, I have always been benevolent and love the people. ”

Xue Daoguang wanted to roll his eyes when he heard this.

At the dinner table, Song Huizong asked again: "I heard that the real person met that Zhu Guoxiang, did he meet an immortal overseas?" ”

Xue Daoguang was sold by Zhu Ming, and now he finally has the opportunity to sell it back, and replied: "The Bodhi ancestor in "Journey to the West" is very likely to be the ancestor of the poor Dao, Ziyang Zhenren. And what Zhu Guoxiang met overseas is very likely to be my ancestor Ziyang Zhenren. ”

Song Huizong exclaimed: "Ziyang Zhenren has become an immortal? ”

Xue Daoguang guessed: "Most of them have cultivated to the realm of earth immortals, flying through the air, not hungry or thirsty, not invaded by cold and heat, traveling to the island, and immortal." ”

Song Huizong immediately said: "I want to canonize Ziyang Zhenren as a righteous god." ”

Xue Daoguang shook his head: "Earth immortals don't have to canonize the god position, and they don't have to go all the way with the Nangong Immortals." ”

"It's a pity." Song Huizong said that he regretted that he couldn't do something for Ziyang Zhenren.

That night, Xue Daoguang stayed in the palace.

The next day, the emperor issued an edict to canonize Xue Daoguang as Zixian Yuanming Zhenren, his master as Ziyang Zhiyuan Zhenren, and his master as Cui Xuan Huiyuan Zhenren.

Give a few more Dao Tong and let Xue Daoguang live in the South Park.

Nanyuan was the house given to Cai Jing by Song Huizong when Cai Jing resigned for the second time.

The emperor seemed to regret it a little, and Wang Laozhi, a Taoist priest from Shandong, was favored, so he let Wang Laozhi live in the South Garden. In just over a year, Wang Laozhi returned to his hometown after illness, and it is very likely that he was forced away by Cai Jing, and Cai Jing also warned Wang Laozhi in the "History of the Song Dynasty".

Now, Song Huizong let Xue Daoguang live in it again and be neighbors with Cai Jing's family, essentially occupying Cai Jing's house.

For this situation, the civil and military officials and the people of the capital have long been surprised, anyway, there are always one or two Taoist priests who are favored every year.

Song Huizong practiced Xue Daoguang's Taoism, and at the same time gathered other Taoist priests to study the art of collecting and replenishing from the "Commentary on the Enlightenment of Truth". Coupled with aphrodisiacs, I practice happily every day.

When Xue Daoguang learned of the situation, he could only laugh at it and treat the emperor as a bad pen.

Zhu Ming and others also moved into Lu Zai's mansion, and the day of the new science and technology to confer officials has come.

(End of chapter)