After being restrained for a long time and inhaling second-hand smoke for half a day, Li Xiaojun almost wanted to gag, and as soon as he returned upstairs, he couldn't wait to take off his skirt, and while tearing off his bandeau naked, he told Cuiyun, "Cuiyun, boil water quickly, I want to take a bath!" ”

"Ah, bathing again?"

When Cuiyun came up to help, she was already dealing with the last shroud on her body, the footcloth. Seeing this scene, she was about to collapse, Miss was naked in broad daylight, if she was seen, wouldn't she be able to live.

Li Xiaojun didn't care so much, she finally broke free of comfort, lay on her back on the cool bed, lifted her legs up, and slammed on the bed, banging, startling the backyard chickens and dogs.

A cool breeze hit, and she let out a long breath and praised, "Cool, it's comfortable." ”

Cuiyun was dumbfounded, how could Miss Xindao become so shameless, it's over, it's over, Miss really lost her soul, and she sent someone to ask the mage to summon her soul in the afternoon.

It didn't take long for Aunt Zhou to boil the hot water, and Li Xiaojun didn't jump in like he did in the morning, but ordered, "Aunt Zhou, send someone to guard the back door, I want to take a shower." ”

Cuiyun asked inexplicably, "Ah, shower, what is a shower?" ”

"Hehe, you'll find out later!"

In Cuiyun's surprised and inexplicable gaze, Li Xiaojun came to the patio with her carrying a wooden bucket, and let Cuiyun stand on a long bench and use a wooden scoop to scoop a scoop of water from her shoulders and pour it down, and a few scoops of water poured down and couldn't help but shout loudly, "Cool!" ”

"This is the shower?" Cuiyun looked at Miss's carcass and was ashamed of herself, "Little, Miss, it's immoral to be naked in the blue sky and daylight!" ”

"Ah...... It's so cool! Li Xiaojun moaned and shook the water droplets on his body, as if he had been electrified, "If only there was a shower head." ”

Seeing that she was finally refreshed, Cuiyun handed her a towel and reminded her in a low voice, "Miss, you should go in quickly, this is too indecent." ”

Li Xiaojun wiped his body and said disapprehantly, "What's the hurry, there are no men in the backyard, of course, you can come as comfortable as you want, what are you afraid of." ”

Cuiyun stuck out her tongue and said, "But, but, the maid still feels bad." ”

"It's good to get used to it!" Li Xiaojun returned to the house and changed into a tulle skirt again, naturally wearing nothing in it, so that he was refreshed.

Looking at Cuiyun's bitter gourd face, she couldn't help but laugh and said, "Oh, I'll recuperate in the inner courtyard today, and I won't go out, so it's okay." Take my clothes outside and wash them, I can't smell a little smoky, I can't stand these two old smoking guns! ”

The master and servant pulled their skins for a while, Cuiyun went to wash the clothes, Li Xiaojun slept again, and when she woke up, it was already past lunchtime, she drank a bowl of porridge in the morning, ate a salted duck egg, and now she was so hungry that her stomach growled.

But after the meal was served, she couldn't help complaining, "Ah, why are you drinking porridge again, can't you eat a dry meal after drinking two meals of porridge?" ”

Cuiyun pursed her lips and said, "Miss, the building is nervous, there is no virgin mother, and you don't go downstairs to pick up guests, everyone still doesn't know how to live in the future?" ”

"Ah, you mean we have a problem even drinking porridge?" Li Xiaojun looked at the bowl of porridge that had no nutrition and could only hang his life, and hesitated, "Is it that you can't even afford to drink porridge after a while?" ”

Cuiyun stuck out her tongue and whispered, "The maid didn't say that. ”

Li Xiaojun smiled, "That's what you mean!" ”

Cuiyun stopped talking, and then there was a revolutionary cry in his stomach.

Li Xiaojun thought for a while and said, "Zhenniang is also a top famous prostitute, didn't she leave me some family property?" ”

Cuiyun's eyes gradually darkened, "Although Zhenniang makes a lot of money, she loves gambling the most, and she loses when she has a little money. ”

"Ah......" Li Xiaojun keenly captured the three keywords of "Teaching Division", "We still have to pay money to the Teaching Division?" ”

Cuiyun knew that she had lost her memory, so she explained, "Yes, all the green buildings in our old courtyard have to pay money to the Teaching Workshop Division." ”

"Why?" Li Xiaojun felt that his personality had been insulted, "Why? ”

Cuiyun said, "All of us here have registered in the Teaching Workshop Division, and it stands to reason that we are going to pick up customers in the Teaching Workshop Division, but as long as you pay the silver every month, you don't need to go, but when you meet the bad master, you still have to go on a bad errand." ”

"Ah...... That's it! Li Xiaojun probably understood the rules of the game in this era, the relationship between the prostitutes in the old courtyard and the teaching department was probably similar to that between the taxi drivers and taxi companies in later generations, the daughters of the drifting in order to come out freely, take care of their own profits and losses, and pay a sum of money every month to sway freely, and the teaching department only needs to card their account to control the overall situation, as for if you want to fly completely solo, then buy it out at one time and pay the redemption silver.

As for Cuiyun's words, the old man will go on an errand, probably because the big man needs someone to accompany them, so they must obey the arrangement unconditionally - this seems to be quite reasonable.

After listening carefully to her, Li Xiaojun began to care about herself, "Then how much do we need to pay every month?" ”

Cuiyun said, "In the past, when Zhenniang was here, I paid two hundred and forty taels a month. ”

"How much is two hundred and forty taels?" Li Xiaojun didn't know the price level of this era, and Cuiyun didn't know what she meant by asking.

The two stared at each other, and Li Xiaojun had to think of a reference and asked, "Then how much is a pound of rice now?" ”

Cuiyun shook her head and said she didn't know, Li Xiaojun had to call Aunt Zhou, but Aunt Zhou didn't know, and finally Uncle Zhou, who was lying on the bed, gave the answer, "One stone of rice is four taels of silver." ”

Li Xiaojun was stunned again, "How many catties is a stone?" ”

Fortunately, Aunt Zhou knows how to convert, "One stone is ten buckets, one bucket is ten liters, one liter is one and a half catties, I can't calculate how many catties a stone is." ”

Li Xiaojun blurted out, "We pay two hundred and forty taels of silver every month, which is equivalent to buying fifty stone of rice, which is seven thousand five hundred catties, I calculate how much it is......"

She remembered that the ordinary rice in the later generations was about three yuan a catty, and she couldn't help but shout, "I'll go, it's more than 20,000 yuan, it's so dark!" ”

Aunt Zhou didn't know what she was counting, but when she heard that they had to buy fifty stone of rice for the silver they paid in January, she sighed and said, "This is still the situation where the price of rice has risen a lot in recent years, if a few years ago, if you could buy a hundred stone of rice, the price of rice was only one or two when the emperor first ascended the throne, and you could buy more miles." ”

"Inflation is terrible, huh?" One or two pieces of silver are not even worth a hundred yuan, Li Xiaojun was speechless, it seems that the end of the dynasty is really not easy to mix, in just five years, the price has doubled. Fortunately, these officials didn't react, if one day those officials came back to their senses and asked them to pay 500 taels a month, it would be miserable.

Aunt Zhou said again, "In addition to paying silver to the teaching department, we also have to pay silver to the yamen, and sometimes we have to pay silver when we encounter a ruffian, and we have to pay at least five hundred taels a month." ”

"This landlord is really not good!" Li Xiaojun suddenly felt a lot of pressure, she suddenly remembered the bride price sent by Tian Yang yesterday, and asked, "Didn't the person surnamed Tian give a dowry of three hundred miles of silver yesterday, it should be able to last for a while, right?" ”

Cuiyun hesitated for a moment, and said helplessly, "They took the money away again, and they didn't give it at all." ”

"Huh? Yes! Li Xiaojun opened his mouth wide and muttered, "It's a prostitute again!" ”

Cuiyun was very unaccustomed to Li Xiaojun's vulgar language, but at this time she had to nod her head and said angrily, "That's it!" ”

"I'll go, this society is too dark, even people at the bottom of society like us are bullied, it's really not a place for people to stay!" Li Xiaojun sighed, "It's better to be socialist!" ”

Cuiyun didn't know what "socialism" was, but she still understood that she was venting her dissatisfaction, and hurriedly persuaded her, "Miss, don't talk nonsense, those people are rich and powerful, be careful that the wall has ears." ”

"Oh, got it!" Li Xiaojun was busy with his mouth, took a sip of porridge, and saw Cuiyun looking at him with blank eyes, he was really embarrassed, so he asked her to fill a bowl too.

After drinking two bowls of porridge and holding back the fire in his stomach, Li Xiaojun fell asleep bored.

When I woke up, I was sweating again, and I couldn't help but take another shower before moving a recliner to cool off under the locust tree in the patio.

"Ah, it's so hot, my throat is about to smoke, Cuiyun, do you have watermelon to eat!"

Cuiyun pursed her lips and said helplessly, "Miss, don't talk about it, where is there any watermelon." ”

"No, I'm a famous prostitute in Jiangnan, what about Qin Huai Bayan, can't I even afford to eat watermelon?" Li Xiaojun sighed, "Forget it if there is no air conditioning WIFI in the hot summer, I can't imagine that my diva-level big star doesn't even have to eat watermelon, how can I be embarrassed, how can I be embarrassed!" ”

Cuiyun naturally didn't understand what Qin Huai Bayan meant, a diva-level big star, but she was clear about Mei Xianglou's predicament, and when she saw Miss complaining, she couldn't say anything, but she felt that Miss was so strange after waking up, she seemed to have lost all her virtuous and virtuous virtues.

"I want to make money, I want to eat dry rice, I want to eat braised pork!" Li Xiaojun couldn't stop shouting, and then sang, "I want to eat steamed lamb, steamed bear paws, steamed deer tails, roasted ducks, roasted chickens, roasted geese, boiled salted duck eggs......"

As soon as he heard so much delicious food, Cuiyun's saliva flowed out.

Looking at the cat-like Cuiyun, Li Xiaojun slapped the recliner suddenly, and then his head hurt again, "Ah, I can't stand it, I'm going crazy!" ”

Forget it, let's take a shower first, it's too much trouble to take a shower with scoop water.

"Cuiyun, help me find a gourd, find a thin bamboo, I want to make a shower!"

Cuiyun was really speechless for her, but she quickly prepared the materials according to her instructions. According to her instructions, she drilled some small holes at the bottom of the gourd with Aunt Zhou, and hollowed out the bamboo to make a water diversion pipe and brought it back.

"Come on, let's drill a hole in this tub and insert the bamboo pipe into it!" Li Xiaojun instructed while looking around, "Just hang the bathtub under that roof again." ”

The master and servant were busy for a long time, and they were so busy that they didn't get the revolution done several times, and finally called Uncle Zhou to come in to help solve the problem, and by the way, they surrounded a bathroom with a fence.

Uncle Zhou was kicked last night, and there was no big problem after he slept well, after he left, Li Xiaojun came down from upstairs, looked at the simple shower equipment, and was almost moved to cry, "Cuiyun, in the future, you can boil the hot water and pour it in from upstairs, and I can take a shower below." ”

Cuiyun stood on the big stone slab in the bathroom and asked timidly, "Okay?" ”

"Okay, don't worry!" Li Xiaojun said confidently, "In the future, this bathroom can only be used by the two of us." ”

"Isn't Hou Gongzi okay?"

Li Xiaojun was stunned for a moment, and then snorted, "He, it's already in the past." ”