He first inquired with the guy at the inn and asked where it was appropriate to rent a house, and the guy recommended him a few Fang Yazi, Lu Xu knew how to find it, so he first turned around in the south of Dongcheng, and then went to find Fang Yazi to inquire about the price.

There are many candidates who enter Beijing in the spring, and there are Fang Yazi who specialize in buying and selling candidates, and as soon as Lu Xu asked, they recommended houses of various grades in high and low grades.

Lu Xu roughly selected a few small houses in the north, and planned to take Jun Qi to see them tomorrow.

Fang Yazi saw that they could look at mid-range houses, so he recommended: "If you are determined to be admitted, it is better to buy it directly, you see how good this house is, the roof that was renovated a few years ago, the beams and columns are made of good wood, and there is no decay at all." At present, the house in Beijing is still cheap, and it will be expensive after the exam. ”

Lu Xu was noncommittal.

Fang Yazi made persistent efforts, "If you are willing to add more, there is a good house further north, not as big as here, but it is close to the yamen, if you can take the Beijing official exam in the future, how convenient it is to go to the court!" ”

Lu Xu: "Thanks to Ji Yan, how much did you say that house was?" ”

Fang Yazi: "It's not expensive, the main family wants three thousand two hundred taels, if you can give cash, three thousand taels can almost be taken." ”

Lu Xu: "......"

Looking at this now, it's probably more than 100 square meters, smaller than here, 3,000 taels?

He paid a tenth of the intermediary fee.

Is he a rich man in a small place, and he killed him and bled heavily?

"I'll rent it anyway!"

Fang Yazi regretted that he took them to see a few yards again, and kept brainwashing to rent it than to buy it.

Lu Xu also knows that it is better to buy than to rent, and it is not too late to buy it when Junqi decides to stay in Beijing!

The brothers thanked Fang Yazi and fled, the intermediary in the capital is too good to say.

Lu Zhou thought that their family was already very rich, and now when he learned about the prices in Beijing, he couldn't help but feel palpitations, "Brother, the house in the capital is so expensive!" ”

Lu Xu: "Not really. ”

Lu Xu bought two sugar cakes on the street to suppress his shock.

It's not that he can't afford it, it's just that they spent a lot of money along the way, and they smashed so much silver into the house, Lu Xu felt that it was not cost-effective, in case they needed money elsewhere.

And if you can't say it, it will put pressure on Junqi.

Isn't this a hint that after the house is bought, you have to take the Beijing official exam?

Who can stand this!

Looking at their family Lu Zhou, he didn't put any pressure on him, and he didn't even get in.

Lu Xu bought Lu Zhou another sugar cake and lovingly asked him to eat more.

The very thin dough is filled with a little syrup and baked in the oven like a baked pancake, which is thin and crispy, and tastes good.

Lu Xu was eating, and suddenly saw a bookstore in the distance, but the people who came in and out didn't look like serious readers.

Selling scripts?

Lu Xu led Lu Zhou over to take a look.

If it's interesting, I can buy a few copies for Layue and Lu Rui, their Lu Rui still wants to read a travelogue, I don't know if there is one in Beijing.

When they looked over, this was really a book shop, and the covers were all colorful, this biography, that one remembered, or some kind of dream.

Seeing that Lu Xu was interested, the shopkeeper introduced them to which ones were new, which were classics, and which were superb.

Lu Zhou asked if he had a travelogue, and the shopkeeper found him a few books of customs and legends from various places.

Lu Xu looked through the shop, the variety of scripts in this shop is far richer than that of Guanyang, in addition to the classic stories of loyalty and filial piety, small jokes of celebrities, wild history of the past dynasties, and what other gods and ghosts, love legends, adventure treasure hunting, Lu Xu flipped a book, introduced by the guy, it seems to be a crime-solving story.

He read a few pages with great interest, and it was indeed interesting.

"Is there anything else in this genre?"

"Yes, over here." The guy led him to another bookshelf to pick it up.

Lu Xu listened to the introduction and picked out five more copies, planning to find a way to send them back to Lu Rui and Layue to read.

In addition, he also found illustrated books on the shelves, all of which were painted with flowers and plants, and each page had a name written on it, like a popular science book, which was very suitable for girls to read.

Lu Xu also wants it.

He was interested, began to hunt for treasures, and soon noticed a book with a yellow-brown cover, Lu Xu casually turned a page, and found that it was still a book, but he only read two lines, and suddenly closed the book.

Lu Xu subconsciously looked around to see if anyone was paying attention, and turned his head to bump into the guy who was holding the book for him, the young man was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and when he saw Lu Xu pick another one, he immediately introduced it neatly: "This book sells the best!" It tells the story of a rich boy who takes refuge in the rain in a deserted house on a rainy night, and ends up straying into the fox spirit cave mansion. ”

Lu Xu: "......"

He thought about the page he had just seen, and then looked at the young man who was clear in his eyes and only wanted to rush for performance, and couldn't help asking, "Do you know how to read?" ”

The young man shook his head, "But I remember everything in each book clearly!" No mistake guaranteed! ”

Lu Xu touched the tip of his nose and said in his heart, is this about a rich son who takes shelter from the rain in a deserted house on a rainy night, he doesn't know, how to linger with the fox spirit, and the writing is quite picturesque.

This Nima is a little yellow book!

No wonder the cover is this color!

Lu Xu was entangled, whether to or not.

The author has something to say:

Lu Zhou: My brother, the best in the world!!

Lu Xu: Do you want to buy the little yellow book?

Also, the color of the book cover is just a coincidence, not all tawny book contents have color (dog head)

Chapter 195: The Book

Lu Xu went out and came back with a bunch of books, but he didn't give them to Lu Zhou, so he had to check them himself first, which made Yan Junqi strange for a while.

Yan Junqi wondered: "What's wrong?" What's wrong with this book? ”

Lu Xu: "You don't know! ”

He pulled Yan Junqi and whispered, "In case there are any inappropriate contents in other books, why don't I check them before showing them to Lu Zhou." ”

Yan Junqi: "......"

He was silent for a moment and asked, "Then did you buy it?" ”

Lu Xu: "......"

Lu Xu coughed lightly in embarrassment, took out the yellow-brown script from the middle of the stack of books, and asked secretly, "Or, do you want to read it together?" ”

Yan Junqi: "......"

Without waiting for Yan Junqi to answer, Lu Xu was embarrassed first, he threw the script aside, coughed and said with a weak heart: "How can you read this kind of book?!" Or throw it away. ”

He picked up a detective book and began to read it.

After several years of practice, Lu Xu can already read and write, and reading ancient characters is not as difficult as it was at the beginning, but he still doesn't like to read it!

Obviously it is a best-selling book, but he still frowns, scratches his ears and cheeks, sits on a chair for a while, lies on the couch for a while, and falls on the bed for a while, and the snacks he eats are placed in several places.

By the time Yan Junqi finished reading the book in his hand and writing the annotations, Lu Xu was already lying flat on the bed and falling asleep.

Yan Junqi smiled, he had seen too much of this scene in the past few years, every time Lu Xu vowed to endorse it, he would collapse and fall asleep if he couldn't finish reading a page.

Yan Junqi walked over and shook him, Lu Xu didn't wake up, he took the script away from Lu Xu's hand, flipped through it, yes, the new record, he actually read eighteen pages before falling asleep, this book must be very interesting.

Yan Junqi bent down and kissed Lu Xu, cleaned up the dried meat and fruits on the bed, and spread out the quilt for Lu Xu to cover.

It's still early, and it's not too late to wake him up before dinner.

Yan Junqi rubbed his sour neck from reading a book, packed up all the things that Lu Xu had messed up in the room, and finally picked up the notebook that Lu Xu deliberately threw away.

He opened it calmly, skimming ten lines from the first page, his expression was unwavering, until he saw that Lu Xu was inappropriate for children.

The ambiguous and vague chatter of his classmates, the vulgar chat he occasionally heard while waiting for dinner on the way, and his vague spring dream, all have a sense of picture.

Yan Junqi: "......"

Yan Junqi's eyes moved to the stove in the room, and after thinking about it, he put the script and a few others on the table - wait for Lu Xu to deal with it himself!

On the second and third days, Lu Xu was busy looking for a house, and he ran all over the places where scholars in Dongcheng, Xicheng and Nancheng often rented, and finally chose a few rooms in Dongcheng as alternatives.

Xicheng is too expensive, far from the Gongyuan for the exam, there are too many people in Nancheng, and the rented houses are all miscellaneous courtyards, and it is often cost-effective for a few fellow villagers to rent a courtyard.

It is still suitable for the east city, the house is small, the layout is elegant and simple, the furniture house is relatively new, and the west city is also very cost-effective.

Lu Xu and Lu Zhou chose five rooms, and then took Yan Junqi to see them, and finally the three of them discussed and chose a small courtyard located in the middle of the alley.

The yard has only two entrances, a master bedroom, two side bedrooms, with a kitchen, a firewood room and a stable, and a peach tree is planted in the yard.

One end of the alley is a bookstore, the other end is not far from the well, it is convenient to draw water, there are some small shops selling food nearby, you want to go to buy vegetables early, go out from the alley, walk for half an hour to the morning market.

Fifteen taels of silver a month, three months of rent, a deposit of fifty taels, a one-time payment, another five taels of furniture rent, and one and a half of the intermediary fee.

If you break the furniture, you have to lose money when you quit the lease.

Lu Xu gave the money happily, and Fang Yazi introduced him to which restaurants nearby were delicious and affordable, and which places to meet for students who were rushing to take the exam, etc.

Sending Fang Yazi away, Lu Xu went to fetch water to clean the house first.

The rent of five taels of furniture is not in vain, not to mention the tables, chairs, benches and beds, buckets, brooms, shovels, back baskets, baskets, baskets, all of which are complete, and the kitchen is equipped with a complete set of tableware.

Lu Xu saw that the dining room was a little old, and some of the bowls had gaps, and planned to go to the morning market early tomorrow to pick and choose, and heard Fang Yazi say that the morning market near them sold everything, meat, vegetables, tofu, daily necessities, and groceries, all of which could be bought.

Lu Xu came back with water, first boiled hot water and washed rags to scrub the furniture in the bedroom, three bedrooms, he and Yan Jun lived in one, Lu Zhou lived in one, and the other was next to the kitchen, he planned to change it into a bathroom.

Lu Zhou led the mules to the stables and fed the mules with the only grass they had left, Yan Junqi scrubbed with a rag, and Lu Xu brought out the things that were about to be used.

The three of them cleaned up for the day, and ate at the small shop outside at noon and night.

The money they brought was almost spent on the road, and the rented house was not enough to pay the deposit, Lu Xu didn't want to touch the gold, so he took the silver ticket to the money bank in the morning and exchanged the silver.

In the evening, Lu Xu lit an oil lamp, left five taels of flowers per person, and handed the rest to Yan Junqi along with the silver ticket.

"When I fetched water, the aunt next door said that her family could wash clothes, so let's get together for one night, and tomorrow I will dismantle the bedding and carry the dirty clothes to wash together."

"Hmm."

"Tomorrow you two sleep a little more, have a good rest, in the morning I will go to the morning market to buy some meat and vegetables and come back, make you something delicious, what do you want to eat in the morning?"