Chapter 25: Repairing the Old House
Yu Niang didn't believe that the other party was a clean official who was the master of the people, and the silver must have been hidden by him, but it was not in the study.
Yu Niang left the study through the window again, and came to another place, where she heard the maid say that she lived in a most favored concubine during the day.
When she came to the room, Yu Niang listened outside for a while, and found that there was no movement, so she climbed in through the window and did not alarm the people in the room.
Yu Niang came to the bedside to take a look and saw that the person on the bed/was asleep. For fear of alarming them, he gave them a sleeping hole.
Now Yu Niang can rest assured that she can find a silver ticket in the room, and Yu Niang first came to the dresser and saw a delicate dressing box on it.
Yu Niang opened it and found that there were a lot of jewelry inside, mostly gold jewelry, it seems that this little concubine is not an ordinary favor!
Yu Niang opened all the drawers of the dresser box and poured out all the jewelry inside.
Several silver tickets were found from the compartments of each drawer, and they were all large silver tickets, the least was one thousand taels, the largest was ten thousand taels, and all the silver tickets added up to nearly one hundred thousand taels.
Yu Niang took out all the silver tickets and counted them carefully, a total of 96,800 taels.
Yu Niang put away all the silver tickets with a denomination of more than 10,000 taels, leaving only the silver tickets with a small amount of less than 5,000 taels and put them in her sleeves.
After taking these silver tickets, Yu Niang put all the jewelry back, and searched other places in the room, but found nothing else.
Before leaving the room, he unraveled the two people on the bed, took the silver tickets and left.
Tomorrow I will buy the house, and I will buy some people, and clean up the house again, Yu Niang wants to restore the house to the way it was eight years ago.
In this way, the second brother will be able to find a home, Yu Niang thought with antiquity.
Back at the inn, Yu Niang changed out of her night clothes and put the extra silver ticket into the space. Practicing in the space until dawn, his cultivation was also successfully promoted to the third level of Qi training.
Early the next morning, Yu Niang came to No. 6 Yulan Lane and knocked on the door, and the door was still opened by the old man last time. Seeing Yu Niang again, she was surprised and said, "Why are you here again?"
As she spoke, she was about to close the door, but Yu Niang hurriedly stepped forward to stop her and said, "Uncle, please wait." I'm here to buy a house. ”
"How do you know that this house is going to be sold?" the old man who guarded the door just finished speaking, and then said: "Oh! I know, it was the old man Lu who said it right!"
"Yes. Uncle Lu said: Your house is going to be sold, so I came. ”
"Do you know anything about this house? Many people have asked before, but in the end they didn't buy it. The old man looked at Yu Niang suspiciously and said.
"Don't worry, since I'm here, I'm definitely here with sincerity. Can you take me inside and have a look, does the owner still live here?"
Seeing that Yu Niang was really insisting, the old man who guarded the door finally let Yu Niang in. Yu Niang followed the old man and entered the courtyard gate, and saw the long corridors on both sides.
The original martial arts training ground in the middle has also been turned into a rockery and an attic.
After passing through the cloister to the front hall, the front hall has not changed much from before, but the fine red sandalwood furniture originally placed in the front hall has become ordinary wood, and the carving is much worse.
Yu Niang saw the familiar courtyard, but there were strangers living in it, and she felt extremely uncomfortable, and she didn't want to look at it anymore. Standing in the front hall, he said to the old man, "How much silver does this house have?"
The old man stopped and looked at Yu Niang and said, "Originally, the owner wanted to sell it for three thousand taels, but no one was willing to buy it. So, now it's down to two thousand five hundred taels. ”
"Two thousand taels, agree to buy it now. "This house Yu Niang needs to be renovated, so Yu Niang has pushed the price to the bottom.
The old man thought about it for a moment and agreed. went to find the Chinese in the shop, and after paying the silver, they went to the government to change the red deed.
The house was bought, and Yu Niang entrusted the decoration to the people in the house by the way, and asked him to help find the foreman, and then went to the Fulai Inn to find her.
He also asked him to help choose some maids and mothers-in-law, and send them over after the house was installed. The Chinese people who walked happily accepted Yu Niang's instructions.
The next day, he accompanied a middle-aged man in his forties to the inn to find Yu Niang, and Yu Niang took them to Yulan Lane.
Opened the door and let them see the house, and told her request again, and the middle-aged man told Yu Niang that it would take three months.
Yu Niang wanted to move in quickly, so she said to him: Try to repair the house as soon as possible, find more people, and don't be afraid of spending money. And the furniture in the house should also be made of the best wood.
Go back and make a budget, how much silver will be needed.
If it can be completed within a month, Yu Niang will reward him with one hundred taels of silver, and the middle-aged man will promise that it will be completed within a month.
Then Yu Niang asked the people in the line to help her find someone now, and send it directly here when the time comes. The contract will be finalized when the time comes. Yu Niang promises that if you do a good job, you will also be rewarded with silver.
The Chinese left happily, and Yu Niang stood in the garden where she had played and watched.
Her favorite swing is long gone, and there are more varieties of flowers in the garden than before, and many of them still have delicate flowers.
Yu Niang walked around the house and saw that many of the floors had been changed, some rooms had been left unoccupied for a long time, and the walls had begun to fall off.
The doors and windows are also wobbly, and they look like they will fall off when they touch them. If you want to live in it, you have to renovate it.
The middle-aged man who followed behind wrote down Yu Niang's requirements, which ones needed major repairs and which ones only needed minor changes.
It wasn't until the entire mansion was read and marked one by one that Yu Niang confirmed that there was no problem before leaving with someone, and handed the key and five hundred taels of silver to the other party before leaving.
The middle-aged man promised Yu Niang that he would start work tomorrow and that it would definitely be completed within a month.
Yu Niang nodded and said, "Well, you go and get busy! You can use this silver first, and then tell me if it's not enough." ”
Back at the inn, Yu Niang saw the silver ticket in her purse, and thought of the enemy who lived in South Street, thinking about the house to be repaired, and planned to let him go for the time being, and then go to him for revenge when the house was repaired.
However, it is better to find evidence of his guilt and deal with him openly, so as not to kill him alone and attract the attention of the government.
So, Yu Niang went to the house to check the progress of the renovation during the day, and went to the enemy's mansion at night to find evidence of his crimes. It's a pity that I didn't make any progress even after a few trips.
However, the speed of house decoration is quite fast, almost one day at a time, and the foreman found a total of more than 100 people and started work at the same time. In the beginning, the people who worked brought their own dry food.
After Yu Niang went to see it, she asked the people who were going to send a few people who could cook first, and then went to find and send ingredients to come over, cook a meal for the workers at noon, and ensure that there was meat for the meal.
The people who came to work praised the benevolence and righteousness of the owner, and they worked harder, and the foreman came to check from time to time to see the progress of the project.
Time passed quickly, more than half a month, Yu Niang was resting in the inn that day, and heard Xiao Er knocking on the door outside and saying, "Someone downstairs is looking for her." ”
Yu Niang's curiosity followed Xiao Er downstairs, and saw that it was the foreman who renovated the house looking for her, so she stepped forward and asked him, "What's the matter?"
The foreman respectfully stepped forward to salute Yu Niang and said, "The owner is good, the house has been repaired, and the small one comes over and asks the owner to go to the acceptance." ”
Hearing the foreman say that it had been renovated, Yu Niang was a little surprised, but she didn't show it. Just nodded and walked towards Magnolia Lane.