Chapter 45: The Ghost of the Inside House
Ye Shuhang is also a person with a lively mind, this trip back not only called back all the Yanyun Eight guards and brought all the luggage, but also asked people to go to Langya Pavilion to send Shi Xuanxuan's redemption fee over, so far the 90,000 taels of silver brought by Fengyi Mountain have spent 30,000 taels, which can be said to be spending money like flowing water, and the silver flowing out in vain.
Gao Lanxin was finally moved by Feng Yishan's words, and ransomed himself with five thousand taels of silver, but it was agreed that Gao Lanxin would be the person of Jiulian Villa from now on, and he would be loyal to Jiulian Villa, and he was not a slave of Feng Yishan.
As soon as she came out of the door of the teaching building, Gao Lanxin smelled the fresh air that she had not seen for a long time, and finally returned to the youthful appearance that the eighteenth girl should have.
It wasn't until he was almost at the old mansion of the Gao family that Gao Lanxin stopped going crazy, and his tears were covered with a layer of tears, and he looked at the high-walled compound that was about to be covered by weeds, the big mahogany door with vermilion paint had fallen off a lot, and the yellow rivets had disappeared, and no one could guess from this deserted courtyard that this was once the residence of the imperial physician.
At the gate stood an official of the Taishou Mansion with two officials, who seemed to be waiting for someone. When he found Feng Yishan and his own account book, he greeted him, and said diligently, "You are the owner of Feng Zhuang!" Xu Qianhu has already told our bookkeeper that no one wants this house, it is in disrepair, and the damage is serious, the original maid, Xiao Si and others have been bought by others, and only some old housekeepers, old mothers, horsemen and others are still insisting, but they only barely live by planting some land in the house, if you want to give a thousand taels of silver, but our bookkeeper has a request. ”
As soon as Feng Yishan heard the price, he knew that this house really belonged to the goods that could not be sold, but if it weren't for that, he wouldn't be able to take his turn, so he asked, "What are the requirements?"
The official said, "The owner of the Feng Zhuang also knows that the person who lives in our Jinyang City has to pay a poll tax, one penny of silver per person per month, although it is not much, but it is also an income, the area of this house is not small, it turns out that the Gao Taiyi is a court official who can be exempt from taxes, but now the owner of the Feng Zhuang takes over and naturally has to collect it." ”
Feng Yi Shan said, "One dollar per person per month?" no problem, we will definitely pay it on time. ”
The official twisted and said, "Feng Zhuang master, this house is not small, eight into the courtyard before and after, one into the horse shed, the treasury, the second into the hospitality attic garden, the left into the slave living yard, the right into the courtyard of the guard, the middle is where the master lives, the back is the backyard of the wife and concubine's family, the side is the martial arts training field, the tail is the courtyard of the medicine farming, the whole house is nine main rooms, thirty guest rooms, two hundred rooms for servants, guards, sundries, etc., sixteen warehouses, can accommodate three hundred people, plus the medicinal materials operated by the Gao family, Hospitals, pharmacies, pay more than 100 taels of silver per month. ”
Feng Yishan didn't care about the tax he said, but asked, "Where are the medicinal herbs, the medical hall, and the pharmacy, and are they still open?"
The official said, "The Gao family originally had a medicine field, three medical halls, and five medicine shops, of which the medicine field was the medicine garden in the house, and the medicine hall and the medicine shop had been sold except for the one attached to the house. ”
Feng Yishan said: "Those two medical halls and pharmacies are still mine!"
The official said, "The title deed is naturally yours, and you can use it yourself or rent it." ”
Feng Yishan asked, "On the land deed?"
The official said, "This is the request of our lord in charge, since the death of Imperial Doctor Gao, the tree has fallen and scattered, these two medical halls and pharmacies have been closed, because of this house, no one else is willing to come here to open a medical hall, which makes it very inconvenient for the people in the vicinity, and it also seems that this place is deserted, so our lord in charge hopes that the master of Feng Zhuang will open this medical hall and pharmacy again." ”
Feng Yishan was embarrassed, "But now there are only three or two ponies, and they can't open a medical hall and a pharmacy at all!
The official pointed at Gao Lanxin and smiled mysteriously, "With this tall divine doctor, it's not easy!"
Feng Yishan looked at Gao Lanxin, and Gao Lanxin said, "I'm a woman, it's okay to see a doctor, sit in the hall, aren't you afraid that the scholars will smash your shop?" ”
Feng Yishan was immediately excited when he heard that there was a way, didn't there be a part of his plan that was material transportation and a medical hall, which really didn't take any effort to come by. So he promised, "Okay, please tell the treasurer, we will continue to open this medical hall and pharmacy." I wonder if you can tell the bookkeeper why he has to open a medical hall and a pharmacy here?"
The official shook his hand again and again, "I just follow orders, I really don't know." After speaking, he handed over the land deed, house deed, slave deed, key, and building sketch with Feng Yishan, and hurriedly left with two officials.
Feng Yishan couldn't help but ask Gao Lanxin, "Do you have ghosts in your family, what's wrong with them?"
"How do I know, I haven't been home in years. Gao Lan shook her head and walked through the door unhappily.
Entering the gate, the old housekeeper was already waiting in the courtyard with six old mothers and a person dressed as a groom, and when he saw Gao Lanxin coming in, he shouted, "Miss!" and "Miss, it's really good." ”
Gao Lanxin saw that they were also quite cordial, and couldn't help but be sad and joyful, tears poured from her heart, and several people cried and cried in a circle.
Feng Yishan followed behind, "cough cough" and interrupted them twice, "It's all out, what are you crying about, there will be time to reminisce in the future." ”
The old housekeeper let go of Gao Lanxin and greeted the new master and said, "I have seen the master of Fengzhuang, the old man is strong, he is the housekeeper of the original Gao Mansion, the two of them are cooks, the two of them are the medicine servants of the medicine garden, the two of them are miscellaneous servants, that is the horseman Liu Yao, you have all come to see the new master." ”
Several people greeted Feng Yishan with a brush, and Feng Yishan waved his hand and said, "Senior executive, are there only a few of you left?"
Gao Qiang said, "Yes, the owner of the village, the other subordinates sell and sell, and the dead are dead, only a few of us have been left until now because this house always needs someone to maintain." ”
Gao Lanxin pulled Gao Qiang and asked, "Uncle Gao, what's the matter, how come there are still dead, the servants just switched to others, how can they die?"
Gao Qiang said, "Miss, since the old man had an accident, you were arrested, the Gao Mansion has no backbone, the guards and helpers have run away at once, and the servants are registered in the register and can't run away, and they are bought by the new master one by one, but the old man died mysteriously in the first seven nights, and since then he has been constantly dying, and the big guy is afraid to take the initiative to beg the government to let them leave here quickly, but the people who left are still dying, and they didn't stop until a year ago." ”
Feng Yishan asked, "Didn't you report to the official?"
Gao Qiang said, "I reported it, but where do we have anyone to take care of, the government officials have come to investigate several times, and we have no money to call out in vain!"
Gao Lan said angrily, "Damn dog officials, they are careless about human life." ”
Feng Yishan said, "Don't talk about those useless ones, they are criminal officials and servants, and they can understand it if they don't care, maybe they won't say anything to them if they find out." ”
Gao Lanxin was still angry, and said, "Then you can't turn a blind eye! ”
Feng Yishan said, "The emperor ordered to raid the house and ask for beheading, who else cares about this." He asked Gao Qiang again, "Have you found anything abnormal?" ”
Gao Qiang said, "Yes, yes, why not, the lord was asked to behead, although the government does not allow the body to be collected for the lord, but it is also possible to worship in his own house, so we want to build a mourning hall for the lord, to be able to worship, who would have thought that the first seven nights Xiao Cui said that there was a figure in the old man's room, I wondered which bastard came to steal things, so let Xiao Cui go to see, how do you know that this time will go." ”
Gao Qiang burst into tears as he spoke, Feng Yishan patted him on the shoulder, thinking that he had not seen more life and death in his life than in the past few years, and asked again, "Who is that Xiaocui?" ”
"He is the master's maid, the old man just bought it back not long after the accident, the old man's heirs are not prosperous, and several concubines have never seen any movement and want to marry a few more rooms, who knows, hey, that child is really pitiful. ”
Feng Yishan looked at the cook who spoke, since she knew, it shouldn't be a secret matter, and asked Gao Lanxin, "Could it be that your master has offended someone, or what is the background of the newcomer, you don't know that you have suffered a false grudge because of this." ”
Gao Lan said in her heart, "No, Xiaocui is a Qingqi person who was bought back by his father from Goolan Courtyard, he is a local, and his family can't live up before he was sold there by his family, so he won't have any complicated background." ”
Feng Yishan said again: "You also believe in the theory of ghosts and gods?"
Gao Qiang said, "Many people" said that they saw a figure in the old man's house, and then disappeared, isn't this a ghost?"
Feng Yishan laughed and said, "Didn't you say that Gao Taiyi was very good? how could he be that when he died, he didn't look for other people, but kept looking for his own servants?"
Gao Lan was shocked, "You mean someone is pretending to be a ghost?"
Feng Yishan smiled and didn't answer her, nodded to Ye Shuhang behind him, Ye Shuhang suddenly floated out of the ground on tiptoe, stepped through the grass silently, and entered a room with an open door in three and two moments, and then saw a figure floating in the window of the house.
Gao Lanxin immediately exclaimed, "Do you think it's a martial artist? But why? My father and a martial artist didn't intersect, and I didn't offend anyone, so why did I murder my father?"
Feng Yishan said, "I don't know, don't underestimate martial artists, martial artists who can achieve the level of book navigation are not small roles." After finishing, he asked the old dragon head, "Old Long, what do you see?"
How do you know that Long Lao said, "Zhuang Master, Miss Gao, such a simple matter, how could the government not find anything, plus Imperial Doctor Gao was just asked and beheaded because of that incident, how could the government not investigate this haunted thing at this time, isn't it suspicious?"
Feng Yishan heard something at once, if it was a haunting, no one would believe it, but that person Gao Taiyi came as soon as he died, and he only left a year ago, if he wanted to find something, he was afraid that he had already obtained it! Just about to ask something, the old dragon head said again, "Owner, now the house is very idle, it needs to be renovated, and there is a shortage of manpower, we still recruit some people to improve the operation of Zhuangzi, this matter is not urgent." ”
Feng Yishan understood the meaning of the old dragon's head, looked at Gao Lanxin, she also nodded hard, with anger in her eyes, and said, "I'll go find some people and put the medical hall and pharmacy into operation first." ”
Gao Qiang also said, "I'll call the old guys back, Miss is back, everyone must be very happy." ”
Feng Yishan and the old dragon head glanced at each other, the day when he stepped into the rivers and lakes was about to start so soon, and then a loud shout came from the house, "Who!" Then I saw Ye Shuhang break out of the house, and chased towards the central back into the courtyard, the old dragon head continued to stay by Feng Yishan's side with a calm expression, and followed Ye Shuhang to the old five dragon cups, The sixth dragon stabbed and drew his sword in his hand, protecting everyone behind him, Gao Lanxin looked at the direction of the courtyard, and the anger in his eyes loomed, Gao Qiang and the others looked at each other, trembling all over, and already felt that something seemed to be wrong.