Chapter 119: The Courtyard Yard
As soon as Shen Li's words fell, Li Mu heard the people around him applaud. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info he turned his head and saw Leng Zizhou standing in the ring with his head held high. As for the servant, he fell to the ground, clutching his feet in agony.
It seems that Leng Zizhou won this ring battle.
Li Mu missed the wonderful moment of the decisive victory, but seeing that Gao Gu had an injury on his foot, he could probably guess the reason for Gao Gu's loss. When Shen Li saw this scene, he jumped with joy and squeezed to the table at the opening handicap again. Li Mu looked at her and walked back with a bulging money bag with a smile, and shook his head helplessly.
"What kind of expression do you have?" Shen Li looked at his expression and slapped him unhappily. "The odds of Leng Zizhou's winning streak are one to two, at least doubled. ”
"But if you lose, we'll have nothing. Li Mu said with a hint of helplessness.
"Don't you believe my vision? I said that if he can win, he will definitely win, otherwise how good would it be for me to press him to lose? One to twenty!" Shen Li said angrily.
"Okay, okay, let's go, let's go find a place now. If only I could find it before dark. Li Mu felt that he still didn't want to reason with Shen Li.
So the two left the ring side by side, and just found a direction and left.
Li Mu inquired and searched for it. Finally found some eyebrows. There is a room for rent in the yard at the end of Fruit Tree Street, the southernmost part of the East Earthquake Square.
Li Mu was able to get this news because he happened to find an old man from Zhengdong Zhenfang, and knew that the yard belonged to a descendant, and because of his poor life, he rented out his ancestral property.
It is worth mentioning that Yacheng is divided into eight squares according to the direction, and it is named according to the direction of the gossip the day after tomorrow. Due east is the earthquake position, so it is called due east earthquake square. If it is northwest, it is the northwest kanfang.
After Li Mu knew this, he understood why the ring where Leng Zizhou competed with Gao Yu was called the Zhengdong Zhen Ring. It seems that it is because the ring is in the east earthquake workshop.
Shen Li also learned some things about the ring because of her participation in the handicap. There are a total of eight rings in Yacheng, which were set up by Chen Xiao, the son of heaven. This dynasty is still martial, and the original intention of setting up the ring was to select talents. But later, the emergence of the martial arts academy directly replaced the ring competition. However, the ring race has not disappeared, after years of development, the public has another entertainment program, gambling in addition to the horse race.
This is the ring race. Behind it is the support of the four major gambling houses in Yacheng.
Most of the people who came up to fight in the ring were selected from the people who signed up from the four major gambling houses. After all, this kind of performance-like ring competition, people who have been famous for a long time will not surrender their identity to participate. Most of the people who come to participate are fledgling and come to be famous. So many teenagers like Li Mu who are old and want to get ahead in Yacheng choose the first way to be in the ring.
Like Leng Zizhou, who Li Mu saw today, because of his outstanding appearance and skills, he won six games in a row, oh, and after today's seventh game, he can be regarded as making a name for himself in Zhengdong Zhenfang. If you can win ten games, you can go to the center ring under the high ground of the palace. There, it was not the ordinary people who watched the game, but the princes and nobles.
Regardless of whether you win or lose, as long as you step into the center ring, then at least one doorman identity is indispensable.
That's the shortcut to fame.
After Li Mu listened to Shen Li's story, Li Mu didn't feel anything. But Shen Li was instigating Li Mu to go to the ring on the side. After all, the odds of the handicap under the ring are very impressive, if Li Mu goes, she can let Li Mu win a few games first, and after the odds of losing the game increase, she will press Li Mu to lose. Then let Li Mu lose the game in the competition, so that he can make a lot of money.
However, Li Mu chose to refuse, after all, the two of them were still wanted, and it was already good to hide without being discovered, and they still wanted to be in the limelight and make a name for themselves? This is not looking for death, what is it? His current goal is just to wait for Yue Yefeng and Yisang Dao people in Lanzhou. With the matter of shark beads in front of Zhuyu, the last thing Li Mu wants is more trouble.
Besides, although Li Mu has confidence in his own strength, but the city is so big, there are people like Leng Zizhou if he can't keep it, Li Mu doesn't feel that his strength is so strong that he can lose if he wants to, and win if he wants to.
The two talked and came to Fruit Tree Street.
Fruit Tree Street gets its name from a large persimmon tree on the street. It is said that when it bears fruit, the tree is covered with persimmons, which are inferior to the red of the maple leaves. So the street was named after Fruit Tree Street.
This street is not very big, because it is surrounded by houses, and the street is not as lively as the market. Probably as the name suggests, there are also many fruit trees planted on the side of the house. It's vibrant.
Li Mu and Shen Li stood in front of a wooden door, and a branch full of apricot fruits poked out above their heads.
"August fruit, this leaf ...... It's a red apricot, isn't it? Hey, that's not good. Shen Li raised his head, a strange look on his face.
Li Mu scratched his head, there is a saying, "The garden is full of spring and can't be closed, and a branch of red apricot comes out of the wall." These two lines of poetry are still very famous. However, the four words red apricot out of the wall are not very good.
"People didn't think of this stubble at all. I'm going to knock on the door. Li Mu stepped forward and knocked on the door three times.
After a long time, no one answered the question.
Li Mu knocked again, "Is there anyone?"
There was still no answer in the courtyard.
"It looks like no one is there. Shen Li said.
Li Mu nodded, "Wait a minute, this place looks quiet, if the price is cheap first, let's choose this place." With that, the two sat down at the door.
Time passed little by little, and the two waited for half an hour, and there was not the slightest movement inside. But there was one man who came from the street.
The man was dressed as a scholar and looked to be in his early twenties. He carries a fresh fish in one hand and a vegetable basket in the other. It looks like he just came back from shopping for groceries.
When he saw two uninvited guests at the door of his house, the scholar was also stunned. "Dare to ask ...... of them?"
When Li Mu saw the main owner appear, he immediately stood up. "Hello, we're here to rent. ”
When the scholar heard that he was here to rent a room, there was a smile between his eyebrows. "It turned out that I came to rent a house, come on, come on, please come in, please come in. I went out to buy groceries just now, and I was supposed to celebrate in the evening, but I didn't expect you to be in time. ”
"Celebrate?" Li Mu didn't know what he was going to celebrate, but listening to his tone, he seemed to welcome himself. So Li Mu said, "Can you let us see the house?"
The scholar smiled and nodded, "Of course." With that, he pushed the door open. Where you enter the eye, there is a wall. Bypassing the wall, what appeared in front of Li Mu was a courtyard that was not big or small. A grape trellis was erected in the courtyard, and on the shelf lay a dense grape tree. And next to the grape trellis, that is, near the wall of the photo, an apricot tree was planted. That is, the red apricot that Li Mu and Shen Li saw outside.
Under the grape trellis, there is a chaise longue, and next to the chaise longue is a stone table, and on the edge of the stone table is a circle of large and small potted plants.
"Hehe, the family is in the middle of the road, there are not many things left, and all the valuable things have been sold, and only these few green plants are still left. When the scholar talked about his own troubles, he didn't complain. He placed the fish and vegetable basket on the stone table, and continued, "Now I am alone, and this ancestral house has two wings, east and west, in addition to the main hall. It was enough for me to use the main hall alone, so I thought about renting it to someone else and collecting some rent. ”
"The East Wing was already occupied a month ago. Now there is only one west wing left. The scholar said, opening the door to the west wing.
Li Mu looked inside, and there was a bed and a table for placing items inside. The size of the house is enough, but there is only one room, which means that he and Shen Li will have to share a room again. Thinking of this, Li Mu was a little hesitant in his heart.
The scholar thought that he saw that there was debris and dust in the house, so he was a little disgusted. He hurriedly said: "It's still very good to clean up this house, but I'm alone, and no one uses this west wing, so it's dusty." If you want to move in, how about I charge you 500 wen a month?"
"Five hundred wen a month?" Li Mu repeated, this price exceeded his expectations. Because the house he wants to find must be cheap, and it was expected that 300 yuan would be enough, which seems to be a bit wishful thinking. In fact, he has this expectation because he and Shen Li have more than 300 texts. If it weren't for Shen Li's cold Zizhou winning, then the scholar would not be able to pay the price of 500 Wen at this time.
The scholar saw Li Mu's reaction and knew that he was probably too expensive, so he said: "In Yacheng, five hundred wen a month is already very cheap. If you want to know the inn, a room will cost at least 100 yuan. Yuelai Inn costs seven or eight hundred Wen, or even one or two more rooms. ”
Li Mu was still hesitating, but Shen Li directly took out the money bag and said, "Okay, let's do it here." This is our one-month deposit, let's stay for a month. ”
"Huh?" Li Mu was a little stunned.
Shen Li said: "After shopping for so long, I'm also tired. It's good, that's it. ”
"Don't you want to look elsewhere?" asked Li Mu.
Shen Li shook his head and said, "I'm not going." ”
Li Mu was a little helpless, but now most of the money in the money bags of the two of them is Shen Li's, since she has decided, then he has no confidence to be Shen Li's. Li Mu took a look at the west wing and thought, "Anyway, it's hot, it's a big deal to make a bunk." So, he also went with Shen Li.
When the scholar saw that Shen Li was happy to give money, he naturally smiled. He helped Li Mu and Shen Li clean up the West Wing together. Under the joint efforts of the three of them, within half an hour, the West Wing was completely new. After the three of them cooperated, they also exchanged names. Li Mu and Shen Li naturally used the two pseudonyms of Li Xi and Jin Jing, and the scholar's name was Lai Yunjun, and the words were long. Sounds a bit bookish.
When the house was cleaned up, the three of them went to the courtyard to take a breath.
"There are not many quilts at home, you may have to go outside to buy a bed, you two are husband and wife, but it is also saved. Lai Yunjun said, picking up the fish on the stone table again. "I'll invite you tonight, and it can be regarded as a way to pick up the wind and wash the dust for you. ”
"By the way, Brother Lai, what did you just say you were celebrating at night?" Li Mu asked curiously.
Lai Yunjun smiled: "It's for Xiao Leng." ”