The streets were filled with gongs and drums and loud bragging, welcoming Young Master Zhang back to the Zhang Mansion.
Pedestrians along the street pointed at Mr. Zhang with envy on their faces.
"Zhang Yuanzheng brags every day, saying that his son is the reincarnation of Wenquxing. Unexpectedly, his son is really up to date. It seems that he is really shaking this time!"
"We have another great candidate in Qinghe County!"
"Let's go together to ask for some wedding money, so we can get a taste of culture!"
"Go together, go together!"
Many people followed the band towards Zhang's Mansion, intending to go to Zhang's Mansion to ask for some reward money and at the same time get a little bit of culture.
The world of the Yin Dynasty is somewhat similar to the Ming Dynasty. The best way for ordinary people to be promoted is the imperial examination.
After ten years of studying hard in a cold window, no one asked me, but once I was named on the gold medal list, the world knew it.
Once you pass the examination, you will distance yourself from ordinary people and jump to another class.
In the Great Yin Dynasty, the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats governed the country. If you passed the imperial examination, you would become a member of the scholar-bureaucrats. At best, you could be exempted from corvee service, and you could receive royal support and not worry about food and drink.
More important is the improvement of status. If you win the election, you will be qualified to participate in the local county affairs. Although you cannot become an official immediately, you can still be considered as having half a foot in the officialdom. You don’t need to salute when you meet local officials.
As long as you don't commit rebellion, just by breaking the law, your status as a Juren can save you from death.
No wonder Zhang Yuanwai was so high-profile after learning that his son had won the election.
Li Mu stood on the street and watched the excitement for a while. After seeing Young Master Zhang go away, he continued to wander around the city. But for some reason, the pale face of the woman in the carriage kept reappearing in his mind, making him faintly a little nervous.
Uneasy: "That woman has a lifeless look on her face, she is definitely not a kind person!"
His intuition was astonishing now. He just took a quick glance at the woman in the carriage and remembered her face firmly. Now as he recalled all the details in his mind, he became more and more certain that the woman was not a good person.
It's just that he and Mr. Zhang are not related, so it's not easy for him to speak rashly and express his suspicions to others.
If he really spoke, he would probably be beaten with a stick.
Li Mu wandered around the city for a while, and finally found a storefront house for resale. He immediately chatted with the store owner, firstly asking about the price, and secondly, asking about the reason for the resale.
The store owner was an honest man, and he didn't hide the reason for selling the store from Li Mu, and he said it happily.
This store originally sold rouge gouache, but recently there has been a plague in several counties, and the supply of goods has been cut off. The two clerks he purchased from have also been infected with the plague, one is still taking medicine, and the other has died.
The owner of this store was scared and wanted to sell the store so that he could quickly seek refuge with relatives in Zhongjing to avoid the epidemic.
"Little brother, I won't hide it from you. There have been more and more people coming to Qinghe County recently, and many of them have contracted the disease. As time goes by, the plague will definitely spread in the city."
The shop owner is called Shi Jiancheng, and he speaks very frankly: "Even if the plague does not spread in the city, but the number of victims continues to increase, these refugees will riot sooner or later. If you listen to me, you'd better pack your things and run for your life. I'm here
If you buy the store, it probably won’t be of much use.”
Li Mu was surprised. He had never met such a businessman. The seller was afraid that the other party would not buy it. It would be better if the stone was dried, as if he was afraid that Li Mu would buy it.
However, Li Mu doesn't care much about the plague or not. From what his little fox maid said, he seems to have a body of pure yang. Although he is not immune to all poisons, he is immune to all diseases.
Although the plague is terrible, it does not seem to have any impact on Li Mu.
He looked at Shi Jiancheng funny: "Shopkeeper Shi, I know you have good intentions, but who can see clearly what will happen in the future? You said there will be a plague in the city. This is just a guess, and it may not really happen. As for the refugees,
Riot, that’s just your speculation, I don’t really agree with it.”
Li Mu smiled at Shi Qiancheng and said, "Your store is in a good location. Let's set a price."
Shi Qiancheng said: "Since the little brother insists on buying it, let me give you fifty taels of silver."
There are three facade rooms in this house, facing north and south, and there is a small courtyard behind it. According to the normal market price, it will cost at least seventy or eighty taels of silver. Now Shi Gaancheng only wants Li Mu fifty taels of silver, which is basically half sale and half free.
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"Thank you, Brother Shi, for raising your hand."
Li Mu thanked Shi Qiancheng and said, "But I won't take advantage of you either."
He took out a small box from his arms and opened it gently.
There is a crystal clear glass bead in the box. This bead is as transparent as water. What is even more strange is that there are three willow leaf-like things inside the bead: red, yellow and green. Just looking at the material and workmanship, you can tell that it is worth a lot. p>
Shi Jiancheng looked at the glass beads in the small box with a look of surprise on his face: "Little brother, what are you doing?"
Li Mu said with a smile: "I got this glass bead in a barren mountain. I often play with it in my hands. Now that I see Brother Shi so happy, I borrowed flowers to offer to Buddha. I will give this bead to you as a gift."
a friend."
Shi Qiancheng stretched out his hand to take the glass bead, twirling it in front of his eyes with his thumb and index finger to look at it carefully, and exclaimed: "What a wonderful workmanship! Little brother, I am so beloved by you, I want this bead of yours, and this shop belongs to you!"
He was worried that Li Mu would regret it, so he hurriedly got pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and went to a nearby neighbor to act as a guarantor. The two parties wrote a contract document, spelling out the purchase and sale of the shop, and signed and pledged it to each other.
It wasn't until the whole process was completed that Shi Qiancheng held the glass beads tightly in his hands and murmured to himself: "I was worried about going to Zhongjing without a gift, but now I'm so sleepy that I can give a pillow, and the gift has arrived by itself!"
After he installed the glass beads, he gave the house deed to Li Mu and laughed: "Little brother, all my things belong to you! With this orb, I can leave early."
Shi Qiancheng left immediately. At that time, he packed up his things, hitched the carriage, pulled his things and a family of more than ten people, and walked towards Zhongjing City.
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He bought these glass marbles online. They cost sixteen yuan per kilogram, which is about two hundred per kilogram. It can be said to be extremely cheap.
Then such a glass marble from modern industrial technology has easily been replaced by a facade house and a small yard in this world.
"No, you are walking too fast!"
Li Mu looked at Shi Qiancheng who was leaving in a hurry with his family, and couldn't laugh or cry: "I haven't given you the fifty taels of silver yet! This glass bead is just a tack..."
It's a pity that Shi Jiancheng has gone far away and can't hear the words inside.
In fact, even if he heard it, he wouldn't take it seriously.
Such an ingenious glass bead is inlaid with three colors using an unknown technique. It is simply beyond human power. If you just find someone to sell it, it will cost you hundreds or even thousands of taels of silver. How could you treat it as a piece of silver?
Head?
Only a fool would believe it!
"Good guy, this wave of blood is profitable!"
After collecting the house deed, Li Mu gave the guarantor a drop of money to express his gratitude, then took out the key and locked all the courtyard doors: "When the servants and maids at home are recruited, a few people will be assigned to run this shop." I went out for a walk and exchanged glass marbles for a front house. Both the buyer and seller were very satisfied, and Li Mu himself was extremely satisfied.
"Hey, my idea of opening a jewelry store is really promising!"
Li Mu was walking on the way back, and the more he thought about it, the more interesting it became that a glass bead had replaced such a large facade house with a courtyard.
This would be completely impossible in modern society.
As he was walking, he heard a commotion in front of him.
Then he looked down and saw a Taoist Huang Guan standing at the door of a large house, saying loudly: "Everyone, everyone, what I said is true. There is a yin energy lingering in this family's courtyard, and there must be evil spirits causing trouble tonight!"
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The gatekeepers at the door were furious: "My young master has been named on the Gold Medal List, and all his relatives and friends are very happy, but you want to ruin the scenery, your grandma, are you deliberately causing trouble?"
