The houses here are all gray tiled houses on the mountain, and each house has a small yard, making it a real small house.
However, the alley is still clean, and from time to time there are street vendors carrying baskets, shouting and selling snacks.
An old man delivering water led a donkey with several empty buckets on its back, and followed behind him was a young man holding a string of water signs.
"Uncle, you haven't been in the capital for more than 20 years, but you haven't found a wife or bought a house?" the young man asked the old man.
"What the hell do you know?!" The old man's beard curled up, "This is the capital city where every inch of land is precious! Do you think you are in your hometown? It's not far away. Just look at the yard in this alley. An area as big as a palm is covered.
Three hundred taels of snowflake silver.
Don't say that I, a water seller, can't afford it. How many people in the government office can afford a house in the capital?
Your parents thought that there was money everywhere in the capital, so they sent you here at all costs, but they didn’t know that there were also many poor people in the capital!"
"Uncle, look, there's a bargain sign on the door of this house," the young man pointed at one of the households and said, "I wonder how cheap it is?"
"Even if it's half the price, we can't afford it." The old man shook his head, "Besides, someone died in this yard a few days ago, which is very unlucky."
The two walked away as they talked, and the alley returned to silence.
After a while, a fat woman wearing a blue cotton-padded jacket walked to the door with a discount door and knocked on the door.
Then a woman inside agreed, and after a while, the door opened.
"Sister-in-law, let me come and see the house." The fat woman said with a smile.
Her appearance always makes people can't help but take a second look.
Because I was born a little strange.
Under the two curved green eyebrows, there is a pair of dead fish eyes with turned white bellies.
Luotian's nose is short and everted, but his small and red cherry mouth is difficult to describe and paint.
The woman who opened the door was dressed in filial piety, and her face was unconceivably haggard, but her expression was very dignified.
Invite the fat woman in very politely.
The fat woman walked in and looked at the yard.
He kept asking questions.
"How much does this yard cost?"
"If you want one hundred and fifty taels, I'll sell it if the actual price is one hundred and thirty taels," said the woman wearing Xiao.
"Why is it so cheap?"
"I don't need to hide it from you. My husband hanged himself at home a few days ago." The woman was honest.
"I heard people say this is a haunted house." The fat woman nodded, "But sister-in-law, the price you gave me is low enough. Even the haunted house is sold too cheaply."
"To be honest, in order to buy this house, my family spent all our savings and borrowed money. It has been difficult to pay off the debt in the past few years, but something like this happened again." The woman sighed, but she didn't
Yu Yu said, "I thought that my husband would have to work on an errand and I would be able to make do with the day. Now there is no support at home, and my mother-in-law is ill and cannot afford it.
This house is the only one that is still valuable, so I plan to sell it. First, I can treat my mother-in-law, and second, I can pay for it and return to my hometown."
"Go back to your hometown, are all your relatives still there? If you can live in the capital, just make do with it." The fat woman said, "Sell this place, rent a small house, and you two, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, can do some sewing and washing.
You can make ends meet by doing a lot of work."
While they were talking, the two of them walked to the door of the room, and the woman opened the door.
A five or six-year-old child is standing by the stove and serving porridge on a stool.
He called the woman "Mother."
The woman said: "Mom, there is something wrong here. You need to feed grandma first. You need to blow the porridge to cool down, don't burn it."
Looking at the extremely simple furnishings in the house, it can be seen that the daily life is not rich.
"By the way, I still don't know how to call my wife." The fat woman scanned the situation in the room and asked the woman again.
"My husband's surname is Wang," the woman said, "and my maiden name is Bai."
"Sister-in-law Wang, your house is nice, but I don't have that much money with me now. I will leave twenty taels as a down payment and pay off the remaining money tomorrow. Do you think it can be used?" The fat woman seemed to be interested in this.
The yard is quite satisfactory.
"You don't want to bargain anymore?" Sister-in-law Wang couldn't help being surprised.
"I've already fallen into this situation, and to bargain with you again is just to add insult to injury." The fat woman said, taking out a purse and handing it to Sister-in-law Wang, "You can use this money to treat the old lady's doctor first. If I end up
I couldn’t give you the remaining money, and according to the rules, I can’t get the deposit back.”
"This... do you really want to buy this house?" Sister-in-law Wang was a little hesitant and did not immediately reach out to take the money.
"You're selling me a consensual affair, how can you still fake it? Give me a receipt and I'll take it with me," said the fat woman.
"That's good." Sister-in-law Wang thought for a while and felt that there was nothing wrong with this except that it went too smoothly.
So I went back and wrote the receipt, and gave it to the fat woman before she took the silver. I looked at it carefully and found that it was indeed twenty taels of silver.
The fat woman put the receipt on her sleeve and walked out awkwardly.
Inside Dali Temple Prison.
It’s time to put out the meal again.
With the sound of footsteps, two jailers walked in carrying wooden buckets and distributed the prison meals in order from east to west.
"Everyone put the bowls away and put them away! Whoever dares to snatch them will go hungry!" The fat jailer would yell every time he went somewhere.
Among them, the skinny jailer with a long face took a wooden ladle, scooped out the porridge from the rice bucket, and poured it into the bowl through the wooden fence.
He seems to be extremely stingy, putting only a little in each bowl.
Many prisoners swallowed their anger and did not dare to argue.
There are also some who accompany me carefully and beg for more.
But it's no use, he still only gives a little each time.
"Sir, the previous one didn't give you so little." Someone finally held the wrist of the jailer holding the ladle, "You've been here for three days, and we've been drinking porridge for three days. Are we going to starve to death?" The long-faced jailer glared: "If you can eat well in prison, who is doing anything outside?! You will have to suffer if you break the law! Release your hands!"
"We are here to file a complaint, not prisoners!" The one holding the jailer's wrist was obviously the leader among these people, "We dare to file a lawsuit against the prince, but why are we afraid of you, a fellow prisoner?!"
"Let go! Let go!" The long-faced jailer grinned and struggled.
But he was too thin, and compared with the person holding his wrist, he was obviously at a disadvantage.
"We don't want more. A bowl of porridge and a whole-grain pancake are enough for each meal. Otherwise, I will take off your arm and see if I dare!" The man said, using his hands to pull the long-faced jailer.
The arm was twisted.
"Let go, let go, let go, my arm is going to be broken! I know." The long-faced jailer screamed and said, "I can see it, you guys are just barefoot and muddy, and you are just stabbing your head!"
”
The man released him and just gave him a cold look without arguing.
The long-faced jailer huffed and complained softly.
But he did bring a bucket of dry food and distributed it to the people in the prison angrily.