When entering Moling Lake and disembarking, you can enter the city through the East City Gate, Dongping Gate, or through the Water Gate of Moling Lake Wumiao Temple. There is a waterway connected to Longzangpu in the city.
Lin Fu and others entered the city from the water gate of Wu Temple, and the boat sailed into Longzangpu.
Zhao Hu and Liu Yue'er both came to Jiangning City for the first time, and some of them were dumbfounded by the prosperity of Jiangning in front of them.
"My dear, I thought Shanglinli was the most prosperous place in the world, but I don't know how many Shanglinli there are in Jiangning City?" Compared to before leaving the post house, Liu Yue'er seemed to have put down a single worry.
People are also more lively. When they open their eyes and see the prosperity and confusion in front of them, they are surprised and surprised.
Zhou Pu, Zhao Hu, and Chen Enze sat casually on the bow of the boat, with their feet hanging down. Xiaoman was afraid of falling into the water, so he was far away from the side of the boat. Lin Fu stood with his hands behind his hands, looking at this city that was even less prosperous than Yanjing.
, there is an illusion of being involved in history and feeling indifferent.
The Yongzangpo where the boats were sailing was also the famous Qinhuai River a thousand years later. Even if the name of Yongzangpo at this time had not been changed to the Qinhuai River, it still had 80-90% of the scenery of Qinhuai in later generations, with prostitutes, music houses, restaurants, tea shops and ordinary restaurants along the coast.
The houses are lined up in rows, and the arcades on the shore are nestled one behind the other. The end can't be seen in the distance. The stone streets near Linshui are full of people, dressed in red and green, which contrast with the white water and gray walls and the deep red gates. This is Yongzangpo.
On the water, there are rows of boats, including light boats with black awnings, painted boats with lofts like skyscrapers, merchant ships with sharp tips that are almost above the water, ships carrying grain, ships carrying paint, tung oil, and silk cloth.
There are also ships carrying only passengers into the city, and there are also cruise ships just for visiting Yongzangpo. The water surface more than 20 feet wide is packed to the brim. It is truly a hundred times more prosperous than Shanglindu.
Lin Fu and the others set out from Guabu early in the morning and crossed to Chaotian. It was already afternoon when they entered the city. Some libertines in Jiangning City began to come out to have fun. Occasionally, there were passing boats, and the sound of silk and bamboo singing filled the air.
Wandering in the hustle and bustle of the city.
Lin Fu and the others got off the boat at the pier in front of Tianhan Bridge and loaded their luggage and packages into the carriage. Liu Yue'er also got in. Zhao Hu sat in the front of the car and drove, Lin Fu also sat in the front of the car, and Xiaoman lifted the curtain.
He got up and showed Zhao Hu the way. Zhou Pu and Chen Size rode horses and each led a horse to follow behind the carriage.
Liu Yue'er was still thinking about where she and Lin Fu would stay on their first day in Jiangning, when she felt the carriage stop. She looked around in surprise to see what was going on, and saw a young woman jumping on board quickly.
When the carriage arrived, I heard Xiaoman calling to the woman: "Sister Feng, why are you here?"
"The lady guessed that it was time for you to enter the city, so she asked me to wait for you on the street first. She would like to come over, but it's just inconvenient..."
Liu Yue'er saw the woman's handsome face and dressed as a servant, so she just thought she was about to get into the carriage, and smiled at her. The woman glanced at her, said nothing, and just sat at the door of the carriage.
When she came down, Liu Yue'er inadvertently saw from her collar that there was a dark red mark at the root of her neck, which was as white as snow jade, like a scar. She thought she had been deceived, this woman looked like
She was so upright and beautiful, how could there be scars on her neck? She would not be abused by her husband's family, would she? Little did she know that the woman sitting at the door of the carriage was Feng Peipei, the fourth wife of the famous horse thief in Huaishang.
When Su Mei returned to Jiangning, she hoped that Lin Fu would come over so she could rely on her. She asked Feng Peipei to choose a house for Lin Fu and others.
The house is located behind the Dustpan Alley, and is separated from Su Mei's apartment in Baiyuan at the head of the Dustpan Alley. The original owner of the house ran down his business in Jiangning, and pawned the house in the city to a pawn shop to hide out in his hometown.
Went down.
Afraid of leaving any traces behind, Su Mei did not rush to buy the house. Instead, as soon as Lin Fu and the others entered the city, Feng Peipei took them to the pawn shop to buy the house. The house had passed its prime period, and the pawn shop
You can handle it yourself, and you don't have to worry about the original owner coming back to redeem the house after you move in.
The fourth lady sat at the door of the carriage, took out a small brocade handkerchief from her arms and handed it to Lin Fu: "Miss asked me to give this to you..."
Lin Fu took it and opened it to see a few pieces of gold. He smiled and said to his fourth wife, Feng Peipei, "We did bring some silver with us..."
The official price ratio of gold and silver is one to ten. In actual transactions, one tael of fine gold can only be negotiated for nine taels of silver. Gold is cheap, don't look at the few gold pieces, which are worth more than three hundred taels.
Silver. Liu Yue'er leaned against the wall of the carriage and glanced at the few pieces of gold in Lin Fu's hand. She thought to herself that Lin Juren was really powerful. As soon as she arrived in Jiangning City, a rich lady came over and pressed her against her.
Why did everyone in Shiliang County say that he was a useless scholar just because he was gifting such a large sum of money? She had been thinking about Xiaoman's identity yesterday, and now she figured it out, it turned out to be a young lady from a rich family.
Personal maid.
Liu Yue'er was a newly widowed person. Although she became a widow ten days after her marriage, her neighbors regarded her as a woman from then on. In the past, the boss and the west would avoid her because of their short talk, but now they took the initiative to pull her in.
She went in and chewed her tongue together. After listening too much, Liu Yue'er also knew that those young ladies in Shiliang County had trysts with their lovers. They were afraid that they would not be able to capture their lovers' hearts, and they were also afraid that they would lose their virginity and be abandoned in the future, so some of them asked the maids to satisfy them first on their behalf.
She was in love with him. She thought to herself that Lin Fu was really lucky. A rich lady fell in love with him and even sent her personal maid to warm his bed.
Liu Yue'er sat leaning against the wall of the carriage, watching Lin Fu's eyes looking at the bag of gold in his hand, thinking that Lin Juren should have some ambition not to spend a woman's money. Lin Fu said with a smile on his lips: "Buy it
An ordinary house needs so much gold?" Although he said this, to Liu Yue'er's surprise, he rewrapped the gold lock in his hand and put it in his arms, with no intention of refusing.
Liu Yue'er was slightly startled when she saw it. She doubted whether following Lin Juren as a cook was the right decision, but it would be more difficult to stay in the Gu family, so she could only sigh silently in her heart.
At this time, Longzangpu turned a corner, and the stone street along the river also turned, and saw a magnificent and towering heavy building across the river. Compared with the bungalows on the side, the tall building was almost five or six feet tall, higher than them.
The towers on the water gate of Wu Temple that we saw when we entered the city were even more majestic and spectacular.
Liu Yue'er had never seen such a towering building in Shiliang County. She seemed to be dazzled by the prosperity of Jiangning. She opened her mouth half-open and asked Xiaoman: "Which family is that? Could it be which royal palace in Jiangning city?"
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"Where is the palace?" Lin Fu came back and said with a smile, "Across the river is Donghuamen Street, and that building is the vassal building where singing and dancing in Liangyuan are full of romance, and fine wine is like a knife to cut off sorrow." This vassal building
What Lou runs is the same business as your family does in Shiliang County, it’s just a tea shop, but the scale is slightly larger..."
"Is it a little bigger?" Liu Yue'er covered her lips and chuckled, "It's not just a little bigger..."
Skyscrapers a thousand years from now may not arouse the world's surprise, but the Fan Building, the first of the thirty-six main stores in Jiangning, rises from the surrounding low-rise bungalow buildings, with "four floors high and five floors connected to each other."
The heavy building created looks unusually majestic.
This vassal building is naturally not an ordinary restaurant. This dynasty implemented a monopoly on tea and wine. The government-run koji making workshop made the koji, and then the koji was sold in a fixed amount to a few hotels for brewing. These hotels with the right to brew wine are also called Zhengdian, and they are owned by Jiangning City.
There are thirty-six main stores, with Fanlou as the leader. Thousands of other small and medium-sized hotels in Jiangning city have to buy wine from these thirty-six main stores before selling it. However, you can spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy a drink at Fanlou.
The high-ranking officials and nobles naturally refused to drink too much and often called some singing and dancing girls to add to the fun, commonly known as "dianhuapai".
Su Mei became famous among the feudal lords.
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The dustpan lane in Yongxingfang faces the Fan Tower across the water. To the east of the dustpan lane, there is a stone bridge named Zhouqiao connecting the north and the south.
After identifying the house at the place, in order to avoid being bumped into by acquaintances, the Fourth Lady and Xiao Man, who was dressed as a boy, left first. Lin Fu and the others followed what the Fourth Lady said and went around to Beixunmen Street to the west of Dustpan Lane to find the pawn shop.
Hu Ji Pawn Shop in this house.
Lin Fu originally just wanted to buy an ordinary house in the city, but although the name of Dustpan Alley is not very nice, it is only named after the dustpan-shaped pond at the end of the alley. However, since most of Jiangning's official offices are concentrated in the east of the city, it is located in
Most of the people living in the dustpan lane in the east of the city are wealthy families. It is not easy for Lin Fu to buy an ordinary house near the dustpan lane in the east of the city and next to the Su Mei Residence in Baiyuan.
After finding the pawn shop, Lin Fu and the others first looked at the house under the guidance of the pawn shop clerk.
The street gate facing the alley is ordinary. The first courtyard after entering the gate is very shallow, which is the outer courtyard. The street gate faces east. To the east of the outer courtyard, there is a row of four inverted houses facing the street. One is the concierge and the other is the outer courtyard.
One room is the living room, and two rooms are the servants' living rooms. The main courtyard is through the hanging flower door. The three tall rooms in the north are facing south and are the main room. There are three wing rooms on each side. The tall south courtyard wall separates the south from the other houses.
The side rooms, the main room and the hanging flowers are all connected by corridors. There are waist-high lotus jars and potted flowers in the patio, and an osmanthus tree is also planted. After passing the main room, there is the backyard, with a row of low-rise buildings facing south.
The short back room was generally used as a warehouse, miscellaneous room, and residence for maids and mothers-in-law.
The whole house plus the wing rooms has a total of twenty rooms. No matter where it is placed and in any era, it can be considered a luxury house.
Although Lin Fu and the others sold twenty horses to the township camp in exchange for 3,000 taels of silver, this money was the lifeblood of Qin Chengzu and the others. They had to use it to purchase a large amount of necessary supplies and transport them to Changshan Island to establish a foothold on Changshan Island. Most of the money was spent
Wu Qi was asked to stay in Shanglin, and they only brought out two hundred taels of silver from this trip.
It is no better than the crazy and desperate housing prices a thousand years later. In this era, wealthy people usually buy land and build houses in the city. They do not need to be exploited by real estate developers, and there are no taxes or taxes, so housing prices are relatively cheap. Just like Liu
Yue'er was hired as a cook for the Gu family at a high price of thirty-six taels of silver per month. Her annual income of thirty-six taels was enough to buy a small house in Jiangning City.
Before Lin Fu came here, he only wanted to spend seventy or eighty taels of silver to buy a house where he could stay in Jiangning City, and he never thought of buying a mansion.
It's no wonder that Su Mei specially asked the fourth lady to bring him a small bag of gold coins, just because he was afraid that he didn't have enough money; the pawn shop for this house asked for three hundred taels of silver.
Changshan Island depends on each other for life and death, and they will also support each other in times of trouble. Lin Fu doesn't mind spending Su Mei's money. Besides, living close by, he can take care of any emergencies in time.
300 taels of silver, nearly 400,000 coppers, which is considered a considerable amount of wealth even in the city of Jiangning, where the world has gathered wealth. Lin Fu thought about how he broke up with Du Rong in public at Chaotianyi yesterday and vowed not to be in conflict with each other.
, just to attract the attention of Du Rong's opponents, and to live in a shabby place in Jiangning, it will inevitably be looked down upon by others.
Lin Fu immediately signed a document with the pawn shop, converted the gold coins given by Su Mei into silver and gave them to the pawn shop. He took back the land deed, house deed and the original owner's pawn deed, etc. Even if he had just entered Jiangning, he
A place to stay.
In this way, there is no need to prepare another house for Liu Yue'er. She can live directly in the back room in the backyard, and the four horses can also be put in the barn in the backyard.
Lin Fu and the others only brought some simple luggage, and many things needed to be purchased in Jiangning. There is an advantage in doing business with a pawn shop. Pawn shops do not only accept valuable items before they are willing to pledge them for loans. Generally, household items can be mortgaged and accumulated over time.
After that, the absolutely pawnable items were enough for the pawn shop to open a second-hand grocery store. Lin Fu and the others had just spent a lot of money to buy a house, and the pawn shop was very generous with half of the household items sold and half given away, and they prepared a
The car was delivered to Lin Fu's house.
Lin Fu was still lacking something in his mind. Not to mention that Zhao Hu and the others had just entered Jiangning for the first time. Lin Fu had taken the provincial examination in Jiangning last time. In fact, he was not very familiar with Jiangning City. He saw a few men gathering at the entrance of the alley.
These are all idle men in the city. They usually live in the streets and alleys. If someone sends them to do something, they can earn a dozen or twenty coppers to make ends meet.
Lin Fu had long been paying attention to these people at the entrance of the alley. At this time, he walked to the street and waved to a thin-faced young man with a few patches but clean clothes to come over: "We don't have the manpower here to go shopping in the East Market. You
How much does it cost to take a trip for us?"
"What do you want to buy?"
"Are you literate?"
"I know a few."
"Then wait a minute." Lin Fu went into the room and wrote a list and handed it to him. "Look, how much extra money will you charge if you buy all these things and deliver them?"
"There are a lot of things. I need to buy them and send them back today. I'm afraid I won't be able to run away by myself, so I have to ask someone to come with me. It's a total of forty dollars." The young man glanced at Lin Fu and was a little worried about sending the money back to him.
Gao said, "We need to buy all these things. We have to travel to several places, and you are in a hurry to use them..."
"Okay, you go buy the things for me first, and I'll give you the money when you come back." Lin Fu handed the young man a small silver ingot weighing five taels.
Zhao Hu, Chen Enze and the others were nowhere to be seen. Zhou Pu took a big package with unknown contents and walked to his room. Liu Yue'er saw Lin Fu standing in front of the hanging flower hall and so casually handed over a package.
He handed a small silver ingot to a stranger to buy something. When the idle young people left the front yard, they couldn't help but come over and remind Lin Fu: "Why aren't you worried that he won't come back after taking the silver? He may not be able to earn that much in half a year.
Lots of money. There are also these gangsters in Shiliang County. They usually earn some money for running around. Sometimes they get bold and do theft and robbery. They are no different from bandits. They are also involved in gangs. We have just arrived in Jiangning.
, even if he turns around and says we didn’t give him any money, we can’t do anything to him?”
"Don't be suspicious of people, don't be suspicious of people you employ - because it's the first time you meet a stranger, so you can't doubt him casually." Lin Fu said seriously.
Liu Yue'er was angry and speechless, thinking that Lin Juren was really a nerd. Seeing that he was a little impatient, she thought, what on earth did that rich lady see in him, so that she actually gave him money and gave him a maid to play with? She
She excused herself and ran to the shed in the backyard. She saw Zhao Hu and Chen Enze packing their horses there, and said to him, "Brother Zhao, has your master read too much?" She already knew that Zhao Hu was no longer here.
In Linli Township Camp, he has become Lin Fu's servant.
Zhao Hu asked her what happened. Liu Yue'er told Zhao Hu what had just happened and complained: "Why don't you know how to guard against others? Even if someone gives him money, he can't bear to give it to others.
Lie."
Zhao Hu laughed and couldn't explain anything to her. He just touched his head and said, "I don't know either."
Liu Yue'er was forced to come over as Gu Wuchen's wife. Liu Yue'er herself didn't want to come with Lin Fu, but she knew that life would be more difficult if she stayed in the Gu family. Besides, she was newly widowed not long ago, and she didn't want to be cheated by Gu Wuchen.
Concubine. Although Gu Wuchen is only over forty years old, he suffered a lot during his exile in the army and looks a bit old.
In the front yard, Zhou Pu hid a crossbow, a hard bow, and the Mo Dao he had forcibly returned from Wu Qi in the bedroom. Although officials and the entourage of the lord's children can carry protective weapons when walking, crossbows, hard bows, etc.
Medium-length weapons such as the Mo Dao are forbidden weapons and cannot be used in daily life, so they must be hidden first.
He heard Lin Yue's words in the main room, walked out with a smile, and asked Lin Fu, "Do you want me to go out and follow you?"
"No, we are not familiar with each other. It will be very obvious when walking in the crowd and it is not easy to hide. We should wait until he gets greedy for the money," Lin Fu said with a smile, but he was really looking forward to others taking the money and not coming back again.
Asked Zhou Pu, "Among the gangsters at the entrance of the alley, do you think anyone looks like the one sent by Du Rong?"
"The man sitting in the corner holding a pole and dozing off is not an ordinary helper. The young man with a new robe but two patches is also very suspicious. Others can't tell. It looks like a crow coming over to see.
Three generations of ancestors can see it." Zhou Pu said, "Why don't you ask one of those two to help you run the errands?"
"Most of them won't let me take my money," Lin Fu said with a smile. Even if Zhou Pu's eyesight is not as good as Wu Qi's, his decades of experience will not be much worse. "If the money is stolen by others, we can also seize it."
The two people living there said they were in the same group..."