After the exam, when Zhang Yue returned to the inn, he saw Huang Haoyi arguing with the innkeeper.
“What’s the matter with the store?”
However, the shopkeeper greeted Zhang Yue and said, "I'd like to teach Mr. Huang to know that this Mr. Huang took away all the remaining money from the two rooms and said that he would extend the rent for two days. I said that the shop is small and small."
Dare to pay on credit, but I look down on him if he asks me to do so."
After hearing this, Zhang Yue thought to himself, he came to Beijing to rent two guest rooms, and he and Huang Haoyi rented one each and divided it half and half, but Huang Haoyi didn't want them to take away the money left in the hotel. What would they do?
Huang Haoyi blushed and said: "It's so unruly. How can any inn in the world not allow credit? I just owe you a few days' rent, but you want to kick us out of the inn?"
Zhang Yue heard this and said: "Shopkeeper, we are just students who have passed the Imperial College examination. If you are worried that we will not repay the credit, then in the future we will be admitted to the Imperial College. You should not do business with us as Taixue students."
Hearing this, the shopkeeper quickly said: "I don't dare, I don't dare. You sir, please don't be as familiar with me as I am."
Zhang Yue said: "Business is all about being harmonious and making money. You should remember these things about being greedy and honest."
"Yes Yes."
In ancient times, credit accounts were common in hotels and restaurants. Some people found it inconvenient to walk with money, and some found it troublesome to find money, so most of them were settled once at the end of the month or at the end of the year.
It is very shameful to ask someone to pay back the money in advance if the date is not due. It is like going to a restaurant and being asked to pay before the food is served.
Zhang Yue immediately said: "Silang, let's go."
Zhang Yue and Huang Haoyi returned to the room. Huang Haoyi said a little embarrassedly: "Sanlang, I will go to my brother and sister-in-law tomorrow and pay you back the money I owe you."
Zhang Yue said: "Easy to say."
Although Huang Haoyi is not a generous person, he still cares about face. He will not be able to deal with the problem of not paying back the money he owes.
“Shiro, we have been in the inn these days, where did you spend all the money?”
Huang Haoyi was a little embarrassed to say it, and he hesitated for a while and said: "Sanlang, I have fallen in love with a girl."
“What girl? Could it be the fireworks girl?”
Huang Haoyi sighed: "Exactly. She doesn't want me anymore in this life."
Then Huang Haoyi talked about how the two got to know each other.
Zhang Yue said: "Silang, Brother Chizheng told us before about the wealthy businessman who used a prostitute to pretend to be his wife..."
Huang Haoyi said anxiously: "Yulian is definitely not that kind of person. She never spends any money from me, but... I want to save her life. Her father is a rotten gambler. He was detained by the gambling shop the day before yesterday and asked her family to pay back ten
She has to pay her gambling debt, otherwise she will lose her father's leg. Yulian said that as long as I can pay back these ten dollars for her, she will serve me like a cow and a horse for the rest of her life."
"Ten guan of money?" Zhang Yue said, "That's a lot! Didn't you tell me all the way that you only had two or three guan of money left with you? How did you collect ten guan of money in one go?"
Huang Haoyi smiled sheepishly.
Huang Haoyi said: "I still have some money saved, so I collected ten guans. Now I have rescued her father. She said she would come to the inn to join me tonight."
“Huh?” Zhang Yue was dumbfounded.
"Sanlang, can Yulian and I stay here for one night? No two nights."
Sure, you are such a friend!
Zhang Yue cursed in his heart, but after thinking about it he still said: "Even if Yulian is sincere to you, have you thought about how to settle her in the future? If you don't let her sing, you have to support her."
“Given her family background, she will definitely not be able to be the first wife, but before she has a wife, she takes a concubine first, regardless of whether your family is willing to do so. If this word spreads, it will greatly harm your reputation.”
“I haven’t thought about taking a concubine!”
Zhang Yue was surprised and said: "If we don't accept concubines, how can we keep them as outer concubines? This is even more inappropriate."
“And since her father is a bad gambler, what if he knew that his daughter was promised to you and would be dependent on you in the future? Do you have that much money to plug this hole?”
"This... I didn't think much about it at the moment, but Yulian is so gentle, and she will definitely be whatever I say from now on," Huang Haoyi said.
Zhang Yue said: "Silang, that's all I have to say. Don't blame me for having something to say first."
“Sanlang stays…”
Zhang Yue turned around, only to see Huang Haoyi coming forward with a shy face: "Sanlang, can you give me a few hundred more dollars? I don't have a penny on me now."
Zhang Yue cursed in his heart, you are definitely a trap for thieves.
But seeing the pitiful look on the other side, he really was. In the end, Zhang Yue took out a handful of money from his body and stuffed it into Huang Haoyi's hand.
Huang Haoyi said with a grateful face: "Sanlang is so generous, it's really not a waste of time for you and me to get to know each other."
Zhang Yue thought to himself, I really regret getting to know you.
That night.
The prostitute named Yulian really came to Huang Haoyi with her luggage, but Zhang Yue had to squeeze into the bed in another room with Tang Jiu and Huang Haoyi's book boy.
This scene reminded Zhang Yue of the time when he lived in a dormitory in college. In order to take his girlfriend to the dormitory for the night, his roommate paid him to go to the Internet cafe all night. But now he didn't get a penny of the benefits, and even paid Huang Haoyi.
For a sum, this is really no one else.
Speaking of which, the partitions in the inn are quite thin.
As soon as Zhang Yue was lying on the bed, he heard a commotion in the next room.
Zhang Yue was sleeping on the side of the wall, and the sound came to his ears like this. Tang Jiu had already fallen asleep after drinking wine, and Zhang Yue was the only one in the room who could hear it clearly.
Zhang Yue didn't want to hear it at all, but the walls of the inn were so thin. Didn't he have to force me? But just when he got up, what happened when the commotion stopped?
Zhang Yue was also confused.
It's not even as long as Bolt ran a hundred meters.
The next day, Zhang Yue got up early and went to Ouyang Xiu's house to post.
After the Imperial Examination, he naturally had a lot of free time. He found out where Ouyang Xiu lived, and he lived in Tianshui Lane in the east of the city.
Speaking of Ouyang Xiu’s renting a house is also a legend.
It should be noted that the housing prices in Kaifeng are already worth every inch of land. There is a saying in the book that "in a heavy city, under the double towers, every inch of land is worth the same price as gold. It is not the Xunqi family that lives in a seamless place".
Ouyang Xiugang was an official in the capital and could only live in public rental housing.
At that time, he lived in Liren Lane, and whenever it rained heavily, it would flood.
Ouyang Xiu once complained to his friend Mei Yaochen about the poor living environment.
The ancient houses in Xianfang are humble and mixed. The neighbors are filled with ditches and sinuses, and the streets are overflowing. The courtyards are filled with water. I am worried about the vastness when I go out. I am worried that I will be trapped when I close my house. The walls are open in all directions, but fortunately the family has no storage.
In this way, Ouyang Xiu lived in this shabby house for seventeen years. Until he was demoted to Chuzhou and before he wrote "The Drunkard's Pavilion", he lived in a public rental house in Liren Lane.
Now back in Beijing, Ouyang Xiugui is a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. He just changed to a big house in Beijing in the second year of Jiayou's reign.
It’s just that it’s not buying, it’s renting.
It's just that Ouyang Xiu changed from living in public rental housing to renting a private residence.
Here I have to say that the public rental housing system in the Song Dynasty was better.
In the Song Dynasty, the affairs of public rental housing were managed by the shop and housekeepers, and all rental income belonged to the state. For such public rental housing, the court only charged two to three hundred yuan a month at most.
Sometimes when there was a heavy snow disaster, the generous Emperor Renzong would often reduce the rent of the people in Bianjing for a few days.
Ouyang Xiu, who is now a Hanlin scholar, has rented a large house in Tianshui Lane. Such a large house is a private residence, not a public rental house for shops and households. In comparison, it is much better.
When he arrived at Ouyang Xiu's house, Zhang Yue saw a bustling market in front of the door.
Many scholars were queuing up in front of the door, waiting to post their papers.
But seeing that these people all brought a large bag of articles, they must have asked Ouyang Xiu to do it.
Think about the example of San Su, and you will know why so many scholars came to Ouyang Xiu to submit their posts, not to mention that this was a tribute to Ouyang Xiu in the second year of Jiayou.
Zhang Yue thought to himself that I am not a bookmaker, so why should I get involved with these people. But Zhang Yue took a few steps forward, and the scholars in front of him and the soldiers guarding the door shouted, "Don't go beyond the order, follow the order here" lined up.
The more people blocked me, I didn’t want to waste my time thinking about it, so just wait a little longer.
As a result, Zhang Yue waited for nearly half an hour. When he moved to the door, the doorman glanced at Zhang Yue and asked, "Where is your paper?"
Zhang Yueze said: "I'm not here to write papers. I'm from Fujian and I have a letter to submit to Scholar Ouyang."
Menzi said: "Since you are here to deliver a message, why bother getting together with them?"
Zhang Yue thought to himself, I want to say that too, but have you given me a chance?
Zhang Yue smiled and said, "I'm new here, so I don't understand the rules here."
The doorman said: "Wait in the concierge. If there is no reply for a while, go back!"
Zhang Yue nodded and said: "That's fine."
So Zhang Yue sat down in the concierge and watched the scholars submit their papers one after another. Zhang Yue also admired him. How could Ouyang Xiu read through so many papers?
What’s more, as he is now a Hanlin bachelor, he must be busy with official duties, and it is difficult for him to have as much free time to promote future generations as before.
Zhang Yue waited at the concierge for a long time, just when he thought he was going back home.
At this time, a person who cares about appearance came out and hugged Zhang Yue and said, "Is this Mr. Zhang Sanlang from Pucheng?"
Zhang Yue stood up and said, "That's right."
Du Guan smiled and said: "San Lang, please follow me."
“Thank you.”
Zhang Yue followed the governor into the house and passed through a long corridor.
Zhang Yue saw that this house was really not small. If he didn’t have several renters this month, he might not be able to afford renting such a big house.
Zhang Yue passed through the hanging flower gate and came to a courtyard. Then Du Guan led Zhang Yue to a side hall that had been converted from a side room.
But I saw a twenty-six or seven-year-old young man waiting in the side hall. When he saw Zhang Yue, he stood up and said with a smile: "Is this Mr. Zhang Sanlang? Nice to meet you, nice to meet you, Ouyang Fa!"
Zhang Yue knew immediately that the other party was Ouyang Xiu's eldest son.
Ouyang Xiu’s wife is the fourth daughter of the famous minister Xue Kui. She is considered to be the daughter of a famous minister married to a Jinshi from a “poor family”.
As for Ouyang Fa, Ouyang Xiu’s eldest son, he married Wu Chong’s eldest daughter, the sister of Wu Anshi and Wu Dalangjun.
Ouyang Xiu and Wu Chong had a very good relationship. When Ouyang Xiu was the judge, he was criticized as a party protector because of Hu Su's son's intercession. Because of this, Ouyang Xiu was implicated and was sent to the same continent. Wu Chong, who was his son's in-laws
Shu said, Ouyang Xiu is a loyal and upright person. If he is demoted, I am willing to be demoted with him.
Ouyang Fa saw Zhang Yue and smiled and said, "My father is busy with official duties and has no time to do anything else. I would like to invite Sanlang to sit here and drink tea."
