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18. Rent

Onlookers were in an uproar.

"It's so cruel to start."

"He dares to hit the people from the Li family?"

The guard was gasping heavily, sweat beads burst through the brows and rolled into his eyes, blurring his vision.

In a flash, I was strangled and hit the ground with a thump. A frost sound came from my ears: "Evil slave, was it Li Wuyu who sent you?"

The guard came to his senses and squinted his eyes and saw Li Buzhuo grinning and showing his fierce eyes. He felt cold in his heart, and he panted heavily and shook his head hard.

"That's what He Fengnan sent." Li Buzhuo glanced at the knight's neck, "Go back and tell He Fengnan that if you send someone to trouble me next time, the broken leg will not be the one who breaks."

Let go of the guards of Li's mansion, Li Buzhuo clapped his hands and stood up to raise his voice: "My uncle is very strict in his family management. You, a villain in the city, pretend to be a slave of the Li's mansion. You want to commit murder on me in broad daylight and provoke the relationship between my uncle and nephew. What is your intention? Today I will give you a little punishment and let me see you do evil under the name of Li's mansion, and I will send you to the government!"

After saying that, he left.

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In the main hall of Li Mansion, Li Wuyu was wearing a black cloak and looked at the injured servants under the hall, with a gloomy face.

He Fengnan's vermilion hibiscus skirt was swaying on the ground, his eyes flashed, and he didn't sit down, but just stood aside.

After a long time, Li Wuyu sat on the Grand Master's chair: "Did you send him to cause trouble for Li Buzhuo?"

He Fengnan's eyes flashed: "It is only when he knows that the Li Mansion cannot tolerate him that he will retreat. But he didn't expect that he had developed a lot of skills in his two years in the army. Yang Bao was a deserter of the previous dynasty and was considered a master in Youzhou, but he was defeated by Li Buzhuo in just one encounter. Li Buzhuo was also cunning. When he left, he deliberately said that words to protect the Li Mansion. We cannot go to the Lingguan Office to pursue his responsibility for hurting people in the street."

Li Wuyu pondered for a long time and said to the guard next to him: "Take Yang Bao to get the Ten Whip Family Law."

"How do you let Yang Bao get the punishment?" He Fengnan's expression changed. The Li family method used a whip made of yellow silk and beef tendon, as thick as a longan, with wax on the tips of the whip, weighing two or three pounds.

With one whip down, bring a layer of oily skin. With ten whips down, you can kill half of your life.

Li Wuyu said without hesitation: "After learning the family law, take him to apologize in public with Li Buzhuo!"

"This is absolutely not possible!"

Li Wuyu said: "Li Buzhuo is the blood of the Li family after all. Yang Bao is in trouble. This punishment is already merciless. Don't mention it again!"

The two strong guards dragged the injured guard down. After there was no one else in the main hall, Li Wuyu's expression was slightly slower and said, "It's not that I helped Li Buzhuo, but you and I underestimated him too much."

He Fengnan frowned and said, "He came over to the border without any roots. Even if he had martial arts, what kind of climate could he become? I found out that he had no friendship with Bai Yi, but he just accidentally got a poem with a poem on the side of the road. Now half a month has passed, Bai Yi has forgotten him."

Li Wuyu said meaningfully: "This morning, Bai Yi sent someone to send a set of four treasures in the study, which was given to Li Buzhuo."

"Bai Yi really values ​​him so much?" He Fengnan was stunned.

Bai Yi sent the gift to the Li Mansion, and must have known that the old resentment of Li Mansion and Li Buzhuo deliberately shocked the mountains and the tigers.

Li Wuyu nodded.

He Fengnan was unwilling to say: "Does he just let the boy take the exam like this? With his performance in the county school monthly exam, it is not difficult to pass the list. He is a wolfish ambition, and the common people dare to break the leg of the Li family. If he really gains power, he still doesn't know how rampant he will be."

Li Wuyu walked for two steps with his hands in his arms and pondered for a while.

After the separation of the family, Li Wuyu and Li Buzhuo had little contact with each other. After Li Buzhuo's father passed away, the relationship between the two families became even more alienated.

If Li Buzhuo was admitted to Qi Refining Master, he would be a member of the Taoist Guizhen School and was in direct opposition to Li Kunshuang, but this was not an irresolvable conflict.

In ancient times, the great families of aristocratic families often allowed their descendants to work on political parties of various factions. The so-called cunning rabbits have three holes, and the east is not bright, and the west is bright. Even if a certain party loses power, the children of another faction can gain power and allow the entire family to survive.

The Li family has been poor for generations, and Li Wuyu is very ambitious. Even if Li Kunshuang is talented and able to enter the Heavenly Palace, it is difficult for him to upgrade the Li family to a real high school.

When Li Buzhuo was obstructed from taking the boy test, he didn't want to have too many troubles. However, Li Buzhuo could get Bai Yi so much. If he could make achievements in the Guizhen School, it would be a good thing for the entire Li family.

However, Li Wuyu is not narrow-minded when it comes to his wife He Fengnan.

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The Huangshui River flows thousands of miles through Youzhou and flows a hundred miles south of the newly closed city. It is dug canals by manpower and institutions to lead it to the south of the city, forming a mile-wide moat.

There is a lot of fishing in the moat, and Yuluan Lane is right next to the moat, located in the south of Xiacheng City.

Li Buzhuo got off the hanging car at Xingxie Station, walked two hundred steps north, and found Yuluan Lane.

The Zhu family at No. 81 in the alley is a cramped yard. The familiar Zhu Kuai is a butcher who is killing a dog. He wiped his trouser legs and his hands full of blood, so he introduced the house to Li Buzhuo.

"Mr. Li came just in time. A tea dealer on Jinming Street in Shangcheng had only moved out for two days. He had a yard that had been vacant and had not taken away anything. The young master moved in and took a mailman to live in. It was enough! I admire the scholar the most. If you want to live, you only earn your agency fee. The rent will be as agreed upon by the tea, one gold baht per month. The place is close to the county school, so it will definitely not be the price for other families."

Zhu Kuai has been acquainted with people for more than 20 years, and he is accurate in his eyes. Li Buzhuo's clothes are not rich and he can't live in a luxury house. But there is no real poor family among the county school students? His family background is not that bad, and most of the humble people in the city are not as good as that. So he recommended this cost-effective place to live.

Li Buzhuo pondered for a while, but said he still had to consider it.

When Zhu Kuai saw it, he knew it was expensive, so he didn't persuade him. He also mentioned a few other properties, which made Li Buzhuo choose.

As a result, I chose a few accommodations in the upper city, and the best and cheapest ones were still the ones on Jinming Street at the beginning, so Zhu Kuai began to introduce the places where he lowered the city.

The residence in Lower City is much cheaper than that in Upper City. The rent for the same size of the yard is only 30% or 40% of the rent for Upper City, but without exception, the lighting is extremely poor.

Li Buzhuo followed Zhu Kuai to see a set in the small courtyard of Yuluan Lane. The smell of fishy salted fish spread everywhere, and the ground in the dark was always filled with water. The sound of water trucks and the roar of ships never stopped.

Although he was not a lazy and flirting character, Li Buzhuo did not want to live in such a place, so he said he would consider it again, bid farewell to Zhu Kuai, and return to the county school.

Sitting in the hanging car, Li Buzhuo made up his calculations.

After collecting Baiyou’s hardware baht, I spent some more these days, and there were still ten gold baht, three silver bahts, and some scattered copper coins left.

Now that we have started to refine Qi, we have spent more money. A 300 kilogram of horns can eat only 150 kilograms of meat. It takes eight silver croaker to go up, which is only enough to eat for more than a month. When meditating, it can help people sit and forget to enter into meditation. The mirage incense of visualization and practice can only buy three qians of gold coins, and can only be used ten times.

The introductory classic of Yanshi that you need is worth ten gold baht; all of which are consumed daily, such as teak, chicken wenge, and other kinds of wood, are also several silver baht.

Besides, some books are not recorded in the county school library, but they have hope of finding them in cities and counties. Tao Zhu, the left envoy of Sitian Palace who was once the new palace master, found a classic annotation when the saint of the Heavenly Palace was not sanctified in the ghost market, and became the only poor scholar since the imperial examinations of the Heavenly Palace.

Li Buzhuo did not expect to have this luck, and he also wanted to read more annotations to deepen his understanding of the Taoist sacred and would be more confident during the county examination.

After doing this, the remaining ten gold coins were too short.

It’s not that you can’t live down the city with grievance. After all, even if you go down to Youzhou, you will have much better accommodation than Cangzhou Tiema City, which can shake off a layer of sand and dust by shaking the quilt in the morning.

But now Li Buzhuo is studying in Yong'an County and is inseparable from socializing in the same year as the county school. At that time, if a classmate comes to the house, if the yard where he lives is dark and dull, he will be looked down upon as fish basket alley as fish baskets.

After calculating the accounts, he had returned to the gate of the county school. Li Buzhuo saw a carriage parked beside the county school.

The carriage is covered with black varnish, green curtains, red tassels, and the bird and insect text on the small flag hanging on the shaft is exactly the five words "Zhekyu Fang Li Mansion".

Behind the carriage, a ox cart was dragging a fainted man, the guard of Li's mansion that Li Buzhuo injured.
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