Chapter 86 Settlement
Tinglan County is located more than a hundred miles within the border of Vietnam, including Tinglan Village, Tinglan Town, and several surrounding small villages. Tinglan Town is the commercial foundation of the county, and almost all transactions are completed here.
At this moment, at dawn, Lu Yu and his party drove a carriage to the front of Tinglan Town.
"Third brother, we're here." Lu Yun, who was driving, said to Lu Yu through the car curtain.
"Yeah." Xiao Wu beside him had fallen asleep leaning on him. The night's driving and the events that happened one after another made them physically and mentally exhausted. Lu Yu opened the curtain of the car window and said to Lu Yun: "Stop there."
Lu Yu had already made up his mind to go directly to the bank when he arrived in Tinglan Town, exchange some broken silver for it, and then find a remote place to rent a yard and live in seclusion. According to his own speculation, within five years, his skills would be He will be on the right track. It shouldn't be difficult to go to Black Wind Village and deal with these minions by then.
Before the bank opened its doors, Lu Yu asked Lu Yun to stop the carriage in front of the town's notice board. Lu Yun had lived in this town for three months and knew the roads very well. The notice board was a large sign in every town. The wooden board usually stands next to the government office. It not only has portraits of recently wanted fugitives and rewards, but also some transaction information of wealthy families. What Lu Yu wants to see is the house rental.
"Well..." Feeling the carriage's stillness, Hua Wu opened her eyes in confusion.
"Xiao Wu, you wait for me in the car first, I'll go down and take a look." Lu Yu touched Xiao Wu's head and said softly.
"Well..." She smiled haggardly.
There were not many pedestrians in the town in the early morning, but some vendors had already gotten up early and started shouting about the new day's business.
"We sell steamed buns, hot steamed buns!"
"The delicious meatloaf! Each one costs five cents, or three cents for ten cents! They are sold cheaply!"
Lu Yu, however, focused all his attention on the notice board in front of him. After a moment, his eyes lit up, "Zhenbei Lane, the Zhang Family Courtyard is for rent. Twenty taels of silver per month. Please go to the Zhang Family in Zhennan to discuss the details." Not bad! Lu Yu turned to Lu Yun and said, "Let's go to the tailor shop first."
Lu Yun rubbed his groggy eyes and felt refreshed. After Lu Yu got on the carriage, he went straight to the Yiyi Studio.
Liangyi Zhai is a small tailor shop in Tinglan Town. Because it is a nationwide chain, Lu Yu can't help but feel more familiar with it.
In order not to attract attention, they waited there before the store opened. After dawn, Lu Yu took Xiao Wu into the store. When the old tailor saw Lu Yu covered in blood, he suddenly broke into a cold sweat and trembled. Said: "Oh, this young hero...are you making clothes?"
Lu Yu directly took a few clothes that seemed to fit her and said to the old tailor: "Pick out a few more clothes that suit her and put them in bags together. I want them now." After that, he took out a tael of broken silver. Give it to him. This is the only change left on Lu Yu.
"Okay, okay!" Seeing Lu Yu take out so much money, the old tailor's nervousness suddenly disappeared. After comparing with Xiao Wu, he quickly went into the back room and took out a few dresses, and quickly Wrap it in a bag and hand it to Lu Yu.
Lu Yu took off his bloodstained clothes and put on an ordinary white Confucian dress. He carried a few bags of clothes and went out, thinking that these clothes would be enough for the next few days.
After leaving Liangyi Zhai, Lu Yu and his party went directly to the bank. When Lu Yu took out a piece of gold and told the bank boss to exchange it for broken silver, the bank boss almost hit the wall.
"Little ancestor, our Daheng Bank can't come up with 10,000 taels of broken silver to exchange for this gold ingot... It's better to do this... Look..."
In the end, Lu Yu exchanged a gold ingot for 800 taels of official silver and 1,000 taels of broken silver. The remaining 1,000 taels were used as the bank's turnover fee, but were hacked by the bank boss.
Afterwards, Lu Yu and others set off again and arrived at Zhang's house in the south of the town.
After knocking on the door of Zhang's house, the door creaked open. The person who opened the door was a girl in a green shirt. When she saw a stranger standing at the door, she blinked and turned around and called: "Grandpa! Grandpa! A guest is coming!"
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Lu Yu was startled.
There was a bang in his mind, as if something was being smashed, and like the waves rolling, awakening a huge thing. That memory came like a tide, washing into Lu Yu's mind unstoppably.
"Senior sister...Senior sister..." The voice in my heart murmured. But reality is reality after all. The blurred shadow finally gradually became clear. The girl in front of me was not Xia Qian'er, but a neighbor.
Just a girl.
...The sound like silver bells immediately summoned an old man with a long beard. Lu Yu came to his senses helplessly and hurriedly said: "Senior, I saw the rental of Zhangjia Villa in the alley of Zhenbei.
Announcement, I came here specifically to discuss it in detail." After saying this, he bowed his hand. This bowing is a courtesy in the world. Ordinary people must bow when saluting an old man. Lu Yu did this in order to hide his identity as much as possible.
Seeing that Lu Yu was so polite, the old man said to him gently: "In that case, you might as well come in and sit down first. Xiaolu, take them to the house, and I'll make a cup of tea."
"Okay, you three come with me." The girl in green shirt said cheerfully.
Lu Yu and the other three followed the girl in green shirt into the house and found that there was no one else in the Zhang family except the grandfather and grandson. They couldn't help but feel strange.
After a while, the long-bearded old man put a pot of fragrant tea on the table and poured some for everyone in several small porcelain bowls. Then he sat down and said with a smile: "This is the tea I grew myself.
Some of you might as well try it out."
Seeing the tea, Lu Yu felt a bitterness in his heart. Recalling the appearance of his master Ma Yuefeng, he couldn't help but sigh. He didn't know if he would ever see him again.
The Hehuan Demon Sect was like a bubble in the sea, so far out of reach. Just when he saw the girl in green shirt standing in front of the door, he actually had a hallucination, as if the figure of the senior sister overlapped with it, but after he came back to his senses, he realized that,
How ridiculous he was. After laughing at himself, Lu Yu picked up the teacup.
Smelling the strong aroma of tea, his tense nerves for the past few days relaxed, and he gratefully said to the old man: "Thank you, senior, for the treat." After saying that, he drank the tea in the bowl. After the hot tea entered his mouth, Lu Yu
He felt sweet and bitter, but the moment he entered his stomach, he felt sweet again. He smacked his lips and whispered to himself: "Good tea..."
The old man had been expressionless before. Now when he heard Lu Yu accidentally say the word "good tea", he immediately said loudly with a smile on his face: "Little brother, I don't have the ability to make tea, but this is..."
"Grandpa!" The girl in green shirt rolled her eyes at the old man, interrupted his boasting, and pouted.
"Oh! I almost forgot about business... Look at my memory..." The old man put away his little face, took a deep breath, and slowly talked about the Zhang Family Courtyard.
An hour later, Lu Yu took the house deed and walked out of Zhang's courtyard with a puzzled look on his face.
Chapter completed!