Chapter 159: Meeting the Teacher for the First Time (1)
If you plant flowers and flowers, you will not bloom, and if you plant willows and willows, you will find a shade. This sentence really has some seals when looking for a house. In the afternoon, an unexpected guest came to successfully solve this problem for Li Yanqing.
"Why didn't you say it earlier?"
When the fat man Zheng Rongtai heard that Li Yanqing could not find the house, he immediately shouted, "You told me a long time ago that there was no problem. Near Xinqiao, two and a half acres of land, seven rooms, do you want it?"
“Do you have a listing recommendation?”
Originally a little listless, Li Yanqing was immediately excited when he heard this sentence, and he was still near Xinqiao.
Fatty Zheng was extremely proud, "My father bought me a house in the capital ten years ago and was ready to get married for me in the future. Anyway, he was locked up there and let your father move in."
"When are you going to get married?"
"It's still early, at least five or six years later. Let's consider it after I've had enough fun!"
Li Yanqing still felt that it was inappropriate. If Fatty Zheng’s father refused to agree and was kicked out just after he moved in, wouldn’t he lose all his face? And... he owed this kid’s favor, it would be difficult to repay it in the future.
Fatty Zheng saw Li Yanqing's concerns and said a little unhappy: "I'm kind-hearted. Do you think I'm harming you?"
Speaking of this, Li Yanqing was embarrassed to refuse again. He smiled and said, "If I lived there, I wouldn't give you a penny, but if I were to live there, I wouldn't give you a penny, but for my father, he is a very serious person. He wouldn't live there without a contract. This way! I'll rent your house at the market price, which costs ten yuan a month and has a lease term of three years. How about it?"
"Ten slogans are too many, just five slogans a month!"
"How can this work? I can't let you suffer this loss."
Fatty Zheng looked at both sides and lowered his voice, "Old Li, I won't hide it from you now. My family relies on the wealth of buying and selling houses. My family has at least twenty houses in Bianjing. They earn nearly a thousand guan every month. My uncle is in the spice business in Quanzhou. He is one of the best spice merchants in the Song Dynasty. He has a lot of money every day. He has no children. My family must inherit the property. On the surface, the Zheng family is a gentry in Anyang, but there are only a few acres of fertile land than others. But in fact, our Zheng family is a wealthy man in the world. Otherwise, how could the prince sign his sister as a concubine? He is attracted by the wealth of the Zheng family."
After pausing for a while, Fatty Zheng instructed Li Yanqing again: "This is the biggest secret of our Zheng family. Even the Xiangzhou government doesn't know. I will only tell you one person, even Gao Yanei and others don't know. Don't spread it to me."
Li Yanqing really couldn't tell that Fatty Zheng was worth billions. Looking at Zheng Rongtai's serious face, Li Yanqing was a little surprised. Fatty Zheng actually told him the secret of the family.
Li Yanqing smiled and patted his shoulder, "Don't worry! I'm very silly, for example, I didn't see anything you did during the trial."
Zheng Rongtai grinned, "I knew you must have seen it, but it was nothing. Since elementary school, I didn't cheat in any exams. Anyway, I don't want to be an official, entertain myself, and people and animals are harmless!"
"Let's go! Go to Zhouxiwazi, I'll invite you to drink."
Zheng Rongtai curled his lips, "What good things are there in the broken places like Zhouxiwazi? Brother, please go to the Alum Tower to have a drink, so you can open your eyes."
If the tile house is a place for entertainment for ordinary people in Bianjing, then the alum tower is synonymous with the highest and highest in Bianjing. The guests entering and leaving the alum tower are either rich or noble. There are the best wine and dishes in the world, the most beautiful women in the world, and the most luxurious enjoyment. Even the emperor would come to have a secret drink.
The Alum Tower is located on the Imperial Street in Neicheng. It is surrounded by high walls and is a one-meter-high white jade foundation stone. Five three-story buildings are built on it. The flying bridge railings are connected by light and dark, with high and low undulating, with staggered eaves and corners. There are countless bead curtains and embroidered foreheads, making it look extremely magnificent.
Especially at night, more than a thousand pearl lamps on the alum building are lit together, and the candles shine brightly, making the city shine brightly, forming a grand scene at night in Tokyo.
Li Yanqing arrived at the gate of the Alum Tower in Zheng Rongtai's wide carriage. Two gorgeously dressed waiters stepped forward and opened the door for them. They knew Zheng Rongtai and did not dare to neglect them, so they quickly helped him up the steps.
"Old Li follows me, this alum building is not that easy to enter."
Li Yanqing was wearing a simple dress. He wore a light white fine linen shirt, a green scarf on his head and a horn-stringed waistband. Although he was not a soap shirt and gauze hat worn by the lower class, he was a typical scholar's dress, but because the texture was not silk, he was easily mistaken for a poor scholar.
A cloak waiter on the steps wanted to go forward and interrogate, but when he heard Zheng Rongtai's words, he retreated.
After entering the yard, I walked up the 10-meter-high steps. I saw that the fairy platform was also covered with white jade, surrounded by railings. Under the fairy platform, there were lush trees. Three or five wine guests stood in front of the railings and chatted. The sound of silk and bamboo in front of the gate was pleasant. A group of beautiful dancers were dancing with long sleeves, and two singing girls sang softly to welcome the guests.
There are no ordinary restaurants here to welcome guests. As long as you enter the gate and let guests enter and exit the pavilion at will, many first-time guests will be at a loss. However, most of the first-time guests are led by regular customers, which is also an unwritten rule for the alum building.
Although there were not many guests outside, when you walked into the Alum Tower, a lively atmosphere suddenly came to you. The restaurant was extremely lively and full of guests. One by one, the beautiful girls who were urging you to drink were walking around the table in gorgeous silk skirts like swallows.
The restaurant is furnished with exquisite screens and expensive large porcelain vases everywhere. In the middle is an open garden filled with all kinds of strange flowers and plants, as well as a pond rockery. A wooden platform is built in the middle, wrapped in silk flowers. Several dancers on the stage are singing and dancing, and their singing is extremely melodious.
On the path of the garden, there were beautiful prostitutes in groups of three or two holding firefly fans in their hands, wandering among the flowers. Looking closely, there were hundreds of them, each with beautiful and graceful demeanor.
"That's the singing and dancing prostitutes, there are more than 300 people, and this is just a part of them. They will take turns to choose from you."
Fatty Zheng's face was full of ambiguity and said to Li Yanqing in a low voice: "Note the color of their skirts and fans, peach fans, round fans, banana fans, octagonal fans, plum blossom fans, and then each fan has a different skirt color. Who do you like, you can ask the beautiful prostitute to persuade the banana fans to drink. My favorite banana fans, the green silk skirt, her name is Keer, and she has been with me for bed, which is like a god."
"Can I go to bed here?" Li Yanqing looked around and didn't see the red gardenia lamp!
Fatty Zheng shook her head repeatedly, "It is absolutely not possible here. The emperor stipulated that only drink and enjoy, enjoy singing and dancing here, and that it is not allowed to do anything miserable, but it can be taken out, and it also requires others to be willing. I spent 300 taels of silver before she was willing to accompany me overnight. Alas! Fatty just has no advantage."
Li Yanqing matured earlier, he had already passed his youthful age, and his psychological age was even more vicissitudes than adults, but he had strong self-control and was far less coveted than Fatty Zheng.
Although Fatty Zheng often boasted to him that he had slept with women at the age of twelve, and so far there were no less than a hundred women, Li Yanqing just laughed it off.
“Where are we drinking?”
Li Yanqing saw that this place was too big, which made people feel a little at a loss. Fatty Zheng immediately smiled and said, "The four buildings here are free to enter and exit, you can sit wherever you want."
"How is that yellow building?"
Li Yanqing showed a light yellow jade building that was extremely elegant, and he fell in love with it at a glance, "Let's go there and sit!"
Fatty Zheng was startled and shook his head like a rattle, "It's not possible there, it's Fengyue Tower, we can't get into it."
"Why?"
“The conditions for entering are too harsh”
Zheng Rongtai suddenly stopped talking and looked at Li Yanqing up and down, as if he had known Li Yanqing for the first time. Mung Dou Xiao's eyes were filled with surprise.
"I actually forgot that today I am a reconciliation of Jie Yuanlai Alum Tower! Maybe I will benefit from your wealth, come with me!"
Zheng Rongtai didn't want others to support him, so he pulled Li Yanqing to Fengyue Tower with a full spirit. When he entered Fengyue Tower, there was a small vermilion door with a golden plaque on it, with the words "Please bow your head". It was a typical thin gold body. You can tell at a glance that it was Zhao Ji's handwriting. With this plaque of emperor standing here, no one dared to go on a voluntary and stubborn manner.
There was a little boy standing at the door, wearing a double-colored bun, with red lips and white teeth, which was particularly cute, but when he saw Zheng Rongtai, he had an unconcealed contempt flashed in his eyes.
Zheng Rongtai suddenly became a little angry, "What's wrong, can't I come?"
"Of course, Mr. Zheng wants to enter, please follow the rules!"
The little boy pointed to the study next to him, "Please!"
"Tell me first, what are the rules?" Li Yanqing asked.
Zheng Rongtai said angrily: "You have to write a poem or write a lyrics. The poet inside can only enter if he likes it. His grandmother, my friends are all experts in eating, drinking, gamblers, but no one can write a poem or a lyrics, so no one has ever been in so far. No one has ever been in! Gao Yanei has been in, followed a Grand Secretary, and after he came back, he brags about seeing Li Shishi all day long."
At this time, a group of gorgeously dressed scholars walked out of the study room and said, "I will definitely be able to go in today."
Chapter completed!