After Nuan Nuan and Wen Jiarui got the banknotes, they went directly to the latrine, took off their makeup, changed their clothes, and left one after another.
Wen Jiarui left first through the back door.
When Nuan Nuan walked through the front door, she saw Xu Tingzhi waiting under the elm tree, so she turned around and changed her route.
Xu Tingzhi waited for a long time but no one came out. When he walked into the auction house and asked, he found out that the two people had already collected the banknotes and left.
He was annoyed!
I secretly hated myself for being careless, and the two of them had disguised themselves, so naturally they didn’t want anyone to recognize them!
The little apprentice is so cunning, but he will definitely find them!
At the registration office, he saw the auction document signed with Wen, and then pressed a fingerprint.
Just know his surname is Wen.
Xu Tingzhi hurriedly got on the carriage and left.
Two hours later, Lushan Academy.
A carriage stopped at the back gate of the academy.
An old man staggered out of the carriage and walked inside.
He hurried to a secluded courtyard in the backyard of the academy and found Lin Honghao.
Regardless of being out of breath and sweating profusely, he said happily:
"Mr. Lin, I found my apprentice!"
Lin Honghao was reading a book. Hearing this, he put down his book and looked up at his extremely excited old friend: "Oh, who is it?"
"I don't know, but I know that girl's surname is Wen!"
The surname Wen is not a common surname in Ningyuan County. He should be from Wenjia Village in Shengping Town!
Even if we search the entire Wenjia Village, we still have to find her.
"The apprentice you found is a woman, and her surname is Wen?"
"Yes, that girl has already shown great talent for painting at a young age. Her painting skills are amazing!"
It was almost time, and Master Guo took a few students' policy papers and planned to ask Lin Honghao to correct them. He guessed that Master Xu was back. As he approached the room, he happened to hear the conversation between the two.
Today Wen Yu went to the auction house to auction, the purpose was to gain Master Xu's appreciation and let him take him as his disciple.
Unexpectedly, it was really successful!
He was overjoyed and quickly turned around to leave, telling Wen Liang the good news.
In the house
Mr. Lin was curious after hearing this: "How talented is he?"
"How does this painting look?" Xu Tingzhi did not answer his words and carefully opened the painting he took.
Lin Honghao took one look and sat up straight. He opened his eyes as wide as they could be. He leaned his head down and watched carefully. After a long while, he sighed: "Mr. Xu, I didn't expect you to step on it." Now that you're in the coffin, your painting skills can actually improve. I thought you could only paint flowers and birds!"
Sure enough, there is no end to learning!
Mr. Xu: "... ... ..."
After a while, Mr. Xu was so angry that he blew his beard and glared at Mr. Lin, who was still admiring the painting, and shouted: "This is a painting painted by my apprentice!"
Lin Honghao looked at the painting and then looked at him, and asked suspiciously: "Mr. Xu, are you looking for a master or an apprentice?"
Xu Tingzhi: "..."
Break off! ! !
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Having said that, the county
Wen Yu and Zhu Zhenxuan chased out and stopped the righteous old man, but found that they had made an mistake. He was not Master Xu at all, but an art dealer who specialized in selling paintings.
The two of them hurried to the auction house again, but unexpectedly they almost bumped into Nuan Nuan.
Wen Nuan reacted quickly and dodged.
Wen Yu originally wanted to apologize, but seeing that it was Nuan Nuan, she stopped apologizing. She looked at Nuan Nuan up and down, and said with a surprised look on her face: "Sister Nuan, you are also here in the county? Could it be because you heard Nuan Nuan during dinner that day? I said that Brother Zhenxuan and I would come to the county auction, so you came here specially because you wanted to meet Brother Zhenxuan, right?"
Zhu Zhenxuan frowned when he heard what Zi said. How dare this person have undue thoughts about him? His face darkened: "We have broken off the engagement, don't even think about pestering me!"
Nuan Nuan rolled his eyes and really wanted Da Hui to pee and take a picture of him!
She didn't bother to say a word to the two of them, and walked directly around them to leave.
Zhu Zhenxuan was angered by Nuan Nuan's arrogant and arrogant attitude: "Hey, you said this person is too uneducated! Why are you ignoring people
Wen Yu pulled his sleeve and said softly: "Brother Zhenxuan, don't be angry. She is probably playing hard to get?"
Play hard to get? After hearing this, Zhu Zhenxuan thought so!
It seems that when I go back, I have to ask my mother to go to Wen Yu's house to propose marriage as soon as possible.
He felt horrified when he thought that the plague god wanted to haunt him again.
"Yu'er, let's go find Master Xu quickly!"
"Okay!" The two of them ran into the auction to inquire about the information, but returned without success. No one revealed to them who was Master Xu at the auction.
When I asked those at the auction, they even said they didn’t know if Master Xu was here!
It’s really infuriating!
Can't get any information at all.
Zhu Zhenxuan saw her look of disappointment, so he took her to the largest jewelry shop in the county, picked out a pair of exquisite headdresses for her, and then took her to Tianxiang Tower to eat the most famous braised pigeon, and put his painting All the one hundred taels of silver earned were spent.
Wen Yu finally had a smile on his face, and the two returned to town happily.
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Warmth here.
Nuan Nuan walked to the city gate to meet Wen Jiarui.
Wen Jiarui also brought the bullock cart into the city this time to facilitate Nuan Nuan's shopping.
Wen Jiarui took Nuan Nuan to the county government office in an ox cart.
Nuan Nuan inquired about the price of the mountain range, and the response was that the mountain range cost thirty thousand taels.
Thirty thousand taels, and my entire net worth is only more than 3,000 taels, which is ten times the difference!
You still have to work hard to make money!
If you don’t have enough money to buy the jade mine, you can buy the wasteland first and earn money by growing medicinal materials after spring.
Nuan Nuan asked about the wasteland again and found that the rest of the wasteland had been bought.
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The two of them left the Yamen in despair.
Wen Jiarui regretted it very much: "No one has bought that wasteland all these years, so why was it suddenly bought? If I had known, I would have bought a few more acres that day."
Nuan Nuan was also a little disappointed with this. She had already planned the entire wasteland.
But it was a fait accompli and there was no way around it. She shook her head: "Forget it, there wasn't that much money at that time. Let's go to the dental shop to see if there are any fields and shops for sale!"
She wants to buy a shop, open a workshop and make money as soon as possible! The goal is thirty thousand taels!
"Okay." Wen Jiarui nodded.
According to Nalan State-owned laws and regulations, all unowned wastelands and hills in the world are sold to the people by the local government.
With the right to use it, as long as you pay taxes every year according to the court regulations, the land can be used for a lifetime or even passed down from generation to generation.
However, some people don't like to deal with people from the yamen, but go to the tooth shop to find a middleman to buy them.
But for large tracts of land, it is more cost-effective to go to the yamen and buy it directly, charging only the cost of construction.
The tooth shop had to pay a commission to the tooth merchant. Commissions in this dynasty were expensive, and they took 10% to 20% of the transaction price. Just look at her painting and you will know the direct commission of 700 taels.
But there are no shops for sale in the yamen. It is all wasteland and ownerless hills.
Therefore, generally speaking, people buy and sell land privately, and shops trade in Yahang.
The two of them left the Yamen and went to the dental shop via another route.
Ouyang Huaian was walking out of it when he saw a familiar figure leaving. He paused to make sure he saw it correctly. Then he walked over and asked the subordinates at the Yamen: "What did the father and daughter do here just now?"
The official didn't expect that the county magistrate would ask about this. He was stunned for a moment and said hurriedly: "They are here to buy wasteland and hills."
"Oh? Did you buy it? Which wastelands and hills did you buy?" Ouyang Huaian asked casually.
"They didn't buy it. What they wanted to buy was..."
Ouyang Huaian's expression was a little unclear after hearing this. She actually wanted to buy some wasteland and that mountain
"Does your Excellency know those two people?"
"Oh, last time the waiter from Zhenbao Pavilion was looking for someone to rob them, they were the two of them, and I happened to meet them." Ouyang Huaian said and left.
After Ouyang Huaian left, the county magistrate came over and asked, "What did your Excellency just ask you?"
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