The Ming Dynasty took an unconventional approach

Chapter 399 Entering Beijing
Wang Cong did not look for an inn, but took them through the streets and alleys, going all the way from the south of the city to the east.

Pan Jun drew aside the curtain and her eyebrows jumped.

This place looks familiar.

She thought about it and remembered that she seemed to have run past this area when she was running away.

The bustling streets were left behind, the bluestone road began to narrow, and the number of pedestrians on the road decreased. Everyone moved from the urban area to the neighborhood.

There are houses on both sides, and the doors are not big, just enough for a carriage to enter and exit.

Miaozhen and Miaohe curiously poked their heads out to look, and Hongyan also squeezed her head out to look and said directly, "Someone is secretly watching us."

Pan Yun said: "That's the person in the room."

She said, "This area is mostly low-rent housing, which is a concession given by the court to officials in the capital. They can rent houses in the capital at a lower price. Therefore, there are few strangers in this area. If one appears, everyone likes to hide behind the door and watch."

She paused and said, "When I was a kid, I also liked to hide behind the door and watch people."

Miaohe: "Why can't you just watch it openly?"

"Because it's very tiring to look around openly, you have to say hello when you open the door, and if you meet someone who's talkative, they'll ask you about the situation in the residential area, and then they'll give you gifts, and if you give gifts you have to give gifts in return, and if you give gifts in return, you'll have a deeper relationship."

"So in order to prevent this kind of situation, we usually don't look openly, but look at people directly through the crack in the door."

Tao Yanbai: "...So that's how people in Beijing think. No wonder the last time I came here, those people made eye contact with me through the crack in the door and turned and ran away."

Pan Yun sighed sadly, "I can't help it. My family is poor, so I can only be so frugal."

Pan Yun's home is two streets away from here, and neither is an official low-rent housing. She spends more money on rent every month, and becomes poorer.

There is no way, the salary set by Mr. Zhu is really too low.

A considerable number of officials do not just live on their salaries, but a considerable number of officials, adhering to their ideals and morals, live on their salaries only;
The rest have no choice but to rely on their salaries.

So the rich officials are truly rich, but the poor officials are also truly poor.

Her father's situation is better because he has a younger brother who can make money and he relies on his brother for support.

The carriage stopped in front of a house. Wang Cong jumped out of the carriage, looked back and said, "We're here, get off."

Wang Cong knocked on the door twice, and after a while he heard footsteps running towards him.

The door opened, revealing a round face.

Feng Yan stuck his head out and saw that it was Wang Cong. He immediately opened the door and jumped out excitedly, "Big Brother, you are finally here!"

Wang Cong pointed to the back and said, "Master Junior is here too, go and greet him."

Feng Yan ran over, knelt down and kowtowed to Pan Yun.

Pan Yun was startled and lifted him up, "Why are you kneeling down? We Taoists don't care about this."

Feng Yan smiled flatteringly and said, "I am very excited. The master has been saying for a few days that my uncle and brothers are coming and asked me to wait at the city gate. I went there every day, but I waited for several days but they didn't come."

"The master said that if you waited for a long time, it would come, so he told me not to go and wait at home. I didn't expect that my uncle and my brothers and sisters would come after only two days of waiting."

Tao Yanbai and he removed the threshold together and asked, "Where is the second brother?"

"Second Senior Brother is accompanying the Master and is also in the palace."

Several people pulled both cars into the yard, and half of the small yard was instantly occupied.

This is a courtyard with front and back gardens, but there is a back room that faces the garden directly and people can live there.

The house is not big, but it has everything. There is not only a well, but also a small pond for growing lotus.

The most amazing thing is that the whole house, including the front and back yards, has waterways dug to allow the water in the pool to flow out and circulate back.

Pan Jun stood in the corridor, looking at the layout of the garden and listening to the gurgling sound of water. He couldn't help but exclaimed, "This is..."

"Yes, this is the Eight Diagrams," Feng Yan introduced, "This house was specially arranged by the master. Wise people like water, and water also attracts wealth. The master used the terrain to circulate water, and used water and earth and wood to form the Eight Diagrams, so that the five elements complement and restrain each other."

Pan Yun asked: "How much does it cost to rent this house?"

Feng Yan: "This is a low-rent house, the monthly price is 800 coins. After the master was promoted, the government said that they would rent a bigger house for the master. A house with two entrances only costs one tael a month, and it also has a garden, but the master refused and insisted on living here."

"This house was carefully decorated by the master, how could he give it up?"

Pan Yun: "It's better to rent an official house. You can decorate it however you want. Unless you are dismissed from office, you can rent this house forever."

Feng Yan was obviously very familiar with this. He raised his hand and flattered Lan Tian, ​​"This is the grace of Emperor Taizu Gao."

Wang Cong called him, "Stop talking nonsense, no one can hear you here, come and help me move the people."

"Move someone?" Feng Yan stepped forward confusedly, "Move who?"

When the curtain was drawn aside, Feng Yan met the eyes of an old man with a white beard.

He was slightly stunned, but he did not slow down. He quickly stepped forward and helped Wang Cong move the person down, and asked, "Who is this person and where should he be placed?"

He cleaned three rooms, and there were only three guest rooms in the house.

The original plan was to have Junior Uncle in one room, Miao Zhen Miao and two sisters in one room, and the eldest and third brothers in one room. The extra people...

Feng Yan's forehead was sweating a little, and he said quickly: "I'll go clean up the small study in the back room."

Wang Cong said, "No need to rush. Hero Hu will live in the same room with us."

Hu Jing: "I don't want to live in the same room with you."

Wang Cong asked: "Can Mr. Hu apply the medicine himself now?"

Hu Jing said nothing. Pan Yun and the others also took their luggage and ignored Hu Jing who was being carried. "Hongyan, you and Xiaohong will live in the same room with me."

Hongyan: "I don't want to live in the same room with you. I want to live in the same room with Miaozhenmiao."

Even Xiaohong emerged from the golden hairpin and revealed her figure, saying, "I don't want to live with you either."

Pan Yun pretended to hold her heart, "Why are you avoiding me like a snake or scorpion?"

Hongyan and Xiaohong looked at her accusingly.

Hongyan said: "Although you have restrained yourself, the smell of your merits and virtues is very tempting. I wanted to bite you many times."

Xiao Hong: "I'm different. I feel uncomfortable when I see you and I just want to stay away from you."

Pan Jun understood, put down her hand, and carried Pan Xiaohei to her room, "Then the four of you can live together. Anyway, if one of you doesn't sleep on the bed, one can just hang on the beam, and it won't take up much space."

Miao Zhen Miao He had no objection, but had one request, "Xiao Hong, you can't swing on the beam with your neck. We'll be startled when we wake up at night."

Xiaohong agreed.

Two people, a fox and a ghost, also went into the house.

Wang Cong then looked at Feng Yan, who was trembling all over, and said, "Feng Yan, Hero Hu is about to fall."

As soon as he finished speaking, Feng Yan's hand trembled, and Hero Hu fell to the ground with his legs, and he couldn't help but scream.

Hu Jing was reapplied with medicine, and the makeup on his face and hair was washed off. By the time everything was done, half an hour had passed. He lay on the bed with a look of despair on his face. "If every time I change my appearance it's like this, I'd rather not change my appearance."

Wang Cong was packing up his things on the side, and said expressionlessly: "Just be content. You just need to lie down, and we are the ones who do the work. What's there to be dissatisfied about?"

Hu Jing remained silent.

Before Feng Yan could come back to his senses, Tao Yanbai passed by him and paused, "Big Brother, do you want to give him an injection? Or prescribe him a tranquilizer."

Wang Cong turned his head to look at Feng Yan, and snapped his fingers in front of him, "Come back to your senses!"

Then he used his energy to touch his forehead and said, "Focus!"

Feng Yan came back to his senses, and then he felt a little scared, "Big Brother, just now, what happened was..."

"A ghost friend, don't be afraid."

Feng Yan: "Can ghosts be friends?"

"She is conscious and has never done anything bad. She is almost the same as when she was alive, except that she has no body. So you can treat her as a human being instead of a ghost."

Hu Jing on the bed snorted coldly when he heard this.

Only God knows how trembling his heart was when Pan Jun pulled Xiaohong in front of him and solemnly introduced each other's identities to him.

However, he did not show it.

As a famous bounty hunter, what kind of monsters has he not seen?

He is not afraid of the most evil criminal in the world, so how could he be afraid of a mere female ghost?

Hu Jing kept persuading himself like this, and along the way he started to like Xiaohong more.

Feng Yan obviously didn't have that kind of concentration. Even though Wang Cong helped him to concentrate, he was still a little dazed and his steps were unsteady when he walked out.

There are only three people in Yin Song's family, Yin Song, his second apprentice Yin Qingjun, and the servant Feng Yan. There is not even a kitchen helper, so they have to buy groceries and cook by themselves.

No matter how the food tastes, at least it's edible and won't starve you to death.

Wang Cong did not consider himself a guest. After walking around the kitchen, he asked Feng Yan to buy vegetables, and then they cooked their own meals.

When Yin Song and Yin Qingjun came back from the palace, before they even entered the house, they could smell the familiar spicy aroma in the air in the alley, and immediately said, "Cong'er and the others are finally here, let's go."

Yin Qingjun couldn't help but quicken his pace.

As they entered the room, the aroma became even stronger, and the master and disciple went straight to the kitchen.

Wang Cong is frying minced meat.

He fried the minced meat with dogwood fruit and shredded ginger. He said, "I brought rice noodles. I'll steam them into noodles tonight and cut them into noodles with the minced meat for breakfast tomorrow morning."

"Okay, okay," Yin Song walked quickly into the kitchen, his eyes sparkling, "I haven't eaten the fried rice noodles at home for a long time."

As soon as Yin Song and Yin Qingjun came back, the kitchen immediately became lively and everyone greeted each other in a chaotic manner.

"Second senior brother!"

"Little junior sister!"

"Second uncle."

"Master!"

"Hello, ladies..."

Yin Song's smiling face froze when he saw Hongyan and Xiaohong, and his bent waist made a click and he couldn't straighten up.

Pan Yun sighed and said, "Second Brother, your Kung Fu is not good enough. You haven't practiced it to the fullest."

Yin Song sprained his waist, and the half-fried minced meat that Wang Cong had just finished was finally handed over to Xiaohong, and everyone went to help Yin Song straighten his bones.

　good night

　　(End of this chapter)