Changsheng: My experience in patrolling the liver

Chapter 21 The Mansion
After a moment, he found that the booklet was exactly as he had expected, recording in detail the methods of raising water silkworms.

Many of the detailed descriptions are based on experience and are very useful for raising water silkworms.

Song Changming closed the booklet after reading it. Regarding the method of raising water silkworms, he had two options before him.

Or you can just find a sponsor and sell this booklet at a high price.

Or you can try to tinker with the silkworm breeding project yourself according to the above method.

According to his understanding, although there are people in the Donglai County area who can raise water silkworms, they are not many and the output is quite limited.

This thing is very delicate. If you don't handle it properly, you will lose both your money and your money, so not many people try it.

He estimated that the breeding method obtained by the Qinghe Gang was probably from outsiders.

Sericulture is not popular in Donglai County, and the locals are unlikely to figure out such a detailed and unique breeding method.

Song Changming thought about it for a moment and decided to give it a try. If it didn't work, it wouldn't be too late to sell this unique breeding method.

After making up his mind, he put the booklet aside, leaving only a thin inner armor and a breastplate.

The quality of these two pieces of equipment is not very good. The reason why he chose them is purely because he can use them.

Wearing more inner armor and a breastplate for self-defense can help you be safer when fighting with others.

"After today, there will be no Qinghe Gang anymore."

Song Changming lay on the bed, reviewing several battles with others in the second half of the night, and fell into a deep sleep.

At dawn the next day, news about the demise of the Qinghe Gang quickly spread around Houli Street.

Some people sighed that another big gang had completely disappeared, while more people were celebrating and were overjoyed.

In order for the Qinghe Gang to grow bigger and stronger, it had to oppress its neighbors and seek profits.

There are too many people who wish that this group of ruffians would die out. This would definitely be a good thing for them.

Afterwards, the rumor quickly split into two versions.

Some say that the Jiuqu Society overthrew the Qinghe Gang, while others say that the government launched an operation to suppress the Qinghe Gang.

Only a few people in the city know the truth.

In Houli Street, at San Hutong, Song Changming and Lu Gang were walking inside.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier that you wanted to find a place to live in Houli Street? I know this place very well, but it's easy for me to recommend you a few decent places." Lu Gang said with a smile as he took big strides.

"I don't want to cause you any trouble." Song Changming didn't expect that Lu Gang cared so much about his affairs.

He just mentioned it, and Lu Gang took him to look at housing while patrolling the streets, not caring about the consequences of being away from his post without permission.

There were no consequences in reality.

After all, it was just a daily street patrol, not some major mission that distracted him.

"This is it." When they arrived, Lu Gang pointed at the house in front of him and said.

Song Changming looked and saw that it was a large courtyard with an entrance.

The gate of the house was open, and one could see that the stone-paved courtyard was filled with fallen leaves, as if it had not been maintained for a long time.

"Let's go in and take a look." Lu Gang took Song Changming over the threshold and into the yard.

"Originally, this place was occupied by an outside merchant. A few years ago, a great change suddenly occurred and a disaster occurred. There was no one to inherit this house, so it was taken away by the government. It has not been dealt with for a long time and no one has lived in it.

I used my connections to ask for the price a few years ago, and I could buy this house for just eighty silver coins."

Song Changming looked around and was a little surprised when he heard what Lu Gang said, "So cheap?"

This house, with its large yard filled with fallen leaves, is probably nearly 100 square meters.

Apart from the main house, there are four wing rooms on the east and west sides, not to mention the utility room and the firewood room and kitchen room side by side.

Although the brick and tile decorations everywhere are a bit old, this large residence is still located in the Houli District.

This is not a place that ordinary people can afford to live in.

Normally, such a large house, even after taking depreciation into account, would cost at least hundreds of dollars or even more to buy.

Lu Gang explained: "The location of this house is not very good, and the houses are quite old and have not been carefully maintained.

For a house like this, people who like it usually can't even afford the eighty silver coins, and people who can afford this money usually don't like it. In addition, a few years ago, after the merchant's family was ruined, this place was regarded as a haunted house and had a bad reputation. It was only in the past two years that no one talked about it. Over time, no one cared about it.

If you are also shy about this, then forget it."

"I see." Song Changming nodded. What Lu Gang said was the reason why no one bought it.

In fact, putting aside the rumors about it being a haunted house and having bad feng shui, this is indeed a spacious and good place to live, which is equivalent to finding a bargain at a very low price.

No wonder Lu Gang recommended this place, the price-performance ratio is definitely the best.

"This is the perfect place, Brother Lu." Song Changming didn't waste any time and directly decided on his new home.

It is almost impossible to find other such cheap mansions in Houli Street.

As for things like feng shui and haunted houses, they are nothing more than rumors that are becoming more and more outrageous as they spread among the people.

He had seen many such rumors while working in the city, but he didn't take them seriously.

As time goes by, the rumors will eventually dissipate, and people will only remember that the owner of this place is the Song family.

After buying the mansion, Song Changming specially invited Lu Gang to dinner to express his gratitude.

After that, he started to arrange the moving.

He had already informed his parents before this.

Song's father and mother were naturally very happy.

They could foresee that after Song Changming became a patrol guard, life at home would get better and better.

However, he did not expect that his son would be so capable and move the Song family out of Baiyi Street early, officially getting rid of the inherent label of a ruined family.

Not only that, he also moved into a big house on Houli Street, which was really a big step.

Even though the mansion was cheap, eighty silver coins was a huge sum of money that their family had never had, and could not even imagine.

The next day, Song's father got up early. When he learned that the new house was old, he took tools and went to the house to repair it.

Song Changming originally wanted to find a few craftsmen to renovate the mansion, but his father was so happy that he said he always renovated his own house, so he let him go.

A few days later, the preliminary preparations for the new home were completed and the family of three officially moved into Houli Street.

As for the original house, Song Changming only sold it for two strings of copper coins.

If it were sold in Houli Street, the price might be even higher, but in Baiyi Street, it was already considered good enough to be able to sell a few dilapidated houses.

Before leaving, Song's father and mother said goodbye to the neighbors they had lived with for many years and distributed some of their unneeded furniture and belongings.

When people heard that the Song family was going to move to Houli Street, they naturally attracted a lot of envy.

Most of them can only make a living on Baiyi Street. All they hope for every day is to have better food for two meals a day, and they dare not expect anything else.

Every year, there are occasional families who suddenly become rich and move from White Street to other districts.

In the past, they would never have thought that the Song family, which had lost two sons and was becoming increasingly impoverished, could one day prosper.

But ever since the third son of the Song family got married and Song Changming became a night watchman, the Song family suddenly started to improve.

It was not until Song Changming took a further step and became a patrol guard that the Song family finally turned around. In just two years, they achieved a reversal, changed their past decline, and showed a promising upward momentum.

The neighbors were envious and jealous about this, but also felt a little regretful. They wondered why they had not noticed that the Song family was different earlier.

In the past, they looked down on the youngest son of the Song family and never considered marrying him, marrying their daughter to him, or becoming in-laws.

Even if Song's mother had brought up this matter on her own initiative, they would always tactfully decline the offer.

Now when they talked about this again, Song's mother was the one who declined, leaving them helpless.

"Hmph, isn't it just relying on the Zhao family? What's so great about that?" After watching the Song family leave, someone in the crowd finally couldn't help but grumbled sourly.

Everyone looked at each other, but no one agreed.

They all knew that even if the Song family relied on the Zhao family to become rich, who wouldn't want to cling to them if given the chance?

Just like they want to curry favor with the Song family these days, who wouldn’t want to?

Everyone wants to live a good life, but they just don't have the opportunity.

(End of this chapter)