Nongmen Rice Flower Fragrance

Chapter 26 Buying a House
The owner of the house took Li Xin and his brother to the first place to have a look, and then went back.The small door leading to the second courtyard is between the main room and the kitchen, and it looks a bit hidden. After passing through the small door, it suddenly opened up again.

The area of ​​the second courtyard was larger than the first one. After entering, Li Xin's eyes were immediately attracted by the large lotus.The large lotus leaves are like jasper, just looking at it like this, it seems that the jasper is overwhelming, and the hot weather seems to bring a little bit of coolness.Among the large lotus leaves, lotus flowers are vying to poke their heads out. There are flower bones like standing arrows, and some are in full bloom. You can see the lotus pod and golden stamens in the center, and some are budding. The petals are full of petals, trembling, as if another gust of wind will bloom in an instant.

The fields of lotus leaves are as green as blue, and the lotus flowers are as beautiful as brocade, which is so beautiful.Although they are just ordinary single-petal lotus flowers, such a large area is enough to shock people.Among them, there are three colors of lotus flowers, some are as white as jade, some are pink and delicate, and some are deep red, shining in the sun.

The lotus flower is very high, almost higher than all the lotus leaves. At first glance, it looks like countless lotus lanterns raised high in the lotus leaves, which is amazingly beautiful.

I don’t know where the clear spring water comes from. It is connected with the bamboo joints and poured into the pond. The bamboo joints fall gently with the water from time to time. .Opposite the lotus pond is a small two-story building with three rooms downstairs and downstairs.Open the window and face the lotus pond. I think it must be a good mood to live here.On the edge of the pond, stones are piled up for landscaping, and a few orchids are planted among the rocks. The orchid leaves are green and graceful, like a hermit in the mountains.

There is a row of walls around it, and arched shelves are built on the sides of the walls, and a circle of vines are planted on the sides of the shelves, and the vines climb up the shelves, covering the whole shelf.The branches and leaves are luxuriant. Although it is not the flowering period, I feel that the scenery is far away. If it is the flowering period, the shelves full of vines are blooming, and the large clusters of vines are hanging down. It must be like a waterfall!

There is also a long bench built with a wide bluestone slab under the flower stand, where you can sit and rest under the flower stand.Entering the door, the flower stand extends to both sides like a verandah, bypasses the lotus pond and closes on both sides, ending on both sides of the small building.A group of people walked under the flower stand, and when they reached the end, there was a small building.

Li Xin went in and took a good look. The house was very clean, and the owner must have taken good care of it, so nothing was damaged, even the walls were clean.After looking around, Li Xin was very satisfied, and after taking a look at Wen Bo and Wen Hao, she also seemed to like it.

Li Xin also asked shopkeeper Sun to help negotiate with the owner.After some final talking, Li Xin won the house with 120 taels of silver.The price is also considered reasonable, the size of the house is not small, and the scenery is also very good.However, in a small town like Sanshi Town, it's not cheap.After all, ordinary people can't easily come up with so much money.

After the agreement is made, it is the matter of the contract, and when you go to the Yamen to handle it, you have to pay the deed tax, the deed paper money, the money from Zhu Motou, and the like.All these expenses need to be borne by the buyer, and Li Xin spent another sum of money.The deed tax in this era is [-]%, which is common throughout the country, that is, Li Xin has to pay the deed tax of two taels of silver to the yamen, and then some miscellaneous taxes go out for two taels of silver.

When leaving the yamen, Li Xin let out a long sigh.It is really not easy to buy a house in this era. If possible, I would rather build it myself.Not to mention the cost of buying a house, you have to peel off layers of skin just to enter the yamen once.Originally, buying a house requires a lot of money, and there are so many deed taxes and miscellaneous taxes. The people who buy a house are really burdened.I heard that even renting a house requires a deed tax. Living in this era is not easy!
But she is still very happy after buying the house, and she likes the house very much.After buying the house, he had to worry about Wenbo Wenhao's going to school again.Li Xin only found out after asking shopkeeper Sun that there was only one academy in the town, which was small in scale and not many students.There are two gentlemen in the academy, one is the elderly Mr. Xu, who is already over 50 years old. He heard that he has been selected as a scholar for many years. Later, he failed to pass the examination for many times, so he opened in Sanshi Town. This academy.

There is also a young Mr. Zhou. It is said that he is only 17 years old. He was a scholar in the middle of last year. If you become a teacher in the academy, you have to wait until next year to take the provincial examination.

I came to the town today because of the house, and I was not in a hurry to learn from the teacher.After coming out of the yamen, it was getting late, so shopkeeper Sun asked Li Xin and his brother to go to Pinxiang Pavilion for dinner.After eating, Li Xin took Wenbo Wenhao to the street for a walk, bought some things and took them back to Osmanthus Village.

Although the house in the town has been bought, it will take a few days for the previous owner to move, so Wen Bo and Wen Hao cannot live in it for the time being.Li Xin thought, let Wen Bo and Wen Hao live in the town after the family moved out, and then go to the academy.

Back home, Wen Hao vividly told Yue Xiang and Yue Ting about the scene in the newly bought house.The two of them were very happy when they heard that they had bought a new house in the town.Living in the town has always been a great thing for the people in the village.Many people in the town will feel superior, and many will look down on the people in the village.

That is to say dear, generally people in the town will not look for people in the village, everyone will feel that the family is not right.It would be very enviable if a daughter from a family in the village could marry into the town.

So when she heard that her family had also bought a house in the town, Yuexiang was very shocked, surprised and happy at the same time, as if she was about to shed tears.I am much happier than when my family built a new house.Li Xin looked at her reaction, feeling a little indescribable in her heart.

It's just that being able to live in a small town like Sanshi Town seems to be a big deal for the younger siblings.Maybe she should work harder, so that her younger siblings can go to farther places in the future and gain more knowledge.Although the life in the country is not bad, she still wants to give her younger siblings a better future, at least she must have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of her life!

In the previous life, it was because she had no goals, so she didn't like to fight, and her later life was even more muddled and mediocre.In this life, since she has a family that is worth cherishing, she has to work hard and strive for it, hoping to make her younger brothers and sisters live better.

(End of this chapter)