"Okay, let's take this price. Can you calculate how much silver it will cost in total?" Li Yun answered readily.
"Master, Madam, Miss, the total is sixty-six thousand taels." Wei Yazi took out a small abacus and snapped the beads.
The shop near the Imperial College costs 2,800 taels each, and the other two cost 2,500 taels each, totaling exactly 66,000 taels.
Li Yun took out a stack of silver bills from his sleeve, each with a face value of one thousand taels, and counted out sixty-six of them to Wei Yazi.
"An Yi, follow Wei Yazi to the Jingzhao prefect and get the house deed for registration." Li Yun said to An Yi.
"Yes, master." An Yi followed Wei Yazi.
Li Yun took his family to look at their new home in the courtyard. The first thing they saw was a large living room, probably used to entertain guests, with a dining room and a large kitchen next to it. There were also six empty rooms, probably for the servants.
The second, third, fourth and fifth courtyards are the same. There are the main room, east and west wing rooms respectively. The small bridge and flowing water are located in a large open space between the second and third courtyards. There is a large open space there, where a large pond is dug and a small bridge is built on it. A small pavilion is built in the middle of the pond. There is a stone platform and stone oranges in the pavilion, which is for the master to rest and entertain.
Li Yun and Qin Lanlan liked it at first sight. After everyone discussed it, Chen Mo and his wife and Chen Mei and her daughter lived in the second courtyard, Li Yun and Dabao and his two siblings lived in the third courtyard, the fourth courtyard was used as a guest room, and the fifth courtyard was for the servants.
Li Yun thought that such a big yard needed someone to clean it, so she decided to buy some servants.
The family walked to the dental market and went into a dental shop that sold people.
"Master, Madam, Young Madam, who do you want to buy?" Huang Yazi saw guests coming in and asked Chen Mo and his wife and Li Yun enthusiastically.
"Bring all your people here, and we'll pick out the suitable ones. If there are any, we'll buy them. We'll buy some from every industry that has suitable ones." Li Yun said to Huang Yazi.
"Okay, sir, madam, please wait a moment." Huang Yazi asked someone to serve tea and went to the backyard to bring the person over.
He brought a total of 150 people. Li Yun used Doraemon to scan all 150 people and found 53 of them who were honest and had no ulterior motives. Li Yun decided to buy these people.
Li Yun pulled out those who could buy one by one and said to Huang Yazi.
"I want these. Calculate the total amount of silver. I want to buy them. Remember to give me a discount." Li Yun said to Huang Yazi.
"Don't worry, young madam. I will definitely give you the lowest discount. Except for the guards who get 100 taels, the housekeeper and the shopkeeper get 50 taels, and the rest get 5 taels each." Huang Yazi explained the prices of those people one by one.
"Okay, based on this price, calculate how much silver they want in total?" Li Yun asked Huang Yazi.
Two guards, three shopkeepers, two housekeepers, three coachmen, five carpenters, three blacksmiths, five cooks, five embroiderers, ten maids, ten servants, and five children.
"Just give me six hundred and eighty taels." Huang Yazi calculated the price with an abacus and told Li Yun.
Li Yun gave Huang Yazi seven silver notes of one hundred taels each, took the indenture contract, and asked them to go back and pack their luggage.
Li Yun asked her servants to pack her luggage and asked three coachmen to follow her to buy a carriage across the street.
Doraemon picked out five good horses for Li Yun, one of which was a war horse that had been injured in the battle and could no longer fight on the battlefield, so it was sent back to be sold. In addition, he bought four good young horses for Dabao and his friends to train as horses.
After harnessing the carriage, he led the carriage back to the brokerage firm where he bought the woman.
"Mom, these foals are so cute. What did you buy them for?" Erbao asked Li Yun while caressing a brown foal lovingly.
"Erbao, these four horses are bought for you. Mommy wants you three siblings and Xiaohua to learn horse riding. Are you happy?" Li Yun saw that Erbao was obsessed with horses, and she felt relieved. As long as they wanted to learn, they could learn.
"Mom, these horses are for us. Can I pick this one?" Sanbao happily touched a red pony, which was probably not even one year old.
"Of course, the remaining reddish brown color belongs to Xiaohua. Are you happy, Xiaohua?" Li Yun asked Xiaohua.
"I'm happy. Xiaohua likes it very much. Thank you, auntie!" Xiaohua happily ran over and imitated Sanbao to stroke her foal.
"Erbao, which one do you choose?" Li Yun asked Erbao.
"Mom, I choose the one in my hand." Erbao pointed at the foal in his hand and said to Li Yun.
"Okay, the remaining one belongs to Dabao. Do you like it, Dabao?" Li Yun asked Dabao while looking at the remaining black pony.
"Mom, Dabao likes it." Dabao also stepped forward and touched his black pony.
"As long as you like, we will go back to the yard, settle them down, and then go back to Prince Jin's Mansion and move in tomorrow morning." Li Yun said to everyone.
"We'll all listen to Yun'er (Mom)." said Chen Mo and his wife and Dabao and his two siblings.
Li Yun took her family and servants to the yard she bought, and An Yi happened to come back.
"An Yi, please make another trip to take the indenture contract to the Jingzhao prefect to file it, and then go directly back to the Prince of Jin's Mansion." Li Yun took the house deed and put it into his sleeve, which was actually putting it into the space, and then handed the stack of indenture contracts to An Yi.
"Yes, master." An Yi took the indenture contract and went to the Jingzhao prefect.
Li Yun placed the people in the fifth courtyard and then took his family back to Prince Jin's Mansion.
As soon as Li Yun left, Shangguan Feiyun got angry.
"Sun Xiaofang, it's you who caused Yun'er to misunderstand me and ignored me. You will pay the price for your actions. Starting tomorrow, your whole family will be confiscated and exiled a thousand miles away. This is a lesson for you." Shangguan Feiyun vented his anger on Sun Xiaofang's family.
"Master, you can't treat me like this. I really like you." Sun Xiaofang was in so much pain that her voice barely rang.
"Ma Youcai, Prince Ouyang, I order you to send them back to the mansion and let Lord Sun discipline them well." Shangguan Feiyun said to Ma Youcai and Ouyang Mingxuan.
"Your humble servant obeys your order!" Ma Youcai and Ouyang Mingxuan asked the waiter to come in and escort Sun Xiaofang and others out. Only Shangguan Feiyun was left in the side room.
Looking at the empty box, Shangguan Feiyun returned to Prince Jin's Mansion.
"Prince, you're back!" Butler Yang saw Prince Jin running back to the palace in a panic, not knowing what had happened.
"Uncle Yang, have the old man and the others returned?" Shangguan Feiyun asked the housekeeper Uncle Yang.
"Your Highness, the old man and his family haven't returned yet." Didn't the prince go out with the old man and his family? Why is only the prince back and not the old man and his family? Did something big happen?
"Uncle Yang, go and notify the Yashi in the capital that the courtyard cannot be sold to the old man and his family." Shangguan Feiyun ordered Butler Yang to stop the Yashi from buying the courtyard to Chen Mo. He would not let them move out of Prince Jin's Mansion.
Shangguan Feiyun didn't know that Li Yun was already buying a shop and would buy a yard later so that they could move out of Prince Jin's Mansion tomorrow.
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