One hundred and two
Outside the courtyard, Wen Xing stretched her neck to look into the main hall.
When Mrs. Luo came out of the kitchen and saw her eldest daughter-in-law looking curious, she patted her on the back, which scared Wen Xing so much that she shivered suddenly.
Seeing it was her mother-in-law, she patted her chest and said, "Mother, you scared me to death."
Luo followed her gaze and looked towards the main hall, wondering, "What are you looking at? You look like a thief."
Wen Xing quickly lowered her voice and said, "I just saw Erlang holding my sister-in-law's hand and going into the house. The door closed with a click."
Luo was stunned when he heard this.
Wen Xing recalled the domineering look on Erlang's face when he dragged his sister-in-law into the house just now, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise.
Just looking at them makes you feel that they are so sweet.
Mrs. Luo glanced at the closed door thoughtfully.
What is the current situation of Erlang and Liuniang?
In the room where no one could see anything, Yu Ying's back was pressed against the door, she was leaning on Fu Wei's chest and breathing heavily, her lips were moist and her eyebrows were bright red.
Yu Ying couldn't help but think that less than a month had passed, and Fu Wei was completely different from when he was in the county seat.
At that time, Fu Wei was extremely awkward when getting close to her, but now he is so calm and skilled that it makes people blush.
Fu Wei hugged Yu Ying and apologized hoarsely, "I'm sorry, I was impolite."
Yu Ying blushed even more.
After a long time, when things calmed down, Fu Wei went out to pour hot tea.
When I walked out to the main hall, I happened to meet Mrs. Luo who was carrying hot dishes into the main hall.
Luo looked at his son inquiringly.
Seeing A Niang's inquiring eyes, Fu Wei's face showed a rare bit of unnaturalness.
Mrs. Luo didn't ask anything, she just said to her son, "Come out and wash up first, then go to rest."
Fu Wei nodded and said seriously, "I'm going to discuss something with Liu Niang. I'll be out soon after I'm done."
After saying that, he went into the house carrying tea.
Mrs. Luo watched the door close again and sighed softly.
Although Erlang is much more mature and stable than his peers, she is also an experienced person, so how could she not see the clues?
Not to mention that her lips were a little redder than before she entered the room, she could even reveal the smugness between her brows.
Without having to guess, you know how affectionate the two of them were in the house just now.
Luo naturally wanted to see her son and Liu Niang get married, but she was afraid that their lives were getting better and better.
She was afraid that one day all these good things would come to nothing.
She was even more afraid that Liu Niang would be implicated because of their family affairs.
He sighed again, not wanting his sons and daughters-in-law to see his sadness, so he hid his sorrow.
Fu Wei entered the room, closed the door, and handed the tea to Yu Ying.
Yu Ying took a sip of the liquid to moisten her throat before getting down to business: "That man will probably be able to leave the resettlement center in the next two days. When I went to see him for a follow-up consultation, he claimed to be from Shi'an County in front of the yamen runners, even telling them where he lived. He was going to Nanhai County to visit a friend. He wanted to rush back to Shi'an County to celebrate the festival, but he stopped by Yu County to rest for the night. When he was about to leave the next day, the county was sealed off. What happened next was just as you said."
Fu Wei pondered for a moment and said, "The epidemic is currently stable. The Lord allows the people to leave their homes, but not outside the jurisdiction of Yu County. Even if we send someone to investigate, it will take at least until February. It's only mid-January now, and in the next half month, they will probably just put the person in jail first."
At this point, he added: "Since he can reveal this identity, he must be one of their own. I will meet him again after he is imprisoned in the government office."
There was no need for Yu Ying to follow up on this matter, so she didn't continue the conversation. Instead, she mentioned four medical clinics, three of which wanted to recruit her as a doctor.
"The concepts of Zhengji and Liji Clinics don't align with mine, so I definitely won't go there. As for Ji's Clinic, I'm still considering it."
After hearing what she said, Fu Wei suggested, "If you want to open a clinic in the future, you can first stay at Ji's Clinic for a while."
Since Fu Wei agreed, she had nothing to worry about.
"Then wait until I return to Lingshui Village, pack up my things and move to Yu County, then go to the Ji's Clinic to discuss it with Director Luo."
Speaking of moving to Yu County, Fu Wei recalled the courtyard he had seen and said, "I've been visiting various places lately and have taken a rough look at it. Coincidentally, there's a house for rent at the entrance of East Lane for seven hundred wen a month."
Yu Ying was shocked and said, "Seven hundred wen is so expensive?!"
The place where they live now costs only two hundred wen, where else can it be so expensive as seven hundred wen?
Fu Wei said, "It's a little far from the government office, but it's made of blue bricks and black tiles. Besides the kitchen and the main hall, there are five rooms that can be lived in."
Hearing him say that, the price seems quite reasonable.
This is a mud house. The kitchen and toilet are simply built in the yard. Excluding these two houses, there are only two rooms for living and a main room.
But even if it is a good deal, Yu Ying still has concerns.
"This courtyard is affordable for you and me now, but it will be difficult for my brother and his wife."
Given the personalities of my eldest brother and his wife, they would definitely not move in for nothing, but even if it was difficult, they would still risk their lives to accompany the gentleman just because the two of them wanted to rent it.
This is indeed a problem.
Fu Wei rubbed his forehead and thought for a moment before saying, "Letting them live in peace will certainly require payment. My eldest brother will be working as a yamen runner at the beginning of next month, and his monthly salary will be three hundred coins."
Yu Ying was surprised and asked, "Brother, you want to work as a yamen runner?!"
Fu Wei nodded and briefly told her what had happened during this period.
The yamen was short of staff due to an epidemic, and Fu Wei was unable to move around easily, so after asking the county magistrate, he asked his eldest brother to accompany him in and out of the yamen.
When my eldest brother was in the yamen, he also helped with a lot of odd jobs. Because of his good physique and great strength, County Magistrate Zhou paid more attention to him.
Having heard that Fu Zhen once defeated seven people alone, he became interested and wanted to learn a few moves from him.
Although Fu Zhen was no match for Zhou Zhixian, who was a military man, Zhou Zhixian was still very satisfied with him and directly asked him to report to the yamen on February 1st.
After listening to this, Yu Ying pondered for a moment and said, "When we went to the county government earlier, we agreed that 10% of the profits from that batch of facial cream would be given to my elder brother and his wife. We also agreed that they would continue to make the facial cream in the future, and I would give them a share of the profits. That way, they would be able to afford the rent for this house."
Fu Wei nodded in agreement, and then said: "The facial cream doesn't take too much time, big brother can continue to help after his shift."
The biggest pressure on the eldest brother and his wife should be to pay her back the money.
After carefully calculating for my elder brother and sister-in-law, I pay her a little money every month, plus rent this house. Although there will be pressure, it won't be too big.
Even so, I still have to discuss with my elder brother and sister-in-law before making a decision.
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After lunch, Yu Ying, Fu Wei, and her elder brother and sister-in-law discussed moving to Yu County.
Fu Zhen also decided to work in the government office, so he would definitely have to move to Yu County.
Speaking of the death of the house, we decided to go and see it first before discussing it.
After lunch and resting for half an hour, the whole family went out.
It used to take half a minute to get to the yamen, but now it takes almost a minute, which means a round trip of nearly half an hour. But now that my eldest brother and Fu Wei are going to the yamen together, it will be faster.
The house at the east entrance of the alley is twice as big as the one I live in now. It is made of blue bricks and tiles. It looks bright and dry. It won’t be as damp as the earthen houses during the rainy season.
This environment is okay for Fu Wei and Yu Ying, but in the eyes of Fu Zhen and his wife, and their two children, this is a mansion that they had never dared to imagine.
Fu An pulled his sister and ran around in the yard happily, looking very excited.
Seeing the two children so happy, Fu Zhen and his wife felt relieved.
——Rented.
One reason is that my second brother and his wife wanted to rent this yard, and the other is that they also wanted their children and mother to live a good life.
Although it is expensive, they can always save money on rent if they are more frugal in the future.
Finally, it was decided that Yu Ying and Fu Wei wanted a bright and spacious main house, a main house and a study.
The eldest brother and his wife wanted two smaller rooms, one for the couple and one for Fu'an.
Luo lived in the house opposite the main house with Fu Ning.
After the arrangements were made, Yu Ying and Fu Wei contributed 400 coins, and the eldest brother and his wife contributed 300 coins.
When she left, Yu Ying thought she might be able to rent the place, so she took the small amount of money with her. After deciding to rent it, she immediately contacted the landlord, paid three months' rent, and signed the lease.
The matter of the house had been settled. When they returned to the west alley, they saw the yamen's carriage parked outside the alley, and Yachai Huo had been waiting beside the carriage for a long time.
Seeing them return, Huo Yacha came forward with a wooden box in his hand and said, "Mr. Fu, Madam Yu, you are finally back."
Fu Wei glanced at the carriage, then looked at him: "Why is Huo Yacha here?"
Huo Yacha replied, "Zhou Zhi said that the miracle that happened during this epidemic was all thanks to Madam Yu. This reward is definitely necessary. He also said that we will host a banquet for Madam Yu after the epidemic is completely over."
Because there were many people in the alley, Yu Ying asked him to go inside and talk.
After entering the main hall and serving tea, Yachai Huo placed the wooden box on the table.
"My Lord said that the epidemic had consumed half of the treasury silver, so he could only give Madam Yu twenty strings of cash as a reward, along with two dan of rice and three bolts of cloth."
At the end, Huo Yacha said, "These are actually subsidies from your own pockets. Madam Yu, please don't think it's too little."
Yu Ying hurriedly said, "Such a generous reward, how could I think it's too little?"
Huo Yacha smiled and looked at Fu Zhen and said, "Then I'd like to trouble Mr. Fu to help move these rice grains."
The two of them went out together, but it was Fu Zhen who easily carried more than 200 kilograms of rice into the yard, while Huo Yachai only followed behind with a few pieces of cloth.
When Huo Yachai left, Yu Ying stuffed a string of money into his hand.
Unexpectedly, Huo, the yamen runner who had always accepted everyone, forcefully pushed them back: "Mr. Fu and Madam Yu are both people I admire from the bottom of my heart. How can I go against my conscience and accept your money?"
Having said this, Huo Yacha looked at Fu Wei and sighed, "Mr. Fu is right. I was really too muddle-headed in the past. I won't be like that again in the future."
What Huo Yachai said seemed to imply that he would turn over a new leaf and stop being greedy.
Perhaps he had made up his mind, so he refused to accept any money. Seeing this, Yu Ying gave him two strips of bacon.
The bacon was not worth much, that's why he bought it.
Although she got so many good things, she didn't feel any joy, probably because the epidemic had not yet passed.
Yu Ying calmly glanced at the rice and cloth in the room, as well as the wooden box on the table.
The cloth is indigo, blue, and apricot.
She didn't know how to make clothes, but her elder sister-in-law had good skills, so the work of making clothes and quilts was given to her elder sister-in-law.
As a thank you gift, she gave half of each of the blue and indigo cloths to her sister-in-law to make clothes.
After the deal was settled, he asked his eldest brother to put the rice, grain and cloth in the house where Luo lived, and move in after the new house was cleaned.
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