Siheyuan starts from a good life

Grandma, what happened to the one next door to us when we entered the yard? No one has lived there for a long time.

That yard! It's been a long time since anyone lived there. That courtyard was originally a separate courtyard in our courtyard house. It used to be where the young master lived. I remember that my father-in-law sold it to someone else at that time. It was originally connected to our backyard, and it was your house. There is still the previous door on the wall next to it, but it was sealed after it was sold.

Then they live in households! Anyone else?

After hearing Jiang Yan's words, Grandma Lu thought for a while, and then said, where did they move to Houhai? I don't know the specific place, but why did my grandson ask about that yard today.

I wanted to see if I could buy it. Jiang Yan thought about it and told Grandma Lu his plan directly.

That yard is not cheap, but grandson, we don’t need to buy it. I will leave the house to you in the future, it is enough to live in.

No grandma, this is what I think. You see, what we are doing is a dangerous job after all. I think no matter what, we have to leave a way out for ourselves. I think the other courtyard in the back is very good. I will buy them. , while we were renovating, we secretly made a basement so that we could hide in there if anything happened. Otherwise, we would open a door so that it would be convenient to go out to do errands at night.

Hearing Jiang Yan's words, Grandma Lu didn't say a word, bit the thread of the mending clothes with her teeth, and then spoke.

You can think about it this way and wait for grandma to get you money. After saying that, he was ready to stand up.

Hearing what Grandma Lu said, Jiang Yan quickly pulled her and said, "No need for Grandma, I am rich, really rich."

When my master left, he left a large amount of money and hid it in a place. In two days, I think the situation has stabilized and I will go get the money back. Grandma, you should keep your money! You see, it's cost you a lot of money these days.

My money is your money, you monkey boy. After saying this, he patted Jiang Yan on the head.

Feeling the old lady's intimacy, Jiang Yan could only laugh.

However, this also defeated Grandma Lu's purpose of giving Jiang Yan money, but the old lady still forced the box of French currency into Jiang Yan's hand, saying that it was money to buy furniture.

Jiang Yan was speechless. When he arrived at the new house, Jiang Yan slept very comfortably. What he didn't know was that the old lady next door was worried when she was sleeping and even came to see Jiang Yan several times.

Early the next morning, after dinner, Jiang Yan was ready to go out for a walk and buy medicine for Grandma Lu.

When I was leaving the house, I heard my grandma telling me to go to Baicaotang to buy medicine. I was so frightened that I staggered.

Why did Baicaotang appear? What kind of world did I travel to?

But then all of this was forgotten by Jiang Yan, who was currently wandering around the street stalls in Liulichang.

Liulichang Street is located outside BJ Hepingmen. It originated in the Qing Dynasty. At that time, most of the candidates who came to Beijing to take the imperial examinations lived in this area. Therefore, books, calligraphy and paintings were sold here. Qianmen, Dengshikou and Dengshikou were popular in the Ming Dynasty. The Chenghuang Temple Book Market in Xicheng gradually moved to Liulichang. Booksellers from all over the country also set up stalls, built rooms and sold large collections of books here. The bustling market and convenient conditions have formed "the place for elegant travel in Kyoto", and Liulichang has gradually developed into the largest book market in Beijing, forming a cultural street market with a gathering of humanities, including culturally related pens, inks, paper and inkstones, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc. It also developed accordingly.

Jiang Yan squatted in front of a bookstall and flipped through the books on it. Almost all the books here were old-fashioned thread-bound books, and the covers were also in traditional Chinese characters. Jiang Yan was no stranger to this font.

Hey, Medicinal Diet Formula, Lei Lai No Kitchen, Palace Pharmacopoeia. Seeing these books, Jiang Yan was secretly surprised, and then opened the book of Medicinal Diet Formula. It was not a printed book, and it was written in small regular script by others. If you fan the carefully written books, you can smell the fragrance of ink.

I opened it again and took a look. The inside of the book was very clean and looked like it had been carefully maintained.

This made Jiang Yan secretly surprised, but he didn't show it on his face. Jiang Yan also found seven or eight such packaged books in the bookstall.

Seeing these books, Jiang Yan put them down and decided to buy them all.

Liulichang is a place where all kinds of antiques gather. According to Jiang Yan's calculations, these books are also ancient rare books. Their cultural value is immeasurable. If he didn't buy them earlier, he would probably regret it. .

Boy, do you want to buy it? Don't browse around if you don't want to buy it. Before Jiang Yan opened his mouth, the owner of the bookstall was not happy.

Buy it, of course I buy it, I don’t know how to sell this book.

As soon as he heard that Jiang Yan wanted to buy something, the owner of the bookstall immediately changed his face and looked at Jiang Yan with a smile on his face.

This young man has really good eyesight. To be honest, these books are all sold here by an old man from the previous dynasty. Almost all of them are unique. If you miss this opportunity, you will not have this good opportunity. I think this is the same for this young man. As a person who loves books, I don’t want too many. I can choose any of the books in it. It’s not a problem if I want to get them all. For 20 million French currency, you, Liu, can pay for them.

The stall owner is a man in his forties. He looks very slovenly, but the fabric he is wearing is not bad. It is made of expensive silk. It is just a little dirty and the original color cannot be seen. His complexion He was a bit pale and looked completely malnourished.

What Jiang Yan didn't know was that the stall owner had been setting up his stall here for several days without selling a single book, and the few people squatting next to him at the bookstall were almost all the owners of these books. Squatting here is just to increase the popularity of this bookstall.

However, Jiang Yan naturally heard what the bookstall owner meant. Originally, he only wanted to buy a few books that he valued, but he didn't expect that the boss wanted him to wrap up the books in the bookstall.

I looked at the books I found, and then looked at the books on the other side of the bookstall. Those books might be due to maintenance. They looked a little worn out, and some of them had signs of being torn by rats.

However, when Jiang Yan asked about the price, he also noticed that when the boss told him the price, the people who were squatting here and reading invariably looked at Jiang Yan with green eyes, as if they wanted to eat people.

At that moment, Jiang Yan understood in his heart that these people were probably the trustees brought by the boss. Jiang Yan, who had originally wanted to buy these books, understood the cause and effect when he saw the clothes of the boss and these trustees.

If I hadn't anticipated the mistake, these people would be what the boss calls the old and the young.

Jiang Yan knew very well the virtues of people like them. Ever since the hard-core crops collapsed, these old people and children who had nothing to eat and failed to do anything were selling their own cultural relics and antiques in Liulichang. It is estimated that these books are just as they said, they are only copies. Before, I only cared about books with the same material as those books, and basically didn't read the others. Looking at the books when I held them, the paper turned yellow, and it kept getting older when I saw it. , maybe you can actually buy a lot of good things from it.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yan paid attention. So he spoke to the stall owner. Your price is really a lot higher. Maybe the boss is trying to deceive me because of my cuteness. If not, let me tell you how much each copy costs!

Hearing Jiang Yan's words, the book stall owner quickly waved his hand, "No, no, I don't have this idea. My books are indeed worth the price, and I didn't ask for them randomly."

How dare the boss admit it! But he did have this idea in his heart, and he was ready to deceive Jiang Yan when he saw him at a young age.

However, when Jiang Yan was exposed, he still denied it.