All the members are good people, only the host is a pervert

It was still early, so Lin Ruan asked Lin Yi to drive to East City. As the saying goes, "East is rich and West is noble, North is poor and South is humble", compared to East City, West City has more shops.

Lin Ruan found a middleman and said, "I want to buy a few shops, preferably with regular tenants. Do you have any?"

The middleman laughed and said, "Miss, if you want it, you can find it anywhere. But people who sell things like this are usually short of money, so the price won't be too low. You see..."

Lin Ruan said: "Just take me to have a look. The price isn't fixed. We can discuss it later."

The middleman showed Lin Ruan several shops. They all had good locations and stable tenants. Having a rough idea of what they were looking for, Lin Ruan inquired about the prices, ran a system check, and then selected three. First, the middleman took her to the government office to sign the deed and pay the money. Then, the seller helped her re-sign the lease agreement with the tenant. Everything was done in less than half a day, leaving Lin Yi, Lin Chun, and Lin Xia stunned. "This young lady is so efficient!"

Lin Ruan bought the three shops for two thousand, one thousand, and six hundred taels, respectively, with annual rents of two hundred and forty, one hundred and fifty, and one hundred taels. She bought the shops because Lin's father and Chi Wenning would always need to buy something. She now had her housekeeper give Lin's father ten taels of silver and Chi Wenning five taels of silver each month as a monthly allowance. It sounded like a lot, but when they actually went shopping, they couldn't even afford a decent piece of jewelry. Besides, men didn't have many places to spend their money, so whatever money they had, wouldn't it all go to Lin Ruan?

Lin Ruan had already made plans: 150 taels of rent would be given to Lin's father, 100 taels of rent would be given to Chi Wen Ning, and the largest shop would be kept for himself as pocket money so that he wouldn't have no idea how to spend money.

Thinking of this, she suddenly asked the system in her mind: "Seventeen, has anyone in this world written "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"?

System: "No, but there is a book called 'Records of the Three Kingdoms'. The country names and characters in it are different from the 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' that the host mentioned. You might want to buy a copy and take a look."

Lin Ruan suddenly became interested and didn't rush. She asked Lin Yi to park the car in front of the jewelry store. Lin Ruan felt that it was really not easy for the women of Fengwu Country. Not only did they have to buy jewelry for themselves, but they also had to buy it for the men in their families. Fortunately, men were not allowed to wear gold jewelry, otherwise how much would it cost?

But if you don't go around, you won't know that a small men's hair crown can be made into so many different things, especially the two pairs of Yuqing Ruyi crowns, one is carved from topaz and the other is carved from icy jadeite with floating flowers. One looks rich and the other looks other-worldly, and they are also equipped with jade pendants, rings and belt hooks, which are actually two complete sets of men's headwear.

Lin Ruan asked the price. The topaz set was eight hundred taels of silver, and the jadeite set was six hundred. Although expensive, Lin Ruan felt it was worth it, so she asked the waiter to pack it up. Seeing Lin Ruan's willingness, the waiter smiled and said, "Miss, why don't you move to the private room on the second floor? Our Jinyulou has a professional artist who has painted all the jewelry into a picture album with meticulous brushwork. Why don't you sit down and relax while drinking tea and looking at it?"

Lin Ruan was not reluctant, so she asked the waiter to lead her to a small private room. The waiter first gave her a cup of tea, then smiled and said: "Miss, do you want to see women's jewelry or men's jewelry?"

Lin Ruan smiled and said, "Let's take a look at both. But since we've already bought two sets, let's look at the women's set first."

The waiter stood before Lin Ruan, holding the album and carefully flipping through the pages. Lin Ruan had accumulated a considerable amount of women's jewelry, both ancient and modern, in her space. She was looking for something new and unusual, but she had taken a liking to a long crown with a double dragon pattern, inlaid with gold, kingfisher feathers, and pearls. She asked, "How much is this crown?"

The waiter took a look and said with a smile, "You have good taste, sir. Although this crown is not large, it is exquisite. It only costs three hundred taels of silver."

Although it sounds much less than the silver cost of the two sets of men's crowns, these three hundred taels can only buy a crown and a hairpin, which is actually not cheap.

Lin Ruan nodded and said, "I want this one too."

Even though Lin Ruan was stingy and could be described as stingy, she was also very happy when she spent money. When she came out of the Jinyu Building, her hands were full of boxes of all sizes. Lin Yi quickly took the things and put them in the car. Lin Ruan also got in and said, "Let's go to the bookstore first."

There were so many things, Lin Chun and Lin Xia had already gotten out and followed the carriage on foot. The carriage wasn't moving very fast in the inner city anyway. Lin Ruan was the only one left in the carriage, so she simply took out three more boxes of jewelry from her space and kept them all for herself.

System: "Host, you usually wear student uniform and hat at the prefectural school. Do you really need so many jewels?"

Lin Ruan: "I need it."

System:╮( ??w?? )╭

They arrived at the bookstore in a short while. Lin Ruan was in high spirits at this time. She bought not only the Fengwu Kingdom edition of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but also a lot of other books and paper. For example, she bought more than 50 brushes alone.

The system couldn't help but complain: "Are you here to buy books from the bookstore?"

Lin Ruan was not angry, and said with a smile: "You don't understand the joy of spending money."

The system was silent for a while, looked at its pile of external skins, and stopped talking about Lin Ruan.

It understands that spending money is real happiness!

It’s all Lin Ruan’s fault for corrupting it!

Its points!

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Lin Ruan went home after leaving the bookstore. She had to go back. If she continued buying, Lin Ruan would have to get off the car and walk by herself.

It was almost time for dinner when they got home. Lin Ruan divided the jewelry and asked Lin Chun to send Lin's father's portion to the main house, and asked Lin Xia to put the things she bought at the bookstore in the study. She then took Chi Wen Ning to look at their jewelry.

After spending so much time together, Chi Wenning had fully witnessed Lin Ruan's love for jewelry, or more precisely, her love for shopping. To be more precise, it wasn't about shopping, but about her love for spending money.

He even suspected that Lin Ruan's gambler-like look was not an act, nor was it due to her addiction to gambling, but that she really enjoyed the process of spending money.

Regarding the shops, Lin Ruan also had a convincing argument: "You can't go out shopping with Daddy and not be able to buy anything. For example, this set of crowns, no, this one is too expensive. For example, this small crown, eighty taels of silver, with the rent, can you buy it yourself?"

Chi Wenning looked helplessly at the jadeite Yuqing Ruyi crown that Lin Ruan had casually placed in the box. Lin Ruan had said it cost six hundred taels of silver, which was indeed very expensive. So, my dear wife, could you please put it down gently?

Lin Ruan took out another box. This set of headwear was something she had taken out from her space, specifically to match Chi Wenning's Jade Purity Ruyi Crown. She opened the box, and Chi Wenning looked inside. Wow, there were eleven pieces of silver-inlaid jadeite, pearl, and lotus headwear!

Chi Wen Ning estimated in his mind that if his headdress cost 600 taels, then Lin Ruan's headdress would probably cost at least 1,000 taels.

"It's really beautiful, but my dear wife, you just asked me to order a few sets of student uniforms for you today. When are you going to wear all these jewelry you bought?"

Not counting individual pieces of jewelry, Lin Ruan bought herself two sets of headpieces, as well as a set of nineteen-piece purple jade headpieces.

Hearing Chi Wen Ning's question, the system laughed impolitely.

Despite being attacked by the system and Chi Wenning in succession, Lin Ruan didn't feel guilty and said confidently: "There will always be a chance. Even if I don't bring it, it's good to watch it."

Chi Wenning sighed and neatly packed up Lin Ruan's jewelry, sorting the heavy headwear and jewelry into the closet. Yes, there were three closets in the inner room, one of which was specifically for Lin Ruan's dressing box. Yes, on the bright side, Lin Ruan already had an entire closet full of headwear and jewelry!

The remaining two wardrobes were filled with Lin Ruan's seasonal clothes. As for Chi Wenning's, they were moved to the outer room because there was no more room in the inner room.

She also placed some lightweight items that Lin Ruan might normally wear in the dressing box on the dressing table. Yes, Lin Ruan also had two four-layer dressing boxes on the dressing table.

As for his own, he placed the small crowns and hairpins in the dressing box on his dressing table. The Yuqing Ruyi crown was also packed and placed in the wardrobe, along with the other complete sets of hair crowns. However, Chi Wenning only had one wardrobe, with valuable jewelry and other items on the upper layer and seasonal clothes on the lower layer.

When the cleaning was almost done, Lin's father sent someone to call them over for dinner. Suddenly, Lin Ruan said, "I'll get six dou of rice and one tael of silver every month. I want to buy a transparent glass bottle to put the silver in and keep it for later."

The production of colored glass in Fengwu Country is not very high, and the more transparent it is, the more expensive it is.

Father Lin sighed and had to say something to Lin Ruan: "Aruan, my good daughter, you were digging for ginseng, not a gold mountain."

Lin Ruan: Guess what? I actually have a mountain of gold, and more than one.

Of course, she couldn't say that. She comforted him, "Don't worry, Dad. We now have a 500-acre farm and three shops, which are all stable incomes. Besides, I've found other ways to make a living, so I won't ruin the family."

Father Lin asked, "What kind of business is that? Starting tomorrow, you'll be going to the provincial academy every day to study. You won't even have time to come back for lunch, so how can you have time to do anything?"

Lin Ruan smiled and said, "Of course it's a job only a scholar would do. I plan to write a storybook."

Men were not allowed into bookstores; the Four Books for Men and traced copies of patterns could be purchased at cloth shops. Father Lin and Chi Wenning were both men, so naturally they had never read storybooks, and no one had ever told them about them.

Lin Ruan patiently explained, "It's just like the story in 'The Story of a Chaste Man,' except it's a story written in more detail and turned into a book."

After hearing this, Father Lin said nothing more, "As long as you have a plan in mind and don't delay your studies, that's all that matters."

Lin Ruan nodded in agreement.

With Lin's father having said so, Chi Wenning didn't dare to ask further. A man's seven sins are: disobedience to his parents, childlessness, adultery, jealousy, serious illness, excessive talk, and theft. Curiosity about books other than the Four Books for Men indicates restlessness and commits the sin of adultery, punishable by immediate divorce. Even if the book was written or intended by his wife, this was not permissible.

When he was little, he had wondered why the goddess was so cruel to men like them. His father told him, "This is the fate of men."

Yes, fate.

Perhaps no man would willingly accept his fate, but given the laws, the brothels, and the brothels, they had no choice but to accept it. That period was Chi Wenning's most difficult time. Every day, he desperately told himself to accept his fate, to accept it. After repeating it for so long, he came to believe that this was the way men were meant to be. From then on, although his situation remained unchanged, he felt that life had gotten better.