Compared with the magnificent Qingshan Temple in Liangzhou, the current Qingshan Temple has a sense of vicissitudes, as if it has gone through countless years.

There are both new and old places in the temple. Even none of the Taoist ancestors have golden bodies, they are all clay sculptures.

Looking at the whole thing, the feeling Qingshan Temple gives people is - poor.

Lu Yuan was completely bewildered, thinking, "Aren't Taoist priests very wealthy? Just like Taoist Qingshan, who would spend a huge stack of 10,000 taels of silver."

However, he did not ask, but talked about this matter with Xiao Li after entering the space at night.

Xiao Li explained to him what it meant to keep wealth private, and his eyes lit up. "Is it just like our family? Even though we have a lot of money, we look just like the other villagers?"

"Yes, Yuan'er is very smart." Xiao Li rubbed his head, and then...

He was dragged by the clever young man to farm the fields for half the night. In the second half of the night, he still insisted that the young man go to bed, otherwise the work would not be finished.

Fortunately, there was the spiritual spring water. Even though Lu Yuan slept less than usual, he looked much more energetic than before.

After all, what he drank before was diluted spiritual spring water, but what he drank recently was freshly drawn water.

Apart from anything else, Xiao Li discovered another benefit of the spiritual spring water, which was that no matter how noisy they were the night before, as long as the young husband drank the spiritual spring water, he would be back to normal the next day.

Not only that, he also found that his husband's blood and energy were getting better and better, and his skin was becoming whiter, tenderer and smoother, making people love him.

Fortunately, Lu Yuan didn’t know what he was thinking, otherwise she would have quarreled with him again.

Qingshan Temple is quite large. They didn’t finish visiting it yesterday, so they continued to visit it for another day.

But what was different from yesterday was that Shen Congzhou did not come, but Niu Dahe and his wife did come.

Before dinner in the evening, Xiao Li said something to Lu Yuan and then went to the next yard.

Niu Dahe and his wife were enjoying the cool breeze in the yard. When they saw him about to get up, he raised his hand to stop them, "No need to be polite. I'm looking for Mr. Shen."

"The master is in the room." Niu Dahe glanced at the room over there and said in a low voice, "Since he came back yesterday, the master seemed unhappy. I don't know if it's because of the lot."

When they visited yesterday, except for Xiao Li, each of them drew a fortune stick, which was interpreted by Taoist Xuankong for them individually.

When Shen Congzhou got the lot, his expression changed. Later, after he came out of the room where the lot was interpreted, he looked like he had lost his soul.

Xiao Li said "hmm" lightly, walked to the door of Shen Congzhou's house, raised his hand and knocked on the door, "Shen Congzhou, open the door."

After a while, there was a sound of someone getting up from inside.

The door opened, and Shen Congzhou bowed with a tense expression, "Young Master." Then he made way for Xiao Li to enter.

After sitting down, Xiao Li poured a cup of tea and pushed it to him. He himself had no intention of drinking the tea. He stared at him and asked, "Are you in a bad mood?"

"Brother Shen Yu's whereabouts are unknown, and we don't know whether he's alive or dead. Yesterday's fortune..." Shen Congzhou sat down opposite him, looking down at the cup of tea, "It was a very bad fortune.

Taoist Xuankong said that my brother's life is hanging by a thread. If he can make it, everything will go well. If he can't..."

He didn't say the rest of the words, but he knew that the young master knew what he meant.

Xiao Li knew it, but he couldn't help. He was silent for a while, then gave him a 1,000 tael silver note and said, "This is the monthly advance I'll give you, and you can deduct half of it every month from now on.

I'm not curious about your past. You should handle it yourself. I believe you already know what kind of person I am. Don't cause trouble.

You can handle your brother's affairs on your own. If you don't have enough money, you can ask me for an advance."

Looking at the silver note worth one thousand taels, Shen Congzhou felt a sudden warmth in his heart.

Even though he knew that he would most likely be kicked out if he got into trouble, he was still very grateful to Xiao Li.

He stood up and bowed respectfully, "Thank you for your help again and again, sir. Shen Yu will remember it for the rest of his life.

Shen Yu will deal with the past and will not allow outsiders to disturb the young master, the master and his wife."

Xiao Li didn't care about these empty formalities, but he didn't stop them. He nodded and took out another 10,000 taels of silver and placed it on the table. "Tomorrow, take Niu Dahe down the mountain to the city to have a look. If there is a suitable shop to open a bookstore, you can decide on it and take a look at the house as well.

Try to choose a place near officials. If you can't buy it, look for one outside. In short, the closer the better.

The bigger the house, the better. It doesn't matter if it's a little run-down. The key is to get the title deed to the house at the same time."

At this time, houses are usually bought and sold together with the title deeds, but occasionally there are some people who do not follow the usual path.

"Shen Yu has taken note of what you said, but..." Shen Yu frowned slightly and looked at him puzzledly, "Sir, do you want to live in the city?"

Didn't you say you were going to buy a farm and live on it? Why are you buying a house now?

Xiao Li shook his head, "Don't live here, buy it first, you can use it later."

When the plot unfolds, natural disasters will occur all over the country, and the refugees will naturally flock to the capital.

Never underestimate desperate people, they can do anything.

Xiao Li has witnessed too many such scenes and doesn't want his family to see them too.

If the natural disasters and man-made disasters in the plot really happen, he will take his family to live in a house in the city.

It will never be as chaotic under the emperor's feet as it is outside the city.

Although he didn't know what he was used for, Shen Congzhou tactfully didn't ask any further questions.

The next day, shortly after Shen Congzhou came down the mountain, Yu Qingshan came with a smile on his face.

Upon seeing Xiao Li, the kind-looking old Taoist handed him a few pieces of paper and said, "These are the deeds to the house, land, and mountain of the manor. Master knows that it is Young Master Xiao who wants them, so he said that these are for Young Master Xiao."

"Give it away?" Xiao Li took the papers and looked at them. He heard him say, "Yes, it's a gift. The place is small. Please don't mind it, Mr. Xiao."

As he spoke, Xiao Li had just finished mentally calculating the total area written in the deed. He looked at him expressionlessly, "Five hundred acres is not small."

Yu Qingshan coughed guiltily twice, "If possible, could Master Xiao allow me to live in the manor permanently? Just like when I came to Beijing, I can be an extra mouth to feed in the family."

Hearing this, Xiao Li understood that this was the new food allowance.

Even though I'm not short of money, I'd be a bastard if I didn't take advantage of a bargain!

"Okay, but..." He looked the flashy old Taoist priest up and down, "I don't keep idle people. You'd better be prepared."

Even he has to farm himself, so what if he pays the money? If you want to learn from him, you have to work first!

Yu Qingshan had originally thought he would give him a hard time, but he hadn't expected him to just do some work. What was so important? Hadn't he done enough work in his past and present lives?

He flicked his whisk and smiled until his eyes narrowed. "Don't worry, Master Xiao. I'm prepared."

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