Child Bride’s Peaches and Plums Are All Over the World

"Look, Mr. Li, this house has three entrances and six courtyards. There are many houses and the scenery is pleasant. It is the best place to run a school. Even if you don't run a school in the future, you can use it as another courtyard. There are rich families around here. It’s a nice house with a quiet environment..." The man in the middle looked at Li Baolu's face and said with a smile: "And the price of this house is not high, only three thousand five hundred taels."

Li Baolu shook her head slightly, "I don't intend to buy a house, I just want to rent it."

The middleman was slightly disappointed when he heard the words, and turned to say: "If you rent it, the house will cost fifteen taels a month, and you will have to pay for the maintenance of the house."

"Can it be cheaper if I rent for a long time?"

The middleman also knew the purpose of Li Baolu's rented house, so he thought for a while and said, "You can ask the landlord for a small one, but you may not be able to bargain down the price."

Li Baolu smiled, "Just do your best."

The location and layout of this house are good, and Li Baolu is very satisfied with it. But she was really not very willing to buy it. The technical school might change places in the future, and she was only obsessed with home.

I don't have much interest in real estate such as other courtyards. Even if I buy it, it will be abandoned or rented out.

Not to mention the waste, even if it is rented out, the rent back will not be much.

So Li Baolu's intention was not to buy a house. After seeing the house and making some requests, Li Baolu left.

Gu Jingyun was leading An An and walked slowly. An An grabbed a bunch of candied haws in his hand. When he saw his mother, he grinned and stretched out his hand to bring the candied haws to her mouth, "Eat, eat..."

Li Baolu smiled and picked her up, "Eat it, mother doesn't like sweets."

An An hugged the candied haws and gnawed happily, turned her head to see her father, and then remembered that she hadn't let him go, and quickly put the half-eaten candied haws to his father's mouth.

Gu Jingyun's face turned green, and he avoided laughing and said, "You can eat it, Daddy doesn't like sweets either."

No wonder!

Li Baolu glanced at him, knowing that he was a cleanliness freak again.

Li Baolu stuffed her daughter into the car, poked his waist and said, "That's your daughter, and you can eat from the last one up."

Gu Jingyun pretended not to hear, sat in the car seriously, turned his head and said to An An: "It's hot, daddy will take you to swim in the lake tomorrow, shall we pick lotus seeds?"

An An happily replied loudly: "Okay!"

Gu Jingyun glanced at Li Baolu, seeing, she doesn't mind her daughter.

"Didn't His Majesty ask you to study, how are you preparing?"

"Editing books is not something that can be done in a day or two, and there is no rush."

"But I'm busy!" So can you spend the summer vacation at home instead of going out every day?

Gu Jingyun glanced at her and said, "You can find someone to help you." Like me.

Li Baolu understood what he meant, and immediately hugged his arm and said, "Brother Jingyun, can you help me?"

"No," Gu Jingyun said seriously, "The books we handed over to the bookstore a few years ago are almost ready to be printed, and I plan to buy the two stores on the left and right to build a big bookstore where people can borrow books from the store." .Besides, some books are not popular and printing is not cost-effective, so I decided to ask someone to copy them. Poor students who come to read the books can earn this hard-earned money.”

Li Baolu was stunned, "You don't want to help me?" Then why did you still lure me to say such a thing?

Gu Jingyun gave her a sideways look and said, "I'm just telling you that I've been very busy recently and can't spare time, but if you beg me, maybe I'll let go of my own business first."

"..." Li Baolu stared fixedly at Gu Jingyun for a while, then glanced at her daughter who was sitting on the mat and eating candied haws earnestly, reached out and hugged his arm, and said with her face on his shoulder: "Jing Yun Brother, please help me~~"

Gu Jingyun couldn't help the corners of his mouth slightly upturned, watching her silent.

Li Baolu gritted her teeth, and just when she was thinking about making persistent efforts, An An threw down the candied haws that had been eaten until there was only one stick left, and threw herself into Gu Jingyun's arms, imitating her mother and looking at her father, "Daddy, help me~~"

Gu Jingyun's complexion changed drastically, and he quickly grabbed her by the collar, but it was still too late, two small paw prints were printed on Gu Jingyun's clothes.

Seeing this, Li Baolu couldn't help laughing, hugged the confused girl to wipe her hands, gave her a smack on the face, and boasted: "Good job An An, you will always act like a baby with your father in the future, you know?"

Gu Jingyun took off his coat and threw it aside, dumbfounded, but he still felt uncomfortable.

When he got home, Gu Jingyun hurriedly asked someone to take a bath. Li Baolu fed An An water and coaxed her to take a nap.

Wait for her to fall asleep before going to Gu Jingyun.

Gu Jingyun was sitting cross-legged on the couch with her wet hair on and only her underwear on. Seeing her coming in, he waved and said, "Come and see, this is the layout of the bookstore I designed."

Li Baolu walked up to him and sat down, took a look and asked, "The owner of the shop next door has agreed to sell the shop to you?"

The shops on Lingsheng Street have always been popular. Even though their shop is at the corner of the street, the traffic is not small. It was luck to be able to buy that bookstore.

"Good luck can't happen all the time, so this time I plan to win with my strength."

"Um?"

"We're throwing money at it."

Li Baolu: "...Are we rich?"

"It's less than them," Gu Jingyun said with a smile, "but you don't need gold and silver to buy these two shops, you can use other things."

"for example……"

"For example, the coral tree collected in the treasury and the "Lanting Collection Preface" copied."

"That's all for the coral tree. Isn't "Lanting Collection Preface" a fake?"

"Although it is a counterfeit, it is also a valuable counterfeit," Gu Jingyun said, "There are two neighbors on the left and right of our bookstore, one loves rare jewelry, and the other loves antique calligraphy and paintings, and I have no shortage of these two things."

What he lacked was money and real estate.

"Is it worthwhile to exchange a coral tree for a shop?"

"No loss, let's choose a smaller one to send."

"Then, would you like to add something to the Preface to the Collection of Lanting?" Li Baolu felt a little guilty about whether it was a fake.

Gu Jingyun nodded her nose and said: "What a fool, if it is the real work of Wang Xizhi, it is a priceless treasure. It is said to be a shop, even if he trades the whole street for the shop, he may not be able to exchange it. This "Lanting Collection" Although the "Preface" is a copy, it is also from the hands of famous experts, and it would cost two or three thousand taels for leisure, so he is not at a loss."

Li Baolu clicked her tongue, rolled her eyes and said, "Brother Jingyun, we will write more characters and draw more pictures in the future, and then save them for future generations. After thousands of years, these will become antiques, which is comparable to gold. Silver jewels are still valuable."

Gu Jingyun couldn't help laughing, "What a silly girl."

Li Baolu looked serious, "I'm serious."

Li Baolu did what she said, and it happened that they had to practice calligraphy every day. In the past, they practiced calligraphy on the front and used the back to make drafts. She and Qu Weizhen used it to make drafts for arithmetic.

But now she will pick and choose, put away the words that the two of them have written well, and use the rest to make drafts.

Gu Jingyun smiled and shook his head, but let her go. He also specially cooperated to draw some pictures for her and save them.

As she drew, she almost painted the scenery of her home. Li Baolu was not satisfied, so she hugged An An and made him a model for him to paint.

Gu Jingyun's eyes lit up, and he opened another way of entertainment. He started to draw a lot of characters.

The paintings of An An rolling on the grass, chasing cats and catching butterflies, and lying on a reclining chair with a full stomach, are vivid and lovely.

He Zipei accidentally saw that he was in love, so he searched all the paintings back and admired them with Qin Xinfang. Within two days, Qin Xinfang also began to paint for Niu Niu, and more often, he included his wife and daughter in the paintings.

Apart from An An, Gu Jingyun painted most of Baolu, but he never showed these paintings to others, but put them away by himself.

Li Baolu was in charge of making annotations with inscriptions on the finished paintings.

The couple had so much fun that they almost forgot about the bookstore and technical school.

Fortunately, Gu Jingyun had a thorough understanding of the preferences of his neighbors. As soon as the two items were given away, the two shops were quickly transferred to Gu Jingyun's name.

The bookstore has begun to close for renovations, hoping to reopen when school starts.

The house that Li Baolu wanted to rent was finally negotiated, and finally an agreement was reached with a monthly rent of thirteen taels, but the owner asked Li Baolu to pay the rent for three years in one lump sum.

This is also the request of the other party to make concessions on the rent.

Li Baolu agreed after a little thought.

The two completed these two important things before the end of the summer vacation, and after they were free, they realized that their two apprentices seemed to be back later than scheduled.

It's almost school, and I haven't come back yet.

Li Baolu said: "Do you want to send someone to look at it?"

Gu Jingyun shook his head, "Wait for another two days."

Two days later, there was still no news from Qu Weizhen and Qu Jingxi, even Gu Jingyun couldn't help frowning. In three days, the school will start.

"Zhou Da and the others happen to be in Beijing. I'll let them go and have a look tomorrow."

Li Baolu nodded slightly.

The next day Gu Jingyun went to Liu'er Hutong early in the morning to find Zhou Da and the others. He thought he would have to wait a day or two for news, but who knew that Zhou Da would come back with Erlin and the others that afternoon.

Zhou Da replied: "The young one met them on the road before arriving in Baoding."

Qu Weizhen and Qu Jingxi were thin and dark at this time, they jumped out of the car and kowtowed to Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu, "It made my husband and teacher worry."

Li Baolu helped him up, looked towards the carriage and asked with a smile, "You brought friends back?"

Qu Weizhen and Qu Jingxi blushed, hurriedly opened the curtain of the car, and led the little girl inside, "Teacher, we rescued this on the road."

The little girl timidly hid behind Qu Weizhen, blinking her eyes at Li Baolu.

Li Baolu was startled, and asked: "Whose child is this, how did you save it?"

"I don't know. I picked it up on the side of the road in the morning. I asked her and she didn't say anything, but she was very scared. It seemed that someone was chasing her from behind." Qu Jingxi said: "My sister and I saw that she was pitiful, so we gave her up. I brought it with me, thinking that I will find her a family when I get to the capital."