The weather is gradually approaching summer, and pedestrians on the streets of Kaifeng Prefecture are also thinner. Long robes with gauze and silk can be seen everywhere. The Song Dynasty is not like the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the hierarchy is very strict. There are strict regulations on what kind of people wear and what kind of clothes. Even if there are regulations, no one has followed it. On the streets, looking around, there are a bunch of flowers.

The group rode a donkey along the Maxing Street and headed straight to Anyuanmen in the north of the city. The first among the group was Wu Haogu Wu Dalang. He was riding on the donkey and looking around, looking a little proud. Following him were the two brothers Guo Jing and Liu Wuji, who also looked proud, and obviously proud to be able to follow Wu Haogu, the "big brother".

Wu Haogu is now preparing to travel east. He has been purchasing calligraphy and painting works in the Panlou market for several days. He also sent Pan Qiaolian to the quality warehouses of several gold, silver and silk shops, and almost collected calligraphy and paintings worth 20,000 yuan.

If 20,000 yuan is used to buy famous paintings, it will be just a few papers. However, if you want to buy ordinary-quality calligraphy and paintings, you have bought hundreds of them. The Wu family’s calligraphy and painting vegetarian store also contains tens of thousands of ordinary goods, and they have also collected them for Wu Haogu, and they have packed more than a dozen large camphor wood boxes.

Wu Haogu’s funds, in addition to giving Wu Chengzhi more than 40,000 yuan to redeem Huazhai and the famous paintings mortgaged, were only more than 20,000 yuan left (because the "Chingyuan Immortal Battle Picture" and "The Protector of the Dharma and the Good God Picture" were not returned, so Wu Haogu had money to redeem Huazhai). In addition, some money belonged to Wu Haogu, Guo Jing, and Monk Fu. Almost all, I could only buy this little product. After all, I always had to keep some working capital when doing business.

As for Wu Haogu’s three brothers, although they all have tens of thousands of yuan in their old capitals, Wu Haogu knew that they all had their own uses. Guo Jing, Liu Wuji and Monk Fu had not yet bought a house in Kaifeng Prefecture to get married.

So Wu Haogu didn't ask them to invest in the capital.

The group of people left Anyuan Gate in a blink of an eye and arrived near the famous wazi in Zhoubei. Wu Haogu, the first person, looked around and looked at the densely packed low houses around him, and then smiled and said, "Third Brother, do you mean those good men live near you, right? Let me tell me."

It turned out that Wu Haogu came to find bodyguards today, and this matter was a bit troublesome. Because there was no escort agency in the Song Dynasty, and the large merchants in the trading houses, such as the Pan family's gold, silver, silk and silk shop, all kept their own guards. Merchants of the level of Wu Haogu temporarily hired guards.

Of course, there are some considerations to hire guards. No one hired the idle men in Kaifeng Prefecture. This wave of people is just a little bit behind Kaifeng Prefecture, and they are nothing after leaving the city.

The best guards in Kaifeng Prefecture are all from the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty. They are not allowed to guard bodyguards just by looking for an imperial guard soldier. Most imperial guards work part-time jobs, but not hard work. Only a very small number of people with real skills can do bodyguards.

"Dalang, the Sa family hired all good people this time," Guo Jing said proudly, "The leader is the Sa family's uncle, Lin Wancheng, the coach of the Japanese guns and sticks, and he and his eldest son, Kobayashi, Lin Chong..."

"Who?" Wu Haogu suddenly heard a very familiar name and couldn't help but interrupt, "Leopard head Lin Chong?"

"Ah, it turns out that Dalang recognizes Lin Chong."

What's going on? Why did you go to "Water Margin"?

Or is there really someone in history?

Wu Haogu was not sure, so he asked again: "Is it Lin Chong, the coach of the 800,000 imperial guards?"

"Eighty hundred thousand?" Guo Jing sneered, "What did Dalang say? Where did the Song Dynasty have so many imperial guards? And... there is no dispatch of the 800,000 imperial guards?"

Liu Wuji, who followed, interrupted, "The coach is just a miscellaneous item, not much better than the ordinary military man.

In the north wing of the city, these people are very down and out!"

Is Lin Chong down and out?

Wu Haogu knew that Lin Chong in "Water Margin" was doing pretty well. He had a single-family house with a yard in Kaifeng Mansion. His wife, Mrs. Zhang, was able to take out a thousand or hundreds of dollars to buy a knife to play with.

If it weren't for being hurt by Brother Gao Qiu, he would have lived happily until the Jin soldiers headed south...

However, after living in Kaifeng Prefecture of the Northern Song Dynasty for a period of time, Wu Haogu learned that the description of Lin Chong's family in "Water Margin" was mostly nonsense.

A single-family house with a yard... Wu Haogu's family is just this level! The Wu family is a big businessman in the calligraphy and painting business in Kaifeng Prefecture, and his family always has a 70,000 or 80,000 or 100,000.

How can an imperial guard coach compare?

Isn’t Guo Jing and Guo Banxian the father the coach from the Western Army? He has been in the imperial guards for his whole life and has never left a broken tile house for his son. What is the origin of the Lin family? How can he afford a yard in Kaifeng Prefecture?

...

Lin Chong and his father Lin Wancheng must have never watched "Water Margin". If they have watched it, they will definitely envy Lin Chong, the leopard leader who caused the family to be destroyed.

Because the coach Lin Chonglin in Shi Nai'an has a big house and also has a wife, and his wife is actually very beautiful!

However, although Lin Chong, who lived in the cruel reality, was born with a handsome appearance, tall and heroic martial arts. He also practiced good skills, was good at both long and short weapons, and was good at riding horses and shooting archery. He was also good at both civil and military affairs. He had been studying poetry and books for many years, and his handwriting was only slightly worse than Gao Qiu.

But he didn't have a precious house. A man in his early thirties, and his grandmother and a younger brother squeezed into two small houses in the right fourth camp in the north of the city.

Even these two small houses are not the property of the Lin family father and son, but belong to the military camps owned by the Song Dynasty officials.

In other words, in reality, Leopard Headlin is a homeless household and an unmarried young man. He has no wife to bully Gao Qiu's three "Yane" who have not yet grown up.

This is really a tragedy on earth!

"Teacher Lao Lin, I know that your husband is handsome and both civil and military. I also know that Teacher Xiaolin and Miss Zhang have known each other for a long time, so they are naturally in love. But this media can't be guaranteed, your family has no house..."

Just as Guo Jing led Wu Haogu all the way, there were guests in the two dilapidated houses of the Lin family.

The visitor was a woman in her thirties, with a moderate appearance and a bit thick. At a glance, she knew that she was a woman born in the military camp.

Her surname is Gao, and she is also a bit related to Gao Qiu. She is known as Gao Madam, her husband is also a miscellaneous military officer, and she is a matchmaker.

Sitting face to face with Lady Gao was an old man in his sixties, with white hair and beard, but looking very majestic.

This old man is Lin Chong's father, Lin Wancheng, the coach of the old Lin. He and Guo Jing's father were both from the Western Army and were transferred to the imperial guards of Kaifeng Prefecture. Therefore, there is no foundation in Kaifeng Prefecture, so there is no question of purchasing property.

Lin Chong stood behind Lin Wancheng at this moment, tall and big, like an iron tower. His face was clear and angular, and his chin needed a tiger's beard, which was very majestic.

But a room stumped the hero! No matter how powerful the Lin father and son were, no matter how hard they could fight, they could not solve the problem of not having a house.

In fact, the father and son worked very hard for the house issue. When Lao Lin coach Lin Wancheng was transferred to Kaifeng Prefecture thirty years ago, he began to save money to buy a house.

However, the military pay of the imperial guards is not high - it is really not low, but it is even more expensive to not be able to hold a house - Lin Wancheng has a wife, children, and mother to raise it, so saving thirty or forty pieces a year is the limit. When Lin Chong grew up and found a position as a coach, the father and son worked together and took on a lot of private work, and could save more than one hundred pieces a year.

Over the past thirty years, the father and son have saved up a total of 2,000 or more!

Thirty years ago, I could buy a house in the north of the city. But the house in Kaifeng Mansion has been appreciating!

Thirty years ago, the property that could be bought for 2,000 or more than 7,000 now costs at least 7,000 yuan.

In other words, the father and son have been struggling for thirty years, and are not getting closer and closer to the small goal of buying a house, but getting farther and farther away...

Lin Chong, who could not afford a house, would find it difficult to marry Mrs. Zhang, who was said to be able to fascinate Gao Yanei.
Chapter completed!