The old woman stopped, glanced at the person chasing behind her, and turned around and wanted to leave.

Yan Xuehuai quickly ran a few steps, crossed the two of them, and stopped them: "Grandma, do you still remember me? My mother and I drank tea at your tea stall yesterday."

This old woman is the same as the old woman at the tea stall yesterday, but she was wearing a white cloth yesterday, but today she looks like an old lady from a rich family.

While Yan Xuehuai was watching the fun in the crowd, she asked about the old woman's identity and the holidays between her and the couple.

The old woman's surname is Ye, and her husband Ouyang Boru was appointed as the Minister of Rites before. Mrs. Ye has an imperial decree.

"Yes." Old Mrs. Ye frowned, raised her legs and was about to leave.

Yan Xuehuai took a few steps back, still blocking the two of them, and said hurriedly: "Grandma Ye, it's not too late to hear me say a few words before leaving. There are only a few words that will not delay you going home for dinner."

Mrs. Ye's brow was locked in the character "chuan", but her steps stopped, but her lips were tightly pursed, and her eyes were filled with impatientness.

Is this willing to listen to her?

Just listen.

Yan Xuehuai took a deep breath, his voice was quick but his words were clear: "Grandma Ye, my name is Yan Xuehuai. My mother and I have no place to live in Xinjing. We live in an inn. I want to rent your shop. Can you give me the previous market price?"

The middle-aged woman next to her looked surprised and asked, "Which shop did you say you want to rent a shop?"

Obviously, Mrs. Ye is not the only shop.

"It's the one on Huichang Street that was forcibly occupied." Yan Xuehuai said.

The middle-aged woman looked at Yan Xuehuai in surprise and then looked at Mrs. Ye.

"Since you know that the shop has been occupied, you still have to rent it. Why?" Old Mrs. Ye's voice was cold.

"Because the rent of other shops is too high, I can't afford to rent it, but this shop is occupied by someone. Not only do you not get any money, but you even have to give it to others for nothing. So you might as well rent it to me at the previous price. At least I don't have the surname Ouyang, and I don't have the ability to steal your shop."

Faced with this old lady with a bad temper, Yan Xuehuai didn't go around in circles, and she bargained with Mrs. Ye in the most effective way.

The middle-aged woman looked at Yan Xuehuai even more surprised. She kindly reminded: "Miss, the shop on Huichang Street was occupied by relatives at home and could not be returned for a while."

As soon as she finished speaking, the middle-aged woman was glared at by Mrs. Ye and said, "Where do you have so much nonsense? Since she wants to rent it, she will go and ask for it herself. If she can get it back, I will rent the shop to her."

Yan Xuehuai's eyes lit up. Did Mrs. Ye agree?

"Okay, it's up to me. I'll go and ask you for the shop back. You rented it to me according to the market price in Xinjing. I've inquired. A year ago, the rent for such a shop on Huichang Street was forty taels of silver, but your shop has not been painted and repaired for several years. If I renovate it, it would cost money. Why not, you can give me another 5 taels to pay 35 taels?"

This little girl is so confident? I thought she could really get the shop back?

"Okay, I promise you."

Old Mrs. Ye snorted heavily and walked over to Yan Xuehuai with the middle-aged woman.

Yan Xuehuai breathed out a long sigh. It was thirty-five taels a year. It could live in and do business, which was much cheaper than renting a house alone.

She had already found out about the shop just now.

When Mrs. Ye’s husband Ouyang Boru passed away, he was only 35 years old. Mrs. Ye trained his son Ouyang Zan to become a talent, married and had children. Ouyang Zan’s high school Tanhua was a legend for a while.

During the reign of Emperor Renzong, the Tartars sought to marry the princess of the Great Wei, and the Empress Dowager sent Princess Jinhuan to the frontier to marry. Ouyang Zan, who was the young minister of the Honglu Temple at that time, was in the marriage delegation.

A year later, the marriage delegation returned, but Ouyang Zan did not come back.

It is said that the mission encountered a horse thief outside Yanmen Pass. After the two sides fought, Ouyang Zan's whereabouts were unknown, no one was seen alive, and no corpse could be seen when he died.

After Ouyang Zan's wife Ping learned that her husband had an accident, she took her son to pray to God and Buddha, praying for her husband to return safely.

Once, Ping took his four-year-old son Ouyang Wentao to Kaifu Temple outside the city to burn incense. In a blink of an eye, Ouyang Wentao disappeared. After searching everywhere, there was still no news. Ping could not bear the stimulation and could not afford to get sick. After less than half a year of persistence, he died of depression.

Mrs. Ye is stubborn. When her husband died, her son was still young. She supported the family with her own strength. During this period, she had many conflicts with people in the clan, and Mrs. Ye's temper became increasingly stronger. Later, there were accidents in her sons and grandchildren. Ouyang Boru's family was rich, but there were no males. Relatives in the clan scrambled to adopt the children in the family to Mrs. Ye to inherit the incense. Mrs. Ye refused to agree. The people in the clan came over again and again, and were scolded by her again and again. Over the past decade, she had almost offended all the relatives of the clan.

The couple who forced the shop was a relative who was separated from Ouyang Boru from the front of the house. The man was Ouyang Hui and the woman was Wang.

A few years ago, Ouyang Hui and Wang came to visit and rented this shop on Huichang Street at a market price from Mrs. Ye for one year.

It was a normal house rental, but a year later, Ouyang Hui and his wife refused to move away or pay the rent. Old Lady Ye came to ask for it, but they were shameless and refused to give it to it. Old Lady Ye complained to the yamen, but Ouyang Hui threatened to support Mrs. Ye for the elderly. When the yamen saw that it was a conflict between the clan members, they returned it to the clan and let the clan resolve it themselves.

Earlier, Mrs. Ye had a very unhappy quarrel with the elders of the clan because of adoption.

The clan elders would not stand on Mrs. Ye's side. Ouyang Hui's argument was a clear road. The clan asked Ouyang Hui to support Mrs. Ye's old age and see him off. It was natural that Ouyang Hui forced the occupied Mrs. Ye's shop.

Mrs. Ye was dissatisfied and had been complaining for the past two years. This kind of family dispute has always been a bad debt. The yamen didn't want to take care of her, so she had a headache when she saw her and simply stopped accepting the lawsuit.

Recently, housing prices in Xinjing have soared. Ouyang Hui's shop is not well managed, so he began to think about subleting the shop. In the past few days, people have always come to see the house. When the news reaches Mrs. Ye, Mrs. Ye comes to the door and wants to take back the shop, which leads to today's quarrel.

Speaking of which, this is what Ouyang's family and his family joined forces to bully the old lady.

Yan Xuehuai returned to the inn and told them about what he saw Yan Jingxiu looking for them on the street. Li Qiniang was very surprised: "When I was in the old capital, Jingxiu spent all his thoughts on studying. Yan Zhaoshi loved him the most, but he was not kind to you and never cared about the affairs of the family. Now he has changed a lot."

Yan Xuehuai heard the change in Li Qiniang's tone. When she called Master Yan Er in front of her daughter, she called her name directly, without mentioning Yan Zhaoshi's father identity.

This is the Li Qiniang that Yan Xuehuai saw for the first time, not the way she looked in her memory.

"You also said that he was all studying. Why did he study? He just wanted to enter the imperial examination and become an official? If someone knew that his family members ran away from home, would he look good in terms of face? You also said that he and I are not close to us, so he is going to come back to us now, of course it is not for family affection. I think it is the same as Mrs. Guo, who wants us to die at home."

Li Qiniang sighed. The saying in the book, "If you read, you will not become famous, you will be elegant and elegant." Perhaps this sentence may be wrong, at least it cannot be used on the Yan family.

Seeing that his daughter did not mention the house, Li Qiniang guessed that she had not found it.

"Tomorrow you will rest in the inn for one day, and my mother will go find a house."

Yan Xuehuai drank the chicken soup her mother borrowed from the stove, and almost swallowed her tongue.
Chapter completed!