Cui Ping was a little embarrassed. As the saying goes, a wife is worse than a concubine. Of course, he hopes that the concubine will sit down, but his wife is next to him! He can't make the decision.

Pei pretended not to hear it. She raised her glasses with both hands and said with a smile: "General Li, today I am not accustomed to you. This glass of wine is a gift to General Li, my housewife."

"Where! Where! Madam is so polite. Today I'm going to bother you."

Li Qingan said a few polite words and had a drink with the couple. At this time, Pei stood up and said, "General Li, please use it slowly, and I will lose my companion."

She smiled and bowed slightly, gave the concubine a wink, and the two of them stepped back together.

Li Qingan looked at her walking into the inner room, then nodded, and smiled at Cui Ping, "Why don't Yuanwailang set up his own business?"

Cui Ping sighed, "It's so ashamed to say that! My father-in-law married my daughter to me. He thought I could have a chance, but now I don't even have a house and I have to live in the Cui family's mansion. As the saying goes, a man stands at thirty years old. I'm already thirty years old this year, and it's still early to leave!"

Recently, Li Qing'an also had the idea of ​​buying a house. He couldn't help but ask with great interest: "I wonder what the housing prices in Chang'an are now?"

Speaking of housing prices, Cui Ping shook his head and smiled bitterly: "The house price is synchronized with the rice price. In the first year of Tianbao, the rice price was only ten cents, and a middle house cost only a hundred cents. For example, Chongye, Jingshan, Xuanyi, and Lanling, the best Feng Shui workshops, only more than two hundred cents, but this year the rice price has risen to 55 cents per bucket, and the housing price has also increased by five times. Last month, I saw a three-acre middle house located in Fenglefang. There were more than twenty houses, and the price was 700 cents. Even if I still had to pay, at least more than six hundred cents are needed. Where can I afford it? I am a sixth-rank Yuanwailang. Speaking of which, I don't even have my own house."

"Don't the Yuanwailang have a salary and a permanent land? Why can't he even afford a house?" Li Qing'an said with a smile.

"Hey! Don't mention it." Cui Ping waved his hand and said, "According to the rules, I have five hectares of employed land, two hectares of 50 acres of Yongye land. It might have been like this before, but now, this is just a quota. In fact, the court only gave me less than half of the rest. I have to buy the rest myself. In fact, even if I give it all, it will only be one or two hundred guan a year, and it will take good care of the weather. How can this be enough to buy a house? Besides, my salary is two guan a month, and my salary is one hundred guan a year. With the money from the government, the sum of it is only a hundred guan a year. I have saved up for a few years and have spent almost a lot of money to get married and have not made enough money to make ends meet!"

Cui Ping became more and more depressed the more he said, "It's not like your border army. As long as you make meritorious contributions in war, you can reward thousands of taels of silver and hundreds of pieces of silk, we just work hard."

Li Qingan held the wine glass, and he suddenly remembered that although he had been promoted, his job and field land and Yongye land did not seem to have increased. He still had a few acres of thin land in Huancheng, and his salary and rice were not mentioned to him. Could it be that they wanted to rely on my Lao Li's salary?

"Don't be anxious, take your time, by the way, how much is it to buy a house?"

"No! No!" Cui Ping waved his hands repeatedly. He was not a little bit bad. How could he speak? Although he was embarrassed to borrow money, he had to find an opportunity to ask Li Qing'an for help, otherwise the meal would be in vain.

Cui Ping poured a glass of wine for Li Qing'an and smiled: "I advise General Li to buy a house in Chang'an as soon as possible. The house price is as price as the rice price. My father-in-law said that the Jianghuai River suffered heavy floods this year, and there was another drought in the Hedong area. Rice prices will definitely rise after the New Year, and the house price will also rise."

"Then won't it drop?"

"Subsequent?" Cui Ping shook his head and said, "It's not the Kaiyuan period now. It's easy to rise and fall but difficult to fall!"

After hearing Cui Ping's words, Li Qingan thought to himself: "I'm going to buy a house these two days."

“How much does it cost if I wanted to buy a house with a back garden and fully furnished house?”

"If you have a back garden, it will be at least five acres. I know one, located in Qinrenfang, with a price of one thousand guan, and a little more, at least not less than nine hundred guan."

"Well! Then when will Yuanwailang introduce me?"

"This is fine. I know that seller. I will tell you tomorrow."

The two of them drank a few more glasses of wine. At this time, Li Qingan asked intentionally or unintentionally, "I heard that Cui Youcheng's son will be admitted to the Jinshi next year, is there any such thing?"

Cui Ping was stunned for a moment, and laughed in silence and said, "Where did General Li hear the rumor? My uncle's eldest son Cui Yao is an official in another place. His second son Cui Ming passed away two years ago due to illness. He has no other son, but he still has two daughters."

"Oh! It's a pity to die young. It's a pity that the orphan and widowed mother are left behind. This is a sad life."

"It's even worse than this. My cousin is about to get married. The other party is the granddaughter of Jiang Jiao, the former Duke of Chu. Although his family has been in decline, he has been married since he was a child. In addition, the woman is good-looking, so the Cui family decided to marry her and enter the house, just to use Xi to get sick. Unexpectedly, Cui Ming passed away two days before the marriage, leaving behind a few people."

"Then can't she remarry?" Li Qingan smiled and said, "I was just a little curious and asked casually, but there was no other meaning."

"It is usually possible to remarry, but I have never really joined the family anyway. As long as the woman's parents propose it, they can be terminated. But my Cui family doesn't want the widow to remarry, so I will definitely refuse to break the engagement."

Cui Ping had just said this when he suddenly saw his wife wave to him in the inner room. He quickly got up and smiled and said, "General Li sits for a moment, I'll go."

"Please give me some advice!"

Cui Ping quickly walked into the inner room. He was about to ask, but Pei pulled him into the room and whispered: "Why do I think this General Li is for your cousin who is a slim man."

Cui Ping frowned and asked quickly: "How did you see it?"

"Based on my intuition, isn't that Jiang Wuyi very beautiful? I guess General Li must have fallen in love with her."

Cui Ping hesitated and said, "If this is the case, will he ask me for help when he comes to the door?"

"That's right! So you have to boldly make the terms and he will agree."

"But my uncle may not agree. And grandmother, she has always refused to allow the woman to remarry."

"Don't think about this, let him help you first, and then talk about that woman's affairs later."

Pei pushed him, "Go quickly! Remember, make a request."

Cui Ping nodded and returned to the dining table. He laughed dryly, raised his glass and said, "Come on! General Li, I will give you another cup."

"I respect you too."

The two of them drank a drink, and Li Qingan couldn't find the question for a while and asked about Jiang Wuyi. Cui Ping clenched his fists and suddenly laughed: "General Li, I have something I want to ask you for help, I don't know if I can..."

Li Qingan smiled and said, "Tell me, if I can do it, I will definitely agree."

"That's right. I am a Jinshi in the first year of Tianbao. I am a Qing rank official. I can be promoted to the fifth rank or above. However, the fifth rank is a big threshold. It is too difficult to get promoted. I have to have political achievements. But I spend all year round in the Shangshu Province, doing the same thing every day, doing nothing and doing something wrong. It is really difficult to come up with some political achievements. Zheng Deyu, another official, who has been with me, has been a member of the fifth rank, but he cannot break through the threshold of the fifth rank. I just thought that if I could be transferred to an official in another place, I might be able to achieve some political achievements."

Li Qing'an blinked and said, "I understand what Yuanwailang means, but I am just an officer in Anxi and don't know any senior officials of the Ministry of Personnel. How can I help you?"

Cui Ping hurriedly said, "Of course I know General Li himself can't do it, but......"

Speaking of the word "but", Cui Ping smiled embarrassedly, "As long as General Li helps me, I will do my best to help what General Li asks about today."

Li Qingan picked up the wine glass and glanced at Pei who was hiding behind the door. He squinted his eyes and smiled, "How do you want me to help you?"

Cui Ping was overjoyed and hurriedly approached Li Qing'an, lowered his voice and said, "As long as General Li says something to Gao Weng..."

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Chapter completed!