NOVEL WEB Chapter 27: My next plans
“Good. My initial plan was to leave the Yu residence in a month but with the current atmosphere… I would rather leave earlier. Let’s look at a small courtyard to rent first!”
I could not show my wealth before I was removed from the Yu ancestral book. Despite my different surname, my father requested them to add me under him in the family tree. The Yu members were not beneath using that reason to to play the ‘guardian’ card on me if they had an inkling of my real wealth. Especially after the news of the disappearance of my parents reaches them.
“I need you all to help me look for one just big enough for us so minimum 3 rooms…and maybe a carriage with a driver if we cannot rent a monthly one. Close to school if possible or the market district. We will just need to rent it for a month or two…what am I missing…Ah with a big kitchen. I plan to have a study room for all of us too. As for the price…well I am not sure how much a reasonable price would be. Do you know?” I asked grandma Li
“At the refugee center, I heard that a monthly rent in the city is a minimum of a hundred silver tael for a 2 room courtyard in the shelter area so I think this is the lowest price” Said Li Yao
“I prefer to leave those houses to refugees who could afford them” I said. “I can afford more expensive ones and pay with spiritual stones”
“Master, what do you plan to do after 2 months rent? Why only 2 months?” Grandma Li asked.
“By then, my parents should be here so they will be the ones to decide” I had to lie, I was not supposed to know that my parents were not coming back. At least they did not until my death in my first life and the first volume of the trashy book did not talk about them.
“I think you should rent for longer and a bigger place then. If you and your parents need to stay in this city and with the winter coming soon, you might not find a suitable place to rent” suggested grandma Li. She was really smart.
“I hope I can find a place to buy so those 2 months are really a way to give me more time to look for the perfect one”
There will be some vacancies available in the 2 months frame. With the secret realm closing, some of the families of the ones who return from there will choose to move out of the city. Either to go to cheaper ones if they did not gain much - or died - or to bigger ones if they hit the jackpot.
In my first life, with the sad news, the loss of the courtyard and family’s brainwashing, I was convinced to give money to my grandparents so they could buy a bigger residence. With only 150 medium grade spiritual stones, they bought a much bigger residence in the south district closer to the city center. In the end, they chose to put the old one under the name of my second uncle even if he lived in the big residence with them. The new residence was planned to be inherited by the first uncle. I, of course, was kicked out from the house I helped them buy 7 years later.
With an answer that showed that I thought it through, grandma Li was satisfied. In the future, she would only find that I was very lucky to find a good residence with a cheap price.
“We can go tomorrow to the city’s announcement board close to the school, there is a section for rent. Usually it is for a room for foreign students but I saw two for courtyards” suggested Li Yao “ I saw them when we were waiting for you” He most likely read everything on the board while waiting an hour for me today
“I can ask around tomorrow to find an agency that rent and sell houses in the areas you are looking for” added grandma Li
“Good. I have to go to school for a bit so we could start with the board” Those courtyards are most likely not adequate but I decided to humor Li Yao
“Tomorrow is an off day so I can sleep in. Oh and good news! School starts 1 hour later in the cultivation theory class. I can sleep a little longer in the mornings from now on!” I said like it was Christmas. Li Bo looked more happy than me. Maybe because he thought he would not need to wake me up with cold water anymore. Especially since it was his turn next time…hehehe Li Bo, soon you will find out that one extra hour in the morning is never enough…
“OK. going back to the rules. Just to make it clear again. No one in this residence has the right to ask you to do things for them or for me. If they ask you to give me a message, you can. If it is to bring me something or a surprise, you have to tell me in advance before giving it to me. Don’t open any of their ‘gifts’ by yourself; the analyzer, that is the magic tool I used on the meat, can do the safety check for us.
Also, if you are summoned by any member of the Yu family. Do.Not.Go. Tell them I forbid you. They can wait until I come back or send someone to talk to you in this courtyard. You are not allowed to go anywhere else in the residence WITHOUT ME. As soon as you go anywhere else in the residence, they could slander you as thieves or even worst”
This was based on the usual historical harems of my past life. I should have warned them the day I hired them. It was a miracle nothing was done against them in the last 3-4 days. We were lucky that there was a side door at this courtyard that we could use to go in and out without crossing the other areas.
