Ichijitang? Xu Wenchang? Indeed I have never heard of it.”The shopkeeper once again seriously thought for a moment before shaking his head with certainty and truthfully said, “Of course it is possible that the small shop is close to the street, the news is closed, and I’m out of the loop, the gentleman can go inside and ask around.”
“Thank you, shopkeeper.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand and thanked him.
Next, the two of them, Zhu Pingan and Liu Dazhou, searched inside along the Culture Street while asking two more shops one after another, but they all said that they had not heard of the Yizhi Tang Private School, nor had they heard of Xu Wei Xu Wen Chang.
“Mistaken?”
Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but have some doubts, then took out the half of the calligraphy and painting from his pocket, confirmed the date of the inscription, it was indeed the day before yesterday, according to Chu Xiong’s words, Xu Wei distributed the calligraphy and painting to publicise the Yizhi Tang private school the day before yesterday, and now he must still be in Yingtian, and couldn’t possibly have left so soon.
Chu Pingan thought for a moment, think it should be Xu Wei’s fame is still limited to Shaoxing home, in Yingtian Province fame is not so big, otherwise it would not be the distribution of calligraphy and paintings of the way to enrollment. It was because of the lack of fame that these shopkeepers had not heard of the Yizhitang Private School and Xu Wei.
“Dagger, let’s look more carefully.”
Thus, Zhu Pingan got into the spirit and led Liu Dazhu to carefully search for Yi Zhi Tang and Xu Wei on Culture Street.
Walking over and back.
Zhu Pingan and Liu Dazhou walked back and forth in the Cultural Street, and carefully searched the shops and houses on both sides of the street twice, and did not miss any of them, but still did not find any traces of Yi Zhi Tang and Xu Wei, and asked a lot of people, and no one had ever heard of Yi Zhi Tang and Xu Wei.
Xu Wei could not have evaporated! Then the probability is that Chu Xiong is mistaken?
Zhu Pingan stood on the street of Culture Street, reached out and rubbed his head, reorganising his thoughts.
Perhaps, Chu Xiong did not make a mistake either, it was himself who made a mistake.
Chu Xiong encountered Xu Wei distributing calligraphy and paintings to promote Yi Zhi Tang private school in Culture Street, it does not mean that Xu Wei opened Yi Zhi Tang private school in Culture Street, Xu Wei may have opened a private school near Culture Street, it is just that the foot traffic in Culture Street is relatively large, so Xu Wei came here to distribute calligraphy and paintings to engage in publicity.
Zhu Pingan inquired about the shop rent on Culture Street, because Culture Street is a mature, prosperous street, the rent is more expensive than about half of the street, about thirty square feet of shops, the rent of eight taels of silver a year, not counting the transfer fee and the number of taxes and so on. After understanding the cost of opening a shop in Culture Street, Zhu Pingan has been able to determine the idea of the party. Xu Wei’s Yizhitang private school was not opened in Culture Street, but in other streets nearby.
Zhu Pingan knew Xu Wei’s character, Xu Wei was a proud man, after winning the Xiu Cai at the age of twenty, he had persisted in taking the countryside examination, but he had never been able to win the examination. The reason why he opened a private school in Yingtian Province, it was a compromise to life in order to make ends meet and earn a living, with his current financial condition, he would definitely not choose the Cultural Street that cost so much, but rather a nearby street with cheap rents.
“Big Dagger, let’s go around the neighbourhood.”
Thinking of this, Zhu Pingan took Liu Dazhou to a nearby street to continue his search for Xu Wei Xu Wen Chang.
Zhu Pingan’s first choice was Split Chai Street, which was close to Culture Street, and unlike Culture Street, Split Chai Street was a market street. The reason why the street is called Chop Chai Street is because this street used to be a place where people from the countryside would pick firewood and sell it from the east gate, and then it slowly developed into a street for selling firewood, agricultural goods, vegetables, etc. This street is quite noisy and chaotic.
This street is more noisy and chaotic, the living environment is not as good as Culture Street and other streets, the residents are the lower middle class, the shops on both sides of the street, the rent of the houses is also cheaper than the Culture Street more than half.
Zhu Pingan inquired and found that Chopping Street was one of the cheapest rental costs among the neighbouring streets. In addition, Xu Wei was now a Xiu Cai, who had repeatedly failed in the countryside exams, and did not have too high a reputation in Yingtian Prefecture, so the object that his private school could attract could only be the middle and lower classes.
Therefore, Zhu Pingan deduced that Xu Wei’s Yizhitang private school was most likely to be opened on this street.
As expected, Zhu Pingan and Liu Dazhou both looked for and asked people on this street, and only halfway there, they inquired about the news of Xu Wei’s Yizhi Tang private school.
“What, you’re looking for the Yizhi Tang private school ……I’ve heard of it somewhere ……”A street vendor selling perfumed oil was asked by Zhu Pingan, scratched his head and pondered, “Oh, come to think of it, there’s a dark alley in front of us that recently opened a new private school, it seems to be called something like Yi Zhi Tang.”
“Thank you little brother.”Zhu Pingan was overjoyed at his words.
Following the oil vendor’s directions, Zhu Pingan brought Liu Dazhou to this black-painted mawu alley.
The alley had no name.
Saying that it was dark and numb was actually an exaggeration, it was just that the alley was more closed and narrow, and the light was worse than the main street.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Pingan and Liu Dazhou walked into the alley and searched around, but actually did not find the Yizhi Tang private school ……
“Master, ask your old man, is the Yizhi Hall Private School here?”
Zhu Pingan met an old man in the alley, so he asked the old man about the news of the Yi Zhi Tang Private School.
“Yi Zhi Tang private school ah, not far in front, from here count the seventh home, the door has a crooked neck tree that is, which has what plaque ah, is a joint rent, he rented two of the houses.”
The old man answered Zhu Pingan’s question.
“Thank you grandpa.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand and thanked him.
“Late-born, you wouldn’t want to send your son to the private school of Yizhi Hall, would you?”Seeing that Zhu Pingan knew how to be courteous, the old master thought of those things in the One Branch Hall private school and couldn’t help but ask kindly.
“Well ……”Before Zhu Pingan could say anything, the old man opened his mouth again and continued, “If it is a desire to send your family’s wee one to his which Montessori, I’d advise you to think about it.”
The old man’s tone of voice seems to be a bit of an understatement!
Listening to the old master’s tone, seems to have bad senses towards Yi Zhi Tang private school ah, kindly discourage yourself?
Zhu Pingan could not help but be stunned, “Old master, One Branch Church Private School ……”
“Late-born, seeing that you know your manners, I am kindly reminding you that this Yi Zhi Tang Private School ah is better not to give it away.”
The old master shook his head.
“Old master, I wish to hear more.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand and said.
“The husband of this Yi Zhi Tang private school ah Erwu Langdang ……Unreliable ……”The old master waved his hand and reminded Zhu Pingan.
Erwulangdang is the local dialect of Yingtian Province, which means a bad mind, nervous, a two hundred and five plus a psychopath. Hearing the old man’s description, Zhu Pingan could not help but tug at the corners of his mouth.
“Really, my house is not far from the house he rented, it’s only separated by one family. A branch of the private school of that surname Xu’s husband, often ghosts at night, howling wolves ah, the old scary, normal people that would do this kind of thing ah. And ah, where he has what a husband like ah, the day before yesterday I also saw him sitting on the ground, with a firewood seller chatting happily ah, two people sitting on the ground, with fried soybean drink, drink drunk ……”.
The old man was afraid that Zhu Pingan did not believe, deliberately cited two typical examples to prove that Xu Wei is not normal ……
