Chapter 1357 It’s so scary
"Yiljidang? Xu Wenchang? I really haven’t heard of it." After thinking carefully for a moment again, the shopkeeper shook his head with certainty and said truthfully, "Of course it is possible. The shop is close to the corner of the street, so there is no information, and I am ignorant. You can go inside and ask. "
"Thank you, shopkeeper." Zhu Pingan said with a hand.
Next, Zhu Pingan and Liu Dadao walked along the cultural street and asked two stores one after another, but they both said that they had never heard of Yiljidang Private School, nor had they heard of it. Xu Wei and Xu Wenchang.
“Was it wrong?”
Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but have some doubts, and then took out the half of the calligraphy and painting from his arms and confirmed the date of signing. It was indeed the day before yesterday. According to Chu Xiong's statement, Xu Wei distributed the calligraphy and painting the day before yesterday to promote Yizhitang Private School, and it must still be in Yingtian now. , it is impossible to leave so soon.
Zhu Ping'an thought for a while and felt that Xu Wei's fame was still limited to his hometown in Shaoxing and not so famous in Yingtian Mansion, otherwise he wouldn't have recruited students by distributing calligraphy and paintings. It is precisely because of their low reputation that these shopkeepers have never heard of Yiljitang Private School and Xu Wei.
"Dadao, let's look carefully."
So, Zhu Ping'an cheered up and took Liu Dadao to carefully search for Yizhidang and Xu Wei in Cultural Street.
Walked over and walked back.
Zhu Ping'an and Liu Dadao walked back and forth on Wenhua Street and carefully searched all the shops and houses on both sides of the street. They did not miss any of them. However, they still found no trace of Yizhidang Private School or Xu Wei. After asking many times No one has heard of Yizhitang Private School and Xu Wei.
It is impossible for Xu Wei to disappear from the world! So there is a high probability that Chu Xiong made a mistake? !
Zhu Pingan stood on the street of Cultural Street, stretched out his hand and rubbed his forehead, and reorganized his thoughts.
Maybe Chu Xiong didn’t make a mistake, but he did.
Chu Xiong met Xu Wei in Wenhua Street and distributed calligraphy and paintings to promote Yizhidang Private School. This does not mean that Xu Wei opened a private school in Wenhua Street. Xu Wei may have opened a private school near Wenhua Street, but he was just a person from Wenhua Street. The traffic is relatively large, Xu Wei just came here to distribute calligraphy and paintings for publicity.
Zhu Ping'an asked about the rent of shops in Wenhua Street. Since Wenhua Street is a mature street with prosperous business, the rent is nearly half higher than that of the streets on the left and right. For a shop of about 30 square meters, the annual rent is eight taels of silver. This does not include transfer fees and considerable taxes and so on. After understanding the cost of opening a store in Cultural Street, Zhu Pingan was able to confirm his idea. Xu Wei's Yizhitang private school was not opened on Wenhua Street, but on other nearby streets.
Zhu Ping'an understood Xu Wei's personality. Xu Wei was a proud man. After becoming a scholar at the age of twenty, he had been taking the provincial examination unremittingly, but he had never passed the examination. The reason why he opened a private school in Yingtianfu was because he made a compromise with life in order to make a living. Judging from his current economic conditions, he would definitely not choose such a high-cost cultural street, but choose a nearby place with cheap rent. street.
"Dadao, let's go around the neighborhood."
Thinking of this, Zhu Pingan took Liu Dadao to the nearby streets to continue looking for Xu Wei and Xu Wenchang.
Zhu Ping'an's first choice is Pichai Street, which is adjacent to Cultural Street. Unlike Cultural Street, Pichai Street is a market street. Pichai Street is called Pichai Street because this street used to be a place where country people came to sell firewood from the east gate. Later, it gradually developed into a farmers' street selling firewood, agricultural products, vegetables, etc.
This street is noisy and chaotic, and the living environment is not as good as that of other streets such as Cultural Street. The residents are middle and lower classes. The rents of shops and houses on both sides of the street are more than half cheaper than those of Cultural Street.
Zhu Pingan inquired about it and found out that Pichai Street has the cheapest rental cost among the nearby streets. In addition, Xu Wei is now a scholar, and has failed in many provincial examinations. He is not well-known in Yingtian Mansion, and his private school can only attract people from the middle and lower classes.
So, Zhu Ping'an concluded that Xu Wei's Yizhitang Private School was most likely located on this street.
As expected, Zhu Ping'an and Liu Dadao were looking for people on this street, and only halfway through they found out about Xu Wei's Yizhidang private school.
"What, you are looking for Yiljidang Private School? I wonder where I have heard of it." After being asked by Zhu Pingan, a hawker selling sesame oil in the streets scratched his head and started thinking, "Oh, I remembered that there was a new private school recently opened in a dark alley in front of me, it seemed to be called Yichitang.”
"Thank you, little brother." Zhu Pingan was overjoyed when he heard this.
Following the instructions of the oil vendor, Zhu Pingan took Liu Dadao to this dark alley.
The alley has no name.
To say it's dark is actually an exaggeration. It's just that the alley is relatively closed and narrow, and the light is worse than the main street.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Pingan and Liu Dadao walked into the alley and searched around, but they did not find Yizhitang Private School
"Uncle, I want to ask you, is the Yiljitang Private School here?"
Zhu Ping'an met an old man in the alley, and asked the old man about the Yiljitang Private School.
"Yiljidang Private School is not far in front. The seventh one from here is the one with a crooked tree at the door. There is no plaque. It is a shared house. He rented one of them. Two houses.”
The old man answered Zhu Pingan’s question.
"Thank you, uncle." Zhu Ping'an cupped his hands and thanked him.
"Young student, you don't want to send your child to Lao Shizi Yizhitang Private School for education, do you?" The old man saw that Zhu Ping'an knew etiquette, and thought of the things at Yizhitang Private School, he couldn't help asking kindly.
"Well" before Zhu Ping'an spoke, the old man spoke again, "If you want to send your child to him for education, I would advise you to think about it carefully."< br>
Huh? !
Listening to the old man’s tone, it seems that he has a bad feeling about Iljidang Private School. Are you trying to dissuade yourself in good faith? !
Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but be stunned, "Old man, Yizhitang Private School"
"Young student, seeing that you know etiquette, I kindly remind you that it would be better not to give this private school to you."
The old man shook his head.
"Old man, I would like to hear the details." Zhu Pingan said with a cupped hand.
"The master of this Zhidang private school, Erwulang, is unreliable." The old man waved his hand and reminded Zhu Pingan.
Erwulang is the local dialect of Yingtianfu. It means bad-minded and neurotic. It means two hundred and five plus neurosis. Hearing the old man's description, Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but twitch his lips.
"Really, my house is not far from the house he rented, only one house away. The wife named Xu from Yijidang private school often screams and howls at night. It's really scary. A normal person would do such a thing. Ah. Also, how can he be a gentleman? The day before yesterday, I saw him sitting on the ground, talking to A firewood seller was chatting happily. The two of them were sitting on the ground, frying soybeans and drinking wine, and they got very drunk. The old man was afraid that Zhu Pingan would not believe it, so he specifically cited two typical examples to prove that Xu Wei was abnormal.
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