Chapter 44 Relaxed
Yu Ren reached out and slapped Fatty Xu. "Dedicated to me! You said it nicely. I don't know the little thoughts in Fatty Xu's belly. Are you planning to use it for research! Is this research alone? When you get something out, you will benefit from it. Don't act well in front of me!"
Fatty Xu was very well-behaved. Seeing that the boss was showing his power, he did not defend himself. The two of them spoke while entering the bathhouse.
This bathhouse is really similar to the bathhouses in later generations. They both washed a single room and surrounded it with a screen-like thing, and even the place to change clothes was separate. However, they could clearly hear the conversations of people in the pool next to them.
Yu Ren entered inside, took off his clothes in a few seconds, and jumped into a small pool inside. However, he immediately jumped up again.
"Why is the water so cold?"
Fatty Xu laughed, "Boss, I haven't asked them to heat water yet! Of course it's cold. The ones there are originally cold water. If you want to blame, you can only blame you for being too impatient." Fatty Xu finally saw the boss who has always been conceited and smart to eat it, and felt happier than 100 taels of silver. With a thief smile on his face, Fatty Xu shouted outside loudly, "Boss, add water."
After a while, a man pushed a car with several buckets of hot water. The man poured the hot water into the pool, then reached out to test the water temperature, and asked Fatty Xu to test the water temperature, and then pushed the car away.
"In order to ensure cleanliness, our single room here needs to change the water every time the guests wash it, unlike the big room there. There are countless people washing the water from morning to night." Fatty Xu introduced to Yu Ren, while calmly taking off his clothes.
"Then, how much does this single room cost?" Yu Ren asked.
"Fifty dollars a room."
"Then, I'll do better in the bathroom next time!" As he said that, Yu Ren lay in the pool easily.
Fatty Xu couldn't help but sigh, "Boss, you are so stingy! I heard from Cao An that when you arrived in Hangzhou, you met a member of the ship who gave you Cheng Yi, who was 500 taels of silver. You got 500 taels of silver for nothing, but you are so stingy!"
Yu Ren reached out and asked to slap Fatty Xu again, but seeing how he took the initiative to shrink his neck, he took his hand back. "You guys, please let me know. I'm not stingy. I'm asking for money to spend, and I don't spend a penny more. This is not about taking a bath, so why do I have to wash the room alone? I'm afraid of being dirty, so I'll come to wash it early.
Do you think! Don’t look at Mr. Jiang who gave me five hundred taels, but this money is not enough! One of my brothers is going to Liaodong to avenge his father, so I gave him one hundred taels. Now I have posted more than thirty taels of hot air balloons we have made. You should be very clear about the materials you buy with Cao Han these days! This money! If you don’t do anything and just live at home, you will naturally not spend much. But if you want to do something, the money will be like running water. In order for our research to continue, you say I can’t save money!"
Fatty Xu didn't say anything anymore. He was completely convinced by Yu Ren and was also impressed by his personality charm. In the past, although he could not be considered a playboy, he never spent money. But now he decided to try not to spend money when he went out in the future. Save as much money as his father gave him and use it for everyone to study it in the future.
These days, Yu Ren has been on the mountain. There is no bed in the stone layer. He only uses straw to lay on the wooden boards, so he sleeps like this, so his body is particularly dirty.
In the pool, Yu Ren rubbed his whole body and then followed Fatty Xu out of the bathhouse with ease.
After leaving the bathhouse, Yu Ren looked up at the sky. It was almost noon. The two of them didn't dare to stroll around again, so they went straight to their destination: Yunjian Teahouse.
Yunjian Teahouse is located in Yongkin Gate on the shore of Xizi Lake. It is not far from the inn that Yu Ren and the others looked for the last time, and belongs to the prosperous area of Hangzhou City.
Although there was still more than an hour before the afternoon lecture, there were already many people in the teahouse. Yu Ren was actually not very interested in Mr. Qian’s lecture. He just wanted to take a look at what these Donglin Party members looked like. He remembered that he had seen many people mentioning Donglin Party in history books before, saying how they had the backbone to fight against Wei Zhongxian for life and death.
The last time in Changle, Yuan Chonghuan also praised the Donglin Party members. This made Yu Ren curious about what kind of people these Donglin Party members were, and why even people like Yuan Chonghuan admired them so much.
Yu Ren and Fatty Xu came to the door of Yunjian Teahouse. The servant who was guarding the door politely asked them for invitations, which were actually tickets. Just when Fatty Xu got the tickets, Yu Ren saw two people walking in quickly at the door. The servant at the door looked up and saw the two of them, hurriedly bowed to salute them, and said, "Mr. Zhao is here!"
Yu Ren turned his head and glanced at Mr. Zhao. He saw a young man wearing a blue Confucian shirt passing by them quickly. The man in a blue shirt did not turn around, and Yu Ren didn't have a chance to see his face clearly, but he glanced at his neck. The slender neck was soft and white, but clearly had no Adam's apple. Yu Ren's heart suddenly jumped. Could it be that this man was also a woman dressed as a man?
Yu Ren looked at the back of the man in blue, but the more he looked at her, the more he felt that she was like a person, the one who made him think about it day and night - Li Yu.
Yu Ren chased after a few steps, trying to get closer to see what happened, but was hit hard by a person who suddenly walked out of the side. Yu Ren quickly turned his head and saw that it was a young man half a head shorter than him. The man was also wearing a blue dress. Although he was dressed as a book boy, he was obviously a woman.
The girl obviously hit him on purpose. Yu Ren was wondering why this girl did this, but the girl glared at him fiercely, then chased the woman behind her and left.
Yu Ren laughed silently, "It seems that this little girl treats herself as a pervert."
However, looking at the figure of the woman before, she really looked like Li Yu. Could it be that there was such a coincidence? Yu Ren's heart suddenly became excited. But the little girl behind her was obviously not Ying'er, which made Yu Ren less confident in his speculation.
"Isn't this normal? A family like them can't have only one maid around. In Jia Baoyu's room, there are only four or five maids, and there are many inexperienced little maids! Maybe she didn't bring Ying'er with her when she came out today, but she brought other maids!" Yu Ren found a reason for herself.
Because the appearance of the woman whose back looks very much like Li Yu made Yu eager to chase into the teahouse and find out.
However, the servant who was guarding the door stubbornly refused to let them in before checking the tickets. But Fatty Xu's movements were very slow, which made Yu Ren very anxious. He kept looking back frequently.
When Fatty Xu finally checked the ticket, the servant had just said the word "please" and Yu Ren had already stepped into the door.
Yu Ren rushed to the main hall in three or two steps, but saw more than twenty tables in the lobby on the first floor. A large piece was empty at the bottom of the inside, and a little higher, making a table, which was indeed arranged very much like a venue. At this time, the tables in the venue had already sat more than half, while the five or six tables in the front row were empty.
Yu Ren glanced in the hall, but did not notice the woman in green clothes and the girl who glared at him later. Yu Ren was about to go up the second floor, but was stopped by a servant from a teahouse standing at the entrance of the corridor.
"I'm sorry, this young master. Our teahouse is not open to the public today. If you come to have a tea, please come again another day. If you come to listen to Mr. Qian's lecture, please sit on the first floor." Although the servant's words were very polite, they were in a tone of inconsistency.
"I'm looking for someone." Yu Ren said.
"Who are you looking for?" the servant asked.
Yu Ren thought for a while and wanted to find Li Yu, but just now he heard that the servant was clearly called "Mr. Zhao", which means that the man's surname was Zhao. Although he knew that the man's surname was Zhao, Yu Ren still did not give up completely. Because Li Yu's body exuded too much mystery. Therefore, even if she disguised herself and buried her name incognito, Yu Ren was not surprised at all.
Yu Ren had originally suspected that her name was fake, and he didn't dare to say whether her surname was Li.
"I'll look for Mr. Zhao." Yu Ren said.
The servant glanced at Yu Ren and did not dare to neglect it. "You always please wait here, so let me report it now." After that, the servant hurried upstairs.
After a while, the girl who deliberately hit Yu Ren walked downstairs.
"Who is looking for Mr. Zhao?"
Chapter completed!