Early in the morning, Lin Jue got up from the warm embrace of the little county lord and prepared to move to the house in Tianshuijing Hutong. The little county lord was tired and struggling to get up to send her off, but Lin Jue pressed her back into the bed and told her that she didn't have to send herself. It's not really a separation, it's just a change of place to live, and the two houses are only seven or eight streets apart, but only five or six miles away, and there is no need for these at all.

The little county lord hugged Lin Jue and kissed him a few times, and then let Lin Jue get out. After tidying up, I went out of the back house to the front yard, and a carriage was already parked at the door. When I asked the housekeeper in the house, I knew that this was ordered by the county lord last night, and this carriage was given to Lin Gongzi for walking, so that Lin Gongzi could run around so as not to be tired of walking.

Lin Jue sighed at the carefulness of the little county lord, Guo Caiwei is sometimes virtuous and not like the county lord in the palace, there is no arrogance on her body, and her personality is also gentle and gentle, and Huixiu is completely different from her brother.

The happiest is Xiaohu, since he fell the royal horse to death in the snow valley in the Funiu Mountain, when he came and went during this time, he blamed himself every time he saw the tired appearance of Gongzi and Sister Green Dance. Now that he has this carriage, he can carry Childe and Midori Dance to and fro freely. With such a large capital, Childe has to run a lot of places, and this carriage is absolutely practical.

At the end of the hour, Lin Jue and his entourage arrived at the mansion in Tianshuijing Hutong. Xie Yingying, Xie Danhong and others had already greeted each other at the door. After moving their luggage and settling down in the back house, everyone gathered in the front house to discuss things. When Lin Jue left yesterday, he told Xie Yingying that it was necessary to finalize the location of the Grand Theater today, so that the decoration and overall design could begin immediately.

After everyone discussed for a while, Lin Jue proposed to go to see it on the spot in order to make a decision, so everyone went out and got into the car one after another, and rushed to the three locations in the previous photos of Xie Yingying and Xie Danhong and others to check on the spot.

Of the three locations in the photographs of Xie Danhong, Xie Yingying and others, two are in the inner city and one is in the outer city. The group first headed north, to the nearest part of the street, in the middle of the street, where the entertainment venues in the inner city gathered. There are Sangjia Wazi, Zhongwazi, Panlou and other famous entertainment places in the capital. The presence of Goolan Washer makes it a place where people gather.

Xie Danhong and Xie Yingying are in a two-story small building at the intersection of Mahang Street and Rendian Street. In terms of location, this is a great location. The entertainment industry can take advantage of the dense flow of people just where it is concentrated, and it can be said that the business will automatically have a source of customers when it starts.

However, the rent for this small two-story building is staggering. The landlord asked for an unacceptable price of 30,000 taels of silver a year, and demanded a one-time payment of one year's rent. What's even worse is that he refuses to let people transform it. Lin Juedang even beckoned everyone to get in the car and leave. No matter how good the location is, if you can't achieve the effect you want, it's not worth it for Lin Jue. In addition, the price of rent is unacceptable.

This time, the money for the semicolon was funded by Xie Danhong and Xie Yingying, and the two of them took out all the money and scraped together 40,000 taels of silver, which can be described as a ruin. Now the rent alone will cost 30,000 taels, how will it continue in the future?

Soon, a location on Quyuan Street, west of Yujie, was also ruled out by Lin Jue, almost for the same reason, making Lin Jue feel that the rent was too high, which would make the operating costs higher, and would affect the subsequent decoration and other aspects of the design budget. Lin Jue could not tolerate the use of a shoddy way to start the performance of the Grand Theater in the capital.

In this way, everyone had to leave the relatively prosperous inner city and rush to the last house in the outer city. It was a huge wooden building on a small street between the Cai River and the Bianhe River in the southeast corner of the city. Not only are there two-storey buildings facing the street, but there is actually a large mansion and more than a dozen houses in the back.

When I asked the price, the whole building and the house were added together, and the rent was 1,000 taels a month. and a year it is twelve thousand taels of silver. This price is nearly 60% cheaper than the rent in two places in the inner city. Moreover, the landlord only collects rent every six months, and agrees to renovate the wooden building in front of it. Just make a request, and ask for a restoration when you don't rent it in the end.

Lin Jue immediately made a decision to set this place as the foothold of the first branch of the Grand Theater in Beijing. However, Xie Danhong was quite worried about this decision.

"Lin Gongzi, people say, 'I'd rather fight for an inch of land in the city than a house'. We're going to open our doors for business, and the street is too small and too remote. It's not lively near the left, if this opens, who will see? Although the rent is cheaper, if the business is not good, it will be a loss if it is not opened. We've already vetoed this place before, and we went to the inner city to find two places, but I didn't expect you to choose this place. Do you want to think again? The matter of silver, the big deal is that the old body will take out the last 5,000 taels of pension silver. ”

Lin Jue said with a smile: "Sister Danhong, everything you do must be particular and cost-effective." Although there are differences between the inner and outer cities, I personally don't think there is much difference. For example, the inner city is really prosperous, with a lot of traffic, and maybe it will do good business. But business doesn't necessarily go bad here. I'll do the math for you. The rent can save 18,000 taels a year, and the big mansion next to it can allow the actors of the troupe to settle down, and the theater is close to the left, which not only saves the cost of settling, but also avoids the pain of fatigue. In a year, I saved a few thousand taels. Together, isn't it a good thing that just by moving the address, you can free up a balance of more than 20,000 taels of silver? ”

"As for the question of the source of customers, that's exactly the least thing I'm worried about. The first point is that the tens of thousands of taels of silver saved can make our later stage lighting and decoration of the theater get sufficient silver support, so as to achieve perfection, as long as the play is performed well, the stage effect is unique, and why worry about no one coming to see the play? Secondly, I can carry out the city-wide campaign and publicity, aren't we all familiar with these things in Hangzhou? I have a lot of marketing methods, in order to attract others to watch the play, we can even take a free trial to win word of mouth. If we have enough funds, we can rent a boat on the pier on the Bianhe River in the inner city to promote it, and pick up guests here for free. All in all, I'm very confident. Isn't it better to spend money in these things than to give it to the black-hearted landlords? ”

Lin Jue's words completely dispelled everyone's doubts. As soon as he said it, Lin Jue immediately signed a contract with the landlord and asked for a long-term lease contract. The landlord's family is naturally happy, originally their own property is difficult to rent out because it is located in a remote outer city, I thought that the other party would pay back the price or something, but I didn't expect that they not only did not bargain, but also willing to rent it for a long time, naturally they couldn't ask for it. However, the landlord is also a real person, and after he asked Lin Jue and the others clearly whether they wanted to do business here, he expressed his worries. But seeing that the other party insisted on this, he didn't say anything.

At the moment, after finding someone as a guarantee, signing a contract, and paying the silver taels, everything became a foregone conclusion.

At noon, everyone had a makeshift meal in a small restaurant, and in the afternoon, the actors, musicians, painters, craftsmen and others who had been notified arrived one after another. Lin Jue and the others summoned a meeting on the second floor of the slightly tidyed wooden building. Lin Jue announced that from now on, more than 30 actresses will move here to prepare for rehearsals for the new play. The rest of the people had to make every effort to prepare for the renovation of the theater, setting up the stage, set up the stage and lighting system.

After more than half a month of waiting for nothing, everyone was actually anxious and had no clue. But now that Lin Jue is back in command, everyone has a bottom in their hearts, and their mood is much better.

At the meeting, according to the architectural pattern of the two-story small building, Lin Jue discussed with everyone on the spot and drew a sample drawing on the spot. After some discussion and approval, the layout of the stage and the prototype of the structure of the theater were basically finalized. With this sketch, you can make a transformation according to the drawing. When the big picture is complete, the interior can be finely designed, and that's another story.

It was busy until the evening, and everyone returned to the house in Tianshuijing Hutong exhausted. Although everyone was exhausted to death, they were mentally excited. Today, under the leadership of Lin Jue, I did something that I hadn't done well for so many days. Now that the house has been rented and the planning sketches have been drawn, it will be possible to hire people to carry out the renovation on a large scale from tomorrow.

A group of people gathered excitedly in the front hall chattering and laughing, Lin Jue sat on the side and drank tea, and his heart was never more stable. Everything is slowly getting on the right track, I found the teacher and my wife, found the little county lord and found Xie Yingying, in a few days, from the strangeness and hesitation when I entered the capital, I can now sit in the house and drink tea peacefully. This has marked that I am slowly integrating into the city and slowly getting used to the life in the capital.

After dinner, Lin Jue suddenly remembered something, so he called Lin Hu and asked him to go to Yulin Lane to deliver a letter to Mr. Fang. The purpose was to inform Fang Dunru that he had changed his address. If Fang Dunru hadn't been informed, he would have thought that he was still living in the inn.

Lin Hu left in response, and Xie Yingying suddenly said: "Our house has no name, and Xiaohu is afraid that he can't tell clearly." Mo Ruogongzi should give the house a name. Send someone to make a plaque tomorrow and hang it. ”

Everyone applauded in unison, and they all looked at Lin Jue expectantly, wanting Lin Jue to give him a good name.

Lin Jue nodded and smiled: "It's okay, how can the residence be nameless." Kindness...... When we came yesterday, the two jujube trees at the gate of the courtyard were impressive. In May, it is the time for the jujube flowers to bloom, and the trees will be full of jujube flowers, and the branches will be fragrant. When the jujube flowers fall, they fall like rain, which must be even more beautiful. As the so-called 'jujube flowers fall on the cloth towels', let's simply call it the jujube garden here. ”

Everyone applauded in unison, thinking that the name was both nice and easy to remember, and it was not pretentious at all. The key is that Childe also made a poem in passing, which is even more rare. Xie Yingying thought to herself, this poem must also be engraved at the gate of the courtyard.

"Xiaohu, you tell Mr. Fang and Mrs. Fang, just say that we live in the jujube orchard in the alley of Sweet Water Lane. If there is something to do, look along the alley and find it. Midori commanded.