Landlord's Ancient Rental Manual

Yang Yongge, the "renter" of a modern urban village, holds seven sets of old house keys in his hand. He spends his days either pressing rent or fixing water pipes. His biggest dream is to renovate the walls into Morandi color. Unexpectedly, a heavy rain washed away the walls of the old house. He held the ancestral copper lease book to plug the gap, and when he opened his eyes, he fell into Suzhou Alley during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. The electronic rent reminder in his hand has turned into a rusty copper key, and the tenant has changed from "the post-95 generation who pays three thousand a month" to "the embroiderer who owes three months' rent, the salesman who does odd jobs, and the scholar who takes credit." Even the rent reminder has to be changed to "Sir, if you don't pay the rent, I will have to pawn your broken writing brush at the pawn shop." Others traveled through time and either became kings or prime ministers, but Yang Yongge discovered that renting a house in ancient times was even more difficult than in modern times—— "Landlord, this room is leaking!" "Wait a minute, I'll set up a ladder to repair it (by the way, I'll study how to sell ancient tiles for money)." "Landlord, the noise next door is so noisy that I can't sleep!" "Copy that, I'm going to mediate (taking the opportunity to find out who is the richest in the alley so that I can increase the rent)." "Landlord, can you give me credit? The peony picture I embroidered is almost finished!" "Let's see... Can this craftsmanship pay for two months' rent?" From using modern rental contracts to trick ancient tenants, to relying on tinkering with "landlord skills" to gain a foothold in the neighborhood, Yang Yongge gradually discovered that there were things more valuable than rent hidden deep in the alley - the gentleness of the embroiderer's fingertips, the responsibility on the shoulders of the salesman, the character of the scholar's pen, and the six hundred years of secrets about "home" hidden in the copper lease book.