"How many rooms do you want to rent?"
"Can I rent more houses?" The head of the Bai family is named Bai Guitang. I didn't expect Erdaohe Village to be willing to rent more houses.
In his opinion, it would be nice if there was no competition at this juncture.
This is called missing out on the fact that there is no such store in this village. If everything goes well, you can make a lot of money in a year. It depends on whether you dare to do it.
"Your family has a lot of business, so I want to help you fight for it." Mrs. Xu is very good at talking. She is obviously helping Liu Laozhu, but she suddenly said that she is helping the Bai family to fight for it.
"Thank you so much, sister. As long as your village can afford it, it's best to have two rooms. I'm not greedy to ask for more. I'm afraid it will make you in trouble. But don't worry, no matter how many rooms there are, my Bai family will not If you rent it out to others, it is your family's business. Otherwise, you will disturb the rules of your village and make it a mess."
After hearing this, Mrs. Xu felt more at ease, and she was fluent in talking to people with clear eyes and minds.
Old Mrs. Xu thought to herself: Of the ten houses in the village, there is nothing to be reluctant to rent out if two of them are rented out.
On the one hand, judging from the reaction of the villagers today, there is a possibility that there will be empty houses left in the end.
That would be ugly. Others are fighting for it but they are not doing it. Alas.
On the other hand, Liu Laozhu was so short of money that he might as well spend one year's rent on infrastructure construction, which would benefit the villagers even more. Even she can use it to her advantage, so of course Mrs. Xu will make it happen.
Anyway, Liu Laozhu just wanted everyone to remember him well.
Liu Laozhu had mentioned it to her earlier on the road, saying that he would keep four rooms for himself and casually sell two rooms to get all the money back. Others don't know, but don't you know how much money we spent to buy the land?
Therefore, I had no intention of taking all ten houses and the remaining large open space as my own, leaving only four houses.
In addition, he also told her that if the land for these houses were to be divided in the future, it would be enough to leave a separate room for her Xu family, which would be worthy of the five taels of silver she originally sponsored. The conscience must be straightened.
I also planned to let this matter go out of the way. I wanted to announce it at the meeting today that when I was able to buy the wasteland, the Xu family helped the village collective five taels, but Mrs. Xu herself did not agree.
What are you talking about? Her three sons should think she is short-sighted.
She couldn't even convince herself. After all, her family was once short of money, so why did she give Liu Laozhu five taels of silver for no reason.
And she couldn't tell others the truth. It was donated to the village by the family in the live broadcast room. It was so pitiful to see everyone getting injured while fighting for Jiang.
All he could do was stop Liu Laozhu and ask his fourth uncle and seven uncles to speak privately about being a witness. Another one said: "Write me an IOU."
Just write the IOU, if one day we no longer do business collectively and the people in the village are dispersed, and these land and ten houses need to be divided, you can convert it into the proportion of the money I originally invested in you, and write down that you owe me a house to the Xu family. Just carve out an extra space.
It's better to ask for something affordable than the villagers giving her a high hat. It's like taking back the kindness of the family members in the live broadcast room. If one day the village really encounters any difficulties again, she will help.
Liu Laozhu was still complaining at that time, saying why I always give you IOUs. When you owe me, I write it, and when I owe you, I still write it.
In short, this is the decision about houses and homesteads.
Mrs. Xu thought of this at this time. In fact, she had unilaterally decided to rent two rooms to the Bai family.
For development, it is best to sell everything.
The things the Bai family sells can just make up for the shortcomings of selling expensive gifts to distinguished guests in their village.
Another point is that the boy from the Bai family who can read is already a scholar. If he catches the opportunity and becomes a scholar, it will be good for the village to open a shop here. At least if the outside news is known, it will be timely.
However, Mrs. Xu didn't tell the truth. She couldn't say that I alone had the final say, and Liu Laozhu had to listen to me.
Instead, he asked, "Does the other store also sell deer antlers, bear paws, or something like that?"
Together with your Bai family, you have more bear paws than other brothers.
Mrs. Xu explained: "Don't misunderstand me, so as not to sell the same thing, even if we are here, we still have to ask, I am here
You need to make it clear what you are saying. "
Bai Guitang expressed his understanding and wanted to at least tell the truth to the middleman: "That's not true. If we can rent two rooms, the other one will sell furs."
Bai Guitang remembered what his youngest son said. After the mutual trade, all kinds of furs would flow in, and the furs here are already good. Find a suitable place, one sells ginseng, deer antlers, robes, bear paws and other treasures, and one specializes in selling fox, mink, leopard and rabbit furs and leathers. The merchant will take action if he catches his eye on the way back. .net
The Bai family originally planned to buy a shop in the town.
But a few days ago, his youngest son also said that the prices of the shops in the town had increased too much, and it was not cost-effective to buy them. In terms of benefits, it is better to go to Erdaohe Village. I always feel that the village will be extraordinary.
He asked his youngest son at that time, why was it unusual? That bastard didn't have the grace of a scholar at all, and actually said that the more jealous he was, the more unusual he was.
It just so happens that our family is not related to the Erdaohe Xu family?
The Xu family is not ordinary either.
The more people who attract secret attention, the more it means that the Xu family is special.
Dad, go and ask if you can rent a house. It would be best if it is next to Xu's house.
Just like that, when Bai Guitang heard that Mrs. Xu was finally back, he quickly brought his sister to the door.
This time, Mrs. Xu was completely relieved and even licked her tongue inwardly.
Look at the leather and deer antlers, when will our family be able to do this kind of business?
Fortunately, she doesn't feel inferior. What are we? We only have a few months of wealth, while the Bai family has a century-old family fortune. Don't be in a hurry, don't be afraid of being late for a good meal.
Mrs. Xu motioned to the Bai family to sit down, "Then I'll call Zheng Zheng from our village. You can discuss how many rooms he can rent to your house and the rental price."
The Bai family girl immediately answered, "Sorry to trouble you, old sister."
"Sit, sit, it's no trouble, I'm just running some errands.
I, to be honest, am really looking forward to your coming. For my family, it is convenient to buy a tank and add a jar in the future.
And your family can really sell the jars in the house. Those merchants who dropped the jars on the road can make up a bowl, and this can be replaced. "
The Bai brothers and sisters smiled and nodded in agreement.
But I thought in my heart that no one succeeds casually. The fact that the Xu family is so famous now must be related to their warm-heartedness in helping you casually.
After Mrs. Xu went out with a smile, she went to the warehouse to find Xu Laoer and Xu Tianxin, and asked them to come in to chat with the guests and drink some tea.
At that time, the uncle and nephew were squatting in front of a pile of wood and staring at each other.
Xu Tianxin looked at the half-finished wood carving, widened his eyes and lied and encouraged: "Second uncle, the carving is very good." The features of her and grandma hanging on the tower as a piao on the day they just traveled through were carved out.
The second uncle looked at the essence through phenomena and carved out the soul.
Just don’t carve it anymore.
What she wanted was the scene of the live broadcast with her grandma sitting in front of the camera (as shown on the cover of this book). She really didn’t expect that the second uncle was carving two Ah Piao, and the mobile phone in front was carved into a cross with a fill light.
Xu Laoer asked in confusion: "What is a cross? Didn't you ask me to carve a mahogany sword in this painting?"
Well, peach wood sword, if it were chiselled on soap, I would really love this dynasty. Where is this trademark? Those who don’t know think that they are illegal and snobbish outside the country, as if they are casting a spell to scare you, and using my soap, you will have nowhere to escape.
When Mrs. Xu came in, she listened twice and couldn't help but smile and persuade:
"Bao'er, you are a good kid, but you just like to make the same mistakes as the rich family. You have all four eyes. Our family's conditions haven't reached that point yet, so you have to change.
Listen to me, don't make it difficult for your second uncle to do the fine work. He has a lot of rough work waiting in the cupboard.
And if you want to say that the old man and the young man were carved into the soap by us, wouldn’t they have used us both up? We can do nothing else.
If you really don't want such a design, why not, as I said before, only the outer layer of paper wrapping the soap is printed with the stamp of the picture on the card. Then you have to spend money to find someone to engrave it, and we can print it ourselves.
Your second uncle can't read a word of Chinese characters. How can he do this? You think too highly of him. "
Xu Laoer: "
..." Just give good advice, why do you still criticize others?
Xu Tianxin just listened to the advice and had a full meal. He nodded and had no choice but to do this. The second uncle has a lot of things to do, and some things are easier to do by hiring someone to carve them.
Then Mrs. Xu explained her purpose of coming and whispered a few words to her second son and granddaughter.
Xu Laoer and Xu Tianxin were both surprised: "Is there money in the village?"
"This isn't just delivered to your door, it's coming soon."
"Also, Bao'er, regarding your matter, the Bai family has scholars and knows a lot of people, so you can also ask about it while chatting with me."
Got the order.
After Mrs. Xu left, she saw that the uncle and nephew rushed into the room, clearly dividing their duties and chatting with them.
Xu Tianxin called the girl from the Bai family, Grandma Bai, and was asking the female guest:
"Grandma Bai, have you heard of the Fragrant Mountain near us?"
The girl from the Bai family was stunned: "I have heard that spices and flowers are famously cheap there, what's the matter?"
"It's like the first time we go to get the goods. Can someone sell it to us at a good price? Don't bother us to go there. The two-day trip back and forth is wasted. The price is not much different from that in the town, so it's not worth it. , I thought I’d ask around first.”
The girl from the Bai family's eyes flashed: "Is it your family that wants to buy flowers and plants, or someone in the village that wants to buy them?"
Xu Tianxin explained that it was his own: "I still want to buy a lot."
"Oh, if your family wants to buy it..."
The girl from the Bai family looked at her eldest brother secretly, but she was helpless that her eldest brother was busy chatting with the second son of the Xu family, and they were still chatting lively.
The Bai family girl thought to herself: Then she needs her scholar nephew to help write a letter.
This girl from the Xu family really asked the right person.
Because it was Xiangshan who was rented by the family of her classmate who was very close to her nephew.
And if you don’t know someone who recommends it, it won’t be retailed at all. It will be supplied directly to the city.
The Bai family girl thought that it would be good to combine two interests into one. She had to rent a house tomorrow and have to go out with the Xu family. It would be best to ask her nephew to help write a letter.
Her nephew's classmate failed the scholar test again and again, so he often copied her nephew's notes. Considering the friendship between the two, they must be able to do it in one letter.
But Grandma Bai didn't finish her words, what if her eldest nephew didn't help.
Although this possibility is very small, the youngest nephew in her family, Monkey, has become very smart and can make friends:
"When do you plan to go to Xiangshan?"
"Leave tomorrow."
Grandma Bai didn't ask why she was so anxious about what she was going to do to buy flowers. Instead, she said, "Okay, you wait for the letter, and I'll ask you when I get back."
I have already made up my mind. If my nephew helps write the letter, he will send a man to deliver the pot with the letter and the pot when he gets home. It happens that the Xu family wants to buy twenty stone pots, and it will not delay their trip tomorrow morning.
Xu Tianxin was very happy when he heard this.
Because there are not many flowers in this season, we are not well prepared this year. She still used mountain roses that she had picked at home.
If you want to go to an outside drugstore to buy a lot of flowers and plants, distill them into essential oils, and drop them into soap, even though the dosage is small, the cost will still be much higher.
The cost of making a bubble kit like Grandpa Guan did is even higher. She and Grandpa Guan studied it together.
In this way, if you can buy flowers and mint in large quantities and ship them back, eight thousand soap locusts can save at least four or five taels of silver.
On the other side, Xu Laoer and Bai Guitang were discussing pottery water pipes.
The Bai family has a kiln factory. Bai Guitang is modest and does not own a business. He only bought shares in it a few years ago. But kilns, pottery, stone tiles, and even iron are all belong to the industry regardless of family, so he must know someone in this field.
Xu Laoer was chatting with Bai Guitang as he opened the Kang mat and started drawing with wooden branches on the soil. If you look closely at what he drew, you will see that it is a three-way direct elbow of a modern water pipe, where the water pipe is connected. It’s just that it’s not common here, and it’s not called that.
Bai Yutang was surprised: "How do you know this?"
Xu Laoer said embarrassedly: "I have worked as a ditch digger and have seen this kind of thing before. So I just want to ask you, what is this thing like?"
Is the thing expensive? If our village ordered a batch of these ceramic pipes, which are roughly the same length from the front yard to the back yard of my house, how much money would it cost. "
Bai Guitang guessed that it was used on the shop side. Because most households cannot afford to bury pipes, domestic sewage is directly dumped into trenches, which is troublesome but not expensive.
He pondered for a moment: "If you dig the pipes by yourself, and connect the pipes to the house as you said, if you don't count the labor and only pay for the materials, it will cost eight taels of silver."
Xu Laoer quickly asked: "What if we install another water inlet pipe at the wellhead? It's our pulley well, and the water on that side comes out of the pot in the house."
"If I find someone for you, it will cost twenty taels."
At the same time, Liu Laozhu outside Xu's house didn't dare to enter the hospital, so he almost grabbed Mrs. Xu: "We are talking about twenty taels of small thatched houses. We are about to grab them. Is this okay? ? That’s called renting, and you have to pay it back for one year. I’m afraid I’ll offend someone for nothing.”
Mrs. Xu was angry. It was not easy to come back all the way. She was surrounded by villagers and had to break through the siege with great difficulty. She also had to argue with Liu Laozhu:
"Everyone will rent at this price from now on, and we won't rent to ordinary people. Just tell me, do you know how much money people can make selling a bear paw? Do you know that there is an old shabby shop in the town? Can it be sold for two hundred taels of silver? It’s like we either don’t open or we can’t open for half a year.”
"Why did you sell your brother to me?"
So when Liu Laozhu and Mrs. Xu entered the house, they were chatting happily.
The Bai brothers and sisters were still wondering who was chatting with whom until they left.
That uncle and nephew gained a lot.
As for the rental of the Bai family, after they looked at the house, they saw that the kang had been set up, the roof was very flat, and the area was large. Mrs. Xu came forward to help and even gave them a shed for tying mules and oxen in the back. , but there was no bargaining. There is only one condition: rent for two consecutive years.
Bai Guitang remembered what his younger son said, maybe the mutual market has only been doing well for a few years, can he still be used to it? Any bloody general here, after recharging his energy and training his troops for a few years, will never feed the appetite of foreigners. When the city gates are closed, salt and iron will be banned again. He'd be better off signing for two more years.
Isn't that right? When Liu Laozhu received the rent of forty taels, the first thing he did was angrily scold the villagers. He asked you to rent a house to you for half a tael a month. Let's see how much the rent would be if he resold a house.
The second thing was that Le Diantian came to Xu's house for a small meeting: "How should I spend my money?"
Mrs. Xu said:
"You first take out twenty taels to contribute, one outlet pipe, one water inlet pipe, and then another five taels to connect the pipes to the new windlass well.
It just so happens that your wife doesn't know what she wants to do, so let's share the bathroom together.
Hiring people to do the work is for hiring people, and we both earn some hot water money. The villagers all have a way to earn pocket money by taking baths and repairing their feet. "
"Didn't you mean Yusheng and the others..."
"Re-dividing, the families in Yusheng who have the ability to buy food must make meals, otherwise they won't sell food, and they all clamor to work to earn cash. Is it enough to just rely on my caravan?
I have already made a plan for them. They sell box lunches for dozens of coins each.
One family sells rice porridge with pies. Four pies and a bowl of porridge are a set meal for 40 cents.
Lao Wan’s sells tofu meatball casserole pancakes, tofu, cabbage and potato soup pancakes, and his shop has a lot of beans. I can provide training if necessary. "
Liu Laozhu went out in a hurry again. What kind of meeting was he holding? They needed to hold another small meeting.
In addition, he hurriedly sent people to the new house to shout: "Stop now, leave three rooms free and don't repair them. You promised grandma to use cow dung and horse dung to build a castle bath outside the house."
So that night, the villagers were still looking forward to the meeting, but only Xu Tianxin stood on the stage with the list and called names: "Mai Miao..."
Mai Miao was happy, she knew that she and Tian Xin should be sisters for nothing.
"Chunxing, Hongying, Yangjiao, Erpang...whoever comes up with their names, come with me."
The mothers and grandmothers of these girls are jealous. The village committee is not as reliable as Tian Xin, a child. When people say they are hiring people, they actually announce it.
