Chapter 25 Buying a House
Time flies, time is like an arrow, and five years have passed in a blink of an eye. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe children of the Lin family have grown up. The eldest daughter Lin Xiujuan is fifteen years old, and the Qi family has already released the news that she is going to find her daughter's in-laws. Lin Yukou was fourteen years old, and the year before last, he asked Mr. Lin to send him to his senior brother in the county town to learn carpenter's trade. Lin Yujuan is also twelve years old, probably because she has drunk a lot of goat milk, and she is almost as tall as Xiujuan. The youngest Brother Lin is also ten years old this year.
In the past few years, under the condition that Lin Yujuan has persistently brainwashed her family, the family's house has not been rebuilt. I'm going to go to town and buy a house in the front and back yard. However, this house is not something that can be bought immediately if you want to. I've been looking for this for almost a year, and I've looked at several of them and it's not suitable. Yesterday, the Chinese told me to go to see the house today.
With the efforts of the whole family, the kimchi business has shown an upward trend year by year in recent years. With the introduction of several delicious sauerkraut dishes in the town, several restaurants have launched one after another. Eating methods such as sauerkraut fish, sauerkraut roasted large intestines, and shredded sauerkraut meat are slowly becoming popular in this area. Anyway, this sauerkraut is a versatile one, and you can fry it with anything. Ordinary villagers will often go to the place where the Lin family has a stall to buy some sauerkraut, kimchi or something.
The Lin family's annual income has gradually risen from more than ten taels at the beginning to more than thirty taels in the past two years. In addition, the family also raised pigs, sheep, and ducks, and the family did odd jobs or something in the past five years, and they also saved 1780 taels of silver. It wasn't until last year that the Qi family saw that the money in his hand was almost there, and he was brave enough to go to the Chinese to ask what the price of the house with a shop in the town was. I inquired about a few of them, and they all said the same. Depending on the location of the shop and the new and old conditions of the house, there are from early 100 to more than 200 taels. The layout of the shops on the street is similar. The front is a pavement, and the back is three two-compartment with a yard, which happens to be a mouthpiece.
As soon as they heard that there was a suitable house, the family got up early. After breakfast, I helped to carry the kimchi and sauerkraut to be sold on the boat. A family of five (Lin Yukou was learning a craft in the field) went to the street to catch the morning market. When he arrived in the town, Lin Yusuo followed Lin Guilu to deliver kimchi and sauerkraut to major restaurants and restaurants. Qi and his three daughters still sell their own dishes in the same place where they used to set up their stalls.
I've been making kimchi for five years, and the kimchi soup is all old. It's spring, and it's almost good to soak the vegetables for two days. Summer is just one day. There are kimchi jars everywhere in several rooms at home, so you have to be careful when walking. I thought that I would be able to go to see the house after the morning market ended. The mother and daughter all felt that time was too slow today, and after a while, Lin Guilu and his son came after delivering the dishes. There were a lot of people coming and going, and after a while, the Chinese man surnamed Sun also came here to look for their family.
"Hehe, Second Brother Lin, your family's business is really good." The Chinese surnamed Sun said hello, but he didn't urge, just stood aside and talked to introduce the situation of the house.
"Hehe, Lao Sun, let's earn a hard-earned money. How can you be as capable as you, others say that it is a million profits, and when it comes to you, it is not even a cost. Lin Guilu also joked with this old grandson.
"Hehe, Lao Sun, I'm also hard money, hard money." However, the smiling look was obviously due to Lin Guilu's words, and he felt that what he said was too right. Think about it, although his grandson is just a middle-aged person and a broker, no matter what real estate, shops, fields, even if they are bricks, ships, cotton grain, they are involved. What I do is a business without capital, because of my brain work and wide information, I earn a lot of money in a year.
Lin Guijuan on the side heard the word "Old Sun", and her brain was already thinking of Sun Dasheng uncontrollably. Lin Guilu has been talking about this for a while, and he is embarrassed to let the family wait any longer. So he wanted Qi to sell it here first, so he went to see it first. When Qi heard this, he wanted to buy a house in this town for almost five years, and he was finally about to realize his dream, and he couldn't wait for a moment. At the moment, the business was not done, and the stall was closed. The husband and children were beckoned to move under the partition in the middle compartment of the ship, and the planks were laid and locked. It was full of pickles with soup. This is the foundation of the Lin family's fortune, and it is necessary to do a good job of secrecy at all times.
The group followed Lao Sun to the west of the bridge, and they didn't go far, but they arrived at fifty or sixty meters. Lao Sun led them into the courtyard through the side door in the alley next to them. As soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw a man in his forties who was a little well-dressed. "Old Sun, these are the buyers."
"Yes, it's this Boss Lin. You should have the impression that this is the one that sells pickles here in Qiaotou. Lao Sun introduced the two parties, "This is Boss Jia, and his business is very big." There is a house shop in Taizhou City, but I can't see this in the town, so I want to sell it. ”
Everyone understood this, and Boss Jia took a few people around the yard. The house is a three-room two-compartment and is in semi-new condition. The three main rooms were empty and there was nothing. The cleaning was also very clean. It's just that most of the windows in the houses of this era are not large, so the inside of the house does not look very bright. Of course, it's much better than at home. The left and right wings are divided into four rooms, and the east side is a wing room with a kitchen. On the west side of the alley is also a room and a utility room, and the side door is separated from the entrance and exit. The courtyard is more than 30 square meters in size, and it is paved with green bricks. There is also a small flower bed in the middle. There are a few canna plants planted in it.
It looks like this house has always been inhabited, and there is no sign of dilapidation. After everyone walked around twice and finished reading, Boss Najia introduced the front shop situation: "There are two shops in front of this courtyard, one of which was originally used by my family." I rented the other room to Ma Lao Liu's house on this street to make groceries, and the rent was paid by him once a year, four taels of silver a year. At the end of the year, you can decide whether to rent or refund. ”
"How do you sell this house?" Lin Guilu asked.
"One hundred and fifty taels." Boss Jia said.
"Let us discuss it, and I'll give you an answer later," Lin Guilu said.
After the family greeted them, they all went to the alley to discuss. "How's it going, is the house okay?" Lin Guilu asked his wife how many children he had.
"Look at this half-new house, and add two shops for more than a hundred taels of silver. Isn't it expensive? Qi asked, thinking that the more than 100 taels of silver would be gone in a blink of an eye. Although I changed houses, I still feel pain when I think about it.
"Mom, don't talk about this house, just these two shops will charge eight taels of silver a year. If you think about it, you don't have to do anything at home. Twenty years to earn it back. Lin Yujuan thought that she could earn a lot of silver.
"Mom, I see it's not far from the river, it's not a short walk away, it's quite convenient. Although this is not the main street to the east of the bridge, most people go to the neighborhood to buy and sell things, and it is not far from us. We drank it for a few days, and everyone knew that the Lin family's pickles had moved here. In the future, it will not be so hard to do business. Isn't there just an empty shop? Of course, it would be better if the price was a little less. Lin Xiujuan also gave her own opinion.
My sister has been talking about marrying in town, but she remembers it. Who would want to dig in the soil if they can? She can see that honestly farming is not as profitable as making kimchi at home. I often hear others say that it is better to have a lot of money than a skill. Most of the shops on this street are people who have their own crafts. It would be nice to find a shop on this street as my sister said. Yes, thinking far again, Lin Xiujuan quickly pulled back her thoughts and continued to pay attention to buying a house.
The result of the family's final discussion was that the house should be bought, but it would be better if it could be less than ten or twenty taels. Lin Guilu made up his mind, and went into the yard to discuss the price with the owner again, "Boss Jia, we look at your house quite suitable, but can this price be a little less." ”
This Boss Jia looked at how he was asking for a bargain, "One hundred and forty-five taels, it can't be less, and I am also in a hurry to make a move, and the price is very real." ”
"But your shop is still rented out for four taels, and it's only been two months since the New Year. Is it a little less? "Qi can now remember the net income of eight taels that year.
"Hey, Boss Lin, your family is really powerful. Forget it, then it's four taels less. One hundred and forty-one taels, no more counteroffers. I'm going to have to pay for it. "Boss Jia can't help it, you must know that she shouldn't have lost five taels just now when she mentioned this rent.
Lin Guilu originally wanted to make up a whole number to one hundred and fourteen, but when he saw that people said so, he could only stop thinking about it. "Okay, that's what you said. Old Sun, you can help us make the deed. ”
"Alas, all right! Boss Jia, Boss Lin, let's go to the grocery store in front of us and borrow a place to sit down and write. By the way, I asked him to be a witness. Lao Sun saw that the deal was negotiated, and he felt that beautiful in his heart. Beckoning a group of people, they went to the grocery store in front of them and borrowed the local deed. Lin Guilu is not illiterate, and he can still write his name with hundreds of simple words. However, I still let the three children come forward to take a look at it before they can rest assured.
The deed was in a ready-made format, and both the buyer and the seller signed it, and Lao Sun himself signed his name, and asked the owner of the grocery store to be a witness and signed it. After the deed was made, Lin Guilu took out two silver tickets with body temperature from his arms. One hundred and one fifty were handed to Boss Jia. Boss Jia took the silver ticket and carefully verified it. He also found nine taels of silver for Lin Guilu. Lin Guilu picked up the deed representing the ownership of the house on the counter, dried the ink, folded it neatly and put it in his arms. The family couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they finally bought a suitable house. Over the past year, I've seen several houses back and forth. This time, I finally managed to buy a house that the family liked, so everyone was very happy. Lin Guilu got to know each other with the owner of the grocery store again, and Boss Jia handed over the house key, finished the matter, gave Lao Sun Zhongren Fei, greeted everyone and left.