Chapter 377: Make Your Own Business
Early the next morning, as usual in Zhong Ming's courtyard, Gu Yun talked and laughed as if he had forgotten about yesterday's events, had breakfast beautifully under the waiting of the three big girls, took the little maid out to school, and explained to Xiao Panzi, the three old servants must not spare them.
Xiao Panzi understood and promised to make them suffer first in the next few days.
Bai Ko called Xiao Yezi to be a follower, and took her to the front yard to meet with Yan Zheng, and after a brief understanding of yesterday's business, he rushed to the ice cellar to see if he was ready.
When the third woman and her daughter-in-law saw Bai Ko coming, their expressions were more respectful than before, they all saw her skills yesterday, but they didn't want to annoy this little steward one day.
The ice truck said that it was coming today, but I don't know what time it was, just because the car was parked outside the back door of the east kitchen, she went to the east kitchen to wait, fortunately did not wait too long for the mother-in-law on the back door to come in to report that the ice truck had arrived.
The handymen in the east kitchen were the laborers who carried the ice, and immediately pushed the wheelbarrow to the back door to pick up the ice, and then transported it to the ice cellar, and moved it to the bottom to stack it piece by piece.
This ice cellar in the house is a large ice cellar, and it takes three days to fill it up, and Bai Ko, as the manager of the ice cellar, naturally has to complete the errand properly, and she can't go anywhere during these three days.
After a day, the ice cellar was filled by one-third as desired, and after Bai Ko checked that there was no problem, he encouraged his subordinates and went back to Zhongming Courtyard to rest.
For the next two days, Bai Ko was working in the ice cellar, and the gossip he wanted to see had not been staged, and the eldest young master had no other personnel transfer except for the three mothers-in-law who were dismissed, and even the pregnant Tongfang was still on an errand.
In the past few days in the back street, people stand outside the door of their three families every day and greet their family with all kinds of vulgar market swearing, scolding them so that they dare not go out during the day, and they have to go secretly to buy some rice, flour, grain and oil on the street.
This gossip made Bai Ko and Gu Yun feel a burst of refreshment, Bai Ko guessed that the eldest young master probably had to wait for Xiu Mu, and he could deal with the problems of his servants at home, so after she finished the important errand of ice storage with peace of mind, she took the guards to the street to find her blacksmith shop.
The blacksmith's family, who had broken the agreement to customize the case scales for others, saw that Bai Ko had broken the appointment, and had waited for three days and had not seen her come, thinking that they had escaped the catastrophe and were secretly relieved, so they saw Bai Ko appear in front of their house with people on horseback.
"Old Iron Head, business is good?" Bai Ko sat on the back of the horse and raised his hand, and got off the horse with a smile to say hello.
"Nothing for nothing, TOEFL, TOEFL." Lao Tie, the head of the blacksmith shop, stammered a little, after all, his sons also nodded submissively.
"Let's go, talk in the house."
White Ko threw the reins to one of the guards, leaving him to guard the door, and led the other into the blacksmith's inner house.
The old iron head handed over the business to his son, and he led Bai Ko to the hall, and his old wife and daughter nervously came out of their respective rooms, went to the kitchen to get hot tea and sent it to the guests, hesitating to say something good for his man and ask for a favor.
Bai Ko didn't greet them politely at all, and asked them to take the account book when they sat down, but when they took it out, outsiders couldn't understand what was written on it at all, only their family members could understand it, which made people very painful.
But this did not bother Bai Ko, she immediately asked the daughter of the blacksmith family to go to the street to find the inspection of Wuhou's men to be a witness, and the girl looked at her father and mother, and left in fear.
While he was waiting, he went to the front to visit the blacksmith's shop, to assess its value, and when the inspection came, he warmly invited them into the house and told them why.
The old Tie family did not deny Bai Ko's accusations, after all, the account books were clearly written, although outsiders could not understand them, but they themselves knew it, and the inspection was another scare, if they didn't tell the truth, they would be dragged out to play on the street, so they had to honestly explain the income and expenditure situation since this period of time, relying on the new scale, they did earn a lot of money, their daily lives have improved, and even a matchmaker came to the door to say that their relatives were coming.
"How much is your set of eating guys worth now?"
"That set of things will cost more than 100 taels of silver at the current market price, and those few necessary large items cannot be saved." The old iron man replied honestly.
Bai Ko thought about it, lowered his head and opened his satchel, took out a heavy fifty taels of official silver ingots and placed it on the table, and the snow-white color suddenly made the eyes of everyone in the room widen.
"I don't smash your business, since the current market price of your set of guys is more than 100 taels, your set of ancestors has been passed down for so many generations, and it is good to discount it as 100 taels, which is 50 taels, counting the share capital I entered the industry, accounting for half of the shares. Have you heard of the freshness in the front alley of the Zhou family? In the future, what metal accessories do you want to do over there, you will be given priority to do it, and you will find another company if you can't do it. You can discuss with the whole family, whether you want to accept my construction, and make a witness here. ”
The patrol repeatedly surrendered his hand to express his obligation.
The old iron head asked his daughter to take care of the guests, and led the old wife to the front to call his son back, and the family of four discussed in the courtyard.
The daughter of the Tie family excitedly poured tea for Bai Ko, but her trembling hands couldn't hold the teapot, and she spilled water around the teacup, and hurriedly went to find a rag to wipe the table, and almost knocked over the cup.
Bai Ko and the inspector couldn't stand it anymore, so they asked the girl to sit on one side and make less trouble.
With just such a little effort, the discussion in the courtyard is over, no one objects to Bai Ko's shareholding, the fifty taels of big silver ingots are too dazzling, not to mention that as long as she agrees to her request, there will be continuous business security in the future, and there is one more backer, there is no Zhumen big family with a higher status than Ye Guogong Mansion in this Tianshui Fang, and this construction of the white steward will not suffer any loss to their family.
After the agreement was made, the sons continued to take care of the business, and the old iron head and his wife entered the hall and bowed their hands to Bai Ko.
"Steward Bai, our family has discussed it, and we will do it according to Steward Bai's wishes."
"Okay, it's a cheerful person, sign the deed."
Bai Ko took out a deed in duplicate and a box of ink clay from her satchel, the deed was written by her in the past few days of using the ice cellar to store ice, and she knew that this family would not refuse her offer, and no one would have trouble with the money.
The content of the deed was read out to everyone, and the rights and obligations of both parties were listed, Lao Tiejia was responsible for the quality of the goods, and Bai Ko was responsible for pulling business, and the profits earned were divided in half. However, if Lao Tie is too old to work, and when he wants to pass on the shop to his sons, Bai Ko has the right to examine the young man's technical ability and then consider whether to continue to renew the contract.
Lao Tie nodded again and again, had no objection to the content of the deed, and happily signed and drew the pledge, and the inspector as a witness also signed the deed and pressed his handprint, got a little tea money from Baikou, and said goodbye with a smile.
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