"Gotta got" only heard a crisp sound of hooves on the official road outside Zhao's shop, and the shop was closed at this time, so everyone in the shop didn't care much about the pedestrians outside. Due to the great success of all kinds of soy products this morning, especially bean curd, everyone decided to mass-produce bean curd, bean curd, tofu skin and tofu shreds, etc., and now they are busy in the shop.

After a while, I only heard the sound of hooves turn to the back door, and then Zhao Yongzhong's call to the door sounded.

Jiang and Zhao Sanniang glanced at each other, and suddenly had a bad feeling, and said in their hearts, Siniang sends them surprises every day, won't she get a mule cart she longed for today?

As soon as the door opened, I saw Zhao Yongzhong driving a cart pulled by a healthy mule into the door. The most striking thing on the cart was not the huge bull's head, but a whoop was being tied to her hooves and bleating.

Zhao Siniang saw that everyone was standing there still, so she hurriedly jumped out of the car and said, "Mother, you quickly go and clean the cowshed, so that it can be used to house our mules, horses and lambs." These two guys are not cheap, they have to be taken care of. ”

"Siniang, how much does this cost?" Jiang caressed the heads of the mules and horses, this kind of large animal is coveted by every villager, but its price is also staggering. Looking at the entire Jiangjiatan, there is only one horse in the Lizheng family.

"Such a healthy mule and such a neat cart only cost twelve taels of silver." Zhao Yongzhong said with a smile.

Twelve taels of silver? Or only? Jiang felt that her husband had been mixing with her little girl for a long time, and she began to become unreliable.

"it, don't worry about it, this car is really nothing!" Zhao Yongzhong, who had a lot of money, comforted.

"Mother, if you have any opinions, I'll talk about it later. Come on, come on, the big guy will unload the things in the car first. Today's work is not easy, there are six pairs of water alone, and if you don't hurry up, you will have to get it until midnight. Speaking of this, Zhao Siniang suddenly remembered something, and added nervously: "Let's talk about it, if you can't get it done in the evening, you have to drag it back to your grandfather's house to continue to do it." There's not a lot of lamp oil here, so you can't just stay in the shop! ”

"Who's going to stay in the shop and won't leave?" Zhao Sanniang rewarded Zhao Siniang with a hairy chestnut, and then began to unload the goods quickly.

Although there is a lot of bits and pieces of work, fortunately, everyone has been used to doing it in the past month, and under the orderly division of labor, they hurriedly and slowly completed the clean-up work before dark.

In the meantime, everyone also learned from Zhao Yongzhong's mouth that Zhao Siniang actually sold three prescriptions for a huge sum of 600 taels today, and also bought the shop of Hengyuan Cloth Store on South Street, which was unbelievable.

"Siniang, will it be too expensive to buy a shop for three hundred taels?" While eating dinner, Jiang couldn't help but ask. She was a little overwhelmed by the news that her husband had brought back for the whole afternoon, especially when she heard that they had actually bought a shop for three hundred taels of silver. Three hundred taels? She hadn't even bought anything more than 300 yuan in her life, so she couldn't accept the news when she heard it.

Zhao Siniang glanced at her mother helplessly, only to feel that there was an insurmountable generation gap between their mother and son, and she didn't want to explain.

"My mother is right, I also think it's too expensive. I remember that although the cloth shop was a two-story building, it was only about the same size as our new shop, right? Our new shop plus all kinds of things added to it, by the way, and the very neat thatched house, it cost less than sixty taels in total. A shop of the same size, even if it was in town, couldn't be five times larger, right? Zhao Sanniang saw Zhao Siniang's angry little appearance, and couldn't help but question.

As soon as she saw Zhao Sanniang coming out, Zhao Siniang was immediately stunned, and hurriedly explained patiently: "Indeed, the size of the two shops is about the same, but the cost of a single and double floors is different, and the double layer is much more expensive." When I first built this new shop, I originally planned to build a double storey, but at that time, I had to dismiss this idea because I didn't have the money. Also, in fact, the second sister, you only entered the store for a while and then came out quickly, so you definitely can't understand the situation in the backyard of his shop. Although his backyard is close to the size of our house, his house is not like ours with a house on only one side, and there are very neat houses on three sides. As for the thatched house you mentioned, his thatched house is definitely much higher grade than ours, I don't believe the second sister, you can try it next time. ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help laughing, and they almost didn't spray rice.

Zhao Sanniang whispered a bite of her and scolded lightly: "You're eating well, what are you doing in the thatched house?" ”

Zhao Siniang was unconvinced, obviously you said it first. But he didn't dare to show it on his face, and then said: "Second sister, just now you said that you can't understand how the housing prices in the town are so many times higher than in the village, I can only say that you really don't understand the market in the town!" The fact that I was able to spend three hundred taels to win this shop today is all because of the face of the shopkeeper Wang. Otherwise, such a good location, even if we are willing to pay 600 taels, maybe someone will rob us. ”

Zhao Sanlang nodded in agreement: "What my sister said is right. Far from it, let's take the house that my grandfather's family is building. I heard Master Cao say that this house is only worth twenty taels in Jiangjiatan, but if it is placed in Qiaojiazhuang, it can be worth at least twenty-five taels. Why? Because the location of Qiaojiazhuang is better than Jiangjiatan! ”

Jiang nodded, indicating that she had been taught, but she changed her words and said, "Since it comes to building a house, in my opinion, our family's new house should not be built, right?" Isn't there a house behind that shop? We can just live in it! Originally, we might have been worried that the journey would be too long and we would delay coming to work in the shop. But didn't we buy a mule cart today? With a car, it's much more convenient. ”

How can Zhao Siniang have the feeling of lifting a stone to shoot herself in the foot? It is true that the house is spacious and comfortable, but no matter how big the house in the town's commercial street is, it cannot be bigger than a small farm yard. I spent so much money to earn this hard-won few hundred taels, just to show my ambitions and build a yard that surpasses Lao Zhao's family. Now let her just give up, she is a little reluctant.

"Siniang, what did you plan to do when you bought that shop? Are you still planning to open a noodle shop? Zhao Sanlang suddenly asked.

"Uh......" Zhao Siniang hasn't seriously thought about this question, she just thinks it's cheap and starts. According to common sense, even if she didn't think about it at the time, she would definitely have to think about it after buying it. But the problem is that now her mind is not on this at all, and she has been thinking about making something delicious for the boy in the evening all afternoon, and these things have long been thrown behind by her.

"Then open the noodle shop." Zhao Siniang spoke without thinking, so she casually followed Zhao Sanlang's words.

"Siniang, South Street is not as good as this wharf! Although your craftsmanship is very good, you can't resist that there is a Lin family noodle restaurant there, which is a century-old brand, and the people in the town will recognize him. Although I don't go to town much, I've heard people mention that very few new noodle shops on South Street can survive. Now you want to grab business with the Lin family noodle restaurant? Difficult! Difficult! Difficult! Old Man Jiang said worriedly.

After being reminded by Old Man Jiang, Zhao Siniang remembered that there were only a handful of noodle shops on the most prosperous South Street in the town, which were not as good as some small streets and alleys. She runs around the town every day, and she has long noticed that in such a long street, except for the Lin family's noodle restaurant, the business of the few remaining noodle shops is bleak! And those noodle shops can barely survive, completely relying on a low-price strategy. Although she is full of confidence in her craft, she thinks that she is not inferior to the Lin family's noodle restaurant, and she can compete with it. But the accumulated word-of-mouth is an extremely important invisible force, and it is very difficult and risky to compete with the Lin family's shop. If she wants to attract customers, she can only continue to take the low-cost route, but she is a little unhappy when she thinks of investing the gold shop she bought at a high price into a noodle shop with a small profit.

"Then let me think about it again, think about it......" Zhao Siniang rubbed her head and said in her heart, she thought she had picked up a big bargain, but it turned out that she came back in a big trouble! Since it's not suitable for opening her specialty noodle shop, what is it good to open?

"Oh, it's not early, and there are still a lot of dishes that haven't been prepared! Anyway, the shop won't run if it's there, and we'll talk about that later. I'll stay for now, and let's go back and rest! "The later it gets, the more Zhao Siniang is distraught, where do you have the heart to think about this? I just want to send everyone away from my family as soon as possible. (To be continued.) )