Late at night, Yao Erniang discussed some family matters with her younger brother Yao Zheng, then sent him back, and took a detour to her son's room to take a look.

Seeing her son sleeping on the desk, Yao Erniang raised her eyebrows and was about to scold, but when she thought about all the accidents in the past few days, she couldn't bear to step forward and shake it: "My son, go to bed when you're tired!" ”

was shaken by Erniang, and the scalper woke up, looked at Erniang with hazy eyes, but shouted: "Ah! Why did my mother come to disturb me! ”

Erniang only said that she was startled by her son, but she was not angry, and said: "It's late at night, don't go to bed yet!" ”

The scalper was forcibly pulled out of the dream, and although there was fire, he didn't dare to make a mistake to his mother, so he said, "I will take care of it...... That's right! Mother, how long will it take for the old store to be repaired? ”

Erniang replied: "It's easy to repair, it's good in three or five days, but your father is going to open on the sixth day of the next month, to take advantage of the joy of your apprenticeship banquet and the joy of hiring your cousin, to make a three-happy door." ”

"Hire? It's a good three happiness! When the scalper heard this, he felt that the old man was calculating, and he knew how to take advantage of the situation, so he also got up and invited Erniang to sit down, and said: "Mother, I thought about it at night, and I fell asleep when I was tired of it, and now I just want to tell my mother." ”

"What's the matter?" When Erniang saw her son's positive color, she didn't dare to underestimate it.

The scalper sorted out his thoughts and said, "It's about the reopening of my old shop, isn't it too little to just sell a lamb soup ramen and preserved eggs?" ”

Erniang frowned and said: "But there are a lot, although the preserved eggs are not good, but I think it must be no worse than ramen, how about it?" Could it be that my son still has the food he learned from the old immortals? ”

Before mentioning the master of the scalper, Erniang mostly used the word "your master", but after experiencing danger this time, she suddenly changed her name to "old fairy", which is not surprising.

The scalper nodded and said, "Yes, if I think about it carefully, I dare not say much, there are twenty or thirty kinds." Besides, I also thought that there was only one foot shop within a mile of the south gate, so why not plan the surroundings. ”

Who knew that Erniang glanced at her son and said, "You don't know about this?" The land that is close to the city gate is the common land of the government, and it is not allowed to buy or sell. Besides, it's good not to fight on weekdays, if there is a war, there are dangerous places within a mile of the city, when my old store was built, it was also a full three hundred steps away from the city wall, and it was a loss of Huangzhou over the years, otherwise it would have been harmed. ”

As soon as Erniang said this, the scalper also woke up, and he also walked through a lot of places with his master Zhu Taozhi, and saw that there must be a large open space behind the gates of the cities in various places, and no one built a house at the foot of the city wall, let alone anyone planted food on it, because he was not interested in it, so he didn't ask.

Now that I have heard it, I understand that it is good not to fight on weekdays, but if there is a war, the houses and fields near the city walls will naturally bear the brunt of the disaster, right?

"In other words, these commons are not for sale?" The scalper scratched his head, if the government didn't sell it, it would be a problem, because he just saw that his old store was facing the south gate, and there were empty spaces on both sides of the road, so he made up his mind. As for the main street to the north of the old store, there are already many shops on both sides, and if you want to plug in, the investment will be big.

"Not only are they not sold, but they are not allowed to set up stalls on the roadside!" Yao Erniang is much smarter than her son, so she naturally realized her son's thoughts, but she also used her brains and said: "However, the old store's homestead is three acres, and if Niu Er is sure, he can expand the store again." ”

The scalper hurriedly asked, "How big can it be?" ”

Yao Erniang said with a smile: "The old store of the Huang family occupies an area of more than one-third, and the east is also private land. ”

As soon as the scalper thought about it, he thought about the terrain around the old store and understood, but a bolder idea came out: "Mother, go two hundred steps to the east, is it the end of Wumen Lane?" Then cross the main road and go more than 100 steps to the west, there is an alley that can enter the end of the vegetable street? ”

"yes!" Yao Erniang thought about it, but she also sketched out the map in her mind, and she didn't understand the reason why her son asked this.

The scalper clapped his hands and said: "It's done, I've heard my father say many times, when the ancestor bought the old store's homestead, it was only a total of three yuan, even if it is turned over now, my mother calculates that my family takes the southern boundary of the old store as the borderline, if you buy the alley from the east to Wumen Lane and the alley at the end of the street to the west to the vegetable street, is it enough to pay a hundred yuan?" ”

Yao Erniang frowned, then calculated in her heart, and immediately nodded: "Enough!" And more! The total will not exceed ten acres, and even if the land price has increased in recent years, it will not exceed five acres and one acre. ”

After all, these lands plotted by the scalpers are dangerous places close to the city walls, and smart people can say that they will not plan to buy them to build houses, because if they fight a war, even if they are not destroyed in the war, they may most likely be demolished and requisitioned bricks, wood, and stones to defend against the enemy.

"Okay, the money will be used to sell the land!" Saying that, the scalper took out a stack of Chu paper from his arms, ordered five sheets and handed them to Erniang and said, "Mother, this is the gift given by my senior brother today, there are 100 yuan, and I plan to sell the land." ”

This money was given by Gongsun Zheng on Wuzhou Island at the beginning, and the scalper forgot that he didn't give it to his father and mother for a while, and now he naturally has to turn around.

"Huh?" Yao Erniang took it and took a look, and was also shocked to see that it was fifty yuan of flying money from the Changlong, but when she heard that it was a gift from her son's senior brother, she was also relieved, and after putting it away, she asked: "My son, how do you plan to buy this land?" Now there are only more than 800 households in Huangzhou City, but there are seven main stores, 12 foot shops, as well as 20 or 30 hotels and restaurants. ”

The scalper laughed when she heard it, and said that the old lady's calculation was good, but her vision was too shallow, so she smiled and said: "Mother, my father's plan is to sell mutton ramen for ten wen a bowl, haggis for eight wen, bald noodles for five wen, high and low, two hundred bowls of ramen are only about 1,500 yuan, even the main profit with two yuan to make money, and then count the profit of wine and food, it is not greedy to count the net profit of two times." However, my plan is not these, I think about building a food street at the south gate, setting up tiles, and selling twenty or thirty kinds of food that I will eat, and I will definitely make a lot of money. ”

"Food Street?" This new word made Erniang stunned, but when she heard that she was going to set up tiles, she had an idea and asked: "But it's like the horse street in Bianliang, Tokyo?" ”

This tile is also a tile market, tile shop, refers to a wide range of venues, in addition to the wine and tea stove He You prostitution, this site also gathers juggling and local medicine and so on.

The scalper replied, "Exactly! What does my mother think? ”

Who knew that Erniang had a cold face and shouted: "Hu Lai! Huangzhou City is only the third and eighteenth days of the first year, and this food street was built, and it only does business for two days a month? ”

The scalper smiled and said: "Mother, this Huanggang is Wangxian County, Huangpi and Macheng are also tight counties, and there are many people in a few counties farther away. ”

Erniang was naturally interested, and hurriedly asked, "What is the means?" ”

The scalper said mysteriously: "There are only seven things to open the door, and to make money, count salt, wine and tea!" ”