Chapter 127: Clumsy and Fine
Some of Sister Hua's things in Beicheng are the norm of life, and they can't be compared with the things in the Fukang Palace.
What happened in the Fukang Emperor Palace was a big thing, and Sister Hua built a house and did business was a small thing.
But all those who do big things have to start from small things, how can they do big things if they don't do them well?!
For example, Sister Hua was originally just a maid, but later because of her outstanding performance during her time as a maid, she was trusted by the third lady and liked by the old lady, so she became a celebrity in the house, and during the period when the third wife was a housekeeper, she became a figure who dominated the fate of other people in the house.
And Sister Hua is now mixed up with Ma Ya and has become Ma Ya's subordinate, and her success comes entirely from a chance.
Therefore, people who do great things must not only have the ability, but also have the opportunity and the ability to grasp the opportunity!
Sister Hua grasped it.
Sister Hua seized the opportunity to give her a new understanding of herself, she put her fate in the hands of Ma Ya, she felt that no matter what happened to her in the future, she was proud enough.
Not everyone has the opportunity to get close to the princess and be protected by the princess and trusted by the princess!
So the current Sister Hua has not been involved in any major events, she is just trying to create a famous woman Sister Hua, which will lay the foundation for her to become Ma Ya's right-hand man, and there will be many big things for her to bear in the future!
So now let's talk about what Sister Hua has done!
As mentioned earlier, Ma Ya asked Sister Hua to use the money they earned to buy land in Beicheng and build a big mansion.
Let's see how the house is built!
In the eighteenth year of Fukang, the construction and decoration of the house were completed, and Ma Ya got special approval from Ji'er Lian'er, the emperor's grandson's mansion, and let her go to Beicheng to see her house.
There are four facades on each side of the mansion gate, for a total of eight.
When Ma Ya visited her and Sister Hua's mansion for the first time, she almost fainted.
The gatehouse and both sides of the door are made of marble, which is said to be luxurious and magnificent, and the name of the house on the gatehouse and the couplets on both sides of the door are also painted with red lacquer, bright red and dazzling.
But how could Ma Ya feel dizzy?
The house on the gatehouse is called "Mahua Mansion".
"What's going on with this Mahua Mansion?" Ma Ya's heart was broken, but she held back, and she tried her best to ask Sister Hua in a calm tone.
Because this is all done by Sister Hua.
Sister Hua saw Ma Ya asking this, although Ma Ya tried her best to suppress her dissatisfaction, Sister Hua still heard it.
Sister Hua was a little flustered, and said to Ma Ya: "Sister, didn't you say that this is the mansion of the two of us?" I'll just use the surnames of the two of us and give a house name, is there anything wrong? ”
When Sister Hua said this, Ma Ya was speechless.
Ma Ya thought, Ma Hua Mansion, what is it? It's also a twist house!
(Ma Ya's ridicule in her heart is right, Sister Hua did open a fried twist shop by the gate!) )
But Ma Ya has to maintain her demeanor, she knows that Sister Hua is illiterate, and when she handed over this matter to Sister Hua to handle it alone, she didn't have any requirements for Sister Hua, what else could she say?
However, her dissatisfaction has been seen by Sister Hua, so she has to say the reason for her dissatisfaction, right?!
Ma Ya said: "You are a sister, I am a sister, you should put your surname in front, why do you put my surname in front, just name Huafu!" ”
Sister Hua smiled when she saw Ma Ya say this, and when she saw that there was no one left and right, she attached to Ma Ya's ear and said: "Originally, this is your mansion, you have to bring me, so I thought, this Ma Hua looks more like a woman's name." Well, Huamafu, this sounds awkward, and it doesn't sound good! Besides, naming Huafu will be laughed at to death, if there is no sister for you, I don't have the ability to build such a big house! ”
"Well, that's right!"
Ma Ya's pain in her heart can't be told to Sister Hua, she has read so many books, and everyone knows that this is the house she and Sister Hua built in partnership in Sun's Mansion. The name of the house has such a nondescript name, which makes people laugh!
Ma Ya looked at the couplet on both sides again, and her brows were locked.
Sister Hua also explained: "This side is 'business is prosperous all over the world', and this side is 'wealth is prosperous and reaches Sanjiang', I think this couplet is good and auspicious, so I will let people engrave it on it." In order to engrave these words, the carving is not willing to do it, saying that people generally do not engrave this outside the door, I thought, others do not engrave, so he can earn so much silver in such a short period of time? Five hundred is a lot, he still doesn't carve, I'm afraid that I will let him pay after I regret it, I was angry, I spent a tael of silver, don't say it, I said that there will be a brave man under the heavy reward, this makes sense. Look at what he can, as if he knows a lot, and in the end, isn't it for some money, obediently engrave the couplet for me?! How else to say it, money can make the devil grind?! ”
So in front of the gate of this house, the name of the house is Mahua Mansion, and the couplet on both sides is "Business is prosperous and leads to the four seas, and the wealth is lush and reaches the three rivers".
Ma Ya didn't understand, why did Sister Hua have a whim, and thought of carving such a couplet in front of her own house? !
There is also a pair of large stone lions placed at the key door, which is even more different!
Since it's all carved, the words are recessed, and it's not easy to modify, so you can't redo the gatehouse, right?!
Ma Ya had to say, "Not bad, not bad!" ”
Although Ma Ya only has a four-word evaluation, she can make Sister Hua very happy.
Later, whenever someone said that there was anything wrong with the name of the mansion and the couplet on the upper floor, Sister Hua was full of unhappiness: What do you know, Ma Ya is not as good as you? Do you know my sister Ma Ya? That's also very knowledgeable, and she said it was good······
The person who came shut up, everyone knew the name Ma Ya, Ma Ya was in the Imperial Grandson's Mansion, saying that she was a subordinate, but she was quite trusted by the Imperial Grandson, she was much higher than the palace maid of the Imperial Grandson's Mansion, even the favored eunuch in front of Concubine Hu had to be afraid of her three points.
And the legend about Ma Ya to the Emperor's Sun Mansion, that is even more popular among the people, there are various versions, one of the most legends is that Sun Rong and Zhou Daqing, the cousins of Sun Mansion, both of them used knives to cut off twice because Ma Ya was jealous, saying that Zhou Daqing was cut to the ground by Sun Rong, if Ma Ya hadn't arrived in time to protect Zhou Daqing, Zhou Daqing's head would have been cut off by Sun Rong. Otherwise, why didn't Zhou Daqing dare to live in Sun's Mansion?! That's because of this. Originally, Sun Fu wanted to ask Ma Ya for sin, but it was because Ma Ya was a maid who read poetry and books and was a talented girl, so Lian'er was reluctant, so she asked Ma Ya to serve her!
Some said, isn't that the emperor's grandson Ji'er spoke, saying that Ji'er is also interesting to Ma Ya, but because of the face of his brother-in-law Sun Rong, it is not easy to fight with his brother-in-law, but this time, Ma Ya wants to come to the emperor's grandson's mansion, but Ma Ya is delayed, and the three men are staring at each other, they would rather let Ma Ya be delayed, and the other two are not allowed to touch Ma Ya······
Ma Ya listened to these rumors outside, and she couldn't cry or laugh, she had no way to stop other people's mouths, so she had to ignore them!
After Sister Hua explained the name and couplet of the house on the gatehouse to Ma Ya, she took Ma Ya to visit the eight facades, she pointed to the two facades on the left side of the door and said: "The children here always hear it wrong, Ma Hua Mansion heard that it was a twist house, and always thought that our house was selling twist flowers, so I thought, I want to eat twist flowers, right, I will open a twist shop." So under the introduction of others, I hired a master in Jiangzhou to teach the two guys in the store to fry twist flowers and sell them. Not to mention, how good the twist business is now, fried every day, sold out at night. At the beginning, the two guys always complained to me that they were too tired, no, I added two of them to 500 yuan each month, this time I don't call it, this time you see how busy they are, hehe! ”
Ma Ya asked: "Aren't you afraid that they will think the business is good and quit their jobs and start their own business?" ”
"What's there to be afraid of?!" Sister Hua smiled: "Can they compare with me?" I use my own house, do they have money to rent a storefront when they go out? Yes, what am I afraid of? I signed a fifteen-year contract with them, and they can leave early, and each of them will pay me a hundred taels of silver, and they will go wherever they fall in love. I told them, this is I spent a lot of money to hire the master to eat and drink every day to teach them, their craft, is the money I spent, they said to leave, then pay me back the training fee of one hundred taels of silver per person, they can go! ”
"Is there so much for the bride price?" Ma Ya asked.
"No, it's only ten taels of silver, the master of Jiangzhou taught them here for a month, and they will be, and the master is gone, but I have to prevent them from leaving, and I didn't force them to sign, they are willing! If they don't want to sign at first, I can find someone else to learn from them, and now there is no shortage of people in my store! ”
"And what if they're gone in fifteen years?" Ma Ya asked Sister Hua this question again.
"Fifteen years later, even if they are allowed to go, they are reluctant to go, and by that time, they will have settled down in everything, and the wages will be higher than now, will they be willing to go? Even if they leave, they can guarantee that the business will be good? That business also needs people to do it, we can get rich, can they get rich? Just like we are in the fruit business, why do some people still lose money? ”
Ma Ya smiled, when it came to business, Sister Hua was really not ambiguous at all, Ma Ya said to Sister Hua: "In this way, aren't we rich, let's buy some boys or girls, and whoever learns the craft in the future will use their own people, don't always use these hired workers!" ”
"Alas!" Sister Hua agreed, and took Ma Ya to the fruit shop, melon seed shop, grain and oil shop, etc., Sister Hua said: "Now in addition to this twist business is quite good, people from far away are admiring it, and other businesses are still mediocre for the time being!" ”
"Business will be good, when the emperor moves the court and officials' homes, our old business is still there, you just wait to count the money!" Ma Ya followed Sister Hua into the courtyard.
Ma Ya stood in the front yard, observed around, and then went to the middle courtyard with Sister Hua, and there was a backyard behind.
The backyard is different from the middle courtyard, and there are garden rockeries in the backyard, all of which are designed in accordance with the Jiangnan water town design style, with a unique shape.
Ma Ya is still very satisfied with the design of the interior of the mansion, after all, it was a very famous old gentleman brought by the uncle of the Sun Mansion from Jiangnan to help design it, and they also spent a lot of money to hire it.
It's just that after the old gentleman left, Sister Hua had a whim, and the Mahua Mansion in the gatehouse and the couplets on both sides were done by Sister Hua.
Sister Hua pointed to the backyard and whispered to Ma Ya: "This is yours!" ”
Ma Ya said: "I don't live here again, you can move in!" ”
Sister Hua said: "I live in the middle courtyard, and I'll show you the door." Besides, the business ahead is busy, and I can still get those muddy people into the backyard? This is where they can go?! ”
Ma Ya saw Sister Hua say this, so she said to Sister Hua: "Since we are doing business, we are not afraid to make the business bigger, in this way, you find someone, on the front yard, build another row of houses, and renovate this middle courtyard to build a luxury inn, you live in the backyard, help me leave a room!" ”
"This, it's not like that, let's talk about ······"
"If we make more money, are you afraid that you won't be able to live in a good house? If you have money, what kind of house can't be built? Ma Ya said: "You find someone to design it, change it, and tell me if you don't have enough money!" ”
"Money is never used up!" Sister Hua said: "Our business in Nancheng is now enough to spend here in a year, not to mention that we still earn some here!" ”
Just before moving the capital in the spring of next year, Ma Ya asked Sister Hua to change the front yard and the middle yard into an inn, and this matter was settled.
Ma Ya did this, she has her own reasons, Feng Qinghui's subordinates, when the time comes to enter Beicheng, it is not as safe to live in any inn as to their own inn.
After all, at this time, Sister Hua's influence in Nandu is extraordinary, she has a hot fight with the officials of the government, and Sister Hua has already surpassed the identity of the proprietress of Sister Hua's fruit shop.
So even if the government sends people down to the inns at night to round the rooms, if there are any criminal convicts in Gongru Villa, Sister Hua can also help them dodge, who doesn't give Sister Hua face? !
Sister Hua's identity is now big, and she has also participated in some big businesses, such as this time the uncle of Sun Mansion bought two big ships in the shipyard, and Sister Hua also discussed with Ma Ya to buy a big ship first, and now this ship is under construction in Jiangnan Shipyard.
In fact, as for the transportation of grain from the south to the north, a large number of ships are needed, and Gongru Villa has already intervened in this matter.
Now under the name of Gongru Villa, there are twenty-five large boats, floating on the canal.
In the past, there were eight large ships that Gongru Villa could control, and there were more small boats, countless of them.
Because under the name of Gongru Villa, after all, there is still an organization that sells illicit salt, and it is inconvenient to take the land route, so the government will set up card checks everywhere.
And it is easier to take the waterway to open up the relationship on the river. Besides, when smuggling salt, pickles are pickled in a water tank or something, there is a compartment below, and what is placed under the compartment is private salt.
And then there is the section of the road that Gongru Villa bought, how can it be so carefully checked? Unless he doesn't want to do it, Feng Qinghui's subordinates have the ability to create all kinds of incidents for him, such as corruption or an unjust case for him to try, and the above knows that this is equivalent to killing him!
In addition to asking Sister Hua to step up the transformation of the front yard and the middle yard into an inn, Ma Ya also asked Sister Hua to buy some boys and little girls as soon as possible and put them in the house to cultivate for later use!
In other words, Sister Hua's current work is focused on Beicheng.
Since Sister Hua has arrived in Beicheng, Sun Zheng, who has been separated from Sister Hua for a long time, has begun to run to Sister Hua again.
Sister Hua is still the same as before, giving Sun Zheng pocket money to spend!
With Sun Zheng, Sister Hua's life has changed again, Sister Hua has been nourished by Sun Zheng, and Sister Hua is full of red light and energetic every day!
At this time, the grandmother of Sun Mansion also began to have her own ideas. She is no longer the big grandmother who was trampled under the feet of Sister Hua in the Sun Mansion, she is now the head of the Sun Mansion in Beicheng. Moreover, the means and scheming are much more sophisticated than before.
Between the eldest grandmother and Sister Hua, there is bound to be a real confrontation.
Before talking about this confrontation, let's make it clear the whereabouts of the personnel of the Sun Mansion, as well as Sun Rong and Zhou Daqing, who have not been mentioned for a long time.
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