Old man Wei nodded: "That's it." Let's talk. ”

If you are willing to negotiate the price, then it will be easy to do.

Cao Zhongren passed the news to Du Jinning, and everyone met again. And when they met, Cao Zhongren deliberately pretended to have a stomachache and ran to the toilet, so that Yao Shuqi had the opportunity to quietly pull Old Man Wei aside, and directly promised to give him a thank you gift of fifty taels of silver. So the house was sold for 1,000 taels of silver.

Du Jinning has taken advantage of the efforts of the past two days to draw a rough sketch of the garden construction. In the past two years, he learned to paint with Yuan Xiuzhu. Although he didn't show a particularly high talent like calligraphy, he became a master at once, but it was no problem to draw a garden drawing.

went to the yamen to sign a red deed to transfer the house, and Du Jinning asked someone to pull out the weeds in the house first, and then measure the size.

She discussed with Yao Shuqi: "I can't stay here all the time, and I don't have time to watch people build houses." Do you have the right person to recommend to me to watch over and build the house according to my requirements? ”

"Now the teahouse and bookstore are not much use for me to worry about, each store has a second shopkeeper to take care of specific things, I will go through the accounts at the end of the month, and from time to time I can go to the shops to inspect it." Yao Shuqi said, "If the young master can trust me, you can leave this matter to me, and I will give it to the young master Zhang Luo." ”

He stirred up this matter, not because of how idle he was, but because he had his considerations.

Originally, Lu Xiaobei followed Du Jinning's side, and he also knew that Du Jinning valued Lu Xiaobei, and Lu Xiaobei was naturally cultivated as a big housekeeper. And he is the big shopkeeper under Du Jinning. The two of them perform their own duties and have different division of labor, so he doesn't have any ideas and does his thing with peace of mind.

But now Lu Xiaobei has gone to the capital to do his own business, and as Du Jinning's brother-in-law, it is impossible for him to take care of Du Jinning's affairs as before. The position of the chief housekeeper beside Du Jinning was vacant.

Although it is good to be a big shopkeeper, he has a high status and is respected. But Yao Shuqi knows what he can do. Although the teahouses and bookstores he manages are good, and the business is even better than that in Lishui County, this is copied from the mold made by Du Jinning and Zhuang Yue at the beginning. If Du Jinning only put forward one idea and let him start this business by himself, it is still unknown whether he can be as successful as he is now. He is more than successful in business, but not enough to develop, and his mind is not necessarily flexible. Otherwise, he would not have been kicked out by his old club because he was excluded.

People who have the ability are not so easy to be excluded.

Since he is not capable, there will be a more capable shopkeeper in the future, and he will have to give up the position of the big shopkeeper. This position is not based on seniority, but on ability.

But the position of the big housekeeper next to Du Jinning is different. As long as he is loyal, careful, and can honestly carry out the young master's orders, with the fact that he followed the young master first, no one can steal his position. And his temperament seems to be more suitable for being a big steward.

So now that there is a chance to put down the original burden and pick up another burden, he naturally has to fight for it and try it to see if this idea is feasible.

What Du Jinning lacks now is not the idea of making money, but the right manpower. At this time, seeing Yao Shuqi taking the initiative to pick up the burden, she was very happy: "Okay, then I will work for you." ”

She touched her chin: "In the past two days, you go and inquire which team of craftsmen is good, how much the price is, how to calculate the materials, and I will draw the rough construction drawings." ”

"Yes." Yao Shuqi got the order and hurried away.

Du Jinning went to Qi Muyuan: "Can your family draw a bookkeeper to help me for two months?" Yao Shuqi can't do such a big thing as building a house, so he has to find someone to help manage the accounts or something. ”

"No problem." Qi Muyuan agreed.

Du Jinning went back to draw her picture.

Qi Muyuan looked over curiously and asked her, "What are you painting?" ”

"The construction plan of the house." Du Jinning didn't raise his head and said.

Many of the famous Suzhou gardens were built based on paintings painted by literati, so she used a small freehand method to paint the gardens she wanted to build. It looks like a painting, but it is actually a garden construction drawing, she used a lot of garden design techniques, and designed this small house to be full of scenery, rather than like the people of this era, building a house is decent, the front is a piece of house, one into two into three into the courtyard, and then leave a place to do the back garden, dig a pond to get a rockery and plant some flowers and trees, it is already a particular family. As for the design of the garden, it is completely absent.

In modern times, she was very greedy for Suzhou gardens, but as a master's student, it would be good for her to buy a small two-bedroom apartment in a third- or fourth-tier city, and that kind of thing was just a dream.

Now in ancient times, she had the money and the opportunity to do it, and maybe she could develop a livelihood, so she naturally had to try to do it. Isn't it just what money is earned and spent?

As a science student, of course, her painting is not a simple literati landscape painting, she also calculates the approximate area of each landscape and courtyard according to the area of the house, and marks it on it, so as to avoid oolong incidents during construction. As for where and what trees and flowers to plant, she drew them and labeled them with plant names.

Qi Muyuan looked at the painting she painted and admired it: "It's very good." I want to build a house like this. ”

"As long as you are not afraid of spending money, you can build it naturally." Du Jinning said.

Yao Shuqi stayed in Fucheng for two years, and he was the shopkeeper in a well-informed and well-connected place like a teahouse, so it was very easy to inquire about things. He also knew that Du Jinning was not good to stay here for a long time, so in less than two days, he brought two craftsmen over to meet Du Jinning.

"The work done by these two people has a good reputation. Young master, let's see which one you want. Yao Shuqi said, and introduced these two people, "This is Mo Jingming, and this is Zhang Genfa." ”

Du Jinning showed them his paintings: "I want to build a house like this." ”

Zhang Genfa saw it, he couldn't understand Du Jinning's thoughts at all, and always wanted to take her into the ditch: "Young Master Du, it's not that I rely on the old and sell the old, in fact, I have made a lot of houses, so I naturally know which one is good and which one is not." If your house is built like this, it will look good, but it will not be practical. In the future, if you marry a wife and take a concubine, and there are many people in your family, these houses will not be able to live in. It is better to build two houses in front and a garden in the back. Everyone says back garden, back garden, shouldn't this garden have to be built in the back? If you build it like that, and come out of the garden to have a meal, it is estimated that you will have to walk a cup of tea, and there must be a hurry, and it will not be a person who has to die in a hurry. ”