Both Shi and Shuning were silent for a while, Shuning was thinking about the feasibility, but frowned and said, "If you go, who will take care of the property here?" What's more, with your identity, it doesn't matter at home, but when you come out to do business, you will inevitably be looked down upon. You grew up reading sages and sages, and this grain store is a businessman, which is very different from being in charge of things in the village, do you really want to go? ”

Gu Quansheng's eyes turned red when he heard this, and he said, "Madame Hugh mentioned this sage book again, and now I ...... Now that the small ones have fallen into this kind of field, how can they have the face to say that they are saints and disciples? I died early. Now that I'm in charge of the affairs of the Grange, at least life is better. I've seen those bastards before, so what's the point of getting some white eyes? What's more, after the disaster in my own house, I became mud on the ground, and I was trampled on by others, until I arrived at the adult's wife, and I lived like a person, and I became the deputy manager, and others would really make a difference when they saw it. I...... The little one doesn't know what to say, but I'm really grateful in my heart, now it's just going out to open a store and do business, even if the adult, lady, young master, and miss want to work hard, the little one will go even if he is broken. ”

Shuning listened sadly on the side, and said: "If you are not used to it, just call yourself me, our family actually doesn't pay attention to these things." Moreover, it's really too exaggerated to say that you are broken, we don't need you to be ...... like this."

Shi interrupted her and said, "There is really no need to say such things, you just need to do your part, and it is enough." ”

Gu Quansheng turned his head and wiped his eyes with his sleeve, before he turned around and smiled, "Miss Madame is right." Mrs. Fang Cai asked who would take care of the properties if I was not there.

Actually, Madame doesn't have to worry. In the affairs of the fields, the woods and the ponds, the little stewards of all places have experience, and know how to do the land, if there is any problem, then Fu Lusheng is in the nearby town, only a few miles to the left and right, and it is very convenient to go back and forth, and it is good to ask me if there is anything. If not. This year, Niu Xiaosan, who was with me, also learned some things, so that he could also experience and experience. ”

Shi asked Shuning what she meant, and Shuning thought about it carefully, and then said, "According to what you say, the grain store is in the town." Then you just go and take care of the business reconciliation every day, you don't have to stay there all day, don't you have a ready-made buddy? You don't have to be in charge of the business, do you? As for the family's property, the fields, the orchards, the ponds, the flowers and trees in the garden, and the fish in the two ponds, you should choose one person to be responsible for, or one or two days, or two or three days. I will report it to you, and if anything happens, I will come to you. these industries. It's still handed over to you as the manager, but the big thing has to be reported to Changgui and nodded. You said that Niu Xiaosan, but the brother of Niu Xiaosi? If he really has some talent, let him continue to learn with you, and sometimes let him practice. Maybe it will come in handy in the future. ”

She thought very clearly, the grain store alone may not be enough. It is likely that other businesses will be added in the future, and a housekeeper deputy will be trained first, and it will be good to prepare for future needs. Even if you don't need it, you can help the housekeeper.

After hearing this, he nodded again and again, and Gu Quansheng responded. At that moment, everyone agreed that Gu Quansheng would first ask the price of the grain store, and then ask where the purchase channels and sales were located, and then left. Shi left Qiaoyun to speak, and Shuning walked a few steps quickly to catch up with Changgui and invited him to the corner to talk.

Changgui was a little strange, so he asked her what was the matter. Shuning hesitated for a moment, then said: "Brother Changgui, my Ama and Eniang will give me a dowry, and I plan to buy a small grange." I thought that horizontal and vertical would be my dowry in the future, so I wanted to make up my own mind. You are familiar with this area, can you help me keep an eye on it and see where there is land for sale. If you want a middle and high-class field, close to the water source, it is better to have a small Zhuangzi, okay? ”

Changgui smiled and said, "The girl has orders, how can she not do it?" It's just that this kind of thing has always been in charge of my whole life, why did the girl come to me instead? ”

Shuning said: "Gu Guan has something to do, besides, ......" She was embarrassed to say that Gu Shengquan was not very familiar to her, but Changgui had watched her grow up since she was a child.

Changgui probably also understood a little, straightened his waist, and said, "Since the girl can trust me, I will help you do it." It's just that most of the good land here in Fangshan is in the hands of a few big landlords, and it may not be possible to find good land for a while. The girl needs to know what to do. ”

Shuning nodded: "I also understand, if you can't find Fangshan, you can do it elsewhere, as long as it's not far from the capital, such as Liangxiang, Wanping and other places." She took out the purse containing the silver ticket and said, "Here are five hundred taels of silver, which I have accumulated over the years, you can use it first, and you can buy as much as you want." ”

Changgui hurriedly pushed: "It's not too late to take it when you find it." And...... If the girl wants to buy land, it is better to ask her wife first. The girl's private room should be kept by herself. ”

Shuning thought about it, but still handed him the purse, and said, "You take it first, can't you even believe it?" When you find a suitable place, come and tell me, and I will ask Eniang to let you pay the full amount. "Five hundred taels can't buy much land, she just wants to buy some first, and then buy it when she has the income, and slowly accumulate it. But this number is already more than two hundred taels, or else

It's okay.

Changgui no longer shirked and accepted it.

In the evening, Gu Quansheng came to ask for the price, and Shi and Shuning learned that Na Fu Lusheng was not a single store, but one of the branches of a rice shop.

It was the property of a family of medium-sized grain merchants surnamed Shi in Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi, and in addition to the Tongzhou head office, there were eight branches in Shuntianfu. In this year's Pingyang earthquake, most of the ancestral houses of the Shi family were destroyed, and the clansmen suffered heavy casualties. In order to save the clansmen and rebuild the ancestral house, the head of the Shi family, and at the same time the big boss of the grain bank, plan to sell several branches to raise money, but the specific ones have not yet been finalized.

The Fangshan semicolon is in the middle of many semicolons. The boss of Xiao Shi, who is in charge, is a side branch of the Shi family, who lost his father at an early age, and only one old mother is supported in the clan. In this year's earthquake, his mother broke her leg, and he wanted to go back to his hometown to take care of him, but he was arranged by the head of the family to stay behind and replace other people who had died in the family to go back to mourn. He listened to the news from his people and learned that the situation in his mother's land was not very good. I wanted to sell the shop as soon as possible so that I could get the owner's permission to go home.

He also often dealt with Gu Quansheng every day, and he was quite compatible, as soon as he heard Gu Quansheng say that the master's family wanted to buy his shop, he was so happy that the two discussed for a long time and finally reached an agreement.

Gu Quansheng reported: "Boss Shi said that in July, he was reluctant to sell someone who came out with 3,500 taels. But now he is willing to sell it to us for two thousand eight hundred taels, along with the house and stone mill under his name, and will keep the shop mates for us, and introduce us to the big local buyers and the familiar rice merchants and grain merchants. It's just that he heard that we are an official family and wants to ask the lady for help. Collect some treatment methods such as bone and tendons, and say that it would be better if the doctor opened the land. ”

When Shuning heard this, she guessed that the man was a filial son, probably for her mother's collection, so she said to the clan: "It seems that he is a filial person, and he is probably in a hurry to get rid of it, so he will sell it at a low price." Two thousand eight hundred taels is a good deal, so let's agree. ”

He nodded. said: "It's really cost-effective, it's just that there are some troubles like Fangzi, and we also know a few imperial doctors in the house." But there is no one who is good at bone grafting. What's more, this kind of thing always has to be seen by the injured person before it can be prescribed, and now it is like this...... I'm afraid it doesn't work. ”

Shu Ning's heart suddenly moved, and she said: "I don't think so, isn't there a medicine now?" I want to come to the bone and tendon. There are always ready-made pills available. In the pharmacies of Tongrentang and Xihenian, there will always be good medicine for wounds. In addition, we can also ask the familiar Taiyi Dizangqu 5200 to open a general prescription.

Or ask them to ask someone who is good at it. Doctor Chun Yu, who treated my foot injury last time, is also an acquaintance, so just ask him. And then there's ...... People who lead soldiers all the year round will always know some bone-setting recipes, and we have some connections in the army in our house, so ask someone to ask, otherwise let my brother ask an acquaintance in the military department......" She paused and didn't say any more.

However, Shi had already understood what she meant, and looked at her with a smile, and said to Gu Quansheng, "Just promise him." I'm going to get the silver ticket, pay the deposit first, and then pay the rest after the contract is signed and everything is received. When I get back, I'll write to Kyori and ask Changfu to collect recipes and pills. ”

Things went very smoothly, Duanning in Beijing helped ask a few people who had led soldiers, and asked for some private prescriptions, which naturally included Tongyingdi's "family secret medicine", and asked Changfu to send some gifts to Chunyu Taiyi, got two ancient prescriptions, and then sent back to Fangshan together with the medicines of several big pharmacies, as well as the supplements and winter clothes prepared by the relatives of the house for Zhenzhen.

Then Shuning proposed that there was already a disaster in Shanxi, but I was afraid that there would not be enough medicinal materials, so I simply paid some money for myself, and each recipe was equipped with more than a dozen doses, which was half a car. He simply added a few more ginsengs that were some years old, and asked Gu Quansheng to send them to Boss Xiaoshi along with the balance.

As a result, the boss of Xiaoshi was so moved that he almost didn't cry, and said again and again that their family was "really a believer", and introduced a few familiar big buyers to Gu Quansheng that day, and sent an account book over, only saying that when he packed his luggage, he took Gu Quansheng to Tongzhou to meet their big boss, and introduced a few grain merchants by the way.

Shuning accompanied the family to look at the account book, and secretly exclaimed in her heart, she was really lucky. Originally, I thought that this grain store was at most selling grain to local civilians and wealthy families, but I didn't expect it to be a temple business. Fangshan territory is mostly mountainous, except for a few big temples with temple fields, can be self-sufficient, the rest of the temples are just a few acres of land to grow some vegetables, daily food, to use sesame oil money to buy under the mountain. It's a lot of money. In Fangshan, almost every village has a temple, and Fu Lusheng, as the largest local grain store, trades with more than 100 large and small temples every year, and the number is staggering.

If it weren't for the owner's accident, such a profitable store would not have been easily sold.

However, in this way, Shuning's original plan will have to be modified. Relying only on the rice of his father and uncle, as well as the production of two fields in Baoding and Fangshan, may not be able to meet the needs of Fu Lusheng's original customers, and he has to find another channel to purchase goods. After discussing with her mother, she decided to ask Gu Quansheng to take two people to Tongzhou to see if she could find a reliable grain merchant to supply, and if she could convince the Shijia head office

It's the best.

A few days later, Gu Quansheng came back from Tongzhou, bringing good news, but there was another message: "The owner of the Shijia head office asked us, if we want to get goods from Tongzhou, do we want to consider buying a small branch near Bali Bridge?" It was in a very good location, but it was just on the back street, and there were a few big grain stores nearby, so business has been bad. I was going to renovate it. But there's no money to spare right now. If we are willing to take it, it will only cost 1,200 taels of silver. ”

Hearing this, Shi and Shuning's eyes widened: "Why is it so cheap?" Don't fool us, right? ”

Gu Quansheng said: "I originally thought so, but then he took me to see it, the store is very small, the house is a little old, there are two large courtyards behind the store, and there are more than a dozen big houses. Because of bad business, I lose money every year. During the peak season, they used it to store the total number of rice grains. It's just that another warehouse was repaired before the beginning of spring this year, and now it is no longer needed, so I want to sell it. But others think it's not on the side of the road, and no one wants it. ”

Shi frowned: "Listening to you say this, the price is not expensive. But if we want to buy food from there, we don't need to buy a shop, if we can do business in the local area, we can't make money, what use do we want it? It's cheap and not greedy. ”

Shu Ning thought of an idea, so she asked Gu Quansheng: "You said that they used that small semicolon house to store rice and grain during the peak season, which shows that the original warehouse was insufficient. Tongzhou has the largest number of grain merchants, and it should be common for too much grain to be placed in your own store, right? ”

Gu Quansheng didn't quite understand what she meant. But he replied, "It should be quite a few." While I was there, I saw with my own eyes that grain merchants rented houses to store rice and grain and resell it when the price of grain was high. Local prices, a stone of grain. No matter how long it is kept, you have to pay a penny. Many people huddle in one room with their whole families, hoping to vacate one or two houses for rent, and at the end of the year, they also have an income of a few taels of silver. ”

Shuning smiled. I knew it in my heart: "E-niang, according to me, it doesn't matter if you buy this semicolon." After buying it. We don't buy or sell grain, but divide the big yard into small courtyards, build a few more houses, use them as storehouses, and then rent them out to grain merchants to store grain. The steward said that one stone of grain rent is one cent, and one hundred stone is one tael. Every year, five or six hundred thousand stones of grain pass through Tongzhou, and as long as tens of thousands of stones pass through this small semicolon, we will make a lot of profits. One thousand two hundred taels, which is really a good deal. "This should be considered a warehousing business, right?

Shi listened and smiled: "So there is still such a way to make money? Then why can't the Shi family grain store think of it? ”

Shuning also smiled: "They have their own grain to store, so naturally they won't think of renting it out." In fact, other people's families also do this, but they don't have a few yards to put it. And this business doesn't care how good the store is, so aren't there a few big grain stores nearby? If we can get acquainted with those grain merchants, it will be very convenient for us to buy grain in our own grain stores in the future. ”

Shi nodded, and said to Gu Quansheng: "Since this is the case, we will simply buy that small semicolon." According to what you said, the store is only losing money now, and it would be better if it could push the price down a little more, but there is no need to force it. Then he called Changgui and said, "Are the people who oversaw the digging of the cellar and the building of the storehouse still there?" ”

Changgui was a little confused, so he said: "Those who are here are our own people." Shi explained the matter again, and said: "You tell the overseer to pack his luggage, and go to Tongzhou with the steward tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." This grain storage room is no different from others, it must be dry, ventilated, and protected from rats, insects and theft, so that he can be careful. When we go back and do a good job, we will transfer one or two rooms of family members from the other courtyard to guard, you pick it first, and you want reliable, clever and powerful people. "Changgui is busy.

In this way, the open source project of the three-room family was vigorously launched, although for several family members, life was still very leisurely. The family takes care of his daughter-in-law every day, Zhenzhen only cares about raising herself, Xiao Liu is still troubled by the two boys every day, and Xiaobao and Xianning are still noisy. Shuning, on the other hand, spends every day in housekeeping, practicing calligraphy, reading, doing needlework, walking, chatting with her family, and teasing her younger brother.

In the blink of an eye, it's November.

The entire courtyard is busy, because tomorrow is the day of rest, and Duanning is coming back from Beijing.

Shuning was packing up a few winter coats, shoes and socks that she had made recently, planning to let her brother take them back to Beijing to give them to others, when she suddenly heard the sound of hurried steps outside, she looked at it, but it was Buckle Er who rushed in, and when she saw her, she paused and lowered her head to say goodbye.

Shuning was about to ask her what was wrong, but Leng Liang heard someone shouting Kou'er's name behind her, Kou'er blushed and ran to the backyard. Shuning was stunned, and saw someone outside the courtyard, who was actually Niu Xiaosi.

Niu Xiaosi's face turned red, and when he saw Shuning, he also stopped, bit his lip, knelt down, and said, "Girl, I beg you something, I ...... I want to marry Sister Kou'er as my wife, please fulfill it. ”

Yes?