Eight days later, Jiang Ying and Gao Xiaomei made a big detour along the waterway before finally coming to Suzhou, but they couldn't see the town for half a day. This is very different from Jiang Ying's impression of Jiangnan, so he asked from the farmer's mouth-

It turned out that the entire Su Di, from the last time she took the task to the present, has changed hands several times. Now the war has just ended, but it is no longer called Suzhou, but "Nanguo".

And the "Suzhou City" that Jiang Ying thought was the important town in the south of the country - Gusu City.

"Sister, where do we open our shop?" Sitting on the second floor of the teahouse, Gao Xiaomei pretended to take a sip of tea.

Jiang Ying and Gao Xiaomei walked around Gusu City for two whole days, and basically all the market shops with commercial actions went through.

Jiang Ying shook her hand, and she personally wrote the "Yellow Pages of Rental and Sale Shops in the City", and pointed to one of them:

"There are two options, one is here." She was referring to an empty shop on the second floor of the "Taohuawu Street", which is now vigorously promoted by the government, and does not face the street and needs to be guided by street signs.

Although it is not directly facing the street, it is the key to the new city lord's administration, and it is conceivable that the preferential treatment obtained in the open and secretly must be indispensable, at least the passenger flow is guaranteed before and after the opening.

"Or here." Then her hand moved to a few lines later—a small shop three feet square in Panru Alley, on the north side of the Lion Forest.

This place used to sell rouge hairpin rings to the maids and maids in the lion forest, but after the transfer of power, the lion forest fell into a long-term ownerless state, and this shop was naturally unsustainable.

Jiang Ying nodded at the table: "Other places are either embroidery and fierce competition, or they are mixed, and it is not a scene for ladies and ladies to consume at all." ”

Gao Xiaomei leaned on the table and looked at the two addresses that Jiang Ying ordered: "The shop on Taohuawu Street is on the second floor, which is a little troublesome, but the decoration is high-end, the privacy is good, the rooms are transparent, and things can be sold for three points more expensive, and those big families will like it." ”

"But the small shops in Panru Lane used to have accumulated customers, and now they are scattered in the lion forest as birds and beasts, and there is word of mouth, after all, they are public servants and servants, three points higher than civilians, and they are also the objects of imitation by businessmen and gentry. In addition......"

There is an underground spring hidden under the rockery of the Lion Forest, which has a faint spiritual power. With this spiritual power, Gao Xiaomei can practice better.

"Then look at the price!" Gao Xiaomei straightened up and began to pull her fingers: "The shop on Taohuawu Street is three hundred taels of silver a year, and there is another official management fee of thirty-five taels." Panru Lane ......"

Jiang Yingshang: "The rent of the shop is eighty-five taels of silver per year, and the price of the house is only sold without renting after the shop is added, and the asking price is nine hundred taels." ”

"So low?" Gao Xiaomei's eyes lit up, no businessman could not be tempted by the cheap location.

"The Lion Forest has been looted repeatedly in the past few years, and no one has taken over since the owner changed five years ago, so the price is low."

"That's a bit of a struggle."

Jiang Ying thought about it for a while, and had a certain number in his heart: "If you want me to say, there are often political power dumps in the world, and Taohuawu Street now has official support, but once it is subverted, isn't it also the target of public criticism?" Let's stop burning this hot stove. ”

Panru Lane Wuwa green brick white powder wall, exquisite narrow lane, not to talk about winding paths and secluded, but if there is a bright embroidery workshop opened, it is indeed a bright color.

The two acted quickly, and in the afternoon they returned to Panru Lane to win the title deed of the entire front shop and back house.

But he was deflated by the owner of the house—

"The last time the two came to the old body, I thought it was just to see, when it comes to buying the land deed, you have to ask the two identities, it's been too chaotic these years, and the old body doesn't want to be confused and collect ill-gotten gains."

The owner of the house is an old woman who is almost old, dressed in coarse cloth and plain clothes, and only the pigeon-blood agarwood the size of copper plates hangs from her earlobes on both sides, which can be seen to have been rich.

"Don't hide from my mother-in-law, my brother and sister are from Tongcheng, their ancestors have been doing embroidery business for several generations, their parents came to Suzhou to do business when they were young, and they have never heard from me since then.

Gao Xiaomei blinked, bluffing words one after another. Her fake Tongcheng accent also made the old woman unable to distinguish it.

The old woman looked at the two, one was tall and handsome, with long sword eyebrows and heroic eyes; A slim and graceful, clever smile and cute.

It looks like a clean bank, but it's just ......

"Since it is a generational thread, then you two will show me a hand, and I can rest assured that I am old."

When Gao Xiaomei heard this, she immediately laughed a little more well-behaved: "Okay! Mother-in-law, I'll embroider a Shoushan for you! After speaking, he pulled Jiang Ying and went outside the house-

"Brother, it's bright outside, I'll look for the red flat satin and gold and silver thread in your back basket!"

Jiang Ying comprehended, took out these two things from the ring, and secretly sent them to Gao Xiaomei. Pretending to be Gao Xiaomei found it from the back basket.

The mortal world is not good for spiritual power, Gao Xiaomei is also patient, embroidering stitch by needle until dark, and the mountains and cloud shadows on half of the word "longevity" have come to life.

How can the old woman not believe it in her eyes?

"Okay, this kind of embroidery is also first-class in the lion forest in the past, and it can be returned to receive the reward!" The old woman sighed with emotion, and asked Gao Xiaomei to stop what she was doing.

"Young people, you still have to cherish your eyes, don't move needlework at night, and don't be in a hurry when your eyes are spent!"

Jiang Ying stood behind Gao Xiaomei, looking at the old woman with something different in her eyes, as if she had finally seen the person she wanted to see.

Perhaps there is a particular focus on not doing business at night, and the old woman insists on not talking about transactions at night: "Come over tomorrow at noon, we will pay for the money and goods brightly!" ”

Two moments later, the two who had already left quietly appeared across the street.

"Sister, won't you come back tomorrow? Is there a problem here? ”

Jiang Ying hated the stupid thing of being cut off at the door, so when it was her turn, she wanted to be as safe as possible: "We are monks, it's okay to stay outside for one night, just in case." ”

Gao Xiaomei didn't say much when she saw this, standing for a night was nothing, and there was a faint aura mixed in the air here, which was even more appropriate.

In the first half of the night, there was nothing to do, but as soon as the ugly hour passed, the lights in the house suddenly turned on, and a faint light came out of the crack in the courtyard door.

Jiang Ying heard a squirming in the house, could it be that the old man was going to get up at night?

After a while, she suddenly heard the sound of some furniture falling to the ground, she didn't have a good heart, and without saying a word, she flashed into the house, jumped five feet and tore off the white silk hanging by the old woman on the beam, and gently put the old man on the bed.

She noticed a letter on the table where the candles were lit:

[Two girls, I'm very sorry, the old body can't trade the title deed with you. This paper is given to you, and as for the money from the sale of land, please use some of it for the burial of the old body.

This was originally a Liu Ji fat hairpin shop, the boss Liu is a widow, I am a grandmother in the lion forest, I am the same age as her so I fell in love.

Ten years ago, the Lion Forest was hit by a bloodbath, and I hid in her shop, and those madmen searched the roster over and over again...... It was I who was timid and afraid of death, and in the end she resisted the head for me, and I hid in the back room, not daring to make a sound.

For many years, I wanted to find someone to trust and give her this shop...... Then, go down and kneel down in person to beg her for forgiveness. Finally asked me to wait until the two of us, looking for relatives and skillful, in this troubled world, I can go all the way here, naturally I also have the ability.

The old body is not hard, you don't have to worry about this place becoming a murderous house, but it's still troublesome for the two, I hope you forgive me. 】

(End of chapter)