Chapter 298: Agarwood Hall
Just after Shen Shi, Ling Baozhu appeared at the door of the tavern, carrying a few packets of braised vegetables in his hand, with a smile on his face, and stepped into the tavern with the wind.
As soon as she walked into the tavern, she couldn't help but shout proudly: "Wind boy, second girl, put down the work in your hands." She raised the pickled vegetables in her hand: "You haven't been eating Rongji pickled vegetables, let you eat enough today." ”
"Huzi, go and call you Uncle Changyun, and bring a pot of wine by the way. If you want good wine, Su Gongzi took a few jars of good wine that day, and we have been reluctant to drink it, so take a jar and taste it today. ”
Jiang Feng, Er Ya and the others put down their work, but no one moved, just looked at her with strange eyes.
Ling Baozhu scolded with a smile: "Could it be that when you hear that there is something delicious, you can't even walk, why don't you move?" ”
While he was talking, he suddenly found that there was one more person in the store, and when he saw Su Shi's face clearly, he hurriedly threw a few packets of braised vegetables on the table, and then walked in front of Su Shi with a look of surprise.
"Master Su, why are you here?"
Seeing Su Shi dressed as a subordinate, he couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Why is Su Gongzi dressed like this, is it a private visit to the official master who is studying drama and literature?" ”
Su Shi sighed, and said in a low voice: "I am still under house arrest by the emperor, and I have been in the mansion for a few days, and I am really depressed, so I dressed up as a subordinate and went out of the mansion to breathe." ”
Ling Baozhu was stunned, and then smiled again: "That boy must be bored, now that he has come out, ask Jiang Boy to take you around." ”
Su Shi smiled and said: "This is not in a hurry, Sister Bao, you are full of spring breeze today, is there any happy event?" ”
Although Ling Baozhu wanted to try to restrain himself, he couldn't hide the smile in his eyes.
"What's the joy, it's just that I followed Mrs. Liu to Hetaifang Agarwood Hall just now to invest some money and do some small business."
"Agarwood Hall? What kind of business do you do? Su Shi pretended to blame: "Sister Bao has a good way, why don't you tell me." ”
Ling Baozhu hurriedly said: "The people who invested money in the Agarwood Hall couldn't squeeze in, and I was also Mrs. Liu who found a lot of connections to get a place." Speaking of this, her face showed deep regret: "Mrs. Liu has invested in Agarwood Hall for two years, and her capital has doubled. ”
Su Shi's smile gradually disappeared from his face, and his eyes became extremely solemn, and he asked slowly: "Many people vote for Agarwood Hall?" What kind of business do you do? ”
"It's the agarwood business. In the past two years, the price of agarwood has increased tenfold, and those who have invested have made a lot of money. ”
"Agarwood business? How to vote? ”
Ling Baozhu hurriedly explained: "We handed over the money to the Agarwood Hall, and they helped us buy the agarwood, and they also sold it, giving us the profit every quarter, and returning the principal to us once after two years." ”
"Lijin must be very high, right?"
Ling Baozhu seemed to have picked up a treasure on the ground, and his face was already smiling like a flower: "Two years ago, the profit of the person who voted was only seven cents per quarter, but this time the profit was one and two cents, and I didn't expect to be caught up by me." ”
Then she said happily: "Childe, you don't know, when the Agarwood Hall announced that their quarterly profit was one and a half cents, the entire Agarwood Hall went crazy, and those who had just received the principal didn't say a word on the spot, and even invested in it with interest." ”
"If it weren't for Mrs. Liu finding Steward Chen, Steward Chen saw that Mrs. Liu was his old customer, so he reluctantly agreed to leave a place for him, but the minimum investment was 1,000 taels of silver."
"There will definitely be losses and wins in business, isn't Sister Bao worried about losing the principal."
Ling Baozhu said triumphantly: "The people of Agarwood Hall said that if the business loses, they will be responsible for all the losses, and none of our copper plates will be missing us." And Steward Chen secretly told me that the reason why they would make such a high profit was because they estimated that the price of agarwood would rise tenfold in the past two years. ”
"They're making a lot of money, and we're just following them for some soup."
Su Shi smiled, but his smile became extremely stiff: "So Sister Bao mortgaged the house to the Qianqiu Quality Library, and put together 5,000 taels to invest in the Agarwood Hall, which is equivalent to using the money from the Qianqiu Quality Library to help Sister Bao make money." ”
Ling Baozhu hurriedly accompanied the smiling face: "We will never give a penny less to the Lijin of the Qianqiu Quality Library." ”
Su Shi was silent for a long time, then looked at Ling Baozhu and sighed: "Who are the people who are casting in the Agarwood Hall?" ”
Ling Baozhu thought for a moment and replied, "Some of them are people who have a small business like me, and more of them are the people in the capital. Because the minimum investment in Agarwood Hall is 1,000 taels, many people have mortgaged their houses to Qianqiu Quality Bank and invested in Agarwood Hall. Some people borrowed from relatives and friends, and finally scraped together more than 1,000 taels, and they all threw themselves in. ”
"Why do they believe in Agarwood Hall so much?"
Ling Baozhu said with a smile: "In the past two years, the Agarwood Hall has always given enough money on time, and the silver in the Agarwood Hall has been piled up into a mountain in the past few days, and the due principal is paid on the spot. ”
Su Shi smiled bitterly: "Did these people invest on the spot after receiving the principal?" ”
Ling Baozhu said with a smile: "These people are not stupid, how can they be willing to give up such a profitable business, except for a few people who are in a hurry to withdraw the money, and the vast majority of people have invested the money back." ”
Then her face showed envy again: "Mrs. Liu not only invested all the principal that was due, but also took out 10,000 taels of silver, and after two years, she was afraid that she would have to sleep on the silver." ”
At this time, Sun Changyun came out with a jar of wine, and Ling Baozhu immediately said enthusiastically: "Master Su, just eat here." Childe has been so kind to us, and I haven't thanked Childe yet. ”
Su Shi smiled, but his smile was full of countless shadows, and then he stood up and said to Ling Baozhu: "I have something important to go to the Qianqiu Quality Depot now, but I don't have a copper plate on me now, and I want to borrow some silver from Sister Bao to hire a car." ”
Ling Baozhu hurriedly said, "Childe is serious. It's rare for Childe to come once, so let's leave after dinner. ”
Su Shi shook his head slightly: "It's not that I don't want to, I really have something urgent to do." When the matter is done, I will definitely disturb Sister Bao. ”
Seeing that Su Shi had made up his mind, Ling Baozhu had no choice but to say to Jiang Feng: "You go and hire a good car for your son." ”
After Su Shi got into the carriage and left, Ling Baozhu looked at the carriage in the distance suspiciously, and muttered, "Su Gongzi seems to have an opinion on this business?" I had a black face just now. ”
Jiang Feng scratched his head on the side: "Brother Su once told me on the way here that what fell from the sky was not necessarily pies, but more traps. ”
"Traps? Where are the traps? ”