On the day of Humu, at the beginning of Chen (seven o'clock), a carriage entered the entrance of Qinghe Village from far and near, and stopped in front of Gu's house.

The king's treasurer sent for him.

I was a little surprised, but I didn't expect it to arrive so early.

Zhou Banxia and Gu Wenxuan took out a thousand taels of silver as an excuse for fear of being robbed, and one person pulled one person, and pulled Liu and Gu Erzhu into the city together.

The two carriages left the village one after the other and arrived at the county seat, and came to Yunke, and the shopkeeper Wang saw that Gu Erzhu and the Liu family were also there today, so this time everyone had to sit in his house.

When they arrived at the Wang's Mansion in the east of the city, the Wang shopkeeper's lady Qu and the Liu family met, and the Wang shopkeeper did not waste much time, and handed Zhou Banxia a box containing a thick pile of letters on the spot.

These letters, along with a box, were from the Gaofu in the capital, and they arrived in the hands of the shopkeeper the day before yesterday through the post station, and considering that the school was closed today, he waited for an extra day.

There are three letters, in addition to the reply letter dictated by Mrs. Gao and written by Honeysuckle, there are also letters from Mrs. Gao and Mrs. Da Shao.

Zhou Banxia opened the last two letters, took a cursory look, and opened the last letter, and there were more papers in this letter, there were ten more sheets.

In addition to mentioning that the old lady had received a letter from the third lady, the old lady also told three things.

The first thing is that there is no need to mention the dowry and accept it with shame, she originally got her share, but she didn't expect her marriage to be so urgent.

Is there an old lady below, what Honeysuckle mentioned is not only that she won a penny, but that the old lady also won the copper coins that the eldest lady and the eldest young lady have always said.

The meaning of this word, Zhou Banxia understood.

It seems that not only is there an interesting story between her and Honeysuckle about who marries first and who loses, but even the old lady and they are also interested in taking her marriage as a bet.

No wonder the tall lady and the eldest young lady joked in the letter that she married too early, and the old lady was cleverly calculated to go back to the village to marry her husband's house, which must be in the village.

Secondly, the second thing is that she asked Honeysuckle in the letter before if she remembered the interesting story of making rouge pancreas, and Mrs. Gao asked her to do it if she wanted.

The next line, the same, is still Honeysuckle's own thoughts, saying that the old lady knew that she was very intelligent, and blamed her for being too cautious and afraid of being in the limelight.

In the end, the last thing the old lady said was that Mama Zhou had a righteous brother who was a second-class jinshi in Longqing for ten years, which meant the overall thing.

Because of his meritorious service in protecting the Nine Emperor Princes, although he left a long scar on the left side of his face, he was intentionally promoted, but he was quite favored when he retired.

When the other party goes to Baoding Mansion to worship Mama Zhou after the New Year, it is very likely that he will come to Qingyang County to see her, and he can leave this person to accept apprentices in the name of Mama Zhou's closed disciples.

Zhou Banxia thought that he had seen too many winds and waves, after all, he had even encountered such a mysterious thing, and he was still stunned by the content of this half page for a while.

Old Madam Gao actually pointed out that she was Mama Zhou's closed disciple, not to mention, but also Mama Zhou's brother-in-law, the Nine Emperor Princes, and quite favored.

That's a lot of information.

Stabilizing the arrhythmia's careful liver, Zhou Banxia hurriedly put away a stack of letters and put them in the box while people were unprepared, and "Shun" the paper into the space to store.

“…… No one expected that the girl would find the old lady, what a good time you say. Shopkeeper Wang saw Zhou Banxia coming over while talking, and asked with a smile, "Have you finished reading it?" ”

"After reading it, uncle, let's go to the shop first?"

Gu Erzhu also had this intention.

He is happy to listen to Brother Wang's words, but the rest days on the first and fifteenth days of each month are also the best time for the restaurant's business every month.

According to Zhou Banxia's previous letter, the shopkeeper Wang found three shops that he looked at as good, and one of them was on the same street as Yunkelai.

It is less than 500 steps away from the largest restaurant in the county, Yunkelai, the location is excellent, the shop is about 50 square meters, and there is a small courtyard in the back.

Now it is rented to a company that sells rouge powder, and the business looks good.

The annual rent is thirty-six taels of silver, if you don't rent it, it won't take three days to rent it immediately, and the real price of the shop is five hundred and fifty taels.

It doesn't take 20 years to recover the principal, and Zhou Banxia didn't say a word.

In just a few days, I can find this shop with the intention of transferring in the most lively street in the whole county, and if it is not for the king's shopkeeper, I will definitely not find it.

Although the county town is not as good as the city, there are many rich people, and basically good shops are stared at.

I bought this shop, and then signed a lease renewal contract for the next year with this tenant who sighed that I didn't know what the original owner wanted to transfer, and went to the second shop, which is not far from the first shop.

The so-called county seat, based on the location of Qinghe County, is a city in the center of the entire county.

The outside is surrounded by a city wall, and the inside is divided into four areas by the four city gates in the south, east, west, and northwest and the county government in the most central part of the city.

There are many wealthy people on the east side of the four areas, and relatively speaking, the shops are also the most expensive, and the second shop is a little closer to the south, and the price is lower.

The same shop on the street of about 50 square meters, with a small courtyard at the back, costs 350 taels of silver.

Now it is rented to a cloth shop, and the business is not much worse than that of Zhao's cloth village, and the current rent is twenty-two taels of silver per year.

When I got to the third shop, the price was lower, although there was no backyard, the shop had about 70 square meters, and the real price of 160 taels of silver.

Now rented to an embroidery house, there is a rent of fifteen taels per year, which is the shop with the highest rate of return.

It's a pity that this is the only one, but you can't be too greedy.

If you don't mention this price, you can't leave the shopkeeper Wang, who owes the landlord of these three shops more or less, and the total price of these three shops is one thousand and sixty taels of silver.

Aside from the cost of transferring the tax to the county office, and the cost of inviting people to drink and eat, it didn't cost almost 500 taels of silver to add land before.

The sum of this place is more than fifteen hundred taels of silver, and it is impossible to say that she will not be able to say that her father has returned all the silver she had saved before.

Others don't say it, her father is the first to suspect how much she has hidden.

Said okay daddy, the silver is still in your hands, I am steady, anyway, I can't spend the silver in the house, and I have long concealed it from him.

It's difficult, I don't dare to spend any money, and I have to desperately try to lie and find all the excuses.

It's too much brains.

After buying it, Zhou Banxia didn't care.

Don't talk about her, Gu Wenxuan doesn't care.

Stuffed the black cloth bag with silver ingots brought in the morning to Gu Erzhu, and wanted to escort Liu and Zhou Banxia to go shopping, wrong, it was to Wang's house, and Aunt Wang was still waiting for them to go back to report the news.

Gu Erzhu couldn't help but laugh and carried a black bag with at least one hundred taels of silver, held three contracts, and rushed to the county office with the owner and brokers accompanied by the shopkeeper Wang.