Chapter 582 is a pure waste
From mother-in-law to aunt-in-law, after finishing talking and having a midnight snack, Gu Wenxuan picked up the pen again, wrote down two lines of numbers, and drew a simple picture with a few strokes.
The first row of figures is the total amount of real money and silver currently available after conversion, and the second row is the current budget for purchasing property in Dingzhou Prefecture.
Picture?
It is easier to distinguish the map of Dingzhou Prefecture with Zhoujia Village as the center. Several black dots marked with ink are the target areas.
Zhou Banxia nodded to show that he understood, and agreed that Zhuangzi should focus on the south and east of Zhoujia Village, not to mention the shop, which must be located in Dingzhou City.
This matter is simple.
All we need to do is send instructions tomorrow and let the head of the village in Zhoujia Village inquire about the shop and village that had to be sold due to an emergency at the end of the year and buy it directly.
It only took two or three days for us to rush to Zhoujiacun. We had enough time to bring the banknotes, but if we didn't, we could ask my uncle to help.
In fact, in the last two letters from her uncle, she mentioned that she should not use the rent money. It will be available again next year, and she can spend it as she wants.
Although the meaning of spending money was that it was the end of the year, and she asked her to ask the shopkeeper to bring the goods to her door to pick out some fashionable jewelry and beautiful clothes, but buying a shop can be considered spending money, right?
If she still couldn't bear to spend money even though she was laughing at it, there was nothing she could do about it. After all, her aunt had been buying her things from the capital and sending them over since she went to the capital.
Perhaps because her aunt couldn't come to see her, not to mention the valuable jewelry, two batches of clothing, shoes, hats and accessories for the winter season had already arrived.
If you don't wear three sets of them every day, they will accumulate dust.
But this person in her family also joined in the fun, designing her own jewelry, and wearing a dress that she drew and had the sewing room rush to make on the pretext that she had a big belly.
Just like the custom-made head and face jewelry I brought back today, it would be fun to wear the head and face jewelry he designed and the dress he drew.
Pure waste.
She couldn't say it yet.
Wouldn't it be bragging if she said it out loud, for fear that no one would know that Zhou Banxia was so lucky one day that she didn't have to do anything, and even won by lying down, which would make people hate her.
Gu Wenxuan signaled Zhou Banxia to put away the pen and paper first, and mentioned one thing by the way. Before coming back this time, he met the second son of Zhao Laoer's family when he went to Zhao's Silver Building.
On the way back to the inner room to wash up and go to bed, Zhou Banxia nodded to express his understanding. Although she stayed at home, she was still well informed.
The Zhaojia Bank and the pawnshop belong to Zhao Laosan, while the cloth shop belongs to Zhao Laoer.
The eldest son inherits the family business, and the second son sets up his own business.
As far as she knew, the second son of Mr. Zhao's family had been abducted by Mr. Zhao's wife and taken to Fucheng. However, even though Mr. Zhao only had one legitimate son, he couldn't help but have so many bastards.
In order to avoid confusion in the family due to the indiscriminate relationship between concubine and concubine, Zhao Laosan took action not long ago and sent his concubine, the second son, to the capital.
It's almost like you're not very ambitious. Why fight with your eldest brother at home? I'll give you a chance. You can go and spend some time with your fourth uncle.
It just so happens that Zhao Laosi belongs to the category of those who cannot achieve high or low levels.
Failed to study, the Zhao family tried their best, but still couldn't let Zhao Laosi pass the government examination, let alone become a scholar in the academy examination.
In business, he is not as good as Zhao Laosan, and there are many powerful people in the capital. Although Zhao Laosan has been promoted, there is no protection behind the businessmen in the capital. What's more, many merchants are the cronies released by the master. If one is not good, he will offend others. It is okay to do a small business, but if he is a little bigger, his thighs will be thicker than others.
Therefore, everyone tacitly avoided it if they could. For example, Mrs. Qian took the initiative to cede the Xiangjizi sales area, Beijing, Zhili, and Jiangnan to Gaofu.
The same is almost true for Zhao Laosan. From the beginning, he did not go to Beijing with Zhao Laosan. Instead, he first settled his business in Fucheng, and then moved the head office of the business bank to Zhending Mansion after ten years.
All of them are ghosts and ghosts.
Zhao Laosan sent his second son to his fourth brother this time, saying that he wanted his son to help his old uncle. He didn't want his second son to have a good experience.
——Lao Wo sits in the city and looks at the sky. He really thinks that his uncle's official position is so high that no one would give him a bit of respect for a merchant's bastard.
Secondly, it is also a warning to the wives and concubines not to stretch their hands too far, but the nephew is not a son after all, and a poor arrangement will hurt the brotherhood.
No, the second son of his second brother's family was sent by him to be a steward of the Silver House in his hometown county, one of his properties. It was close to his second brother and he could take care of his wife and children at home.
How nice.
"... Mr. Zhao's brain is indeed very good. Maybe it's because the old son is the younger brother. I heard from Aunt Lan that Mr. Zhao is not even as good as Mr. Zhao.
As a person, he is not even a scholar. He always likes to act like a scholar. Even if Mr. Zhao helps him open a bookstore with money, he doesn't care. His wife has the final say in everything.
As for his wife's natal family, it's not like his second sister-in-law and third sister-in-law. One's natal family is responsible, and the other is a wealthy lady who comes from a scholarly family?
I wonder if a person who is not even a scholar, not even a rich second generation, and whose appearance is said to be only decent, can find a good match in the capital.
It is said that she came from a scholarly family, but in fact her ancestors had a Jinshi who reached the fifth rank. However, her father's generation had stopped. There were only a few who passed the imperial examination, and none of them even became Jinshi.
However, after marrying into the Zhao family, thanks to Mr. Zhao, Mrs. Zhao, a fool, helped recommend the candidate through her natal Wang family.
That is, Zhao Laosi's brother-in-law went to a remote place to become a county magistrate. It seems to be somewhere in the northwest. I forgot the name of which county. ”
Gu Wenxuan couldn't help laughing.
"It's not that I have a bad memory, but I need to remember it deeply. I just remember that Aunt Lan said that the other party was a fairly upright official, and he is still the county magistrate. His mother's family is not very wealthy."
"I know, I think Mrs. Zhao is really a fool, it's funny." Gu Wenxuan shook his head with emotion, "Actually, the Wang family is worthy of Mr. Zhao."
"No, otherwise why Aunt Mei (Shopkeeper Hu) has so little sense for Boss Zhao? It must be because Mrs. Qian often feels sorry for her cousins in front of her.
In fact, it's not just their cousins who are too smart and too naive. The four brothers of the Zhao family are almost the same, and Mr. Zhao is a hundred times smarter than Mr. Zhao.
It is said that the two brothers made each other successful, but in fact, if Mr. Zhao had not decisively married a wife from a big businessman, Mr. Zhao would still be living a soft life.
God is very good at playing tricks on people. If Mr. Zhao is as talented and learned as Mr. Zhao and marries the eldest wife of the Zhao family, his Zhao family will be in great trouble.
Despite the fact that he had many concubines, the master who dared to put a kitchen knife on the clan leader's neck to impose a clan rule married the eldest wife of the Zhao family and would not be able to take in concubines without a son.
This kind of person does not even take concubines purely for beauty, but considers the interests of the business. He takes concubines before Boss Zhao takes concubines to make himself look bad. He knows what he wants.
Now that the wealth he has given to his fourth brother, if it were not for his eldest brother, his fourth brother's wealth would allow his fourth sister-in-law to move back to her parents' home. How could he let it go? ”