Chapter 187 Buying a Property
Pomegranate knew how much money was in the box without counting it. After all, she was the one doing the accounting at home, and she was the one who sent the money to the Song family.
The remaining one hundred and forty taels of silver from the previous year were used to pay wages to the family, buy a shop, and Li Jihe was injured. After using these and starting work in the workshop, there was more than fifty taels left. two.
In the past month or so since the end of the year, the shop has made a profit of more than 40 taels. Liu Dong’s family has given away 800 packages of pork floss and 1,300 salted egg yolks every five days. and 120 jars of salted egg yolk sauce, while Xinglongzhai gives away 40 packs of pork floss and 1,000 salted egg yolks every five days, adding up to a total of 320 packs of pork floss and 8,000 salted egg yolks.
There are also wooden boxes being sent one after another.
It cost fifty ounces of silver to buy the land, as well as the monthly salary and food expenses, the masonry, sand, tiles, and wood reserved for building a new house, as well as the tonics that Mr. Li of the Yuan family took when he was sick, and their own home. Except for the wages, there are now a total of 830 taels of silver in the box.
When Mrs. Song heard her counting, her eyes bulged out of copper bells, "Our family actually has so much silver?"
She thought it was more than a hundred taels. There are quite a lot of them, I guess there are two to three hundred taels, but I never thought there were so many.
Eight hundred taels, she has probably never seen so much money in her entire life.
Ah, no, she has seen it now in her life.
Mrs. Song couldn't help but pinch her, and she hissed in pain. It wasn't a dream, their family really had so much money.
She was so excited that she hugged her daughter, "Oh! Why are you so powerful, Pomegranate!"
Pomegranate, whose actual age in two lifetimes combined is almost the same as that of Old Yuan. He was held in Song's arms like a child, and his whole face turned red.
She didn't expect it. She is so old, but she hasn't been hugged like this for a long time.
"Mom, you-please let me down first."
Mrs. Song was awakened by her daughter's voice, and then she realized what she was doing. She blushed and felt very embarrassed. Her daughter was so old, and she was still holding her like a child, which was really embarrassing.
But after hugging him, she put him down and pretended as if nothing had happened. She changed the subject, "Our family has so much money, so it is enough to buy a house, right?"
Pomegranate nodded, "Enough, that's why I told my mother yesterday that the dowry for the eldest sister was short! When I go to the city tomorrow, I will Look at the shops, and if you find something suitable, buy one for your eldest sister first."
Mrs. Song nodded happily, "I'll buy it for you too! I'll buy it for you in the house next to the county school you mentioned. Let's go!"
Pomegranate agreed, but she had no intention of doing so. We'll talk about it later when we meet someone more suitable. She's not in a hurry.
Early the next morning, Shiliu took the money box and got on the mule cart driven by Li Jizhong to the city.
When we arrived at the shop, Jinya Man was already waiting. Without further delay, Shiliu went with him to meet the owner of the house in Gongyang Lane. Together with the owner, they went to the Yamen to handle the transfer of ownership. , this house has Li Jihe’s name on it.
In addition to paying one hundred and fifty taels of house money, I also paid three taels and one hundred and fifty taels of deed tax to the Yamen.
After a little calculation, Pomegranate knew that the deed tax would cost 300 yuan for every ten taels. Later generations would have to pay a house purchase tax when buying a house, which is also indispensable here.
But for the shop on Lingshui Street, Pomegranate gave her forty taels of silver. Now it seems that her adoptive father has given her a lot of advantage.
Of course, there is also a middle fee of three to one hundred and fifty ren to the Jinya man, which is the same as the deed tax.
Pomegranate’s sharp eyes looked at the landlord who also paid Gold-toothed Man a recruitment fee. With these two profits, Gold-Toothed Man actually got a few taels of silver from this single business, and it was just a waste of money to run errands. Shit, tut, this money comes from it!
But if someone can become such a famous fan in the city, he should earn the money. Otherwise, why don’t you see anyone else who can be such a fan!
Pomegranate just sighed and didn't care, but Jinya Man was happy, so he turned around and asked Pomegranate if he wanted to rent this house to earn some rent.
Pomegranate thought for a moment, this house is so big, it is not appropriate for no one to live in it. Brother Zhang is only ten years old this year and has just started school. It will be several years before he can go to school in the city, so he immediately Nodding, he asked the Jinya people to help match up the relationship and rent the house. He also gave him the key he had just received.
Golden Tooth Man was happy to have another small business. He immediately took the key and promised to find a good tenant for her, and then took Pomegranate to see the shop.
It was now dinner time, so the man with gold teeth took pomegranates to dinner first and treated them to a small restaurant.
After filling my stomach, I went on to visit the shop.
This first shop is in the north of the city, but it is not on the main street of the city, but at the entrance of Wutong Lane, directly opposite the end of the street in the north of the city.
This shop was originally a tailoring business. The old tailor who opened the shop got seriously ill not long ago and went to see him in a few days. However, his two sons were still young and could not support the business, so the tailor's wife decided to sell the shop and return home. Go to the countryside and rely on your tribe to make a living.
A lot of people asked about this shop, but when they heard that the original owner had suffered from a serious illness, they felt it was unlucky.
When Pomegranate heard this, she thought it didn't matter, it was just business. She didn't believe it.
It’s just a disease that kills a person. It’s hard to say that there are no bones beneath our feet on the streets we walk on every day.
Pomegranate put aside these and looked at the shop seriously.
Only then could we see some doorways. This shop was originally renovated from a neat house. The main house has three east and west wing rooms. Later, the two rooms adjacent to the alley in the south were broken through the wall. The door was opened, the pavement was built, and the entrance hall was moved from the middle to one side.
The asking price for a house with two shops, ten rooms and a large yard outside is eighty taels.
Compared with the price on the street outside, a shop with the same area and a few houses in a small courtyard behind two storefronts costs seventy or eighty taels, which is not expensive at all.
Pomegranate's heart moved, but she was thinking of something else.
I then asked the house again, "Golden Tooth Man, you may have found a house at the entrance of the alley? It doesn't matter the size."
Seeing her looking at the shop and asking about such a house, Jinya Man immediately understood what she meant, "She is indeed a pomegranate girl!"
"If you are interested, I will keep it for you! "
Pomegranate nodded and thanked her, and went out of this shop first without waiting to look at the shop behind.
Although it is not on the street, she took a fancy to this large courtyard, and then opened up the two side rooms and connected it with the shop in front. It is spacious and convenient, just like her idea!
I immediately went to see the tailor's wife to see the transfer of ownership at the Yamen. In this shop, Li Jihe's name was still on the pomegranate.
After paying the deed tax of 2 taels and 4 cents, I gave Li Jinya another 2 taels and 4 cents.
Pomegranate then asked the Jinya people to help introduce people to do the work, and planned to open up the east and west compartments and decorate them properly.
The Jinya people heard that she did not want to rent but wanted to decorate, and they were also curious about what kind of shop she was going to open.
In that specialty shop, now he also specially buys the meat floss and dried meat to feed his daughter and grandchildren at home. He is the one who can drink two taels of wine every time with that dried meat.
However, he didn’t ask much, he just agreed and introduced someone to Shiliu the next day.
Shiliu met with the people and told them roughly how they wanted to decorate the shop, negotiated the labor price, and agreed that they would pay the labor after they had seen the decoration.