Chapter 526 Entanglement
She couldn't tell anyone about Miss Ma being kidnapped. After all, it was related to Miss Ma's reputation... I heard that Miss Ma wasn't engaged yet.
"Is there such a thing?" Magistrate Guo's face changed drastically and he couldn't stand anymore. "I will send someone to investigate this matter immediately. I will definitely give the princess a good explanation."
Then, he issued an order and sent a team of officers to investigate the matter.
Xia Zihan said, "My people know the way, let her take you there." She recruited Chu Fei and asked Chu Fei to lead the officials there.
Chu Lin took the lead, just to charm Rong San and others. When Chu Lin rescued Miss Ma and took Miss Ma away, the official mission was almost here, and it was just a matter of time to catch a turtle in a jar...
Haha...
This time, she wanted to see if Rong San still dared to steal money from her after losing such a big face.
Hum...
According to the marks left by Chu Lin along the way, Chu Fei led a team of officials there, while Xia Zihan and County Magistrate Guo were waiting in the inn.
Before the official caught Rong San, Mrs. Ma arrived.
Miss Ma was rescued by Chu Lin and returned to Ma's house intact. Mrs. Ma was grateful and learned Xia Zihan's true identity at the same time, so she hurriedly came to say thank you.
Mrs. Ma took her daughter, knelt down with a bang, and kowtowed to Xia Zihan.
"A civilian woman (a civilian woman) has seen the princess, and the princess is a thousand years old."
"Get up." Xia Zihan said.
Mrs. Ma looked haggard, with red and swollen eye circles. She was worried about her daughter and stayed up all night.
Xia Zihan didn't mince words with her, and brought up the matter of buying Ma's shop and manor.
This time, Mrs. Ma didn't hesitate at all and agreed happily. In order to thank Xia Zihan for saving her daughter, she even lowered the price. "If the princess wants to buy it, she must give it to the princess first. This price is just It’s 80% of the market price, but it can’t be any cheaper.”
Mrs. Ma was still worried that Xia Zihan would be dissatisfied, and said, "In the future, the Ma family will have less property, and the whole family will have to eat. It cannot be made cheaper. No matter how cheap it is, the Ma family will go bankrupt, and the whole family will be ruined." Gotta go drink the northwest wind.”
From beginning to end, Xia Zihan never thought of taking advantage.
However, since Mrs. Ma took the initiative to reduce the price by 20%, she would not refuse.
She smiled and said, "I won't pay a penny for the price you mentioned, but I also have two conditions."
"Princess, please speak."
Mrs. Ma said very respectfully.
Xia Zihan said, "First, sell all the seeds and fertilizers left by your family to me at the market price. I will give you a lot of money, but it must be enough to plant the whole land and I will buy the land."
"Second, all the long-term workers working in the manor must be left to work for me for one year. No one can be missing."
The Ma family's manor is so big that it will definitely need a lot of seeds, and it will be time to plant the land in the middle of this month.
Now that she has bought the land, she needs to have the seeds in place and people to farm the land.
The long-term workers in the manor are all members of the Ma family, who have been employed by the Ma family for decades. Just like the sons of the Chu family, they are all loyal slaves to their employer.
I am afraid that when the long-term workers see that they have changed their employers, they will give up their work at the critical moment of farming, fearing that they will take advantage of them and cause trouble.
In fact, she didn't want to use people from the Ma family. The servants of other people were always not easy to use. She didn't have her own servants to handle, but there were so many places, and at this moment, she didn't know where to find so many long-term workers. Come to plant?
Therefore, we can only make an agreement with Mrs. Ma for three chapters first.
With Mrs. Ma coming forward, nothing will happen to those long-term workers.
Mrs. Ma was trembling with fear, thinking that she would make some excessive demands, but she didn't expect that it would be these two.
These two requirements are not excessive at all and are reasonable.
There is not just a little bit of land in the manor. If there are no seeds and no people to cultivate the land, so much land will be empty for a year, which is a waste.
The Ma family had seeds on hand. If they didn't plant them, they wouldn't be able to sell them for a while. Just in time, the princess opened the door and wanted to buy them.
This is a good thing that combines two good things into one, and she supports it with both hands.
Mrs. Ma agreed wholeheartedly.
Xia Zihan bought a whole street of Ma's shops, one hundred and sixty-eight. Each shop is different in size and location. The shop in the middle of the street is larger and the price is higher. The shops at the end of the street are also different. Most of the shops are small and the prices are low.
The shop in the center of the street, the big one costs 2,500 taels of silver each, a total of 16 shops, the small one costs 1,800 taels of silver, a total of 78 shops, and the remaining ones are more than 70 The rooms are all shops at the end of the street. The largest one costs 1,200 taels of silver per room, while the small one costs at least 800 taels of silver per room. This price is already 20% off the market price.
These one hundred and sixty-eight shops cost 2.67 million taels of silver, which was much more expensive than the more than 70 shops Nuanxiang bought last time.
The main thing is that the shop this time is on the most prosperous street in Huaihe City, while the shop Nuanxiang bought last time was on two relatively secluded streets. The price was not high, and it was bought by someone else, and it cost a favor. Bought at 80% of the market price.
And this time, it is 80%, the same as last time, but this time the shop is in a good location and has a large floor area. Many of the shops are double the size of the ones bought last time, so the price is much higher.
In addition, three large estates were purchased.
A large manor has more than 10,000 acres of land, plus the houses, furniture and other items on each village, all wrapped up, which costs 45,000 taels of silver each.
Xia Zihan recorded all these three manors in her own name, and she recorded all of the 168 shops in the name of the Chu family.
Pay the money with one hand and transfer the ownership with the other hand.
Because she also spent a sum of money to buy Ma's seeds and fertilizers. The money exceeded Xia Zihan's estimate, and she still had some money left on hand. It was she who sent Chu Cang to ride back and forth for more than an hour to go from Cuihuai It was temporarily transferred from a shop in the city.
When Butler Cui was holding a thick stack of house deeds, he hesitated again and again and said hesitantly, "Princess, the one hundred and sixty-eight shops cost more than 200,000 taels of silver. The old lady only gave After paying 100,000 taels of silver, and asking the princess to subsidize so much, if I go back and explain to the old lady, the old lady will definitely disagree.”
The princess is about to get married. Logically speaking, the old lady should buy the dowry for the princess, but the princess is always supplementing her private money, buying properties for the Chu family, and thinking about the future of the Chu family. This makes him ... He was extremely moved.
However, when the old lady finds out, she will definitely blame him.
"Mine belongs to my grandmother. Without my grandmother's years of upbringing, how could I still be there? If I were still in the Xia family, I'm afraid they would have eaten me alive. ”
"My life was given by my grandmother, and everything I learned was taught by my grandmother. These are what I should give to the Chu family." Xia Zihan said.
She didn't feel sorry for the money at all. Instead, she was happy that the Chu family had gained another fortune.
Nowadays, she has more than thirty shops under her name, selling extremely expensive jewelry and clothes. Each shop can earn an average of one to twenty thousand taels of silver a year. Just from these profits, she earns hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year. .
There are also 17 or 18 small villages that have been purchased one after another in the past few years, and the annual profits are also considerable.
Nowadays, the annual income of these three large estates is at least thirty to forty thousand taels of silver. She could not spend all this money in ten lifetimes, so why not take the opportunity to accumulate more property for the Chu family.
In her two lifetimes, she owed her maternal grandparents a lot. Now that she had the ability and money, and the Chu family had successors, it was time for her to repay her maternal grandmother.
She would not say the word "repay" in front of her grandmother. It would be too unorthodox to say it in person, but she still had this heart. She wanted to repay her grandmother a little more when she was still alive.
Therefore, when buying shops and manors, she did not hesitate to record the shops that were well-priced and easy to manage in the name of the Chu family, and the three large manors worth 150,000 taels of silver that were difficult to manage, she It was recorded in his name.
The second housekeeper Cui sighed and said, "My love for the princess over the years has not been in vain. I will be relieved that I have a spirit in heaven."
"I am lucky to have met a good wife."
Otherwise, she lost her mother when she was young, and in the wolf den of the Xia family, with the two wolves, Mrs. Xia and Mrs. Xu, she would have a hard time, and it was uncertain whether she could grow up.
Leaving the head of the farm and a few senior attendants behind to look after the manor, Xia Zihan and Butler Cui had lunch and hurried back to the capital.
Before leaving, Magistrate Guo brought a large group of officials and sent them out of the city.
An hour after the carriage left Huaihe City, the sound of a group of horse hooves could be heard from behind, and the sound of horse hooves was getting closer and closer...
Chu Lin opened the car curtains and took a look outside. Her expression changed, "Master, it's Rong San."
"You're out of the Yamen so soon?" Xia Zihan picked up a piece of walnut meat on the plate and put it into her mouth. After eating it, she smiled and said, "It seems that County Magistrate Guo was quite frightened."
Rong San was released so quickly. Rong San must have revealed his identity, and County Magistrate Guo did not dare to lock him up again.
"Master, Rong San won't cause trouble for us, right?" Chu Lin said worriedly.
"What are you afraid of? He Rong San is so arrogant that he doesn't dare to blatantly bully me." Besides, she is not someone who doesn't fight back when bullied.
While the master and servant were chatting and laughing, Rong San's horse had already chased after him, blocking the Chu family's carriage and forcing it to stop.
Rong San tightened the reins and stared at the sight on the carriage, which was extremely sharp, as if he wanted to penetrate the curtain of the carriage and see everything inside clearly.
"Princess Chu Yu, you let that fat old man catch me and then ran away, isn't that very interesting?" There was a hint of grievance in his tone.
Xia Zihan frowned, then twisted a piece of walnut meat and put it in his mouth to chew, "You deserve it. If you didn't try to get my money first, I wouldn't provoke you. Rong San, between us The time is even.”
I'll post the rest in the morning, it's too late today.
(End of chapter)