Yun Chu sat in the carriage and drank a mouthful of hot tea, not long after, sure enough, a man's voice was heard coming from outside the carriage, "Mrs. Xie, I am the proprietor of the Dou's merchant house, can I ask you to take a step to speak?"
That haunted manor, initially the Wu family sold to the Zou family, the Zou family later sold cheaply to the Dou business firm, and then smashed in the hands of the Dou family.
She remembers, after that fire in her last life, the Dou family this manor was taken directly by the family of a consort in the palace, the merchants are the lowest level of existence, worse than ordinary farmers, how can they dare to fight against the royal family, and finally it is the manor that was given to the palace consort.
Yunchu picked up the curtain.
There were two people standing under the car, the head of the Dou family and Mrs. Dou, both of them in their forties.
She helped Listen to the frost of the hand down, spoke: "Three days ago the night I brought people to go to your Dou family's manor, abrupt intrusion, should have boarded the door to apologize, but these days have been busy not to be free ..."
"Young Master Xie is participating in the imperial examinations, so naturally Mrs. Xie will be a bit busy." Mrs. Dou busily said, "That manor was originally abandoned, it is that manor's luck to be able to let Mrs. Xie rest her feet, I just don't know if it has scared Mrs. Xie?"
Yunchu sighed, "In fact, I have the intention to buy a large manor, I heard that the manor has mountains and water, and purposely went to step on the spot, who knows ..."
She shook her head and didn't continue.
Mrs. Dao's face, however, showed joy.
After all these years, no one's interested in this dealer, so there's a wrongdoer.
However, she had also heard that Mrs. Xie went in with a group of people and ended up carrying three or four people out, thus showing that she was scared to death.
Trying to convince Mrs. Xie to buy a manor house would take a lot of talking.
Mrs. Dou paused, spoke: "Mrs. Xie do not know, outside people say that the manor is haunted, in fact, it is not so, it is the surrounding farmers jealous of that manor land fertile, deliberately playing God, orchestrated nonsense, when we Dou family members to live in, those farmers are always looking for trouble, we are merchants, Shi Nongong Gong Shang Shang, where to dare to and farmers against, anyway, the Dou family is not short of this money, will be that the deserted. The Dou family is not short of this money, then that manor is deserted."
Yunchu smiled.
If she really wasn't short of money, she wouldn't have come to her of her own accord.
In these days, the farmer's annual income is two taels of silver, this manor has spent at least 10,000 taels, anyone else would be heartbroken about this money.
The Dou family head followed, "At first our Dou family was spent twelve thousand taels of silver to buy this manor from the hands of the Zou family, if Mrs. Xie really wants it, we can offer eight thousand taels of silver."
Yunchu shook her head.
This Dog family is really greedy.
This manor has been abandoned for more than twenty years, but still want to sell eight thousand taels of silver, if there is maintenance over the years, she is out of ten thousand won't hurt.
The price of eight thousand, is not to see that she is the first daughter of the cloud family, do not know business, see her all initiative to go to the manor, then deliberately pit a hand.
"Eight thousand taels of silver is a bargain, but-" Yun Chu lowered her voice, "My husband doesn't agree with me buying that manor, saying it's bad luck and afraid it'll affect my career, so even if I truly like it, I can't do anything about it. "
Listening to the frost stood on the side and said, "Our lady very much like that manor of the mountain, before thought of taking private money to buy down, but private also money is not enough ... "
Mrs. Dao hurriedly asked, "Dare I ask how many bodies Mrs. Xie has?"
Yunchu stretched out three fingers.
Mrs. Dou's smile froze on her face, thinking that Mrs. Xie was an ingrate, not expecting to cut the price so hard.
Recently business is not doing well, Dou's business firm closed several, in urgent need of silver turnover, if not, the husband and wife would not have made the trip here to block Mrs. Xie.
The Dou family head was a businessman, the best thing he could do was to bargain, and immediately said, "One price, five thousand taels of silver, and you can do the deed now."
Yunchu shook her head, "That's all I have."
This manor had been abandoned for more than twenty years and was also haunted, even if she got her hands on it, even if she didn't mention at least ten thousand taels of repair money in the future, it wouldn't be a simple matter to change the perception of the people in the know.
Most importantly, she didn't have much silver on hand.
Just as the two Dou family members hesitated, Yun Chu's face changed, "My husband is coming over, forget it, I'm not buying it, you guys hurry up and leave."
Lord and Lady Do: "..."
Originally, I still thought that 3,000 taels was too little, but now, it turned out that even 3,000 taels were gone.
But Xie Jingyu had already brought Xie Shi'an over, and no matter how unwilling the Dou family duo were, they could only step aside and wait to find an opportunity to talk about it later.
Xie Jingyu curiously glanced at the backs of the Dou family couple, "And the two of you are?"
Yun Chou smiled and said, "The merchants who have done business with the Yun family, they came over to give me an invitation."
She turned her head to look at Xie Shi An, "Brother An, how did you do on the exam?"
A smile appeared on Xie Shi An's face, "The top three shouldn't be too much of a problem."
Back at home, the old lady saw Xie Shi An's face full of hesitation, knew that this great-grandson will surely win the Xiu Cai, only twelve years old to become a Xiu Cai, more than Jing Yu years are the top of the class.
Xie Ping sat on the edge and inquired, "If Shi An becomes the head of the case, will our Xie family organize a banquet?"
Xie Jingyu took a sip of his wine, "Of course it should be done."
The old lady was in the same mood, "The youngest case leader in the entire capital, this is something worth praising, why not do it, what do you think, Chor?"
Although the old lady doesn't like Yun Chou right now, she still habitually listens to Yun Chou's advice when it comes to such big events.
"Many of the children carefully cultivated by the big families in the capital are not as good as Ange'er, if Ange'er really takes the first place this time, it's something that will give the Xie family a long face, and it just so happens that there are quite a lot of micro-aggressions against our Xie family from the outside, once this banquet is organized, those voices will naturally disappear." Yun Chu smiles and says, "If old madam trusts me, let me arrange the banquet, okay?"
The old lady naturally begged for it, "Then I'll work hard for you, Chou Er."
Xie Ping looked to Yunchu and said, "Mother, can I follow along and study?"
After the accident at the last birthday banquet, she hadn't followed her mother to learn housekeeping, and after avoiding it for so long, it was time to face it.
This case head banquet was naturally more lively than an old lady's birthday banquet, and she must clear her name at this banquet.
Although the courtyard examination has not yet unveiled the list, but the old lady's heart has already determined that Xie Shian is the head of the case this time, happy, but can not help but sigh: "Hey, if but brother also so good at reading it would be good ..."
After Xie Shi An came back from the examination hall, he heard about what happened in the house, but brother's son was beaten by his father with a dozen lashes, and after lying in bed for two days, he went to the school today.
"Ange'er, go see your brother." Yuan spoke, "Seeing how you're so accomplished now,惟哥儿 might start using his strength from now on."
Xie Shi An nodded his head, turned around, and walked towards Xie Shi Yan's courtyard.
The people waiting in the courtyard have all been replaced with stout grannies, and one granny is guarding the doorway to decoct medicines, and when she saw him coming, she was about to salute.
He made a silencing gesture and pushed the door in softly, and saw Xie Shiyi lying on the bed and reading a book.
As an elder brother, he felt relieved to see his younger brother of the same mother become upwardly mobile, and was deeply convinced that those few lashes from his father were worth it.
But when he got closer, his face sank, and he jerked the book out of Xie Shiyuan's hands, "You read these damn things all day long?"
The book is full of little people drawings, with various gory scenes making up a story.
"Big brother ...," Xie Shiyuan was scared silly, "you don t tell father and mother, please big brother."
Xie Shi'an threw the little man's book on the table's candlestick, and it burned in no time.
He pressed down his anger and said, "Father punished you so much and you didn't even change your ways, it seems that you really are hopeless!"
"Big brother, I didn't, it's that the homework assigned by the husband is too difficult ..." Xie Shiyuan racked his brain to think of an excuse, "I wrote for a while and wanted to relax, that's why I took this book to look at it, and I've really changed it, and changed it well ..."
Xie Shi'an looked toward the large, crooked letters on the table.