dream of red mansion

Chapter 93 Entering the Ningguo Mansion's Old House

The person in charge was not angry when Jin Cai said this, and explained cheerfully: "The manager is right. In Guangzhou, Qiongya (Hainan) and even in Taiwan, the coconuts are usually sold for seven or eight yuan. One, even cheaper...

However, we did not ask for prices indiscriminately.I just want to ask the manager, is there a fruit shop that sells coconuts in this huge city of Nanjing? "

Jin Cai said: "Even if only your family owns it, you can't set the price so high!"

The person in charge shook his head and said, "Is it high? Actually, it's not high anymore! If it wasn't for the sake of making good friends with the Zhen family, who would be willing to travel thousands of miles to transport these heavy and worthless things to Nanjing..."

"You gave this to the Zhen family?"

Apart from the Jia family's family friend Zhen's family, there should be no second Zhen family in Nanjing, so Jia Qing asked curiously.

"That's right, I heard that the wives and ladies of the Zhen family love to eat fruits, so the master of the Zhen family asked someone to buy fresh fruits from other places. Our boss then decided to use express boats from Taiwan to transport some fruits that are not available in Jiangnan.

Anyway, it's a trip, and we have prepared a whole boatload of fruits.Our boss is very thoughtful, if the Zhen Mansion is endless, it is just so that people from home can try something new without traveling far!

We mainly ship mangoes and coconuts.It’s okay to say that mango can be stored for a long time anyway, but this coconut will not be good. This kind of coconut is also old, but it will go bad after a month.

So, you see, this coconut is heavy. The coconuts we take are all over six or seven catties, and they have not been stored for a long time. Tell me, who else is willing to do business with this stuff?Even if it is done, it will not be lower than the price set by our boss, otherwise, he will have to lose money! "

Heh, I can't see that the boss's eloquence is really good, and he has the quality of a good employee, and he maintains the image of the boss everywhere.

Jia Qing was convinced by his rhetoric.In fact, selling this rare item here like they do, it doesn't matter what the price is, as long as it can be sold.

Anyway, Jia Qing felt that compared to the price, it was worth it to be able to eat the coconut that can only be eaten in the tropics!
I believe that there are not a few people who think the same as him.

Stopping Jin Cai who was still talking, Jia Qing said: "You pick out two hundred old coconuts for me, and pick out another fifty tender ones for me."

"Yes!"

Hearing Jia Qing's order, the master knew that Jia Qing knew a lot about coconuts.

The storage time of young coconuts is shorter, but the taste is different from old coconuts, so Jia Qing only needs fifty.

The person in charge was ready to go, and Jia Qing said to Lai Sheng: "Later, you will give each person on board three coconuts to quench their thirst, and say that it is my small reward for their hard work. Move them all to my place."

"Thank you, Second Master!"

Lai Sheng bowed to accept the reward, and then went to communicate with the chief.

This time when they went to the south of the Yangtze River, Jia Jing gave Lai Sheng a lot of expenses. Of course, Jia Qing didn't need to pay for the small money for buying fruits.

Two hundred coconuts sounds like a lot, but there are also many people around Jia Qing, and it is not pleasant to deal with.

In fact, Jia Qing also thought about bringing some back to the sisters at home.However, as the principal said, the shelf life of coconuts is too short, and when he returns to the capital, most of them will no longer be fresh.It's better not to bring it.

But the big mango in front of me can bring some back to my family...

After everyone drank a coconut happily, Jia Qing asked Li Yan to call the person in charge, and said, "Pick out [-] boxes of the best mangoes from you, and I will take them back to the capital. Remember Give me more hay in the middle, if I find something bad or it breaks on the road, be careful, I will come back and smash your signboard!"

The chief was overjoyed. The twenty boxes weighed at least five or six hundred catties. His task was to sell out the thousands of catties of mangoes and coconuts on the pier. Jia Qing completed more than half of his task at once. Nodding and bowing, he followed Jia Qing's instructions and went to do things.

Twenty boxes is neither too much nor too little.Jia Qing planned to give some to all the wives, ladies and even aunts in Jia's house, no matter whether they were rewarding servants or eating for themselves, it was a novelty after all.

Just before going out, she also promised Xichun to bring her delicious food, which can be regarded as a share.

Jia Qing didn't wait for Lai Sheng to finish the matter of buying fruit, and took Xie Luan and the two back to the carriage with an eye-opening coconut.

"Here, here you go."

Inside the carriage, Jia Qing said to Xian'er who had been staying in the carriage.

Although Xian'er didn't understand what it meant, she still reached out to catch it.But he didn't get it, because Jia Qing took his hand back again.

"Almost forgot, you're still injured... Come on, sister Xiaofeng, hold it for her, uh, why don't you drink it, why are you holding it?"

"Second Master, this is too much, I can't drink it..."

"I haven't gotten a drink yet~"

The former voice belongs to Xie Luan, and the latter voice belongs to Pei Feng.The former voice was full of satisfaction, while the latter voice was full of grievances.

Jia Qing smiled at Peifeng and said, "Why, sister Xiaofeng, do you dislike me so much? Didn't you just drink it once, and you just got angry and stopped drinking?"

"That's not it...Second Master is really thick-skinned! In front of so many people, how can you ask others to drink..."

"Then you can always drink now."

Peifeng didn't answer, but she just glanced at Xian'er next to Jia Qing, the meaning was self-evident.

Jia Qing glanced at Xian'er who was expressionless, and said to Peifeng: "Then you drink from sister Xiaoluan's hands."

Xie Luan cooperatively passed the coconut in her hand to Pei Feng...

Peifeng looked at the coconut handed over by Xieluan with a tangled face, then looked at the coconut in her hand, felt the full coconut juice in it, and suddenly lowered her head and sucked the "straw" in her mouth, and drank it.

She would rather drink what Jia Qing drank than what Xie Luan drank!In fact, if there were no other people around, she would not hesitate.

Seeing that the hands of the two pretty girls were empty, Jia Qing had no choice but to "reluctantly" work as a maid, and handed the coconut in his hand to Xian'er with the tube facing outward, saying:
"Miss Xian'er, you drink too!"

Xian'er shrank her head slightly, and looked at Jia Qing suspiciously, fearing that Jia Qing had also tasted this first.

Jia Qing looked at her amusedly, and said, "Don't worry, this one was just opened, it's still full of juice!"

Only then did Xian'er dispel her doubts, and then glanced at Pei Feng who was drinking on the opposite side with a face full of intoxication. After all, she was attracted by the coconut milk she had never drunk before, and slowly leaned her head closer.

After taking a sip tentatively, he seemed to realize that this kind of behavior was a bit too intimate, and said in a concealed way: "It's delicious..."

……

To the west of Nanjing City, there is an urban area called Stone City, where many dignitaries and dignitaries from Jinling Province lived.

Jia's old house is located in Stone City.

As the serious master of Ningguo Mansion, Jia Qing naturally lived in Ningguo Mansion when he arrived in Nanjing. Of course, he would not live in the main hall.

Although the masters of the two prefectures are now living in the capital, the Ningrong and Ningrong prefectures in Nanjing are not where other partial house brothers can live.

Jin Cai is the general manager in charge of managing the old house, and there are nearly a hundred servants left behind by the two houses to look after the house, and they are all dispatched by him.

When they arrived at the street where Ning Rong's Second Mansion was located, Jia Qing and Pei Feng got out of the carriage, took a soft sedan chair, and entered Ning Guo Gong's Mansion through the east corner gate.

Jia Qing lifted the gauze curtain, and saw that the old Ningguo house had a spacious layout, halls and pavilions, towering and majestic.Although it has been vacant for many years, the rocks, flowers and trees inside are still lush and moist, without any sense of decay.

Thinking about it, Jincai and the others are often cleaned by others on weekdays.

(End of this chapter)