The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 397 I'm busy with a few things ([-])

After Mid-Autumn Festival, Su Yunduo has a few things to be busy with.

The first is to accompany Ning Zhongping to look at the house and decide on the house. This is the place where the Ning family settled after entering Beijing, so they can't be careless.

The Ning family didn't have much wealth, even if all the furniture in Xiushui County were used to buy a house, it would not be enough.

Fortunately, preserved eggs and wine are coming to the market one after another, and the profits can be expected.

When Lu Jinkang learned that Ning Zhongping had decided to take over his family and settle down in the capital, he agreed very much. He knew that Su Yunduo really needed Ning Zhongping's help in the capital.

It is not difficult for the Ning family to settle in the capital, but the difficulty is to buy a house in the capital.

Ning Zhongping originally had a little silver in his hands, but because he invested in the preserved egg workshop and the wine workshop, it is now less than a thousand taels. This is because the emperor rewarded him with some gold and silver for his meritorious service in protecting the nitrate.

Now I really don't have the ability to buy a house, so I thought about renting a house to live in for a while.

How could Su Yunduo agree, even the old lady Lu would not agree, the Ning family is the serious in-laws of the Su family, so they have to have a third-in-law courtyard in the capital.

The old lady Lu discussed with Su Chengzhi to give the three-entry courtyard on Huayang Street to the Ning family, but Ning Zhongping refused to take it.

Su Yunduo knew that Mrs. Lu had good intentions, but also understood the reason why Ning Zhongping refused to own this yard.

The Ning family is poor, but they have the pride of the Ning family.

Of course, Mrs. Lu did not force Ning Zhongping to accept her, nor did she get angry because of it. Instead, she valued Ning Zhongping more, and she was a little more patient when she was teaching Ning.

A proud person always wants to make people look up to him.

Lu Jinkang didn't say exactly how the Ning family's family was, but he also understood that it was not much better than the original Su family, so he offered to ask Ning Zhongping to borrow some funds from the accountant to settle down.

Su Yunduo was a little worried that Ning Zhongping would refuse, but he didn't expect that Ning Zhongping would write an IOU and pay a thousand taels of silver from the accountant, planning to buy a three-entry yard in the capital to house his family.

It is not impossible to buy a three-entry courtyard in the capital for less than 2000 taels of silver, but the location is hard to say.

Su Yunduo naturally didn't want his grandparents to live comfortably, so he handed over all the mooncake bonuses he just got to Ning Zhongping: "Uncle, just listen to me, first buy the two courtyards on Huasheng Street. I I don’t want to have to smell those smells every time I visit my grandparents.”

Ning Zhongping looked at Su Yunduo silently, gritted his teeth for a while, and nodded, accepting the hundreds of taels of silver that Su Yunduo came over: "I'm afraid that the silver won't come out for a while, and I can't pay it back until I pay off the money that was borrowed from the accountant." your."

Su Yunduo would not say that there is no need to pay back, but nodded with a smile: "Sooner or later is not a problem, is it possible that I am still afraid that my brother-in-law will take my little money?"

Ning Zhong nodded Su Yunduo's nose and sighed silently. This niece is so considerate that he always feels warm in his heart.

Speaking of the courtyard on Huasheng Street, Ning Zhongping is still very satisfied. It is not far from Dongmingfang. The most important thing is that there is a shop in the front and a not-so-large courtyard in the back. No smaller than the houses in Heishui Town.

It's not on the most lively main street, but it's still quite lively. There are many houses nearby, but there is no grocery store. It would be a good idea to open a grocery store when the family comes.

As for this house, if it wasn't for Lu Jinkang's face, even if he had money, he wouldn't necessarily be unable to grab it.

The second thing Su Yunduo was busy with was the wine auction. Although Lin Erfu was actively preparing for it, as one of the major shareholders of the winery, Su Yunduo naturally had to participate in it, at least he had to care about the progress.

Needless to say, the popularity of the wines listed in Zhongqiu is so high. Lin Erfu also released a "fine wine" auction in five days as agreed in advance.

Just as Su Yunduo expected, whether it was Fushun Auction House or the other two auction houses in Beijing, after the news that the wine shop was going to auction wine, they all hoped that they could get the right to auction wine.

It's just that the efforts of the three companies for the auction rights are different.

The shopkeeper of Fushun Auction House knew Lin Erfu, and because he knew Lin Erfu, he first thought that the wines listed and auctioned this time were sold from Persia by a firm under the name of Zhen Guo Gongfu.

After inquiring, I found out that this wine was made by Mrs. Lu's own vineyard.

Since it was produced by Mrs. Lu's Zhuangzi, Fushun Auction House thought that due to the in-law relationship between the Yong'an Hou Mansion and the Zhen Guo Gong Mansion, it was impossible for the auction right to fall aside, and it should be in the hands of Fushun Auction House. Come on, so I waited for Lin Erfu to come to the door.

Unexpectedly, if you can't wait, you can't wait, and the auction day will be two days away. Knowing that Lin Erfu has made a bidding, he hastily made a bidding plan, and the result is naturally lost.

What is surprising is that Baotong Auction House, the weakest of the three auction houses, got the right to auction this time.

It was Su Yunduo's proposal to select the auction house through bidding, but the selection criteria were the result of joint discussions between Lu Jinkang, Ning Zhongping, Su Yunduo and Lin Erfu.

When Su Yunduo put forward this proposal, he was a little worried that Lu Jinkang and others would not be able to accept the way of bidding, but he didn't expect that bidding was nothing new here, but this result made the master behind Fushun Auction House very unhappy.

Mrs. Yong'an Hou even ordered Lu Tian to go back to Zhen Guogong's mansion to ask for the auction right.

Lu Tian was very "obedient" and took his children back to Zhen Guo Gong's mansion, but Zhen Guo Gong kept him because Lu Tian's aunt Wang was in poor health and missed her daughter and grandson. I stayed in the mansion for a few days.

It wasn't until the end of the first wine auction that the couple returned to Yong'anhou Mansion radiantly.

How can the Yong'an Hou Mansion not understand that this is the opportunity of Zhen Guogong to beat them.

The Yong'an Hou Mansion lost his wife and soldiers this time.

Because Fushun Auction House did not get the right to auction the wine due to Tuo Da, the leading position of the Beijing Auction House was in jeopardy.

The first wine auction was very successful. Through this auction, more people got to know the wines of Sulu Winery, which also made Baotong Auction House stand out.

This made the shopkeeper of Fushun Auction House really anxious and regretful. Fortunately, before the auction ended, Lin Erfu announced something on behalf of his master, that is, wine auctions will be held every month, and the auction house will still use bidding produce.

Since then, Fushun Auction House didn't dare to trust it anymore, and put a lot of effort into the bidding documents. After cooperating with the wine shop several times in a row, Su Yunduo and Lu Jinkang discussed and finally stabilized the auction house.

After this incident, although Mrs. Yong'an Hou was very angry, she did not dare to blatantly tease Lu Tian again. Of course, this is for later.

(End of this chapter)