After traveling to ancient times, I became a superb shrew

Chapter 114

In Gujia Village, the rooster crows before dawn.

The store should be inspected today, and if there are no problems, you can choose a good day and auspicious day to open.

Gu Qing got up early and called Yang Pei over while Zhu Han was still washing up, "Brother Yang, let's go to the town to see the decoration of the shop together."

"So fast?" Yang Pei was a little surprised. He had seen restaurant renovations before, and it usually took a month.

"Is it fast?" Gu Qing felt that it was a bit slow. It was originally agreed to finish in a week, but because of the details, it has now been several days.

Several people washed up in a hurry, loaded the milk and stewed meat from the old house into the car, and hurried to the town.

The roads in this village are not specially repaired, but relatively flat avenues that have been walked out day after day, year after year. The ox cart will appear stable when it is slow, but the horse cart will be very bumpy if it goes too fast, and Gu Qing shakes all the way. Shaking, dizziness, stomach churning, and discomfort.

Gu Qing thought of a saying, if you want to get rich, build roads first.

Her business is getting bigger and bigger in the future, and more and more people come to order to pick up the goods. Shouldn't this road be repaired?

Of course, instead of building a cement road, it is to level the dirt road and then pave it with gravel. Even if it is completed, the process is not complicated, and the raw materials are not difficult to find. The most difficult thing is that there are no workers.

The imperial court sometimes builds official roads, and they usually use criminals in prisons or ordinary people to do hard labor to build roads. This is a big project.

The roads in Gujia Village are not official roads, the government cannot contribute, and the village is short of manpower. If this matter is really put on the agenda, it is really not a simple matter. Let's talk about it when everyone's life in the village improves in the future .

Thinking all the way, the carriage soon arrived at Youshui Town.

The entrance of this shop is not very lively, but when the door is closed, it looks even more deserted.

The two pushed the door open and went in, the leader of the decoration had been waiting for a long time.

The shop has two floors plus a yard, and the backyard is used as a warehouse and a temporary residence.

The first floor is the dining hall. The lobby of the ancient restaurant is very simple, with five or six wooden tables and benches, it is considered complete. In Gu Qing's view, such an ever-changing layout has no special features.

Fortunately, the people in the shopping mall made a hallway with a screen to separate the entrance, and built a small pool. There are many koi in the pool. Gu Qing plans to use all the fish in the restaurant except koi after the opening of the fish pond. And put it in it, so as to tell the guests that the ingredients in the restaurant are the freshest, and there is a small rockery in the pool, with a lot of fake lotus leaves and water plants in it, which looks beautiful and elegant.

After bypassing the screen, there is the main hall, where six tables are placed, and each table is separated by a screen and green plants to increase privacy. The chairs with backrests are all used, and the seats are cushioned. Improve the comfort of the entire restaurant to a certain extent...

The second floor is a private room, a total of four private rooms, divided into four styles...

The entire restaurant can only take up to ten tables of guests at a time, which sounds a little small, but considering that the restaurant is in Youshui Town, and there are only so many big families in the town, the number of guests it can take is not a big problem.

After the two of them negotiated with the leader, it was getting late, so they bought some daily necessities in the city, picked up Zhu Han and the three of them went back home.

The carriage galloped towards Gujia Village, and on the way, it met a bullock cart.

The road into the village is very narrow, only allowing one car to pass, and an ox cart is dangling in front, and the horse-drawn cart can't speed up.

Gu Qing lifted the curtain of the car and looked forward: "I know all the people who drive the ox carts in our village. The back of this person is a bit unfamiliar. Brother Yang, do you know him?"

Yang Pei took a closer look: "It seems to be Shopkeeper Wang."

Shopkeeper Wang, who was the previous shopkeeper of this restaurant, couldn't continue his business, so he resold the shop.

Gu Qing pondered: "He came to Gu's Village on a special trip, so he regretted selling the shop, right?"

While the two were talking, the bullock cart in front of them stopped suddenly. Shopkeeper Wang turned his head and asked loudly, "Young man, is this the way to Gu's Village? I haven't arrived after walking for a long time. Did I go wrong?" Oh... Hey, aren't you the husband-in-law of Mrs. Gu's family..."

Shopkeeper Wang seemed very happy to see the acquaintance.

He jumped off the ox cart and walked to the carriage: "Are you going to Gu's Village too?"

Gu Qing lifted the curtain of the car and said with a smile, "We are the villagers of Gu's Village, what is Shopkeeper Wang going to do?"

"That's a long story."

Walking slowly all the way to Gu's Village, shopkeeper Wang started talking slowly.

After the ancestor's teahouse was sold, he suddenly had 1000 taels of silver in his hands, so he was looking for some small business.

I tried to buy a batch of goods to sell in Youshui Town, but I couldn't sell them, so I threw them all at my hands, and finally sold them to other shopkeepers at half price.

He didn't give up, and tried two other businesses one after another, but they still lost money.

1000 taels of silver, in less than half a month, he tossed and tossed away more than 300 taels of silver, and he didn't dare to spend the rest of the money.

Gu Qing was silent.

It turns out that there are really such people who can't do business in this world.

Others are worried about lack of capital when doing business. This shopkeeper Wang really doesn't have this talent. If he does business again, he may lose money in his pants.

"The ancestral shop has been tossed away by me. I can't lose all the money, so I stopped it as soon as possible." Shopkeeper Wang sighed, "It's not good for business, that kind of land. If I bought a cow, I can’t be the only one who didn’t get a harvest. I asked around, and I heard that there are more fields in Gu’s Village, so I won’t encounter trouble buying land, so I’ll try my luck.”

Yang Pei laughed: "The shopkeeper Wang really came to the right place. Our Gujia Village has thousands of acres of land, but it's all wasteland, which needs to be reclaimed."

Shopkeeper Wang's eyes lit up: "Is the wasteland expensive? The money I can use is about 400 taels. How much land can I buy?"

Yang Pei: "..."

More than 400 taels of silver, used to buy wasteland, can buy more than 400 mu, and the Wang family has only a few people. Can it be planted?

Gu Qing said: "Gu's Village is here, Brother Yang, take Shopkeeper Wang to Auntie Lizheng, buy the land early, open up wasteland during the winter, and plant the land in the spring of next year. You can't delay this time."

Shopkeeper Wang parked the cart beside the field and let the cattle graze by themselves, then followed Yang Pei to Lizheng's house.

Li Zheng was worried that no one would buy the wasteland. Thousands of acres of land had been thrown into his hands for two years. He thought about whether to find some people to farm the land and pay the land rent to the village. Think about it.

Worried, shopkeeper Wang came in.

After Yang Pei made an introduction to both parties, he began to talk about business.

Lizheng asked about the capital budget, and suddenly he was a little speechless. He could come to the village to settle down with so much money in his hands. What was the plan?
Everyone was eager to make money and buy a house in the city, but this one was lucky enough to sell the house in the city and come to the village to learn how to farm.

However, the Gu family village has a large territory, but there are not enough villagers. It is a good thing that some people come to settle down.

Li Zheng showed great enthusiasm: "More than 400 taels of silver can buy more than 200 acres of wasteland, and the remaining 200 taels can be used to build a green brick house in the village, which is no worse than that in the city. However, two hundred acres of land, At least ten laborers are needed, may I ask if Shopkeeper Wang has so many laborers at home?"

(End of this chapter)