Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 380 Suzhou Garden, come out
Only then did Old Man Wei nod his head: "That's it. Let's talk about it."

If you are willing to negotiate the price, it will be easy to handle.

Cao Zhongren passed the news to Du Jinning, and everyone met again.When they met, Cao Zhongren deliberately pretended to have a stomachache and ran to the toilet, so that Yao Shuqi had the opportunity to quietly pull old man Wei aside, and directly promised him a gift of 50 taels of silver.So the house was sold for [-] taels of silver.

Du Jinning has taken advantage of these two days to draw a rough sketch of the garden.In the past two years, he has learned painting from Yuan Xiuzhu.Although I didn't show a particularly high talent like calligraphy, and I can draw a master in no time, but it is still no problem to draw a garden map.

After going to the yamen and signing a red deed to transfer the house, Du Jinning asked someone to pull out all the weeds in the house first, and then measure the size.

She discussed with Yao Shuqi: "I can't stay here all the time, and I don't have time to watch people build houses. Do you have any suitable candidates to recommend to me, so that he can monitor and build the house according to my requirements?"

"Nowadays teahouses and bookstores are useless and I don't have to worry about it. Each store has a second shopkeeper to take care of specific matters. I will go over the accounts at the end of the month, and just go to the stores from time to time to inspect them." Yao said. Shuqi said, "If the young master trusts me, you can entrust this matter to me, and I will explain it to the young master."

He disturbed this matter not because he was free, but because he had his own considerations.

Originally, Lu Xiaobei followed Du Jinning, and he also knew that Du Jinning attached great importance to Lu Xiaobei, so Lu Xiaobei was naturally trained as a big housekeeper.And he is Du Jinning's big shopkeeper.The two perform their own duties and have different divisions of labor. He doesn't have any ideas, so he can do his work with peace of mind.

But now Lu Xiaobei has gone to the capital to do his own business, and as Du Jinning's brother-in-law, it is impossible for him to take care of Du Jinning's affairs like before.The position of the big butler next to Du Jinning was vacant.

Although it is good to be a big shopkeeper, it has a high status and is respected.But Yao Shuqi knew what he was capable of.Although the teahouses and bookstores he managed were good, and their business was even better than those in Lishui County, they were copied from the models made by Du Jinning and Zhuang Yue.If Du Jinning only brought up an idea and let him start the business himself, it is still unknown whether he can be as successful as he is now.In his business, he is more conservative than pioneering, and his mind is not necessarily very flexible.Otherwise, he wouldn't have been kicked out by his old club because he was squeezed out.

Those who are capable are not so easily squeezed out.

Since he is not capable enough, in the future there will be a more capable shopkeeper, so he has to give up the position of the big shopkeeper.This position is not based on qualifications, but on ability.

But the position of the butler next to Du Jinning is different.As long as he is loyal, careful, and able to carry out the young master's orders honestly, no one can take his place because he is the first to follow the young master.And his temperament seems to be more suitable for being in charge.

So now that he has the opportunity to let go of the original burden and pick up another burden, he naturally has to fight for it and try to see if the idea is feasible.

What Du Jinning lacks now is not ideas to make money, but capable people.Seeing Yao Shuqi taking the initiative to shoulder the heavy burden at this time, she was very happy: "Okay, then I will trouble you."

She rubbed her chin: "In the past two days, go and find out which team of craftsmen is good, how much they charge, and how to calculate the materials. I will draw the rough construction drawings."

"Yes." Yao Shuqi got the order and hurried away.

Du Jinning went to look for Qi Muyuan: "Can your family get an accountant to help me for two months? Building a house is such a big job that Yao Shuqi can't do it alone, and he has to find someone to help manage the accounts."

"No problem." Qi Muyuan agreed without hesitation.

Du Jinning then went back to draw her picture.

Qi Muyuan followed her curiously, and asked, "What are you painting?"

"The construction plan of the house." Du Jinning said without raising his head.

Many of the well-known Suzhou gardens at home and abroad were built according to the paintings drawn by literati, so she used small freehand brushwork to draw the gardens she wanted to build.It looks like a painting, but it is actually a garden construction drawing. She used many garden design techniques to design this small house with scenery everywhere, instead of building a house like people in this era. It is quite satisfactory, the front is a piece of houses, one enters, two enters and three enters the courtyard, and then leaves a place for the back garden, dig a pond, make a rockery and plant some flowers and trees, it is already a particular family.As for garden construction and design, there is absolutely no such thing.

In modern times, she was very greedy for Suzhou gardens, but as a master student, it would be nice if she could buy a small two-bedroom and one-living room in a third- and fourth-tier city. Such a thing is just a dream.

Now in ancient times, she has the money and the opportunity to do this, and she may be able to develop a business, so she naturally has to try it.Anyway, isn’t money earned and spent?

As a science student, her painting is of course not a pure literati landscape painting. She also calculated the approximate area of ​​the scenery and courtyards based on the area of ​​the house, and marked it on it to avoid oolong incidents during construction.As for where and what trees and flowers to plant, she drew them and marked the names of the plants.

Qi Muyuan looked at her painting with admiration on his face: "The painting is very good. I want to build a house like this with your pictures."

"As long as you're not afraid of spending money, you can build it if you want." Du Jinning said.

Yao Shuqi had stayed in Fucheng for two years, and he worked as a shopkeeper in a well-informed and well-connected place like a teahouse, so it was very easy to inquire about things.He also knew that Du Jinning couldn't stay here for a long time. In less than two days, he brought two craftsmen over to meet Du Jinning.

"Both of them have a good reputation for their work. Master, let's see which one you want." Yao Shuqi said, and then introduced the two, "This is Mo Jingming, and this is Zhang Genfa."

Du Jinning showed them his paintings: "I want to build a house like this."

Zhang Genfa looked at it, and couldn't understand Du Jinning's thoughts at all, and always wanted to take her into the ditch: "Master Du, it's not that I rely on the old to sell the old, but in fact I have built a lot of houses, so I naturally know which is good and which is not. If your house is built like this, It looks good, but it is not practical. When you marry a wife and take concubines in the future, these houses will not be able to live if there are too many people in the family. It is better to build two courtyards in the front and a garden in the back. Everyone says the back garden, the back garden, Doesn’t this garden have to be built in the back? If you build it like you did, if you walk out of the garden to have a meal, you probably have to spend a cup of tea. "

(End of this chapter)