Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

On a holiday, at the beginning of the morning (seven o'clock), a carriage approached from far away, entered the entrance of Qinghe Village, and stopped in front of Gu's house.

Shopkeeper Wang sent someone here.

It was somewhat expected, but I didn’t expect it to arrive so early.

Zhou Banxia and Gu Wenxuan took Liu and Gu Erzhu into the city together on the pretext that they were afraid of being robbed because they had brought a thousand taels of cash with them.

The two carriages left the village one after another and arrived at the county seat. When Yunke came, shopkeeper Wang saw that Gu Erzhu and Liu were also there today, so no matter what, they had to come to his house to sit there this time.

When they arrived at Wang's house in the east of the city, shopkeeper Wang's wife, Mrs. Qu, met Mrs. Liu. Shopkeeper Wang didn't waste much time and handed Zhou Banxia a box containing a stack of thick letters on the spot.

These letters and a box came from Gaofu in the capital, passed through the inn, and arrived in the hands of shopkeeper Wang the evening before. Considering that the school was closed today, he had to wait an extra day.

There were three letters in total. In addition to the one dictated by Mrs. Gao and a reply written by Liandong, there were also letters from Mrs. Gao and Mrs. Young.

Zhou Banxia opened the next two letters, looked at them briefly, and then opened the last letter. There were more papers in this letter, ten in total.

In addition to mentioning that the old lady had received a letter from the third lady, the letter also stated three things.

The first thing was to accept the dowry without any shame. It was her share, but she didn't expect her marriage to be so urgent.

The following is the narration of the old lady. What Liandong mentioned was that not only did she win a penny, but the old lady also won the eldest lady and the eldest young lady's copper coins.

Zhou Banxia understood the meaning of this word.

It seemed that not only was there an interesting anecdote between her and Lonicera about whoever got married first would lose a penny, but the old lady and the others also secretly used her marriage as a bet.

No wonder Mrs. Gao and Mrs. Gao joked in their letters that she married too early, and the old lady cleverly predicted that she would return to the village to marry her husband, whose family must be in this village.

Secondly, the second thing is that she asked Lonicera in her letter if she still remembered the fun of making rouge pancakes, and Mrs. Gao asked her to do it if she wanted.

The next line, again, is Lonicera's own thoughts, saying that the old lady had known that she was extremely intelligent, but blamed her for being too cautious and afraid of being in the limelight and causing trouble.

Finally, the last thing the old lady dictated was that Grandma Zhou had a foster brother who was a second-class Jinshi in the 10th year of Longqing. The general meaning.

Lord Zhou had a long scar on the left side of his face due to his meritorious service in protecting the Ninth Prince, so he intended to become an official. However, he was favored by the Holy Spirit after he retired.

When the other party goes to Baoding Mansion to pay homage to Grandma Zhou in the next year, he will most likely come to Qingyang County to see her, and he can use the name of Grandma Zhou's closed disciple to keep this person as a disciple.

Zhou Banxia knew that he had seen many storms and waves. After all, he had even encountered such a fantasy thing as traveling through time. He was still stunned by the content of this half page.

Mrs. Gao actually pointed out that she was not only Grandma Zhou's close disciple, but also Grandma Zhou's step-brother, the Ninth Prince, and a favored one.

The information here is huge.

Keeping his arrhythmia under control, Zhou Banxia hurriedly put away a stack of letters and put them into a box while others were unprepared, and "smoothly" put the piece of paper into the space for storage.

"...No one thought that the girl would find the old lady. What a good time you think it is." Shopkeeper Wang saw Zhou Banxia walking over while he was talking and asked with a smile, "Have you finished reading all?"

"After reading it, uncle, let's go see the shop first?"

Gu Erzhu also had this intention.

He was happy to listen to Brother Wang's talk, but the holidays on the first and fifteenth day of every month were also the best times for the restaurant's monthly business.

According to Zhou Banxia's previous letter, shopkeeper Wang found three shops that he thought were okay, one of which was on the same street as Yun Kelai. It is less than 500 steps away from Yunke Lai, the largest restaurant in the county. It is in an excellent location. The shop is about 50 square meters and there is a small courtyard at the back.

Now it is rented to a seller of rouge powder, and the business seems to be doing well.

The annual rent is thirty-six taels of silver. If you don't rent it, someone will rent it immediately within three days of being released. The real price of the shop is five hundred and fifty taels.

It wouldn't take twenty years to get the principal back, so Zhou Banxia decided to take it without saying a word.

In just a few days, I was able to find this shop that I wanted to transfer on the busiest street in the entire county. If it weren't for Shopkeeper Wang, I would never have found it.

Although the county town is not as good as the capital city, there are still many wealthy people. Basically, good shops are being watched, and tenants of shops will come to negotiate with them without the owner having to put them in Yahang.

I bought this shop, signed a lease renewal contract for the coming year with the tenant who was surprised that the original owner wanted to transfer it, and then went to the second shop, which was not far from the first shop.

The so-called county seat, based on the location of Qinghe County, is a city in the center of the entire county.

The outside is surrounded by city walls, and the inside is divided into four areas based on the four city gates in the southeast, northwest and the center of the city.

There are many rich people in the east of the four areas. Relatively speaking, the shops are also the most expensive. The second shop is slightly closer to the south and the price is lower.

There is also a street-facing shop of about 50 square meters, with a small courtyard at the back, and the asking price is 350 taels of silver.

Now it is rented to a cloth shop, and the business is not much worse than that of Zhaojia Cloth Shop. The current rent is twenty-two taels of silver per year.

When we arrived at the third shop, the price was even lower. Although there was no backyard, the shop was about seventy square meters, with a real price of one hundred and sixty taels of silver.

Now renting it to an embroidery house, the annual rent is fifteen taels, which is considered the shop with the highest return rate.

It's a pity that this is the only one, but we can't be too greedy.

Not mentioning this price is definitely because Shopkeeper Wang owes some favor to the landlords of these three shops. The total price of these three shops is one thousand and sixty taels of silver.

Not to mention the ten taels of silver it costs to go to the county government to transfer property and taxes, and the expense of inviting people to drink and eat. Didn't I spend almost 500 taels of silver to add some land before?

The total amount here is more than 1,500 taels of silver. It would be unreasonable to take out more silver. It cannot be said that her father gave her back all the money she had saved before.

No one else said it, but her father was the first to suspect how much she had hidden.

As promised, daddy, I'll leave the money in your hands. I feel at ease. I can't spend the money in the house anyway, so I've already hidden it from him.

It’s hard, you don’t dare to spend the money, and you have to try your best to lie and find excuses.

It's too mind-numbing.

After buying it, Zhou Banxia ignored it.

Don't talk about her, Gu Wenxuan doesn't care.

He gave Gu Erzhu the black bag containing silver ingots he had brought in the morning, and wanted to escort Mr. Liu and Zhou Banxia to go shopping. Wrong, it was to Wang's house. Aunt Wang was still waiting for them to report back.

Gu Erzhu couldn't laugh or cry, carrying a black bag containing at least a hundred taels of silver and three contracts. Accompanied by shopkeeper Wang, he rushed to the county government office with the landlord and broker.