Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 582: Pure Waste
After talking about everything from his mother-in-law to his elder sister-in-law, Gu Wenxuan picked up the pen again after having a midnight snack, wrote down two lines of numbers, and then drew a simple diagram with just a few strokes.

The first line of numbers is the total amount of actual cash and silver currently available, and the second line is the current budget for purchasing property in the Dingzhou area.

What's the picture?

It is easier to distinguish the map of Dingzhou Prefecture with Zhoujia Village as the center, and the black dots marked with ink are the target areas.

Zhou Banxia nodded to show that he understood, and he also agreed that the village should focus on the south and east of Zhoujia Village. Not to mention the shops, which would definitely be located in Dingzhou City.

It's simple.

Just give the order tomorrow and ask the head of Zhoujia Village to find out first and buy out any shops and farms that have to be sold due to emergencies at the end of the year.

It would only take two or three days to rush to Zhoujia Village. I would have enough time to bring the banknotes with me. If I really couldn't make it in time, I could ask my uncle for help.

In fact, her uncle had mentioned in his two recent letters that he wanted her to use the rent, as she would have it next year and she could spend it whenever she wanted.

Although this money was spent at the end of the year and she was asked to instruct the store owner to bring some fashionable head ornaments, jewelry and beautiful clothes to her door, but buying a shop and a farm also counts as money spent, right?

If people laughed at her for being reluctant to spend money, there was nothing that could be done. After all, her aunt had been buying things for her from the capital since she went there.

Perhaps because her aunt couldn't come to see her, she sent her two batches of clothes, shoes, hats and accessories for the winter, not to mention the expensive head ornaments and jewelry.

If you don't wear three sets of clothes every day, they will accumulate dust.

But the girl in her family also joined in the fun, designing her own jewelry and having the dress she wore made by the sewing room on the pretext that she was pregnant.

Just like the custom-made head jewelry I brought back today, I have to wear the head jewelry designed by him, and I have to wear the dresses that he drew to make me happy.

What a waste.

She can't say it yet.

If she told others about it, wouldn't that be like showing off? She was afraid that everyone would not know that one day she, Zhou Banxia, ​​would be so lucky that she wouldn't have to do anything and would win without doing anything. How much people would hate her.

Gu Wenxuan signaled Zhou Banxia to put away the paper and pen first, and mentioned something by the way. Before coming back this time, he went to Zhao's Silver Shop and met the second son of Zhao Laoer's family.

On the way to go back to the inner room to wash up and go to bed, Zhou Banxia nodded when she heard it, indicating that she understood. Although she was staying at home, she was still well-informed.

The Zhao family's silver shop and pawnshop belong to Zhao Laosan, while the cloth shop belongs to Zhao Laoer.

The eldest son inherited the family business, and the second son set up his own business.

As far as she knew, the second son of Zhao Laoer's family had been abducted to the provincial capital by Zhao Laosan's wife. But although Zhao Laosan only had one legitimate son, he had many illegitimate sons.

In order to avoid confusion between legitimate and illegitimate children and chaos in the family, Zhao Laosan took action not long ago and sent his illegitimate son, that is, his second son, to the capital.

It means that you are not very ambitious, so why are you competing with your eldest brother at home? I will give you a chance. You can stay with your fourth uncle for some time.

It just so happens that Zhao Laosi is the type of person who is neither high nor low.

The Zhao family tried their best but still couldn't help Zhao Laosi pass the provincial examination, let alone pass the academy examination to become a scholar.

He was not as good as Zhao Laosan in business, and the capital was full of powerful people. Although Zhao Laoda was promoted, the businessmen in the capital had strong protective umbrellas behind them. Moreover, many merchants were trusted by their masters, and they would offend people if they were not careful. It was okay to do small business, but if they were a little bigger, they would compete with each other to see who had a stronger thigh.

So everyone tacitly agreed to avoid it if possible. For example, Mrs. Qian took the initiative to give the sales areas of fragrant soap, including the capital, Zhili, and the Jiangnan area, to the Gao family.

The same was true for Zhao Laosan. From the beginning, he did not go to Beijing with Zhao Lao Da, but first set up the company in the provincial capital. Ten years later, he moved the company's headquarters to Zhending Prefecture.

They are all very cunning.

This time, Zhao Laosan sent his second son to his fourth brother, saying that he wanted his son to help his uncle. He really wanted his second son to broaden his horizons.

——Lao Wo was sitting in the well and looking at the sky from the bottom of the city. He really thought that his uncle was a very high-ranking official, and everyone gave him some face because he was the illegitimate son of a merchant.

Secondly, it is also a warning to wives and concubines not to stretch their hands too far. But after all, nephews are not sons, and if the arrangements are not made properly, it will hurt the brotherhood.

So, the second son of his second brother was sent to be the manager of a silver shop in the county town, his hometown, which was one of his businesses. The shop was close to his second brother and he could take care of his wife and children at home.

How good.

"…Mr. Zhao San is indeed very smart. Perhaps it is because his eldest son is the younger brother. I heard from Aunt Lan that Mr. Zhao Lao Si is not even as good as Mr. Zhao Er.

As for his personality, he is not even a scholar, but he always puts on airs as a scholar. Even when Mr. Zhao San invested money to help him open a bookstore, he ignored it and let his wife have the final say in everything.

And his wife's family is not like that of his second and third sisters-in-law. One has an honest family, and the other has a wealthy family. They are said to be daughters of a scholarly family?
It is easy to imagine that a man who is not even a scholar, not even a rich second-generation, and whose appearance is said to be just decent, will not be able to find a good marriage in the capital.

They were said to be a family of scholars, but in fact, their ancestor had a Jinshi who was a fifth-rank official. But by the time of her father's generation, the family had died out. There were people who passed the imperial examination, but no one even became a Jinshi.

However, after the marriage with the Zhao family, thanks to Lord Zhao, the silly Mrs. Zhao helped recommend that scholar through his mother's family, the Wang family.

That is Zhao Laosi’s brother-in-law. He went to a remote place and became a county magistrate. I think it was somewhere in the northwest. I forgot what the county was called. "

Gu Wenxuan couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"It's not that I have a bad memory, it's that I need to remember it. I just remember Auntie Lan said that the other party was a relatively honest official and is still a county magistrate. His family is not very wealthy."

"I know. I think Madam Zhao is really silly and funny." Gu Wenxuan shook his head with emotion. "In fact, the Wang family is worthy of Boss Zhao."

"Of course not. Otherwise, why would Aunt Mei (Shopkeeper Hu) be so indifferent to Boss Zhao? It must be because Madam Qian has often spoken up for her cousins ​​in front of her.

In fact, it’s not just the cousins ​​who are too smart or too stupid. The four brothers of the Zhao family are similar, and the Third Master Zhao is a hundred times smarter than Lord Zhao.

It is said that the two brothers achieved mutual success, but in fact, if Master Zhao San had not decisively married a wife from a wealthy merchant family, Master Zhao would still be a gigolo.

God is very good at playing tricks on people. If Mr. Zhao San had the talent and knowledge of Lord Zhao and married the eldest lady of the Zhao family, his Zhao family would be very powerful.

Even though he has many concubines, he was the one who dared to put a kitchen knife on the clan leader's neck to add a clan rule. After he married the eldest lady of the Zhao family, he would not take a concubine unless he had a son.

This kind of person doesn't even take a concubine purely for beauty. He considers everything for the benefit of the business. He even takes a concubine before Boss Zhao does, which is a slap in the face. He knows what he wants.

Now that he has given his fourth brother all his assets, if it weren't for his eldest brother, his fourth brother's assets would be enough to allow his fourth brother's wife to move back to her parents' home. How could he just leave it alone?"