Farmer’s Blessed Girl

They didn't go to the dining room to eat, but went to Bai Erlang's study to make tea and wait for the meal, while arguing.

When Bai Erlang's cousin Chen Bo came to find him, Bai Erlang was turning his head to the side to sulk.

As soon as Chen Bo entered the room, he saw a girl sitting by the table, and when he was hesitating whether to leave, Bai Erlang had calmed down and stood up, saluting, "Cousin, why are you here?"

He turned his head and said to Bai Shanzhou: "This is my cousin, Chen Bo, cousin, this is..."

After a pause, he said a little aggrieved: "This is my senior sister and senior brother."

Chen Bo suddenly realized, he said, why is there a girl in his cousin's study, the three of them greeted each other, and Chen Bo also sat down at the table.

Seeing that Bai Erlang's face seemed a little ugly, he asked with a smile, "What's wrong with my cousin?"

Bai Erlang shook his head, "It's okay."

He rubbed his stomach and said, "It's just that I haven't eaten lunch yet, so I'm a little hungry."

Bai Shan and Man Bao were also hungry, so they had poured two cups of tea for themselves first, and he picked up the teapot and poured a cup for Bai Erlang, and then poured tea for Chen Bo, and said with a smile: "I came back late yesterday, don't you?" Knowing that Cousin Chen is here as a guest, it's really rude not to pay a visit."

Not to mention that Bai Shan and Bai Erlang are brothers, but they are of the same clan, so they can talk about this relative together. Chen Bo quickly laughed and said: "Where, where, we should pay a visit in the past."

He paused here, and said with a smile: "By the way, my mother took my sister to visit the old lady in the morning, you..."

Bai Shan could only apologize and said that they were not at home in the morning, but went to see Zhuangzi.

Chen Bo smiled and said, "I heard from my cousin that the three of you have a small farm with only a hundred acres of land, but the annual income is quite a lot. At most, it even exceeds a thousand taels, and one mu of land is ten acres. If I hadn't known my cousin to be honest, I wouldn't have believed the gain of two silver coins."

Bai Shan and Man Bao: ...

The two looked at Bai Erlang in unison, suspicious in their eyes, is he honest?

Bai Erlang raised his chin slightly, glanced at them and puffed up his chest even more.

Bai Shan could only nod his head in agreement, then complimented Bai Erlang a few words, and then changed the subject, "We heard from the younger brother that Cousin Chen wants to do business?"

Chen Bo didn't expect that what he said to Bai Erlang last night, Bai Shan and the two would know today, he nodded and sighed: "I'm not like cousin Shan and second cousin, you can read, in the future you will As for me, I just want to be a squire in the future, buy more land, run a few Zhuangzi shops like my uncle, and live a decent life."

This was also Bai Erlang's ideal.

"But we have a lot of families, and our parents are not separated, let alone our generation."

Bai Erlang explained in a low voice, "My three uncles, they still live with my grandparents."

Bai Shan and Man Bao expressed their understanding.

"So the money in this family is not easy to move. I want to start a career but I have no capital, so I want to borrow some from my cousin." Chen Bo looked at Bai Shan and Man Bao with piercing eyes, and said pointedly : "I heard that cousin Shan, Miss Zhou and my second cousin share the profits in the Zhuangzi equally, so there must be a lot of money in their hands, right?"

He laughed and said: "If you have extra money, you can buy shares in my business like my second cousin. If you make money in the future, just like you share the profits of Zhuangzi, we can also share the profits of the shop."

Bai Erlang said directly: "They have no money."

Chen Bo looked suspicious, and Bai Erlang said, "They have spent all their money in the capital, and Bai Shan still owes me money."

Bai Shan smiled embarrassedly, and explained: "We spend a lot of money, so we can't save money, even if we want to buy shares, we can't afford it."

He paused and asked, "I don't know what kind of business Cousin Chen wants to do?"

When Chen Bo heard that Bai Shan still owed Bai Erlang money, he believed it a little, and said with a smile, "I want to do cloth business."

He said: "If you talk about this business, it's nothing more than food, clothing, housing, and transportation. The food is dirty and tiring. Living requires a lot of money, and working is hard work. After all the calculations, this is the best clothing. It’s decent, easy, and not too expensive.”

He pointed to the clothes on the three of them and said, "It depends on the clothes on you, fine cotton, silk, brocade and silk. Different fabrics have different uses, and no one can avoid wearing them. no?"

The three of them thought for a while and nodded when they felt that what he said made sense.

"We have Sichuan brocade here, and both the capital and the south of the Yangtze River like it, but the fine cotton cloth from the south of the Yangtze River, the silk and satin from the Central Plains, and the leather goods from the north are all good things. In short, the business of making clothes will never lose money."

Man Bao asked, "Are you going to be a merchant, or open a shop yourself?"

"Traveling in business is tiring, and the road is too dangerous. What if you encounter bandits?" Chen Bo said: "The risk is too high, so it's better to open a shop. Although the income is lower, it is better than stability."

Bai Shan and Man Bao nodded together, thinking that he was quite reliable, so they asked with a smile, "Where do you want to open the store?"

"It's just opened in Mianzhou, where there are more rich people, it's better than opening in the county."

The Chen family is from Shenquan County, Mianzhou. Shenquan County is not close to Mianzhou City, but it is a Zhongxian County with a better economy than Luojiang County.

Fearing that Bai Erlang would be tricked, Bai Shan and Man Bao asked Chen Bo about opening the shop, wanting to ask more details.

Chen Bo said that he was already optimistic about the store in Mianzhou, which is the most prosperous place. He said: "I mean buy it, otherwise, if the business is successful, the landlord will raise the price and so on. Business."

Bai Shan asked, "How much is that shop?"

"Not expensive, eight hundred and fifty taels."

Man Bao almost spit out the tea, and eight hundred and fifty taels could buy a shop in a not bad area of ​​Yizhou City.

Bai Erlang was also stunned, last night they only had time to talk about borrowing money and the business they wanted to do, but they didn't talk about the price of this shop.

This is also...too expensive...

Bai Erlang couldn't help looking at Man Bao, and was about to ask her how much the shop was, when Bai Shan asked, "The shop is so expensive, how much do you pay for the goods?"

"It's not expensive. I've done the math. We'll buy around 200 taels at the beginning and it's almost the same."

Bai Shan and Man Bao looked at each other, and asked with a smile, "I don't know how much money Cousin Chen has, and how much is still missing?"

Chen Bo smiled and said: "I already have a part of it. It's a part of my own savings. My mother also gave me a part. It's still a little short. That's why I want to find my second cousin to partner with me."

Bai Shan heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this, and felt that he was probably cheated by the shop seller, and was about to persuade him, when Bai Erlang said: "But cousin, didn't you say that you were short of eight hundred dollars last night?" Two, you want to borrow eight hundred taels from me."

Bai Shan and Man Bao: ...

good night, see you tomorrow