After binding the loving mother system, I was so bad

In a daze, Gu Nanxi was supported by Sun Shuyao and Su Yunyan on both sides and walked around the store three times.

In front of Gu Nanxi, a servant was sprinkling fine rice on the ground while muttering, "May the river god bless you and bring you good luck."

When Gu Nanxi finished walking three circles, he saw Sun Shuyao and Su Yunyan congratulating each other.

"Congratulations, congratulations! With the blessing of the river god, your shop will surely be crowded with customers."

"Congratulations, congratulations. Shuyao, you have found another prosperous shop!"

Su Yunting pulled Gu Nanxi's arm and got into the carriage together: "River God, no, mother, let's go to the academy for a walk."

The low-key carriage rumbled out of the Zanglou Gate in the southwest corner of Kyoto and headed straight for the south of the capital.

Gu Nanxi and others did not notice that a hundred meters behind the carriage, there were people pushing carts and driving donkeys, following closely behind.

Not far away, beside the Huimin River, some impatient people had already taken boats to the vicinity of Sili Bridge.

"It's right ahead!" Su Xuanming got out of the carriage, lifted the door curtain, and pointed at the even more dilapidated farmhouse from afar, excitedly.

When Gu Nanxi stood outside the yard, the crooked gate finally couldn't hold on and collapsed with a loud bang, splashing up clouds of dust.

"This is the courtyard welcoming the river god! The wooden door has not broken for so many years, but it suddenly broke at this moment. How could it be a coincidence!"

The crowd watching the excitement firmly believed that this was the threat from the river god!

Gu Nanxi didn’t care who the river god was. She only cared about what was so special about the farmhouse that cost her 600 taels!

Gu Nanxi toured the courtyard with a wooden face. It was quite spacious.

Three houses, plus a yard, cover an area of ​​ten acres.

It was just too empty, there was nothing inside! Even the roof was open to the sky!

"Mother? What do you think of this place?" Su Xuanming blinked his starry eyes, wiped the stones in the northeast corner of the yard with his sleeves, and kindly invited Gu Nanxi to sit down.

"Very good." Gu Nanxi took a deep breath and squeezed out these words from between his teeth.

As the saying goes, every failure makes you wiser. How can children grow up without suffering some losses or being deceived?

Don't be angry, I'm not angry at all...

No!

Gu Nanxi opened his eyes and looked towards the direction where the sun was setting, consoling himself: "If the old doesn't go, the new won't come."

If you don't spend 1000 taels of silver, how can you get back 2000 or 3000 taels?

Su Xuanming's expression was confused at first, then turned to determination!

Gu Nanxi was disheartened. She calculated her dowry in her mind and felt that the remaining money was enough for the family to live through the remaining years. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief and decided to return home.

The common people who came with them saw with their own eyes the courtyard given by the legendary white-bearded old farmer and began to doubt their lives.

"I don't want this yard even if it's given to me for free. How much money would it cost to repair it?"

"Could it be that this is the second test from the River Goddess?"

"Just now, I seemed to hear Madam Hou say that the old must go before the new can come. Could it be that she wanted to test Su Dalang and the others to see how to repair the courtyard with the least amount of money?"

"That makes sense! It must be so!"

Su Xuanming and others gathered at Chen Yixuan's house to brainstorm.

Chen Yixuan: "I asked my father about it. An ordinary brick and stone house costs 60 taels, and a blue brick and stone tile house costs 100 taels. Although our yard has three rooms, it is large in area, so it should be calculated as four or five rooms."

At least three hundred taels...

Su Yunting: "In recent years, Kyoto has used more wood to build houses, and the imperial palace has also used a lot of wood to repair old palaces. Most of the wood is imported from the south, and the price is rising year by year. Even if we are given the lowest discount, a solid wooden house will cost seventy taels."

When building a college, you can't use thatched houses.

Everyone was in a gloomy mood. Out of the one thousand taels of silver, six hundred taels were spent just on buying the yard and the land. After paying taxes, there were only a little over three hundred taels left.

We can't spend all the money on building the house. Otherwise, how can we hire teachers, and how can we provide books, paper, ink, pens and inkstones?

Li Mingde took out a purse and put it on the table: "This is my private money. My father is very stingy. I only saved thirty taels."

Jiang Guanghai blushed and handed over twenty taels: "My mother is preparing to save money to buy a house, so..."

Seeing other brothers also donating generously, Su Xuanming immediately stood up and stopped everyone: "I will always remember the friendship between brothers. But I think that what A Niang said should not be this meaning."

"Eh? Isn't it said that if the old doesn't go, the new won't come?"

Su Xuanming smiled slightly. It turned out that he was A Niang's son and the one who knew A Niang best!

"Aniang will never make requests that we cannot fulfill! If we want to build Baichuan Academy, teachers and students are the most important!"

"Living in a humble room, I have contacts with great scholars. This is the state I pursue!"

"Well said!" Chen Yixuan clapped his hands.

Su Xuanming unfolded the notebook he had been carrying with him: "This is the construction plan of the entire courtyard. Although the courtyard is shabby, the foundation is very deep and the beams and pillars are made of good wood. There is no need to replace them. We just need to replace the roof and add some tables, chairs and benches."

"The market price of a tile is fifteen cents. Since we use a lot, we should be able to negotiate it down to thirteen cents!"

Li Mingde and Jiang Guanghai looked at each other and took the initiative to say, "Okay! Let's do as Big Brother says! When will the construction start? I'll take the servants with me! We can't do delicate work, but we can help carry bricks and tiles and tidy up the rooms."

"That's right! All of us brothers should go! This way, we can save some money and buy more books for the academy!"

Su Xuanming laughed out loud with tears in his eyes: "Great! We brothers are united and can break metal with our strength. Let's make an appointment to go together on the day of rest this month!"

After making the agreement, Su Xuanming and Su Yunting went all over Kyoto looking for a shop selling tiles and a carpenter.

Business at Fuquan Restaurant has been a little quiet as there hasn't been any gossip worthy of the city's attention recently.

The lobby, which was once so crowded that it was hard to find a seat, was now full, but most of the time there were only one or two people occupying one tea table.

"Song Da, I heard that you have negotiated another big deal?"

Song Da took a sip of tea and sighed, "Oh, don't mention it. I can't make much money. I can only earn some hard work."

"How is that possible? Your customers are the two young masters of the Yongchang Marquis's Mansion! Su Dalang spends over a hundred taels on a meal, and Su Erlang can even give twenty or thirty taels to a martial artist when he asks him to perform!"

Song Da had a bitter face, as if he couldn't help but say, "I thought the God of Wealth had come. I didn't expect that the two of them would bargain down the price of 15 cents a tile to 12 cents!"

The colleague next to him said sympathetically: "It's true that you can't make much money from this. Why don't you just not do this business?"

Song Da touched the back of his head and laughed: "Didn't I bet 200 coins in the casino? As long as Baichuan Academy is successfully built, I can get back 2,000 coins!"