"How is it? Does it feel okay?" Zhang Zhenwen followed Zhang Wuliang and asked when he stopped.

Zhang Wuliang nodded: "Let's go to the boss to ask the price."

Wu Maoqian added next to it: "A yard like this is estimated to cost [-] Wen a month, and it's about [-] taels of silver a year. You have to be careful."

Zhang Wuliang nodded, [-] Wen a month is almost [-] Wen a day, a group of short-legged horses ran past in Zhang Wuliang's mind, with the words "so cheap", "super cheap" and "jumping price" standing on his head.

"Let's go!" Zhang Wuliang said, and went to see what the boss had to say first.

There was only the shop owner in the front hall. The tall man had already left, and the shop owner was wiping the counter with his back to them.

Zhang Wuliang stepped harder, and the man immediately wiped the corners of his eyes and turned around.

"This... Madam..." Zhang Wuliang bowed to him and said, "In Xiataohe Village, Zhang Ningyuan, I just visited your shop, and it feels pretty good, but I don't know how much Madam will price this shop?"

"How long are you going to rent it for?" the man asked.

"Tentatively, it will be one year or three years or even more. But the specifics will depend on the opening of the store." Zhang Wuliang thought for a while and said.

The man nodded: "If it's a year, the monthly rent is 580 Wen, and for three years, it's [-] Wen a month."

Zhang Wuliang nodded. It was the same as what Wu Maoqian said, which meant that the boss was also an honest person and did not raise the price deliberately, so Zhang Wuliang stopped bargaining: "When I go back to discuss with my family, I will give you an answer in three days."

The man didn't appear happy or disappointed, he just nodded and said, "If I'm not in the shop that day, you can just leave a letter at the sesame seed shop next door, and he will notify me."

Zhang Wuliang nodded: "In this case, let's take our leave first."

After the three passed by, the man looked at the sun, no one should have come in the morning, so he locked the door and went home.

Zhang Zhenwen was outside looking around at the surrounding environment and the flow of people, and suddenly heard Wu Maoqian say: "Let's go, I will take you to the next one."

"Ok?"

Zhang Zhenwen was confused: Isn't it already agreed?He has already regarded this shop as his own shop...

Wu Maoqian rolled his eyes: "Do you understand by shopping around? Let's go, there is one not far ahead."

Wu Maoqian took them to see a few houses on Yonghua Street. They were all similar to the first one, and the rent was the same.

But Zhang Zhenwen is not very satisfied, he can always find such and such faults with a cold face, as if he has entered the state of the past.

Wu Maoqian was annoyed by him: "Forget it, since you don't even like it, then you don't need to look at the next few. I'll take you to Yongxing Street directly."

Zhang Wuliang smiled immediately and said: "My brother speaks without thinking, Brother Maoqian has a lot, don't be as knowledgeable as him.

Since you said that there is nothing to see next, let's go to Yongxing Street. After finishing speaking, he glanced at Zhang Zhenwen with a half-smile.

Although these shops had nothing to do with Wu Maoqian, they were introduced by him anyway. Wu Maoqian inevitably felt a little uncomfortable because Zhang Zhenwen was so picky.

Zhang Zhenwen was caught by him, and realized the problem, and immediately explained to Wu Maoqian: "Maoqian, I didn't mean that, I was just talking nonsense, don't be angry, I'll pay you here first, you Don't take it to heart, ah, no, I mean..."

"Okay, okay." Wu Maoqian waved his hand: "Am I that kind of stingy person? The shops in Yonghua Street are all similar, and if you look at it this way, it's the same. Just go to Yongxing Street."

"Okay, then let's go quickly," Zhang Zhenwen said hurriedly at Linchu.

Wu Maoqian rolled his eyes when he saw his dog-legged appearance.But the mood is really much better, so I took them forward and briefly introduced the layout of the town: "Yongxing Street and Yonghua Street are far apart, one is at the east end and the other is at the west end. If you go there, you have to go through Funing Street in turn. Lane, Rongning Lane, Taining Lane, Xianning Lane and Huining Lane."

"Taining Lane is where the yamen is located, Rongning Lane is mostly a scholarly family, and Xianning Lane is home to rich businessmen, these are not things we can afford. There are many people, it's very chaotic."

Passing through Funing Lane, the atmosphere of the street is obviously different. The noise of the crowd is removed, and the air is filled with order and majesty. The streets are mostly rich lords traveling in carriages and domestic servants serving in front of them.

Every time Zhang Zhenwen came to the town, he would go to Yonghua Street to set up a stall. He had never set foot here, so he was very curious about where these noble people lived.

Wu Maoqian led them through the alley in a very low-key way. Zhang Wuliang and Zhang Zhenwen followed behind him with their bodies upright and without turning their heads. They looked very serious, but their eyes kept squinting into the alley unconsciously.

When the three alleys were finished, Zhang Wuliang breathed a sigh of relief, he felt that his eyes could hardly turn back.

So did he indirectly feel the life of the rich in ancient times?Zhang Wuliang thought secretly.

After crossing the high-rise compound of Xianning Lane, and then arriving at Huining Lane, the atmosphere of life becomes more lively.

"A lot of yards here are rented out to workers carrying bags on the wharf." Wu Maoqian obviously relaxed when he arrived here, pointing to the yards in Huining Lane and said: "There are also some yards used as inns and various houses. warehouse."

Wu Maoqian shook his head: "The rent here is not cheap."

"Oh?" Zhang Wuliang was very curious: "How expensive?"

"That's it, see?" Wu Maoqian pointed to a courtyard with black double doors. From the outside, you can't tell how big it is: "The annual rent for a courtyard with two entrances is more than twenty taels of silver."

"So high?" Zhang Wuliang was a little surprised, although he didn't know exactly how big the ancient two-entry courtyard was.But judging from the fact that its rent is three or four times more expensive than that of Yonghua Street shops, it is indeed not low. You must know that this is only used for living.

Zhang Wuliang was amazed, but suddenly he thought again: "What about the renters on Yongxing Street?"

Wu Maoqian rubbed his chin: "There are quite a lot of rents over there, and there are few shops for rent. I heard that there are two shops for rent. Now I don't know if they are still there? Let's go and have a look."

Wu Maoqian led the two of them to speed up their pace to Yongxing Street. The closer they got to Yongxing Street, the louder the yelling and hawking became. The three of them turned around the corner of the alley, and the first thing they saw was the Shuangwan Wharf, not because the wharf was far away. close.

And because the several large sailboats parked on the pier are too eye-catching.

"Great." Wu Maoqian said excitedly, "I haven't encountered such a temporary cargo ship. Before the big family can react, let's go up and have a look. Maybe we can find some good goods? "

He hadn't received any news before that there was a fleet of ships coming to the pier today. These people must have come up with it on the spur of the moment. It was a coincidence. Before those big families came, he could make a good fortune.

Wu Maoqian dragged the two of them towards the stall by the pier: "Hurry up, hurry up, this kind of opportunity is very rare."

When Wu Maoqian ran over, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy who was looking across the street in front of the booth lit up, and immediately waved his arms vigorously at him: "Big Brother, Big Brother, I'm here, I'm here."

Hearing a familiar voice, Wu Maoqian looked for his reputation and saw his silly brother calling him there. Wu Maoqian immediately pulled Zhang Zhenwen and Zhang Wuliang to squeeze past him.

Seeing him, the young man seemed to have found his backbone: "Brother, you are finally here. This time, you brought a lot of good things on board, come and see."

Then he looked at Wu Maoqian's side, um, two people he didn't know: "Brother, where is Liang Zi? Didn't he look for you?"

Wu Maoqian was already looking at the goods, and waved his hand after listening to the words: "These are two of my friends, I accompanied them here, I didn't meet Liangzi, and when he came to me, the day lily was cold."

Zhang Wuliang was also very interested in the goods that came with the ship, so he squatted next to Wu Maoqian to look through them. In front of them was a stall with various seafood, including dried scallops and dried shrimps. Zhang Wuliang was shopping for groceries before. Shop-bought kelp is also listed.

Zhang Wuliang was still browsing there. Wu Maoqian had already selected a lot of things and paid for them. He packed the things in the sack that the young Wu Miaoyu carried with him, and said "we will meet at the corner of the street" and took Wu Miaoyu to run. To the next stall.

"Hey..." Before Zhang Wuliang could say anything, the two of them had squeezed out, leaving only two figures behind. Zhang Wuliang shook his head helplessly, and continued to look at the conch with a thick shell in his hand.

Such conch shells can be found in any seaside city in modern times. The cheap ones cost two or three yuan for five yuan, and the expensive ones can cost as much as eight yuan each. They are almost common things for everyone.

But here, it is a new thing, Zhang Wuliang just asked, a conch as big as half a palm in his hand costs ten yuan.

It must not be worthwhile to Zhang Wuliang.But when he thought of someone receiving this, he would look at him with his big eyes, bursting with joy, and his hands were unwilling to put this thing down.

Zhang Wuliang finally bought the conch he had carefully selected for ten renminbi.Then he sighed silently in his heart, he never thought that he would buy something that was obviously not equal in price and quality, and he was still damn willing.

He was really poisoned too deeply, it was a kind of poison called Chen Xiaonian, Zhang Wuliang helped his forehead helplessly, that kind of joy from the soul, he could never deny it.

Zhang Wuliang put away the conch in a great mood and put it close to his body.

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