[Red Mansion] Hairpins fly when they are

Jia Yucun took a sip of the teacup, looked at Xue Pan, and said warmly, "Let's live with peace of mind, and discuss with my mother-in-law when I have free time, and see what kind of business is good. As for the capital, you don't have to worry about it, I will pay for you. "

Clutching the returned purse in her hand, Mrs. Xue immediately smiled and said, "I don't need the money from my aunt, we have it ourselves."

Jia Yucun: "Mother-in-law doesn't have to refuse, just take it as my tribute to your old man."

Baochai also agreed with Mrs. Xue, and advised Jia Yucun: "We will pay for the money ourselves, and you can leave it alone, sir." After speaking, she looked at Mrs. Xue again, "Mother, should we buy a house?"

Before, it was because Xue Pan was in prison, and there were only two women left in the family, without a backbone, so it was reasonable to live in the son-in-law's house.Now that Xue Pan has come out, it is easy to attract people's attention if he lives in someone else's house.

Besides, how could living in someone else's home be as comfortable as living in one's own?

Baochai earned 5000 taels from the fourth prince. Although she didn't tell anyone, she planned to buy a house for Xue Shi, so she regarded it as a filial piety for her mother.

"It should be bought." Xue squeezed her purse, "We have a small family, and we don't plan to add too many servants. It is enough to buy a small courtyard, but..."

Xue's eyes swept over Xue Pan's face, it was inconvenient for her and Xiang Ling to go out, not to mention talking about buying a house with an agent, a man had to come forward.

Although she loves her son very much, she still knows how much Xue Pan has.If this matter is left to Xue Pan, what if he is deceived again?

How can their family stand up to being cheated by others now?

"Why don't you just leave it to me?" Jia Yucun took over the conversation at the right time and asked carefully, "Where does the mother-in-law want to buy? How much?"

Mrs. Xue was also a housekeeper in the past, so she was quite familiar with the market outside. A better yard would cost four to five hundred taels, but she only had 500 taels in hand, and the money to open the shop had to come from here.

"It's enough to enter once, we have few people." Xue smiled without confidence.

Seeing his mother smile, Xue Pan hastily smirked a couple of times.

Now that he is penniless, he can no longer act like the wealthy young master he used to be. When it comes to buying a house and opening a shop, he can only be an answerer and dare not open his mouth to make suggestions.

Baochai wanted to laugh when she saw his stupid look, and finally held back, she turned her head and discussed with Mrs. Xue: "It's too young to enter the house, and we have to add two servants at home, otherwise, why should sister-in-law do these things?" Rough work? Why don’t you just buy a secondary one, the house is more spacious and comfortable to live in. Don’t worry, mother, I’ll pay the money.”

Xiangling is an honest person, she was embarrassed to spend too much of Baochai's money, and quickly expressed her determination: "Young lady, don't worry, I can do all these tasks, and I don't need to hire servants."

Xue felt ashamed. It was impossible to rely on her daughter to live, so she couldn't drag her son to eat her together, right?

She also persuaded Baochai: "It's not easy for you to earn two dollars. The yard you enter once is enough, and you don't need to enter twice."

"Listen to me, just buy a second one." Baochai has a lot of money, so he decided directly, and asked Jia Yucun to help find a house, "It's best to have a shop close to your home, so it's convenient to come and take care of it."

Jia Yucun knew that Baochai had silver in his hand, so he didn't say much in front of everyone, but said: "Understood, I will order the senior executives to go out and inquire later, and pick a few more places, and then you can go and see for yourself. look."

The executives acted very quickly, and within two days they screened the nearby housing sources. Jia Yucun took the time to accompany Xue's family to have a look, and finally settled on the second courtyard five blocks away from Jia's house, which happened to be on the next street. Another shop wanted to be sold outside, so Baochai bought it together with the money.

Xue paid her own money to buy a cook and two unremarkable but very capable girls, one for herself, one for Xiangling, and a servant for Xue Pan.

After buying a house, it won’t be possible to move it for a while. You have to renovate the place first, and then buy all kinds of furniture. Xue has not had time to choose. Who would have thought that Jia Yucun would buy a batch of high-quality furniture in order to show his filial piety? Bring the furniture.

In the past few days, Xue Pan has to look at the decoration of the new home, and at the same time, he has to look at the other side of the shop. He is so busy that he goes out early and returns late every day.

When everything was settled, before moving, Mrs. Xue took his son and daughter-in-law to bid farewell to Mrs. Song, and thanked Mrs. Song solemnly. He also said that he would have warm house wine for two days and Mrs. Song would like to show her face.

Mrs. Song, who doesn't like to go out, agreed immediately.

On that day, Jia Yucun took his mother and two wives to Xue's house as guests. Xue Shi and Xue Pan had been waiting early in the morning, and hurriedly greeted them warmly.

Walking all the way in, Fan Jiaoxing looked at the brand-new courtyard, feeling sore and hated in her heart.

Everyone in the Jia family knew that Baochai had made money, but the exact amount was not clear, some said several hundred taels, and some said thousands of taels, Fan Jiaoxing didn't believe it and scoffed at this.

She was sold when she was very young, and she remembered that she was a little girl from someone else's family. She didn't know her parents and relatives, which was equivalent to not having her mother's family.

I have been with Jia Yucun for several years, and I don’t have to worry about food and clothing. I basically saved all my monthly records, and now there are more than 200 taels.

In her opinion, no matter how much Baochai can make money, it is nothing more than a little more than her own private money, maybe two or three hundred taels, and even if it is the sky, it will be her 300 taels.

Seeing that Xue's family bought a new secondary yard, and bought a shop to hire assistants, she felt annoyed in her heart. Most likely, the master was subsidizing Xue's family in private!

The more I think about it, the more aggrieved I feel, the master sleeps in the west wing every night, that's all, why is it so unfair in terms of money?

Fan Jiaoxing couldn't help but keep a straight face from the moment she entered the door, as if Xue's family had borrowed money from her and hadn't paid it back.

Mrs. Song glanced at her, patted the back of her hand, and then smiled and greeted Mrs. Xue who came out: "Your yard is really nice, the place is quiet, and you like the red flowers and green grass."

Xue's life in the past six months has been full of ups and downs. Now that she finally has a place to settle down, she shows great enthusiasm to decorate her home.

Not only did she spend a lot of money on a big banquet, but she also bought more than a dozen pots of flowers to decorate. In winter, the price of flowers is more expensive than vegetables, but she doesn't feel bad about the flowers, so it's just a waste of time.

"Please come in, old lady." Mrs. Xue raised a smile and helped old lady Song to walk in.

Baochai followed behind, looking around as he walked.

She is only responsible for paying the money, and the decoration and arrangement are all discussed by Xue Pan and Mrs. Xue. She is too young to go outside every day.

After entering the house, they sat down. As the only male in the Xue family, Xue Pan naturally wanted to talk with Jia Yucun. He sat beside Jia Yucun tremblingly, with a restrained expression.

Jia Yucun didn't show it on the face, but he was laughing secretly in his heart. He was scared out of his wits after being in prison for a while.It is better to be timid than bold, and timid people are not easy to get into trouble.

He was very satisfied, and he talked to Xue Pan with a smile, asking about the situation in the shop.

When I first bought a shop, what to sell became a big problem.The shop in Jiayu Village is in the silk and satin business. Even if the two shops are separated by several streets, the Xue family is embarrassed to follow suit. Isn't this a business competition with the uncle?

Xue's family used to be an imperial merchant, and their businesses included wood shop, pawn shop, medicine shop, etc. After Xue's father died, Xue Pan became a fool again. .Until Xue Pan got involved in a life lawsuit, in order to save his son, Xue sold all the money and shop in his hand, and became poor and useless.

Now that the shop is reopened, Mrs. Xue asked Xue Pan, which business are you more confident in?

How can Xue Pan answer?Before he went to prison, his life was cockfighting and running dogs, playing in mountains and rivers, but he knew nothing about business.

Xue sighed, but it was Baochai who came up with the idea, saying that my brother is not very clever and doesn't have much brains, so why not open a rice shop and sell daily necessities such as oil and salt together.

As long as you do business honestly, don't steal anything, and welcome customers with a smile, you can still earn some household income every month. Anyway, no one expects Xue Pan to reproduce the style of the Xue family when they were an imperial merchant.

Xue Pan always cared about his appetite, and the biggest loss in prison this year is his mouth. What good food can there be in prison?What I often eat is the most inferior multigrain rice.

As soon as he heard it, he nodded in agreement, and said: "Mother, the rice shop is ready, and you can keep the unsold ones for yourself to eat."

Jia Yucun also agrees: "Oil, salt and rice are necessities. You don't need to work hard to sell them. You just need to do business honestly. My brother-in-law's temper is very suitable for this."

Mrs. Xue didn't have any opinions, since her daughter and son-in-law agreed, she nodded accordingly.

The night before the move, Mrs. Xue held 1000 taels of silver and wanted to return it to Baochai, but Baochai refused to accept it. She had saved more than 7000 taels in the bank. Both Mrs. Xue and Xue Pan were relatives related to her by blood. Well, there's no need to say that I have become a little rich woman, and my mother and brother are still living a miserable life.

Baochai told Xue Shi sincerely that the 1000 taels would not be repaid and would be left to Xue Shi for retirement.

With this amount of money, the Xue family lowered Xue Pan's requirements. They didn't ask him to become a big merchant, as long as he guarded the shop honestly, even if he only earned a few taels of silver a month, it was enough for the family to eat and drink.

That’s how it was decided to open the rice shop. The name of the shop was Xue’s shop. Jia Yucun wrote these four characters with a pen, and then asked someone to frame them, making them into flat foreheads and hanging them on the lintel.

Xue Pan respected and feared Jia Yucun in his heart, and when he asked about the situation in the shop, he quickly answered honestly: "The guys are cleaning, and they need to buy some more things. It will open in about ten days. gone."

After finishing speaking, he smiled flatteringly again, and complimented: "My brother-in-law is still capable, and the shopkeeper and clerk introduced are very capable."

Don't look at Xue Pan flattering Jia Yucun on the surface, but he doesn't think so in his heart.

Because Jia Yucun only hired an old shopkeeper and two shopkeepers for him, and there were too few staff, which meant that Xue Pan was also tied up in the shop, and he had no time to go out.