"That's the truth..."
Xia Daohua frowned and thought for a moment, then shook her head.
"Forget it, there's no need to rush into this kind of thing.
Don't be busy trying to sell me those maids and servants. Have you found a suitable house that I asked you to look for?
If you have the time to waste on arguing with me, why not help me find a few more houses according to my requirements!"
Looking at Xia Daohua's smiling face, Lai Shun was not annoyed by the insults:
"Yes, you told me about this a long time ago, and I have been keeping an eye on it for you since last month!
There are actually two places that meet the requirements recently. How about we go and take a look today?"
Xia Daohua smiled and nodded. "Thank you for your hard work. I'll go take a look first, so I can have a rough idea. After that, when my relatives arrive, I'll have to trouble you twice more."
"Mrs. Xia, you're too polite. For people like us, running a few steps is nothing. To be honest, we're not afraid of wearing out our shoes, we're just afraid of not being able to run!"
Lai Shun said there were two places, but in fact the two of them spent nearly a day looking at five properties.
Xia Daohua took a fancy to a two-entry courtyard house located in Anhefang, adjacent to Baixifang. It was surrounded by ordinary people's homes and was a quiet place in the midst of a bustling city.
Xia Daohua found this courtyard quite appealing. Whether it was the location, the number of rooms, or the surroundings, it was perfectly suited to the Jiang family. The only drawback was perhaps the price.
However, finding a good house is not that easy.
If the homeowner is not in a hurry to use the money and takes his time selling the property, he can always get a suitable price.
The price is a little bit higher, which is normal.
Xia Daohua paid the deposit without hesitation, planning to buy the house after asking the Jiang family to take a look.
If the Jiang family thought it was too expensive and refused to take it, she would keep it for herself.
Sooner or later it will come in handy.
Lai Shun was delighted to see Xia Daohua pay the deposit without blinking. If this deal went through, both parties would get a commission of 20 taels.
Thinking of the talents that Xia Daohua had mentioned several times about wanting to find, he became more and more interested in them.
Xia Daohua brought a basket of tea eggs and strolled to the compound. She greeted everyone in the Jiang family with a smile on her face, and especially warmly entertained her grandmother and aunt.
After asking the Jiang family about their plans and briefly mentioning the house-hunting matter, Xia Daohua completed the task conscientiously.
Unexpectedly, her aunt held her tightly and refused to let go: "Little girl, come here and talk to my aunt."
Like pulling a little chicken, she pulled Xia Daohua into her room without stopping, and drove everyone else out. After chatting with Xia Daohua for a few words and laying the groundwork, the aunt directly changed the topic to the pickle workshop:
"Are you still going to run your pickle business?
I have contacted several merchants who travel all over the country. Knowing that our products are good, they are all willing to sell them on our behalf.
I think if you are busy enough, you should just do it!
We can't just let go of the money that's right in front of us, right?"
Xia Daohua liked her aunt's straightforwardness and was grateful for her kindness to Jiang and herself. Naturally, she had no objection to hearing this:
"My aunt is right. I've wanted to start this business for a long time, but my aunt wasn't around at the time, and I didn't have anyone reliable to support me. I felt like I had no backbone!"
Although the aunt knew that Xia Daohua was just trying to coax her with honey, she still enjoyed listening to her.
Xia Daohua is a person with her own ideas, so why does she need a backbone?
Rather than needing a backbone, it would be more accurate to say that she needs an elder who can calm the situation.
After all, no matter how smart and capable this child was, he was still a child, a junior. If he were to encounter an unruly and unreasonable elder, she would probably have no good way to deal with him.
The two had a great conversation and soon finalized the plan for the new workshop.
Seeing her aunt, Xia Daohua recalled an old memory - the new seeds her aunt had given her were actually used by the fourth room.
It's a pity that the war broke out, disrupting their peaceful life and the matter of the new seeds also came to nothing. Oh, it makes me sad just thinking about it!
Fortunately, she brought the spare portion that Jiang had left behind. She could try to continue planting here later.
The next day, my uncle's mother went with Xia Daohua to see the house she liked, and then she took a few people in the family who were interested and could make the final decision to go see it again.
Everyone was very satisfied. Although they also felt that the house was quite expensive, Jixiang County was not far from Kyoto after all. Compared with Bohai County, the high housing prices and land prices here were inevitable.
Besides, buying a house and living there is definitely more cost-effective than living in an inn in the long run!
In the end, the family bought the yard decisively. The whole family did some cleaning and tidying themselves up, and then moved in from the cart shop near the slum.
The Xia family was a little uncomfortable with the Jiang family's decisiveness.
After all, they dealt with Jiang on a daily basis, and Jiang's temperament was really not like that of a Jiang family member.
Xia Daohua seemed to be infected by the Jiang family. She called Laishun and ran for a few more days. At an astonishing speed, she set up the pickle workshop again.
This time, she used all the idle manpower of the Xia and Jiang families - she provided the recipes and seasonings, and let these people do the work.
The new pickle workshop is located on Qingque Street, which belongs to the outer city of Jixiang County. It is surrounded by various food workshops. Mixed in with similar workshops, it does not attract much attention.
The pickles produced by the New Pickle Workshop are divided into three grades and price levels.
The highest-grade products are directly sourced from supermarkets and are also the most expensive. Xia Daohua only does the conversion and packaging, so the processing is strictly confidential.
The second grade is pickled by Xia Daohua herself, and the processing process is also strictly confidential.
The third stage is that the Xia family and the Jiang family followed the recipe and steps given by Xia Daohua, added the seasoning powder provided by Xia Daohua, and pickled them in the pickle workshop.
This didn't need to be kept strictly confidential, but the various seasonings added were something that people in the time and space of the Great Chu Dynasty couldn't replicate. Of course, for the sake of appearances, they still had to maintain a strict confidentiality.
In the Jiang family, my aunt is in management, and in the Xia family, Xia Erlang is in management.
Both of them are also responsible for foreign sales.
My aunt has several traveling merchants who are willing to do sales on her behalf, and Xia Erlang's main target is restaurants in Jixiang County and surrounding counties.
The two people have different approaches, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Xia Daohua does not interfere at all and lets them do what they want.
The treatment of these two people is also quite special. In addition to the basic salary, they also receive sales commission.
As for the others, the Xia family and the Jiang family received the same treatment and the same wages.
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