Chapter 30 Someone Hopes He Dies【VIP】
If Chen Yao wants the ten taels of silver, she must send more fresh food to Zhiweilou.
What is fresh food? He Zhiweilou must have what others don’t have, and it must be the first one.
Manager Ren deliberately emphasized the last two words so that the brother and sister would understand.
Huang Dongsheng immediately mentioned the tofu pudding and soy milk that they ate at home, but Manager Ren looked down on them.
These are the businesses run by breakfast shops, and every penny earned is hard-earned money.
"I wonder if the shopkeeper has ever tasted green jade beans?"
Green jade beans?
What is this?
Shopkeeper Ren shook his head. Although he had never eaten these beans, after doing business with Shen Yao several times, he could roughly guess her style of doing things.
So I kept an eye on it and asked casually, "What's the difference between it and soybeans?"
Chen Yao didn't hide it from him: "Soybeans are just old jade beans. Jade beans are picked when the soybeans are green and ripe."
That is edamame.
Shopkeeper Ren frowned in thought, feeling that the ten taels of silver were a bit too much. "Besides this, do you have any other fresh food?"
Chen Yao shook her head. She didn't have enough money to build a greenhouse to grow vegetables, nor did she have the time to develop new food.
She had to hurry up and finish making the last batch of silk before winter came, otherwise all her work would be wasted if the cocoons were left unused for too long.
Since Manager Ren looked down on her soybeans, she would not take the silver.
Chen Yao returned the ten taels of silver to Shopkeeper Ren and said, "If Shopkeeper has nothing else to do, we will take our leave."
Shopkeeper Ren watched the brother and sister leave without trying to keep them. He took the money and went to the kitchen, putting the pressure on Chef Ma.
Chef Ma wiped his greasy palms on the cloth, his mind full of lawsuits. Even though he was a good cook, the ingredients in winter were limited in previous years, and he had to rely entirely on wild game in the mountains!
Especially in winter, the only cheap dishes that can be served on the table are radish, cabbage and frozen tofu. Even if he carves flowers out of the radish, it still tastes like radish.
After leaving the restaurant, Huang Dongsheng's shoulders slumped and he looked depressed.
If only I could get those ten taels of silver!
"Cousin, although I have saved some money from selling tofu these days, it is still far from enough to bring my father back. I..." Huang Dongsheng choked up and felt quite useless.
Chen Yao walked with great difficulty with several strings of copper coins tied around her waist. She patted her cousin's drooping shoulders, looked at the people in bright and beautiful clothes on the bustling street, and did some calculations for her cousin.
In the Daduo Dynasty, one stone was 120 jin. She asked the grain store about this.
After asking, she had an idea in her mind. It was precisely because she had an idea that she hesitated when the shopkeeper Ren delivered the silver.
In order to welcome back my uncle and Yang Jizong, I have to pay four stone of rent and two taels and ten coins of tax.
The rent of four stone of rice must be in the form of fine flour, so the total cost of these grains is nearly seven taels of silver.
According to the contract they signed with the two shopkeepers, they would only earn a little over four taels of silver a month.
Huang Dongsheng no longer wanted to cry when he heard this. He wiped his wet nose and asked in a muffled voice, "Sister, then, then if this continues, won't we be able to bring my brother-in-law and my father back next month?"
Chen Yao raised her hand and patted his head, her face filled with resentment: "You've forgotten what I taught you again. This is just the gross profit. We have to deduct the cost. Buying soybeans for free? We don't have to eat or drink? And there's also the wages for everyone in the family."
Huang Dongsheng's heart sank to the bottom again, but he still didn't give up: "After deducting these, I can still make a lot of money."
Chen Yao touched the money chain on her waist: "Half and half."
Half and half can earn two taels of silver a month, plus the commission from selling tofu.
Huang Dongsheng didn't even need to bend his fingers as an idea flashed through his mind. In two months at most, he would be able to bring his father and brother-in-law home, and maybe they could even celebrate the New Year together.
"Sister, can I borrow this money from you first? When dad comes back, I will pay you back double." Huang Dongsheng pulled Chen Yao's sleeve and begged.
Of course Chen Yao had no problem with it, and she even gave him a shot of adrenaline, saying that she would give him a commission on everything he sold in the future.
The brother and sister returned to the East Market with joy. Boss Bai returned the stall to them and even sold a piece of tofu for them.
"Little brother, what good things happened to you during your trip?"
When Huang Dongsheng saw his cousin going to look for Constable Liu, he squatted down beside Boss Bai's stall with his sleeves tucked in, and talked business with him in a low voice.
When Boss Bai heard about this deal, he jumped up in shock. He was stared at by everyone on the long street and quickly squatted down. "Little brother, do you really want to buy a hundred cabbages and a hundred radishes?"
Huang Dongsheng hummed, "Our village's harvest was poor this year, so every household has no time to tend to their vegetable plots. Now that it's the off-season, everyone is picking wild vegetables. We need several families to pool their resources to buy these."
After spending some time together, Boss Bai also knew the situation in their village, so without Huang Dongsheng having to bargain with him, he automatically lowered the price by ten cents.
Don't underestimate these ten cents.
Huang Dongsheng bared his teeth and put his hand on Bai Yi. "Besides these vegetables, can you help me harvest some soybeans?"
"Soybeans, I do have a sack at home, but I don't know how you harvest them?" Boss Bai shifted his gaze towards the bean sprouts on his stall.
, the news that bean sprouts are made from soybeans has spread almost everywhere in the market these two days.
I think it won’t be long before I try to grow bean sprouts.
No wonder the younger brother asked him to harvest soybeans at this time.
Boss Bai was very impressed for a moment. His younger brother had a long-term vision in doing business.
Huang Dongsheng didn't realize how to improve his image. He stroked his chin and said, "Brother, wait a minute. I need to ask my cousin about this."
After saying that, he stood up and went to look for Chen Yao.
Chen Yao was asking Liu Chuang how to get to Baihe Town.
"There are foot inns in the city where passing merchants stay. We can go with them to Baihe Town. Have you made the silk?" Liu Chuang sat under the stone archway at the east market entrance and looked up at Chen Yao beside him.
Chen Yao turned her back to the light, her face calm: "Yes, it's made."
Seeing that she was still standing in front of him, Liu Chuang raised his eyebrows and asked, "Anything else?"
"Yes, I also want to ask you, if my family wants to buy land, what procedures should be followed?" Chen Yao felt a little uneasy.
The fertile land in Xiahe Village is all controlled by wealthy families. I don’t know if she, a small tenant farmer, can snatch food from the lion’s mouth.
This time, Liu Chuang looked at Chen Yao very seriously, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that she was as fearless as a newborn calf!
"Don't you know that in our dynasty, the fertile land is owned by the rich and powerful, and that those who can afford it are mostly wealthy gentry, while the rest are tenant farmers?"
Chen Yao opened her mouth in shock, she really had no idea about this.
"Then, can't I buy it?"
Seeing that she still didn't know how to give up, Liu Chuang sighed and said, "Yes, in our country, buying and selling land requires two procedures."
Chen Yao took a step closer to him and listened carefully.
The so-called two procedures are sealing the deeds, leaving the business and paying taxes.
If the people wanted to buy land, they had to first pay the land purchase and sale tax to the government, and only then would the government stamp the contract with its official seal.
There are four copies of this deed: one for the seller, one for the buyer, one for the tax office, and one kept on file with the county.
After the contract is sealed, the buyer and seller must bring their respective contracts to the government office, and the government will go through the delivery procedures in the tax books and transfer the seller's land tax to the buyer's name before the transaction is complete.
Countless amounts of silver and money were handed over.
After hearing this, Chen Yao couldn't help but smack her lips. No wonder only the rich were qualified to buy it. It seemed like they were all fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
"What about the wasteland? Can I buy the ownerless wasteland and barren hills?" Even if you can't afford to buy good farmland, you can still reclaim the wasteland.
Although Liu Chuang was only a small errand boy in the yamen, he knew something about farming. After hearing what Chen Yao said, he felt that this young lady was a little obsessed with buying a house.
"It takes two years for barren land to be cultivated and produce crops. If you want to buy barren land, you might as well save all the money."
If Chen Yao had listened to his advice, she wouldn't have asked him.
Besides, the bank would have to charge her a storage fee for keeping the money, which was really not worth it.
Chen Yao was very tempted when she learned that wasteland was cheaper to trade than fertile farmland and that she only needed to pay money to the government to seal the deed and have the number of acres of wasteland verified.
"Officer Liu, do we need to pay taxes on this wasteland?"
"You don't have to pay taxes in the first two years, and after two years, you have to pay according to the good farmland." Liu Chuang saw the bright eyes in her eyes and knew that she would not give up easily.
"Then the price of this acre of wasteland is..."
When Shen Yao was about to ask the crucial question, she heard her cousin's footsteps approaching her, so she stopped talking and asked, "What are you doing here?"
Huang Dongsheng first bowed to Liu Chuang, and then took his cousin to tell her about buying vegetables and collecting soybeans with Boss Bai.
"Cousin, if we want to buy it, how should we set the price?"
"Let's buy these soybeans at 1.5 jin (one cent)."
One cent and five pounds, this is simply giving money away. Just scatter the soybeans on the ridges of the fields and they will grow into a large area without careful care.
If we follow my cousin's harvesting method, there will definitely be a lot of people planting soybeans next year.
"Then I will go and report to Brother Bai as my cousin asked." Huang Dongsheng turned around and left without asking what his cousin was discussing with Constable Liu.
Chen Yao stepped forward and continued what she had just discussed with Liu Chuang.
I learned from Liu Chuang that one mu of wasteland cost five hundred coins. No matter how many mu there was, one had to pay one tael of silver after the deed was stamped and inspected by the government.
"If you really decide to buy wasteland, you can come to me and I will introduce you." Liu Chuang said in a low voice while holding the booklet.
Chen Yao immediately thanked him.
When Liu Chuang got off work, Chen Yao urged her cousin to pack up the stall, and followed him to his house with two bags of cakes. Under the pretext of visiting his mother, she took out the cakes and left them at Liu's house.
When Qin was young, she damaged her eyesight from weaving. When she was old, she didn't want to be a burden to her son, so she took a job washing and mending clothes in the city.
Because her son was an official in the government office, few people came to cause trouble, and the neighbors all knew that her family was poor.
It is also because of this that his son’s marriage has not been completed until today.
Today, Chen Yao's brother and sister came to talk to her. She was very happy and insisted on keeping them at home for dinner.
Chen Yao refused to go, saying that it was too late today and she would not be able to go back once the city gates were closed. She made an excuse that she would come back next time to try her aunt's cooking.
Qin held Chen Yao's hand and thought she was fine in every way, except that she was already married.
But it doesn't matter. She had heard from her son that Chen Yao's son-in-law was building a city wall and might die one day.
Her son's marriage has been delayed for so long, it doesn't matter if it's delayed for a while.
"Son, go and see A Yao off." Qin turned around and shouted to Liu Chuang who was sharpening a knife in the yard, secretly cursing this brat in her heart for not caring about her marriage at all.
Liu Chuang paused holding the whetstone and glanced at the brother and sister indifferently.
Chen Yao quickly waved her hand to refuse and pulled her brother out the door.
After watching the siblings walk away, Qin closed the door and pointed at her son sharpening a knife, scolding him: "With someone like you, it's a wonder you can get married before I close my eyes."
Liu Chuang continued to sharpen his knife in silence. Even if he wanted to marry, he would not marry Chen Yao. He did not like a thin woman like Chen Yao!
Chen Yao is as weak as a chick. If he wants to marry her, he has to marry a plump one with a face like a jade plate. A girl like that will bring joy to the family.
Later, Qin Shi knew what he was thinking, and even spat at his own son: "Although you wear this official uniform, it's not a lucrative job. If you marry a fat wife home, she will starve and become thin. You will regret missing out on Chen Yao!"
It is unknown whether Liu Chuang regretted it or not, but when Chen Yao returned to the village, she regretted not accepting the ten taels of silver from the next manager!
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