Xu Han thought for a moment and said, "It's not impossible, we have money."
After saying that, she smiled mischievously. Her family had a little money, and these two items together only cost a third of the price, which was still within their means.
Lu Chuan obviously understood as well, and after thinking about it carefully, it seemed to work, except that he would buy fewer items from the later shops.
So he said, "Let's buy a house this time! Anyway, the two children are still young, and this house is big enough for the two brothers to live in."
With so many rooms, we could have plenty of room even if we had several more children.
Then, after thinking for a moment, she continued, "It's not impossible for them to live together after marriage. After all, these days, parents don't separate the household, do they?"
Upon hearing this, Xu Han seriously considered Lu Chuan's suggestion and said, "We will still live in the mountains. As for whether they want to live in the mountains or in the county town, they can do so."
Besides, it's not like we're saying we won't buy anymore, we're just not buying now.
"Okay, let's do it this way." Lu Chuan picked up Xu Han and said, "Wife, how about we have another one, a daughter?"
Xu Han blushed upon hearing this and whispered, "Stop fooling around, we're still outside!"
"What are you afraid of? No one else can hear you."
After Lu Chuan finished speaking, he carried Xu Han to the bed, and they spent the night in passionate lovemaking...
The next morning, the two got up early, wanting to take advantage of the cool temperature to go to the private dentist to find out more about the situation and see if there were any shops that suited their taste.
As soon as Lu Chuan led Xu Han inside, a man dressed in dark blue approached and said, "Young master and madam, you've arrived a bit early today. Our brokers haven't started work yet, so you might have to wait a little while."
Lu Chuan waved his hand. "It's alright, we'll wait a bit."
After serving tea to the two of them, the man stepped aside and waited.
After waiting for about ten minutes, brokers gradually came to start work, and the man from before led over a plainly dressed but shrewd-looking man.
As soon as Zhu Yaren approached, he immediately put on a professional smile and said, "I wonder what you two are planning to buy today? We have real estate and land here, let me introduce them to you."
After saying that, he took out a blueprint, spread it out, and pointed to the markings on it, saying, "This represents the shop, and this represents the blueprint. Please take a look."
This time, the two were more experienced. They glanced at it briefly and then suggested going to see it in person.
Zhu Yaren had no choice but to agree and immediately began arranging vehicles.
This time, Lu Chuan made the same requirements as last time, but the houses he looked at were much worse than before.
It seems that the reason there are such well-located shops in Guanya is because of the recent raids on houses.
Xu Han and Lu Chuan spent the morning with Zhu Ya Ren, visiting a total of four shops and two houses.
Both houses were unremarkable, with nothing particularly special about them, so Xu Han and Lu Chuan immediately ruled them out.
The six shops are located in three of the western area and one of the southern area.
The first shop was in the western district. The location was quite good, but it was a bit small. The asking price was 180 taels, which wasn't much different from the price of an official broker.
The second shop was next to the one from yesterday; the three shops were priced at 610 taels.
The second location was a bit out of the way, but the shop was quite large, with six rooms, and the price was 930 taels.
The third location is also in the West District. The location is decent, and overall it's just average, with only so-so location and environment. The asking price is 428 taels.
Xu Han really liked the fourth shop in the southern section. It had three shops, a warehouse and a kitchen in the back, and most importantly, a large jujube tree in the courtyard, which was now laden with fruit and ready to be picked soon. The asking price was 520 taels.
Xu Han and Lu Chuan didn't like the other two places, and didn't even ask about the price. The reason was that the location was too remote and there wasn't much foot traffic, so it would be difficult to rent them out in the future.
Seeing that the weather was getting hotter and hotter, Xu Han said to Zhu Yaren, "Why don't we continue shopping this afternoon? It's really unbearable with the high temperature now."
Zhu Yaren looked at the sun, which was shining brightly like a giant oven. It was indeed very hot and the weather was very humid, so he agreed.
"Okay, I'll wait for you at the brokerage this afternoon. You stay over there, I'll take you back. It's very sunny, you'll definitely feel hot walking around."
Xu Han thought about it and didn't refuse. Since it was on the way and there was no need to take a detour, and it wouldn't delay her business, she agreed.
Back at the inn, the waiter brought me lunch again. After lunch, I took a nap and then continued looking at houses in the afternoon.
It must be said that the quality of the shops in the afternoon was much better than that in the morning. The group spent the whole afternoon looking at shops, and in total, they visited more than a dozen shops.
There are shops in both the West and South districts. In the morning, some shop keys were taken by other brokers. When we went to look at the shops in the afternoon, Zhu the broker brought all the keys back so that the two of them could look at more shops.
That afternoon, they visited five shops that they were quite satisfied with, with asking prices of 630 taels, 690 taels, 360 taels, 500 taels, and 490 taels respectively.
As darkness fell, Lu Chuan and Xu Han bid farewell to Zhu Yaren, repeating the same words: they would discuss it back home today and give a result tomorrow.
That evening, the young couple sat on the bed, discussing the houses and shops they had looked at over the past two days, and calculating how much they would need to buy them.
Lu Chuan spoke first, saying, "We definitely want to buy that house we last looked at yesterday, and we also want to buy that big shop. Those two items alone cost 4,020 taels of silver. If we bargain a bit, we can definitely get them for 4,000 taels of silver."
"Okay, let's select some more shops besides these! If there are any we're unsure about, we'll go and check them again tomorrow."
"I think the quality of the shops near Wei Yaren is pretty good. Let's ask him tomorrow if he still has any left. If he does, we'll go check out the others."
"Okay, let's review it again tomorrow and then decide. We'll take a closer look and make a picture on the spot."
Lu Chuan chimed in, "That works too. But the five places Zhu Yaren looked at this afternoon are confirmed. There were also some good ones this morning, the two at 610 taels and 520 taels are both good. Even the one at 180 taels is acceptable. We'll check the prices later and then decide."
Xu Han took out paper and pen and calculated, saying, "Well, these places add up to 3980 taels, plus the 4000 taels from the official broker, so it's a total of 7980 taels."
"If we haggle a bit, the price will definitely be cheaper, and we can choose some more."
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