Chapter 287 How to Walk
"Tomorrow?" This date was so unexpected.
Jian Pingping's eyes were filled with eagerness: "I'm going back to get the money now. Is it still possible to process the house deed at this time?"
The waiter nodded randomly: "Okay, okay, I've already made an appointment with the other party. Let him come to the inn, we will sign the transfer agreement, and then we can go to apply for the title deed."
Jian Pingping had completely come to his senses: "Then let's sign the contract here."
After saying that, Jian Pingping asked Aunt Qian to take care of Jian Anan. She went to the rented courtyard and came back soon.
The original owner of the house, a man in a green shirt, had arrived. They signed the contract in the presence of the waiter. Jian Pingping handed the waiter a silver note and gave him fifty taels of silver separately.
"I won't go with you to the yamen to handle the formalities. I'll leave this matter to my second brother." Jian Pingping said politely.
The waiter was delighted: "It's just a matter of going to the government office to handle the formalities. If you are busy, our brokerage firm can also help you with it. It's just a matter of money."
Jian Pingping waved his hand: "This is the rent, and the rest is the cost of processing the title deed. If it's not enough, Xiao Er Ge will help advance it first, and then come back to me."
This is a polite way of putting it. It costs at most a dozen taels of silver to process a house deed.
When we asked the waiter to negotiate the price, we agreed that he would get half of the negotiated price. That is to say, in addition to the 490 taels of rent, we had to give the waiter 27 and a half taels.
Excluding the cost of processing the house deed, the waiter can at least keep five or six taels of silver as a reward.
His eyes were almost shining as he looked at Jian Pingping.
"Miss Jian, my name is Shuanzi. If you need to buy a house or a shop in the future, you can come to Su's Dental Clinic to find me."
Jian Pingping did have plans in this regard. Hearing this, she nodded and said that she would trouble him first with this matter.
The waiter immediately understood what the other party meant, which was that he was anxious to get the house deed processed.
He did not delay any further. He first asked in whose name the house was registered, then took the banknote and the contract and followed the man in green out.
When the man in blue heard Jian Pingping say that the name on the house deed was written on her brother Jian Anan, he looked up at them, said nothing, bowed to them, and left.
Jian Pingping sat on the stool, her face full of fatigue. She looked at Ye Mingzhu, who was also a little tired. "Mingzhu, you've been following me all day. I'll ask someone to go to Hongyan Tower to reserve a table. How about we rest for a while and then go over to eat?"
"Pingping, there's no need to be so polite between you and me. We've been out all day, so we won't have dinner outside."
Ye Mingzhu was speaking the truth. She didn't take a nap at noon, and now she was feeling a little sleepy and wanted to go back and rest for a while.
Seeing this, Jian Pingping stopped being polite and just said that he would send her an invitation and invite her to visit after he settled in the new house.
Ye Mingzhu agreed that she would definitely go and then said goodbye.
On their way back, they ran into the carriage that Wang Dahu was riding in.
Wang Dahu said happily that he had booked a table at Hongyan Tower and would not go back for dinner that night, but would eat outside directly.
Ye Yun'an, who had been hooked by Hongyan Tower since morning, threw himself into Wang Dahu's arms and said frankly that his uncle was the best.
Wang Dahu was coaxed by Ye Yun'an and agreed to let him order the dishes when they arrived at Hongyan Tower.
Ye Mingzhu was about to say no, but Wang Dahu looked at her with a smile: "Same for Mingzhu, if you want to eat something later, just order it."
She had no choice but to swallow the words that were on the tip of her tongue and not be the one to spoil the fun.
I thought, even if the food at Hongyan Tower is expensive, my uncle wouldn’t go bankrupt if he only had this one meal.
Wang Dahu obviously had no such concerns. When ordering the dishes, he was not at all soft-hearted. Ye Mingzhu only glanced at the prices and turned her head away, deciding to just eat it out of sight and out of mind.
The dishes at Hongyan Tower were served very quickly. It took almost a cup of tea for all the dishes to be on the table.
Wang Dahu's first action was to use clean chopsticks to pick up food for the two siblings, and then told Uncle Yan not to be polite and to choose what he liked.
Ye Mingzhu couldn't stop eating after taking the first bite. She didn't expect the food at Hongyan Tower to be so delicious. Even if she tried her best to control herself, she picked up the food faster than usual. Not to mention Ye Anan, who had to nod after taking a few bites, as if doing so was not enough to prove that the food was delicious.
Seeing that the two siblings were enjoying their meal, Wang Dahu went out and ordered two more dishes.
Ye Mingzhu noticed Wang Dahu's eyes on her and blushed: "Uncle, don't just look at us, eat too."
"Well, uncle isn't very hungry today." Wang Dahu took a few bites of the food and saw that Ye Mingzhu was picking up the food more slowly before he spoke: "Mingzhu, where did you go shopping today?"
Ye Mingzhu had almost finished her meal. She swallowed the food in her mouth, wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, and replied, "We went to East City, West City, and North City to look at houses today. Miss Jian liked a house in North City and has already decided on it. She will clean it up in the next few days and then move in to Nanjing."
Wang Dahu didn't expect Jian Pingping to be so quick. When he heard the house was in North City, he said, "Mingzhu, the house I showed you is also in North City. It's a two-story house with twenty rooms. Why don't you go take a look tomorrow? If you think it's okay, you can decide on it."
Ye Mingzhu recalled Chun Xing's hesitant expression in the carriage. Could it be because the house Wang Dahu bought for her was in North City?
"When I was looking at houses before, Qiu Sheng and Chun Xing accompanied me. I'll ask them to go back tomorrow and take you to see it. There's also a shop in North City. You can look at it together tomorrow."
Wang Dahu's words answered her question.
Ye Mingzhu really liked Beicheng's scholarly atmosphere and nodded without hesitation: "Okay, then I'll go and take a look tomorrow."
Chun Xing had finished her meal and returned to serve her. Upon hearing this, she smiled and said, "Miss, the house the master bought for you is near the house Miss Jian bought today."
"Oh," Ye Mingzhu also smiled and said, "Then it will be convenient for Pingping to come to me in the future."
"How about, after we buy the new house, Mingzhu, you guys can stay here for a while longer?" Wang Dahu really wanted to keep his niece and kiss her.
Ye Mingzhu shook her head: "Uncle, I'm already married, it's not good to always live in my parents' house."
Wang Dahu was a little unhappy at first, but when he heard Ye Mingzhu say that this was her mother's home, he felt better.
Seeing that his uncle was in a low mood, Ye Yun'an said a lot of witty remarks to cheer him up. Wang Dahu was so happy that he didn't eat much of his meal and was just laughing.
The few of them ate and chatted, and only walked out of Hongyan Tower when it was almost dark.
Ye Anan walked in front with her belly sticking out, constantly saying that she was very full, and turned back from time to time to greet a few people. When she reached the door, she was knocked to the ground by someone who walked in quickly.
"How do you walk?"
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