Chapter 148 The master is back

Jiang Yu went to the dental clinic.

She changed to a new dental clinic, but it was not a good idea to become familiar with the dental dealers, as they would take advantage of her.

I chose a dental clinic with a relatively large frontage. When I walked in, a smiling dentist greeted me, "Sir, what do you need?"

"The house is big and clean."

"Please come this way."

The smiling tooth man pointed to a table and said, "Here is the atlas."

There's an atlas? Great! She doesn't have to read vertical text.

The album contains page after page of house drawings. Although they are not as clear as those in the modern world, they are much more intuitive than text descriptions.

Jiang Yu flipped through it first, and then carefully looked at the drawing he liked again, including the description on the side of the drawing.

Finally, we decided on three places and went to look at the houses with the Smiling Tooth Man.

These three places all have three courtyards. The first courtyard of two of them is too small, and the third courtyard of one is too small.

Jiang Yu chose the third courtyard which was too small. "Give me the actual price for this courtyard."

"Nine hundred taels of silver."

Jiang Yu looked at the smiling dentist and asked, "Did you recognize me and come here to take advantage of me?"

The Smiley Tooth Man almost lost his smile, he really remembered who the kind-looking old man in front of him was.

It was Mr. Chen from the Ying Mansion who bought all the properties of the prodigal son of the Song family.

But even if he recognized her, he wouldn't ask for a random price.
"Master Chen, I am an official, so I can only lose money if the price is suppressed, but I dare not raise the price too high to disrupt the market.

This house was given to you for 900 taels of silver. The Song family’s house is only half the price because of its reputation.”

"You pay the commission, and you pay the red deed tax."

"Master Chen."

The smiling tooth man turned into a crying tooth man, "I can't pay you back!"

"Then why hasn't this house been sold?"

Smiling tooth man "..."

If all the houses are sold, what will the customers buy? If all the agents don’t have any houses, what is the point of being agents?
"Six hundred and fifty taels."

Jiang Yu said, "If you can negotiate, I will pay the fifty taels commission and the red deed tax myself."

The dentist's smile returned, "I will go and talk to you right away, please wait a moment."

Jiang Yu: "..."

Wait a minute? There is no distance to wait except next door.

It’s really next door.

The owner of this yard moved to the provincial capital and entrusted the yard in the state capital to his cousin next door, asking his cousin to take care of it for him.

I wonder if this cousin recognized "Master Chen" or if the smiling dentist told him. As soon as he saw Jiang Yu, he said straight to the point,
"Master Chen, to be honest, this courtyard was indeed worth nine hundred taels of silver at first, but the wealthy families in the state capital have their own houses, and if they are short of money, they would rather buy land and build houses than buy old houses.

Ordinary people couldn't afford it, so it had been on the market for two years. Later, my cousin wrote to me and said that the price could be reduced appropriately.

If Mr. Chen is honest and wants to buy it, it will be seven hundred taels of silver. I hope we can live in harmony as neighbors in the future."

Jiang Yu: "..."

If you don't work as a dentist, it would be a waste of your good teeth.

700 taels plus commission plus red deed tax, 58 silver bars are gone.

Do you feel sad?
I don't feel sad because this courtyard is called Yuefu.

Isn't Qin coming? It's just the right time to equip him with servants.

She registered the indentures of the Feng family into red deeds and changed all their surnames to Qin, but their names remained unchanged.

Qin Qinghe?
Qin Qingtian?
Jiang Qinglin.

This is why she did not go to the county town to sign the red deed for this large family. She was really afraid that they were looking for her grandfather.

The smiling tooth man said goodbye to Master Chen with a smile on his face, "Thank you for your care, Master Chen. Next time you have something to do, please come to me again."

Jiang Yu responded calmly. Her face was also a celebrity in the state city, so it didn't matter whether she changed her teeth or not. As soon as she arrived at the door of the restaurant, Jiang Yu was seen by Hua Jiao who was circling anxiously, "Master, the craftsman doesn't know how to build the stove you mentioned."

Jiang Yu: "..."

To arrange stoves in a row means to put several stoves in a row. Is there anyone who doesn’t know how to do it?

Was there something wrong with the narration? Or was it because she, a "half-ancient person", could no longer communicate with the ancients. Jiang Yu could only pick up a broken brick and draw on the ground while speaking.

“… In this way, eight stoves were arranged in two rows, and each stove, except for the stove mouth, was separated from the other three sides by only one brick, so that they could keep each other warm.

Of course, both ends still need to be thickened and insulated.”

After some gestures and drawings, they finally communicated well, and Jiang Yu personally supervised the size and height of the stove eye.

There are four types of pot bottoms, some large and some small, and the stove chambers are also deep and shallow, but the surface height of the eight stoves in two rows must be the same.

The craftsmen in the provincial capital are really good, and everything they do is based on the requirements of the employer who pays them.

Because there were so many requirements, it took two days to complete the building. When the craftsmen took their wages and left, they also said that if they felt that it did not save firewood, they could ask them to redo the work.

Jiang Yu asked the peppercorns and star anise to dry on the stove, and he was not in a hurry to open the business.

She went to find the smiling dentist again and asked if there was an accountant or an embroiderer.

"Have!"

The smiling tooth man smiled, "What does Master Chen want?"

"Around 30 years old, in good health, no bad habits, and no family."

The smiling tooth man soon brought two men and two women, "Master Chen, do you think it's suitable?"

Jiang Yu looked at the four people who met her requirements perfectly, "Do you really have no family burden?"

The smiling yaman said, "To tell you the truth, Master Chen, these people were sold out in the provincial capital, and they were single when they came here."

Jiang Yu raised an eyebrow, "Could it be that he has dirty hands and feet?"

The smiling tooth man shook his head, "I don't know, can you tell me why you were sold out?"

The four men bowed and answered with their heads down.

An accountant was framed because the young master wanted to place his own people there.

An accountant was dragged down by corrupt purchases, and his master took his anger out on him by saying that he had not reported the purchases at excessively high prices.

Caimai was a relative of his master, how dare he? In the end, he still couldn't escape the fate of being sold, while Caimai was only fined a monthly salary.

After an embroiderer injured her finger, she could not embroider as fast as before, so she was sold by the embroidery shop.

One embroiderer always had problems with the color matching of the patterns she embroidered.

Jiang Yu: "..."

Is there something wrong with the color matching? Is it color blindness?
Jiang Yu waved her hand and said, "I bought them all."

120 taels of silver, 9 silver bars, the red deed and the commission are another silver bar.

Now she has about a hundred sticks left, and there are only 170 sticks at home, most of which she has spent.

In the modern world, more than 400,000 yuan can do a lot.

Here, you have to buy all the manpower, and after you buy it, you have to provide them with food and clothing.

……

The doorman was wandering around the gate bored, and when he turned around he saw a few people turning into the alley.

He squinted his eyes and looked over, then ran happily into the mansion, "The master is back, the master is back."

In the past few days, the few remaining black hairs of the old housekeeper have turned white due to worry.

The master gave him more than sixty taels of silver and left. The cotton and quilt lining and covering needed for a quilt cost one and a half taels of silver.

In order to save money, he arranged for two people to share a quilt and put some straw underneath them.

There were 54 people in total, not counting the only little girl, and we bought 28 quilts because there were 7 people at the restaurant.

He budgeted each person a day of one and a half pounds of brown rice, plus vegetables, firewood, and salt, which cost one or two taels of silver.

The horse feed for two horses cost 150 coins a day, and other miscellaneous expenses cost about 200 coins.

The plaque cost another ten taels of silver.