Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 373 Expensive

Song Ying thought about it and it made sense. After all, they didn't have that much money, so they could only choose between location and comfort.

"If we buy this place, how much will it cost?" she asked.

Fang Yazi smiled and said, "This shop is small, not expensive, only 150 taels."

"So expensive?" Song Ying and Luo Yanxing exclaimed in unison. Such a small shop costs 150 taels, how can it be called not expensive?

Lin Wenxuan also widened his eyes. If it was a proper house, it would be acceptable, but this shop was just a simple little house. 150 taels was really too expensive!

"The location is good." Fang Yazi said sincerely, "Look at the shop across the street that is hanging lanterns. The largest bookstore in Qingshui County, Chengyang Bookstore, is ready to move here and will open in seven days.

Look over there, at the newly opened Ruyi Restaurant, the Chen family's second son, Chen Yunze, specially invited a chef from out of town to be in charge of the restaurant. I heard that he is a fellow apprentice of the chef of Tianxiang Restaurant. And there's also the calligraphy and painting shop over there..."

Song Ying interrupted him and said, "That's too expensive. We sell pancreas. The main customers of these shops are scholars. Although scholars will use our pancreas, most of them are not direct buyers."

Those scholars who were so particular as to use soap to wash clothes naturally had servants to wash their clothes and the soap was naturally bought by the servants.

"Little girl, you are short-sighted. The reason so many shops can move here in the north of the city is because of these scholars, and the business they do is naturally centered around scholars.

There are many people in places with many scholars. If there are many people, do you still worry that you can't sell your pancreas? Even if only 10 out of 1 people come, if 100 people pass by every day, you can still sell 10 pancreas, right? "

This is the truth, but when Song Ying thought about how he spent so much money and ended up buying two rooms, one of which was very small, he felt it was not worth it and was not as good as the one in Yunshuifang.

Thinking of this, she asked, "How much less can the owner of the shop in Yunshuifang get?"

"The shop owner originally asked for 145 taels, and the price is 5 taels less."

Song Ying frowned even more tightly. The price was too cheap. Although the small building and the patio at the back were nice, the location of the shop in the front was really bad.

She looked at Luo Yanxing and Lin Wenxuan. "What do you two think?"

Whether it is 140 taels or 150 taels, the money is enough for the three of them together. The question is whether it is worth it.

"Expensive." Luo Yanxing was no longer as excited as before. She thought they had saved a lot of money, but she didn't expect that the two of them together couldn't afford the two worst shops, let alone the better shops. She was afraid that even three people together would be powerless.

Lin Wenxuan also felt that it was expensive, so he said, "Let's go back and discuss it."

Song Ying meant the same thing. Even if they didn't have a shop, they would still sell pancreas every day and there was no rush to settle down.

She said to Fang Yazi, "Uncle, please keep an eye out for us. If there is a suitable shop to bring into the courtyard, please let us know."

After a morning of looking around, they did not lose something. Now they had a clearer idea of what they wanted. First of all, they wanted a shop. The decoration inside did not matter, but the location could not be too bad.

Secondly, there should be a slightly spacious courtyard, which is not only for living, but also for making the pancreas later. Therefore, it is best to have a ventilated place in this small courtyard where the sunlight cannot reach, so as to dry the pancreas in the shade.

Buying and selling a house is a big deal and cannot be settled in a short time. Fang Yazi did not mind their trouble and agreed readily.

After parting with Fang Yazi and returning to the clinic, Luo Yanxing lost the last bit of excitement. He felt distressed at the thought of spending so much money at once. He hesitated and said, "Why don't we just close this shop? It's too expensive, and we still have to pay taxes to the Taxation Bureau."

"Since we met that Wang Sicheng today, even if we don't open a shop, we have to pay taxes." Song Ying felt distressed about this, but he still felt that it was necessary, "We want to do business for a long time, so commercial taxes are inevitable."

Luo Yanxing was very worried about dealing with the government. "Will it be like paying summer taxes and autumn grains? Will there be a similar punishment? Will most of the money we earn go into the government's pockets?"

Song Ying was also worried. "The imperial court emphasizes agriculture and suppresses commerce, with commerce at the bottom of the list. This tax on commerce may be even more excessive than the levy on lijiantihu."

Hearing this, Luo Yanxing became even more worried. He felt that he had made a wrong decision. He should not have gone to see the shop today, and he would not have met Wang Sicheng from the Taxation Department, and he could have continued to not pay taxes.

Seeing that they were both worried, Lin Wenxuan comforted them: "Although the court suppresses merchants, there are still many wealthy merchants. The merchants in our West Street are the lowest level merchants, but look at Aunt Chen, aren't their lives better than those of the farmers in your Xinghua Village?"

Song Ying and Luo Yanxing were both stunned. This was indeed the fact. The farmers in Xinghua Village and the nearby areas worked hard all year round, but their families seldom had enough to eat and they hardly had meat all year round.

Although the merchants on West Street were not wealthy, they still ate meat much more frequently than the farmers, and often gave their children a few cents of pocket money to buy snacks.

With this comparison, Luo Yanxing and Song Ying felt much more at ease.

After thinking for a while, Song Ying said, "The house behind the shop in Wencheng Lane is too small. I don't want to consider it. We do business to have money in our hands and live a better life. If we can only live in that small and dark room every day, wouldn't it be putting the cart before the horse?"

Luo Yanxing immediately asked excitedly: "Then do you want the one in Yunshuifang?"

"But as for the location," Song Ying hesitated, "let's wait and see. Let's first determine our requirements. When we choose later, we won't look at the ones that don't meet the requirements, so as to save time..."

As they were discussing, Doctor Ma suddenly called them from outside, "Wenxuan, Songying, the three of you, come out quickly. Someone is looking for you."

Find all three of them at the same time?

The three of them were all confused and got up and went out. They saw a young man wearing a melon-shaped hat and a green silk shirt standing in the yard, with a young woman wearing a silver hairpin next to him.

When Song Ying saw the woman, she recognized her immediately. Two years ago, before the Chinese New Year, she went to the cloth shop to buy clothes. The woman was also there and bought some sugar paintings for her daughter to eat.

There were few families who doted on their daughters so much, so Song Ying was deeply impressed by her. He remembered that the shopkeeper Xu of the cloth shop said that she was the proprietress of Zhangji Rice Shop in the east of the city.

"So it's you." The woman also recognized her and looked at Song Ying with a smile, "I wonder if the little girl still remembers that we met once at Manager Xu's cloth shop two years ago."

Song Ying nodded, "Sister, you are so forgiving and kind. I am deeply impressed."