Chapter 383 Different From Expectation

Boss Zhou stood aside, "Mother, Jinzhou City is really lively."

Zhulan turned her head, "You don't have to accompany me, you can go out for a stroll too."

Boss Zhou shook his head, father said, he and the second child can't both leave, at least one person should stay with mother.

Bamboo Orchid, "..."

Outside, Zhou Shuren's words are the best!

For lunch, Zhulan ordered a table of famous local dishes. The taste of Jiangnan is relatively light. Zhulan likes to eat shrimp specially ordered. Yes, there are also crabs. Although the season for eating crabs is over, they are still sold.

Boss Zhou is ready to eat. Although the crabs are hard to eat, they taste really good. After eating two, he can already master the skill of eating crabs. "Mom, let's go home and buy some for Dad to taste!"

Zhulan, "It's dead at home, and you can't eat it if you die."

Zhou Laoer said: "Mother, it won't work if you freeze it?"

Zhulan kept smiling. This is not something that can be sealed and frozen in modern times. It was not possible in ancient times. Zhulan said: "Didn't you say that there are dried shrimps and dried fish in the market? You can buy some of these."

Zhou Lao Er knew that his mother hadn’t returned, so he couldn’t do it. Zhou Lao Er thought about it. When he returned to the city, he was still in the south for the first few days. .”

Zhulan finished eating, "I'll go back to rest first, and I'll go out for a stroll in the afternoon, second child, you and Butler Ding go to the tooth store to ask Zhuangzi and the land."

Zhou Er Er glanced at his eldest brother, suppressed the joy in his heart and quickly responded, "Yes."

Although my mother didn't say it clearly, after going out, my mother asked him and Butler Ding to handle things all the way, so he had a guess in his heart. Now let him and Butler Ding be responsible for asking, is this the same as directly telling him that he will be in charge of the property in other places in the future? the same.

Zhulan glanced at Zhou Lao Er, even if she asked Zhou Lao Er to take full responsibility, she would not let him take full responsibility. It is not good for someone who is too smart. Now that the status of the Zhou family has just changed for less than a year, Zhou Lao Er urgently needs Proving that she didn't dare to make false accounts, but after adapting to her identity and having a responsible business in the future, she was really worried about Zhou Lao Er. Zhou Lao Er's confidence was getting stronger and stronger, and his courage would only become more and more courageous.

Especially Zhou's second son is still too young, and Zhou's second is currently relying on himself, so it is inevitable that he will be bold enough to make false accounts.

Zhulan didn't want to test human nature, in order not to make trouble for herself, it's better to chop it off from the root, Zhulan looked at Zhou Lao Er's smile deepened, and then glanced at Zhou Boss who lowered his head to eat crabs, Zhulan turned and went back to the upstairs room .

Butler Ding lowered his head. The second master is shrewd, but he is really not enough for the master and the mistress. He has realized it in half a year. Mother really likes it.

He has experienced resale and doesn't want to make a fuss anymore, he just wants to do things well, anyway, as long as he works seriously and obediently, the mistress is good to servants like them.

And he is very satisfied now, no one in Lizhou City will call him Master Ding when he sees him!

Boss Zhou saw that the second brother Zhou was looking at him. He was really not jealous. He was afraid that the property from other places would fall on him. After he figured it out, he wanted to be filial to his son in front of his father and mother. He really didn't want to think about anything else. .

In the afternoon, Zhulan had a good rest. Zhulan took Boss Zhou and Liu Ya to go shopping. It was rare to come to the south. Zhulan had long been thinking about Jiangnan embroidery, especially the double-sided embroidery.

Zhulan brought out 10,000 taels when she went out this time. When she split the accounts, Zhulan kept 7,000 taels in her hand. The next thousand and eight hundred taels, and the watermelons and apples were sold to get the money again. After deducting the expenses, the total on the account was five thousand taels, the bamboo orchid brought out three thousand taels, and the family kept two thousand taels.

Zhulan made up her mind to buy two Zhuangzi, one under her name,

A Zhuangzi is under Zhou Shuren's name.

In the embroidery workshop, Zhulan looked at the double-sided embroidered screen with rare eyes. It was really greedy, but the price was too touching. The floor-to-ceiling double-sided embroidered screens cost thousands of taels, and the screens that Zhulan liked started at one hundred taels.

Enduring the pain, Zhulan bought two small screens, some fans and handkerchiefs, and spent more than three hundred taels of silver in Xiufang.

Boss Zhou sucked in his breath, it was worth the money, "Mother, did we buy too much?"

Zhulan replied, "Not much, I only saved the dowry for your elder sister and younger sister, not for Yushuang and Yulu!"

Zhulan doesn't hide the general affairs from Boss Zhou now, and she tells Boss Zhou when she catches up, and now she tells Boss Zhou directly that she has saved a dowry for Xuemei, although she doesn't need to tell her sons, but this It is also the trust in Boss Zhou.

Boss Zhou's first reaction when he heard the news was grinning silly. The parents were stricter with their brothers and sisters, but they still cared about them. In response, he also has a daughter. You can't rely on your parents when a daughter gets married. He and Mrs. Li also need to prepare some. After thinking about it, he and Mrs. Li will only buy a few screens for the daughter with the money in their hands!

Zhulan went to the cloth store to buy some cloth, and then went to the grain store to buy some lotus seeds, barley and so on.

All the things I bought were sent to the inn, sealed and packed, and taken away directly when I went home.

As for some dried fish and dried shrimp, just buy them when you leave.

Zhulan returned to the inn, Zhou Laoer and Steward Ding also came back, Zhulan sat down to rest for a while before asking, "Have you found out?"

Zhou Lao Er said: "Zhuangzi has them, but they are not too big, the largest is less than 200 mu, and the small one is 100 mu. Moreover, there are no large tracts of land. They are all scattered fields of a few mu."

Boss Zhou asked, "The information on the tooth shop is all connected. Have you asked the nearby counties?"

Zhou Laoer nodded, "I asked, what I know is the situation of the entire Jinzhou Zhuangzi, and the land is only the situation near Jinzhou City."

Zhulan asked, "Have you asked about the price?"

Zhou Laoer breathed in his heart, "Mother, the price of land in the south is more expensive than in the north, because it can be planted twice a year, ten taels of silver per mu of dry land, and fourteen taels of silver per mu of paddy fields. Zhuangzi has the yard of the master's house. There are houses built for tenants, the largest Zhuangzi has 200 mu of land, counting 2,300 taels for the house, and the smallest Zhuangzi is 100 mu, 1,300 taels.”

What Zhulan wants to buy is a large village with a starting price of 400 mu. The bigger the village, the more stable the income, but the income of the small village is relatively fluctuating.

Zhulan doesn't want to go further south. The more people go south, the denser the village will be. Of course, there are some remote places in the south, but the roads are not easy to travel, and it will be difficult to buy and transport. Why not stay in Jinzhou City, The transportation is convenient and the land is fertile.

In the future, Dazhuangzi will be bought in the north. Who makes the north sparsely populated!

Zhou Laoer asked, "Mom, shall we go and see tomorrow?"

Zhulan said: "Look, you go to Yueyazi, go there early in the morning, don't look at the small Zhuangzi, just look at some big Zhuangzi with 200 mu."

Zhou Er Er said, "Hey!"

Zhulan thought to herself, although there is a gap between reality and prediction, it is not bad to be able to buy it.