Chapter 19 Renting a warehouse is not easy either
Zhou Chongwen has been very low-key during this period. He knows that he has made a mistake. He has irreversibly forced all the villagers to go into the mountains to open up wasteland, and he has also misunderstood Su Luo, so he wants to make some compensation.
Seeing that the one-month agreed period was about to expire and the owner had not come to claim the silver, Zhou Chongwen began to collect some materials purposefully.
"How to Make Baozi", "Who Moved My Baozi", "Two or Three Things Between Me and Baozi"... Su Luo looked at the information Zhou Chongwen sent over and scratched his head. Should he read it? If he didn't, he would be sorry for his kindness. If he read it, he really didn't need this professional skill. He might as well pass it on to Bao Zixing, which would be more practical.
Su Luo never told Zhou Chongwen her real purpose, including the day when Su Luo went to Zhuxian Town to meet her brothers, she only said that she was going to see Bao Zixing and did not let Zhou Chongwen sit with her.
Still in that steamed bun shop, under the chairmanship of Bao Zixing, Su Luo had a cordial talk with the Duifeng brothers.
The brothers' surname is Wang and their name is Han. They make a living by reselling and brokering. This time when he returned to Zhuxian Town, it was his first business to make a comeback, so he was very cautious. He not only made a detailed comparison of rice prices in various places, but also made a detailed appendix, which listed a series of additional expenses such as freight, labor, and warehouse rental. After a rough calculation, it cost about 100 taels to get the grain on the ship, to Zhuxian Town, and finally into the warehouse, plus 50 taels of agency fees. Fifty of the remaining 850 taels was kept for emergency use, and as the pure grain capital, there was only 800 taels.
Su Luo naturally did not expect all these. What he did not expect was that the grain in Jiangnan was more than 30% cheaper than the local one. Eight hundred taels of silver could buy 1,200 dan of medium-quality white rice. As for the grain prices in Guangzhou and other places, they were only half of the local grain prices. This was the origin of the north-south gap. However, transporting grain from Guangzhou was too far. Not to mention the transportation time, the freight alone would have to increase several times.
The detailed budget sheet greatly increased Su Luo's confidence in Wang Han, and the two sides reached an agreement. After the talks, Wang Han was about to return to Jiangnan without any rest, and promised to bring good news to Su Luo in the shortest time possible.
So Su Luo got busy, and the matter of booking a warehouse was put on the agenda. Bao Zixing said that the only rice shops in Zhuxian Town that had large granaries were Qinji and Huisheng. Their businesses were naturally big, but big businesses did not necessarily accommodate people. When the relevant persons in charge of these two shops heard that Su Luo rented a granary to store grain for himself, they told him that they wanted to do grain business in Zhuxian Town, and it would be best to choose one of the two grain shops as the source of goods. Transporting grain from other places would inevitably be suspected of ruining the business.
Although Su Luo tried his best to explain that he was not hoarding grain to open a grain store in Zhuxian Town, no one believed him. Why did you buy so much grain if you didn't open a grain store? If you didn't sell it, were you waiting for the big grain to produce small grain?
After two days of running back and forth, the negotiation still failed. They just thought you were trying to challenge them. Finally, Su Luo swore to heaven and earth that he would never sell a grain of grain in Zhuxian Town. Only then did the second shopkeeper of Qinji slowly say that the rent for Zhongcang would be five taels of silver per month, with a minimum of six months.
Su Luo said, "I only want to rent it for two months, because it is already the beginning of March, and minus the time , the grain can only be stored here for two months at most."
"Love exists or not."
Su Luo saw the service model of a certain bank in the future from the second shopkeeper's face. Should he keep it or not? He seemed to have no say in other people's land, but the budget for the granary was only 15 taels, and now it has doubled. How should he carry out the work in the future?
Su Luo worried for two days, but finally he turned to Lao Wang, who sold fruit at the stall next to Bao Zixing. Lao Wang's wife was a close friend of the sister-in-law of the second manager of Qinji. Through this channel, he treated the second manager to a big meal and spent five taels of silver. In the end, he rented the warehouse for twenty taels. Although it was still overspending, at least he saved five taels.
It took so much effort just to rent a warehouse. Su Luo really admired the omnipotent time-travel predecessor. It was not that she was too stupid, but that she was born at the wrong time. There was no shortage of bosses among the ancients here, and each one was more cunning than the other.
After being busy for several days, Su Luo was seen running to Zhuxian Town, but he was nowhere to be seen in the morning and evening. One day, Zhou Chongwen brought Su Yi to Baozixing's bun shop, saying that the boy had to come and see with his own eyes that his sister was still alive.
After so much trouble, a month has passed, and the money can be used, but Su Luo has become stingy. He did not squander it as Zhou Chongwen imagined, squatting on the ground with a small wooden stick every day to calculate. After calculating, he took a silver bar to Zhou Chongwen and said that I really can't afford to spend ten taels, plus your own money and the money I deposited with you before, the Xie family will not make things too difficult for you.
Zhou Si just wanted to stick to his style. He refused to comply, saying, "I am a man with hands and feet. Why should I ask others for help to propose marriage?" Either don't marry, or you have to work hard to get married.
Su Luo had been running around the granary for the past two days and was not in good spirits. She was too lazy to argue with him, so she threw the silver at his feet, yawned, and went home to sleep. The next day, when she opened her eyes, she found a silver bar placed neatly next to her pillow.
Su Luo really didn't know what expression to make. She didn't expect this guy, who looked so weak, to be a real man in spirit, but his brain was a little slow. She had no choice. After all, they were neighbors, so she thought about him again. Su Luo looked at the sky, grabbed the silver and went to Zhou's house without washing her face. The door was not locked, indicating that Zhou Chongwen had not yet gone to set up the stall.
He kicked the door open, startling Zhou Chongwen who was washing in the yard.
Zhou Chongwen knitted his long and delicate eyebrows together and naturally began to repeat for the 101st time, "As a woman..."
"You have to behave properly, be dignified and virtuous, otherwise you won't be able to get married." Su Luo was familiar with it.
Zhou Chongwen was a little embarrassed, "I only want to say the first half of the sentence."
"Thinking about the second half of the sentence." Su Luo walked to the well, fetched half a bucket of water and began to wash, without any awareness of being a guest. "There is a way to let you marry a wife without letting you lose your abnormal self-esteem. Do you want to try it?"
Zhou Chongwen looked at Su Luo dryly and concluded, "It's definitely not a good idea."
Su Luo rolled her eyes at him. After washing her face, she couldn't find a towel, so she simply shook her head violently. Zhou Chongwen, who was standing nearby, couldn't dodge in time and got splashed with water in the face. He raised his head and was about to say "why" for the hundred and second time when he saw water droplets flying in front of him. They were crystal clear and reflected in the early morning sunlight. They were unusually beautiful... uh, they were water droplets. The water droplets were beautiful.
