coobybook Chapter 140 Spending money like water
Chapter 140 Spending money like water
Bai Chong, Gu Yongming and others had to go back to the village as soon as possible, so the things that needed to be taken back were escorted by them.
Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan received another message from the broker Wang Tai, so they planned to go to the county town together again to purchase property. By the way, they would also bring a batch of goods to the county town to sell.
What Bai Chong, Gu Yongming and others who returned to the village did not know was that the mountain products left behind by Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan under the banner of "sending them to the county town to be sold" were sent to a small valley for safekeeping by Gu Wenxuan, Bai Jingzhou, Bai Jingshan, Fang Youfu and Fang Youcai after they left.
Of course, Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan did not let the members of the winter storage team suffer any loss. They paid the full amount for all the mountain products according to the high price that Mu Hanzhi had given them before.
This money will be distributed fairly to everyone according to their contribution.
After putting away the mountain products, everyone followed Bai Jingzhou out of the cave. Gu Wenxuan opened the cave within the cave alone and took out all the hidden gold and silver.
Bai Jingshan, Fang Youfu and Fang Youcai all knew that Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou had hidden the money from selling wine here, so they were not surprised at all to see these big boxes.
They helped Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou move the silver and money onto the raft and transport it out of the valley, and then went to the county town with them.
This time, the properties Wang Tai found for Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan were only farms and shops, but no houses.
He first took Gu Wenxuan and others to see the three shops for sale. Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou thought the prices were right and the locations were good, so they decided to buy them all.
However, they did not rush to get the red deed immediately, but first went with Wang Tai to the five farms that Wang Tai had helped the two people find.
These five farms are all located around the county town. Three of them are very large, with farmland ranging from 300 to 500 acres. The remaining two are about the same size as the three small farms that Gu Wenxuan and others had bought before.
The houses and fields of these five farms are of very good quality, and the water for irrigation is also guaranteed. So even though their wallets would be completely emptied by these five farms, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou decided to buy them without much hesitation.
The two small farms, one with 92 acres of land, and the other with 78 acres of land, a small hill, and a pond, cost Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou a total of 1,500 taels of silver.
There are three large farms, one has 320 acres of land, one has 356 acres of land and a pond, and the last one not only has 380 acres of land and a pond, but also a small hill full of fruit trees.
The three large estates cost the two of them a total of 10,000 taels.
The two men frequently went into the mountains for several months, and went to bandit dens to rob and rob. Later, they sold wine and Ganoderma lucidum to Mu Hanzhi. After deducting the money they had spent, all the money they had saved was not enough for them to buy the five farms.
Not to mention, they had previously told Wang Tai that they wanted to buy those three shops.
With no other options, Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan went to the Mu's Restaurant as soon as they returned to the county town and borrowed three thousand taels of silver using the token given by Mu Hanzhi.
Although the owner of the Mu Family Restaurant was confused, he did not show any strange expression on his face because of Mu Hanzhi's token and his repeated instructions.
He readily gave three thousand taels of silver to Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou, even though this was an amount he had to take out by using the restaurant's emergency deposits.
He gave the silver to Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan, and Bai Jingzhou wrote him a promissory note, agreeing with him to pay him back within seven days.
The shopkeeper didn't expect that Bai Jingzhou would not only show him the token of trust, but also write him a promissory note in a proper manner, and the note clearly stated that he would pay back the money within seven days.
The shopkeeper, with mixed emotions and confused thoughts, sent Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan away with a professional fake smile.
Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan didn't care what the shopkeeper thought. After they collected enough money, they immediately went to the yamen with Wang Tai to get the red deed.
By the time everything was settled, they had obtained all the red deeds for the three shops and five farms. The silver they had on hand, including the three thousand taels they borrowed, had been spent and only less than four hundred taels were left.
Bai Jingshan, Fang Youfu and Fang Youcai, who had witnessed for the first time what it meant to "spend money like water", had now completely turned into dull puppets.
Although they followed Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan obediently throughout the whole process, their somewhat distracted eyes, their complex expressions of shock and dullness, and their slow reaction speed all showed how out of shape they were.
"Let's go, it's time for us to go back." Bai Jingzhou patted Bai Jingshan, signaling the poor child to come back to his senses.
Bai Jingshan suddenly regained consciousness. He looked around and found that Wang Tai had disappeared without a trace. Outside the yamen, there were only five of them left.
Fang Youfu and Fang Youcai were also brought back to their senses by Bai Jingzhou's call, and the two brothers suppressed the complicated emotions in their hearts.
"I, I'll go call the coachman over." After saying this, Fang Youfu went to the carriage shop to find the coachman who brought them here.
Gu Wenxuan laughed and shook her head. She called Fang Youfu, "Uncle, don't worry. Let's go together."
She just wanted to buy some things along the way.
Fang Youfu stood still obediently, but when he saw that Gu Wenxuan actually bought fifty sesame cakes, fifty donkey meat buns, various candies and a total of two hundred large meat buns, Fang Youfu could not help but fall into that familiar, shocked and numb emotion again together with Bai Jingshan and Fang Youcai.
The group walked to the carriage shop with different thoughts in their minds and got on the carriage. Gu Wenxuan picked up the white flour and pork stuffing buns that she had asked the store to pack in advance, and said, "Come on, everyone, have some."
The five of them had been running around for most of the day, and they had also been moving and guarding large boxes filled with silver and money.
It was not until all the silver and money were traded and the horses were driven to the carriage shop to be fed with water and fodder, and they entered the yamen to exchange the red deeds, that Bai Jingshan, Fang Youfu and Fang Youcai, the three people who had been extremely nervous throughout the whole process, finally relaxed a little.
In addition, they were shocked by the way Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou spent money like water. After most of the day, they must have been exhausted both physically and mentally.
Gu Wenxuan saw everything. Now that everything was done, she would of course try her best to reward Bai Jingshan and the other two who had worked so hard today.
Bai Jingshan and the Fang brothers took the buns. Before they started eating, Fang Youfu hesitated and said to Gu Wenxuan, "Wenxuan, didn't you borrow money from the owner of the Mu Family Restaurant? We are eating and drinking so much..."
Fang Youcai and Bai Jingshan also looked at her and Bai Jingzhou with concern.