Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

Yesterday, he dug four snake skin bags of medicinal herbs and sold them to the system for brewing. Therefore, Lin Shu had to go to the county town again today.

Fortunately, she and Gu Jiu are now husband and wife, and they have a home in the county town, so they don’t have to rush back and forth every time they go to the city.

When they arrived at the county town, Lin Shu asked Gu Jiu to carry the herbs back first. She rode her bicycle into an empty street and sold the two bags of herbs on her bicycle to the system.

After selling the herbs, Lin Shu rode his bike to the state-owned farmers’ market.

I went to the meat stall and bought two large bones for free, and also bought some green and red peppers and vegetables, then rode my bike back home.

"Are you buying vegetables?" Gu Jiu saw the vegetables hanging on Lin Shu's bicycle and quickly stood up to take them.

"Well, I bought two large bones. You can blanch them and stew them in a casserole first."

Lin Shu parked his bicycle in the corridor, pushed Gu Jiu's bicycle out again, and used the same method to sell the two bags of medicinal materials on his bicycle to the system. Then he casually walked around the street before going home.

Lin Shu accidentally passed by an old street and noticed a house facing the street. An idea suddenly came to his mind and he remembered something.

In the past, this old street was always the central street of the county town, and was later changed to Wenhua Road.

The nearly 400-square-meter house facing the street was later rebuilt into a three-story building. One side of the first-floor storefront was converted into a clothing store, and the other side was converted into a seafood restaurant because there was a stairwell leading to the second and third floors.

The landlord collects over 100,000 yuan in rent every month.

It was rebuilt in the early 2000s and turned into a 20-story building. The first floor is still a storefront, and the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors are still a seafood restaurant. Later, the upper floors were converted into a hotel, and business has always been good.

The seafood restaurant was a booming business for thirty or forty years and was still very prosperous when she died.

A few years ago, she went to this seafood city with her son for dinner. When she was sitting in the lobby playing with her grandson, she saw the landlord and the beautiful cashier reminiscing about the past.

The landlord talked about the inside story of how his father bought this street-facing house.

I don’t know whether what the landlord said is true or not, but his father bought this street-facing house in the first month of 79.

At that time, the owner of the house passed away. His son, who was working in another province, wanted to sell the house after burying his father. He put the house on the market with the Housing Management Office for several months before the landlord's father got a bargain.

When Lin Shu was riding his bike past the house just now, he noticed with his sharp eyes that the elegiac couplets on the door frame had been torn off, but not completely.

Does this mean that the landlord's son is planning to sell the house?

Lin Shu silently took note of this matter, returned home and parked the car under the porch.

Gu Jiu saw her coming back and asked, "What are you going to stew with the bones?"

Lin Shu picked up a few wild yams from the corner of the kitchen. They were dug a few days ago and kept at home specifically for making soup.

"Wild yam has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, nourishing yin and kidney, moistening the lungs and relieving coughs, etc. It is just right for stewing soup to nourish the body."

Although we went up the mountain the other day, we were still very tired. We both had to catch up while we had the chance.

Gu Jiu put on rubber gloves and took the basin from her hand, "I'll scrape the skin."

Lin Shu washed her hands and sat aside, watching him scrape the skin skillfully. From how skillfully he worked, one would never have thought that he was the spoiled youngest child in the family.

"Ever since you got engaged to me, you've always had endless work to do. You're no longer as carefree as before. Do you regret it?"

Gu Jiu looked up at her and said, "Didn't everyone go through this? If we want to change our current lives, we can only work harder to make money. When we have money in the future, we can hire a nanny to do the housework. If one is not enough, we can hire two."

"However, we have to go up the mountain every day to make money, but it's too tiring. If we have the opportunity to mobilize the villagers to go up the mountain to collect herbs, I believe it will be much easier to make money."

Lin Shu knew very well that earning money from working in the fields was hard work, but now she just wanted to earn the initial start-up capital. She should be able to try to find other ways out next year.

"Didn't you go to a nearby village to buy agricultural products some time ago? You can get in touch with this line and then find someone you trust to collect medicinal herbs. I'll give you a price list then, and it's up to you to decide how much you want to earn from the price difference."

Gu Jiu: "It's fine on my end, what about you? You don't want to go up the mountain alone, do you?"

"I'll go home and tell my family to let my sister and sister-in-law help with the digging after the autumn harvest."

Of course, if Lin Shu wanted to go up the mountain to collect herbs, she would still go up the mountain. To be honest, it was free for a person to go up the mountain, and the herbs collected did not need to be priced, and all could be collected into the system to exchange for money.

If she is accompanied by a companion, the first thing she would consider is to collect precious herbs. She would not dare to touch the cheap ones at all, otherwise it would be a problem to bring back too many.

After hearing this, Gu Jiu felt a little relieved. He was afraid that she would encounter danger if she went up the mountain alone, so he put the scraped yam into the casserole that had been stewing for half an hour and continued stewing.

"Is the ancient street in Jiansheli under the jurisdiction of Tang Jianjun's street office?"

"In Jianshe?" Gu Jiu washed his hands and led Lin Shu out of the kitchen. "It seems to be under the management of Jianjun and his men. Why do you want to ask this?"

"I want to ask if there is a house facing the street for sale. Can he help me contact the owner?"

Gu Jiu asked in surprise: "You want to buy a house?"

Lin Shu nodded: "Yes, I want to buy a house facing the street, so that I can turn it into a storefront and do business. Now the government encourages individual businesses to run businesses. I think since there is a policy from above, we should try to respond to the call."

"Then I'll ask Jianjun for you this afternoon."

After lunch, Lin Shu slept until around three o'clock in the afternoon.

When she got up, Gu Jiu had already gone out on his bike.

The information was obtained smoothly. Gu Jiu found Tang Jianjun and found out that there was only one store on that ancient street that was willing to sell.

Gu Jiu contacted the owner and learned that the house was priced at 1500 yuan. If he wanted to buy it, he could come over to sign the contract and take over the house after a few days of vacation.

After some bargaining, Tang Jianjun lowered the price to 1300 yuan. He agreed with the owner to come over and transfer the property in a few days.

After hanging up the phone, Gu Jiu rushed home as soon as he came out of the street office.

"How is it? Did you find out the news?"

As soon as Gu Jiu entered the house, Lin Shu couldn't wait to ask him.

"I found out that there is indeed a house for sale on the ancient street you mentioned. I have asked Jianjun to contact the owner. The house is priced at 1300 yuan. If we are sure we want to buy it, he will take a leave of absence in a few days to come and transfer the ownership."

Gu Jiu took Lin Shu, who was standing in front of him, and walked into the house. "If you don't have enough money, use the money in my passbook."

Lin Shu held his waist with one hand and said with a smile: "We have saved more than a thousand yuan in the past few days. We will dig a few more times in the next few days, and it will be more than enough to make the house payment. You don't need to touch the money in your passbook for the time being."

"Okay, then I will try to dig more valuable herbs tomorrow and save more money to buy you a house."

Speaking of houses, Lin Shu asked, "Do you live with your parents in the provincial capital, or do you have your own house?"

"Except for those who work outside the city, those of us who stay in the provincial capital all live with my parents." Gu Jiu answered truthfully.

This answer surprised Lin Shu a little. She thought that people who got married in the city would live separately after their work assigned them housing. She didn't expect that all the sons of the Gu family would live together.

"A lot of rooms in your house?"

Otherwise, there would be no place to live.

"It's okay. My mother gave birth to nine children in total, six boys and three girls. I am the youngest in the family."

"Your mother gave birth to nine children?"

Oh my god, when she was young, did my mother-in-law’s belly ever rest?

"There were only five children raised, and I had three brothers and one sister."