The casual life of the flat space

"Haha, I'm not kidding you, but what I just said was not a joke. Remember to tell your brother and the other six! Oh, don't tell Grandpa Zeng. I'm leaving first. If you have anything, you can come to Xianhe Village to find me, or in..."

Bai Tieying was about to say "leave a message at Chunfu Hall", but sighed in his heart, but continued: "It's okay to leave a message at Chunfu Hall." After that, he led the horse away.

What she just said reminded her that she had troubled Shopkeeper Zhang a lot. Whether the joint purchase of mountain products was successful or not, she shouldn't have troubled him all the time.

So Bai Tieying went to the pawnshop to rent a shop. Whether it was to be the shop of Chunweizhai in the future or to be used as a transit point for mountain products, her own place would always be more convenient.

"Oh, isn't this Miss Bai? You are so honorable to me. I was wondering why my left eyelid has been twitching today. It turns out she is telling me that Miss Bai is coming to take care of my business!" Bai Tieying had just handed the reins in his hand to the servant at the door when the broker he had met before came out and said with a smile.

"Haha, you're joking, little brother Zuo, but I really want to ask if there is a suitable shop."

"Look, what did I say? If you take care of me like this, don't you think you are a noble man? Come, please sit in the compartment. I will serve you tea. You can drink the tea while I slowly explain it to you."

Zuoya Ren let Bai Tieying into the brokerage office, and after he settled down and asked some questions, he went to get a brochure of manors and houses for Bai Tieying to choose from.

"Why is this compact house so cheap?" Bai Tieying asked when he saw a shop located in Guanglefang next to Zhongjie Street with an exceptionally low price.

"Miss Bai, this house was left by... that person." Zuoyaren said, pointing his finger above his head.

"Xiao County Magistrate?"

"Yes, that's right. Except for the one next to the county government office, which is to be kept for... you know! The rest are to be sold by the government in all the shops and houses.

The others were all rented out in three to five days, but this one, the county government has urged us to rent it five times, and the price has been lowered again and again, but it just won’t sell, and there’s nothing we can do.” Zuo Yaren helplessly spread his hands.

"What's the point?"

"Uh... Miss Bai, please look at other shops. It's not that I don't want to waste my breath on this. To be honest," Zuo Yaren lowered his voice, "even if you give it to me for free, I don't want it!"

"Little Brother Zuo, just think of it as telling me a story, thank you for your help!" Bai Tieying said, taking out a string of money from his purse and putting it on the store affairs booklet.

She didn't believe everything, but the affairs of Xiao Taicong and Wu Qianlin's family were too strange, and they were related to the previous dynasty. Now that the treasures were in her hands, they were also related to her, so she decided to ask in detail.

"Oh, Miss Bai, this is not allowed. Please take it back! It is my duty to introduce guests to my friends. You are embarrassing me by doing this!"

"You said your eyelids were twitching all the time, didn't you? Then they can't be twitching in vain. Now, tell me some stories. I love to hear stories!"

"Haha, then you'll just tell me, and don't tell anyone else!"

"Okay, I just like to listen, not to talk, and I keep my mouth shut!" When Bai Tieying heard Zuoyaren say the inevitable "introduction" of gossip, she also excitedly responded to the "code".

"This shop of his! It's not the best location in Shang'an County, but it's ranked second. We set the price for it at this amount after we took it over." Zuoya stretched out his right index finger to measure it, and Bai Tieying guessed that it should be 10,000 taels. That was indeed very high, enough to buy a medium-sized house in Yaojing.

"But now it's this price, and no one is buying it." Zuoyaren then held up two fingers. Bai Tieying guessed that it should be three thousand taels. This was not even a 50% cut. Compared with the actual house price, this was really a huge discount.

"Tell me, if there is nothing wrong, how could such a good shop be so cheap and no one buys it? The reason is..." Zuoya turned around and looked around, then turned back and squeezed out two words from his throat: "Haunted!"

"What?" Bai Tieying cooperated and pretended to be frightened, but she was complaining in her heart: "Can you come up with something new? I spent ten cents and you tell me this? Give me ten cents and I can tell you something better!"

"Miss Bai, this shop was rented out before that guy got into trouble. I've never heard of such a thing. So it's spread among our industry. Maybe that guy is already... unwilling to resign!" Zuoya said as he scratched his neck horizontally with the side of his palm.

"But haven't all the other houses been sold? Are there similar rumors?"

"Hiss, what you said is true! There are no shops in those mansions, and many shops are still open!" Zuoyaren gasped, as if he had not thought of this before.

"What do you mean 'all still open'?"

"So that Miss Bai will know that one of the ways he makes money is to force merchants to sell their shops to him at a low price, and then he rents them to the original merchants at a high rent.

So when the shop was put on sale this time, the merchants spent money again to buy back their shops. After all, the location of the shop is important, and some shops have been run by their ancestors. If they could change the location, they would have changed it long ago when that person cheated them, and they would not have endured it for so many years. "

"Oh my God!" Bai Tieying looked as if he had just opened his eyes, and used funny words to play the supporting role, "Little brother Zuo, can you point out to me who owns those unfair... merchants' shops?"

"Oh, look, you know the You Family's food shop, the fourth item on this page? If he says it's second, no one in our Shangan dares to say it's first. But even so, he 'rented' his own shop for six years."

Bai Tieying knew this, and not only did he know, he bought food from him quite a lot! The food in his shop was delicious, cheap, and had a wide variety. Whenever Bai Tieying went shopping, if there was nothing in particular he wanted to eat, he would always go for it.

In fact, in the original world, this is a noodle shop, but the scale is incomparable to that of the original world. There are all kinds of steamed buns, steamed bread, pies, snacks with different flavors from all over the world - there is nothing that they can't make, except what you can't think of.

No wonder Xiao Taicong was targeting them. Being the best in the county was a crime, because it was a disguised way of asking his family to pay tribute! I believe that even if the You family moved to another place to run a food shop, they would still be forced to sell the house at a low price and rent it back at a high price. Maybe they would not be able to stop doing this business from now on.