It was supposed to cost four taels of silver, but the shopkeeper saw that she was an old customer and planned to clear the stock, so that he could decide to sell it at a cheap price.

"If you want to buy your shop, how much money will you need?" Chu Wanying looked at the shop that was nearly 100 square meters and asked.

"If I weren't really unable to buy the goods, I wouldn't think of selling them at a low price. That's it, you girl is also a good person. If you really want it, you can sell this store to you for twenty taels of silver."

The price of twenty taels is reasonable, and the store is located well and the passenger flow is fixed, so you can consider it.

But now she only has seventeen taels of silver in her hand, and she and Rong Zhan are about to get married, so she really can't pay out the extra silver.

"Shopkeeper, let's do it. I'll go back and discuss it with my family first and I'll give you a reply in two days. After all, how much money is there, I'll always tell them."

"It's okay! But you have to hurry up! The Huo family has been staring at my shop! If I hadn't looked down on their family and dragged them to sell them, the shop would have fallen into their hands long ago!"

"Okay, I will give you an answer as soon as possible." Chu Wanying replied immediately.

Pushing the wooden cart away, she waved her sleeves and immediately all the items entered the space.

When she went to Zhenkou to meet Rong Zhan, she told the store truthfully.

"Twenty taels are indeed a bit difficult, and it is not too cost-effective to use all the money to buy a shop at once." Chu Wanying analyzed.

During the famine period, only living is the king. As for shops, they are all external things and fixed assets, so they really are not useful when escaping famine.

But the price is really attractive, so she couldn't help but mention it to him.

Rong Zhan lowered his eyes as if he was seriously considering this matter.

After a long time, he said, "When I go back, I will discuss with my parents and see if I can squeeze out some more money."

"You don't really want to put it down, do you?"

"Well, the famine will last for three years, the worst is the third year, and it has just begun now. In other words, we still have at least two years to earn back the money."

"That's right, but that's what..."

The man suddenly interrupted her, "There is a small warehouse behind the rice and noodles store, which is most suitable for storing goods. You don't have to worry about the grain storage issues mentioned earlier."

"In addition, I see that the clothes you draw today are novel in style. It would be great if you can sell ready-made clothes in the middle of the rice and flour shop."

Then, if you say this, it would be like a small shopping mall, and you can sell anything.

Chu Wanying complained in her heart.

The man continued, "As we said last time, if you want to exchange goods for goods, you still need a larger area to be the most convenient."

"But if we open a store here, where will we stay in the future? Will we run around the town and the village?"

Rong Zhan thought about this seriously and said, "That's all I can do. I'll discuss it with my father until the evening."

"Okay, let's discuss this matter here for now. Let's go to Yunxi Village to find Xu Zhengqing first!"

After the man said that, he strides away first.

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When the two arrived at the entrance of Yunxi Village, it was already noon.

The sun was shining brightly, making Chu Wanying dizzy.

I only ate half a steamed bun in the morning and walked at noon. I haven't eaten yet. Chu Wanying felt hungry and dizzy at this time, and it seemed like she was about to faint at the next moment.

Rong Zhan reached out to help the swaying girl and frowned, "Why is your body still so weak? Come up."

After saying that, he squatted down.

"This is not very good!" Chu Wanying saw that he was obviously trying to bear his back in his own way, so he said shyly.

"Don't talk nonsense." As he said that, he grabbed her knee and leaned towards his back.

The girl couldn't twist him, so she had to lie on his back.

Although men are thin, their backs are wide and they feel quite safe.

For the rest of the time, Chu Wanying kept talking to the man to relieve the embarrassment.

Rong Zhan guessed what she thought, but did not expose it. He only said a few words along the way to deal with her.

When I was about to reach the entrance of Xujia Hutong, I saw a group of people surrounding me.

The villagers gathered together, either watching the fun or something rare happened.

"Rong Zhan quickly let me down! Go and see what happened!"

She suddenly had an ominous premonition in her heart.

The man put her down as he said, rushed into the crowd quickly, and came out after a while, and saw a slump around him.

Obviously, as she expected, something happened to the Xu family.

An aunt looked at them, stepped out of the crowd, and came over and said, "You two are not from Yunxi Village, are you? What are you doing here?"

The man did not say a word, Chu Wanying stepped forward and explained with a smile, "Auntie, my husband is Xu Zhengqing's classmate and friend. He hasn't been to the town's private school for several days, so he thought about coming over to see what happened to him."

According to the original owner's memory, Xu Zhengqing was 22 years old and just passed the first exam this year and became a child.

Therefore, it is said that he is a classmate with Rong Zhan, who is a similar age, so there should be no big problem.

"Oh! Don't you know? The Xu family was robbed two days ago and encountered robbers. Everyone was in trouble! It is said that the bodies were thrown off the cliff, and even the whole body was not left behind!"

"All the whole family is dead?"

When Chu Wanying heard this, she widened her eyes in surprise.

The head hurts more and more, what's going on!

"Yes! The family of five is dead! I don't know what the Xu family has committed. A few days ago, they suddenly clamored to sell their property, saying that they were going to the capital to invest in relatives. You can just leave. You have encountered such a thing on the way, hey!"

The aunt left with a sigh. Chu Wanying saw Rong Zhan standing there in a daze, and had no intention of leaving. She asked in a low voice, "What's wrong? Did you find something?"

Rong Zhan was brought back to his senses by her and shook his head, "I just felt that things were too coincidental. But this is a sure thing, that is, Xu Zhengqing and the Xing sisters must have discovered something and were killed."

Chu Wanying also thought so.

But the clues were broken again, and she felt a little annoyed inexplicably.

"But the aunt just said that their family was thrown into the cliff, so why are these people surrounding the Xu family?

Rong Zhan, "It was the relatives of the Xu family's side branch in the village who heard the wind and came here to compete for the house."

That's right, the Xu family had a small amount of assets, but now that they have lost their assets, their assets have become popular.

Thinking of this, Chu Wanying's eyes lit up, and an unrealistic idea suddenly popped up in her mind.

"Rong Zhan, should we go and find Xu Zhengqing's body? Maybe we can find something from him!"

In addition, if she can find some scattered silver, she can also take it into her pocket.

Although it is really not kind to do this, in order to survive in her previous life, she often went to the pile of dead people to find relics to sell them for a living.

Therefore, she is very familiar with doing such things.

Rong Zhan didn't think so much. He heard her suggestion and nodded, "That's all."

Then, the man asked others about the location of the cliff where the Xu family was abandoned by the excuse of going to worship.

"It turned out to be on another mountain. It's not too close to this place. If you walk, it will probably take more than half a day, so it's not easy for your parents to explain."

Rong Zhan thought for a moment and said, "It's better to do this. Anyway, the hill we are going to must go through the town and get there to someone to help us take it home and send a message, and then go again."

Chu Wanying was originally worried that the man would think the journey was too far and he planned to give up. Unexpectedly, he had no intention of this at all, and he responded quickly.

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When the two returned to the town, it was already in the morning.

He didn't eat much for a day, and his appetite began to protest to her. Rong Zhan asked her to buy some food and cushion her belly. He went to a meat shop alone, saying that the boss's friend was also from Yunluo Village. He dragged him to send a message back so that Lao Rong and the others could feel at ease.

Fortunately, Rong Zhan just asked him to buy a pen, ink, paper and inkstone. Otherwise, if he spoke verbally, the old couple would not believe it!

Chu Wanying went to the bun shop and spent ten cents to buy 10 vegetarian buns.

Just as I was eating, a carriage was speeding past, with dust flying around.

She was choked and coughed for a long time, and suddenly a flash of inspiration appeared in her mind, yes! Why not buy a carriage!

Or think of a way to build a modern car!

In this way, if you run away from life, there will be a place to shelter from the wind and rain, right?

She was thinking about the feasibility of this matter, and when she raised her eyes, she saw that the man was already standing at a hawker selling foals.

Their tacit understanding is invincible!

He walked over happily and heard the vendor say, "Young Master! I think you are a person who knows the goods. This foal is really a pure and good horse. As long as you have two taels of silver, it is really not expensive!"

Listening to the vendor's dress and accent, he knew that he was a foreigner.

Chu Wanying looked at the horses behind him. The foals were either too old or too young, and they still wanted two taels of silver to them.

Isn’t this an open robbery?

"Rong Zhan, let's go! I think the quality of this foal is not very good. I think the foal at Lao Ma's house on the east end of the village is much better than his. It's better for us to buy it at his house." After saying that, he was about to pull the man away.

The hawker is not old, so he is not Chu Wanying's opponent.

So she was so excited that she jumped out and said, "You can't say that girl! My foal is a bit expensive, but it's a great value for money! It's not comparable to an ordinary horse!"

Chu Wanying raised her eyebrows and said, "I care what kind of horse you are, I just think it's expensive anyway!"

Seeing that they were really leaving, the vendor had to surrender, "Okay OK! Then how much does it cost?"

Alas, if it weren't for the difficulty of doing business, he wouldn't want to ask someone to buy it so humbly.

The vendor is so sad!

"Look, why not, how about selling me two pieces of silver for one tael of silver?" Chu Wanying thought that since he had signs of letting go, it would be better to cut the price more severely.

"What? Girl! This is such a good horse! Five cents of silver? Isn't this a compensation to death!" The vendor was in tears.
Chapter completed!