vrcanaries Chapter 117: Madam Luo was punished, Xia Xiaorou’s big business.
Chapter 117: Madam Luo was punished, Xia Xiaorou’s big business.
Mrs. Luo's face changed. "What did you say? Sold it to someone else? Sold it to whom?"
"Mrs. Xia, the fiancée of Mr. Yan in Yanyuan." Qi Xiucai said, and showed the contract to Mrs. Luo. "I'm sorry, Mrs. Luo, Mrs. Xia has paid the silver, and I'm in urgent need of money, so I have to sell it first."
When she heard that it was sold to Xia Xiaorou, although Mrs. Luo was angry, she could do nothing about it.
He had no choice but to leave in shame with his entourage.
After leaving Qijia Manor, Madam Luo took a carriage to the best room in the largest inn in the county.
She restrained her expression and knocked on the door carefully. Inside the room, a woman from the capital city asked coldly, "Who is it?"
"I am Miss Luo, Miss Narcissus."
The door creaked open.
A round-faced maid dressed in exquisite attire glanced at Lady Luo and said, "Why are you here so late? The lady has been waiting for you for a long time."
Mrs. Luo said embarrassedly, "We encountered road digging on the way, so we took a detour and arrived a little late."
"Come in." The maid stepped aside and let Madam Luo enter the room.
Sitting near the window of the room door was a young woman wearing a gorgeous pearl hairpin and purple dress. On her left and right stood a nanny and a maid. The two attendants were dressed in the same exquisite manner as the maid who opened the door just now.
Madam Luo walked towards the woman in gorgeous clothes in the middle, knelt down and bowed, "Fourth Miss, the land... the land has been bought by someone else first."
Wen Xiashu narrowed her eyes, "What did you say?" Her eyebrows were raised, "You can't even buy a piece of land, no wonder you have achieved nothing since you came to Qingyang Prefecture!"
Mrs. Luo was so frightened that she trembled and fell to her knees.
"Fourth Miss, the one who bought the eight hundred acres of land was Mr. Yan's fiancée, Lady Xia."
"Heh——" Wen Xiashu laughed sarcastically.
The girl in pink next to her got the look and yelled at Luo, "She's just a country girl. What kind of fiancée is she? Are you giving her face?"
"Yes, yes, that country woman can't be the fiancée. Mr. Yan's partner in the future can only be the Fourth Young Lady." Madam Luo hurriedly changed her words.
"How could she, a village woman, have the money to buy 800 acres? Madam Luo, do you know?" Wen Xiashu asked with narrowed eyes.
"This... I don't know." Madam Luo really didn't know where Xia Xiaorou got the money from.
"You are the housekeeper of the Anguo Mansion, but you are not even as good as a village woman? Humph!" Wen Xiashu glanced at the people around her, "Punish!"
"Yes, Fourth Miss!" The older woman in charge rolled up her sleeves, walked towards Madam Luo, raised her hand and slapped Madam Luo twice on the face.
The beating made Mrs. Luo look dazed. She dared not resist and stood there obediently. "Fourth Miss, give me some more time. I will find out everything."
Wen Xiashu curled her lips coldly, "These 800 acres of land are very important to me. I don't care what means you use, you must get it back for me!"
Madam Luo endured the pain on her face and lowered her head to answer, "Yes, Fourth Miss."
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The next morning after signing the contract, Xia Xiaorou asked Song Yanbai to harness the carriage and rush to the back mountain where they borrowed the horse.
Song Yanbai asked in confusion, "Xiao Rou, we have already returned the horses to them. Now the fields are being cultivated normally, why do we still need to look for them?"
"Go borrow some silver." Xia Xiaorou said, "I bought the land and still owed Mr. Qi five thousand taels."
Song Yanbai was even more surprised. "Xiao Rou, five thousand taels, can I borrow it?"
"I have 90% confidence." Xia Xiaorou said, "Let's go, Brother Yanbai."
Song Yanbai knew that Xia Xiaorou was brave, and seeing that she spoke with confidence, he shook the reins and drove the carriage to the back mountain of Jinqiao Township.
Passing through the narrow valley, we arrived at the place where we borrowed a horse last time.
Because this is my second visit.
Those who had seen Xia Xiaorou immediately greeted her, "It's Madam Xia. How come you have time to come to our place today?"
"I'm looking for your Chief Hu. Is he here?" Xia Xiaorou nodded at the man.
"Yes, yes, come with me."
Xia Xiaorou and Song Yanbai followed the man to the residence of the escort leader Hu Kui.
Hu Kui was very happy to see Xia Xiaorou coming, "Madam Xia is here?" He called his son to call Madam Xia, "Call your benefactor quickly."
"It's just a small favor. You don't have to call me benefactor every time. It's the same if you just call me Madam Xia." Xia Xiaorou waved her hand and said with a smile.
But the child was also sensible and shouted, "Mrs. Xia, the benefactor."
It made Xia Xiaorou laugh.
After a few pleasantries, Xia Xiaorou explained her purpose.
Hu Kui pinched his beard and said, "Madam Xia, do you want to borrow five thousand taels to buy land?"
"If you feel confident, lend it to me. If you are not confident, that's okay too. After all, five thousand taels is not a small amount." Xia Xiaorou said.
Hu Kui thought about it and said, "Okay, I'll lend it to you."
Xia Xiaorou looked around again and said, "You don't have any business now. Is it the off-season?"
Hu Kui said, "It's not long after the Chinese New Year. We usually wait until May or June, when the weather gets warmer and the roads in the north are covered with grass and water, before we start escorting."
Xia Xiaorou nodded, "That is to say, for two months, all the thirty or so households here will be idle at home."
"Not really. They would hunt and plant some crops in front of and behind their houses," said Hu Kui.
Xia Xiaorou said, "It seems that your income in the past two months is not much. How about this, I invite you to work on my farm. The wages will be doubled according to short-term work. Borrow 5,000 taels of silver from Hu Biaotou, and pay it back by the end of May."
Head Hu Biao already knew that Xia Xiaorou was the fiancée of the owner of Yanyuan. With such a big farm, there was no need to worry that Xia Xiaorou would not be able to repay the money he borrowed.
He nodded readily, "Okay, I have twenty people here, you can take them with you."
"No problem, Captain Hu." Xia Xiaorou said with a smile.
Song Yanbai was very surprised when he saw Xia Xiaorou negotiating business and talking about prices with others.
In the past, he thought Xia Xiaorou was a weak woman who couldn't support herself, and he wanted his son to support Xia Xiaorou when he grew up. Now it seems that Xia Xiaorou doesn't need anyone to support her at all, she can support herself.
No, she is even capable of supporting a whole family.
Ever since he started working with Xia Xiaorou, his wife Chu Xianyun no longer had to go out to take on work and just cooked and did housework at home.
Because Xia Xiaorou paid them, they no longer had to go out and work hard.
After writing the IOU and taking the silver note of five thousand taels, Hu Kui called over twenty people and wrote a list for Xia Xiaorou. After everyone introduced their names to each other, they followed Xia Xiaorou and left.
Among these twenty people, there were fifteen men and five women, all of whom were young and strong.
Hu Kui chose Sanbao and Sishun from among them, one as the manager and the other as the deputy.
This place is far from Yanyuan, about twenty miles away.
Coming back every day will delay my work time.
Xia Xiaorou planned to find some houses in the village to settle them down.
After taking them back to her residence, Xia Xiaorou handed the matter over to Song Yanbai.
Let Song Yanbai go and find out who has a vacant house.
Song Yanbai drank a sip of tea and went to the village excitedly to look for a house.
When the villagers saw Xia Xiaorou coming back with 20 men and women, they didn't know what she was going to do, so they all asked Song Yanbai curiously, "What is Xiaorou going to do?"
Song Yanbai, as his sworn brother, said proudly, shaking his sleeves, "These are the temporary workers she hired to help her with the work for two months. They are all from Jinqiao Township. Because they live far away, it is inconvenient for them to go home and delay things. Xiaorou asked me to find some empty houses in the village for them to stay."
"Xiao Rou is renting a house, so she has to pay rent, right?"
"What are you saying? Is Xiaorou such a stingy and unreasonable person?" Song Yanbai sneered.
"Of course not. We have watched Xiaorou grow up. She is a sensible child. I am just asking casually, how much does she pay for rent?"
"There are twenty of them, so we need five rooms to accommodate them. They will be paid one thousand coins for two months. If we provide them with meals, our family will pay for the meals, and they will also receive an additional two thousand coins as working fee." Song Yanbai said what Xia Xiaorou had instructed.
After hearing this, the villagers began to think about it. If they could free up a few rooms and help with cooking, they could earn three taels of silver in two months, which was quite cost-effective.
But there are not many families who have empty rooms at home, so everyone can only envy and lament that they cannot earn this much money.
The villagers were talking about it for a while.
The news quickly spread throughout the village and then to other villages.
Zhou Xia, who lived in the next village, was very happy when she heard the news, and instigated her son Zhou Maoxun to go to Xia Xiaorou to get this benefit.
He didn't dare to say another word, turned around and ran away with a gloomy face.