They did not go to the dining room to eat, but went to Bai Erlang's study to make tea and wait for the meal, while quarreling.
When Bai Erlang's cousin Chen Bo came over, Bai Erlang was turning his head to one side and sulking.
As soon as Chen Bo entered the room, he saw a girl sitting at the table. When he was hesitating whether to leave, Bai Erlang had already softened his face and stood up, saluting: "Cousin, why are you here?"
He turned around and said to Bai Shanzhou: "This is my cousin, Chen Bo, cousin, this is..."
He paused and said a little aggrievedly: "These are my senior sister and senior brother."
Chen Bo suddenly realized, he said, why is there a girl in his cousin's study, the three of them had greeted each other, and Chen Bo also sat down at the table.
Seeing that Bai Erlang's face seemed a little ugly, he smiled and asked, "What's wrong, cousin?"
Bai Erlang shook his head, "It's okay."
He touched his stomach and said, "I just haven't had lunch yet, so I'm a little hungry."
Bai Shan and Man Bao were also hungry, so they had already poured themselves two cups of tea. He picked up the teapot and poured Bai Erlang a cup, and then poured tea for Chen Bo. He said with a smile: "I came back late yesterday, no.
I knew that Cousin Chen was here as a guest, so I didn't pay him a visit, which was really rude."
Not to mention that Bai Shan and Bai Erlang are brothers, they are from the same clan, so they can talk about this relative together. Chen Bo quickly smiled and said: "Where, where, we should go over to pay a visit."
He paused for a moment before saying with a smile: "By the way, my mother had already taken my sister to visit the old lady in the morning. You guys..."
Bai Shan could only apologize and say that they were not at home in the morning, but went to see Zhuangzi.
Chen Bo then smiled and said: "I heard from my cousin a long time ago that the three of you have a small farm with only a hundred acres of land, but the annual income is quite a lot. At most, it even exceeds a thousand taels. One mu of land is ten
The profit of two silver coins, if I had not always known that my cousin was honest, I would not have believed it."
Bai Shan and Man Bao:......
The two of them looked at Bai Erlang with suspicion in their eyes. Is he honest?
Bai Erlang raised his chin slightly, glanced at them and then straightened his chest.
Bai Shan could only nod in agreement, then praised Bai Erlang a few words, and then changed the subject, "We heard from junior brother that cousin Chen wants to do business?"
Chen Bo didn't expect that Bai Erlang and Bai Erlang would know what he just said last night. He nodded and sighed: "I'm not like cousin Shan and second cousin. You can read. In the future, we will
I want to be a high-ranking official, but I just want to be a country squire in the future, buy more land, run a few shops like my uncle, and live a good life."
This was once Bai Erlang's ideal.
"But we have a large family, and our parents haven't even separated their families, let alone our generation."
Bai Erlang explained in a low voice on the side, "My three uncles, they all still lived with my maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother."
Bai Shan and Man Bao expressed their understanding.
"So the money in this family is hard to move. I want to start a business but I don't have the capital, so I want to borrow some from my cousin." Chen Bo looked at Bai Shan and Man Bao with bright eyes and said pointedly.
: "I heard that cousin Shan, Miss Zhou and my second cousin share the profits from Zhuangzi equally, so they must have a lot of money in their hands, right?"
He smiled and said: "If you have extra money, you can join my second cousin and join my business. If you make money in the future, just like you share the profits of the bank, we can also share the profits of the shop."
Bai Erlang said directly: "They have no money."
Chen Bo looked a little suspicious, so Bai Erlang said: "All their money was spent in the capital, and Bai Shan still owes me money."
Bai Shan smiled sheepishly and explained: "We spend a lot of money, so we can't save money. Even if we want to invest, we can't."
He paused and then asked, "I wonder what business cousin Chen wants to do?"
When Chen Bo heard that Bai Shan still owed Bai Erlang money, he believed it and said with a smile: "I want to do business in the cloth shop."
He said: "This business is nothing more than food, clothing and housing. The food is dirty and tiring, the housing requires a lot of money, and the work is hard work. After all calculations, this is the best thing to do.
It’s decent, easy, and doesn’t cost much.”
He pointed at the clothes on the three of them and said: "Look at the clothes you are wearing. Fine cotton, good ones, silk clothes, brocade and silk. These different fabrics have different uses. No one can avoid wearing them."
no?"
The three of them thought for a while, felt that what he said made sense, and nodded.
"We have Sichuan brocade here, and both the capital and the south of the Yangtze River like it, but the fine cotton from the south of the Yangtze River, the silk and satin from the Central Plains, and the leather goods from the north are all good things. In short, this clothing business will never lose money."
Man Bao asked, "Are you going to be a businessman or open your own shop?"
"It's too tiring to do business, and the road is too dangerous. What if you encounter bandits?" Chen Bo said: "The risk is too high, so it is better to open a shop. Although the income is lower, it is better than stability."
Bai Shan and Man Bao nodded together, thinking he was quite reliable, so they asked with a smile, "Where do you want to open the store?"
"It's better to open it in Mianzhou, where there are more wealthy people, than to open it in the county."
The Chen family is from Shenquan County, Mianzhou. Shenquan County is not close to Mianzhou City, but it is a central county with a better economy than Luojiang County.
Because they were afraid that Bai Erlang would be cheated, Bai Shan and Man Bao asked Chen Bo about opening a store and wanted to ask more details.
Chen Bo said that he had already spotted a shop in Mianzhou, which is in the most prosperous place. He said: "I mean to buy it. Otherwise, if the business does well in this rented shop, the landlord will raise the price or something."
Business."
Bai Shan asked: "How much does that shop cost?"
"Not expensive, eight hundred and fifty taels."
Manbao almost spit out his tea. For 850 taels, he could buy a shop in a decent area of Yizhou City.
Bai Erlang was also stunned. Last night they only had time to talk about the money they wanted to borrow and the business they wanted to do, but they didn't talk about the price of the shop.
This is...too expensive...
Bai Erlang couldn't help but look at Man Bao. He was about to ask how much her shop cost when he heard Bai Shan ask: "The shop is so expensive, so how much do you charge for purchasing?"
"It's not expensive. I've done the math. We'll be fine if we buy about 200 taels at the beginning."
Bai Shan and Man Bao looked at each other and asked with a smile, "I wonder how much money Cousin Chen has on hand, and how much is still missing?"
Chen Bo smiled and said: "I already have part of it, which is part of the money I saved myself. My mother also gave me part, but there is still a little bit left, so I wanted to find my second cousin to join us in a partnership."
Bai Shan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard what he said. He felt that he had probably been tricked by the shop seller. He was about to persuade him when he heard Bai Erlang say: "But cousin, didn't you say last night that it was still eight hundred dollars short?"
Two, you want to borrow eight hundred taels from me."