Zhou Erlang also said in a low voice: "No need to go to such trouble, Youli is testifying. Uncle Shi is also a well-known figure in the county and will not lie to us. We will take the deed document to the county government and record it in a while."
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Man Bao was stunned and asked, "Aren't you going to be off from office today?"
"Yes, but your fourth brother knows a clerk. Although he has retired from office, if your fourth brother goes to find him, he should be willing to help with the documentation, so it can be done today."
Man Bao was very surprised, scratched his head and asked, "Are you in such a hurry?"
Zhou Erlang smiled and nodded, "Although we are not in a hurry, we will naturally feel more at ease when we can make a decision, and my parents are still waiting at home."
Shi Xiaoen had been standing aside waiting for them to discuss. Their voices were very soft, but he could hear some fragments of words.
He raised his eyelids and glanced at them, and said to Man Bao: "Your brother is right. It is better to settle down if you can, but my favor is worthless in the city now, and I can't find anyone to help you with the paperwork.
, it is naturally the best if you can find someone."
Man Bao blinked and nodded in agreement.
She had an intuition that there was something here that she didn't know yet, so she decided to ask her brothers afterwards.
So she left, and Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang quickly followed and said, "We still have to buy something for Mr. Yang? That money is not enough."
Man Bao waved his hand generously and said, "It doesn't matter, I have money."
She took out a bunch of money from her cloth bag and said, "Let's go see what's for sale in the market."
"Buy some snacks." Bai Erlang suggested.
Bai Shanbao said: "The snacks made by their cook are more delicious than those outside. If we give him snacks, he won't eat them. What's the use?"
Man Bao nodded and said: "It's a pity that there are no fruits and vegetables in the market now, otherwise it would be good to buy some fruits."
The three children walked to the bookstore while shopping. The three of them subconsciously peeked in, and Manbao immediately saw a penholder with a little monkey carved on it.
Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang also saw it. The three of them rushed up to take a look. They saw three little monkeys of different shapes on a pen holder, either with mouths, tails, or feet connected to the mouth. As soon as the pen was hung up, they
It looks like three monkeys have pens hanging from their mouths, tails and feet.
The three children looked at it in awe, their eyes shining brightly.
When the bookstore shopkeeper saw an acquaintance, he immediately walked out from behind the counter with a smile, and looked at the three children with a smile, "The young master and the young lady came to the city to play again?"
The three of them nodded together, and Man Bao asked: "Uncle shopkeeper, do you still have a pen holder like yours?"
"No more," he said with a smile, "This is the only one. There is no other one in the entire Luojiang County."
The three of them were so sorry that they reached out and touched the pen holder in unison, expressing one meaning at the same time - I want it!
The shopkeeper smiled so hard that his eyes almost narrowed, and asked: "The two young masters and the young lady are really discerning. This deal is very rare. I have been begging for a long time to get it."
When the three of them heard this, they had a bad premonition. Bai Shanbao took back his hand and asked, "How much does this pen holder cost?"
The shopkeeper smiled and stretched out two fingers and said: "Two taels of silver."
Now Manbao reluctantly took back his hand and said, "The wood used is very ordinary."
"It's just because it's only two taels of silver. If the materials are used carefully, the carving will be more than just two taels of silver." The shopkeeper pointed the penholder at the three people, pointed at the auspicious clouds and the lifelike monkeys above and said: "
As for this carving, if the craftsman uses fine rosewood, he can still sell it for twenty taels."
Man Bao stared, how many cows can he buy?
Bai Erlang reluctantly looked back and asked Bai Shanbao and Manbao, "Do you want to buy it?"
Bai Shanbao thought for a while and said: "We have taken care of him for a long time, so it is appropriate to give him an expensive gift."
Man Bao thought the same thing and looked at the shopkeeper first, "Can it be cheaper?"
The shopkeeper looked at them in surprise, "You want to buy together?"
Shouldn't it be a bidding process?
The three of them nodded together and said: "We want to give it away. Uncle shopkeeper, it's cheaper for you. Just sell it to us in half and half. It just so happens that we can distribute it easily, so each person gets half a tael of silver."
The shopkeeper's eyes almost popped out of his head. He glared at Man Bao and said, "How can you bargain like this? I'll give you half the price at a time. No, no, no, two liang... I'll give you at least one liang or nine hundred."
Bai Shanbao: "One to two to six hundred dollars."
"Just one, two, nine hundred dollars."
Bai Erlang said: "Then add one hundred more coins, one to two to seven hundred coins?"
Bai Shanbao and Manbao wanted to step on his feet, but there was no barrier between them and the shopkeeper, so they couldn't step on him quietly.
The shopkeeper said with a smile: "One, two, nine hundred dollars."
After being nudged by the three of them, the shopkeeper finally gave in and gave them one to two to eight hundred dollars.
The three of them started to collect money.
While wrapping gifts for them, the shopkeeper asked, "Who are you giving this to? You are really generous."
Luojiang County is very small. Things worth more than one tael are considered big if they cost more than 500 yuan.
The three children pooled their money together to buy such an expensive gift. Even the well-informed shopkeeper was a little surprised.
Bai Shanbao said: "It's for the county magistrate."
The shopkeeper couldn't help but squint his eyes and look at the three children and nodded repeatedly, "There is a future, there is a future."
At a young age, I learned that giving gifts makes a difference.
The three people didn't know what the shopkeeper was thinking. After taking the gifts, they went back to find Zhou Dalang and the others. They felt that such expensive gifts could not be given away in vain, so they decided to go ahead of time so that they could prepare their lunch in the kitchen of Mr. Yang's house.
Zhou Dalang and the others had already waited until Li Zheng, signed the deed document under his witness, took out the 120 taels of silver used to purchase the shop and handed it over to Shi Xiaoen in front of Li Zheng.
Li was watching them finish handing over, took the red envelopes given by Shi Xiaoen and Zhou Dalang, and left with his hands behind his back. Before leaving, he looked at Shi Xiaoen shaking his head and sighing, but said nothing.
When Man Bao and the others came back, Shi Xiaoen had also left, and Zhou Dalang and the others were cleaning the shop up and down.
Man Bao ran in and asked, "Has the document been signed? Where is it? Let me take a look."
Xiao Qian smiled and said: "I have given it to your second brother and fourth brother to take to the county government for recording. What did you buy for the county magistrate?"
Man Bao coughed lightly and said, "We pooled our money to buy him a pen holder."
"Did you just buy a pen holder? You should also buy some snacks and the like to take with you," Xiao Qian said, "It's not rude to be a guest at someone's home."
In Xiao Qian's opinion, pen holders are very cheap things. The pen holders used by their children were all made by Zhou Erlang from bamboo. They are very simple.
Man Bao didn't dare to tell them how much the pen holder cost. She looked around and everyone thought she was in the way, so she walked out and said, "Then I'm leaving."
"Let's go, let's go," even Xiao Qian waved, "but don't play too late, we'll be back at the latest at the end of the day."
She felt relieved knowing that Daji was always following her three children.