"By the way, you have been setting up stalls here for a while, right? Do you know anyone who is very familiar with this area? We want to inquire about something."
The person who kept replying to Lin Mo was Li Xiaohu, who was responsible for greeting customers at the stall and taking orders. Hearing Lin Mo's words, he was a little overwhelmed. After all, the stall had no customers, and even if he knew someone, he couldn't see anyone.
Just when Li Xiaohu was thinking about how to reply, a middle-aged man pulled an empty cart out not far away. Li Xiaohu immediately greeted him and was relieved when he saw the other person coming.
"Director Lin, that's old Uncle Yang. His family is nearby and he often helps people with work in this area. He is very familiar with this area. He usually has a casual meal with us for lunch. Today I guess it's more
I'm busy now, if you want to know anything you can ask him."
"Okay..." After Li Xiaohu finished speaking, the other party had already come to sit down at the table next to him. Li Xiaohu wanted to go over but Lin Mo grabbed him. He sat down in front of the other party with a bowl and handed him a cigarette.
"What's your last name, uncle? How do you call me?"
"Oh...don't you dare..." Probably because of Lin Mo's well-dressed and good temperament, the old Uncle Yang hurriedly took the cigarette and spoke politely.
"My surname is Yang, you can just call me Lao Yang."
"This is Old Uncle Yang. I wonder if I can bother you for a few minutes? I want to ask you something."
"You ask, what do you want to inquire about?"
"You haven't ordered anything yet! Order first, and let's chat while eating. Please order whatever you want, and don't be polite to me."
"Then I...thank you..." Seeing that Lin Mo was so generous and Li Xiaohu was here, Old Uncle Yang hesitated and agreed, but he didn't order anything casually and ordered the usual leek and egg dumplings.
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"What do you want, leeks and eggs? Uncle, aren't you trying to offend me? I want the most expensive ham stuffing, a big bowl, and duck blood vermicelli. Uncle Yang must be very hungry just now, so I'll eat your braised pork."
Cut it into a portion, pick out the fat and cut it into pieces. Old Uncle Yang, you are doing physical work. How can you bear it without a bit of meat..."
"That's enough, that's enough. Just one dumpling is enough for me..." Before Old Uncle Yang could react, Lin Mo ordered them all, and hurriedly stopped him. After a while of pushing and giving, Lin Mo finally got on board.
The ones I ordered before.
"Uncle Yang, I want to ask you if there is any..."
"You want to ask about the cloth shop nearby, but I don't know..." Lin Mo said what he wanted to ask, and he didn't know whether it was because Uncle Yang was too cautious, or because he was too enthusiastic just now and scared the other party, but now he is a little hesitant.
Tangled.
Lin Mo naturally saw it and explained with a smile: "We are doing some real estate sales recently, which is to help the owners who want to buy real estate shops find suitable properties and earn some introduction fees.
A boss wants to buy a shop and open a cloth shop. We are going to first find a cloth shop or a place where a cloth shop has been opened. The place where a cloth shop has been opened means that the structure and layout of the shop is suitable for opening a cloth shop. Even if it is changed to something else now
It would be appropriate to spend some money to renovate the shop, and we don’t want to find an unsuitable place for the boss.
So I would like to ask you which places have cloth shops nearby, or have opened cloth shops in the past. Of course, there are also silk and satin shops, tailor shops and the like."
"We can't afford to buy it. How can anyone open a silk and satin shop? There are now seven or eight cloth shops of all sizes. I know of a few places that were opened before..."
"Come on, come on... let's talk while eating... introduce these places to me..." Old Uncle Yang told Lin Mo the place, and the food was also served on the table. The two of them talked while eating and asked about the situation of these places.
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Uncle Yang took the bowl of duck blood vermicelli and ate it in small sips. After finishing the dregs, he sipped the soup in small sips. The dumplings and meat were not touched in one bite. Lin Mo guessed that he was reluctant to part with them and wanted to take them home.
"Old Uncle Yang, please eat slowly, let's go over and take a look first..."
Lin Mo saw that he had finished asking questions, so he stood up and said some polite words, then went to the side to pay. Compared with Lao Zhengtou's, this place was much more affordable. He ordered a lot, but it was only about a dime.
Li Xiaohu first didn't want to accept the money, but when he failed, he wanted to change the change, but Lin Mo refused. He gave him two cents and refused to give any change. He just gave a few instructions in a low voice and then left with the three of them.
"Have you asked about the place?" After walking for a while, Zhang Jingmin came over to ask. Lin Mo nodded and pointed not far away.
"There's a cloth shop over there, that should be the place we're looking for."
"The cloth shop? By the way, I just heard that you were asking him about the cloth shop. How did you determine that the target was in the cloth shop?"
Lin Mo heard this and explained: "I thought about it on the way. We didn't ask about the situation. Maybe it's not that they don't know about this place, but maybe we asked the wrong question.
We can't talk about the secret tunnel clearly, and we don't know some of the conditions in that place. We can only ask about the houses that were built or started during that time period. If the other party dug the secret tunnel based on the old house and did a great job.
Hidden, we can’t even tell if we ask this.”
The first half of the secret passage is relatively straight, but the second half, especially the last section, becomes crooked and winding. It is probably because the direction deviated at the beginning or during the excavation process, and it was finally corrected while digging.
It has become like this.
After all, with such a long secret passage, as long as there is a slight deviation in the early stage, the deviation can be greatly magnified in the end. Therefore, Lin Mo and others can only determine a general area of the exit, but cannot lock the specific general direction, and they cannot
If you know what is going on outside the exit, the information you can get from asking is relatively broad and general. Even if others know this place, you won't be able to remember it if you ask them!
"After careful consideration, products such as cloth, silk, satin, and brocade are basically sold in units. The external characteristics of cloth are quite special, and they are highly recognizable compared to other products.
So I was thinking that with the level of caution these people have, in order to hide their eyes from others as much as possible, this secret exit will probably use similar products to try to be as unnoticed as possible, so I narrowed the scope to those who have opened or have opened
Pass by cloth shops, silk and satin shops, tailor shops and other places.
After inquiries, I located a clothing store not far away in the corner of Donggua City. It was within the area we designated, but the location was relatively remote and we had missed it before.
Moreover, the cloth shop has been open for some years. The cloth shop was opened at the same time as the warehouse was built, and the cloth shop changed hands for the first time at about the same time as the warehouse first changed hands. I guess that was it."
Although this cloth shop has changed hands several times, it has always been engaged in cloth trading. It is currently in the hands of a wealthy Pukou businessman. It is considered a small industry in the hands of the other party. It is said that it was given to the son of a concubine.
After a few twists and turns and almost taking a wrong turn, they finally found this cloth store on a side road. The place was quite small, with six standard storefronts in a row on one side of the road.
A facade is the entrance to the courtyard. Yes, there is a courtyard behind the facade. It is a two-entry courtyard with a Japanese layout. Except for the house on the road side, the first floor is a shop and the second floor is the shopkeeper.
The manager and the old master live there, and the other houses are used for rent, and a lot of them have been rented out recently.
There are five storefronts left. Due to business reasons, Buhang has reduced its original five storefronts to two. There are three storefronts left, two of which are shops selling daily necessities and groceries, and one is a store that sells daily necessities and groceries.
Several people entered the cloth shop. Most of the items sold inside were ordinary fabrics like cotton, and even cheap ones like homespun cloth. The better ones were just some printed floral fabrics or ordinary foreign fabrics. There were no customers in the store, and the business was supposed to be
not so good.
"How many of you are here? Why are you here?"
After several people looked at them for a while, a man dressed as a shopkeeper came out. Without even asking what they were buying, he concluded that they were not here to buy anything. I don't know whether it was because of confidence or arrogance, but of course he was right.
"We are in the real estate business, can we ask the boss to come out and have a chat?" Lin Mo asked while passing the cigarette.
"No smoking...the boss is not here...we are not selling the house, let's go, let's go...leave quickly..."
It seemed that he was arrogant. The shopkeeper didn't even give a few people a chance to speak, and just drove them out, making them frown.
"What are you doing? What are you doing?" Several people were escorted to the door. A middle-aged man who was about to come in spoke, and the shopkeeper stopped.
"I'm sorry, you guys... I'm not talking about you, you are a guest, how can you escort a guest?" The middle-aged man first apologized to a few people with fists, and then scolded the shopkeeper in front of several people. Obviously, this person should be this
boss.
The boss scolded the shopkeeper a few words, and after asking about the situation, he clasped his fists at the people and said, "Please forgive me, my shopkeeper is a bit impatient and I bumped into a few of them. I'm here to help him."
However, the business of the store has improved recently, and I have really given up the idea of selling the property. I am really sorry that the trip to the store was in vain."
Lin Mo heard this and said, "As business improves, it's time to sell it. I think we can talk about it again!"
"Hahaha..." The boss couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and said: "Little brother, I know you want to make this deal, but you shouldn't say such ridiculous things. You are completely
You can find someone else to complete the deal."
When Lin Mo heard this, he was not angry, but smiled and replied: "Boss, if I told other people this, it would indeed make people laugh, but for your situation, boss, this is the truth.
Boss, you said that your business has gotten better and you don’t want to sell it. But the reason why your business has gotten better is not because you are the only one in the store. It’s because business has gotten better all over Nanjing. Your store’s location is so bad, and your business has gotten better.
How can it be better? What you get is not even a little bit of soup and water. To put it bluntly, it is just from earning some hard-earned money to earning some playing cards.
As business becomes better and business becomes easier, the most direct result is that house prices have also risen. Not only have they risen in bustling areas, but also the properties in remote corners have become much more expensive. They are not as expensive as before, think about it.
No one took over the sale.
This is just one of your properties, boss, and it is an industry with little prospects. This is a rare opportunity. If you miss this village, you may not have this store.
After selling this property, you can use the money to find a more prosperous place and then buy it. Not to mention eating meat now, you can still drink some soup. Even if the business in the future is not as easy as it is now, it will not be as good as staying here.
Earn hard-earned money, and if you don’t want to go into trouble, you can also use the money to invest in real estate in prosperous areas, isn’t that better than this?”
After listening to this, the boss frowned and thought for a while, then replied: "According to what you said, now is a good time to sell this property, which means that the house price may drop in the future. Then I will buy the house again after I sell it.
Won’t we lose money if the price drops?”
"That's true, but you have to understand it from another perspective. If the price of real estate in a prosperous area drops, then the price of properties in this remote corner will only drop even more.
Moreover, if the price of real estate in a prosperous area drops, some people are willing to buy it, but in this place, not many people are willing to buy it even if the price increases, so the property in a prosperous area is more worth holding on to.
Isn’t it popular to dig for treasures these days? We have several buyers from the suburbs and surrounding towns who have dug up buried treasures in their homes or fields. They cannot afford or dare not buy properties in prosperous areas.
, but they also want to move into the city. A property like yours is large enough and can do small business, which is exactly what they want, so you have the opportunity to make a move."
"If you put it this way, you are not very kind. Since you think the real estate here is not good, why don't you advise customers to buy in a prosperous area? Isn't this a trick on others? It's not thinking that I will make a fortune by selling the house and I will buy the house.
Make another profit from it?”
"The boss is overthinking it. Real estate in the downtown area is very tight right now. We don't have this kind of housing at all, and we can't get involved in this kind of business. The boss has to find someone else.
As for cheating customers, it’s hard to say. First of all, the customers themselves like this kind of real estate. Secondly, most of these customers suddenly got rich. They are at a loss what to do with the sudden large sum of money and don’t know how to plan and use it.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Finally, these people suddenly had a large amount of money in their hands, and a bunch of wild dogs that smelled the smell inevitably surrounded them, trying to get rid of their money, or just cheat some money.
That's fine, but if these bad-intentioned gangsters lead them into prostitution, gambling and smoking, then no amount of money will be enough.
Getting rich in vain may not be a good thing for some people. Some things are better to be done step by step. If you buy a good real estate in a downtown area, you may not be able to keep it. If you buy a not-so-good real estate, at least it will not be easy to resell, you will really lose.
Once you start a business, you have a higher chance of keeping it. If you lose money like this, at least your wealth will not be wasted."
"Hey..." The middle-aged boss said, "I can't find anything to refute what you said. I know why I always heard that some people were cheated by brokers. I have learned a lot today."
, I’m afraid you can talk about life even if it means death, right?”
"Boss is joking." Lin Mo was still cheerful, not at all annoyed by the other party's sarcasm.
"Okay, I'm kidding you! What you said does make sense. If the price is right, I can consider it."
"Okay, okay..." Lin Mo nodded quickly and said, "But we have to check the condition of the property first and make a rough estimate of the price."
"No problem..." The boss agreed decisively, communicated a few words with the previous shopkeeper, and arranged for him to guide them.
Everyone first looked at the shops on the street side and the second floor before continuing to the back. After entering through the building opening, there is the front yard. It is relatively long and the place is not small. The layout of this yard is more appropriately described as "Japanese".
Further forward is the main house. It is probably not far from Qingliang Mountain. When the house was built, the terrain difference was a bit bigger. The foundation of the main house was built higher. There is a gap of more than a person's height from the front yard. It is made of stones. Observe carefully.
After a while, Lin Mo nodded to several people without leaving any trace.