They said they agreed to Lin Mai, but the four brothers worked hard and finally negotiated the price to 260,000.
Lin Mai bought the courtyard house that afternoon.
The four brothers had renovated the house from the inside out to make it easier to sell. It looked like a new house at first glance.
Lin Mai only needed to build two bathrooms and bathrooms, install telephones, and buy furniture.
This kind of courtyard house built in the Qing Dynasty deserves to be matched with classical Chinese furniture. Lin Mai went to the flea market to buy a lot of mahogany classical furniture.
Although the furniture alone cost about 10,000 yuan, Lin Mai felt it was well worth it.
Putting aside the fact that these pieces of furniture are from the Ming and Qing dynasties, they already have collection value.
As long as the wood is mahogany, it will be very valuable in a few decades.
What made Lin Mai most ecstatic was that she found a bed made of golden nanmu at the second-hand furniture market.
In addition to shopping for furniture at second-hand furniture markets, Lin Mai also bought various calligraphy, paintings, porcelain and antiques to decorate his house.
Although the policy has changed, the capitalists are no longer held captive, and the confiscated properties, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc., have been returned to the original owners.
However, many people still have lingering fears. After receiving the returned porcelain, calligraphy, paintings and antiques, they can’t wait to sell them at the flea market.
I want to exchange it for money, but I don’t want to keep these things to cause trouble for myself.
Therefore, there are many antique calligraphy and paintings for sale on the market, and the prices are relatively cheap.
Lin Mai didn't know much about porcelain, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, so he bought them as long as they looked good.
The porcelain, antiques, calligraphy and paintings on the second-hand goods are basically sold at a ridiculous price. No one will go to all the trouble to make fakes and sell them because it is not cost-effective.
Lin Mai is not worried about buying fake products.
But even if he bought a fake, it didn't matter to Lin Mai.
Because those fakes were also fakes from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and they will be just as valuable decades later.
Counterfeit goods are also divided into three, six or nine grades.
After the purchased courtyard is fully furnished and the two bathrooms are built and decorated, you can move in with your bags.
Lin Mai moved from the hotel to the three-in-one courtyard house.
That night, she invited Grandpa Bai, Grandma Bai, Dad Bai and the others, as well as her grandparents, to her house for dinner.
Although Mama Bai was not nice to Lin Mai, her grandparents were kind to her.
So Lin Mai moved to his new home and invited them to have a meal and get to know each other so that they could move around easily in the future.
As for Bai Mama and Bai Shuang, Lin Mai would naturally not invite them.
Just after 5:30 in the afternoon, Grandpa Bai and the others came together.
The eldest sister Bai Yan not only brought Tiantian, but also her man.
This was the first time Lin Mai met his brother-in-law.
The brother-in-law looks quite upright and honest. He takes care of the children by himself and lets Bai Yan chat happily with her younger siblings.
Grandpa Bai and the others were shocked when they saw Lin Mai buying such a large courtyard house.
They thought that Fang Zhuoran bought this courtyard house with money, and they all praised Fang Zhuoran for being kind to Lin Mai.
Lin Mai didn't explain either, leaving them to misunderstand.
She made a large table of delicious food to entertain Father Bai and the others.
I have specially made several dishes such as pearl meatballs, fish cakes, meat cakes, and steamed pork that are suitable for the elderly.
The elderly people all ate happily and praised Lin Mai for his good cooking skills.
After dinner, everyone was reluctant to leave immediately. The old people happily strolled around the courtyard.
The eldest sister and her husband were beating dates in the courtyard with a long bamboo pole, and were going back to make date paste for Tiantian to eat.
Tiantian was happily babbling and screaming while sitting in the walker.
From time to time, the old people pointed out the scenery in the yard and made some remarks, saying that they would plant a wintersweet here and put two pots of peonies there.
The elders walked slowly in front, followed by brother and sister Lin Mai and Bai Xia.
Lin Mai whispered to Bai Lu and his sister, had there been any movement at Bai Shuang?
The two brothers and sisters all shook their heads: "Not yet~"
Lin Mai wondered: "Why hasn't there been any movement for so long?"
Bai Xia explained: "The main reason is that there is a nanny at home on weekdays, and we are all at home on weekends, so Bai Shuang has no chance."
Bai Lu patted Lin Mai on the shoulder: "Don't worry, dad has already spread the word that next Sunday, our family will go to Xiangshan to enjoy the red leaves.
The nanny doesn't have to go to work, which creates the conditions for Bai Shuang and her parents to break into the house and steal."
Lin Mai asked: "Why don't you go to Xiangshan to enjoy the red leaves this Sunday? Do you have to wait until next weekend?"
She wanted to make a quick decision and drive Bai Shuang out of the Bai family as soon as possible.
Bai Lu said: "I have plans this Sunday. Dad will give you a banquet to celebrate your admission to Tsinghua University. He will also introduce you to all your relatives and friends. There is no way to arrange a trip."
Lin Mai smiled: "He hasn't mentioned this to me yet."
"Dad will definitely mention it to you later," Bai Lu said.
Sure enough, before leaving, Bai's father told Lin Mai that he would hold a banquet for her this week.
He took out a gold necklace and two hundred dollars from his pocket and handed it to Lin Mai:
"This gold necklace was bought for Lin Bei, who was pretending to be you. In fact, it belongs to you. Now it has returned to its original owner.
You can use these two hundred yuan to buy a beautiful dress to wear at the banquet."
Lin Mai only accepted the gold necklace, but she didn't want the two hundred yuan. She had plenty of beautiful clothes.
Although I only brought seven or eight dresses this time, they were enough for the banquet.
Dad Bai forced the two hundred yuan to her: "You can take it if Dad gives it to you.
Your clothes belong to you, it’s dad’s wish to use money to buy you clothes.”
Lin Mai saw that he spoke sincerely, and that her sister and brother also persuaded her to accept the money, so Lin Mai generously accepted the two hundred yuan.
Bai Lu took her hand and said excitedly that she wanted to accompany her to the mall to buy clothes at noon tomorrow.
I have to buy these clothes tomorrow. The day after tomorrow is Sunday. I have a banquet and I don’t have time to buy it.
Bai Xia volunteered to follow them as a free coolie, carrying things for them.
Although Lin Mai and Bai Lu didn't need coolies, they still agreed with a smile.
After sending Father Bai and others away, Lin Mai wrote a letter to Fang Zhuoran.
Tell him that she bought a three-bedroom courtyard house in the capital, and ask him to tell Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang to let the two elderly people come to the capital to play when they are free.
The next morning, Lin Mai got up and steamed several baskets of meat buns. He ate two himself and gave the extra to his grandparents.
The grandparents were very moved and asked her not to work so hard in the future and to make steamed buns and deliver them to her early in the morning.
Lin Mai just wanted them to taste whether her steamed buns were delicious, and had no intention of delivering steamed buns every day.
Several elderly people praised her steamed buns for being delicious.
Lin Mai thought to himself, these four old men were praising how delicious these steamed buns were even before adding the secret shrimp paste.
If shrimp paste is added, they are still not allowed to swallow it with their tongues?
Since the four old people all praised the delicious food, Lin Mai planned to buy a store near the school and sell steamed buns and dumplings.
When her steamed buns and dumplings were accepted by students from Tsinghua University and Beijing University and nearby residents, she opened a Bao Delicious chain store in Beijing.
She was so cautious because she knew there were two time-honored steamed bun shops in the capital.
Although these two time-honored steamed bun restaurants are not well-known nationwide, they are particularly famous locally.
In previous lives, many bun shop chain stores failed in front of these two time-honored bun shops.
I don’t know why, but the local people are attracted by the steamed buns from those two steamed bun shops. They are so expensive and eaten by a lot of people.
Moreover, many consumers feel superior to others after eating the buns from these two bun shops.
Since Lin Mai wanted to open a delicious Bao Bao chain store in the capital, he first had to test whether his Baozi was acclimated to the local environment in the capital.
In order to facilitate management, she thought of opening a steamed stuffed bun shop near Tsingta University.
Lin Mai went to look for a suitable store near Tsingta University.
People these days are not as business-conscious as they would be a few decades ago, and it is not difficult to find a storefront.
Lin Mai walked around and took a fancy to several facades.
But no one is willing to sell it, only rent it.
Leasing is not impossible, but Lin Mai requires that the contract be signed every four years, so the landlord cannot increase the price midway.
The price of renting a storefront keeps rising, which is very annoying.
After Lin Mai negotiated, only one landlord was willing to sign a four-year contract, and the others were not willing.
However, the rent offered by that landlord was more expensive than that offered by several other landlords.
This landlord has his own plan. He raises the rent once, and even if the price does not increase in the future, he will not lose money.
But Lin Mai knew that if he raised the rent now, he would still lose money in the future.
Because the further back you go, the more people realize how profitable it is to be self-employed.
The facade will become more and more popular, and the tide will naturally lift all boats, and the rent will double.
Although the landlord set a high rent, Lin Mai would bargain down the rent to only three yuan higher than the same period.
Although the landlord was not 100% satisfied, it was within his acceptable range, so the two parties signed a contract.
Running a bun business cannot be done by Lin Mai alone.
Lin Mai planned to hire a master chef to make steamed buns and a waiter to sell steamed buns, so he wrote a recruitment notice and posted it at the door of the store.
After finishing all this, she went to Qingdao University to inquire quietly, and learned that just yesterday afternoon, Wan Hui pretended to be a student at Qingdao University in her place.
Lin Mai's lips curled up slightly, and he could close the net.