As the first thing he did after taking refuge with Su Hao, Chen Guanyu was naturally very attentive. He asked Su Hao and Lu Xiuer to find a teahouse to drink tea first, while he ran off to find out who had a suitable house for rent.
In less than half an hour, Chen Guanyu came back happily and said to Su Hao: "Young Master Su is really a blessed man. I hope God will help you. I just asked someone about who has a house for rent, and I heard that
A Huizhou businessman who has been doing business in Fengcheng for several years plans to return home to retire. He wants to sell or rent out his house. His house is next to the south gate, facing Dongge Lake. The scenery is very good, which is suitable for the young master.
Such an elegant man. I just went to see that house. It has three rooms with two entrances and a garden of half an acre in the back. Are you interested, sir?"
"It sounds pretty good." Su Hao smiled and said, "Come on, Lao Chen, thank you for your hard work. Let's sit down and have a sip of tea. Let's talk about the price of this house."
Chen Guanyu was very impressed by Su Hao's leadership style. He nodded his thanks, took a sip of tea, and then said: "He wants to sell this house for 500 taels. If he rents it, it will be 10 taels a year. I'm talking to him
He talked for a long time, and he agreed to pay 20% of the price. If he bought it, it would be 400 taels, and if he rented it, it would be 8 taels a year."
"400 taels?" Su Hao was a little excited for a moment. As a time traveler, he was also full of desire to buy a house. In the words of later generations, can a rented house be considered a home? 400 taels of silver is very important to today's people.
For him, it is undoubtedly an astronomical figure, but he just met the magistrate and received a reward of 20 taels of silver. If he fully displays his ability in the future, it should not be too difficult to earn 400 taels of silver.
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However, there is also a disadvantage of Ming Dynasty, that is, it is not possible to get a mortgage for such an expensive house. Since Su Hao cannot afford so much cash, he can only consider renting a house.
"Old Chen, the price of 400 taels is not expensive. However, I don't have much money on hand right now, so I can only consider renting it first. The rent of 8 taels a year is a one-time payment or a monthly payment.
What?" Su Hao asked.
Chen Guanyu said: "I discussed this with the landlord, and he said he would have to pay at least half a year. He plans to go home for retirement, and has several nephews doing business in several surrounding counties. They can come over to collect rent.
money."
Su Hao nodded. It seemed that Chen Guanyu was indeed quite competent in handling this kind of thing. He was able to find a house, negotiate the price with the landlord, and even considered issues such as payment methods.
I will observe and observe in the future. If this person's character is reliable, it would be quite good to keep him on hand as a housekeeper.
"Let's go, Xiu'er, let's take a look at our new home." Su Hao stood up, threw a few coins on the table as tea money, then took Lu Xiu'er and followed Chen Guanyu towards the south gate.
Fengcheng County is not too big, and it took the three of them about five or six minutes to reach the house that Chen Guanyu was talking about.
This is a typical Jiangnan folk house. The house has two floors. It has a brick and wood structure, the walls are painted white, the windows are carved lattice, and the eaves are high. It looks quite spectacular. Su Hao fell in love with this house at a glance.
The landlord was a wealthy old man from Anhui, wearing a royal blue silk shirt and trousers, and a Xiaoyao scarf on his head. When he saw Su Hao, he cupped his hands and gave a gift and said: "But this young man wants to rent an old man's house?
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Before Su Hao could say anything, Chen Guanyu stepped forward and said, "Old Huang, this is Mr. Su I told you. The county magistrate has hired him as a workshop master. He is also a man with official status."
"Oh, I'm here to pay my respects to you, the official." The old man Huang pretended to show his respects. Su Hao quickly stopped him. As a master, he really wasn't much of an official. To ask a half-grown old man to pay homage to him, he
It's really a bit uncomfortable.
"Old Huang, you're too polite. The students are just temporarily helping the magistrate. How dare you call yourself an official?" Su Hao said.
After everyone was polite and polite, Old Man Huang led Su Hao and others into the house to see the house. As Chen Guanyu said, this house has a layout of three rooms and two entrances.
The middle room is the main room, with bedrooms on both sides; the open room at the back is the living room, with bedrooms on both sides. Between the front and back rooms, there is a patio. The wooden stairs leading upstairs are cleverly arranged next to the corridor, but no one goes upstairs.
When we went to see it, Old Man Huang introduced that there were five rooms upstairs that could be arranged for the female family members to live in.
Walking back from the living room and bypassing a screen wall, there is a garden of half an acre. There is a small pool in the garden, with rockeries on the shore, and flowers, plants and trees planted everywhere. In this midsummer season, the flowers are in full bloom.
It's very bright and has a sweet fragrance of comb flower, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.
There is a small gate on the wall of the garden. When you walk out, you will reach the lake. The scenery is also very good.
"How is it?" After reading everything, Su Hao asked Lu Xiuer.
Lu Xiuer put her mouth to Su Hao's ear and whispered: "This house is really nice... but it's too expensive."
"Haha, 8 taels of silver a year is really not expensive." Su Hao also whispered to Lu Xiuer. He didn't know much about the general situation of renting a house in the city, but speaking from the experience of future generations, renting a house for 5 or 6 taels is not expensive.
The rent for a house of 100 square meters with a private garden is seven to eight thousand yuan a year, which is really cheap.
"How is it, Mr. Su, are you satisfied with this house?" Chen Guanyu asked with a smile.
Su Hao nodded: "Yes, Lao Chen, thank you very much."
"As long as Master Su is satisfied." Chen Guanyu said happily.
The next step is to go through various formalities. Both parties write down the rental agreement, sign each other's signatures, and ask someone from the dental shop to act as a guarantee. Chen Guanyu is familiar with these things, so Su Hao doesn't have to worry about them. Old Man Huang accepted Su
After Hao paid 4 taels of silver, he handed over the keys and other things to Su Hao, and the house was used by Su Hao from then on.
Old Man Huang also has other residences in Fengcheng. Because this house is to be rented out, the daily necessities in the house have been moved away, leaving only some bare furniture. After Old Man Huang left, Chen Guanyu started to arrange for it.
He went to help Su Hao buy daily necessities, but Su Hao politely declined. He planned to let Lu Xiuer handle these things.
"This house really belongs to us? That's great!"
After sending Chen Guanyu away, Lu Xiuer could no longer suppress her inner joy and began to inspect the house room by room. She couldn't see enough, and she insisted on dragging Su Hao along, so Su Hao had to accompany her.
She walked up and down the stairs seven or eight times, and only gave up when both of them were out of breath from exhaustion.
"I said Xiu'er, can you go boil some water to drink first?" Su Hao was sitting on the master's chair in the main room, giving orders to Lu Xiu'er like a master.
"How can we cook it without a pot?" Lu Xiuer replied.
"Buy it." Su Hao took out the remaining four taels of silver and some copper coins in change, put them on the table, and said, "From now on, you will be responsible for taking care of this family. These money
At least we have to take care of our lives for two months."
"I don't care about money." Lu Xiuer clasped her hands behind her back and shook her head like a rattle, "Brother, when are we going to ask mom to come over?"
Su Hao said: "It will take two months anyway, and we will wait until things stabilize here. The fields at home will have to be harvested for at least this season before they can be leased out. I guess it will take some time before my mother comes to live in the city.
Tomorrow I will ask someone to bring her a message back, and if she wants to come, she can come at any time."
"Can mom grow so many fields at home alone?" Lu Xiuer said, "How about I go back too, and you can just stay here alone."
Su Hao said: "The fields at home must be cultivated by others. Xiaohu and I have already agreed to let him help find some part-time workers. Mom will just be responsible for keeping an eye on the part-time workers at home. You won't be tired. As for you, during this period
You have to help me here, at least, someone at home has to cook for me, right?"
"Hmm..." Lu Xiuer thought for a while, and it seemed that this was indeed the case. Su Hao couldn't live in such a big house alone.
After the discussion, the brother and sister went out to purchase various daily necessities, including straw mats, quilts, pots and pans, cups for drinking water, brooms for sweeping the floor, in addition, firewood, rice, oil, salt, etc. According to Lu Xiuer
He thought that some of the things he had at home could be shipped to Su Xiaohu another day. But Su Hao felt that it was time to replace the things that didn’t cost much anyway. The bedding and the like at home were useless.
How many years ago, now that we are building a new home, of course we have to replace it as well.
The two wandered around the street all afternoon, and finally hired a cart to take the things they bought home. Su Hao settled the accounts and spent more than one or two silver dollars. Looking at the rapidly deflating money bag, Su Hao sighed.
: Money will be scarce when it is used. It seems that I really have to find a way to get money.