Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 422 Returning to the capital
On a drizzled morning, a passenger ship of [-] shi sailed into the capital. After two and a half years, Fan Ning returned to the capital again.

The capital is almost the same as it was two years ago. Even the tax collectors next to the water gate are still the same. The first shop in the water gate is called Zhangjiaoer noodle restaurant. Roaring, "Man, I have yelled three times, are you deaf? Have three more bowls of broth noodles!"

A woman's yelling like killing a chicken still lingered in Fanning's ears like it did two years ago.

Everything is so familiar, as if he just left the capital yesterday.

Fan Ning's boat docked slowly at the Bianhe Wharf in the north of Daxiangguo Temple. Fan Ning got off the boat, thanked the boatman, and walked to the Kistler Pavilion with two servants and tea boy Xiaowen who were carrying the salute.

Compared with three years ago, the façade of the Qishi Pavilion has expanded again. The bookstore next door was bought by Fan Tiege last year, making the façade of the Qishi Pavilion expanded to three, connected as one, but independent of each other. In the middle is Dongshi Pavilion, It specializes in selling Tianhuang stone and Shoushan frozen stone. On the left is the Taihu Stone Museum, which specializes in Taihu stone and Lingbi stone. On the right is the newly opened shop called Jade Museum, which sells Hetian jade, Nanyang jade, crystals and gemstones.

In the middle is a huge Huanlou, which makes the store look extraordinarily magnificent. It can be seen at the southernmost intersection. Fan Tiege has managed very well. It took ten years to develop the store into the largest and most famous strange stone museum in the capital.

Fan Ning walked into the shop, there were five or six customers in the shop, and the clerks were introducing all kinds of high-quality strange stones to the customers, a clerk knew Fan Ning, and hurriedly shouted upstairs: "The shopkeeper, the official is back! "

There was a sound of thud upstairs, and Fan Tiege, who looked like a big wax gourd, appeared at the stairs. He asked in surprise, "A-Ning, when did you come back?"

"Just got off the ship, and the luggage hasn't been put yet!"

"Come up and sit down, put your luggage in the backyard."

Fan Tiege asked a clerk to take the luggage to the backyard and waved to Fan Ning. Fan Ning went up to the second floor. There were no guests on the second floor. Fan Tiege was arranging some top-quality Tianhuang stones.

Since Fan Tiege had just returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors at the beginning of the year, and it had only been two or three months since he broke up with Fan Ning, he didn't feel the excitement he hadn't seen for many years. While he was busy, he asked casually, "Did you come back alone?"

"I'll be back first, my mother and Zhu Pei will come by boat later."

Fan Ning picked up a goose-egg-sized frozen stone Tianhuang. It is golden and delicate, like solidified honey. It is very popular. Since the imperial court began to reserve [-]% of the Tianhuang stone in private mines three years ago, the number of high-quality stones in their hands increased greatly. , the store began to change its sales strategy and began to sell top grade and top grade Tianhuang.

"What's the price of Dongshi Tianhuang now?" Fan Ning asked with a smile.

"The piece in your hand is priced at 3000 taels of silver, and it has already been reserved." Fan Tiege glanced at Tian Huangdao in his hand.

"What about ordinary Tian Huang?"

"The price of ordinary Tianhuang remains the same, one tael of Tianhuang is ten taels of silver, the top-grade Tianhuang is one tael of Tianhuang ten taels of gold, and the price of the top-grade Tianhuang like yours is one price per stone. We will discuss it in detail."

Fan Tiege put the last few pieces of Tianhuang on the antique shelf, clapped his hands and said with a smile, "Sit down and have a cup of tea!"

A clerk brought tea. Fan Ning picked up the teacup and walked to the rear window. The large yard at the back was also bought by Qishiguan. He found that the yard seemed to have expanded again.

"Second uncle bought land again?"

"Last year, another three families sold their houses. We have now expanded to ten acres. I plan to build a bluestone warehouse here and start construction in a few days."

"Then it will cost at least [-] to [-] yuan!"

"You are so naive!"

Fan Tiege sneered at Fan Ning's ignorance, "You think this is a mansion of a wealthy family along the street, and there are many dilapidated houses in the inner city. If they can sell for tens of thousands, wouldn't everyone get rich? Let me tell you, The land at the back is not as expensive as a shop in the front, the key is whether the land is expensive or not, the key is that it is along the street, not along the street, and not in a block, that is the corner price, at most [-] yuan per mu of land."

Fan Ning felt a little bad. The small courtyard he bought for Ouyang Qian seemed to be really tricked. No wonder Zhu Pei kept laughing at him for buying it too expensive. That damn toothman must have colluded with the seller.

Fan Ning secretly hated, but Fan Tiege understood his thoughts, and said with a smile: "If you think the yard in your alley is too expensive, I will teach you a way. You can also buy the land along the street outside and make it into five acres. , to build a five-acre house, after ten or twenty years, the price will be really expensive. Now the safest investment is to buy a house, especially a house with more than five acres. After 20 years, it will be at least ten times profit."

Fan Ning secretly admired his second uncle's vision. Decades later, housing prices in Tokyo will be frighteningly expensive. A ten-acre house in the outer city will cost at least 30 yuan, and the inner city will be even more expensive. But there are still a lot of people who are willing to pay for it. This is the charm of the capital. The richest people in the world are willing to buy a property on the edge of the power center.

Fan Tiege smiled slyly again: "I guess you don't have time either, why don't I help you solve it!"

Fan Ning was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed and saluted, "Thank you, Second Uncle!"

Fan Tiege waved his hand, "It's such a trivial matter, it's easy to do! What should I thank, but there is a headache, you have to come forward and solve it."

"What's the matter?" Fanning asked after taking a sip of tea.

The smile on Fan Tiege's face disappeared, and gradually became gloomy and terrifying. After a while, he said in a low voice: "I have opened a shop here for more than ten years, and there are many bastards who come to make trouble, but they are all small troubles.

Half a month ago, a few scoundrels came and wanted to spend [-] guan to buy our shop. I was so mad that I immediately asked my buddy to report the case to the county government. Li Dutou quickly brought a dozen archers. , When he saw those rascals, he nodded and bowed in fright, turned around and left, and left a word to me before leaving, saying that this is someone I can't afford to offend. "

Fan Ning was a little interested, who on earth even dared to think about Zhu's shop, "Do they know the backstage of the Qishi Pavilion?" Fan Ning asked.

"Of course I know. The third old man often comes here. Everyone in this street knows that the Qishi Museum has the background of the Zhu family, but they don't care. They give me a month to clear the warehouse and sell the goods."

Fan Ning suddenly understood that it was not the stone that he was looking at, but the shops here. There are three shops, one of which is exactly [-] guan, which is very good.

"Now I'm very interested in knowing the details of these scoundrels, third uncle should have found out!"

"How could I not have found out that the leading bastard is called Song Yansi, the youngest son of Xiangguo Song Xiang, the other is his nephew Song Zhizhu, and the third is the son of Zhang Qu, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, named Zhang Hao. I am a well-known yamen in the capital, even more rascals than rascals, they fancy the three fronts of my shop and the large piece of land behind it, and want to snatch it to open a big restaurant."

It turned out to be Song Xiang's nephew, Fan Ning sneered, and he really did not change after repeated admonitions. In history, Song Xiang had frequent accidents because of lax family education. He bullied the market and was demoted again.

Song Xiang managed to make a comeback with the help of Zhang Yaozuo. After several years of being the Prime Minister of Ping An, his nephew started to commit bad habits again, and this time he actually got it on his own head.

However, it is not the first time for Fan Ning to be a Jinshi of the new department when he became the inspector of the Taixue. After years of training and the setback of his father's bereavement, his mind has matured. Why did my nephew just fall in love with the Kistler Museum?
Maybe the other party came to provoke deliberately because they knew the background of the Qishi Pavilion.

"A'Ning, do you feel the situation is wrong?" Fan Tiege asked worriedly.

Fan Ning nodded, "I feel like they are deliberately provoking!"

"Ah! How could this happen?" Fan Tiege was stunned for a moment.

Fan Ning had an idea in his mind, and he asked, "Second Uncle, how is this store registered with the government? I mean the proprietor."

Fan Tiege blushed, and said, "Didn't you force me to put it under your own name?"

Fan Ning quickly waved his hands and laughed, "That's not what I mean, I mean how did you and Mr. Zhu get divided?"

"The government's record is [-]% for me, [-]% for Mr. Zhu, and [-]% for us."

Of course, this is just a filing for the government, and the real shareholding structure of this store is [-]% for Fan Ning, [-]% for Zhu Pei, [-]% for Fan Tiege, and [-]% for Zhao Zongshi.

But Fan Ning was afraid that it would affect her, so she refused to put the identity on herself, but handed it all over to the second uncle to go to the government for record. After Zhu Pei and Fan Ning got married, her identity was also hung on the third grandfather Zhu Yuanfeng, making the store Continue to retain the background of the Zhu family, as for Zhao Zongshi, because of his special status, he also hangs himself on Zhu Yuanfeng.

In fact, this shop had nothing to do with Zhu Yuanfeng, it was just helping them to file with the government, and occasionally came and went a few times to let others know that I was the backstage of this shop.

Now that he has confirmed that there is no shadow of him in the shop, Fan Ning has a plan, and smiled slightly at Fan Tiege: "I guess they are targeting Mr. Zhu, so let them make trouble, the bigger the trouble, the better."

(End of this chapter)