HLnovel Chapter 322 What to Give as a Gift
Chapter 322 What to Give as a Gift
County Magistrate Peng held this extremely precious booklet and smiled with wrinkles on his face.
This is also his achievement as an official!
He smiled and promised Bai Jingzhou, "Don't worry, nephew, I will report your farming experience as quickly as possible."
Bai Jingzhou put down the teacup, still smiling, but his words were sharp.
He said, "To be honest, sir, I can continuously provide planting manuals to the court because I have a diligent, capable, well-educated and virtuous wife."
"Others look down on her for working with the fields all day, but they don't know that every entry in this book is nine out of ten of her contributions."
"If someone still looks down on her because of her farming and embarrasses her in person, then we should just move to the state capital and never do any farming again."
"Given our current financial situation, if my wife had not been kindhearted and could not bear to see the people suffer from hunger and cold, why would she have gone to the fields to endure hardships and observe the farming conditions?"
A stupid guy who only eats and waits for death and does nothing but eats and waits for death actually dares to slap the face of the woman he loves. Don't blame him for making this stupid guy a rat crossing the street that everyone shouts and beats.
As Bai Jingzhou expected, County Magistrate Peng immediately lost his composure when he said this. He said, "No, don't give up because of that fool."
Bai Jingzhou hadn't said how to solve the various problems in cotton planting described in the booklet. If the couple gave up, who would he ask for the second half of the planting manual?
When the emperor and the prince ask about it, he, as the county magistrate, will also be in trouble along with that family of idiots.
The county magistrate comforted Bai Jingzhou with kind words, "Don't worry, they will never appear in my house again."
This means putting that family on the blacklist and not allowing them to visit again.
And that family had offended the county magistrate's family. Who among the prominent families in Qingshan County would have anything to do with them?
Bai Jingzhou let out a sigh of relief and stopped talking about moving. "Then I won't disturb you while you're working."
When he said goodbye and came out of the county government office, there was no trace of depression on his face anymore.
After returning to their own house and having a sumptuous dinner with Gu Wenxuan, Bai Jingshan, Gu Wenhai and Gu Wenche, the couple went for a walk hand in hand in the flowerless garden.
At this time, the sunset glow in the sky was bright and colorful, and it was not completely dark yet, which was just right for them to take a slow walk to digest their food.
Gu Wenxuan told Bai Jingzhou that about ten days ago, the town's peddler had helped her find a suitable street-facing shop, and she bought it after she saw that it was suitable.
The family had agreed to buy this shop for Bai Jingzhou's eldest cousin, Bai Jingyan. Ever since he knew that Bai Jingyan was engaged, Bai Jingzhou wanted to buy a two-courtyard house with a street-facing shop in the town as a gift for his eldest cousin.
This kind of two-story house with a street-facing shop can be used to open a shop or live in it permanently, or it can be rented out to others as a whole. You can also lock the middle door, rent out half of it to other people, and keep the other half for yourself.
In addition, the house is located in Liulin Town, which is very close to Baijia Village, so it will be convenient for Bai Jingyan to take care of it in the future.
Of course, owning a property in town is not without its drawbacks.
One of the disadvantages is that they have very little room to choose from.
In order to buy a suitable house, they have waited patiently from last year until now, and finally someone is willing to sell this two-story house with a shop front.
Although the original owner of the house asked for a slightly higher price due to its good location and well-maintained interior, Gu Wenxuan bought it without hesitation after receiving the news from the broker.
The second disadvantage is that the commercial value of the shops and houses in the town is not as high as those in the county town. When Bai Jingyan rents out the shops and houses in the future, the rent he earns will definitely not be as high as that of shops and houses of the same size in the county town.
It was for this reason that after Bai Jingzhou came up with this idea, he directly proposed to buy Bai Jingyan a two-courtyard house with a street-facing shop, rather than just a street-facing shop with a backyard.
——If you can’t compare with properties of the same size, then just buy a bigger one. The location will be better and the area will be larger, so the value will naturally go up.
When Bai Jingzhou went to study at the academy in the state capital, he handed the matter over to Gu Wenxuan. Like him, Gu Wenxuan also waited for a long time before the broker gave him the OK.
Fortunately, they finally managed to buy this house with a shop before Bai Jingyan got married, otherwise they would have to temporarily change their plan to buy some land for Bai Jingyan.
Gu Wenxuan told Bai Jingzhou, "I have already sent the deed to my second uncle's house. When Wang found out, she was very angry and wanted to come to me to ask for an explanation, but was stopped by my eldest uncle, my eldest cousin, and my second cousin."
Bai Jingzhou's emotions remained calm. "If it doesn't happen in front of us, just pretend nothing happened."
Gu Wenxuan thought the same, so she just treated it as gossip. However, Ning Cuizhi didn't even listen to it. She asked Bai Chong to find Uncle Bai and explain the matter to him.
Although Bai Chong thought that his elder brother would not be suspicious, he still conveyed Ning Cuizhi's original words.
"Jingzhou is not partial to Jingyan, it's just that his way of helping his cousins is different. When he bought a house for Jingyan, he did not buy one for his cousins, but when he taught his cousins how to make money and found jobs for them, didn't he also take his cousin with him? Jingyan didn't say it was unfair, did she?"
This is in response to Wang's question, "Why give it to that girl and not to his two cousins?"
Bai Jun could fully understand Bai Jingzhou's approach. He said to Bai Chong, "Jingzhou is very thoughtful. It's not convenient for a girl to go out and earn money in public. It's best to give her something to rely on. His cousins are different. They are all grown men and they have to support their own families."
Just like Mr. Bai who put a lot of thought into sending his three sons to be apprentices, Bai Jun also believes that the most important thing for a man is to have ability. If you have ability, you will always have food to eat.
Wang was different. She didn't agree with the Bai family's idea at all.
As soon as Bai Jun finished speaking, Wang couldn't help but interrupt, "How can they be the same? That girl is already engaged, and will soon belong to someone else. If your family buys her a house, isn't that just throwing money down the drain? You might as well give that money to your two nephews!"
Bai Jingtai and Bai Jingming's faces turned red with embarrassment, and they wanted to cover Wang's mouth with their hands. However, Wang was far away from them, and they had no way to stop her from talking nonsense in the first place.
Bai Jun, like his two sons, felt that he had lost all his face after hearing Wang's words. He could no longer bear it and slapped Wang in the face. "Shut up! If you continue to cause trouble, go back to your mother's house immediately!"