Chapter 105 Finally got a shop
"Do you think your second brother can defeat Feng Chuan?"
While Gu Taohua and Gu Dashu were not around, Tong Huaqiong asked Gu Jingzhe.
The mother and son exchanged glances and knew that they had the same plan to deal with Feng Chuan.
"Don't worry, mom. Second brother can do it." Gu Jingzhe has great confidence in Gu Dashu.
Since Gu Jingzhe is confident that Gu Dashu can subdue Feng Chuan, Tong Huaqiong will temporarily believe in this talented young man.
Even if Gu Dashu cannot defeat Feng Chuan, under Gu Jingzhe's planning, Feng Chuan will also lose.
Tong Huaqiong was quite satisfied with Gu Jingzhe's performance during this period.
This son has both intelligence and skills. If he has the right mindset, he will definitely be a good helper to his country and his family.
"I will go to the town with you tomorrow. You will go with me to the government to handle the shop procedures and then go with your elder brother to deal with Feng Chuan." Tong Huaqiong said to Gu Jingzhe.
Gu Jingzhe is familiar with various legal documents of this era. Even though Tong Huaqiong believes that Ma Huateng will not lie to her, she still has to be careful about everything.
After all, buying a shop is a big deal, which is similar to buying a house in later generations.
There cannot be any room for wrangling in the procedures.
It would be nice to let Gu Jingzhe keep an eye on this for her.
"Okay." Gu Jingzhe agreed readily.
Gu Jingzhe clearly felt that his mother's attitude towards him had improved, and he was very happy.
"There is one more thing I want to tell you. Ma Huateng sold the shop to me, but there was a condition that he had to come to our shop to work as the accountant. I agreed. You have no objection, right?" Tong Huaqiong asked.
Gu Jingzhe thought that he wouldn't dare to say anything even if he had any opinions, let alone have no opinions.
After Tong Huaqiong asked Gu Jingzhe to drop out of school, Gu Jingzhe told him that after the wheat harvest he should go to Pingchuan County or the provincial capital to find a job as an accountant and earn money to support his studies.
It's a part-time work and study system.
Now her own shop hired Ma Huateng to exclude Gu Jingzhe. It was normal for Gu Jingzhe to have some thoughts, but even so, she would not consider letting Gu Jingzhe work as an accountant in the shop.
Gu Jingzhe will eventually have to return to the private school.
It's just that she wanted to keep Gu Jingzhe in suspense and temper his temper.
"I have no objection. Mom, I really have no objection." Gu Jingzhe said.
"That's good." Tong Huaqiong said.
At night, Tong Huaqiong woke up from her sleep in a daze and saw that the light in Gu Jingzhe's room was still on.
She was about to get angry. Lamp oil is free. What kind of family is this? They only light a little bit of lamps all night long.
I saw Gu Jingzhe reading a book through the window, and suddenly realized that Gu Jingzhe worked during the day and stayed up late to read.
It has to be said that it was no exaggeration for Gu Jingzhe to have fought his way up from a peasant family to become the third place in the imperial examination in his previous life. With such willpower, he only got the third place because of his outstanding appearance, otherwise he would have been the first place.
Tong Huaqiong even wanted to use a fire poker to cover her youngest son's face to lower his appearance. After all, the mother of the top scholar sounds more impressive than the mother of the third place scholar.
After Tong Huaqiong undressed, she sighed and went back to her room to sleep.
She decided to wait until the shop opened successfully and made money, and then let Gu Jingzhe return to the private school to continue his studies.
With her mother around, Gu Jingzhe will probably not go astray.
However, if he wants to go to Wanliu Academy, he must rely on his own abilities.
Early the next morning, Tong Huaqiong took her two sons to the town.
First he went to find Ma Huateng, and then they went to the government office together to sign the land and house transaction contract.
The land and house transaction contract is the contract for land and house shops in this era, which is the legal proof of property rights in this era. It was originally made in four copies, one for Ma Huateng and one for Tong Huaqiong, one for the intermediary, the manor agent, and one for the county government as a guarantee for property rights disputes.
Since Tong Huaqiong and Ma Huateng were dealing directly and there was no broker involved, they only needed to sign three contracts, which saved Tong Huaqiong a transaction fee.
Originally they needed to go to the county government office, but Yanguan Town was the most developed commercial port in Pingchuan County, and the county government office had set up an agency here to handle business procedures, so Tong Huaqiong and others did not have to go to Pingchuan County again.
This saves both time and cost.
After signing the land and house transaction contract, Tong Huaqiong paid Ma Huateng one hundred taels of silver, and signed an eighty taels of silver debt contract and a letter of employment for Ma Huateng under the witness of the government.
The whole procedure took half a morning.
After completing the formalities, Tong Huaqiong carefully read the contract in the sunshine, feeling extremely excited.
Her hands were shaking a little as she touched the keys.
She is also a property owner in this world.
I remember that in later life, after Tong Huaqiong's parents bought a house for her in the city where she was studying and walked out of the transaction hall, the three of them excitedly ran to a restaurant to have a big meal to celebrate.
Tong Huaqiong also wanted to go to the best restaurant in town to celebrate, but she gave up the idea when she remembered that she still owed Ma Huateng eighty taels of silver.
Gu Dashu had the same idea and was scolded by Tong Huaqiong.
The two of them and Dai Zhu hadn't helped them clear the obstacle of Shopkeeper Feng, so they wanted to spend money but there was no way for them to do so.
Ma Huateng, who had become Tong Huaqiong's employee, parted ways with Tong Huaqiong at the intersection.
Tong Huaqiong took the two evil bamboos and went to Yanzhi Lane.
When Tong Huaqiong opened the door of the shop, he was extremely excited.
The shop was spacious and bright, with the cabinets filled with wine. Ma Huateng found it too troublesome to trade the wine, so he sold and gave away all the wine to Tong Huaqiong.
Tong Huaqiong came to the back of the shop again, where there was a large yard that could be used to build a baking operation room and warehouse.
The two sons were as excited as Tong Huaqiong.
It took the Gu family more than 20 years to move from Qinghe Bay to Yanguan Town to open a shop.
No, in fact, the real progress has only been in the past few months.
It's like a dream.
“All these shelves have been dismantled and reassembled.”
“This is where the bills are collected.”
"Put the tongs for holding the cakes here."
"This cabinet is dedicated to birthday cakes."
Tong Huaqiong walked around the shop. She wanted to make the pastry shop look more attractive than the Sushi Garden.
"We need to find a carpenter to rebuild the cabinets," Tong Huaqiong said. "Who should we find?"
"Uncle Guangkui in our village makes cabinets quickly and well. Mom, you may have forgotten that he was the one who made all the cabinets and furniture for my wedding." Gu Dashu said.
Tong Huaqiong searched Tong Dajiao's memory and found the lonely family living outside the village.
The Uncle Guangkui mentioned by Gu Dashu is actually Gu Guangkui.
Gu Guangkui, Gu Dashu and others are from the same family. In terms of seniority, they are of the same generation as the deceased old man Gu.
His mother is the Huang Po who teamed up with Yan Po to bully Tong Huaqiong on Uncle Xu's ox cart last time.
It’s hard to describe what Mrs. Huang had to say about Gu Guangkui’s family.
"Okay, then let him come and beat him." Tong Huaqiong said.
Anyway, they are all from the same family, and she has a pretty good impression of Gu Guangkui's wife. The wife even greeted her when they met a few days ago.
So Tong Huaqiong didn't mind handing over all the cabinets and counters in the shop to Gu Guangkui.
Gu Guangkui would earn the money from the counter, while Qin Qingyou would run the oven in the yard.
"Mom, will Grandma Huang take this opportunity to cause trouble?" Gu Jingzhe asked a little worriedly.
The Grandma Huang mentioned by Gu Jingzhe is actually Mrs. Huang.
"She's not afraid of causing trouble. She won't get any good from me." Tong Huaqiong said contemptuously.
My mother did have some confidence in this, and Gu Jingzhe felt that he was worrying too much.