The Hairpin of the Red Chamber

If it was for Daiyu's own affairs, she would not be in such a hurry, but once it involved Xue's family, her temper would be extraordinarily irritable. Familiar with her temper, she quickly put her hand away and said, "Listen to me first before you pinch it later."

Daiyu rolled her eyes, without saying a word, Baochai already understood what she meant, and deliberately stretched out her hand with a bitter face, and Daiyu pinched Baochai's palm gently, not only did not hurt, but seemed to be caressed by the spring breeze After a while, Baochai's heart fluttered up, and he pinched Daiyu's finger, and pinched her fingertips. The delicate fingertips were as delicate and smooth as white jade, and taught Baochai how much to hold. Over and over is never enough.Daiyu let Baochai hold her obediently, leaned lightly, and leaned into Baochai's arms. Baochai embraced her with one hand and stroked her soft long hair with the other. Daiyu's hair had already grown It was very long, and because I was at home, I only tied my top hair into a small bun, and the rest of my hair was casually scattered on my shoulders. Baochai lowered her head and sniffed Daiyu's hair. It was much less than usual, but the medicinal fragrance seemed to have been carved into the bone marrow. Baochai didn't need to sniff deeply, he could already smell the refreshing fragrance on her body, pecked Daiyu's cheek, and said with a smile : "Of course there must be connections in doing business, but different businesses naturally have different connections. The Jia family is unreliable, and my uncle is unreliable. There are always reliable people."

Daiyu looked up at her, and said in a muffled voice: "My father is a semi-retired person now, and he came to Beijing from another place. If Brother Xue committed a crime, or he wants to find a husband, make friends with Qingliu, etc. It's okay to find him, but if it's about opening a shop or setting up a business, there are many dignitaries in Beijing, and the big business is either a prince or a prince's mansion. My father's official position may not be of much help to me." , Lin Hai is a local governor in Yangzhou. If you say anything casually, the merchants in the whole city will scramble to come up to sell them. When you arrive in Beijing, you don’t need to say that there are rich and powerful everywhere, and the city is full of high-quality goods. Just say that Lin Hai is now a book editor. Although his name is honorable, his status is slight, and besides, he is a high-ranking official, so it is not easy for him to have close contacts with merchants, so Daiyu's worries are quite reasonable.

Baochai smiled and said, "Don't worry, I have a business, and I just want to take advantage of Uncle Lin's reputation. If he has a lot of power, I'm afraid it won't be easy to do."

Daiyu thought for a while, then hesitated and said, "You...do you want to open a bookstore?" Bookstores are very popular nowadays. Although booksellers are not making money every day, they are not short of money. However, this business is somewhat taboo after all. If a place is not good, if it offends the present, that is unlucky.

Baochai shook her head and said, "The bookstore is too troublesome. I just need to sit at home, look at pictures, and write for my business."

Daiyu stumbled and said, "Don't be tricky, tell me quickly!"

Baochai whispered behind her ear, "You know, what was the business I managed the most in our family in the previous life?"

Daiyu said: "It's not the emperor's messenger, but it's the goods from the north and the south?"

Baochai smiled and said: "No, the business I managed the most and saw the most in my previous life was buying and selling land. When I first came to Beijing, my mother and brother sold all their belongings in Jinling and bought land and houses here. Brother Regardless of the matter, Mom has no idea. I told the little girls to pass messages back and forth, and ordered the stewards to go out one after another to inquire, choose places, compare prices, and finally make a decision. Later, the family fell into decline, and these lands were slow Slowly sold it. In order to sell more money, I sent people to inquire, choose the market, and settle the house. Jia's mansion was ruined, Baoyu was exiled, and I also helped to arrange the sale of houses and things. In the end, Baoyu married me, and we wandered around. There was almost no place in or outside the capital that we hadn’t been to. At the beginning, we still had some money. The price of the land, I ran out of money later, and I wanted to make a living again, and I was very concerned about the price of goods everywhere. Now I do it again, many things between you and me are completely different, but I pay attention, the capital The prices and patterns of things everywhere are still the same as before, and it just so happens that we still have some money in our hands to buy fields and land, which is just right."

Daiyu frowned and said, "I don't understand. When you say buying land, why is it a business again? Do you mean that you buy it now, and then sell it when the price rises?"

Baochai nodded happily, and said with a smile: "Others buy fields and buy land for the purpose of collecting rent, but I am not. I want to sell it at a high price in the future, so it is not wrong to say that it is a business. But seriously, we only Buying and selling land is not considered a business, and the land property is no better than others. You don’t have to pay attention to buying and selling goods like others do business. People come to make trouble in the shop at home, so as long as you take advantage of Uncle Lin's status as a clean stream, after all, there is a clean stream official who can directly go to the book, and you are not afraid of powerful people buying and selling..."

Daiyu smiled and said: "Yes, if we sell goods from south to north, we will naturally bear the name of being rich and unkind. If something happens, my father will not be able to pay for it. The government doesn’t pay much attention to it, but if we are peaceful and good people, relying on the land for a living, someone suddenly wants to buy our land at a low price-that is to annex the land and cause people to be displaced! This is what Qingliu loves most for the old families. The crime is also one of the most unacceptable crimes, after all, the people have no land, no food and clothing, and they are wandering around, but they will... rebel."

She said the word rebellion very lightly, for fear that others would listen to it. Baochai nodded with a smile and praised her understanding with his eyes, but Daiyu thought more deeply than she thought: "When the land is in our hands, we still have to pay attention to it." You can collect rent, which is a lot of money—you remember so many things, do you remember the questions for next year's big exam? If Brother Xue wins the exam, your family will be exempted from a large amount of taxes."

Baochai laughed and said: "I'm not a god, how can I remember so much, besides, the price of the land is still closely related, this test question is really beyond my reach, how can I remember it? Don't be too greedy, money Not too much, enough is enough, too much will cause trouble.”

Daiyu snorted: "My family has enough money, why don't I worry about you!" Then he said to her: "Since you have an idea, tell your family earlier, don't make them worry. We need to get it together earlier, after all, buying land is different from others—does your family have enough money? If not, I still have some savings..."

Baochai said with a smile: "The family's expenses have been small in recent years, and it's enough. I still want to set up a branch of my own. The money from doing business a few years ago, I shared my mother's [-] yuan in profits, and kept the rest by myself. .”

Daiyu was startled, and said, "Why are you so shameless, even greedy for this mother's money?"

Baochai said: "My mother is afraid that my brother will marry his sister-in-law and treat me badly, so she specially made me a dowry. My brother can think of something, but my mother can't think of it?"

Daiyufang made up her mind, counted with her fingers, and rushed to Baochai and shouted: "So you are a rich man, and you tricked me into thinking that your family is in a lot of trouble - you said that in the previous life, your family had such a large fortune. How did you get reduced to the point where you are asked to do living allowances later?"

Baochai sighed: "No matter how big the family business is, it can't stand the greed of this person and the filth of that person. Besides, my elder brother is like that. I remember that he was in the school attached to Jia's family and spent a year in those places." The expenses of a classmate will be one or two thousand, so there is no need to say anything about the banquet."

Rao Daiyu was never short of money, so she said in amazement: "How many favors does he want to spend so much in a year!"

Baochai smiled wryly and said: "This is just the school. If you think about it, he's not in school for 360 to [-] days a year, and he's not in school for [-] days, let alone making friends outside. He likes to gamble. How can he bet?" Didn’t we lose dozens or hundreds of times? At that time, we didn’t have Uncle Lin’s help to do business for so many years, and my brother took care of the family’s business, so it’s strange that this family is undefeated.”

Daiyu murmured: "No wonder you are so careless about your brother's exam. As long as he doesn't gamble, whore, or go out to make trouble, life will be ten times better than before."

Baochai nodded and smiled, "Naturally, with you by my side, life is not only ten times better, it's a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times."

Daiyu squinted at her and said, "You are a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times more brazen than before."

Baochai said: "I am such a pure and good person, but I tell you to speak like this, alas!" In addition to sighing deliberately, he did not forget to shake his head and click his tongue twice.

Daiyu said: "Why, let me tell you something, are you going to be sad again? You're going to be sad, I'm going to rest."

Baochai said: "You are wrong again. I sigh not because I am sad, but because I feel that you are called to say so. It seems too bad for you to do nothing after bearing such a reputation. You want us to do business, the last thing you can do." Is it a loss-making business?"

She said that in front of her, Daiyu had already taken a step back vigilantly, but Baochai moved too fast and walked over in a few steps, grabbed her with a smile, and became "brazen" a hundred times and a thousand times.

small theater:

President Xue entered the real estate industry, and reporters interviewed one after another...

Reporter: Excuse me, President Xue and Professor Lin always say "brazen" frequently, what does it mean?

Daiyu: (shy) This is a nickname.

Baochai: (satisfied) This is a posture.

reporter:! ! !

Daiyu: ...

Baochai: (Continuing to be complacent) It's cheeky...it's the one with the fat face, that's me...

Reporter: ... (Looking at the figure of President Xue, I feel that a bunch of audience members are about to cry and faint in the toilet)

Baochai: (Smug) Shameless... just don't worry about it...

Reporter & Daiyu: ...

Baochai: (The spring breeze is triumphant and the horseshoe is anxious) So I don't have to worry about it, and I can do whatever I want. This position, you can also call it the whole position, um!

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Reporter: Forget it, I'd better stop the interview...

Daiyu: Forget it, I'd better go buy a keyboard...

Baochai: Forget it, I’d better stay in a hotel for a few days first...