[Pride and Prejudice] Mary's Pride and Prejudice

Chapter 41Buy!purchase!purchase!

At this time, Regent Street has not officially started construction. Although the surrounding houses are a bit old, they are definitely in the bustling area. If you wanted to buy a house here before, let alone Sister Mary, even Uncle Gardiner would not have dared to think about it. Homeowners here sell very little and are expensive.

But now that they have some money, not only can they afford the expenses, but they also have the means to facilitate them. Of course, they hope to have a property of their own here.

Mary and the others walked around here for a long time. Uncle Gardiner had seen the planning of this street. The street was planned to be very long, about 1.5 miles long. The road in the middle was very wide and there would be curved turns. Gardiner Uncle pointed out several alternative places one by one, but unfortunately there are no drawings, otherwise it would be more intuitive, so now I have to rely on a few people to imagine.

But Mary walked around for a long time and decided that this is really a prime location. Oh my god, it is the British version of Wangfujing, and even more prosperous than that. Forgive her for her limited experience in her previous life, she only thought of that place.She just said one word now: buy!purchase!purchase!

Back in Tennessee Street Mary asked Uncle Gardiner for the price, before they had had time to ask since they were in London.

"It depends on the location. The two places I like are about 1 pounds to 5 pounds." Uncle Gardiner said and took out two drawings. Mary couldn't understand the technical terms on them, but the layout of the house Mary can still see the area marked on the side.

Compared with such a huge area, this price is almost the price of cabbage.

"Is it really so cheap?" Elizabeth couldn't believe it.

"Of course, John Nash has great power. He has full power to deal with these things. Many people want to bribe him, and he wants to repay me."

"Is this appropriate? Will it cause trouble?" Jane asked worriedly.

"That's not true. All of these are legal. If we buy them, others will." Uncle Gardiner said indifferently.

"The privilege is useless, it expires and becomes invalid. I think we should buy it. Think about it, if such a big house is not used for living, it is used for renting out. The rent alone will generate a large amount of income every year!" Mary persuaded the two elder sister.

Uncle Gardiner smiled and said, "I think so too."

"I totally agree," said Elizabeth.

"Me too." Jane agreed with both hands, and finally a few people selected a four-story building with a total area of ​​about 2 square feet. "But don't we have enough money?"

"I can help you find a solution for this." Uncle Gardiner said.

"But uncle, as far as I know, your money has already been invested in the cannery, and you probably don't have enough money to buy a house." Elizabeth said worriedly: "Our money difference is not too much, we can Figure out your own way, you can't take all our responsibilities on yourself."

Uncle Gardiner smiled: "Dear Liqi, I am very pleased with your thoughtfulness, but you look down on me too much. I just got a loan not long ago, and it is not a problem to take out this part of the money."

"Loan?" Jane was surprised, "Will it be risky?"

"Whoever does business relies on his own capital. The most common thing businessmen do is to borrow money. How can they win money if they don't make bets?"

The three sisters finally handed over this matter to their uncle. First of all, their financial gap is not very big, and anyway, it is not the first time to trouble this dear uncle to help them. Lord, however, they still decided to return the money to uncle as soon as possible after the profit in the grocery store came in this season.

So the next day, Uncle Gardiner and Aunt Gardiner took the sisters to visit Mr. John Nash.

Mr. John is over fifty years old and has gray hair, but he is very energetic and radiant. He also has a wife who is 20 years younger than him. The old couple and the young wife are actually very loving.

Mr. John and Uncle Gardiner can be regarded as good friends, and his wife, Mrs. Nash, is also very considerate to Mrs. Gardiner. The three sisters are not the protagonists of this visit. They just need to smile at the right time and chat with Mrs. Nash. up.That Mrs. Nash obviously has a good impression of Jane who is a few years younger than herself. It is no surprise that the sisters are not surprised. Who would not like Jane? I don't think there is anything unsatisfactory in this world, and talking to her is always relaxing and joyful.

After that, when Mr. Nash went out again, Mrs. Nash often invited Jane to accompany her. Mary was also fortunate to go with Jane once, but she soon lost interest in the Nash family. Mrs. Nash was a somewhat sentimental woman. Gardening and painting, she is a veritable literary young woman. Mary really has no common language with her, and Jane and Elizabeth are more in tune with her.

It took a month, and all the procedures were completed.Mr. Lake and Uncle Gardiner continued to work on building a new canning factory, but since Uncle Gardiner's original business had not fallen, he had to take care of both sides, so most of the burden fell on Mr. Lake.

Because of the incentives of high bonuses, the workers continue to upgrade the original technology. Now there are more than 20 kinds of products in the cannery. In addition to the new patent just purchased, the work of the cannery has already made Mr. Lake double He was at the end of his skills, and at this moment he thought that he had to leave the food store to someone else.

"Miss White?" The three sisters said in unison, "Is it Miss White from our store?"

"Yes, I think Miss White is fully qualified for this job." Mr. Lake said firmly.

Now they are sitting in the small lounge of Gardiner's house. Mr. Lake solemnly recommends his successor to the three sisters. Miss White has been promoted to the manager of the new store a year ago because of her outstanding performance. She manages The performance of the food store is very good: "The business model of the food store has matured day by day, and most of the rest are daily chores, and Miss White is fully capable of these." She has always been close to her blood relatives, and her being the general manager of the food store will definitely make our food store a lot smoother."

"But she is an unmarried lady, will this have any bad influence on her?" Jane worried.

"Our food store is different from other industries, and we don't need to entertain customers too much."

That's true, of course the customers have to eat when they enter the store. It is enough to have waiters, and then there is the store manager. The manager usually handles the administrative work behind the scenes.

The matter was settled in this way. After receiving the appointment, Miss White went to the Gardiner House to visit her bosses. The three Miss Bennet all received her warmly, and then they found out that Miss White was the manager. In fact, there are many benefits, the most important one is that, as a woman, Miss White can communicate directly with them to report the business status in the future.

At this time, Mrs. Bennet’s urging letters came to London continuously, and they had to go back to Mary’s coming-of-age ball. The impatient Mrs. Bennet set the date for next Tuesday night, less than two days away. Within a week, the ladies invited Miss White to join the ball in Meriton, and Miss White readily agreed, but because Miss White had to straighten out her work in London at the beginning of her tenure, she probably could not make it until before the ball. To Meriton.

After bidding farewell to Miss White, Jane and Elizabeth bid farewell to their friend Mrs. Nash. Mrs. Nash was very interested in Mary's ball. Unfortunately, Mr. Nash had no resources at his disposal, so Mrs. Nash had to send her most sincere wishes to Mary. .

After saying goodbye to their friends one by one, the three sisters returned to Longborn together, where a huge "surprise" was waiting for them!