NFBE Chapter 424 Negotiation
Chapter 424 Negotiation
Li Shoucai was choked up. The other party had already finished speaking. What else could he say? !
I simply stopped beating around the bush and got straight to the point:
"Every piece of land in our Xiangxue Village is now a treasure. Although we cannot say that every inch of land is worth a lot of money, the price has increased several times compared to before.
Qingyue girl, I will tell you straight away. Three thousand taels of silver, the village school and the surrounding thirty... no, thirty-five acres of land will all be yours. No matter what you use them for, the village will not interfere. "
Zhao almost screamed, why didn't this miser just go and rob? ! ! !
Stared at by Zhao's fierce eyes, Li Shoucai felt a little uneasy and couldn't help rubbing his hands back and forth on the armrests of the chair.
Shangguan Qingyue did not answer immediately. She sipped the tea in her hand carefully and picked up a few pieces of crispy pastries and ate them with relish.
Well, Xiang Xueniang’s cooking skills have improved. Maybe she can help a lot after Qibaozhai opens.
She was lost in thought for a long while, and just when the person opposite her was getting impatient, she finally spoke slowly:
"Grandpa, do you know how much money it would take to buy a three-story building with a spacious and exquisite backyard in the county town?"
Li Shoucai shook his head in a daze.
"Three thousand taels." Shangguan Qingyue stretched out three slender white fingers and waved them in front of Li Shoucai.
Li Shoucai couldn't help swallowing. He was quite smart and naturally understood what Shangguan Qingyue meant.
A three-story shop in the county town only sells for 3,000 taels, but they actually want 3,000 taels. They are really overestimating their own capabilities...
"Ahem, uh, that, hehehe...we can still negotiate the price. This isn't a one-time deal, hehehe..."
Li Shoucai's face turned red, and he tried to smooth things over with a smile. Zhao couldn't help but turn her back and rolled her eyes.
"One thousand taels."
Shangguan Qingyue looked at Li Shoucai who was rubbing his hands constantly, and then recalled how the elder in front of him had worked tirelessly more than a year ago to make the villagers live a good life, and she couldn't help but sigh.
"If the village head thinks it's suitable, I will buy the village school and the thirty acres of land around it."
"One... one thousand five hundred taels, otherwise, those people in the village will definitely not do it." Li Shoucai gritted his teeth and bargained.
He had calculated before he came that if each family could get nearly thirty taels of silver out of three thousand taels, then the one thousand five hundred taels would mean half less.
If after all the trouble everyone only gets a tiny bit of food, he himself will not feel comfortable, not to mention others.
Suddenly, they heard a crisp sound. They looked over and found that it was Zhao who put the teacup in her hand back on the tea table.
Rather than saying 'put', it would be more appropriate to say 'smash'.
She curled her lips and said to Li Shoucai with a fake smile:
"I've been in the house for too long and feel a little bored. I want to go out for some fresh air. You guys continue talking."
Shuying, who was guarding outside the door, strode in without waiting for instructions, pushed Zhao to the door, easily lifted Zhao and her wheelchair over the threshold and walked out.
Li Shoucai couldn't help but twitch his lips and forced a smile.
"Haha, Dafeng, oh no, Shuying is completely different now!"
"That's not bad. She was able to chase her father around the village with a kitchen knife back then, and she's still the same now. The only thing that's changed is that she can now easily beat her father down."
Shangguan Qingyue said this lightly, not caring at all that Li Shoucai, who had just taken a sip of tea, almost spit out the tea from his nostrils.
"Ahem, ahem, ahem... Qingyue girl, what have you thought about? If I can't think it through for the time being, I'll go back first. It's almost noon and my family is still waiting for me to come back for dinner."
As he said this, he was about to get up and walk out, as if a wolf was chasing him.
Tsk, what a pity! General Hei ran off into the mountains to run wild as soon as he arrived in the village. Otherwise, he might have been of some use.
Just as the other party was about to step out of the door, Shangguan Qingyue suddenly spoke:
"If you can add another ten acres of land, I will accept the one thousand five hundred taels. If you can't accept it, Grandpa Village Head..."
"Okay! It's settled!"
Li Shoucai turned around abruptly, not caring about his old waist which was accidentally stretched due to the big movement, and responded eagerly.
Shangguan Qingyue was not a person who cared too much. If she felt that thirty acres of land was not enough, she could just buy more. She did not care about this little money.
The reason for doing this is that I don't want to give people the impression that I am easy to talk to and easy to deceive.
The matter was settled. It only took Li Shoucai two days to get the land deed ready and file it at the county government office.
The village school that Xiangxue Village once took pride in no longer exists, and the plaque on the gate has also been taken down.
Every family received a considerable sum of money, and the children in the family, especially the girls, did not have to waste time on studying. For most families in the village, it was a good thing worth celebrating.
So on the day when the silver was distributed, the village was filled with the tempting aroma of meat and wine, and laughter was everywhere.
On this day, Shangguan Qingyue and Wan Linglong came to the village school together. Before they reached the door, they heard faint crying sounds.
The two walked towards the sound and found seven or eight children of different ages.
There were both men and women among them, the oldest was about twelve or thirteen years old, and the youngest looked only five or six years old. The only thing they had in common was that they all wore the clothes that the village school had once distributed.
"Why are you crying here?"
Shangguan Qingyue pulled the youngest one up from the cold ground and held him in her arms, but her eyes were looking at the oldest boy.
The boy sniffed and said with a sob:
"Miss Shangguan, we can no longer study, right?"
Several pairs of eyes were staring at her, and Shangguan Qingyue's gloomy mood for several days suddenly brightened up a lot at this moment.
She took out a handkerchief, wiped the tears of the little girl in her arms, and asked gently:
"Do you guys want to continue studying?"
"I really want to! Sister Shangguan, is it because the students are disobedient that the two gentlemen were mad at them and left?
But... I have always been very obedient and always listen carefully to the lessons. However, there are too few people who listen carefully to the lessons..."
The little girl in his arms started to shed tears as she spoke, which made Shangguan Qingyue feel very distressed.
She took a deep breath and said comfortingly:
"This village school is mine now. I'll give you a key for now. If you like, come to the school every day to review what the teacher taught you before, okay?"
As for the academy, it is too early to mention it now, but it made her more determined to open the academy.
She even brought a drawing board with her today, and sat down in a pavilion in the middle of the school yard, with the drawing board spread out.
Wan Linglong expressed her ideas on the side, and the two of them wrote and drew together accompanied by the sound of children reading, and planned the layout of the academy.
Soon a sketch appeared on the paper.
Just as the two began to consider some details, Xiangxue came running in from outside, panting. She held onto the bare tree trunk and took a long breath before saying:
"Miss, your father is here and is at home down the mountain right now."