novelden Chapter 106 From now on, I can only watch her from afar (53)
Chapter 106 From now on, I can only watch her from afar (53)
"Go away. There's no point in offending my distinguished guest here." The shopkeeper came over quickly and said with a smile, "Sir, please don't be angry. This guy is ignorant. I apologize to you on his behalf."
Then he yelled at the guy, "Get down quickly!"
The guy didn't dare to be negligent and quickly nodded and bowed and retreated.
The shopkeeper watched the clerk walk away, then turned around and said to the Xue family couple with a smile: "Please don't be offended, this clerk is new and doesn't know the rules."
Mrs. Xue nodded to show her understanding.
The shopkeeper continued, "There is nothing wrong with this shop itself. Everything is excellent. It's just that the owner is a bit difficult to deal with."
When Mrs. Xue heard this, she felt a little unhappy. She thought that she had been tough for most of her life and had never met anyone who was "too unreasonable". She then asked, "How difficult is it?"
The shopkeeper sighed and explained, "This shop was originally owned by Duke Xiao's family, but it is actually the private property of Madam Xiao. Madam Xiao is not someone you can easily mess with..."
It turns out that the reputation of Duke Xiao's Mansion is well-known in the capital, and Madam Xiao is even more famous for being "unruly".
Although Duke Xiao's Mansion has the title of Duke, by this generation, the children in the family have not made any great achievements.
However, they always want to put on an air of being from a wealthy family and show off.
When the family income cannot support the expenses, they will sell some of their properties.
In fact, there are many noble families in the capital who have such situations, so it is not uncommon for sellers to sell their pawns.
However, it is a rare thing for a family like the Xiao family to sell their property first and then go back on their word and demand to "buy back" the shop after the buyer has paid.
Moreover, the Xiao family's "eat and spit" tactic was very clever, causing buyers a lot of headaches.
Because this involves a price difference issue, buyers often lose part of the price difference.
However, when it comes to handling this matter, some people play the good cop and some play the bad cop, and the price difference is not that big, so some people don't want to make enemies with the Duke's Mansion for a small amount of money, and simply keep quiet.
Moreover, Duke Xiao would "go to the door to apologize" afterwards, which was considered to give these people face, and gradually these things were left unresolved.
However, as such things happened too often, no one would buy the shops opened by the Xiao family anymore, no matter how good the location was.
Gradually, the Xiao family stopped doing such things, but for some reason they started selling the shop again in the past few days.
After hearing the whole story, Mrs. Xue asked her husband, "Putting aside what the shopkeeper said, what do you think of this shop?"
Her husband was not only good at studying, but also had a pair of sharp eyes. Any shop he set his eyes on could make money.
"The location of the shop is not bad, but I haven't seen it in person." Xue Lin pondered for a moment and said, "How about we go to the shop and take a look?"
When the shopkeeper heard that the two men actually wanted to buy the shop, he wanted to say something, but was stopped by Mrs. Xue: "Shopkeeper, let's wait until my wife and I have seen the shop. If it is really good, this price is appropriate to buy a shop."
Her meaning was very clear. No matter who was behind the shop, as long as her husband Xue Lin liked it, their family would buy it.
The shopkeeper looked a little surprised, but he was secretly excited in his heart: After so many years, someone finally dared to challenge Madam Xiao.
If I can see the excitement, it will be worth it if I charge less commission.
At this moment, the shopkeeper didn't allow his waiter to take anyone to look after the shop, so he decided to take the Xue couple there himself.
After looking at the shop, Xue Lin felt that both its geographical location and traffic flow were good.
"Okay! Then we'll buy this shop." Xue Lin said with a smile, "They're losing money for asking 500 taels for this piece of land. I just asked about the market price of the surrounding shops, and the price is around 1,200 taels.
We won't take advantage of them, I'll add another 500 taels, let's make it 1,000 taels! If you agree, we'll go and pay the money and go through the formalities tomorrow."
The shopkeeper was confused by Xue Lin's actions. He had only heard of sellers raising the price temporarily, but had never encountered a buyer who took the initiative to raise the price.
But since the other party insisted, he said nothing and passed the news to the Xiao family.
Mrs. Xiao, who was "reflecting on her own mistakes" in the small Buddhist temple, had never encountered such a "fat sheep" before and was very happy. She had been thinking of making a few more fortunes by the same method as before, and then putting the money in front of her husband so that she could get out.
It would be best if I could earn back the money I spent on my son’s scar removal cream.
Unexpectedly, she would encounter such a good thing that fell from the sky. With this money alone, she could use it to pay for her "atonement" and her son's medicine.
She was so happy that she didn't even ask who wanted to buy the shop.
The next day, the person in charge of handling the matter from the Xiao family found out that the buyer actually wanted to sign a red deed.
"Are you really planning to sell this shop?" Mrs. Xue said with a half-smile, "We paid the red deed tax, and it has nothing to do with you, the seller. Are you going to regret it now?"
Xue Lin also frowned slightly and said, "We paid a deposit of two hundred taels yesterday. If we don't sell it..."