Chapter 16 Going to town

"Mom, do you still remember that a kind-hearted person sent me back after I fell off a cliff? That person had a powerful master who had extremely effective wound medicine. He passed by a few days ago and gave me a bottle of wound medicine. Originally, my injury was almost healed, but I recovered quickly after eating it."

After Shen Yunyao came back from the toilet, she explained to Liu and the others.

"Wow, it's so nice. My sister won't need crutches anymore." Shen Yunzhen jumped up and cheered.

Liu and others were very happy, but they had always ignored one thing: why Shen Yunyao, a weak woman, never screamed in pain after breaking her leg.

They won't be selling noodles today. Because of yesterday's incident, Liu plans to close the business for three days, wait for the storm to pass, and collect mung beans to make cold skin.

Yesterday evening, Mrs. Liu spread word in the village about her family's harvest of mung beans. The purchase price was eight cents per catty, and quite a few people came over.

At the same time, in the wing of Fu'an Restaurant in the town, Mu Hanxiao was having breakfast, with Xiao Qing and Xiao Feng standing aside.

Last night Xiao Feng followed Mu Hanxiao to Shen's house. He didn't expect that the girl actually refused the master's solicitation.

"Master, your attitude yesterday was too good. That girl is too ignorant. Do you want to teach her a lesson?" He almost said that he should just be tougher.

Mu Hanxiao put down his chopsticks and said, "I have a feeling that she still has unknown abilities. Let's wait and see."

Xiao Qing said: "What if she is more capable than we know, but refuses to surrender?"

Mu Hanxiao snorted, "Of course, if I can't get it, no one else can get it. I don't like to kill innocent people indiscriminately. If you can't subdue her, it doesn't mean you can't cooperate. Even if you don't kill her, you must protect her more tightly and not let others Taking advantage of the loophole."

Xiao Feng obeyed: "Master is wise!"

At the end of the day, Ms. Liu harvested more than 40 kilograms of mung beans. Each family does not grow particularly many mung beans, and some people only sell two or three kilograms.

Shen Yunyao saw Mrs. Liu who had lost a lot of weight during this period of work, and thought it was time to change hands in this business, otherwise her cheap mother would probably get sick from exhaustion.

After dinner, she and Ms. Liu enjoyed the cool air in the yard and expressed her thoughts.

"You think this noodle stall can make money by handing it over to others? What if someone else learns what we do?" Ms. Liu felt that it was not very reliable.

Shen Yunyao explained: "We press the noodles at home and dry them in the sun. We can also get up early to make the cold noodles, including the stewed soup. We only hire two people to cook the noodles and collect the money to serve the bowls. Now we make a net profit of more than 20 taels a day. , hiring people for forty cash per person per day."

"How can we guarantee that people are collecting money and not cheating on us?" Shen Yunhao asked curiously, "How about I collect the money?"

Shen Yunyao: "Measure the quantity of each bowl of noodles at home. I can roughly estimate how many bowls are sold every day. You, you are nine years old now, it's time to study. The money at home is enough to buy pens, inks, paper and inkstones, so I can go to the family to study. Let’s go to school. Mom, what do you say?”

Mrs. Liu used to look forward to her son studying. During this time, she only focused on making money. She wanted to earn more so that she could have more money, but she didn't care about her son's studying.

"Your sister is right. I have earned some money during this period, which is enough for you to study. Tomorrow I will go to town to buy pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and by the way, our family will also make new clothes."

Shen Yunyao lowered her head and glanced at her patched clothes. Although they were shabby, they were clean.

When she first came here, she was really not used to wearing these patchwork clothes and spent a long time building herself up.

Shen Yunhao lowered his head and whispered: "I don't want to go to school, let's make money first. The family is still short of money. It will cost a lot to find my father."

Shen Yunyao looked at the sensible eldest brother and patted him on the shoulder, "You can do whatever you want at any age. You are in the grade of study now. Your memory is not bad. You must be good at reading. If you win the Scholarship in the future, , the more people you get to know, the faster you can find dad."

Shen Yunhao raised his little face, looked at Shen Yunyao, and his dark eyes suddenly brightened, "Well, then I will study first."

"Well, it's not just you, I also want to read it. You go to clan school every day and come back to teach me."

Shen Yunzhen threw herself into Shen Yunhao's arms, "Brother, I want to learn too."

Shen Yunhan raised his little hand and shouted: "There is me, I want to learn too."

Shen Yunyao clapped her hands and said, "Okay, okay, big brother will teach us when the time comes."

Mrs. Liu looked at the noisy children with relief.

"Mom, after hiring someone to open a noodle stall, in addition to preparing ingredients for the noodle stall, we can also do the flower wrapping business at home." Shen Yunyao took the opportunity to talk about how to make flower wrapping.

Ms. Liu struggled for a while, and gradually became determined, "We will know if Maanghua can make money after trying it. Hiring people can indeed save time. Although the cost increases, it is still within the affordable range. You can also take a look at the town. Is there a suitable place to open a noodle stall?”

"Don't worry, mother, the tangled flowers are ready and they look real. Who wouldn't want to buy them?" Shen Yunyao was very confident in the tangled flower business.

Early the next morning, Mrs. Liu woke up the children and ate something simple. Then she went to lead the ox cart borrowed yesterday and put a diabolo basket that could be carried.

The twins were very excited to ride on the bullock cart for the first time and jumped up and down on the cart.

It was also the first time for Shen Yunyao to ride on the cart. She even specially prepared a layer of straw to spread on the cart.

When the group arrived in the town, Ms. Liu first found a place to store the ox cart, and then took her child shopping. In order to prevent the child from getting lost, Ms. Liu carried a diabolo basket on her back and hugged Shen Yunhan, while Shen Yunyao held Shen Yunzhen. .

There is a street in Nafang City, where most of the trading shops are concentrated.

Shen Yunzhen and Shen Yunhan looked left and right, then looked again, so excited that they wanted to run down to the ground.

They walked into a cloth shop.

"How do you sell this cotton cloth?" Ms. Liu asked, pointing to the blue coarse cloth.

The female clerk at Cloth Shop glanced at it and said, "Twenty-two cents per zhang."

"Buy a foot, half a foot of muslin."

Shen Yunyao reminded in a low voice, "Mom, there is still silk."

"Do you have any silk at home?" Mrs. Liu added.

"Yes, here are all kinds of silk. How much do you want?" The female waiter brought a basket over and showed it to Ms. Liu.

Mrs. Liu looked at Shen Yunyao, who immediately said: "Light green, pink. These two small rolls are enough. Give us some rags."

"Okay, I'll give you some rags later. A total of eighty-two cents." The female waiter finished her calculations.

Ms. Liu paid the money and put the purchased items into the bamboo basket behind her. The group left the cloth shop and saw a jewelry shop within a few steps.

Shen Yunyao walked in quickly, followed by Liu and Shen Yunhao.

Jewelry shops also sell copper wire of various thicknesses.

Shen Yunyao bought five thick ones and five thin ones for ten coins.

She saw that there were no entangled flowers in the jewelry shop. The hairpin jewelry made of gold, silver and copper were a little rough, and there were not many styles. The price was quite expensive for her now.

A silver hairpin with a simple pattern costs 550 coins. A copper hairpin of the same style costs 300 coins.

Shen Yunyao bought what she wanted and was satisfied. She left the jewelry shop and followed her mother a few steps behind.

"Brothers and sisters, why are you in town? Come, let's have some sweets, kids." A plump lady wearing a silver hairpin and a fine cloth skirt greeted her warmly, holding an oil paper bag in one hand and holding candy in the other.

Shen Yunyao looked familiar to this lady, but could not remember who it was.
Chapter completed!