Chapter 188: Booming Business

Ye Erquan and Sanquan Tieniu arrived at the town together.

I originally wanted to get some chickens, geese, ducks and fish, but I came across someone selling mutton.

The three of them thought about it and directly spent one tael of silver, bought more than 80 kilograms of mutton, and made a mutton hotpot.

After getting some side dishes and two jars of the best rice wine, they returned to the village happily.

Although it is already March, the weather is still cold, which is suitable for eating hot pot.

In the evening, Uncle Ye's family, including the little kids, all about 16 or 17 people came, but there were only two people from Tie Niu's family.

There were more than thirty people, and four tables were set up, eating in a lively manner.

Tie Niu and Uncle Ye's family are particularly grateful to Ye Caiping.

I thought I could earn one or two taels of silver a month from building a thatched hut, but I didn't expect that I could earn more than four taels of silver after only eight days of work.

When Mrs. Du learned that Ye Erquan and the other two had made so much money, she was envious and said, "I'm so jealous. It's all your fault for not going."

As he said this, he started to twist Ye Daquan's flesh.

"Ah, you bitch, you pinched me again." Ye Daquan slapped her hand away, "What should I do? Just stand there? I don't have good skills, so I can't make a living in this industry. I don't know how good it is now. I drag my little sister around every day."

Ye Daquan said this happily.

Ye Caiping was so angry that she laughed. Why did it sound to her like Ye Daquan was walking his dog every day?

Tie Niu's wife climbed onto Mrs. Du's shoulders and said, "It's a bargain for us."

Mrs. Du smiled and glared at her: "Okay, okay, it's all good for you."

Wei was very proud and happy, so he drank two more glasses of wine, smiling the whole time.

Ye Sanquan drank a bowl of wine: "This kind of work, even if it happens once every two months, it will make us a lot of money, hehehe."

Zhao Tieniu said: "This is called three years of not opening a business, and three years of profit after opening it."

Everyone listened and laughed.

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After returning home, Ye Erquan was still wondering when this business would come back.

Unexpectedly, it came the next day!

Shopkeeper Chi ran into Ye Caiping's house crying, "Madam Ye is so cruel. When Madam Ye was still setting up a stall, I was the first one to ask your family to supply goods, and that Lin was still there to embarrass Madam Ye."

"Then I helped Madam Ye get close to Miss Shen, and later, I helped deliver noodles to those two idiots. Logically, I should be closer to her than that Lin guy, right?"

"But Madam Ye had something good, but she gave it to that Lin first... I, I'm so sad!"

As he said this, he patted his chest and cried loudly, but without any tears.

Ye Caiping's face turned black, and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly: "Shut up! Who kissed who? I didn't go to the door and ask Mr. Lin to build this toilet. When he came to transport goods, he had a good eye and asked my second brother to build it."

Shopkeeper Chi: "Anyway, anyway, I'm sad! You don't know, now half of the town knows that he built a few special new toilets, and many guests go to his house to eat in order to use the toilets."

Ye Caiping laughed when she heard this: "Then you can ask my second brother to build it. Go quickly! If you don't go, one more day of delay will cause one of your customers to leave."

Shopkeeper Chi didn't even have time to cry and turned around and ran away without hesitation.

Ye Erquan didn't expect that business would come again so soon. He was so excited that he pulled Tie Niu and the other man to follow Shopkeeper Chi to measure the size.

In less than three days, Ye Erquan took on more than 30 jobs, most of which were from restaurants and wealthy families. In addition to people from the town, people from the county also came to visit after hearing the news.

Ye Erquan’s orders are all scheduled for two months later.

After doing more work, the three of them became faster and could build one every two days on average.

Wei did the math and found that at this rate, after deducting the costs, Ye Erquan alone could earn around 67 taels a month. Adding the 23 taels and 5 cents he earned from delivering goods, their family's monthly income would be 90 taels and 5 cents.

Wei was very happy. From now on, she was considered a wealthy family!

Thinking of this, she went out every day to show off, and she no longer wore coarse cloth clothes, but cotton clothes.

Seeing how busy Ye Erquan was with his business, Old Lady Ye was completely confused.

At this moment, he was picking vegetables with Ye Caiping in the corridor.

"It's really strange. Why does the town like to build this kind of hut? All the good things are wasted!" said Old Mrs. Ye.

Ye Caiping smiled and said, "The town is of course different from the village. They don't ferment fertilizer."

"I heard that there are people in the town and the county who buy night-blooming incense. They buy a big bucket and give you a penny."

"Those who do this are people who don't need a penny a day. They all want their homes to smell good. Besides, in order to keep the restaurant clean, they have to pay someone to take care of the toilet. The money from selling night incense is not enough to pay the workers."

Old Mrs. Ye understood: "That's right."

Mrs. Du came over with a small pot of garlic: "Tsk tsk, I'm so envious."

"I see you're about to get jealous." Old Mrs. Ye said with a smile.

Ye Caiping smiled and said, "I still have a way to make a living."

Mrs. Du's eyes lit up: "What's your business?"

Ye Caiping thought for a moment and said, "Wait a little longer! I'll tell you when I have an idea. By the way, how is the house?"

"The wall has been built a long time ago, and the beams will be put up in a few days. The date has been chosen, March 18th. After the beams are put up, we will lay tiles, floor tiles, doors and windows. It should be ready by mid-April."

Ye Caiping nodded and said that she had to set up a furniture workshop.

Ye Caiping asked, "How is Yong'er doing? It's been four months since December last year, right?"

Speaking of this, Mrs. Du looked proud and said, "He has learned very well. He said that in this new house, he made all the tables, chairs and cabinets in our room. My younger sister wants to see it. When the new house is built, she will know it naturally."

Ye Caiping was surprised: "Uncle Wang is really practical. After only a few months of learning, Yong'er can make furniture by himself."

Many other masters have to let their apprentices do heavy and miscellaneous work for free for one or two years before they can learn the skills. It's really rare that Wang Shuantou actually teaches real kung fu right from the start.

As he was talking, he suddenly saw Jinhua coming back, followed by a woman, who turned out to be Manager Yao.

"It's only noon now, why is Jinhua back at this time? Hey, is this... Manager Yao?" Mrs. Du was stunned.

Jinhua blushed: "Ah, this..."

"Hello, Madam Jinhua!" Shopkeeper Yao came over, "Madam Ye and... Madam are here too!"

Shopkeeper Yao had never seen Old Lady Ye, but he recognized her identity at a glance.

Ye Caiping introduced: "Mother, this is Manager Yao from Jixiang Cloth Shop. She is the one who taught Jinhua how to sew clothes."

Old Lady Ye didn't know what Manager Yao was doing here, so she stood up with a smile and said, "Please come in and sit down."

A group of people came to the main room.

After serving the tea, Manager Yao said, "Well... the day after tomorrow is our young master's birthday. Our master doesn't have many relatives here, and he wanted to have a lively time, so he invited everyone from our cloth shop and asked us to bring our families along."

Ye Caiping and Old Lady Ye understood instantly that the boss wanted to meet the future in-laws!