Chapter 209 Stumbling

Shen Zhiyan was reading in the study.

Shen Manman ran in: "Daddy."

Shen Zhiyan didn’t even raise his head: “I’m back.”

Shen Manman put the food box on the coffee table by the window, and took the bowl of soup and put it on Shen Zhiyan’s desk: “Dad, look, this is Xu Yu chicken soup.”

Shen Zhiyan looked up curiously: "Xu Yu can make soup?"

"Yeah." Shen Manman nodded, "Aunt said that they call it coconut, also called coconut chicken soup. And it tastes very good... It looks delicious! This soup is specially stewed for you by Aunt, Dad, drink more."

"Really?" Shen Zhiyan raised his eyebrows.

"Of course it's true!" he patted his chest.

Shen Zhiyan looked at her greasy little mouth and laughed: "This soup is delivered just in time, let's have dinner now."

Shen Manman glanced at the clepsydra beside her: "It's only 2:45 pm now, isn't it... too early!"

The main thing is, she hasn’t digested it yet!

There was a lot of meat under the soup, and she ate it all.

Shen Zhiyan said: “It’s not early, let’s go.”

Shen Manman followed Shen Zhiyan out of the study listlessly.

The little mouth kept chattering: "But... there is no rice at home?"

"That's easy. During the Dragon Boat Festival, go to a restaurant and get some food."

Duanwu, who had been following behind him, turned around and left.

The two came to the dining room, and the maid placed the dishes in the food boxes on the table one by one.

The food box has good heat preservation properties, so the food is still hot.

Sweet and sour spare ribs, stir-fried pork with mushrooms and...

"What is this?" Shen Zhiyan saw a dish that consisted of several pieces of meat, but they were quite large pieces, sprinkled with a little bit of black and white stuff that looked like salt.

"I don't know. Jin'er and Huan'er went out to play. When we came back, Auntie had already packed the food into the lunch box."

Soon, Duanwu came back with a small wooden basin of rice and scooped some rice for the two masters.

Shen Zhiyan picked up a piece of meat that he didn't know what it was and took a bite: "This is pork."

“Why is the pork cut into such big pieces?” Shen Manman also picked up a piece and took a bite: “What’s on it? It tastes very special with it.”

Shen Zhiyan said: “Black pepper?”

This is the first time I see someone using black pepper to cook, and even sprinkle it on fried meat. But I have to say, the texture and taste are very unique.

Shen Manman ate with a happy face: “Delicious!”

Unfortunately, she felt a little full after eating one piece. If she had known she would drink soup, she would not have drunk so much.

The other two dishes were also delicious, sweet and sour spare ribs and stir-fried pork with mushrooms. They were very ordinary dishes, but she just made them better than others.

Shen Zhiyan liked all three dishes, especially the fried pork with black pepper.

Shen Manman said: “I didn’t expect that my aunt is not only beautiful, but also good at business, makes good desserts, and even cooks such delicious dishes.”

Seeing that Shen Zhiyan didn’t respond, Shen Manman puffed up her little face: “The most important thing is that she catches fish well.”

Shen Zhiyan: “…”

…

Ye Caiping's family had also had dinner.

Ye Caiping, the old couple Ye, Ye Daquan and Mrs. Du gathered in the main room to discuss the furniture workshop.

"What? 200 taels!" Mrs. Du almost fainted. "I just paid off my younger sister's 40 taels the other day, and now I have to pay another 200 taels..."

Saying this, there is a feeling of both pain and happiness.

Old Mrs. Ye rolled her eyes at her and said, "Then do you want to take it or not?"

Mrs. Du sat up straight in a hurry: "I'll take it! But... we don't have it..."

200 taels of silver is not enough even if you borrow from everyone you know and sell all the deeds to your house.

Ye Caiping said: "I will lend the money to my elder brother and sister-in-law first, and when I make money, I will deduct it from the dividends."

Ye Daquan and Mrs. Du looked at Ye Caiping with gratitude.

They all knew that with my younger sister's ability, she had the capital to open not only one furniture workshop, but even two or three.

But my younger sister pulled them in and gave them the shares and dividends that she should have received, which was equivalent to giving them money for free.

Mrs. Du's eyes turned red: "Little sister... I, I really don't know how to thank you... I always had a hard time with you in the past."

Ye Caiping said: "The past is the past, it's in the past, there's no need to mention it anymore."

At this time, Xiaoyan came over and said, "Aunt, my eldest cousin and second uncle are back."

As he was speaking, Ye Yong and Ye Erquan walked in together.

Ye Caiping asked Ye Yong to wait at the village entrance and told him to call Ye Erquan over when he saw him.

Ye Erquan was covered in sweat and smiled, "What do you want from me, little sister? Look how stinky I am. How about I go home and take a shower before coming back?"

Old Lady Ye said, "What's the stench? Aren't we farmers like this? Come on, sit down."

Ye Erquan then chuckled, pulled a stool and sat down, took the large cup of tea handed to him by Xiaoyan, and gulped down half of it.

Ye Caiping then said, "I was planning to set up a furniture workshop with my eldest brother and Uncle Wang, and I had originally left 7 shares for my second brother. But when we discussed it at noon, my second brother had already gone out, so I called my second sister-in-law over. But she said she didn't want to participate."

"What?" Ye Erquan almost choked on the tea in his mouth, "Why doesn't she participate?"

That was an opportunity that my younger sister gave to their family, but that woman actually refused it?

Ye Daquan raised his eyebrows: "It was fine at the time... I said I would give you 7 shares, but she said it was too little. Later, she said she had to pay money... Maybe she thought the money was too much, so she was unwilling to do it."

It's not that he was gossiping about his brother's wife behind her back, it's just that... he had to say something about this!

"How many?"

"70 taels!"

Ye Erquan almost vomited blood. He earned more than ninety taels a month from building the toilet and delivering spicy soup. Now he was only taking out 70 taels, which was only their family's monthly income. How could she be unwilling to do so?

Not to mention whether you make money or not, even if you really lose money, it’s only one month’s income! How can you lose a lot of money if you just put in one month's income and try hard?

Ye Erquan was so angry that he stood up suddenly, but before he could take two steps, he walked back and finally rummaged through his sleeves and took out two ingots of silver:

"Here is 20 taels per ingot, a total of 40 taels. I'll give you this first. I'll give you the rest in two days."

Ye Daquan said: "Ha, you can take out 40 taels just by stretching out your hand, you are indeed a wealthy man, really impressive."

Ye Erquan rolled his eyes at him and said, "Thanks to Manager Lin, the big employer. The toilets at Baiweilou in town are very good. When Boss Su found out, he asked us to build toilets at all the branches of Baiweilou. At least the ones in the nearby prefectures should be built."

"Because it's too far, we have to go out of the city, so we have to add an extra two taels of silver per hut. This is the final payment from the previous customers, and the deposit from Mr. Su."

"It's just..." Ye Erquan thought for a moment and sighed, "Don't tell Peng'er's mother about this, or she will keep nagging about it."

Ye Caiping nodded: "Okay, let's not tell anyone. These 7 shares only belong to Second Brother."

Ye Caiping also didn't want Ye Erquan to hide the secret from Wei, but Wei tried to stop Ye Erquan.

Although things look good now, with an income of more than ninety taels per month. But neither the business of delivering spicy soup nor the toilet business is stable and cannot be a long-term solution.

These 7 shares are her guarantee to Ye Erquan.