Chapter 328 I heard that I am the best (15)

"Aunt Qian, stealing money is a very serious matter. It proves that Li Ji has a serious character problem. If we don't tell Li Wei, what if Li Ji becomes more and more depraved in the future? By then, Li Wei will definitely blame us for not teaching him well and letting him become like this." Zhou Shichu said with a serious face.

"Before, Li Ji was just a little naughty, liked to play tricks, and didn't like to study. These can be said to be his playful nature. But now he has started to steal money, so we can't tolerate it. Many children become bad starting from small things. Now he steals money from home, and he will definitely steal other people's money in the future. We will consider that he is a family member and will not beat him to death, but others will not do that. Others will just want to beat him to death, and even if they beat him to death, they will not be responsible. Who asked him to be a thief in other people's homes?"

Zhou Shichu spoke logically. When Aunt Qian heard her serious tone, she also understood the seriousness of the matter and did not stop Zhou Shichu from complaining to Li Wei.

Li Wei yelled, "Don't tell my dad! I'm not a bad kid!"

"You're not a bad boy, why did you go to my room to steal money?" Zhou Shichu asked.

"If you had given me the money directly, would I still have stolen it? It's all your fault! Who told you not to give me the money! It's all your fault that I became like this, and you even beat me up like this..." Li Ji's words, which he spoke with confidence and thought he had done nothing wrong, stunned Aunt Qian, who finally realized that there was really something wrong with Li Ji.

Zhou Shichu then wrote a letter to tell Li Wei about Li Ji's "glorious deeds".

The reason she told him was simply because Zhou Shichu didn't want Li Wei to blame her for Li Ji's failure to succeed in the future. She should educate her own son herself and not put the responsibility on her. She was not so kind as to educate a stepson who was against her in every way.

I don't know how Li Wei, who was in the military camp, felt when he received Zhou Shichu's letter, but Li Ji was really suffering at home. His injuries were not light, and he needed to lie in bed to recuperate and could not get out of bed. In this ancient time without mobile phones and televisions, he was extremely bored, not to mention that he didn't like reading. In fact, judging from his frequent skipping of classes, it was not known whether he could recognize all the words in the enlightenment textbook.

After selling buns for several months, Zhou Shichu finally earned enough money to buy a shop, so he directly contacted an agent to help him find a suitable shop.

The agent worked very hard, and within a few days he helped Zhou Shichu find a shop of about 20 to 30 square meters on Jixiang Street. Jixiang Street is the busiest main road in Cuicheng, equivalent to the commercial street in later generations. Therefore, if you can open a shop on this street with the largest number of people and traffic, it is conceivable that the business will definitely be good.

However, a shop with a good location naturally has higher prices. The money Zhou Shichu earned from selling buns during this period was not enough to buy this shop. She had to use the silver she had saved in her companion space to afford it.

Although the shop was not located in the busiest place in the middle of the street, it was quite good near the end. Zhou Shichu was very satisfied with it. He asked someone to repair and modify it and hung a plaque with the words "Jin Yu Baozi".

From now on, she and Aunt Qian would no longer have to work hard setting up a stall on the street and suffer from wind and rain.

Because her buns have accumulated a good reputation in the past few months, old customers were very proud to buy from her store when they learned that she had opened a shop. So when Zhou Shichu's bun shop opened, business did not decline at all. Of course, this was also because her buns were made with real ingredients and were fresh, fragrant and tempting.

Zhou Shichu's career was finally on track. She was very happy and made a pot of braised pork that day to celebrate.

The food of that era was not delicate and delicious enough. Zhou Shichu got tired of it after eating it for a long time. He missed the strong-flavored braised food, so he bought a chicken, a duck, two pig's trotters, as well as various pieces of meat such as chicken feet and duck feet, put a bunch of braised ingredients in it, and stewed it in a pot.

All braised food is delicious. When Zhou Shichu cooked this pot of braised food, the aroma drifted to the neighbors' homes. If they hadn't been concerned about Zhou Shichu being a woman with no sense of shame, those neighbors would have come to investigate long ago.

Zhou Shichu's bad reputation stopped them from exploring, but it did nothing to stop them from drooling.

The neighbors on the left of the Li family are the family of a traveling merchant named Chen. Chen, the traveling merchant, often travels all over the world. Although the world is in chaos now, he rarely goes out to do business for safety reasons, but this does not affect his well-informed character at all.

However, no matter how knowledgeable he was, he had never smelled a scent as fragrant and soul-stirring as the one he smelled today.

"Dad, what kind of food is the Li family making? It smells so good... I really can't help it. Dad, can you go to the Li family and buy some from them?" A chubby boy stood under the wall that separated the Li and his homes, leaning against the wall while sniffing the rich aroma in the air with an intoxicated look on his face, and quietly asked his father who was leaning against the wall in the same posture as him to smell the aroma.

Mr. Chen closed his eyes and said, "I want to go too, but your mother said that the woman from the Li family is a badass. We'd better not mess with her. What's more, I'm a handsome man. What if that crazy woman falls in love with me?"

Young Master Chen looked at his father's tall and fat body, and his dark and fat face with unclear facial features. For a moment, he didn't know whether to say that his mother thought too highly of his father, or that his father was too narcissistic? This kind of honor is called handsome and unrestrained? Even if he is his biological father, he can't go against his conscience and think that he is handsome.

"Then... let mother go?" he said while the young master blinked.

"Yes! Let your mother go!" Master Chen opened his eyes immediately, "Your mother is a woman. No matter how crazy that woman from the Li family is, she won't like her!"

So Mr. Chen quickly ran home to find his wife.

When Mrs. Chen heard her husband asking her to go to the Li family to buy food, her eyebrows immediately raised: "What did you say? Asking me to go to the Li family to buy food? Are you crazy about it? Is that woman in the Li family worth dealing with?"

"Oh, madam, we are just buying some food from her. We are not going to have any contact with her. Can't we just not provoke her? You smell the fragrance coming from her house... Can you bear it? The appetite in my stomach has been aroused. If I don't eat these foods, I will definitely not be able to sleep tonight! Madam, just think of it as having pity on me and your son!" Mr. Chen begged again and again, and Mrs. Chen reluctantly knocked on the door of the Li family.

Aunt Qian opened the gate and saw Madam Chen. She asked, "Madam Chen? What can I do for you?"

Mrs. Chen was so tempted by the strong fragrance that hit her nose after opening the door that her saliva almost flowed out from the corners of her mouth. She swallowed the saliva that was rapidly secreted in her mouth awkwardly, and then smiled awkwardly at Aunt Qian:

"Aunt Qian, I wonder what delicious food you have made? I can smell the fragrance in my house. My master is craving for it. I wonder if you would be willing to sell me some of it?"

(End of this chapter)