Lin Weiming has been feeling quite depressed lately.

He held an official position, but it was a sinecure. Not only did he have nothing to do, but he also only had to attend the grand court assembly once every three days. He was content to stay at home and not cause trouble most of the time.

Lin Weiming strongly protested, saying that he was a grown man, not one of the children in the family, and how could he possibly cause any trouble!

However, Liu Junlan and Xue Fu ignored him. The two women were busy every day, dealing with things in the shop.

In the county town, the population was limited, and their small shop was enough for just two people to sell things. They couldn't sell much in a day, and they could usually pack up and go home by the afternoon.

And now they are in the capital!

The capital city is different from other places; it can be considered the best city in the Great Yan Kingdom.

The population is also extremely large.

The Lin family's shop is now located on Jinbao Street, where there are many people coming and going.

Although there are many wealthy people on Jinbao Street, the majority of people in the world are still poor.

Lin's shop sells roasted sweet potato skin rice wrapped in oden and many other dishes, all of which are extremely delicious and inexpensive. You can easily fill your stomach by just buying a large rice ball.

Many people lined up just for the cheap price, and even more people lined up hoping to use the opportunity to build a relationship with the Regent's family. Moreover, there were many upright officials among them who were used to eating their family's breakfast when they went to court.

The line at the Lin family's house stretched from morning till night. Except for a lame gatekeeper who couldn't walk, the rest of the servants were all sent to work by Wang Youcai.

The men, dressed in clean and neat clothes, greeted customers at the front, while the women busied themselves behind the front preparing the various foods to be sold.

Xuefu fiddled with the abacus, quickly calculating the accounts, and told them that not only could they still receive a monthly allowance of 500 coins as before, but if the goods in the shop sold well, they would also receive additional money.

Regardless of how much money is made from the goods sold in the store, 10% of the profits will be shared equally among them.

The things sold in Lin's shop were of good quality and low price, but they could still make a living by selling a lot of goods at low profit margins. They could earn more than ten taels of silver a day.

Although they didn't have the same level of calculation as their wives, they could still figure it out by counting on their fingers: even a tenth of the shop's profit would amount to several dozen taels of silver. If they split it among themselves, each of them could earn several taels of silver a month!

In this way, she actually earns more than being a top-ranking maid in a wealthy family!

Moreover, Xuefu and Liu Junlan had mostly kept capable wives and servants, and hadn't kept a single pretty teenage maid; they had all been sent back to the Prince's mansion.

No matter how hardworking and capable these wives and mothers are, if they lack the skills to become managers, they will never be able to earn a few taels of silver a month just because of their age and looks!

But now that they've arrived at the Lin family's shop, things are quite different. As long as they work together and do a good job in the shop, the more they earn, the more they'll get.

They all worked even harder.

When Lin Weiming heard that his wife and mother could earn so much money all at once, his first reaction was disbelief.

"Honey, you haven't been fooled, have you? There's a lot to it in doing business. How could you possibly make so much money? Show me the accounts right away, or you'll be cheated!" Lin Weiming said worriedly.

Xuefu had indeed never done business before. She only learned to read after marrying Lin Weiming and learning from his eldest son, Lin Zhongyuan. She could barely read a few words, so she wasn't completely illiterate.

"No way..." Hearing her husband say this, she felt that she hadn't made a mistake, but she still handed over the ledger: "Then you check it for me, it should be correct."

"Tsk!" Liu Junlan, not one to tolerate Lin Weiming's behavior, rolled her eyes and said, "Your wife is much more meticulous with the accounts than you are. Besides, I was watching, how could she possibly make a mistake?"

"Don't try to show off. When it comes to business, your wife hasn't done much, but you've only been doing it for about six months. How can you be any better than her?"

"Cough cough cough..." His mother had exposed his secrets all at once. Lin Weiming blushed a little, but pretended not to hear it and continued to skim through the ledger. To his surprise, he found that there were really no mistakes in it.

The only problem is that the handwriting used to copy the accounts is really ugly.

Lin Weiming couldn't find anything wrong with it, and muttered to himself, "These characters are a bit ugly, you still need to practice more."

"I really don't know if the people in the capital have never eaten anything good before? They eat such simple rice balls, boiled radishes, and roasted sweet potato noodles with such gusto, and so many people come to buy them. I heard the queue was so long that people couldn't even pass a cart... How come when I was in the county, I could only earn a few taels of silver a month, but now I earn more than that in a single day?"

"Of course! Don't you think about it? How many people are there in our county? Just the people on the two streets next door combined probably outnumber the entire population of our county. How can you compare them?"

Liu Junlan reached out and took the account book back. "What does it matter if our handwriting is ugly or not when we, mother and children, earn some money? On the contrary, now that you're an official, you should read more books and practice your handwriting, so that when something really happens to you, you won't be able to do anything!"

Lin Weiming thought about it and agreed. Qi Sichen was a cunning old fox. Now that he had given him an official position out of the blue, he certainly wasn't planning to give it away for free.

From now on, I'll probably have to do the work myself most of the time.

Since he has nothing to do now, he might as well read a couple more books to improve his studies and also keep an eye on those two naughty boys.

Then I'll read a few books with my daughter.

Lin Weiming imagined it in his mind and thought that the taste seemed pretty good.

...

So the next day, Lin Weiming, who was also stuck at home, asked Lin Zihan and Lin Ziqiu to take Lin Wanyue to school together.

Lin Zhongyuan and Lin Zheyun, the two older ones, had other arrangements. One went to study at the Imperial Academy, and the other went to the martial arts training ground, where they were taught by their own masters.

As for Lin Zihan and Lin Ziqiu, Liu Junlan had originally asked Wang Youcai to inquire about them, but later worried that if the twins went to study together, Lin Wanyue would be bored staying at home alone.

Furthermore, the two children are still young, only six years old at the time.

Children their age are only just beginning their education; it would be a waste of their time for them to go there. It would be better for them to continue being taught by Master Cui.

Although Master Cui is not a famous scholar or a great Confucian scholar, but just a poor scholar from the countryside, he has been reading many books day and night and is no less learned than those teachers outside.

Perhaps it was after he stopped being human that Master Cui's writings gained a more unrestrained and spiritual quality, which is quite rare.