"Cousin, you are being too serious." Zhang Mingyuan smiled awkwardly.
"It's not serious at all, cousin. You have a big family, but I'm all alone. My parents have separated, so I can't just leave my big brother to look after me. It's better to be safe than sorry."
"Dad, Dad!" Mrs. Xu came back from outside. "My cousin has cows and a huge flock of chickens here, and there's a big well over there. My cousins are so unruly. I was just looking around, and they followed me around like I was a thief."
"You are not a thief, but you were wrong to pull out my aunt's cotton." Shuduo ran in, "Aunt, she just pulled out the cotton in your field." She also knew how to complain.
Chun Xiao was unhappy when she heard this. "Cousin, you are so weird. Just look at me. Why did you pull up the cotton I planted? It's not easy for it to grow."
Xu grinned and said, "I just saw that your seedlings are growing better than ours, so I wanted to take a closer look."
"You just said there's a well outside?" Zhang Youkuan walked to the gate of the yard and took a look. Sure enough, he saw another well platform in the distance.
"Yes, there is a well. The well is huge, bigger than the well in our village." As he spoke, he saw the well in the yard again. "Wow, they dug two wells. This must have cost a lot of money."
"Come, come, sit down, sit down." Yan Bingfa instructed his son to go into the house and bring a stool. "You're all tired after walking up the mountain for such a long time. Hurry up and sit down and rest."
The two children took the opportunity to run into the house, but soon ran out again, "Mom, our cousin's door is locked."
When Zhou heard this, she sneered, "What a good upbringing." She didn't say it loudly, but Yan Bingfa, who was standing beside her, heard it and glared at her. She snorted and sat down next to Chunxiao.
"You two go out and play. Who told you to come into the room?" Zhang Mingyuan sent the two children away and smiled at everyone embarrassedly. "These two children are too naughty. Their mother can't control them."
"Children, it's better to be naughty."
When Shu Duo saw Zhang Chong and the others go out, she hurriedly followed them out.
"Chunxiao, you see, you have bought the land and dug a well. This business must be quite big. You must have made a lot of money." Zhang Youkuan sniffed and brought his thoughts back.
Xu strolled back and forth in the yard, and from time to time she would go to the kitchen door to take a look through the gap.
"Uncle, what you said is a bit ambiguous. First of all, I bought this land with the money I earned from selling Ganoderma lucidum. I told you the last time my aunt came that I had used up the money. Secondly, don't think I've become rich just because I dug a well. Those people in the village only know how to believe everything they hear. I dug these wells for my cotton fields. If I don't dig the wells, I can't plant cotton and the land will be wasted. I still owe money to the restaurant owner for these two wells." Go and ask if you have the guts.
"Don't cry poor in front of us. Yan Qi has been sent to a private school. You are willing to send your child to school without money. You are kidding." Yan Erni looked disdainful.
"No one in my family can read except me. My business requires me to be able to count. We have no other choice. Isn't it more cost-effective to send a child to learn from the very beginning? He will teach us when he comes back." After saying this, she looked at Zhang Mingyuan and said, "Cousin, let me ask you, if you started a business, how would you plan to keep accounts and calculate accounts?"
Zhang Mingyuan was stunned. Although he often talked about doing business, he had never really thought about these things. "If I can't do the accounting myself, can't I just hire an accountant to do it?" He said this without any confidence.
"Then what would you do if the accountant did something wrong?"
"Have someone check the accounts, what else can we do?"
Chunxiao shook her head and smiled.
Yan Dashan smiled and said, "Cousin, you can't run a business like this. You have to hire people to do everything. If the business doesn't take off, half of the money will be gone. I think you should give up and focus on farming."
"Cousin, you are looking down on us. How can you know if you can't make it if you don't try?" Mrs. Xu came back and said, "We are all family. Look, you are hiding the food you make and you won't even let us see it. Dad, I think my uncle's family looks down on us and treats us like thieves."
Zhou was so angry that her blood was about to burst. She was about to teach her nephew's wife a lesson, but Chunxiao, who was standing beside her, held her back firmly. "What are you talking about, cousin? You're really hurting my parents. They treated you to delicious food and drinks, but you said that to them. If that's the case, then let's go back to our own homes. I've always stayed away from such thankless tasks."
Zhang Mingyuan glared at Xu, "Chunxiao, don't be angry. I've already told you that your cousin's wife is just straightforward. It's because the food you cooked was so delicious that we were so curious."
"Actually, what your cousin's wife said is not wrong. We are all family. Let's see what's going on. It's not right to not even let us see it!" Yan Erni also jumped out.
"This..." Yan Bingfa looked at Chunxiao helplessly.
"Since you aunts are so curious, you can take a look. It's just a pot of meat." She glanced at the anxious people in the room with a soothing look, telling them not to worry. If her recipe was so easy to steal, they would have set up a cordon to prevent anyone from getting close. Even if she laid out the marinade in front of them, they probably wouldn't recognize it. And what's more, they were just looking at the meat being marinated.
Zhang Mingyuan and the others were obviously happy when they heard this, "Then please ask cousin to take us to have a look."
Chunxiao took them to the kitchen.
The kitchen door opened. Zhang, who was listening to the noise outside, was startled to see a large group of people coming in and quickly stood up from the stool.
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