It was getting late, so Xue Huan said goodbye and Qin personally saw her out.
Xue Huan took the initiative to bring up Ye Fu's desire to invest. "I don't have any objections, but I don't know what you think, sister-in-law, so I didn't speak rashly just now."
Qin's heart warmed. "I feel relieved with my sister's words. But I won't let you suffer any loss. Your 50% will remain unchanged, and I will redistribute my 50%."
Xue Huan was about to say something, but Qin grabbed her hand and spoke first, "Xiaoxian, you're willing to bring your sister-in-law along to make money. I've already owed you a huge favor, so how can I let you suffer any more?"
So, Xue Huan said nothing more.
The two discussed the matters of opening a store and then parted at the door.
Qin was a person who was quick and efficient. After dinner that night, she held a meeting with the female members of the family in the old lady's Chunxuan Hall and told them about her plan to go into business with Zhao Xiaoxian to open an ice cream shop.
"If anyone is willing to join us, you can invest some money, and I can give out 10% of the shares to share with everyone."
There are two branches in the Ye family. The first branch is the line of the eldest master Ye Sheng, and the second branch is the line of the second master Ye Ze. Ye Ze is a bastard, so after the old man passed away, he separated from the family and lived separately.
She doesn't live in the Ye Mansion now, and only visits during festivals.
The master has two sons and one daughter.
The eldest son is Ye Diao, now the young master of the Ye family. He married Qin and had a son, Ye Mao.
The second son, Ye Cong, was born out of wedlock. He did not like doing business, but he showed a talent for studying since he was young. He had already passed the imperial examination and was just waiting for the next year's imperial examination to test the waters.
He married Song, who was a low-key woman with a gentle and docile temperament, and devoted herself to taking care of her husband and children.
My daughter Ye Fu has reached marriageable age, but she hasn't mentioned anyone yet.
This era was relatively open, and the etiquette for women was not so strict. It was not too late for a girl to get married at the age of seventeen or eighteen. Some men, who loved their daughters dearly, would wait until they were in their twenties to marry them off.
Compared with other big families, the Ye family does not have many descendants, but this also means there are fewer disputes.
The family atmosphere is also relatively harmonious.
There are no such things as brothers fighting with each other or sisters-in-law fighting with each other.
It was for this reason that Qin was willing to bring the women in her family to make money together.
Ye Fu was the first to respond, "Sister-in-law, I'll give you all the money I saved!"
The old lady immediately stated, "And I, Haitang, will go get my money box."
He asked for some money to be handed over to Qin on the spot.
Qin was also helpless.
The eldest lady said: "I'll give you five thousand taels."
The eldest lady was also a woman with a large dowry in her hands. After so many years of management, her wealth had increased several times.
Song came from a scholarly family and was not as wealthy as her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law, but she was not the kind of person who thought money was dirt.
After getting married, you have to take care of your own small family. Everything from clothing to food and social interactions costs money, right?
Although they have not been divided out yet and still use public funds for food, accommodation and clothing, it is not convenient to withdraw money from the public bank if they want to buy some valuable personal items.
For example, last time, my husband fell in love with a piece of Hui ink, but he had to give it up because he didn’t have enough money.
If you have money in your hands, you won’t have these worries.
It’s not that the family is particularly harsh on them. In fact, the sisters-in-law treat them equally in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the monthly allowance is paid on time.
But they will have to be separated sooner or later, so we have to plan for the future.
Song thought about this and made up her mind, "Sister-in-law, I don't have that much money. Can I invest 500 taels?"
Five hundred taels was all the property she could control now.
Qin: "Of course, but I've made it clear in advance that if you invest more, you'll get more profit, and if you invest less, you'll earn less."
Song nodded: "I know this."
After discussing it, Qin drafted the adoption document and showed it to several people. No one had any objections.
The next morning, Qin formally signed a pact with several female members of her family, and with the money they invested, she started her ice cream business.
First, you need to choose a site and dig a large cellar. Then make a large amount of ice and turn it into an ice storage to prepare for making ice cream later.
The ice in the Ye Mansion's ice cellar is for the people in the mansion to use, so it is not appropriate to use it for personal purposes.
However, there was no problem in borrowing it temporarily, so Qin still asked her two trusted maids, Chunhua and Qiuyue, who had learned how to make ice cream, to continue making ice cream.
The ice storage of the Ye Mansion is located in a courtyard in the northeast direction. The entrance is in one of the side rooms, and the servants who guard the ice storage live in the remaining rooms.
In order to facilitate the delivery of the prepared ice cream slurry to the ice storage, Qin had the yard next to the ice storage yard cleaned up, and asked Chunhua and Qiuyue to move in with several servants to make ice cream.
The steps to make ice cream are not difficult, but it takes time to obtain the starch, so Chunhua and Qiuyue each have their own responsibilities. One of them brings two maids to make the starch, and the other brings maids to make ice cream.
These maids are all servants of the Ye Mansion. Their father, mother, brothers and the entire family work in the mansion, and their indentures are in the hands of the master of the Ye Mansion. If they dare to leak the ice cream recipe without permission, not only will they be punished, but their families will also be in trouble.
When Chunhua and the others successfully made the first batch of ice cream, Qin first held an internal tasting meeting in the mansion, allowing all the masters and ladies in the mansion to try it.
If the Song family had some doubts about this business at the beginning, they no longer had any worries after tasting the ice cream.
This ice cream is simply made for this hot summer. It makes you feel cool all over and tastes very good.
Not to mention others, just talk about herself. If she knew there was such a good thing, even if the ice cream was a little expensive, she would be eager to buy it and eat it every day.
The other members of the Ye family also praised the ice cream.
Ye Mao, in particular, wanted to rely on his mother's connections to eat ice cream every day, but was ruthlessly rejected by Qin.
"Ice cream is a cold thing. Your sister Xiaoxian said that you can't eat too much. You can only eat one every three days at most." In order to prevent Ye Mao from craving for coolness, Qin halved Xue Huan's words.
Ye Mao felt disappointed at first, but then he thought that three days would be fine, it was better than having nothing to eat.
With the motivation of ice cream, he felt that this summer had something to look forward to and was no longer as difficult as usual.
Afterwards, Qin sent out invitations to all the ladies and young ladies in the city who were on good terms with her to come to Ye's house to appreciate the lotus.
The lotus viewing was just a cover. The real purpose was to use this lotus viewing banquet to advertise ice cream and Zhao Xiaoxian's upcoming snack shop.
Xue Huan also received an invitation. She came early and brought a lot of snacks to sponsor the banquet.
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