It's no secret that the shop run by the fourth branch of the Xia family is profitable.
But outsiders only see that this store is profitable, but they don’t know how much it earns.
Even among the Xia family themselves, only Xia Daohua knows best how considerable the profits are.
Most other people only know part of it.
For example, the couple in the fourth room only knew a fraction of the truth.
However, even if it was just a small amount, Xia Youtian and Jiang were still smiling, with the corners of their mouths curled up and unable to fall down.
Although a store like this requires a lot of investment in the early stages, the profit it brings every month is more profitable than working hard in farming for a whole year.
The couple has completely lost the mood to farm.
I just want to help my daughter run the store.
This shop is now under the name of Xia Daohua. Xia Daohua's household registration has been separated from the Xia family's household registration and has become a separate household.
The reason for doing this was a long conversation.
The fourth branch of the Xia family has realized that relying solely on farming and relying on the weather for food may not even be enough to provide for their basic needs.
If you want to make money, you still have to do business.
However, if the fourth branch of the Xia family wants to truly develop, it must allow Wulang, the only male so far, to go to school and change the family's fortune.
If the Xia family goes into business directly, it will affect Wulang's status.
If the fourth house in the summer is listed as a merchant household, then no matter how outstanding Wu Lang is, he will not be able to take the imperial examination.
This was a bolt from the blue.
The couple in the fourth room have already tasted the sweetness of doing business, so how can they bear to let it go?
Xia Daohua took this opportunity to propose to register her household registration and set up a separate household.
All the family's business was handled by him and registered under his own name. This way, even if the imperial court strictly prohibited merchants from taking the imperial examinations, Wu Lang would not be implicated.
Xia Youtian and Jiang discussed privately for several days before agreeing to this approach.
Xia Daohua was still young, and it was too early for her to get married. Even if she married at fifteen, it would be six years later.
There is no need to worry about her taking all these businesses to her in-laws' house.
If Linghua wasn't too young and couldn't get past the government, Xia Youtian and Jiang would have wanted to transfer all the family businesses to Linghua's name.
The Xia family celebrated their first New Year in Jixiang County in that rented compound. Besides the Xia family, the Hu family and the Zhao family also celebrated the New Year together.
After a long journey, the three families' relationships grew much closer. But with such closeness, friction was inevitable. Some people lost their temper on the spot, but for others, it was a matter of heart.
Barriers, big and small, remain.
During this period, the three families were looking for fields and buying land together. They were originally planning to do it together, but the Xia family acted faster and found suitable land first. The Hu and Zhao families couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.
Before the three families agreed to buy land together, they also agreed that if they came across a suitable large piece of land that required the joint efforts of the three families, they would act together.
Therefore, the Hu and Zhao families, seeing that although the Xia family took action first but the land they bought was not very large, could not complain openly.
However, although I can’t express it in words, the bitterness in my heart is really there, making me feel uncomfortable.
Later, the Hu and Zhao families also bought some scattered land - it's not that they didn't want to buy a whole piece of land, but the whole piece of land was either too large to eat or too expensive to be cost-effective.
It is this kind of scattered land, a piece here and a piece there, which is not what rich people would look down upon, but is more suitable for small families like them.
However, this caused the three families to be separated. They had originally planned to continue living together, to support each other and to advance and retreat together, but this was no longer possible.
Of course, compared to outsiders, they all came from Beiguan Village after all, so they would still take care of each other, keep in touch with each other, and help each other.
It's just that we can't be as intimate as originally planned.
The Hu family had already decided to move out to the countryside in six months, while the Zhao family planned to continue living in the compound and were unwilling to leave Jixiang County.
While the old couple was busy making dumplings, they talked about these trivial family matters with their sons and daughters-in-law. After a few words, they turned to their own family members:
"Our family also needs to think about how long we will live here. Should we move out after six months?"
There have also been many changes in the Xia family's affairs.
The old couple had decided that the second wife would cultivate the land they had purchased. The second wife and her husband were very proud of this. The third and fifth wives secretly sighed, fearing that this behavior might offend Dalang.
Speaking of Dalang, he has already found a academy and will go to school after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
The old couple will continue to support Dalang. Not only will they help Dalang take care of A Liu, they will also pay for Dalang to go to school.
Although Dalang had been setting up a stall on the street for the past two months, writing letters and couplets for people, hoping to be self-reliant and earn some money to supplement his income, he did not reject the old couple's kindness.
He had thought about it carefully for a long time, and for him, the best way out was naturally to take the imperial examination.
In order to take the imperial examination, he had to study in an academy.
To enter an academy, whether it is the gift of becoming a teacher, tuition, books, writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstone, or gifts for festivals and birthdays, which one does not require money?
Moreover, after entering the academy, it was impossible for him to keep A Liu with him all the time.
Although he had just been separated from his family, he felt that he could not leave A Liu for a moment.
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