Time flies, and before we knew it, it was harvest time.
After sending people to harvest all the crops in the manor, Master Ding took the initiative to find Li Xiangping and asked to transfer the land deed to him.
Li Xiang'an immediately agreed, but when the property was transferred, Li Xiangping put Yan Qingqing's name on it.
Their family hasn't divided yet, and since the entire family fortune was built by her mother, it's only natural that her name is on the property.
After Li Xiangping returned home, he gave the land deed to Yan Qingqing. Yan Qingqing glanced at it and said, "Take it and give it to Huiniang for safekeeping. Just let her deposit it into the public fund."
Li Xiangping joked, "Mother, aren't you afraid we'll embezzle these fields?"
This estate will definitely be managed by Li Xiangping, and Yuan Huiniang is now the young mistress in charge. It would be very easy for the two of them to line their own pockets.
Yan Qingqing laughed and said, "Hui Niang would never do that. If you dare to do that, I'll break your legs."
As soon as Yan Qingqing finished speaking, Yuan Huiniang entered the room. She glared at Li Xiangping and said fiercely, "Why don't you ever think good things about me in front of your mother? I'm the eldest sister-in-law of my younger brothers and sisters. I'm supposed to set an example for them. How could you do such a thing?"
Moreover, my mother trusts me so much and has taught me step by step; how could I possibly betray her trust?
Li Xiangping chuckled twice and said, "I was just joking with Mom, don't take it seriously."
Yuan Huiniang naturally knew he was joking, so she ignored him.
He then looked at Yan Qingqing and smiled, "Mother, our workshop has been profitable for three months now, and the mushroom cultivation workshop has been profitable for a month now."
The original agreement was that Uncle San would receive 10% of the profits from the food processing workshop, and the Wei family would receive 30% from the mushroom cultivation workshop. Now that the money is in our family's account, Mother, do you think we should give them their share first?
Yan Qingqing nodded and replied, "Hui Niang is right. Your third uncle has always been dedicated to both our family and the workshop."
Giving him this 10% share would make him feel more at ease.
Then there's the Jia family, who spends all their time in the mushroom cultivation workshop, wholeheartedly nurturing the mushrooms.
Calculate the workshop's profits for the past three months (excluding preserved eggs) and the mushroom cultivation workshop's profits for this month, and distribute the profits to them as dividends.
Yuan Huiniang smiled and said, "Mother, I've already calculated it."
After saying that, he took out an account book from his sleeve and handed it to Yan Qingqing.
Yan Qingqing smiled and accepted it, praising, "Our Huiniang is becoming more and more capable."
Yuan Huiniang said with a smile, "Isn't this all thanks to my good teaching?"
Watching the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law working together, Li Xiangping suddenly felt that he was somewhat superfluous in the room.
Yan Qingqing opened the ledger and looked at it carefully. The food processing workshop had made a net profit of 67,600 taels of silver in the past three months, excluding the preserved eggs.
One-tenth of the profit is 6,760 taels.
This amount was truly substantial. Not only were Li San Niu and Xu Shi in disbelief when they received the banknotes, but Yan Qingqing herself also found it to be quite a lot.
However, Yan Qingqing is a person who keeps her promises. Since she promised to give Li Sanniu 10% of the profits, she will not go back on her word.
The mushroom cultivation workshop had only been profitable for a month, and the quantity of mushrooms being cultivated was not large.
However, the mushrooms have the advantage of a higher price, so after deducting the cost, there is still a profit of seven thousand taels.
The Jia family took 30%, which is 2,100 taels.
After verifying that everything was correct, Yan Qingqing said to Yuan Huiniang, "You should take this money from the public funds tomorrow and have someone send it to your third uncle and Tang Shi."
Yuan Huiniang quickly nodded in agreement.
The next day, before Yuan Huiniang could send anyone to deliver the money, Li Sanniu and Xu Shi came to their door to freeload a meal.
After inviting the two to sit down, Yan Qingqing asked Ruyi to add two more sets of bowls and chopsticks for them.
Although Yan Qingqing has many children, very few of them actually eat at home these days.
Li Xiangping and Li Xiang'an leave early and return late every day. Li Xiangjian has joined the army again, and Li Xiangkang is studying at school. None of the four sons are at home.
Li Xinniang had some unpleasantness with Yan Qingqing because of her marriage to Wu Jingzhi, so she has been eating in her room lately. Li Yueniang, on the other hand, spends all her time in the embroidery workshop, while Li Xiangyang is still a baby.
Therefore, the huge dining room only had two proper masters, Yan Qingqing and Yuan Huiniang, plus a little Jinxiu.
The moment Li Sanniu and his group arrived, things immediately became lively.
While eating, Li Sanniu said, "I knew Xiang Ping and the other boys weren't home, and I was worried that Second Sister-in-law would feel lonely, so the two of us came here to have dinner with her."
Yan Qingqing glanced at him and said, "So I should thank you both."
Li Sanniu quickly waved his hand and said, "No need for that."
Xu Shi, watching Li San Niu's antics, laughed and said, "Second Sister-in-law, don't listen to his nonsense. He's just too lazy and wants to come to Second Sister-in-law's house for a ready-made meal."
Furthermore, my second sister-in-law hasn't been in a good mood lately, and her children aren't home. Although we can't help her solve her problems, we can at least keep her company and talk to her.
Madam Xu was a sensible person. She understood Yan Qingqing's attitude towards Li Xinniang very well, and she also knew that Li Xinniang had broken Yan Qingqing's heart.
Yan Qingqing glanced at Madam Xu and said, "Sister-in-law, you are very kind."
Upon hearing this, Xu smiled at Yan Qingqing, then whispered, "The Han family asked me a couple of days ago if they had done something wrong to upset Second Sister-in-law."
They also said that they no longer dare to even think about marriage with our family, and asked for our forgiveness if they had done anything inappropriate.
I couldn't really give them a straight answer, but I said I'd ask them about it when I had the chance.
Yan Qingqing sighed upon hearing this. She actually thought highly of the Han family, but Li Xinniang probably didn't have that kind of luck.
So after thinking for a moment, he said, "You should reply to them and say that I actually think highly of them and that I will definitely seek cooperation with them if there is a suitable business opportunity in the future."
After hearing this, Madam Xu understood and nodded with a smile.
As the meal was almost over, Li Sanniu and his wife were about to leave when Yuan Huiniang called them back and then gave Du Ruxiu a wink.
Seeing this, Madam Xu laughed and said, "What's Hui Niang doing? Why are you being so mysterious? Could it be that you've prepared some kind of surprise for your third aunt?"
Yuan Huiniang also laughed and said, "Third Aunt is indeed clever."
Soon, Du Ruxiu brought the box over, and at Yuan Huiniang's prompting, Du Ruxiu handed the box directly to Xu Shi.
Xu looked at Yan Qingqing with a somewhat bewildered expression. She had just been joking; could there really be a surprise?
Yan Qingqing smiled and said, "Why don't you open it and take a look first?"
Without any pretense, Madam Xu opened the box directly.
However, Xu was stunned when she saw that the inside contained neatly stacked silver notes.
This is way too much! She had never seen so many banknotes in her entire life.
Li Sanniu, who was craning his neck to watch, had eyes as wide as saucers and was too shocked to speak.
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