Chapter 396: Free Porridge
The wind direction is different every year.
It is not easy to get rich, and what is even more difficult is not to be carried away and overspend when you get rich.
It is really great to be able to actually save the money and hold it in your hands.
When things are going smoothly for people, it is easy to get carried away and think that things will only get better in the future.
In fact, the most profitable years in life may be those few years.
When you are in it, you may not feel anything.
But later I realized that making money would not be so easy in the future.
"I know, Master. I haven't told anyone, not even Sui'an, but I'm telling you so you can be happy," Fu said. "My husband doesn't know how to count, so he didn't know anything. I told him he got several taels of silver, and he started clamoring to come and kowtow to you."
Lu Qiniang looked at the joy on her face and was sincerely happy for her.
The other women in the room were also laughing and talking happily, and it was obvious that they had earned enough money to satisfy their needs.
I hope everyone can have a good new year this year.
Lu Qiniang silently said to herself, Qiniang, ah Qiniang, you are getting more and more powerful. You have made so many people live better and better lives.
"Boss, my wife is busy preparing for the New Year at home. Sui'an can help, so there's nothing I need to do." Fu said, "If there's anything you need to clean up in the shop, just let me know. I don't have anything else to do, but I can help out a little."
Upon hearing this, others also echoed it.
One point that everyone resonated with was that since they started making money, they have become more confident at home.
The man and his in-laws who used to boss her around are now polite to her.
They are people with backing.
Tell everyone that they work for their employer, who wouldn’t envy them?
During the Chinese New Year, you can always get a good seat when visiting relatives, because there are so many people, and Baba is waiting for the opportunity to come in and ask them for help.
Even if I can't get in, I still hope to find out about their "welfare benefits" and then be envious.
These women work very hard, but they all keep their backs straight.
Lu Qiniang smiled and said, "There's nothing wrong in the shop. The general store will also be closed tomorrow for settlement."
With only three or two days left for the New Year, the boss and his employees have to go home and rest. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, they will continue their plan to make money in the new year.
"But I do have a job here." Lu Qiniang said, "I was thinking that if anyone of you has time, please come and help me. I'll pay you..."
"Boss, we are not obsessed with money. It's the end of the year, and we don't know what to give you. We can only help you with some work. You pay us back, you look down on us."
"That's right, that's right."
Lu Qi Niang laughed.
"Okay, I won't give you any money, it'll just be considered your merit."
"Boss, just give me your orders. Just tell me what you want."
Lu Qiniang said, "I think we've all done well this year. I made money and expanded my business, and you all made money too, so we all had a good New Year. But after the floods in Henan this year, many people came to the capital to beg. I see people begging on the streets at the end of the year, which is really pitiful."
She wanted to set up a soup kitchen to give out porridge.
"I thought, from the 28th day of the 12th lunar month to the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, every family goes home to celebrate the New Year and the shops are closed. I will set up a porridge stall and prepare ten large pots of porridge for free. If anyone of you is free, please come and help. Everyone can take turns."
"Boss, how much food will that take?" someone exclaimed.
Lu Qiniang smiled and said, "I've thought about it and I can afford it."
Although it was a considerable amount of money, she felt that she had been very lucky this year and had made a lot of money.
It may not seem like much to others, but in her opinion, it is far more than she should earn.
——How could she have such things?
She felt uneasy.
So she wanted to help those disaster victims who were starving to death at the end of the year, to the best of her ability.
"We don't need to make a big fuss about it," Lu Qiniang reminded everyone, "We just need to do our part."
It is said that the first incense burner in the surrounding temples costs several hundred taels of silver during the Chinese New Year.
The most exaggerated ones may be worth over a thousand taels.
Lu Qiniang was not so pious that she could spend a fortune on a stick of incense.
But she thought that if she could help those who had no food to eat and provide them with two bowls of porridge a day, she would feel that she had done a great deed.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
The porridge stall is located next to the dock warehouse.
The warehouse is not rented out now, it is used as a grocery store.
However, by the end of the year, the inventory was basically cleared out.
Lu Qiniang and Xiao Yan discussed moving the shelves and other items from the warehouse temporarily into the house and cleaning it out so that the disaster victims who had nowhere else to go would have a place to stay.
But I have to say this in advance. At the end of the month, when the goods from other places start arriving, the shop will have to be cleaned and used as a warehouse again.
There are also many problems in this process.
Not all people are well-mannered. They may not take care of their homes, may steal and rob things, and may quarrel.
The Black Armor Army is still in Jiang Xuan's hands - this is also one of the emperor's charming operations that everyone cannot understand but can only accept. Then in the first month of the year, fifty people will be found in the Black Armor Army every day to help guard and maintain order.
Lu Qiniang also gave money to these people.
These days, soldiers don't live much better than ordinary people.
So this can be considered as giving some subsidies to the Black Armor Army in difficulty.
Erya clattered her abacus at home. "Mom, we made a lot of money this year. But you did this during the New Year, and thousands of taels of silver were gone. You asked me to rent a shop for a thousand taels, and you were so upset that I couldn't sleep for three days. But you paid this money so generously."
"When we are lucky, we can help others; when we have no food to eat in the future, there will be people to help us." Lu Qiniang said.
"Pfft, pfft, pfft, Mom, please spit it out. It's New Year's Day, can't you say something auspicious? Who doesn't hope for the well-being of their family? Our family will prosper in the future, and get better and better every year."
"Okay, it's getting better and better every year." Lu Qiniang said with a smile.
Yun Ting came over to look at Erya's account book, "Your hair dye seems to be selling just average."
Erya glared at him and said, "Why are you so annoying? You keep bringing up things that are not relevant to the topic."
People seemed to lack trust and acceptance of this kind of thing, so she didn't sell many and didn't achieve the expected results.
She didn't get rich.
However, Erya was still happy seeing that her own grocery store was doing a booming business and making a lot of money at the end of the year.
"A dog bites Lu Dongbin, unaware of a good heart." Yun Ting said proudly, "Come on, say something nice, and I'll think of a solution for you."
"Uncle——" Erya said coquettishly, "Uncle——"
"Shut up right now." Yun Ting was furious. He jumped up as if he had been stung by a bee and said fiercely, "Don't call me uncle anymore!"
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