Chapter 72
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Shen Yuntang didn't expect to see him. He was always scared every time he saw Xia Xiaowu. Although he now knew that Xia Xiaowu was nothing to be afraid of, his body began to tremble instinctively.
He subconsciously turned back to look for Cheng Yeran, but Cheng Yeran had already gone in, which made him feel even more insecure.
"Did you come to find me on purpose? I heard that you came to the county town to do business. You seemed to be in a bad mood. Was he not nice to you?" Xia Xiaowu thought that he showed a look of fear because he had suffered with Cheng Yeran these days.
Xia Xiaowu often beats her husband at home for trivial matters. She believes that all men in the world are the same. Even if there are good men, they are just pretending to be good in public. They will still beat their husbands behind closed doors.
Cheng Yeran treated Shen Yuntang well in the village because Shen Yuntang's family and brothers were all in the village. Now that they have all moved to the county town, Cheng Yeran has no worries and will definitely take action.
Now is his good opportunity. Although he lives in the academy, he has a good friend in the county town. He and his friend keep a woman at home together, and they just don't have enough to share. So he tricks Shen Yuntang over, saying that she is a temporary place for him to stay. He helps him gently and then deceives him with sweet words. By the time Shen Yuntang realizes what's going on, it's too late and he can only let her be manipulated by him.
"Why are you staring at my wife again?" Cheng Yeran came out and happened to see Xia Xiaowu.
He remembered that Shen Yuntang was reborn. In his previous life, he suffered torture from Xia Xiaowu's family. In this life, he was stressed when he saw Xia Xiaowu.
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His body was shaking and his eyes were filled with fear, he couldn't move.
He quickly held the man in his arms, raised his hand and squeezed his shoulder to bring him back to his senses, "Did he bully you? Come on, I'll take you home."
He put his arm around Shen Yuntang's shoulders and walked back. When he passed by Xia Xiaowu, he deliberately bumped into him. "I warn you, don't go after him, or I'll make sure you can't stay here any longer."
"Where? You mean the academy?" Xia Xiaowu looked Cheng Yeran up and down. Cheng Yeran was wearing a long gown, which made him look like a scholar. He even looked more like a scholar than he did. "You come to the academy cafeteria to deliver goods? You deliver goods through the back door."
"It's not about delivering goods, it's about studying." Cheng Yeran took out a sign from his arms, "It's the academy's sign. Everyone who comes here to study will be given one. Why, don't you have one?"
"Why did you come here to study? How did you get in?" Xia Xiaowu asked him with his eyes wide open in disbelief.
"What's it got to do with you? Do we know each other very well?" Cheng Yeran rolled his eyes at him speechlessly, then walked away with his arm around Shen Yuntang.
Cheng Yeran's disdainful attitude towards him made him so angry that he wanted to vent it by hitting someone. He clenched his fists in anger and trembled all over.
Whether in the village or in the academy, everyone respected him or was afraid of him because he had good academic performance and was good at disguise. He made friends with many rich young men, and he often followed these rich young men to bully some powerless classmates.
For example, if they see that other students have better grades than him, or that their grades have improved recently, they will deliberately bully that person, making that person lose interest in studying and causing his grades to plummet. They enjoy the pleasure of easily ruining someone else's future.
Or they might team up to humiliate and insult some classmates who look cowardly and timid for fun.
This academy operated on a recommendation system. Not only did one have to be a scholar to study there, but the rich were judged by their family background, while the poor were judged by their talent. If an uneducated person wanted to enter the academy, he had to pay a large sum of money. He had asked privately and learned that the starting amount was at least 1,200 taels of silver.
Students who paid less than 10,000 taels of silver had to take the freshman examination, and would be asked to drop out if they failed.
Those with more than 10,000 taels of silver do not have this concern, but there are very few people in the county who are willing to pay 10,000 taels of silver for their studies. Even if they really have this money, they have to be sent to big cities to study.
He looked at Cheng Yeran. Even if he had made some money from selling dried tofu recently, it was impossible for him to make one thousand taels. Could it be that he really made money? But even if I paid this money, I still couldn't pass the exam. It was crazy to spend one thousand taels to study in a school for three months.
"Very good. So what if you come to the academy to study? I will make your life worse than death for the next three months." Xia Xiaowu thought about what interesting things would happen in the future and walked into the academy with brisk steps.
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"Why did you come out?" Shen Yuntang came to his senses after walking far away from the academy and remembered to ask Cheng Yeran.
"There are no classes today. I handed in my recommendation letter and they assigned me to a new class. I will go to class tomorrow. The people in the academy are busy assigning dormitories to new students today." Cheng Yeran looked at Shen Yuntang distressed. He had experienced such a nightmare in his previous life. "Let's not go back today. I'll take you out for a good meal."
"But there are still many things to do..." Before he could finish his words, Cheng Yeran dragged him to a restaurant near the academy.
This restaurant is called Wangchunlou. It is the largest restaurant in the county and is three stories high. Because it is next to the academy, the furnishings inside are very elegant. On weekdays, many scholars like to come here to recite poems and compose couplets.
As soon as you enter the door, you can smell the elegant aroma of incense and hear the sound of piano. Once you enter this restaurant, you will feel embarrassed to say rude words and your manners will become more proper.
Cheng Yeran told the waiter that he wanted to go upstairs and get a private room.
The waiters here don't discriminate based on the person's appearance. They will provide good service no matter whether the person is dressed like a rich person or not.
There were few people today, so the waiter led them to a private room with a good location and windows facing the street.
After Cheng Yeran came in, he opened the window and looked down. "Not bad. Bring me some of your signature dishes."
Shen Yuntang felt a little awkward, as he had never been to such a large restaurant. His tense body finally relaxed after the waiter left. He couldn't help but look around at the furnishings.
There are calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall. In the painting is a pine tree. On the table below the painting is a potted plant. It is not a flower, but more like a tree, corresponding to the tree in the painting.
"There's no need to come here. I'm just a country boy, and I can't taste any difference from such expensive dishes." Shen Yuntang sometimes habitually feels that he doesn't deserve good things.
"What's the difference? Isn't it the difference between delicious and unpalatable? It's just a dish. No matter how expensive it is, it will be digested after it is eaten." Cheng Yeran sat next to him and took out his cell phone. "In fact, I chose this restaurant because I wanted to take you to eat something good and relax you, and I also wanted to see if there is any signal here. Before, I had to go up the mountain to buy things at home. I specifically asked about it, and this building is the tallest in the county."
Shen Yuntang also curiously came over to take a look. He stared at the signal and it went from no signal to full bars.
"Okay!" Both of their eyes lit up.
"Take out your phone and have a look. You were supposed to be a lookout for me before. Now we can close the door and buy whatever we want. See if we can shop online together." Cheng Yeran urged him to take out his phone and opened the shopping app. He found that he could register a new account. He bound his card to Shen Yuntang's account. "You can buy whatever you want in the future. You can also browse around on it, just like shopping. You can find a lot of new and interesting things."
It was the first time that Shen Yuntang opened this software and was attracted by the colorful photos of the products. Although he could not recognize all the words, there were photos on them.
"I want to buy some books." Shen Yuntang said.
"I'll recommend a few books to you. You don't know many words now, so why don't you read picture books or comics first? I've read quite a few comics and can recommend them to you." Cheng Yeran took his phone and typed in some comics he was familiar with. "I bought you a dictionary last time and told you how to look up words you didn't recognize. If you look up the dictionary frequently, you will recognize many words."
Shen Yuntang couldn't type. Seeing that he wanted to buy so many books in one go, he quickly held his hand and said, "Actually, I want to buy some cookbooks..."
"Recipe? The dishes you cook are delicious enough." Cheng Yeran thought of every meal he had eaten after traveling through time. No matter whether it was the wild vegetables at the beginning, or the dried tofu that Shen Yuntang later researched through the ingredient list, they were all at the level of a chef. Shen Yuntang was very talented in cooking.
"Do you want to be a chef?" Cheng Yeran asked him.
"No, I didn't. I just wanted to make more delicious food..." Shen Yuntang turned his back and typed clumsily on his phone. He accidentally pressed the wrong button and didn't know how to delete it. He looked so helpless, like a child who had broken something. He looked so pitiful.
"You will only do something with all your heart if you like it. Your cooking is so delicious, you must like it very much." Cheng Yeran suddenly remembered that they had talked about opening a noodle restaurant in the future. At that time, Shen Yuntang's face was full of longing.
Opening a grocery store was just his own idea, and he never asked Shen Yuntang what he wanted to do.
"How about I open a small restaurant for you, and you try it first?" Cheng Yeran thought for a while, "Old Wang said the other day that there is a shop next to his pastry shop that is going to be sold, we can buy it first, if you don't want to do it, then don't do it, if you do well, we can expand the store."
"Forget it. When I told you about having a baby before, you said you didn't have the time, let alone opening a restaurant. You have to study and your family has to sell dried tofu. Yuanbao and Fourth Brother came here to help run the grocery store. I'm afraid they won't be happy if I suddenly talk about opening a restaurant." Shen Yuntang was afraid that he would fail. He always thought three steps ahead before doing anything and would never do anything that he was not prepared for.
"Opening a restaurant is similar to opening a grocery store. You can also sell dried tofu in a restaurant. The only difference is that you move the business from home to outside. Also, doing business at home can easily make things messy. What if there's one more person and you're not paying attention, and a thief breaks into the house?" Cheng Yeran wanted to open a grocery store before because he couldn't find a specific target. At first, he wanted to sell dried tofu to launder money, and later he added soy powder and soy milk soap as a last resort.
"Let's go look at the shop first, and then make a decision." Cheng Yeran saw that his eyes were full of desire, but he wanted to say no, "If it doesn't work, just open a grocery store at home and let Yuanbao and the others run it.
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You can hire another assistant and open a shop outside. Try them one by one. Don't be afraid. We have plenty of money. Even if we lose money, just consider it as spending money for fun. ”
Shen Yuntang grew up in a different environment and had different thoughts from him. Cheng Yeran would try whatever he thought of and was not afraid of making mistakes, but Shen Yuntang thought longer term. He grew up in a family that did not allow mistakes, especially when it came to money, where there could be absolutely no mistakes.
He was quite envious of Cheng Yeran for growing up in a wealthy family.
"You are my husband. Since you support me to do it, then I will give it a try. But I won't play around. I will do my best to do it well." Shen Yuntang thought that Cheng Yeran would take the imperial examination and become an official after studying. He couldn't always be a country boy. He also had to make progress.
"What type of book do you want to read? Cooking? Soup? Snacks or desserts?" Shen Yuntang asked him.
“Let’s make noodle soup. Let’s make it simple at first, and then add new varieties after the store opens.” Shen Yuntang suggested.
"Well, launching new products frequently will also bring surprises to customers. How about making bone soup ramen? But how do you make this noodle? If it were you, I would just buy instant noodles. You can make the soup yourself, and put the seasonings and vegetables in it yourself. This way you don't have to work on kneading the noodles." Cheng Yeran chose a ramen encyclopedia to pay.
"No." Shen Yuntang's personality wouldn't allow him to do such a thing. "Others will see that we don't buy noodles or make noodles, and these noodles appear out of nowhere, and they will get suspicious."
"It's almost the same whether I have this golden finger or not." Cheng Yeran was too lazy to do many things, just like buying ready-made ones.
"You can buy the seasonings and put them in your own jars, but don't buy glass bottles. Although those bottles look good, they are too difficult to handle." Shen Yuntang thought of the painful experience of smashing those bottles and grinding them into powder with a stone mill before he dared to throw them away. He didn't want to go through it again.
"That's right. It's hard to deal with all those bottles and cans at home. It's better to put them in plastic. They can be used as firewood." Cheng Yeran put away his phone. "Buy the book first and see what seasonings are written in the book before buying."
As the two were talking, the waiter brought the food they ordered. Cheng Yeran was used to eating good food in the future, so when he returned to ancient times, he always felt that even the food from big restaurants was a little lacking.
He turned to look at Shen Yuntang and found that Shen Yuntang was eating very seriously, as if he was doing a homework. While eating, he even took out a small notebook from his arms and wrote down the name, taste and texture of each dish on it. He even guessed what seasonings were added to these dishes.
Shen Yuntang finished writing, closed the book, and looked up to see Cheng Yeran staring at him, "Why don't you eat? Can you be full just by looking at me?"
"Looking won't satisfy you." Cheng Yeran leaned over and kissed him on the face, "Kissing will satisfy you."
Shen Yuntang covered his face. They had been too busy recently and indeed hadn't been intimate for a long time. "Let's kiss each other when we get home."
Cheng Yeran felt sweet in her heart when she saw his shy expression and his soft tone.
After dinner, the two went to find Manager Wang and asked him to help contact the shop.
Shopkeeper Wang didn't expect that they wanted to rent a shop. Although their pastry shop was currently very profitable, it was not time to open another shop in Chengdu right away. He guessed that Cheng Yeran's family was wealthy.
"What are you going to do this time? Do the same as I did? Let others help you open it?" Shopkeeper Wang asked him.
"My husband is going to open a noodle shop this time. It would be best if he could introduce two more waiters to him." Cheng Yeran wanted to invite Manager Wang to be the housekeeper at home. "You have helped us so much. We will give you a raise."
"I treat you as a friend. Money is not a big deal. If it weren't for you, I would have gone back to the countryside to farm. I wouldn't be like this now. I'm a boss in front of others, and I get so much salary behind the scenes, and I don't have to pay for the costs myself." The salary and commission that Shopkeeper Wang gets now are more profitable than when he ran his own shop. He often lost money when running the shop before. He would be happy for a long time when he didn't make any money.
"You didn't find the right direction before. You are a talented person." Cheng Yeran praised sincerely.
Shopkeeper Wang laughed happily for a long time, "That shop is right next to our shop, but it's very small, just a small strip. I guess there are only two tables in the house, and two more tables at the door."
"Four tables are enough. One table can seat four to six people. If there are more, I'm afraid my husband will be tired. I'll hire a waiter and a waiter. The waiter will help with lighting the fire and washing the dishes, and the waiter will greet the guests." Cheng Yeran asked Manager Wang to help with the arrangements so that he could also take care of Shen Yuntang in the future.
Shen Yuntang's face is so beautiful that he is afraid it would be unsafe if she were outside, but now they are familiar with the county magistrate, so they are relatively safer.
When the door is opened, we have to invite the county magistrate to come over for a meal, so that those evil forces can see that his family has a background and they should not mess with them.
They went to find the boss next door. The house belonged to the boss next door. He used to run a snack bar, but now he is old and his children are in school and he is not going to take over, so he plans to rent it out.
They looked around the house and found a stove, tables, chairs and benches, but it was very shabby.
Shen Yuntang walked in and looked around, saying, "The tables and chairs can be replaced with new ones. These tables are shaking, and if someone falls, you have to pay compensation. This stove has a leak and needs to be repaired. It's not a big problem. I'll buy a set of pots and pans another day..."
As he spoke, he looked at Cheng Yeran and found that Cheng Yeran was looking at him. "Do you have any opinions?"
It was rare for Cheng Yeran to see him looking forward to the future with such anticipation. He was like a young wife who was about to get married and was preparing to decorate her new home. He was very cute.
Cheng Yeran couldn't help but smile, "No problem, this is your store, you can do whatever you want."
They settled the deal with the owner, signed the agreement, got the keys and went home.
On the way home, Shen Yuntang's face was still hot and excited.
He originally wanted to just take a look, but when he saw the shop he couldn't walk anymore, so he ended up renting it.
After returning home, Cheng Yeran told Yuanbao and his fourth brother the news.
Fourth brother said that he was not good at doing kitchen work, but he was okay at following Yuanbao to move and deliver goods.
Cheng Yeran originally planned to hire two people for the restaurant, so he let these three sell soaps. "You guys sell soaps first. The soybean powder will be made by my eldest brother, who will deliver it to Boss Wang. My second brother's family will make dried tofu. I will give the method of making soybean milk soap to Yuanbao, and Yuanbao will sell it in the future."
"Give it to me? Are you really going to give it to me? Such an important thing?" Yuanbao didn't expect that his cousin trusted him so much.
In fact, Cheng Yeran was just too lazy to make bean powder and too lazy to tear the packaging of dried tofu. Living under the same roof with so many people, it would be too easy to be exposed if he tore the packaging.
He didn't have time to make soap, so he might as well let Yuanbao and the others do it. "I'll tell you the proportions of the ingredients. You don't know what the ingredients are or where to buy them, so it's okay for me to tell you."
"Yes, the important thing is the materials." Yuanbao scratched his head, "But I'm still very happy, thank you cousin."
After Cheng Yeran taught Yuanbao a few times, Yuanbao was able to do it and learned very quickly.
After that, Yuanbao made soap, Fourth Brother ground soy milk, and Ye Gou helped with odd jobs.
After making a lot of soaps, Yuanbao discussed with Cheng Yeran whether he could give him some money. He wanted to buy some clothes. Soap is used for cleaning, and he was a country boy, and the clothes he wore were dusty, so people had no desire to buy them.
Cheng Yeran thought about it and it made sense. Salesmen had to wear suits and ties, so he gave him some money and said he would make clothes for him and Wild Dog Fourth Brother. He also told him, "Go out and buy them quietly. Don't let your sister-in-law know, otherwise she will insist on making them for you personally."
"Sister-in-law is busy running the noodle shop recently and has no time to take care of us." Yuanbao said with a smile: "Yesterday I went with sister-in-law to pick out bowls and chopsticks. We picked out several. Sister-in-law is very attentive to this noodle shop."
"That's right. Your sister-in-law is serious about everything she does." Cheng Yeran couldn't help but praise Shen Yuntang at length, which made Yuanbao annoyed. However, he didn't dare to express his dissatisfaction. He could only bite the bullet and listen to the praise that lasted for an hour with a smile on his face.
Cheng Yeran had a heavy workload and a lot of things happened in the school recently. He had no time to see how Yuanbao was doing and didn't know what kind of clothes he made. Until one day when he came home from school, he saw Yuanbao wearing a boy's clothes and setting up a stall on the street to perform soap cutting. He was shocked and thought, "What a business genius."
Yuanbao is handsome and young, only turning fifteen after the Chinese New Year, but he is usually mistaken for a boy of seventeen or eighteen. He simply put a boy's mole on his face to pretend to be a handsome boy selling soap. He also demonstrated the process of pouring the soap into the mold and cutting the soap from the mold. Unexpectedly, it really attracted a lot of people to watch.
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