188, the plan to skip school failed
188, the plan to skip school failed
This is also the reason why their family has set up a stall here for so many years and is reluctant to rent a shop. The annual rent here is really too expensive.
If you have money in your pocket, it would be a good idea to buy a shop at once. The location of South Street is good. After buying a shop here, whether you run a business yourself or rent it out to others, it is very good.
With two shops here, even if their descendants didn't achieve much in the future, they could still live comfortably in Kyoto Prefecture just by relying on the rent from the two shops. Of course, the premise was that their descendants didn't indulge in prostitution or gambling, because if they did, no amount of family wealth would be enough to ruin them.
Just thinking about the family fortune they had worked so hard to build being squandered by their unfilial descendants on whoring and gambling, Lu Mingfei thought to himself that he would definitely write a thick book of family precepts and leave it to his descendants to memorize in its entirety! If any unfilial descendants dared to squander the family fortune they had worked so hard to build, he would climb out of his coffin and curse them!
This topic has gone a bit off track, let’s get back to the store.
There's nothing to complain about the location here. The only drawback is that the shop is a bit small. Lu Mingfei expressed his feelings after coming here and seeing it: "This location is not bad. It's close to our original stall, and it's convenient for old customers to come back. But the store is a bit small. It would be better if it were bigger."
"Yes, I also thought this store was a little small at first. It's just that there are very few shops for rent on this street. It was just a coincidence that we rented this shop from the original owner who closed down." Liu Sanniang also wanted to rent a larger store, but they couldn't find one.
However, the rent for larger shops is more expensive, so even if they come across one, they may not be able to afford it.
"There's a backyard here, and we can live in the back. When we move in here, we'll leave the original yard for you to live in. You can study there, and it won't be as noisy as it is now."
"It's okay for me. Whether there are many people or few people, it won't affect my studies. But it's good for you to live here. You can sleep for half an hour in the morning before getting up to work, saving time on the road." Lu Mingfei actually supported his mother to live in this part of the store in the future, so that she wouldn't have to move things onto the donkey cart in the morning, drive the donkey here to set up the stall, and then move things down again.
It's better now that they have a donkey. In the early years, when they didn't have a donkey, they relied on his father to pull the cart, and he and his mother followed behind to push the cart, pushing their goods here to set up a stall together. Because they didn't have a shop, they had to set up their stall every day and then pack it up and store it in his adoptive father's yard after closing.
They were lucky enough to have a place to store their belongings, but many vendors who came to the city to set up stalls moved their belongings in and out every day. Because if the belongings were left on the street, they would definitely disappear the next day, so no one would just leave their stall belongings on the street without taking them back.
After Lu Mingfei asked his mother about the decoration, he gave her some suggestions, suggesting that they put a row of long tables and long benches against the wall at the back. "That way, if there are many customers coming to eat, there will be seats."
"Yes, yes, this is a good idea. We will add a row of long tables in the back row." Upon hearing this, Liu Sanniang told the master in charge of the decoration about this idea.
Upon hearing this, the master said it was okay and no problem.
After the mother and son finished looking at the shop in front, they went to the yard in the backyard to take a look.
The only good thing about this place is that this shop has a front-store and backyard layout, and there are several rooms in the backyard that can be lived in. If their family doesn't have so many people, living here can save the money of renting another house.
But their family has so many people now that if they all moved here, there wouldn't be enough space. So they have to rent two places, and the annual rent for two places... is really a huge amount of money! If their business were to falter, they might not even be able to afford the rent.
As long as their two workshops can be run, not to mention the annual rent, they can even buy this place by this time next year.
Lu Mingfei took a look and felt that the yard here was smaller than the small yard they lived in now, and the house here looked more dilapidated, but it would not be a big problem to clean it up and live in it.
After checking every room, he asked his mother, "How long will it take to clean up here?"
"I asked the master, and he said it would take another three to five days."
The rent here is so expensive. If we open the shop one day late, we will lose one day's rent. So Liu Sanniang also wanted to clean up and open the shop quickly. "I asked the master to look at the nearest dates. He said the 6th and 8th are both good days to open the shop, so I chose the 6th."
"I'll ask them to clean up the front store first, and we'll open it first. We can slowly clean up the back yard later, and there's nothing to worry about."
"If you can't come back that day, just study hard in the academy and don't worry about things at home. We are just moving our stall here and doing business in a different place." But when she said this, there was an obvious smile on Liu Sanniang's face. They had been setting up stalls on the street for almost ten years before they saved enough money to rent such a store.
Although the money for renting this store was earned from selling skewers recipes a while ago, the land they bought outside the city, the many chickens, ducks and geese they raised, and the two large workshops were all the family assets accumulated by their family of three over the years.
"When our braised food stall moves here, I'll have Ruyi move the skewers stall to where we have it now. If old customers come, Ruyi can tell them that we've moved here and open a shop, and ask them to come back and find us."
"Mom, you don't have to worry about them not being able to find us. As soon as we cook the braised meat in the morning, those old customers will come back by smelling the aroma." Lu Mingfei said.
"Haha, that's true." Liu Sanniang also laughed.
"Let's wait until noon that day, I'll come back here to take a look." Lu Mingfei was thinking that if he couldn't get back to class in the afternoon, he would skip half a day of class.
Of course, there is no need to tell your family about skipping classes.
But before he could even say he was going to skip class, his mother looked as if she had noticed and asked him, "Don't you have to go to school this afternoon?"
"...I can read some books on my own later and catch up on my homework." Lu Mingfei said.
"You'd better stay in the academy and study hard. There's no need to rush back. Let your mother and father take care of the things at home. Your adoptive father and mother are there to help." Liu Sanniang didn't want her eldest son to delay his studies because of family matters.
Hearing this, Lu Mingfei had no choice but to listen to his mother. "Then I'll come back to check on you during my next ten-day break."
"Okay." This time Liu Sanniang smiled and nodded.
The mother and son stood in the backyard and talked for a while. Knowing that his mother had to go back to look after the stall, Lu Mingfei asked his mother to go back first. He stayed in the store for a while and then came to the skewers stall. He sat there, looking at the stall and eating skewers.
While eating the skewers in his mouth, he thought of the chili peppers he brought back last night. How can you eat skewers without chili peppers!
How about making a spicy dish for your family when you get home?
What spicy dish would be best? Spicy chicken? Boiled pork slices?
It’s better to have boiled pork slices. If you want spicy diced chicken, you have to buy a chicken and kill it at home.
Thinking of something, Ruyi told the master sitting here eating: "Master, recently many people have come to ask us if we can teach them how to make skewers since we still can't sell our houses."
"If someone wants to buy, we will sell it. You can discuss it with my mother and set a time. If someone wants to learn, let them pay the money first and sign the contract. The process is the same as we did last time. I will write a few more contracts for you in the afternoon and you can put them at the stall for use." Lu Mingfei said after hearing this.
How could they not make money if someone gave them money?
If he had time, he would have wanted to run a snack training class. He didn't need to teach anything too difficult, just teach people how to make skewers, how to make pancakes, and other fresh snacks. He thought there would be a lot of people who would want to learn. It only cost a few dozen taels of silver to learn a skill to make a living. Anyone with money in their pocket would not be stingy with this little money.
"You watch the stall here, I'm going to buy some things." After giving instructions to Ruyi, Lu Mingfei threw away the bamboo tube and skewers in his hands, got up and walked towards the street.
I originally wanted to buy pork, but unexpectedly I met someone selling fish on the road.
The pickled fish seems pretty good too?
He stopped and bought two fish from the fish vendor.
On his way back, he said hello to his mother and went to the pancake shop to invite his stepmother to have dinner at their house in the afternoon. Then Lu Mingfei went home with the fish he bought.
In the afternoon, when everyone came back, he made a dish of pickled fish for everyone.
Xu Yueniang looked at the large plate of bright red fish on the table. Before she even picked up her chopsticks, her mouth was already watering. "What kind of dish is this? It smells so good."
"This dish is called Pickled Fish. It contains pickled cabbage, bean sprouts, and tofu. I also added some special seasoning, which is a bit spicy, but I didn't put much. You can try it first to see how it tastes." Lu Mingfei put a piece of fish into each of his mother's and stepmother's bowls.
He used the two fish he bought to make two large pots of pickled fish. He gave one pot to Ruyi and the others, and the remaining pot was placed on their table.
There was only a large bowl of pickled fish, a pile of sesame cakes and rice on the table today.
She picked up the fish from the bowl with chopsticks and put it into her mouth. After taking the first bite, Xu Yueniang's eyes widened. The fish meat was smooth and tender, without any earthy smell. The most important thing was this taste, "Delicious!"
Liu Sanniang also nodded and said that the taste was a bit strange. She asked her eldest son, "Did you put any seasoning in it?"
"This is it." Lu Mingfei stood up and went to the kitchen to take out the chili peppers he had placed there and showed them to everyone. He then explained to his mother and stepmother what chili peppers were and what dishes they could be used for. "Here are some chili pepper seeds. I plan to have my father and stepfather plant them in the field next year."
"Hearing what you said, this thing called chili is very useful." Hearing this, Xu Yue Niang nodded and said.
"If we grow enough peppers, we can open a hotpot shop in the city." Lu Mingfei said with a smile.
That day, he made two large pots of pickled fish, and they all devoured them together. The three children in the family ate while panting, but no one was willing to put down their chopsticks.
Thinking that there were still some leftover chili peels at home, Lu Mingfei planned to make a spicy dish for his family next time he came back. This time, his father and adoptive father didn't get to eat it, so next time he would definitely let them taste the flavor of chili!
Because he had to go to school early the next morning, he took Zhang Lingxuan and Ye Zhuoran's carriage in the afternoon before the sun went down, and went back to the Imperial College with their senior brother.
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