Chapter 188 Xu Yu, you have come to this day...
"Ouch, here it comes!"
Chen Jing'an, who had been eagerly waiting, finally saw a familiar figure. He had been waiting anxiously for half a day, but now he acted as if he didn't care at all, and even wanted to find a place to sit down and cross his legs.
However, Xu Minghui, who had been sitting still, stood up on his own initiative.
Seeing this, Chen Jing'an narrowed his eyes slightly, and a hint of dark light flashed across his eyes.
Xu Minghui seems to be a very gentle and easy-going person, but in fact, he is as arrogant as Xu Yu, and ordinary people are not worthy of his attention.
This person can take the initiative to stand up and greet like a good cousin. Who is this Mrs. Xu Yu?
Chen Jing'an was too lazy to sit down. He leaned his arm on the counter and looked around. When he saw Xu Yu coming in with a woman wearing a gauze hat, he was the first to restrain the frivolous expression on his face and said with a smile, "Here I am."
"Um."
Xu Yu responded and reached out to take off the hat on Sang Zhixia's head.
Xu Minghui called her in a very serious tone, "Sister-in-law."
Sang Zhixia was a little surprised that he was here too. She smiled with a crooked look and said crisply, "If I had known you were here, I would have brought the things for Second Aunt."
Xu Minghui had left home in a hurry, and Aunt Xu Er hadn't finished all the things she had on hand. A few days ago, she was still wondering when this man would come back.
Xu Minghui smiled and said, "No rush, I'll be back in a few days."
"Sister-in-law, please sit down and talk."
Xu Minghui went to get a cup and pour tea, even replacing the teapot with a new one to boil water and brew it again. Xu Yu was not surprised by this, but Chen Jingan was amazed when she saw it. She suppressed a smile and said, "Hello, sister-in-law."
"Zhizhi, this is the Chen Jing'an I told you about. You can just call him Chen San."
After Xu Yu finished his brief introduction, he looked around the place in front of him with an unhappy look on his face: "Is this what you said is all done?"
The store is not big and is located at the back of the busiest street in the county. It is quiet, but there are few pedestrians around and it doesn't look like it can do business.
And the store was completely empty.
Apart from a half-person-high counter near the door, there were two small tables and a few stools covered with the smell of years and suspicious oil stains. The cleanest things were probably Chen Jing'an's face and the teapot in Xu Minghui's hand.
The words Chen Jing'an handed back seemed to indicate that everything was ready. Xu Yu thought that Sang Zhixia had been forced to drink tonic soup and take medicine recently and had been depressed, so he just brought her to see him to add some joy to her and coax her.
Is this what I'm going to show you when the results come out?
Is this little broken thing worthy of being used to fool people?
Chen Jingan had a bad temper and didn't care about his dissatisfaction at all. He opened the folding fan in his hand and waved it, narrowing his eyes like a fox and said, "Why, are you dissatisfied?"
Xu Yu looked at him coldly: "You still expect me to praise you for this?"
Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Sang Zhixia was confused about the daily interactions between Xu Yu and Chen Jingan, so she quietly tugged at Xu Yu's sleeve, "Xu Yu."
Xu Yu turned his head to look at her, his tone softening inexplicably: "What's wrong?"
Sang Zhixia: "Don't be anxious. Didn't Second Aunt tell you? Business starts from small things. It's not good to be impatient."
"Besides, I think this place is okay. Although it's a bit secluded, the shop is on the street and there's easy access for carriages and horses in front of the door. The harvested rice is very heavy. It would be difficult to carry it by manpower alone. When the time comes, we can just park the carriages and horses transporting the grain in front of the door, which will make it easier to carry it in and out."
Although these words were meant to ease the atmosphere, Sang Zhixia was indeed speaking from the heart.
If the shop wasn't a little narrow and couldn't hold too many goods, the location here would seem very convenient.
Xu Yu listened patiently without any change in his expression, but for some reason one could sense that his mood had improved a lot, like a gentle breeze that turned rain into dew, in an instant.
Chen Jing'an listened while fanning herself with a fan and did not interrupt. Noticing Xu Yu's mood change, the corners of her mouth curled up uncontrollably.
It's interesting.
He coughed and rolled his eyes at Xu Yu, saying unhappily, "See? I told you you don't know anything. It's not as good as my sister-in-law who sees things clearly."
"Sister-in-law, please sit down. I'll bring two plates of snacks over so you can sit down and eat while we talk."
Chen Jing'an was not very happy with Xu Yu, but he was unusually kind to Sang Zhixia.
Sang Zhixia felt in her heart that she couldn't make people work so hard, and she still felt that there weren't enough people. After Chen Jing'an left, she whispered to Xu Yu, "Don't be so mean."
"My family didn't pay for it, so it's good enough to have something like this."
She is so content!
Xu Yu couldn't bear it any longer after a long while, so he pinched her palm and laughed softly.
Xu Minghui placed the tea next to Sang Zhixia's hands. When he got to Xu Yu, he put the teapot down and said in a cold tone, "If you want to drink, pour it yourself."
Xu Yu turned his empty teacup around, too lazy to speak. However, Xu Minghui had already taken the initiative to talk to Sang Zhixia, who had misunderstood him. "Don't worry, sister-in-law. Chen San was just joking. This is not a shop to open."
Sang Zhixia really didn't understand this time.
Xu Minghui explained slowly, "The proper shop is in the front. It's connected with three entrances and three exits. Even when the door is open, it's very bright. I went to the front and looked at everything. It's very decent."
"This place is connected to the shop in front, with a small courtyard and two side rooms in the middle. There's also a warehouse on the side that can store thousands of kilograms of grain. It's very convenient for living or transporting grain, and it's also quite quiet."
The shop had been tidied up and opened to the public three days ago. Some rice that Chen Jing'an had specially collected from other places was also prepared in advance as a cover. Datou only had to wait for the grain from the fields in Luobei Village to be harvested and delivered.
After listening to this, Sang Zhixia thought for a moment and said hesitantly, "The shop you're talking about is the one with the red silk hanging on the front street?"
Xu Minghui smiled and nodded: "Yes."
Sang Zhixia was shocked: "Such a big place?!"
As far as she knew, the rent for shops in the busy streets of the county town was not cheap, let alone for sale.
How much money would it cost to enclose such a large area with all the streets in front and back?
Sang Zhixia quickly calculated in her mind whether the private money she brought with her would be enough to cover the cost. Unexpectedly, Xu Minghui glanced at Xu Yu and said with a half-smile, "The place is not small, and the capital is also large."
"Don't worry, sister-in-law, all this money was paid by big brother, and no one was taken advantage of in vain."
Sang Zhixia was really surprised this time.
She knew that Xu Yu had some private money, but it shouldn't be a lot.
She always felt that this man was much poorer than her own small treasury. Where did Xu Yu make his fortune?
Noticing her confusion, Xu Minghui, still resenting Xu Yu's act of throwing a copper coin to silence him, smiled and added insult to injury: "Sister-in-law, you may not know this, but Brother was a spendthrift in his early years, so he's learned how to make money quickly now. He's become an expert at throwing money around..."
"I forgot to tell you."
Xu Yu interrupted Xu Minghui, patted the back of Sang Zhixia's hand, and said softly, "Chen Jing'an has been doing some small business outside. I invested some money in him a few years ago, and now I have a lot of dividends."
"It's not much, just enough."
After he finished speaking, Chen Jing'an came out with the prepared snacks.
Chen Jing'an raised an eyebrow playfully. Xu Yu said calmly, "You don't have to give me the dividends you deserve in the future. Just give them to your sister-in-law."
Facing the silent warning in Xu Yu's eyes, Chen Jing'an nodded tactfully and counted the gold and silver he had robbed from his enemies as the bonus, but he found it funny no matter how he thought about it.
Xu Yu, you have come to this day...
Tsk tsk.
Chen Jing'an sighed enough, then put on a serious expression, sat down and talked seriously about the current situation.
"There's a steward and three servants stationed in the granary up ahead. They're all trustworthy and reliable. I'll have them come over to greet you. If you need anything, you can ask them directly, or you can ask me to do it."
"But I have a question I need to ask first. I heard Xu Yu say that he has been very busy over the past year or so. How much rice and grain can the village produce this autumn? Does your sister-in-law have a rough idea?"
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