Chapter 84: Separate Yourself from Your Family
Song Yuntang was busy the whole afternoon, and his work didn't seem any easier than that of Song Jinsheng and others.
The three of them didn't dare to disturb her. When it was almost time for dinner, Mu Qiu went to the kitchen to busy herself.
There was only brown rice porridge for dinner. It was only after Song Yuntang finished his work and saw that the table was empty that he took two eggs and made egg soup for Mu Qiu.
"Tang'er, have you decided on a name for your shop? I learned engraving from Brother Mazi before, and I can try to make one for you when the time comes." Song Jinsheng asked while eating.
Song Yuntang said without hesitation, "There is a Taoxia Pavilion on North Street, let's call it Yujun Pavilion."
"It sounds really nice." Mu Qiu narrowed his eyes and said, "It sounds much better than Tao Xia Ge."
Song Jinsheng muttered twice in his mouth and looked at Song Yuntang, "You can tell from the name that it was given by a cultured person. Could it be that Xu Qingye gave it to you?"
Song Yuntang raised his eyebrows and looked at him with a strange expression, "Do I look uneducated?"
Mu Dong and Mu Qiu looked at her and covered their mouths and laughed.
Song Jinsheng also chuckled.
"My sister is naturally more educated than me."
After dinner, while it was still daylight, Song Yuntang hurriedly urged Song Jinsheng to go home, otherwise it would be too late and something might happen on the road.
After everyone left, she took out the herbs she had hidden under the bed and started making poison for self-defense.
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The next day, Song Jinsheng also came very early and brought with him 230 bamboo jars that he had made in the past few days. Grandpa Sun's ox cart also came with him and left after unloading the bamboo jars.
Tian Liuyi had already carried the medicinal ingredients for shampoo that he had ordered from Baicaotang the day before to his home on a shoulder pole, and they came in handy.
The first batch of medicinal materials cost a total of one tael and eight qian of silver. After paying a deposit of three hundred wen and the balance of one tael and five qian of silver to Tian Liu, Song Yuntang and Mu Qiu started a fire to boil water for shampooing.
Although she earned more than eight taels of silver from seeing patients on North Street yesterday, she also spent a lot on purchasing medicinal materials in the past two days. After she returned the thirty taels from Xu Qingye's purse yesterday, she only had two taels and eight hundred and sixty-nine coins left in her hands.
We have to continue making money. The fields will be harvested in less than a month, and we have to stock up more food before the price goes up.
Because it takes a long time to boil a pot of shampoo water, I only boiled two pots in the morning.
Boiling, cooling, canning, covering, making paste, and pasting stickers, the two of them were busy with the whole process.
Maybe it’s because I have a goal in life, so I don’t feel tired.
After boiling two pots of shampoo water, Song Yuntang asked Mu Qiu to cook while she put the almost dried shampoo water into a bamboo jar.
Two large pots of shampoo water filled about a hundred bamboo cans.
After putting the lid on, she started cutting paper and writing the words "shampoo".
Seeing that she was so busy that she couldn't stop, Song Jinsheng felt a little distressed, "Tang'er, if you are always so busy in the future, won't you even be able to eat?"
Song Yuntang didn't look in his direction. She placed the written piece of paper on one of the piles of papers, and picked up another blank piece of paper and wrote on it.
"Everything is difficult at the beginning. In the early stage, you have to do a lot of things yourself. It is normal to be busy. When the business is stable in the later stage, you can ask others for help, and you will feel much more relaxed."
Song Jinsheng nodded, "Have you decided who to ask for help?"
Song Yuntang said calmly, "For now, we have Mu Dong and Mu Qiu, and we'll take things one step at a time."
Song Jinsheng hesitated for a moment and suggested, "In fact, if you want to find someone safe, your mother is still young and may be able to help you. She can also take care of your life."
Song Yuntang paused while writing and shook his head, "Not good."
"Why?" Song Jinsheng was puzzled.
"She has different ideas from me and has her own thoughts. She will use my name to issue orders, and it will be difficult for me to control her," Song Yuntang explained.
Song Jinsheng raised his eyebrows, "She wouldn't be like this, right?"
Song Yuntang raised his eyes and looked at him.
"That's because you don't know her."
Take her marriage with Xu Qingye for example. The Song family was able to secretly tip off the Lin family, so they must not be allowed to interfere in her affairs.
Although Song Jinsheng still hoped that Song Yuntang could accept the Song family again and live a good life together as a family, but since Song Yuntang had said this, he couldn't say too much, otherwise she would be disgusted with him as well.
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Lunch was a pot of porridge and an omelet.
Song Yuntang didn't go out all morning and there was no other food at home, so he could only take out three eggs.
Although monotonous, the food is not bad.
After the meal was served, Mu Qiu boiled another pot of medicinal herbs before eating.
After dinner, he and Song Yuntang put labels on all the bamboo jars and continued to boil shampoo water. Taking advantage of this free time, Song Yuntang went to the room and counted out a hundred copper coins and gave them to Song Jinsheng.
"Second brother, can you help me buy a bucket of soybeans?"
Song Jinsheng did not reach out to take it, "Are you planning to grow bean sprouts?"
Song Yuntang nodded, "Otherwise there will be no food at home, and I may not be able to run to East Street every day."
Song Jinsheng pushed her money back.
"You don't even have a bucket here, how can you grow bean sprouts? I'll talk to my eldest brother when I get back and ask him to send you a portion every day when he comes to town to sell bean sprouts."
Song Yuntang thought about it and felt that it was indeed inconvenient to grow bean sprouts here, but he still stuffed the hundred coins into Song Jinsheng's hands.
"Then let him deliver it for me. He only needs to deliver enough for me to cook two meals each time. This hundred coins will be my monthly food expenses."
If it weren't difficult to buy vegetables nowadays, she wouldn't want to eat bean sprouts every day.
Song Jinsheng looked at the copper coin in his hand and frowned at her, "Tang'er, do you really have to separate from your family so clearly?"
"Brothers should settle accounts clearly. It's better to be clear about it. Second brother, keep it. Otherwise, don't let the eldest brother give you the bean sprouts."
Since we are planning to set up our own business, we must be clear about the divisions so that everyone can have a sense of boundaries with each other.
After she finished speaking, she turned around and went back into the house to continue cutting paper.
Song Jinsheng looked at the figure inside the door, then looked at the copper coin in his hand, and finally sighed and put the copper coin away.
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