It's no wonder Wanfulou is losing business; the food here is really not very good.
After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Liu Baisheng asked Cheng Qingyan, "I wonder how many chickens and fish Brother Cheng has at home? If it's convenient, I'd like to order a batch."
After thinking for a moment, Cheng Qingyan said, "One hundred chickens and one hundred fish. Chickens, three to five catties, three hundred coins each; fish, three to five catties, sixty coins each."
The price is slightly higher than the market price, but not by much, and is within an acceptable range.
Liu Baisheng calculated in his mind that one hundred chickens and one hundred fish were simply not enough for his restaurant to consume.
"Brother Cheng, you really need to expand your breeding operations. One hundred birds aren't even enough for my restaurant's consumption for two days! I hope you can increase production as soon as possible!"
Actually, I don't really want to expand breeding and planting, because I'm afraid my wife will be too tired.
But we are indeed short of money right now, so why don't we go back and ask the village chief where we can sell her some more land? If that doesn't work, we can rent it out.
Cheng Qingyan changed the subject: "Alas! I've been having some troubles lately and haven't been paying much attention to breeding and planting, which has disappointed Manager Liu."
Liu Baisheng hurriedly asked, "I wonder what happened to Brother Cheng? I have some connections, so perhaps I can help if you tell me."
Cheng Qingyan glanced at Ye Lingyu. She hadn't discussed this matter with Ye Lingyu beforehand; she had made the decision on her own. She didn't know if Ye Lingyu would be angry.
She glanced at it, then looked away, sighing as she said to Liu Baisheng, "To be honest, Manager Liu, Qingyan is really a bit difficult to talk about."
Cheng Qingyan approached Manager Liu and whispered to him, "My wife and I have been married for four years, but due to my health, she has not been able to conceive. A few days ago, we found a child at the foot of the mountain. Thinking it was a blessing from heaven, we decided to keep him at home. But we are troubled because we cannot register his household registration in time."
Liu Baisheng looked at Cheng Qingyan in surprise, realizing he had been somewhat impolite, and quickly looked away: "Well, as Brother Cheng knows, our Great Wei Kingdom has strict regulations regarding household registration, so this matter may not be easy to handle!"
Cheng Qingyan, looking distressed, chimed in, "Who says it isn't! I'm so worried! My health is hopeless. I was hoping for a child from heaven, but now... alas! It's as if heaven is going to destroy the Cheng family!"
“Brother Cheng, there’s no need to be so discouraged. I still have some connections, but I might need to make some grease palms.”
Cheng Qingyan stood up excitedly: "Is this really true?"
Liu Baisheng looked confident: "You underestimate me, brother? Do you remember that big shot I mentioned earlier? Nobody in the county town doesn't give him some face, otherwise my Wanfulou would have been squeezed out of business by the people across the street long ago."
"If you can help with this, then all the dishes supplied to Wanfulou will be reduced to market price. And whenever a new dish is launched, it will definitely be supplied to Wanfulou first."
Liu Baisheng laughed heartily. Putting everything else aside, just to ensure long-term low prices and priority in choosing dishes, he had to do his best to help.
"Brother Cheng, rest assured, I will handle this matter perfectly for you. Please go ahead and farm and raise livestock without worry. After all, you still need to eat, right?"
"Brother Liu is so generous, so I won't hide anything from you. Actually, I still have two hundred chickens and over two hundred fish at home. They were originally meant for another shopkeeper, but I won't give them to him now. I'll have no choice but to bring them to you first thing tomorrow morning!"
"Brother Cheng, thank you so much!"
Liu Baisheng was overjoyed, never expecting that not only Cheng Qingyan had been helped, but he had also been helped by Cheng Qingyan.
With high-quality chicken and fish, his business will surely boom even more.
Moreover, Cheng Qingyan said that the other hundred chickens and fish in the family were left for others. Could they be his competitors?
Now, because I helped Cheng Qingyan, I received more than twice as many chickens and fish, which will turn into several times more silver!
I paid a deposit of twenty taels of silver in advance. The remaining fifty-six taels and eight mace will be settled when the goods are delivered tomorrow morning.
Cheng Qingyan handed the silver to Ye Lingyu and then bid farewell to Liu Baisheng.
The two did not stay in the town and left directly.
Cheng Qingyan led Jiang Jiang out of the space to a very secluded grove.
From now on, Jiang Jiang will pretend to be an unwanted child they found on their way to town.
Jiang Jiang was a little unaccustomed to being out in public, because she couldn't fly around anymore.
She now resembled a three-year-old girl, filled with curiosity about her surroundings. Her eyes widened as she surveyed her surroundings, and she reached out to touch a tree trunk.
"Mommy, this tree says it wants to follow me!"
This is the first time I've ever heard of trees being able to talk, but thinking about it, even ginseng can speak, so it doesn't seem so bad if trees can say a few words too.
However, the fact that Jiang Jiang still calls her "mother" is a very serious issue.
"Jiangjiang, from now on you have to call me Father and your other mother Mother. You have to remember that I am a man now and I can't reveal my true identity."
Jiangjiang didn't quite understand, but she obediently changed her address and sweetly called out, "Father~"
Looking at her innocent and radiant smile as she called out to her father, Cheng Qingyan suddenly understood why there are so many doting fathers!
With that kind of treatment, wouldn't anyone spoil her?
"Come on, Dad will take you to find your mother. If we don't go back soon, she'll be worried sick!"
"Yay! Jiangjiang is going to find Mommy!"
As for Jiang Jiang always referring to herself as Jiang Jiang, I'll have to talk to her about it when we get home and get her to change it.
After reuniting with Ye Lingyu, Cheng Qingyan took Jiang Jiang back to the town.
We don't have any clothes for Jiangjiang at home, so we need to go buy some.
Her lanolin soap will be ready to use in a while; she should also go to town to check out other people's soaps and compare them.
Most importantly, she only made less than a hundred taels of silver today and tomorrow combined.
I don't know how much it will cost to register Jiangjiang's household registration, so I need to prepare more money to feel at ease.
"Jiangjiang, can we pawn the cheapest jade item in our package?"
"Judging from the prices here, this won't work; we'll lose out. The pawnshops in town won't offer us a high price."
Cheng Qingyan thought that it was okay to suffer a little loss, as long as it wasn't a big loss, it wouldn't be a big problem.
The cheapest piece of jade in the bag was the one that had been replaced when the door curtain was changed. I took it to the pawnshop in town and pawned it for 350 taels of silver.
She still has a whole basketful of jade like that.
These were jade beads she casually tore off an old door curtain; each bead cost ten taels of silver, and she pawned thirty-five of them.
That puts my mind at ease.
Jiangjiang pointed at a vendor selling candied hawthorns and shouted, "Jiangjiang wants to eat candied hawthorns! I've never had candied hawthorns before!"
Cheng Qingyan waved his hand and gave out four copper coins to buy two strings!
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