Upon hearing this, everyone was startled. "No, no, no, we will definitely do as you ask."
This is why, initially, Yin Lan only considered a few households to try it out first, as fewer people would be easier to manage, and she would gradually expand the program later.
Then she would divide the county into several areas and assign people to be responsible for their respective areas, so as to avoid any unpleasantness arising from business matters.
That's a story for another time.
Currently... there is also a second child.
This young man, though not very old, had a lot of persistence. In fact, Yin Lan had already seen that he couldn't figure it out, but he never gave up until everything was sold out. Only then did he collapse in dejection, panting heavily, clearly exhausted.
Yin Lan walked over.
Erwa raised his little face, no longer displaying his former arrogance.
He knew he had made countless mistakes in his calculations today, and he marked the problematic ones to recalculate later. But he also realized that he wasn't as capable as he thought.
"Mother~"
"Tell me, what did you learn today?"
Erwa lowered his head; he hadn't done well.
Yin Lan also squatted down and rubbed his little face. Now his face has become chubby, and after applying cream all winter, the skin on his face has regained its baby-soft texture. It feels so comfortable to rub.
Erwa lets his mother mold him however she wants, as long as she doesn't mind.
"Look, is arithmetic useless? You think you've learned it very well, better than the other kids in the village, but when you actually need it, is it enough?"
Erwa lowered his head in shame.
He knew that he still had a lot to learn, and that arithmetic was very useful; he hadn't heard many of the words his mother used when she spoke to the guests.
“If you don’t study, you won’t be able to understand what the eldest child is saying. All the other children understand, but you won’t. Even if you go to sell goods, you won’t know how to speak politely,” Yin Lan instructed the second child.
Erwa lowered his head, deeply aware that he had made a mistake.
The villagers nearby clicked their tongues in amazement.
If it were them, having spent so much money and still having a disobedient child, they would have given him a good spanking.
What to do when your child is disobedient? Just spank them. If one spanking doesn't solve the problem, then two spankings will do.
Wasn't it said that Madam Yin loved to beat her children? How come she didn't beat them even after all this? Instead, she spoke to them gently and patiently, clearly much gentler than the other people in the village.
Besides, why is that other people's child so obedient? Erwa's clothes are clean now, and he only just realized how good-looking the other child is, and how well he listens to Yin Shi. When the villagers looked at their own children rolling around in the fields, they instantly wanted to go back and beat their kids.
Chen Yourun stood to one side, looking at his wife and child with a tender expression.
He had seen many women disciplining their children, some by yelling, some by beating. Whenever a child misbehaved, a beating would make them obedient. Even when he was a child, he didn't know how many sticks he had been beaten.
His child is lucky to have such a gentle... well, sometimes not so gentle, but very methodical and reasonable, a mother who knows how to educate her child.
The soft light fell on her beautiful profile, making even the finest downy hairs clearly visible, and his heart softened beyond measure.
It wasn't until Erwa hugged Yinlan, blocking his view, that Chen Yourun's expression darkened. For the first time, he felt that this child... was somewhat superfluous.
With everything sold out and Erwa's problem mostly resolved, it was time to head home.
Just as they finished packing up, several men suddenly rushed in from outside. They had fierce faces and menacing expressions. After glancing around the shop a few times, their eyes fell on Yin Lan's face. A flash of amazement and covetousness crossed their eyes, but then their expressions turned vicious. "This is it!"
As he spoke, the man threw a cloth bag over and beckoned the people around him to look over, looking like he was about to cause trouble.
"Look everyone! I bought some pig offal from this 'Liangfen Xishi' shop, and I found worms in it! This is food for humans! I wouldn't mind ordinary worms, but look at this! What kind of worm is this? Is this even edible? My wife was vomiting and had diarrhea that day, she almost died! You shady merchant!" the man yelled at Yin Lan.
“We poor folks can’t save any money normally. We only manage to scrape together the money we have from our tight belts to treat ourselves to something nice. We never expected to be ripped off like this. Unscrupulous merchants! Unscrupulous merchants! God, why are you so blind? How can you let such people continue to make money off poor people like us?”
Chen Yourun stepped forward to block Yin Lan's view, then opened his things and looked inside; they were indeed pig offal sold here.
In fact, these days, some people are envious of the good business of pig offal, so they also make some, but the taste is not as good as it is, and the business is naturally not good.
The taste of what this person brought over was indeed from the products sold here.
People gradually gathered around. Most of them had heard of the famous Liangfen Xishi (a type of cold noodle), and some had even bought her products. They had a very good impression of her, so they spoke up for her, saying, "It's fine for me to buy it."
"Yes, we didn't find any problems with the ones we bought."
Yin Lan stepped forward, exchanged a glance with Chen Yourun, and asked, "You said your wife was vomiting and had diarrhea. When did you buy it?"
"Five days ago," the man replied without hesitation.
What did you buy?
"Half a pound of pig's trotters, one pound of pig's liver, one pound of pig's large intestine, and half a pound of pig's kidneys."
Yin Lan then asked him, "Your wife had a problem with the food, but you didn't? Is there anyone else in your family who has a problem?"
The man thought for a moment, "You sell dirty stuff, and I'm fine with it because I have a good stomach. But if my wife has a bad stomach, then she'll have problems. Luckily, no one else in the family eats it, otherwise, it would be terrible."
"Everyone come and see! This person didn't refute me at all. Doesn't that mean she's guilty and that there's something wrong with her things? She needs to pay up! She needs to pay up! She bought it for two qian of silver, but she wants two hundred taels! Anyone who has bought anything from her can come and ask her for compensation!"
As soon as the man said this, the people around him began to murmur. Some were still watching to see how things would develop. But some people with bad intentions, even though they hadn't done anything wrong in buying the goods, were tempted by the man's encouragement and the thought of getting compensation without spending a penny. Even those who had never bought pig offal before were now getting restless.
Even if you bought it, and you've already eaten it without leaving any evidence, who can prove that you didn't buy it?
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