Chapter 116 Great Joy and Great Sorrow
In the blink of an eye, autumn goes and winter comes.
It’s time to dig winter bamboo shoots again.
The more precious something is, the harder it is to obtain. Everything has its own laws.
Winter bamboo shoots are harder to pick than spring and summer bamboo shoots, so their prices go up accordingly.
Jiang Miaomiao's family originally bought winter bamboo shoots for 20 wen per catty and sold them for 30 wen per catty.
As a result, the price of bamboo shoots chased by Shopkeeper Qian rose to 25 wen per catty.
As for how many kilograms it sold for, only my mother knows...
Shopkeeper Jin claimed that both stores charged 25 wen per jin and that they could not favor one over the other.
Winter bamboo shoots are off the market, and spring bamboo shoots are on the market.
Qi Caiwei wanted to squeeze Lu Qingyao out, not for the steamed buns, but for her reputation...
So, the price of spring bamboo shoots for Shopkeeper Qian suddenly jumped from 25 wen to 30 wen per jin, which meant he lost 5 wen...
Six coins... seven coins... eight coins...
The villagers of Qinghe County were excited and even happier than during the Chinese New Year.
Lu Qingyao still followed the price, but sometimes she did not. Anyway, all the people selling bamboo shoots went to Baishengfang, so she didn't lose out. She often took her daughter for a stroll around the town.
Qi Caiwei thought she was going bankrupt several times.
The whole year was spent in great sorrow and great joy.
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine mentions that "anger causes the qi to rise, joy causes the qi to disperse, sadness causes the qi to disappear, fear causes the qi to descend, and shock causes the qi to become chaotic."
in short.
Frequent extreme joy and sorrow can easily lead to disordered qi and blood, palpitations and shortness of breath, liver qi stagnation, and the risk of heart disease and high blood pressure.
In short, it’s easy to get angry to death!
Spring goes and summer comes.
Bamboo shoots are now on the market, as are mushrooms and bamboo fungus...
Qi Caiwei was puzzled about this thing called bamboo fungus.
I only saw Lu Qingyao collecting things, but never selling them. Even Yipinju had nothing to sell.
No one has ever eaten it.
She followed Lu Qingyao to collect a batch.
The result is either rotten, burnt, or yellowed.
Even if Yipinju doesn’t accept it, no other house dares to accept it.
A lot of bamboo fungi were wasted in vain.
This year.
It took Lu Qingyao less than half a year to pay back the 10,000 taels of capital owed to Yipinju.
He and Yipinju jointly invested in a large commercial ship, and in the early spring they sold the stored grain to the north.
During the harvest season, the grains that cost 300 wen per dan were processed into refined rice and transported to the capital, where they were sold for 1,500 wen per dan.
The fine grains and refined rice produced in the land of fish and rice are very popular among the wealthy families in the capital.
This year.
Jiang Miaomiao's family did not go bankrupt, but became even richer.
The villagers of Taoxi Village, who had originally given up hope, received considerable dividends this year.
I admire Lu Qingyao even more.
Two-year-old Jiang Miaomiao has become more and more cute and lovely.
The little girl still rode the big white wolf around the village when she had nothing to do. She no longer teased cats and dogs, but turned all the children in the village into bird breeders.
Since then, all the birds in Taoxi Village have been raised by special people.
I often work from sunrise to sunset.
The parents did not stop them, after all, it was Miaomiao who provided the food for the birds.
The little girl doesn't have any big hobbies, she just loves to eat. She eats until she is plump and loves to talk to birds.
Everyone is used to it.
No matter how strange the children I have seen since I was a child are, I seem to get used to them after seeing them for a long time.
In Taoxi Village, everyone from the old men and women to the children spoiled her. The adults and children in the village all called her the Little Pink Dumpling.
I don’t know if it’s because the big white wolf ran too fast, but the little girl often appears and disappears mysteriously.
One man and one wolf.
As soon as he turned around, he disappeared.
Early in the morning, Jiang Miaomiao got up early and rode the white wolf to look around at the village entrance.
Like waiting for news.
She still likes to sleep in, but today she didn't sleep and got up very early.
On a winter morning, the water surface was frozen and her breath was filled with white mist. Aunt Xiuxiu wrapped her up like a little ball, wearing a woolen hat, furry clothes and small boots.
He almost merged with Jiang Xiaobai.
After a while, the villagers who went to the town came back.
Everyone's face was filled with indescribable joy, and they shouted, "Fellow villagers, the Yum Sheng Fang in town has closed down!"
"It's closed today, but it will be open tomorrow," joked the uninformed villagers.
"Why would I lie to you? I saw with my own eyes that the plaques at Baishengfang were taken down. It can't be fake..."
"That's great. No one will compete with us for business in the future!" The old man in the village stroked his beard and smiled so hard that his teeth were showing.
Jiang Miaomiao rode the little white wolf back quickly to report the good news to her mother.
In fact, she knew yesterday that Baishengfang was going to be finished.
"Mom, Yum Sheng Fang is finished...it's closed down..." A soft and tender baby voice sounded in Lu Qingyao's ears.
She was concentrating on looking at the accounts with a smile on her face.
The account book was delivered by Manager Jin early in the morning.
It is delivered once at the end of every month, and today happens to be the end of the month.
Jiang Miaomiao found that her mother did not go out on the end of every month. She looked at the accounts and smiled, and her mood was particularly good.
When my mother is in a good mood, she likes to cook herself...
Little Miaomiao would eat some fruit snacks early in the morning and drink a big bowl of goat milk while pinching her nose.
Goat milk tastes a bit fishy, but it's a good thing.
During the meal, Lu Qingyao pinched her daughter's fair face and sighed, "See, you've been allowed to sneak in some snacks. You've lost the chance to enjoy this table full of chicken legs and mutton!"
This time Jiang Miaomiao didn't give her mother a chance. Before her mother could speak, she said, "Mom, let's go to Yipinju for a feast, okay? Miaomiao has never been there, and Miaomiao wants to eat!"
"Okay, let's go now and call your brother and Aunt Xiuxiu." Lu Qingyao was happy today and agreed quickly.
My little girl has never been to Jiangzhou since she was two years old, and she hasn’t seen her new home yet. It’s time to go and take a look.
Jiangzhou Jiang Mansion.
Qi Caiwei has been feeling unwell recently. She is pale and lying on the couch with her eyes half closed.
Two pots of silver charcoal were burning in the house, but it was still a little cold.
Jiang Zijin was writing a letter on the side.
I wrote two letters, one to my grandfather and one to my father.
The poem was full of emotion, expressing the mother's longing for her family and her earnest pleas. She wrote on behalf of her mother, begging for their forgiveness and asking them to let her mother come back.
Or you can send them some money.
Nanny Gong watched coldly, doing only the duties of a servant, nothing more.
She had advised Qi Caiwei when she bought bamboo shoots at high prices and then sold them at low prices.
However, the lady refused to listen and insisted on having her own way. She felt that she had more money than she could spend, and she even deceived her husband, claiming that she needed capital to do a big business in Jiangzhou, and asked someone to send the rest of her dowry.
All profits earned are used to subsidize household expenses.
When Lord Jiang heard this, he thought it was a great idea and he couldn't ask for more!
But no matter how much he planned, he didn't expect that this guy was stupid, didn't understand the ways of business, and wasn't good at managing the household.
I only like to recite poems and compose essays to show off my elegance, and listen to music and appreciate flowers.
Follow suit and learn how to do business.
She probably never dreamed that the loss of only five cents on a pound of bamboo shoots would wipe out her dowry and private property of tens of thousands of taels in just one and a half years.
He was nearly mad with anger, and it took a lot of effort to save him.
Jiang Zijin wrote the letter and handed it to Mei Gu, then returned to serve his mother.
Although she blamed her mother for being stupid, since a son doesn't think his mother is ugly, she wouldn't dare to do so either...
"Mom, are you feeling better? I heard that Yipinju just received a new batch of sheep today. Why don't you go and have some to warm yourself up? I've specially booked a private room on the second floor."
After all, they couldn't go to the top floor...
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