After time travel, I became the first richest woman in Lizhao

Chapter 86
When Mrs. Su heard that Master was leaving, she also turned to Ah Ni and said, "Take me back, I'm tired too."

Ah Ni hurriedly ordered someone to prepare the sedan chair.

Mrs. Su went down to the first floor and saw shopkeeper Wang, she stopped and asked, "What did you say just now? This shop is opened by Zhao Linger?"

Shopkeeper Wang cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, Madam is really lucky to marry such a smart and capable daughter-in-law!"

"Humph!"

Mrs. Su snorted coldly, ignored him, and got into the sedan chair.

This Zhao Ling'er, I asked her to take care of Yi Ning's study, but she opened a hot pot restaurant for me outside!I really can't tell which is more important. Does my dignified Su Manor send her the money earned by a hot pot restaurant?

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, Madam Su ordered Ah Ni to call Zhao Ling'er when she got home.

When Zhao Ling'er heard that Mrs. Su called her, she felt a little uneasy.

Is she going to praise me or scold me?

Zhao Linger couldn't guess for sure, so she followed Ah Ni to the hall without saying a word.

"Sit down." Mrs. Su ordered angrily.

Zhao Ling'er secretly glanced at Mrs. Su, she didn't show any expression, what happened.

Mrs. Su watched Zhao Linger sit down, and asked: "Then you opened the hotpot restaurant?"

Zhao Linger nodded and said, "I drove it."

"You drove it," Madam Su repeated in a low voice, "You drove it, why didn't you tell me? Don't you know to tell me about such a big thing? What if something happens? Our Su family's business has always been clean and aboveboard, if you open a hot pot restaurant quietly, if someone dies, the official sent to arrest him, I don't know what's going on!"

Mrs. Su reprimanded loudly, and then said: "I will close the hot pot restaurant tomorrow, so I won't worry about it!"

Zhao Linger frowned, stood up, and said, "I opened the hot pot restaurant with great difficulty. Now that the business is stable and making money, how can we just close it?"

Mrs. Su thought for a while, and then said: "Since you have already started to make money, let's show it to your elder brother. His Yingbin Building is running so well, your small hot pot restaurant must be fine."

Zhao Ling'er was so angry, how can I just give it to someone else when I opened a hot pot restaurant with great difficulty?

Seeing Zhao Linger staring at herself, she didn't speak.

Mrs. Su said: "What? You don't want to?"

Zhao Ling'er said: "I have invested 1 taels of silver back and forth in this hotpot restaurant, and manpower, material resources, finding buddies, finding materials, spending time, etc., are all my hard work! How can I tell my elder brother? Just give it to big brother?"

"Hmph! It sounds like you still want money, don't you? What kind of dowry did you get when you married? Do you have 1 taels of silver? Isn't this money given to you by Yi Ning? Besides, you gave the hot pot restaurant to me. Your elder brother, isn’t it the whole family who made the money and spent it? Why? Are you not happy that the whole family spends some money on you?”

It's not like that!

Zhao Ling'er felt anxious, but she couldn't refute for a while, tears rolled in her eyes, and she didn't speak.

"Okay, you go back. When your elder brother comes back, I will ask him to ask you for a seal."

After hearing this, Zhao Ling'er turned around and left without replying.

"You still have a temper at such a young age!" Mrs. Su said coldly from behind.

When Su Yining came back, Zhao Ling'er angrily told him about this matter.

When Su Yi Ning heard this, she was very angry with his mother.

He knows best how much Zhao Linger has put into this store, and she will definitely be very sad if she is asked to give up this store to her elder brother.

Su Yi Ning comforted: "Okay, okay, don't worry, let's find a way together, I won't let you give up the hot pot restaurant to big brother."

After dinner in the evening, Su Yi Ning went to the west courtyard.

Su Yixiang was resting in the room with his eyes closed.

Su Yi Ning said: "Brother, mother wants Ling'er to let you give me the hot pot restaurant, but you also know that we borrowed money from you to open this hot pot restaurant at the beginning, it finally opened, and now I want... It's not that I don't want you to take care of it, I mean that this is Ling'er's painstaking effort, and it would make her feel uncomfortable to let anyone take care of her. But mother, she insists..."

Hearing this, Su Yixiang already understood the general idea, so he interrupted Su Yining and said, "Tell Linger that she doesn't have to worry. I'll tell Mother directly that I don't have time to take care of it."

Su Yi Ning was overjoyed when he heard his elder brother say that.

After thanking him, he went home and told Zhao Linger, and Zhao Linger was relieved a lot.

Mrs. Su heard her eldest son say that he didn't have time to care, so she nagged him a few words.

But she had no other choice but to let Zhao Linger take care of it first.

But she warned Zhao Ling'er that although she owns the store, she can only go there once a week, and she can't let everyone see the Su family's daughter-in-law as the shopkeeper.In addition, the monthly operating income, how much money has been made, how much money has been lost, and how many people in the money store are currently reporting to her.

Zhao Linger also agreed.

This morning, after Zhao Ling'er greeted Mrs. Su, on the way back, she saw A Fei gathering a group of servants pulling a cart, not knowing what they were going to do, so she asked curiously.

Ah Fei said: "Second Young Madam, at this time of year, our Su Mansion will go to the upper reaches of the Yunzhou River to collect ice, transport these ice cubes back, put them in the ice cellar, and save them for next summer."

"Ice harvesting?" Zhao Ling'er was a little curious, so she simply cleaned up and followed A Fei and the others to the ice harvesting site.

It turned out that they first used a wedge to pry open a crack in the ice surface, and then used a hammer to drive the wedge deep into it, just like this to cut off large ice blocks one by one, and then let people lift the ice block and pull it back to their cellar.

Unexpectedly, ice in winter can be used in this way!

Zhao Linger suddenly remembered that the tripe, duck intestines, meat, and fruits in the hot pot restaurant must not be able to store seasonal items in summer, and of course ice must be used.So when shopkeeper Wang came to the mansion to report, he asked him to find someone to pick ice.

Shopkeeper Wang said: "Miss Ling'er, picking ice is easy, but where should we put it?"

Zhao Ling'er said: "It's just in the backyard, can't we dig a big cellar?"

Shopkeeper Wang said: "Our backyard is too small. Although we say we store ice, two-thirds of the ice will melt in summer, and we can only keep one-third at most. Our hotpot restaurant is doing so well now. , if we open another branch in the next year, we will definitely not be able to store so much ice in our backyard! I think you should find a way to find another large open space so that we can dig a deeper ice cellar and store more ice."

Zhao Linger was thinking, now the hotpot restaurant business has just started to make a profit, and even the money to pay back the elder brother has not been saved enough, and they have to spend money to buy land, where will the money come from?The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and everyone should not be rich.

Wang Ruoxi!
She suddenly thought of her.

But that was the dowry prepared by her parents, isn't that good?

Anyway, go ahead and ask.

When Zhao Ling'er came to Li Heng's house, Wang Ruoxi was lying on the bed bored reading a novel.Since her home also got a heated kang, she hardly got out of bed every day.

After Zhao Linger told her difficulties, Wang Ruoxi immediately sat up and said excitedly, "I have it! What is a piece of land? My mother gave me 300 mu of fertile land when I got married. How much do you want to use?"

When Zhao Linger heard that it was fertile land, she immediately shook her head and said, "How can that be done? A barren land is enough for storing ice, so how can you be willing to use fertile land? You should keep it and collect land rent."

Wang Ruoxi agreed when she heard that, digging an ice cellar would not require such a good field.

then what should we do?

Wang Ruoxi couldn't think of a good solution for a while.

Zhao Linger returned home with a sad face.

(End of this chapter)