Beloved Concubine

Chapter 22 Borrowing Money
After Chunhong counted the money, she took out this booklet to keep accounts.

In the booklet, Chen Xiao has already drawn a table, the month and date, how many bowls were sold, how much money he earned, and notes.

Chunhong was illiterate before.However, illiteracy also has its advantages. Chen Xiao directly taught her simplified characters and Arabic numerals, as long as she knew how to keep accounts.

This is a small business, and I don't need to keep an account.But Chen Xiao said that bookkeeping is not only for knowing the profit and loss, but also for knowing the changes in the numbers in each period and grasping the rules for adjustment.

Chunhong didn't know what to master, anyway, Sister Chen asked her to memorize, so she memorized.It is good to remember clearly, clearly.

In her opinion, this sales ledger is already very technical.But in Chen Xiao's view, this is the easiest way to keep accounts.In addition, there is a purchase account book with Chen Xiao, and she wants to wait for Chunhong to learn more words before handing it over to her.

Little Shitou saw what she was filling in the grid and asked, "What are you playing with?"

"Playing?" Chunhong glanced at Xiao Shitou contemptuously: "I'm keeping accounts."

"Bookkeeping? What are you writing here!"

"You do not understand."

"Why don't I understand! Our family used to be in business, and I have watched my father keep accounts since I was a child."

Chunhong didn't bother to talk to him.

Little Shitou looked at the words on the booklet and said with a little contempt: "You can't read!"

Chunhong finished filling out and closing the account book, and said coldly, "It's none of your business."

"How can you be illiterate in business!" Xiao Shitou looked like an old businessman.

"Am I in business? Am I in business!"

Chunhong stood up and sprayed on Xiao Shitou's forehead.

Little Stone was forced back by her momentum.

"I'm telling you, I'm letting you in, don't think I'm afraid of you."

Chunhong extinguished her flame.She knew how a person who dared to catch snakes and sell them would be a cowardly person.

She was just in a bad mood today, so Wu Baozhu sent word back that maybe her parents would come tomorrow, and the Ruan family might also come.What should she do then?
She thought about borrowing money from Big Brother Fang before, but 20 taels was nothing to him.But now they have a total of only 20 taels, will Brother Fang borrow it?

If he doesn't borrow it?what to do……

"Little Shitou, do you have any silver?" Chunhong softened her tone.

"What do you want to do?" Little Shitou had some savings.

"How much silver do you have? Can you lend me some?"

"You...how much do you want to borrow?"

"It depends on how much you have."

"Tell me first, how much do you want to borrow?"

"20 taels."

"No." Little Stone replied simply.

Chunhong smiled wryly.She knew that the little stone might have some savings, but not too much.

"Why do you want to borrow so much money?" Little Stone asked.

"Buy myself back."

"Buy it back?! Who did you buy it from?"

"The Ruan family..."

She roughly talked about her experience of being robbed of marriage and escaping from marriage.She told Fang Yu and Chen Xiao about this.

"Oh! The one who came to look for you today is the one who coaxed you to go to Ruanjia Village?"

Chunhong sneered.She felt that she was so stupid before.Baozhu said that the brown sugar cake made by her aunt was very delicious, so she asked her to go to her aunt's house to play, and asked her aunt to make brown sugar cake for them.

Ruanjia Village was not far from their village, only seven or eight miles away, so she went.

After going there, my aunt really made brown sugar cakes for them, saying that the brown sugar cakes taste better with eggs, but there are no eggs at home, so they asked them to borrow eggs from the third uncle's house.When she went to the third uncle's house, she was dragged away.Baozhu ignored her and ran away by herself.

After that, the Ruan family went to the Hu family to propose marriage.Her parents agreed in a muddleheaded way.

She didn't think she was stupid before.Now she feels stupid.

Little Shitou said: "You should tell me today that I have someone tie up that woman. If they want to pay for your sister, you should pay for her."

Chunhong smiled.She dared not do such a thing.

Little Shitou hesitated for a moment and said, "I... can give five taels at most."

Chunhong said gratefully, "Thank you! When Big Brother Fang and the others come back, I want to borrow money from them first. If they say that the money is not enough, you can lend me five taels first."

"Yes." Xiao Shitou nodded, and then said: "However..., I also have something, I want your help."

"what's up?"

"Aunt Shen's family, you know...Brother Shen doesn't like me all the time, I don't want to live in their house. However, I'm not at home every day to rent a house, and renting a house is not worth it. I want to see Brother Fang, can you Take me in." "I can sleep anywhere, in the kitchen, woodshed, or shop."

Chunhong looked at this peer.Orphans can still get five taels of silver.And she was sold for a piece of brown sugar cake.

She said: "You have to go to Sister Chen for this matter. As long as she agrees, Brother Fang will agree."

Chunhong saw it, Brother Fang listened to Sister Chen.

"Well! When the time comes, you can help me talk."

"it is good."

In fact, Xiao Shitou also knows that Sister Chen is the one who decides.

……

When Fang Yu and Chen Xiao came back, they had dinner.Xiao Shitou asked to take him in, and Chen Xiao agreed.

They have four main rooms, one for Fang Yu, one for Chen Xiao, one for Chunhong, and the other is used as a warehouse for storing rice, flour, grain, oil and other things.Xiao Shitou said that he could sleep anywhere, so he let him sleep in the warehouse.

Then Chunhong said to borrow 20 taels of silver.She told how Baozhu came to the shop today and found her here.

"Whether I let her talk or not, she will talk. Maybe tomorrow my parents and the Ruan family will come."

"Brother Fang, sister Chen, please help me!"

After Chunhong finished speaking, she knelt and kowtowed.

"If my parents come, I will ask them to write a deed of sale and sell me to you. From now on, I will be your cow or horse."

"Get up," Chen Xiao pulled Chunhong up: "It's about 20 taels of silver, what's the matter!"

Fang Yu also felt that it was a trivial matter, not a matter at all.

He turned to Xiaoshitou and said, "Why don't you help out in the store in the future! Chunhong can't do it alone. What about the wages..." He looked at Chen Xiao.

Xiaoshitou is different from Chunhong, he is capable of making money himself.And the income is not bad.

Chen Xiao thought about it for a while, and said, "How about this, 20.00% of the net profit of the small restaurant will be your salary in the future. Just to clarify, it is 20.00% of the net profit."

Xiao Shitou made a rough calculation based on the known cost of a bowl of rice noodles, and his eyes lit up.A lot of money!

He said with some embarrassment: "This...is this too much?"

Chen Xiao was worried that he was too much, and he would not get so much money when the time came, so he thought she was lying to him, and said:
"In addition to the raw materials for making rice noodles, the cost also includes rent, taxes, loss, equipment, and even fines."

"Oh."

The rent for a single room is 380 taels a year, which he didn't count before.In this way, it is reasonable.

Fang Yu frowned: "What about our wages?"

Chen Xiaobai glanced at him.You don't understand?Still pretend not to understand?
Fang Yu smiled secretly: It's white again.

(End of this chapter)