Siheyuan: A Very Happy Era

Chapter 272 This is just the beginning!

"Xiaoxia, why are you here?"

"Mom, Sister Caiyan is here!"

"Caiyan? What is she doing here?"

"I don't know, she didn't tell me!"

"Okay, wait for me. I'll explain everything first, and then I'll go back with you to take a look."

When Xu Yuping heard Zhu Caixia say that Zhu Caiyan had arrived, she was immediately confused. She hurriedly told the workers at the bee farm and then rushed home with Zhu Caixia.

Soon, the mother and daughter returned home. As soon as they entered the door, Xu Yuping was frightened by Zhu Caiyan's tattered and disheveled appearance.

"Yanzi, what's wrong with you?"

"Woo~ Auntie, I finally found you!"

When Zhu Caiyan saw Xu Yuping, she immediately stood up and threw herself into Xu Yuping's arms, then burst into tears.

"Don't cry, don't cry, tell me what's going on first."

Seeing this, Xu Yuping hurriedly reached out and patted Zhu Caiyan on the back to comfort her, then asked with some confusion.

As far as I can remember, Zhu Caiyan hasn't come here since she came here with Zhao Chunhua last winter.

If Zhu Caiyan hadn't suddenly come over, she would have almost forgotten about her former in-laws.

"Auntie, my parents wanted to sell me to the mountains to be a wife to three men at the same time. I finally found an opportunity to escape, and then I had no place to go, so I had to run here."

Zhu Caiyan sobbed as she told the story, then she knelt on the ground and begged with a sad face, "Auntie, please don't chase me away. I can help you with the work as long as you can give me a bite to eat."

"You, you hurry up and get up!"

Xu Yuping was somewhat shocked by the outrageous behavior of her ex-brother-in-law and aunt-in-law. Then, when she saw Zhu Caiyan kneeling on the ground, she hurriedly reached out to help her up.

Then, she hurriedly helped Zhu Caiyan wipe away her tears and said seriously, "Don't worry! Auntie won't ignore you. You can stay here for now."

"That's great, thank you, Auntie!"

When Zhu Caiyan heard Xu Yuping's words, she immediately burst into laughter and finally let go of the worry that had been hanging in her heart.

In fact, if her parents just wanted her to marry a man, then she would accept it even if the man was not so good-looking or had worse conditions.

However, in order to sell her for a good price, her parents actually agreed to sell her to three widowers as a wife at the same time, and of course she was unwilling to do so.

Rather than that, she might as well just hit her head and die.

Fortunately, there is always a way out. She finally took the opportunity to go to the toilet and secretly climbed over the wall to slip out. Then she ran all the way and successfully ran to Xu Yuping's house.

At first, she was a little worried that Li Guoqiang would drive her out. However, after entering the house, she found out that Li Guoqiang had gone to the capital and became a well-known figure in the village, which surprised her.

Afterwards, she felt even more regretful, regretting why she did not seize the opportunity to marry Li Guoqiang.

If she and Li Guoqiang had gotten together at that time, she would be the wife of a big shot now.

Unfortunately, it's too late to say anything now. She has become a stray dog, unable to return home. She doesn't know what to do in the future. She can only stay with Xu Yuping temporarily and then think about what to do in the future.

"Come, I'll get you a basin of water so you can wash yourself. Your body and face are so dirty that it's unbearable to look at!"

When Xu Yuping saw the smile on Zhu Caiyan's face, she sighed slightly in her heart, then hurriedly took Zhu Caiyan to the bathhouse and got her some hot water for a bath.

Then she went to get a set of her own clothes and gave them to Zhu Caiyan to change into.

Although it seems a bit big when worn, it is still wearable.

"Look how thin you are. You don't even have much meat left!"

Not long after, when Zhu Caiyan finished taking a shower and changed her clothes, Xu Yuping looked at the slightly dangling clothes and pants on Zhu Caiyan's body, as well as the pale face, and suddenly she couldn't help but feel a little distressed and spoke.

"hey-hey!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Caiyan lowered her head to look at her relatively reasonable mind and could only let out a slightly awkward laugh.

"Come on, let's go inside. Tell me, why would your parents do such an outrageous thing?"

When Xu Yuping saw Zhu Caiyan's look, she didn't say anything to her. Instead, she pulled her into the house, wanting to find out the details so that she could tell Li Guoqiang later.

Soon, they sat side by side on the edge of the kang, with the two maids Zhu Caixia and Xu Dani next to them.

Zhu Caiyan first looked at Zhu Caixia's increasingly round cheeks and increasingly youthful and beautiful figure with some envy, then organized her words in her mind and whispered:
"Auntie, ever since my mother and I came to your place last winter, my parents have been thinking of marrying me to the son of the master of the commune's winery.

Although his reputation was not very good, his family background was still pretty good, so I did not object.

However, because my parents asked for a lot of dowry, the other party was unwilling to agree, so the matter was delayed.

We waited until the beginning of this year. The brigade took into consideration that we had no house and did not drive us away. They just asked us to help raise pigs and clean the pigpen.

However, my parents couldn't stand the stench all day long, and they also owed the brigade a lot of money, so they wanted to sell me for a good price so that they could repair the original house.

After searching for a long time, I finally found a few single men in their forties in the mountains through the introduction of others.

Because they could offer a high price, my parents agreed to sell me to them as a wife.

At first, I was kept in the dark. If I hadn’t overheard them talking about it later, I’m afraid my life would have been ruined.”

When she said this, Zhu Caiyan felt a lump in her throat and then she threw herself on the kang and started crying bitterly.

Until this moment, she still couldn't believe that her parents would treat her like this.

"Ugh!"

After hearing what happened, Xu Yuping thought about the characters of her former brother-in-law and former sister-in-law, and could only sigh helplessly.

Thinking back to the beginning, she, the widowed sister-in-law, was ruthlessly driven out by them along with her children.

If she hadn't met the good man Li Guoqiang later, who knows what she would have become now!
Thinking of this, she couldn't help missing Li Guoqiang.

[I don’t know when he will come back! ]

Just as she was worrying about the abandoned fields, in the old city, Li Guoqiang started to get busy again after dinner.

In order to catch up with the supply, he boiled water in his small space and quickly cooled it down, and then made honey lemon tea directly in his small space.

This is not only faster, but also ensures the best ratio, making the honey lemon tea taste the best.

In addition, as the weather outside was getting hotter and hotter, he couldn't help but think about cold drinks.

And making cold drinks is not a difficult task for him.

Not to mention those crude methods of making ice with saltpeter, the ice stored in the storage space alone amounted to several thousand cubic meters, which was more than enough for him to dig an ice cellar in the backyard.

However, since Xiangmi Zhai had just become famous, it was not the best time to launch cold drinks, so he just took the time to check the backyard, chose a place that was more suitable for digging an ice cellar, and prepared to find someone to dig out the cellar first. Soon, the three large jars lined up in the backyard corridor were filled with honey lemon tea again.

In addition, there are three other tanks in the small world, which are almost enough for sales in the afternoon and evening.

Immediately, Li Guoqiang went out and found a secluded place, and kept pulling bamboo tubes into the shop, directly filling up most of the backyard.

Then he spread the bamboo tubes as wide as possible to dry them in the sun.

By the time he finished his work, it was already past four in the afternoon. There were gradually more and more customers in the store, and a long queue formed again in front of the store door.

By the way, because of the price of honey lemon tea and its fatal flaw of being a single product category, if it were in the 21st century, one would be very lucky to be able to sell one or two cups a day.

However, precisely because we live in an age when spiritual entertainment is extremely scarce, once a trend starts somewhere, it cannot be stopped at all.

A bowl costs 5 cents, which may seem a bit expensive, but there are at least tens of thousands of employees in just one steel rolling mill, not to mention the hundreds of factories of all sizes in the East District and even in the entire old city.

With so many people, even if each person buys one bowl, then based on the production of their store, the business will have to last until at least next year.

Therefore, Li Guoqiang does not worry about future business at all.

What he was worried about was that his business was so good that some people would become jealous and come to cause trouble, causing him unnecessary trouble.

As time passed, it was soon evening.

There was still no sign of a decrease in the number of customers at the store entrance; instead, there were even more.

Through observation, Li Guoqiang found that some customers, especially some young men and women, have regarded drinking honey lemon tea as a fashion, and they can also have a romantic relationship at the same time, so more and more customers are coming.

In desperation, he could only ask Luo Huijuan, who came to help, to stop cooking and be responsible for collecting money in the store.

He was maintaining order outside the store to avoid any unexpected situations.

I was busy like this until after 8 o'clock in the evening, and then I finished.

Then comes the most exciting moment of counting money.

I saw Luo Huijuan, Pan Qiaoyan and others sitting on chairs, with a small pile of loose bills in front of each of them, and they were counting them with excitement on their faces.

"Qiaoyan, how much do you have?"

"Fengxia, what about you?"

"Xiu-jin, have you finished counting?"

In the end, after Luo Huijuan's statistics, their store made a total turnover of nearly 900 yuan that day.

Although more than half of the money came from selling honey, the income from selling honey lemon tea also accounted for nearly 400 yuan.

Calculated at 5 cents per bowl, they sold 800 bowls of honey lemon tea that day, which means they received more than 800 customers that day.

No wonder I'm so busy and tired.

"Qiangzi, look, we made so much money in one day. In this month, it would be tens of thousands!"

Luo Huijuan looked at the stacks of banknotes in front of her and couldn't help but speak excitedly.

"calm down!"

Li Guoqiang was delighted, and then he laughed and said, "This is just the beginning! Once our store becomes well-known, we might be able to make thousands of dollars a day!"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but think of the cold drinks he was going to launch next. In this hot summer, who can refuse a bowl of icy, sour and sweet honey lemon tea?

By then, the long queue in front of the store might even extend to the two nearby streets.

Therefore, the issue of supplementing manpower must be addressed now.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly said to Luo Huijuan: "Sister Juan, please take some time to look for Xiaofu tomorrow and ask him to remember to come and help me mail a letter tomorrow."

"What?"

Luo Huijuan was slightly stunned, then asked with some confusion.

"Harmful!"

Li Guoqiang waved his hand and explained, "It's just that the store is too busy! So I thought of writing a letter back to report the good news to the team and ask them to arrange a few people to come here to work."

"Ok!"

Hearing this, Luo Huijuan nodded, then glanced at Pan Qiaoyan and the others, and asked softly, "Who do you want to come over?"

"Forehead"

Li Guoqiang hesitated for a moment, then asked awkwardly, "What do you think about asking Chu Meiling and Wu Zhaodi to come?"

"I knew you wouldn't let them go!"

When Luo Huijuan heard Li Guoqiang's answer, she couldn't help but roll her eyes.

"Then there's nothing I can do!"

Li Guoqiang spread his hands and said frankly, "You know, they exposed their consciences in front of me without saying a word. Do you think I can ignore them?"

"okay!"

Seeing Li Guoqiang like this, Luo Huijuan could only wave her hand unhappily and said, "You don't have to explain so much to me. Anyway, I guessed it would be like this. If you want to call them over, then call them over!"

"You are really my good wife!"

Upon hearing this, Li Guoqiang quickly praised him.

As for Pan Qiaoyan and the others, although they were a little surprised by the news, they felt relieved instantly when they thought of Li Guoqiang's abilities.

They can't finish it anyway, so it would be nice to have someone to help share the burden.

What's more, given their status, they are not qualified to say anything.

Anyway, this matter has been settled.

Li Guoqiang glanced at Pan Qiaoyan and the others, asked Shang Xiuzhen to put the money away, and then asked Shen Fengxia to keep track of the accounts. Then he went to get paper and pen to write a letter to Xu Guangfu.

By the way, he also planned to collect a thousand yuan from the sales revenue of the past few days and send it back first to make the villagers of Jinshanbao happy first, so as to reduce the resistance he would face in getting people.

While he was busy writing the letter, the news that he had opened Xiangmi Zhai had spread throughout the courtyard.

Among them, most people were simply amazed at his abilities, while a few were filled with jealousy.

For example, Jia Zhangshi, upon hearing the news, started cursing at home.

(End of this chapter)