Queen of Nongmen: Hexagrams determine the universe

chapter 44

As soon as everyone heard that they could buy dry food at half price today, they rushed into the Chen Ji dry food shop and started buying.

People who lived near the pier heard about it, and rushed over to buy a lot of dry food.

All of a sudden, there were a lot of customers in the store, and the business was very good. The flow of people at the pier was already high, so it was not difficult to quickly sell out a store's items by cutting prices.

It wasn't until the sun went down that the shop became deserted.

At this time, there were not many pieces of dry food left in the store.

Ye Qiongdan said to the two boys in the store: "The rest of the dry food, you can share it."

The two guys looked at each other, and the tall guy asked a little nervously: "Master Ye, do you plan to start a catering business in the future? Don't you need a guy anymore?"

"The catering business must also need a waiter." Ye Qiongdan smiled slightly, "I plan to move these dry food things to the backyard, put a few tables in this spacious shop, and use linoleum cloth to build the door. A canopy with a few tables under it."

"Great," the two boys breathed a sigh of relief, and the tall guy asked again, "How about the wages?"

"How much did Shopkeeper Chen pay you each month?"

"Two coins and silver." The two said in unison.

"It's hard to wait in the hall. I'll give you an extra penny. See if you want to stay." Ye Qiongdan said after deliberation.

"Yes! We are so willing!" The two said excitedly. For a salary of three renminbi, it is difficult to find a waiter with such a high salary in Qinghe County, right?

Ye Qiongdan didn't care much about the salary of three renminbi. This shop has very good feng shui. If the meals they sell with small profits but high sales are sold, it will definitely not be a problem to double the profit in a month.

A wooden barrel can hold about 150 meals wrapped in lotus leaves, and each meal costs five Wen. After accounting for the cost, each meal makes a net profit of three Wen, and one bucket of meals can earn 450 Wen.

For the past two weeks, Ye Qiongdan has prepared fifteen barrels of food almost every day, earning a total net profit of more than 6700 renminbi. According to the calculation that [-] copper coins are one tael of silver, the net profit for a day is about [-] sen.

It's just because I moved to a new house recently, I'm busy with everything, and I prepare less meals every day. The money I earn every day these days is only between six and seven taels.

Although Ye Qiongdan felt that the food provided every day was already quite a lot, but she couldn’t handle other food that cost more than ten cents. The dishes she cooked were delicious, varied, and meaty, and there was no repeat dish for four or five days in a row. , and Qili Town is the starting point of the North-South Grand Canal. There are many contractors here, so the business is very good.

If you keep setting up a stall, the monthly net profit will be around 250 taels of silver. If you open a shop, on the basis of the stable passenger flow of the contractors, you can also develop the surrounding boatmen and boat passengers. It shouldn't be hard to double.

After the two guys finished their work, Ye Qiongdan locked the door of the shop and handed over the key to Ye Qinghan: "Although the dry food was sold at half price today, we still made some money. The wharf is a prime location, and the things sold are more expensive. Even the price of dry food is slightly higher, after selling this dry food worth 200 taels of silver, we can count as a small profit."

"Do you want to find someone to rent Master Zhao's shop next?" Ye Qinghan gave her the right to choose, "We can spend some money and entrust the dental shop to send someone to talk to Master Zhao."

Yaxing is equivalent to the intermediary of Ye Qiongdan's previous life, and their business scope also includes real estate.

Before, Ye Qiongdan planned to let Uncle Chen rent the shop, and then let Uncle Chen be the nominal tenant. They would give the money to Uncle Chen every month, and then Uncle Chen would hand it over to Master Zhao.

If the brothers and sisters of the Ye family find someone from Shanghe Village to rent a shop now, Mr. Zhao will definitely be suspicious. Why don't you give the Yahang some money and entrust the Yahang to rent the shop, and give the Yahang some money on top of the rent every month. , will certainly work.

"There's no need to make detours. After a few days, the Zhao family will definitely ask me." Ye Qiongdan said confidently.

Ye Qinghan didn't ask any more questions, but couldn't help staring at her deeply again. He couldn't get tired of seeing her charming and charming appearance. She looked like a budding flower in the evening wind, wearing a cyan dress. The flowers waiting to be released stand quietly in the early summer in the north.

Her skin hasn't completely turned white yet, but just looking at her facial features, they are as gentle as official kiln porcelain, so I don't know how she will look beautiful after her skin turns white.

The couple in the third room of the Ye family are all very good-looking, and Ye Qingyu is as handsome as a jade, so how could Ye Qiongdanbai be mediocre when she comes back?

After closing the store, the two walked in the evening breeze. When they passed by a jewelry stall, an old lady who closed the stall shouted: "Man, buy your wife a hairpin!"

Ye Qiongdan was a little astonished, and it took a while to react, and said awkwardly: "I...I'm not..."

At this time, Ye Qinghan had already picked up an exquisite dragonfly hairpin, and looked at Ye Qiongdan: "How about this?"

Ye Qinghan has a good vision, the dragonfly hairpin is fresh and elegant, it has the agility of a girl, but it is also small and delicate.Ye Qiongdan's hairpins are very old, and they are all cheap and simple wooden hairpins. Fortunately, she is young, her hair is black and shiny, and she can see it without the icing on the cake.

Ye Qiongdan's eyes fell on the hairpin in his hand, and he also fell in love with this hairpin at a glance.

The hairpin glowed faintly in the twilight of the setting sun. Its light and thin wings could faintly see smooth lines engraved on the wings. The dragonfly on the head of the hairpin was lifelike, as if it was about to fly. Same as going out.

Ye Qiongdan couldn't help but took the hairpin in his hand and stuck it in his hair. First, he took a look at the bronze mirror on the stand.

The girl in the bronze mirror is wearing a single bun, the butterfly on the bun is about to fly, and the other half of the hair hanging down is dancing in the wind like a flowing spring. Her face is like a willow like a lotus, her eyes are like stars and her lips are like cherry blossoms, and she is full of flowers. With a girly breath like spring.

Then, she looked at Ye Qinghan again, and sure enough, she saw a look of surprise in his eyes.

Ye Qiongdan's heart beat immediately faster, she felt a little nervous for no reason, and said dryly: "Then, let's buy it."

"My lady's clothes are just right," the old lady said with a smile, "I wish you a happy marriage for a hundred years."

"We are brother and sister, not husband and wife." Ye Qiongdan said hastily.

They were brothers and sisters in name, even if she had a crush on Ye Qinghan, she didn't dare to show it, for fear of putting Ye Qinghan under a lot of pressure.

After all, she doesn't care about worldly views, but she worries that he does.

"Brother should be better to younger sister." Ye Qinghan suppressed the disappointment in his heart, pretending to be nonchalant, "How much is the hairpin?"

"Liushiwen, this is the most beautiful hairpin on our stall, look how good-looking your sister is wearing it? Girls, you have to dress up well, so that you can talk about others in the future."

The speaker didn't care about the listener, and Ye Qinghan originally thought that Ye Qiongdan looked good wearing this hairpin, but at this moment, he felt it was an eyesore again.

He didn't want other men to see such a smart and beautiful side of her, even if he knew that appearance could add points to a woman's charm, and it would be easier for her to talk about others.

A few days ago, he could still convince himself that he just needed to stay by her side.

Today, when facing Ye Qiongdan who was wearing a dragonfly hairpin, Ye Qinghan felt a faint possessive desire in his heart. He didn't want her future life to belong to any man.

And the desire to stand out became stronger in his heart.

But in the future, she will hate him, right?

A look of struggle flashed in Ye Qinghan's eyes.

Ye Qiongdan didn't know that his mind was going back and forth, so she picked up other trinkets on the stall and looked at them: "Buy some more hairpins and rouge for Xiang Yatou and the others."

Ye Qiongdan didn't know what Xiang girl liked, so she simply bought a bunch and asked them to share it among themselves.

After Ye Qinghan paid the money, the old lady said to Ye Qiongdan in a good mood: "Girl, I wish you a good family soon!"

Ye Qinghan subconsciously tightened his hands holding the things, he turned his head to look at Ye Qiongdan, but saw Ye Qiongdan smiled nonchalantly: "Let's talk about it."

After leaving the stall, Ye Qinghan endured and endured, and finally couldn't restrain himself and asked: "Adan, do you want to say kiss?"

Ye Qiongdan raised his head and took a look at him.

Ye Qinghan is a person who is very good at hiding his emotions. When he wants to hide his emotions and anger, it is difficult for outsiders to figure out his thoughts.

Ye Qiongdan didn't know what he meant by this, she suppressed the melancholy in her heart, and said lightly: "Let's go with fate."

"Ok?"

"It's fine to be alone now. The elder brother treats me well, and the second elder brother treats me well." Ye Qiongdan smiled slightly, "Let's talk about getting married."

She didn't dare to say that she didn't want to get married, for fear that her elder brother would worry about her.

After all, not getting married in this age is a big deal, and the strange eyes of people around will make it difficult for a woman to move forward in this world.

In the previous dynasty, if a woman did not marry at fifteen, her natal family would have to pay a fine, once a year until the year when the woman got married.

After the establishment of the Dalong Dynasty, all kinds of wastes were waiting for prosperity. In order to reduce the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the people, Emperor Taizu amended the law, stipulating that women should not marry at eighteen, and only then began to pay fines.

Ye Qiongdan doesn't care about other people's eyes, she is afraid that her elder brother and second brother will be frightened by her "shocking" thoughts, so if the marriage can be delayed for a while, if it can't be delayed, she will find another way.

Ye Qinghan stared at her, and finally fell into silence.

On the way to Huizhentou, they passed Jihetang again.

The Jihe Hall was about to close. When Ye Qiongdan entered, the medicine boys were packing up their things, and there was only one patient left in the whole medicine hall.

As soon as the chief old doctor of Jihetang saw Ye Qiongdan enter the door, he immediately shouted in surprise: "The little girl is here again?"

"Well, let's buy some medicine," Ye Qiongdan smiled politely at him, then walked to the counter and said to the drug boy who was in charge of fetching the medicine, "I want Shenjincao six liang, Millipeda baicalensis eight liang, Diaphragm five two……"

Several medicine boys quickly grabbed all the medicinal materials Ye Qiongdan wanted, wrapped them up for her, and tied them together with ropes.

After Ye Qinghan paid the money, he picked up the herbs.

The old doctor had just finished diagnosing the last patient, and after writing a list and instructing the patient to get the medicine, he looked at Ye Qiongdan: "Why do you buy so many medicines? Streptococcus, Millipede Spatholobus, Fractal...these are all Shu Jing. Medicine for invigorating blood."

(End of this chapter)