HLnovel Chapter 299 What about your important matter of getting married?
Chapter 299 What about your important matter of getting married?
This business is profitable. Each person can get a few taels of silver from this deal, which is equivalent to a month's wages for the restaurant. This business is lucrative!
It's Qingchuan and his daughter Xiaotang who are clever to come up with such a good business idea. If medicinal herbs are planted in all the surrounding villages in the future, they can be bought up and resold during the harvest season. This is much better than toiling in the fields for one season.
Fortunately, he trusted Qingchuan and Xiaotang and made the right decision to rent out the land to do business. Not only did his mother's health improve, but he also saved some money. Life became more and more hopeful.
After settling the accounts, Lin Xiaotang and Shuisheng bid farewell to Xue Zhiyuan. Xue Zhiyuan and Manager Xu personally saw them off. Afterward, Xue Zhiyuan instructed Manager Xu to store the turmeric in the warehouse, and then hurriedly went home to write a letter to his sister and brother-in-law via carrier pigeon.
Lin Xiaotang and Uncle Shuisheng boarded the carriage together, and together with Xiao Jiu, they drove the carriage back to Dushui County. The two carriages drove side by side on the road, and the group chatted and laughed while eating sesame cakes, making it quite lively.
Shui Sheng said, "Xiao Tang, buying turmeric is really lucrative. If we encourage more villagers to grow turmeric, it will be more profitable than selling braised pig's trotters. Let's learn from Manager Su and open a restaurant. Let's hire a manager to help run the pig's trotter shop. We'll have staff to do the work, and we can focus on buying medicinal herbs."
Lin Xiaotang took a big bite of the sesame seed cake and smiled as she ate with relish. Another of her teeth had become loose, and the sesame seed cake had made her tooth crooked, which looked rather funny.
"Uncle Shuisheng, don't worry, I have a better plan."
Shui Sheng exclaimed in surprise, "Xiao Tang, do you have any other good plans? Tell us quickly!"
“We have some money now, but it’s not enough to make a fortune. We can do some small business, but if we want to expand and strengthen our business, we need to have enough capital first. After we buy all the turmeric in the village in the next few days and exchange it for money, we will use it all to buy land and hire workers to help us grow medicinal herbs.”
By next year's harvest, our pig trotter shop will have made a lot of money, and then we can expand planting. We will not only hire people to plant, but also buy a lot of everyone's pig trotters. Only by doing both can we make more money.
As for what you said, it's feasible for us to be the managers and hire supervisors and staff to help us run the shop. We can hire more people whenever we get too busy.
Shuisheng nodded repeatedly, grinning from ear to ear, "Okay, Xiaotang's reasoning is spot on. Your uncle could never come up with such a solution. Our whole family is so fortunate to have you to live such a good life. From now on, I will listen to you no matter what matters, big or small."
Lin Xiaotang suddenly thought of her aunt, and she smiled meaningfully, "Uncle Shuisheng, are you really willing to listen to me on everything, big or small?"
Shui Sheng, puzzled, said with certainty, "Really? Uncle, how could you lie?"
Yes, Uncle Shuisheng is not a liar; he is as simple, honest, and genuine as my father.
She covered her mouth and laughed, "Then what about your big event of getting married?"
Shuisheng paused for a moment, then blushed immediately. He scolded, "You silly girl, I was just talking about business matters, how did you bring up marriage? I'm not much younger than your father, and you and Xiaoyu are both so grown up, but I still haven't found a wife. That's how my life will be. Actually, being alone is quite..."
Lin Xiaotang immediately interrupted him, "Uncle Shuisheng, what do you think of my aunt?"
Ah...this?
He blushed and said, "Xiao Tang, you're still young and don't understand adult matters. It's fine if you mention this to your uncle, but you absolutely mustn't say it when you get home, especially not to your aunt. She's shy, and we'll all be seeing each other all the time. What will we do then?"
Lin Xiaotang hurriedly said, "Uncle Shuisheng, although I am a child, you can rest assured. I understand your adult affairs. I know that you have never been married. Your aunt is three or four years older than you. She had children and was divorced by her husband's family. Logically speaking, you are not a good match for her. However, your aunt is beautiful and young, gentle, kind, hardworking and virtuous. We have lived under the same roof for so long, and you know her personality. Whether it is height, appearance or temperament, she is suitable."
I know that the outside world values a woman's innocence and past. It is difficult for a woman who has been married and had children to find a good man again. However, the concubine met the wrong person. Those were not the concubine's faults. I believe that a woman's innocence is not about her skirts, but about her backbone and her ability to let go of the past, and to have the courage to face the strange looks and gossip from the outside world.
My aunt has had a tough life, but she's strong and optimistic. She deserves to be treated with genuine kindness by someone better.
Shui Sheng felt a mix of emotions after hearing this!
Over the years, he had spent all his money on medical treatment for his daughter, and he had sold most of the harvested grain in the fields, leaving only a little to eat. His family was so poor that even rats avoided them, and thieves would shake their heads when they passed by. Therefore, he dared not even think about getting married.
Before he knew it, he was already in his mid-twenties, and had become one of the few bachelors in the village, with no matchmakers willing to propose marriage.
There's no other reason than that no woman wants to suffer after marrying into a family. He also has the self-awareness to not slander a woman for not being willing to endure hardship just to get a wife.
To be honest, if he had a daughter, he wouldn't want her to marry into a family poorer than his own and suffer.
However, not wanting to get married doesn't mean that one will never want to get married in their lifetime.
I didn't dare to think about it before because my family was poor and had no money. Now that I'm not poor and have money in my hands, it's not impossible for me to think about it if I really meet the right person.
Although he currently lives on the second floor of the pig's trotter shop and doesn't have his own home in Dushui County, as long as he is hardworking, trusts Brother Qingchuan and Xiaotang, and continues to do business with them, he believes that it won't be long before he can rent a small courtyard in the county.
However, since the pig's trotter shop is now big enough, he doesn't need to spend the money to rent a small courtyard to live in.
As for Sister Cai'er...
He recalled a few months ago when Cai'er was washing and hanging clothes to dry, the rope broke, and he ran over and grabbed Cai'er's undergarments. That feeling of embarrassment lingered in his heart, and he suddenly blushed.
In fact, she was indeed as Xiaotang said: beautiful, gentle, and virtuous. When she was first divorced by her husband's family, she met him in Guihua Village and was taken to Qingchuan's house. She cried pitifully and looked like she was about to be blown away by the wind. At that time, he wondered what kind of beast could drive away such a good wife.
When he learned the truth, he was furious. He even went with Xiaotang and Xiaojiu to scare the shameless couple. If he hadn't felt sorry for Cai'er and stood up for her, he, a grown man, would never have done such a reckless thing.
When he first started doing business with Brother Qingchuan and Xiaotang, he wore old clothes with patches. His sister-in-law offered to make him clothes and shoes, but in the end, Sister Cai'er helped him make them.
Later, Cai'er's figure always appeared in front of him, washing pig's trotters by the well, starching clothes, cooking in the kitchen, wiping tables and tidying up in the pig's trotter shop...