Chapter 243: Jiang Sheng Stealing Food

Chapter 243

The actions of You Ran House were very quick.

Just after finishing the discussion of continued cooperation, Xiao Er Ge was already rushing with a carriage to the workshop to transport sausage.

Seeing Jiang Sheng who hadn't gone far, he kindly asked, "Do you want a ride for a stretch?"

Jiang Sheng waved her hand to refuse. While riding in a carriage was effortless, she rarely slipped out, hoping to secretly eat a few bites before heading back.

What was she hoping to secretly eat?

Of course it was the tempting and alluring candied haws.

She couldn't go to Jiuzhen Store to eat them, because her brothers would find out.

Jiang Sheng didn't understand at all. Her milk teeth had already fallen out, her new teeth were dense and neat, yet her brothers still wouldn't let her eat a few more candied haws.

It must be because they didn't understand the deliciousness of candied haws.

The outside was crispy sweet candy coating, the inside was sweet and sour delicious hawthorn. Even though candied haws in the capital sold for fifteen wen each, Jiang Sheng hardened her heart, stamped her feet, gritted her teeth, and bought one anyway.

Really expensive, but really tasty too.

The young girl turned her back to the vendor. As soon as she got it in her hands she couldn't wait to open her mouth. She had just bitten half of one when the light in front of her was blocked.

She blankly lifted her head to see a familiar person, like she had seen him somewhere before.

"You are...you are..." That person also scratched his head to think, "I remember now, you are Brother Xu's younger sister. I saw you at the entrance of Jiuzhen Store."

Jiang Sheng also remembered, this was her oldest brother's friend, the young master of the Zhao family who had purchased a full fifty packages of pastries on Jiuzhen Store's opening day. T/his chapter is updated by nov(ê(l)biin.co/m

She was a little worried that this person would spread the news to her oldest brother and reveal that she was secretly eating candy out here.

But Zhao Yuan laughed merrily, and even asked, "Why are you out here alone eating candied haws? Don't tell me it's a secret?"

Jiang Sheng's expression instantly darkened, her eyes filled with anger.

"It can't be true, can it? Then I'll have to tell Brother Xu that you're secretly eating candied haws without giving him any." Zhao Yuan's face was filled with teasing, "You have to be more careful, you know."

As he spoke, he playfully turned around and raced off.

Jiang Sheng couldn't catch up to him, and she also knew this person was just teasing her. She could only angrily spit out two hawthorn seeds at his retreating figure.

Turning around, she sped up her candied haws eating speed, as if destroying evidence.

At the same time she also quickened her pace home.

As if seeing through her thoughts, Chang Yan slowly asked, "You didn't secretly eat anything?"

When he spoke like this, Jiang Sheng almost jumped up.

She racked her brains to recall - based on the speed from before, there was no way Zhao Yuan could have arrived before her. Her four brothers also hadn't left home, there was no way they knew she ate the candied haw.

"No, no I didn't secretly eat anything." After deliberating back and forth, she chose to bluff her way through this.

This time, even Wen Zhiyun who had been wholeheartedly focused could not hold back his laughter. He got up and washed his hands clean.

Xu Mo, Zheng Ruqian, they all followed along laughing.

Laughing until Jiang Sheng felt panicked in her heart.

"What...what are you all laughing about?" She mumbled, hesitating on whether or not she should tell the truth.

She didn't know when Wen Zhiyun had walked over to stand in front of her. He took out a pure white handkerchief and gently wiped the corners of her mouth clean.

Only when the handkerchief covered in sugar crystals was spread out before her did Jiang Sheng know that she had forgotten to wipe her mouth after eating the candied haws.

No wonder her brothers were all giggling.

No wonder her fifth brother was so certain.

The embarrassment that Jiang Sheng had just rid herself of came back again. Her round little face had practically turned pink. She didn't even care about the anthology that had dropped onto the ground as she tucked her tail between her legs and fled back to her room.

She hid away until the sky grew dark.

Zhang Xianglian finished selling all of her pastries for the day, and brought back Jiuzhen Store's accounts before going to prepare dinner. Only then did Jiang Sheng apprehensively appear in the great hall again.

Her brothers had already been seated at the dinner table, some with eyes closed relaxing, others diligently researching.

What Zheng Ruqian held in his hands were the financial records for Jiuzhen Store's entire three months since opening.

Since the initial opening there was buy one get one free so the records looked quite good. Afterwards when prices were restored, income decreased. Then a new buy one get one free deal was introduced and business could only be considered decent.

It wasn't until the low-margin high-volume sales tactics implemented on New Year's Day Ten, plus the wildly popular candied chestnuts, that Jiuzhen Store's profits completely flourished.

Jiang San cleverly brought over an abacus.

As Zheng Ruqian calculated the numbers, his fingers nimbly danced across the abacus beads so quickly it made one dizzy to watch.

When Jiang Sheng came over, he had just finished calculating the net profits for these three months.

"After deducting the monthly wages for two aunties, rental fees, and cost of raw ingredients, the net profit for three months is, just so, exactly 1,300 ounces of silver."