Chapter 179： Be the shopkeeper

Yingbao, is there any solution?

A woman’s marriage is decided by her parents, and outsiders cannot interfere.

Besides, Chu Chu is not young, and it is indeed time for marriage.

“How about you go and talk to my master?” Ying Bao gave her an idea.

In my opinion, Mrs. Wen is a female elder with a certain prestige here, and she is best suited to discuss this matter with Sister Chu Chu’s biological father.

“However, Sister Chu Chu, I estimate that my master will help you avoid it for at least half a year. After the autumn harvest, you still have to go home with your father.” This is the truth.

Chu Chu is already sixteen this year, and will be seventeen after the Chinese New Year. In the countryside, there are really not many girls who are over sixteen or seventeen and are still unmarried.

Chu Chu nodded with a grimace, and immediately took Ying Bao to find Mrs. Wen.

Mrs. Wen was also open-minded. Seeing that Chu Chu had made up her mind, she nodded and agreed to help her.

When Chu Chu happily ran to help the nanny in the work, Mrs. Wen pointed at the cherry blossom with her finger and scolded: "You little girl gave me trouble as soon as you came back, why don't you come over and review the homework you missed."

“Yes.” Yingbao giggled and sat reading with Wen Shu.

During the break, Wen Shu told Ying Bao, "My mother and I will go back to Yuzhou in a few days."

Yingbao frowned: "Why?"

Wen Shu whispered: "My grandparents asked me to go back." She was embarrassed to tell Ying Bao because she was eleven years old and had to go back to her family to see her.

Actually, Chu Chu is not the only one who has troubles about getting married, she also has the same problem, so A Niang agreed to help Chu Chu.

But a woman is born to marry, so although she resists, she has to compromise.

Yingbao had known that one day she would have to say goodbye to Sister Wen and the others, and she also expected that they might be separated for the rest of their lives.

Step forward to hug Wen Shu, put his face against her chest, and said softly: "Then you must remember me when you go back, and write to me often. Don't lose any news as soon as you leave like last time."

Wen Shu didn't expect Ying Bao to say this, so he chuckled and said, "I thought you would be reluctant to let me go."

"Even if I don't want you to leave, you will still leave." Ying Bao sighed: "There is no such thing as a banquet that lasts forever, as long as I am thinking about you."

Wen Shu patted her head and hummed softly, "I will always think about you and write to you often. Yingbao, you have to be good. If you have any difficulties, just send me a letter. My home is in Fucheng. There is a drugstore called Kang'an Medicine Hall, and my father is temporarily practicing there. "

Yingbao nodded: "Okay, I understand."

Wen Shu added: "There will be someone from Yuzhou. If you send a letter, let him take it."

"Um."

A few days later, Chu Chu’s biological father came to pick up Chu Chu, but as expected, Mrs. Wen sent her away and never came again.

About ten days later, Yanru had used up all the icing sugar and made more than a hundred kilograms of preserved apricots and peaches, as well as some pear preserves.

These preserved fruits have all been dried and put on jars, and some of them were taken to the county town by Jiang Quan to sell some.

However, preserved fruits are not very easy to sell now, and no fresh fruits are popular.

Jiang Quan and his eldest brother Jiang Cheng picked ripe apricots and peaches these days, transported them to the county town by horse-drawn carriage, and set up a fruit stall in front of Yingbao's shop. The business was very prosperous.

During this period, Jiang Sanlang also went there once, spending money to hire people to repair the house and shops, and asked his nephew Dacheng to take care of them there.

The money to repair the house was given by the little girl, totaling more than one hundred taels. It was Mrs. Wen who advanced Jin Er's money, and it was all used up in the end.

Seeing that the grapes and peppers were also ripe, Yingbao decided to pick some and give them to Wu Daozi to taste. By the way, she took her eldest brother Jiang Jie to visit Mr. Wu.

The carriage came to the shop first. Jiang Quan and his eldest brother, who came together, moved three baskets of grapes from the carriage and left one basket of grapes on the carriage to give to Mr. Wu tomorrow.

Yingbao put some grapes in a basket and put them together with the basket in the car. Afterwards, Jiang Sanlang drove a carriage to his new home on Plum Blossom Lane. He was going to clean up and check on the progress of the carpenter.

Ying Bao took his younger brother Jiang Jie to check inside and outside the store.

The shop floor has been cleaned, and some new small bamboo baskets are piled inside.

The damaged parts of the house have been repaired, and even the three huts at the back have been renovated, but they are empty inside.

Jiang Quan followed his little cousin and said with a smile: "I will be the boss of this shop from now on."

Yingbao said seriously: "Second brother, you will be a merchant after you become the shopkeeper."

“A merchant is a merchant.” Jiang Quan said nonchalantly.

Jiang Cheng glanced at his younger brother: "It doesn't matter if you are a merchant, don't burden yourself with Yuanbao."

"What do you mean?" Jiang Quan frowned: "I am my merchant, what does Guan Yuanbao have to do with you?"

Ying Bao: "Because the Ming Dynasty said that as long as one person in the family is engaged in business, he is also a merchant."

Jiang Quan scratched his head and was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "Then I will separate it by myself. I have my own household and has nothing to do with others."

Jiang Cheng sneered: "How old are you? You haven't grown up yet, and you haven't started a family yet. How can you divide your household?"

“This...” Jiang Quan was at a loss.

Jiang Cheng continued: "I will become a adult this year." He glanced at his little cousin and said, "So I can be the shopkeeper of this shop."

Jiang Quan became angry when he heard this: "No! I, I..." He stuttered for a long time and couldn't think of a retort.

Indeed, the eldest brother is already a grown man. If he proposes to divide the household to start a business, his parents will definitely not object.

Jiang Jie raised his head and looked at his eldest brother, then his second brother, and said, "The eldest brother is not married yet." Not getting married means not having a family and a career. Jiang Jie understands this.

Jiang Cheng pinched his little cousin's cheek and threatened in a low voice: "I won't buy you mutton skewers later!"

Jiang Quan, who was standing by, chuckled and said, "It's okay, Xiaojie, my second brother will buy it for you later."

Sakura Bao on the side:······

At this time, someone walked into the shop, two servants in black.

“Huh? Do you still sell grapes from the Western Regions?” One person saw two baskets of purple grapes in the shop. He reached out and picked a few and stuffed them into his mouth. He said vaguely: “Not bad, how much does it cost per catty?”

Jiang Quan hurriedly ran over and said, "Fifty coppers per catty. You are the first customer today. I think you can get a discount, just thirty-five coppers per catty."

This customer is a regular customer of his place and has bought fruits from himself several times.

The servant in black curled his lips, picked a few more grapes and stuffed them into his mouth. He muttered: "Okay, okay, just thirty cents per catty. Let me weigh ten catties." After that, he took out the bag from his waist. Three hundred copper coins.

While complaining about the loss, Jiang Quan weighed ten kilograms of grapes for him. Since there was nothing to put them in, Jiang Quan also gave him a small bamboo basket.

The person who came with this servant also weighed the five pounds, paid one hundred and fifty coins, and took away a basket to put it in without ceremony.

After the two left, Jiang Quan put all the copper coins in a wooden box and muttered: "I lost another ten coins."

He bought these bamboo baskets from a load-bearer for five cents each, and they were reserved for customers who bought a lot to hold fruits.

Yingbao: "It's not bad, it's not a loss."

Grapes are not expensive at thirty cents per catty, but they are not cheap either. The advantage is that these grapes are grown at home and cost nothing. If you purchase goods from the county fruit store and then sell them, it will be a blood loss.

At this moment, Yingbao felt that her second cousin was more suitable to be a buddy.