CH 150

The next morning, as soon as Mo Ling entered the workshop, she hurriedly said to Mo Yan, “Yan’er, your mandrake seeds have started germinating and need to be planted. I wanted to help you plant them, but I was afraid I’d ruin them because of specifics.”

Mo Yan replied, “I’ll go back and plant them later.”

“Also, Mo Feng got up earlier than usual today. He said he was going to work as the firm’s manager. I set out before him because I wanted to tell you.”

This was much more urgent than planting the mandrake seeds. Mo Yan didn’t even bother to eat breakfast and immediately ran to the firm.

The door of the firm was open, and an employee was cleaning. Mo Feng sitting behind the counter and looking at the ledger. At first glance, he seemed surprisingly competent.

If he’s as good as Cao Zhang, he would easily become the manager. After all, a little girl from Mo Yan should not be the one to be making a living.

Hearing the employee greet Mo Yan, Mo Feng raised his head, “Yan’er, I’ll be involved in the firm from now on, so you won’t have to run between the workshop and the firm.”

He was clearly trying to reassure Mo Yan, but it sounded awkward.

She smiled awkwardly, “Growing medicinal herbs at home would be such a comfortable job. You only have to sow seeds, harvest crops, and weed occasionally, and you can stay at home all winter. It’s not like this firm, which is busy all year round.”

“I think so too, but Xiuying thinks farming isn’t a decent enough job.”

So it was the Li family’s idea! They hadn’t even discussed marriage, and she was meddling in others’ family affairs. It seems that this Xiuying shouldn’t be taken lightly.

After a while, Cao Zhang also came. Seeing Mo Feng sitting in his seat, he ignored him and just reached out to grab his account book. Mo Feng replied, “From now on, this firm will be under my management, so you won’t be needed.”

Cao Zhang didn’t know how to respond to something this unreasonable. Mo Yan said, “Brother, you’re the manager, and Cao Zhang is the accountant. It is his job to keep accounts. You are in charge of the entire business and have more to manage than him.”

Having heard that, Mu Feng felt that he was more important than Officer Cao Zhang, and dropped the issue.

Cao Zhang sat down at the coffee table at the side to review the accounts, and Mu Yan dragged Chuzi to the back courtyard.

“Brother Chuzi, in the future, bother Mo Feng with all the trivial matters in the firm, the more trouble the better. But if there are important matters, tell me and Lu Junming quietly, ok?”

He smiled toothily, “Got it, bother him so much he wants to leave.”

“Not just that, otherwise my mother will bother me, and that Xiuying will do who-knows-what. Let him go to the workshop, and say that the work is easy.”

Mo Yan had to go back home to plant her mandrakes, so she left first.

There weren’t many customers in the store today. Mo Feng just sat there, so bored he almost fell asleep before customers finally came in. The ones who came in were two newlyweds.

An employee went over to greet them, “What would you like to buy?”

The woman said she was going back to her natal family, and he showed her some candied fruits. When the woman asked if they could be cheaper, he asked Chuzi, who nodded towards Mo Feng, “We have a manager, ask him not me.”

So the employee asked Mo Feng, who immediately felt important and came over with his head held high as he asked, “What?”

The employee pointed at the woman’s selection, and he said disdainfully, “It’s just some cheap snacks!”

The woman said a price, and the employee asked Mo Feng if it was okay. After pretending to deliberate, he agreed. The man packed the goods, collected the money, and went to report the account to Cao Zhang. Cao Zhang asked, “Why is it being sold so cheaply?”

The employee looked at Mo Feng, “The shopkeeper agreed to it.”

Cao Zhang came over and asked Mo Feng, “Do you know the purchase price of the dried fruit? Your selling price is even lower than the purchase price.”

Mo Feng felt that he had been humiliated, so gritted his teeth and said, “I’m the manager, so I have the final say on matters.”

“A business run by you will go bankrupt sooner or later.” Cao Zhang went back to his table angrily.

At this time, a few people ran past the firm, and someone said, “Widow Hua is crying at her husband’s grave.”

Isn’t that Zhao’er’s mother, Ms. Hua? Cao Zhang also went out of the firm to look, and saw people running towards the south of the town. He faintly heard a woman crying.

Cao Zhang ran to the south of the village. When Mo Feng heard there was something exciting going on, he wanted to watch as well, but felt that his position was too important and he shouldn’t leave, so stood at the entrance of the firm and looked south.

Chuzi said, “Go and have a look! We’re here! Don’t worry, we won’t be lazy.”

Mo Feng replied, “Then take good care of the business and don’t slack off. I’ll go and have a look then come back.” After saying that, he ran towards the south of the village.

Chuzi went back to the firm and called all the employees, “Please, bother him as much as possible so we don’t lose money. Negotiate the price with the customer before asking him. It’s best for a few people to bother him together, understand?”

They all understood, smiled, then went back to work.

In the cemetery in the south of the village, Ms. Hua knelt on the edge of her husband’s grave, and wailed to the sky, “Husband! You left your wife and child to be bullied. You said that our house was set on fire without telling us who, and told us to seek justice!”

After crying for a while, she rested and threw paper money on the side of the grave, muttering, “We don’t have any extra money, so husband, take it so you can reincarnate early!”

Seeing more and more people watching her, she started crying again.

Cao Zhang ran over to talk to her, “Ms. Hua, what happened? Tell me so we can help you.”

Ms. Hua started weeping and said, “At midnight last night, Zhao’er’s father came to give me a dream. He said that he was murdered, and the murderers set fire to my house. Now Zhao’er and I don’t even have a place to live, so we can only live with others!”

Liu Fengchun heard that Ms. Hua was crying at the grave, so had to come over to have a look. After all, she was under his jurisdiction.

Seeing Liu Fengchun, Ms. Hua cried even harder, “My husband came to me in a dream, saying that he was murdered, and that my house was set on fire. Lord governing official, you must arrest the arsonist, turn him over to the government, and avenge our grievances!”

It’s only been a year since her husband died, and everyone in the city still remembered that he died in Liu Fengchen’s office. Ms. Hua had made a ruckus about this when he first died, but to no avail.

Seeing her crying pitifully, the female onlookers couldn’t help but wipe away their tears. Knowing that he couldn’t turn himself in, Liu Fengchun had no choice but to persuade Ms. Hua, “Hadn’t your yard already sold? With fifty silver taels in hand, just buy a new yard to live in.”

Post-translation notes: Hi. I’m back.