In the summer, the seafood business in Beijing is becoming more and more popular. Many restaurants have also followed suit and started a seafood business. Fortunately, in this era, most of the people who come forward to do business are shopkeepers, not the boss himself. The shopkeeper is to help others do things, he seeks stability and is not radical, even if he follows the trend to make seafood, but no one has canceled all the previous dishes, like Grandma Qin Dashao, Mrs. Kong and Mrs. Kong Liu, who specialize in seafood. Therefore, the business of the three of them is not affected at all, but because there are many customers who are not happy to eat elsewhere, they specially go to their restaurants specializing in seafood to have a good time.

However, in the end, what allowed them to gain a firm foothold in the capital without danger was that the timing of their investment in the seafood restaurant was too coincidental. At that time, it was a few months before the departure of the imperial court's ocean-going fleet, and at this time, the people in the capital, whether they were merchants, wealthy people, nobles, officials, and even small wealthy families with a little extra money at home, were trying their best to get in touch with those who were qualified to follow the ocean-going fleet, and took out all the funds that the family could take out to make a lot of money. Who would give up that lucrative ocean business at this time and invest money in such a long and trivial business as seafood?!

Of course, the investment is risky and the income is not low, and Grandma Qin and Mrs. Kong, as official dependents, are not allowed to directly participate in business, but they can go to the back to see the daily turnover. On their worst day, they also had more than 100 taels of silver, and according to this situation, it is estimated that they will be able to pay off the borrowed capital in two years.

Speaking of Mrs. Kong Liu, she no longer counts her daily income, and has already planned to open the same seafood stall in another place.

To say that people's hearts are getting bigger step by step, when they were not in business. The daughter-in-law asked her sister-in-law to cook seafood, and she did it with joy. But most of the reason is blind obedience based on respect for the daughter-in-law. After a few months of business, she felt that her heart could not be at ease to guard this seafood stall. I always feel that if she doesn't hurry up and open another one now, she will definitely regret it in the future.

Just do what you say, even if the aunt who calls the master at home has a falling out, it doesn't matter. She sat in the old carriage of the family, looked around for a suitable vacant space, looked at many places, but was not satisfied, and finally Dahong helped find a suitable place for her.

A few years ago, there was a garbage dump, a manure pit and a stinky ditch at the top of Mao'er Hutong, which was bought by Dahong and Xiangzi at a very low price. Stretching north along the stinky water ditch, there are more than 50,000 acres of vacant land in total. All of them are zoned for the construction of the community.

The construction of this community has summarized the shortcomings and advantages of the 'Future Residence' community, and has made great changes. One is that the total floor has been increased to four; The second is that the heating is no longer the stove of each family, but the central heating that Er Ya said; the third adds community activity venues and exercise equipment; the fourth increased the green area and designed some Jiangnan landscapes; The fifth, south, south, north, and west opened four gates, and at each gate a wide cement avenue was built, and there was a carriage bus route.

The main entrance of this community is facing a horizontal street connected to Mao'er Hutong. There are no roads at either end of the street, and there are no homes in it. It is the backyard wall of the residents in the cat's ear alley. Originally, the street had a stinking ditch at one end and a manure pit at the other. Now the street has been converted into a wide and flat concrete avenue, disconnecting the neighborhood and the cat'er alley. The street was originally connected to the end of the stinky ditch, after the stinky ditch was converted into an underground water canal. Dahong, they stretched forward another mile. They plan to build a comprehensive market with a considerable scale in this area, at least five large comprehensive markets in the future, which can accommodate 1,500 people at the same time.

And this street runs from the south entrance of the community to the general market site they are building. Such a long and wide cement avenue is vacant, and this road is very suitable for Mrs. Kong Liu's seafood stall business. Not to mention that the community has been handed over. There were people moving in immediately, not only the workers who built the general market but also the residents of Mao'er Hutong. It can also make Mrs. Kong Liu's business work.

Mrs. Kong Liu personally came to see the place, which was indeed very suitable for the business she wanted to do, so she decided to use this land immediately, and when she left, she repeatedly told Dahong that they would help her keep it.

Finally a good place was implemented, and as soon as Mrs. Kong Liu, who was in a good mood, returned home, she was no longer in a good mood and couldn't help but be angry.

"I'm getting bolder! She didn't want to use the carriage that Ah Jing's family gave her, but you dare to steal it out when we are not at home. Who helped them drive the carriage today? ”

It turned out to be Kong Liuye's aunt, and when she saw that Ah Jing had a good family affair, she couldn't hold her breath anymore, crying and begging Kong Liuye to find a good family affair for her daughter. Kong Liuye treated his concubine sincerely, begged his colleagues for help, and really introduced an absolutely high-ranking family affair.

The man's grandmother wanted to see the face of Kong Liu's concubine, which was a reasonable request. Of course, Kong Liuye agreed. Because the matter was still in the early stages of negotiation, it was not suitable for either party's home, so in the end, we agreed to meet at a certain temple.

This concubine of Kong Liuye has a low self-esteem in her heart, and she doesn't want to be looked down upon, so she thinks of something that can elevate her identity. pondered and pondered, and pondered the eye-catching carriage in my sister-in-law's dowry. It just so happened that my grandmother was busy looking for a place to open another seafood stall all day long, and my sister also went to the seafood stall every day to collect cashiers, all of which went out early and returned late. If she goes after them, and then comes back before them, it won't be fine. Even if her grandmother found out afterwards that her father was there, she couldn't do anything to herself.

It's a pity that she misestimated the seriousness of this matter, and as soon as Mrs. Kong Liu arrived home, someone sued her.

Because this new carriage is so easy to use, as long as you drive for a long time, you can master the skills, even the steering wheel with the reins, one person can also leisurely look at the scenery on both sides. Several coachmen in the house, who drove the new carriage that Miss Fourth gave to her father for Kong Erye before, have basically been skilled. This time, Kong Liuye's concubine got a more elaborate carriage, and they all wanted to go up and try their hand, but unfortunately Mrs. Kong Liuye resolutely refused to use it. This time, Miss Shu didn't say anything about using her sister's carriage without telling her wife, but she still invited someone from outside to come back to help drive, which angered the coachmen who had been staring at the carriage for a long time.

Yes, before Mrs. Kong Liu entered the gate of the second courtyard, someone had already stepped forward to complain.

This is not a big deal in ordinary people, it is nothing more than a reprimand and it passes. But this is the Confucian family that pays attention to rules and face, and Mrs. Kong, the housewife of the Confucian Mansion, was immediately shocked, and she didn't expect that even the old lady Kong, who had no major issues but didn't ask questions, was also alarmed.

The first thing Mrs. Kong did was to ask Mrs. Kong, how did the carriage get out? Who gave the right to let a concubine and a foreign coachman take the carriage out of the Confucian Mansion! The second thing is to ask Kong Liuye, do you want to be shameless? The concubine has not yet married, and her dowry is impatient to use it, so she is not afraid of being ridiculed to death by the people in the capital?

Ah Jing's dowry may not have paid much attention to other things, but the two carriages were Saul, who was all inside and out, front and back, carefully and carefully, touching and watching. Who doesn't know the guests who have been here?! How envious those people were at the beginning, but now when they see this car running around, they will look down on him.

The consequences of this matter were very serious, and because the concubine was discussing marriage, she only asked her to copy the female precepts and family rules, and did not do the punishment of grounding. The aunt was fined half a year's monthly silver and three months from being discharged from the hospital. What is really tragic is that all the aunt's family members were driven out and re-sold, and all the slaves or stewards or masters who went out with the carriage without permission were all punished, and none of them were spared! It is not tragic, even Mrs. Kong was frightened, and the methods of governing the family after that changed greatly, which were also quite ruthless.

Mrs. Kong Liu's eyes were about to squeeze out the surprise result of this matter!

When Mrs. Kong was still an official, she was a second-class high-ranking official. Her father worked under Mrs. Kong, and he was a small supervisor from the eighth grade. But because of his loyalty to Mrs. Kong, Mrs. Kong rewarded Mrs. Kong with such a family affair. Mrs. Kong Liu has not yet entered the door, and this aunt is already Kong Liuye's room. Mrs. Kong Liu felt that this was normal, and at the same time, she was quite high, so she entered the Kong family without any opinions.

Later, because she gave birth to a child, she was promoted to an aunt. This aunt is actually not very favored, the key is that she is a child of the family. Even her grandfather has been born to several generations, which shows how deep her family's roots are in Confucius and how powerful people are. Even if she was not favored in front of her master, she didn't take her wife seriously. Mrs. Kong Liu also has no way to deal with her, she herself was originally married by Gao Pan, and her mother's family can't stand up at all, and she can only swallow her anger in the face of this woman's frequent provocations. It's impossible to always sue the master, it's okay to sue once or twice, and if you always complain, the master will get tired of himself and say that he is too wretched.

Ah Jing's family affairs did not go well, and the aunt gloated in the back, and finally grabbed it once, so that the master severely punished the aunt. As a result, I ate the leftovers of cold rice for more than a month, and only when the master ate together, could a normal meal be delivered. How many times I told the housekeeper's eldest lady, it didn't help at all. House slave house slave, house slave qualification is too old, even the master is still bullied, it is useless to complain, and he will be laughed at for most of his life.

I didn't expect that this time she didn't have any mental preparation, so she got such a big surprise. Mrs. Kong Liu was in the backyard hall, covering her mouth, she couldn't help but be excited, and her eyes were full of tears when she smiled.

"Second sister-in-law, don't come here to make fun of me! You also know that I have been pressed by her since I entered the door, and you tell me such a great good thing now, if I am happy, I am afraid that I will go crazy. ”

Mrs. Kong smiled and glanced at the sixth brother and daughter-in-law, "You! How can you sit still? Can't you hear the crying outside? If you want me to say, you should also beat those dowry minions who beat you. Why didn't so many of them watch Ah Jing's dowry, and let their mother and daughter get it out easily? (To be continued.) )