Chapter 23: No more concessions

"Dad, have you figured it out?" Chen Jia was grinding tofu with Chen, and when he saw Cheng Dazhuang coming, he hurriedly asked!

"Figured it out!" Cheng Dazhuang regained his honest smiling face in the past, "When we make money, we can also be filial to my father!" I owe my father, but I don't owe my eldest sister anything! Besides, this recipe belongs to my daughter-in-law, not mine. My daughter-in-law doesn't owe her anything, does she? ”

"Great, I'm relieved now." Chen Jia jumped up happily, and Chen also grinned.

"Mother, I'll grind tofu!" Cheng Hu and Cheng Dong also walked in, and Cheng Hu took over Chen's work.

"Cheng Hu, Cheng Dong, you can go to the school in the spring. Now that Dad's leg is good, he can do all this work! "Cheng Dazhuang really figured it out, let his children go to school first, this can't be delayed, and the rest will take your time.

"I'm not going, let Cheng Dong go. I'm so old that I just need to learn to read and write at home, and learn to calculate accounts. Cheng Dong is still young, and he can still catch up. Cheng Hu said sensibly.

"No, go, if you can't keep up within a year, it's not a good brother to say something like this before you go! My brother wants to be an example, and Cheng Yanjin will learn from you in the future! Chen Jia said with a smile! In fact, in the past few months of study, Chen Jia feels that the children of the Cheng family are very smart, and the potential of the children is unlimited, and they can't make conclusions lightly, which hinders their future!

"Yes, Chen Jia is right, read it first, if you can't keep up no matter how hard you try, we won't force you." Cheng Dazhuang made the final decision.

"Uncle him, my mother asked you to hurry over!" Xiao Shen's voice came from outside the house.

"She's so good at mixing!" When Chen Jia heard her voice, she had a feeling of blockage in her heart!

"I'll go, you work at home." Cheng Dazhuang handed over the work in his hand to Chen, and wiped his hands on his clothes a few times.

"Dad, I'll go with you!" Chen Jia was a little worried.

"Okay, Chen Jia will come with me." Cheng Dazhuang took Chen Jia by the hand.

Along the way, Cheng Dazhuang didn't say a word, only held Chen Jia's hand, and Chen Jia's hand was sometimes pinched and hurt.

When he arrived at the old mansion, Chen Jia found that this time it was the same as when discussing Cheng Shi's marriage last time, Old Man Cheng and the Qin family were sitting on the top position, and the second uncle and aunt were next to them, but there was an extra aunt next to them.

"How about it, when will the Chen family hand over the formula!" The Qin clan looked like they were taken for granted, as if they had already discussed it. Old Man Cheng sat on the side, his face a little uncomfortable. Cheng Xiu's face was dark, as if someone owed her a few dollars. And Xiao Shen and the second uncle had a good look of watching the show, with a smile on the corner of their mouths.

"Dad, mother, the formula was researched by the Chen family, and my son has no right to ask her to teach it to the eldest sister!"

"What did you say?" The Qin clan couldn't believe that his ears, his honest eldest son, dared to contradict him. Yesterday, I could have reasoned with him for half a night! Xiao Shen's eyes widened in surprise.

"My son has the obligation to be filial to my father, because my son owes you, but my son doesn't owe my eldest sister anything, and I didn't go to rob my eldest sister of the meal back then. The Chen family doesn't owe anything to the eldest sister. Cheng Dazhuang calmly stated the reason.

"Sure enough, I married my daughter-in-law and forgot my mother, what did that vixen tell you? Didn't you say yes last night? The Qin clan began to shout.

"The son just promised to go back and discuss with the Chen family, the formula is not the son's, and the son has no right to agree to anything." Cheng Dazhuang didn't want to give in anymore.

"If I hadn't taught her, would she have been able to make tofu? If you can't do tofu, where will you make so many new tofu? Hurry up and ask her to hand me over the recipe. Don't be unreasonable! Qin said sharply.

When Chen Jia heard this, she was so happy! Who is unreasonable?

"Grandpa, grandma, when my grandfather went to the county to see a doctor, my grandmother went to my house and told my mother that I was sick and took away my family's twenty-eight taels of silver. Grandparents, you haven't forgotten jì! Chen Jia reminded.

"So what, isn't it the right to pay tuition?" Qin's words are reasonable.

"Yes, my mother also said that it should be, so I handed it over. But now that the tuition has been paid, it will be cleared! Could it be that Brother Lobby has learned his skills now, and he will become an official in the future, and he will also give the official position to the teacher of the school. Chen Jia blinked in confusion, with a childish and innocent expression.

"What's the same, don't talk nonsense about you! If your lobby brother becomes an official in the future, it will be based on his own ability, how can he give it to the teacher of the school? Qin snorted with disdain, as if Chen Jia really wanted to give his eldest grandson's official to someone else.

"Why? If he hadn't been taught by the teachers in the school, how could he have passed the exam! Chen Jia continued to break the casserole and asked to the end.

"It is natural for the school teacher to teach him, not to teach him one, not to mention, we gave Shu Xiu!" Xiao Shen couldn't help but interject on the side!

"Grandma can also teach a lot of people, didn't she also teach aunt? My mother also gave the tuition, and what about twenty-eight taels? I heard that it's still the second aunt, you asked your grandmother to find my mother to ask for it! "Chen Jia is an anti-general. Xiao Shen was speechless for a while, and his face suddenly became ugly.

"Oh my God! How did I give birth to such an unfilial son! Unable to make sense, Qin Shi cried loudly. began to stage the trick of crying, making trouble, and hanging himself.

"Enough!" Old Man Cheng watched this farce, and his face finally couldn't hold back!

"Back then, we didn't let the children eat enough, so if the children want to blame, blame us! Da Zhuang was only five years old at the time, and he didn't grab food from Xiu'er. Da Zhuang is right, he doesn't owe Xiu'er, and Chen can't owe it! As for teaching tofu, you have taken all the tuition, what kind of trouble! It's all gone! Xiu'er, pack up and go back! Your mother-in-law is not in good health, you don't go back to serve and others gossip when you turn back! ”

Cheng Xiu looked at this situation and knew that she couldn't take advantage of it, so she went to her sister-in-law's room to pack her luggage with a dark face.

When I saw Cheng Mi, I felt sad, and I chattered with Cheng Mi about the unfairness when I was a child, and how sad my life was.

Cheng Mi comforted a few words, and Cheng Xiu said something into Cheng Mi's ear when he left. Finally unwillingly took the package and left.

Chen Jia and Cheng Dazhuang returned home, found a carriage parked at the door of the house, and when they entered the house, it turned out to be Qian Yongchang and Lu Xiangyun. It's just a little incommensurate with their seventeen or eighteen-year-old appearance.

"Xiao Chen Jia, you're back!" When Qian Yongchang saw Chen Jia, he immediately greeted him with a smile on his face, as if to say, I'm right, we'll meet soon.

"Brother Lu is good, Mr. Qian is good!"

"Lu Gongzi is here, this is Qian Gongzi, sit down, drink tea, you're welcome." Cheng Dazhuang hurriedly greeted.

"I came here today because I wanted to discuss something. I came over without saying it in advance, and the rude part is still looking at Haihan. Lu Xiangyun was polite.

"It's our rudeness, it's long overdue to visit the house!"

"Uncle Cheng, sit down too. This is my cousin,"

Seeing Cheng Dazhuang sit down, Lu Xiangyun continued:

"The Qian family opened two big restaurants in the county, and the business is very good. It's not like our family just opened a few small restaurants in two towns. I ate your new tofu yesterday, and now I can't wait to talk to you about cooperation? ”

"What, the county. But we're too far away to send it over! ”

"That's exactly what we want to say, are you going to the town to open a tofu factory or go to the county seat to open it, closer to everyone?" Lu Xiangyun said.

"Brother Lu, our family also wants to open it, but now the funds are not abundant." After Chen Jia finished speaking, he said in his heart, "Oh no, I accidentally even said that I had abundant funds or something, forget it, force yourself to be calm." ”

"So that's the case, it's all a trivial matter, our family happens to have a small house in the county seat that is empty, if you are willing to go to the county, we can sell the house to you, when do you have the money to give it again, don't worry." looked at Qian Yongchang with an indifferent look. Chen Jia breathed a sigh of relief.

"How's that going to work? How can we do this, others will poke us in the back. Cheng Dazhuang waved his hand again and again.

"What then!" Qian Yongchang glared, could this be the reason not to go to the county seat.

"Dad, we can talk. Mr. Qian, how big is your house, and what is the current market price? We can sign a contract first, lend us the house first, we pay the monthly rent, and when we have enough money to buy it. Chen Jia's heart moved, what a good resource to go to the county seat, his brother can go to school in the county seat, and the chance of being admitted in the future is much greater.

"Don't bother, if you can only provide the two of us with golden tofu fruit within a year, we can give you the house, and after a year, if you have more new products, as long as you leave the new products to us alone, the rest can be sold publicly." Lu Xiangyun said.

"Is that good?" Cheng Dazhuang couldn't believe it, this is a cake in the sky.

"If you want, we can sign the contract today, and I will ask someone to bring you the title deed and keys of the house, and you can move in at any time." Qian Yongchang said.

"Nizi, this?" Cheng Dazhuang was at a loss.

"Alright, let's do it! It's all work everywhere. Dad, let's entrust the family's land to my little uncle to plant, as long as he can give us some rations. The rest is theirs. Chen Jia's answer reassured Cheng Dazhuang, he vaguely felt that his daughter was not simple, and she was too bold, and she didn't dare to make a decision, so she made up her mind. But why do you think she's right?

The contract was written quickly, it was written by Lu Xiangyun, and Lu Xiangyun wrote a good hand, and even Chen Jia, a scholar, was full of praise. Several parties signed their names, and the matter was settled. "Dad, we have to discuss with my mother quickly, let my little uncle make more tofu tools, otherwise it will not be enough, and the New Year is coming soon, the restaurant business will be better, we have to be fully prepared." Chen Jia reminded.

"Yes, yes, tell your mother quickly!"