Chapter 140: Woman's Fate
A large amount of money was piled up in front of him, shining so brightly that people could hardly open their eyes, Hui Niang hurriedly asked a few maids to do it together, and moved the silver money upstairs in batches and put it away.
After everything was done, Hui Niang announced that she would add a few more dishes to dinner, and at the same time asked Xiu'er to go to the printing workshop to spread the word, and the workshop would continue to work at the end of the year, and it would not stop until after the twenty-fifth year, and it would be restarted on the fifth day of the new year. On the side of Ninghua Workshop, another person will be sent to notify you.
There was an unwritten rule in the printing workshop that at the end of the year and the first month of the year, the union would receive double the usual wages, so that both men and women were happy.
After dinner, Hui Niang and Zhou sat down to check the accounts, and Zhou suddenly became a little worried: "If you are still so busy at the end of the year, I am afraid that there will be no time to go back to Ninghua for the New Year." ”
Hui Niang thought for a while and asked, "Sister wants to go back?" ”
Zhou shook his head: "In the past, I always felt that a big family was together in harmony, discussing and doing things, and that was the life of the gods. But in the end, everyone has selfishness, no matter whether the year is good or not, they take care of their own room. Now your brother-in-law and I send back the money we earned from my sister's work every month, and if it weren't for other inputs, I'm afraid we wouldn't even have the money to buy a piece of clothing for Xiaolang! ”
"In this way, I don't feel that I owe anything to my family, and my thoughts about going home are much lighter."
Hui Niang smiled slightly: "Sister may be thinking too much...... I've said before, I don't know how to cherish it, and I don't want to raise my son, but now I think about it, if there are old people in the family who let me be filial, how good would it be? Speaking of this, Hui Niang fell into deep thought. Bai Du billion hey, Yan, brother free of charge without bullet window to watch the next chapter
At the beginning, she and her husband came all the way to Ninghua and relied on each other, but first came the bad news that her parents died, and then even her husband was gone. Fortunately, with Lu Xi'er's daughter, she has a little hope in her life.
Zhou sighed and didn't argue with Hui Niang.
It's not that she doesn't have feelings for the Shen family, she is sincere, but whether it is the old lady Li or those brothers and sisters-in-law, they are extremely mean to her, and now even Shen Mingwen, who was once unattainable in her eyes, is also having trouble with the Li family, and she feels that her family is not a family.
On the contrary, the relationship between her and Hui Niang is getting better and better, and the two families are like a family.
"I'll discuss it with the unconscionable person at home when I go back, or I'll go back at the end of the year...... At least let this little conscienceless know what filial piety is. ”
Zhou glanced at Shen Xi, who was idle and bored and eating fried beans next to him.
When Shen Xi heard this, he almost spit out the beans in his mouth, and protested dissatisfiedly: "Mother, it's just that you scold your father, when will I become a little conscienceless musician?" I am so filial to you and my father on weekdays...... And grandmothers. ”
"Phew!"
Zhou took a sip and scolded and said, "I often make my mother angry, let you worship Aunt Sun as a godmother, and say filial piety?" Don't grow up and have no conscience like your father...... Hmph, you'd better be honest, or I'll definitely call the shots for Dale. ”
Lin Dai was a little inexplicable: "Mother, why do you want to make decisions for me?" ”
Zhou didn't know how to answer for a while, so he had to say casually: "It's this kid who hooks up outside and provokes those women who don't do anything...... You come back and tell your mother, even if your mother is old, you still beat him to cry and call his mother. ”
When Lin Dai heard this, she couldn't help but look at Lu Xi'er, who was also eating fried beans beside her, and the expression on her face was a little sad, as if to say, Oh, there is one here, mother, you should make the decision for me.
Shen Xi's eyes were sharp, and before Zhou noticed the clue, he hurriedly dragged a loli with one hand and pulled it aside: "Go, I'll tell you a story." ”
Zhou was stunned when he heard this, and then looked over.
I saw that Shen Xi had just pulled Lin Dai and Lu Xi'er to sit down, and several maids had already gathered around, their faces full of eagerness, staring at him with eyes ready to listen to the story. Zhou couldn't help but shake his head and sighed lightly: "Stinky boy, you have such a woman's popularity at a young age, and I don't know what it will become when you grow up." ”
Hui Niang didn't know what to think, and her pretty face turned red...... That is, a few days ago, she had inadvertently uttered almost the same emotion.
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At the end of the year, the two families became more and more busy, the pharmacy and printing workshop were doing prosperous business, and the chamber of commerce had a lot of things to do at the end of the year, so that they didn't even have time to buy New Year's goods.
On the morning of the twenty-second day of the lunar month, the door of the pharmacy had just opened, and Hui Niang was about to go to the main hall of the Chamber of Commerce to have a look, when Shen Xi's aunt Yang Shen brought her son Yang Wenzhao to visit.
Soon, Yang Shen went upstairs to discuss things with Hui Niang and Zhou, and Shen Xi secretly speculated after seeing it, probably because the New Year was approaching, and Yang's pharmacy sorted out the accounts, and checked the income and expenditure details of Hui Niang in the past few months after she became a shareholder of Yang's pharmacy, and then distributed the profits.
Yang Wenzhao followed Shen Xi to the backyard to play with the two little loli.
"Little cousin, you are so good, you have two good friends by your side...... I'm so pathetic, I don't even have a partner to play with. Yang Wenzhao saw Lin Dai and Lu Xi'er with pink makeup, delicate and cute, and he was very envious.
Shen Xi smiled and asked, "There are not many children of the same age near your house?" Besides, aren't you going to study at a school now, so you haven't made a few friends? ”
Yang Wenzhao shook his head gloomily: "Those classmates in the school bullied me, and every time I was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face." Besides...... We don't have such a cute little sister and little sister there. ”
Only then did Shen Xi understand that Yang Wenzhao's envy was not that he had two good friends, but that he had two little Loli by his side.
Shen Xi smiled dumbly: "If you want to play, of course you want to play with boys, the two of them are very stupid, there is nothing fun." ”
Lin Dai was very dissatisfied with Shen Xi's words, Lu Xi'er smiled and pulled Shen Xi's arm, shook it and said, "Brother Shen Xi, don't say bad things about others." ”
Unlike Shen Yuan, Shen Yuan is withdrawn and doesn't know how to please the opposite sex, Yang Wenzhao was born in a family of businessmen, and his cheeky methods are also smooth, and he soon played with the two little Loli, but he appeared as a little angry bag, and he was bullied by Lin Dai and Lu Xi'er and never tired of it.
After Yang Shen finished talking with Hui Niang and Zhou, he went downstairs to take Yang Wen away. Yang Wenzhao's face was full of reluctance, and he really wanted to stay with Shen Xi and the three of them every day, and finally cried and shouted that he was taken away by his mother's ears.
Seeing that the people were far away, Shen Xi returned to the pharmacy and came to the counter to listen to Hui Niang and Zhou's chat, wanting to know the business status of Yang's pharmacy.
When Hui Niang saw Shen Xi, she mentioned intentionally or unintentionally: "...... Sister, don't say it, we have just started making medicines here, and we don't make much money, but the business of Yang's Pharmacy is very good. ”
Zhou sighed: "People are a century-old brand, and they can't be compared." However, no matter how good their business is, they will also give us sixty percent of the profits, and we will make more money in the end. ”
Hui Niang's face became a little solemn: "Sister, haven't you heard that the business of Yang's Pharmacy has improved greatly in the past few months, and it has made a lot of profits...... People are a little dissatisfied with our constraints, and want to pay off the money once and take back the contract signed before. ”
When Shen Xi heard this, he immediately understood.
The reason why Yang's pharmacy sent Yang Shen over was because he thought that everyone was a woman and easy to talk to, so he came to probe and see if Hui Niang's side could withdraw his shares.
This is also what Shen Xi expected at the beginning.
At the beginning, the business of Yang's Pharmacy was not good, mainly because the prices of medicinal materials in various places had risen wildly, and Yang's Pharmacy did not accumulate enough cheap medicinal materials due to problems with capital flow, and could not compete with other pharmaceutical stores, coupled with the foreign debts owed before, which made it difficult for the pharmacy to move forward.
However, after Hui Niang invested in the shares, the business model of Yang's Pharmacy was improved, from selling scattered medicinal materials to selling finished medicines, coupled with the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce, the vicious competition between the pharmacy no longer existed, and the business of Yang's Pharmacy improved, and slowly began to make profits, not to mention, and the business became more and more prosperous.
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