Chapter 88: Follow-up Plan (Four Changes)
For breakfast, Meng Zhen prepared millet porridge, boiled eggs, potato cakes, and side dishes such as pickled cucumbers, capers, devil ginger, and dried radish.
Hearing Su Shen personally say that he would stay, Yan Zhenwu and Hao Mengyun were very happy, and the two of them patted him the shoulder, and Su Shen almost vomited three liters of blood.
However, he also knew that he was really worrying during this time, so Su Shen only silently suffered the "deliberate revenge" of these two people.
On the contrary, it was Meng Zhen and Meng Qi, two sisters and brothers who did not hold grudges, and they were already distressed just by watching Su Shen being beaten.
Xiao Meng Qi even leaned over to help Su Shen huhu, while whirring, the child still said in a milky voice, "Huhu doesn't hurt." ”
The cute little appearance of being serious and cautious made Su Shen's heart melt.
He hugged Xiao Meng Qi in his arms, "Ah Qi is good, my brother is no longer in pain." ”
Xiao Meng Qi thought that Su Shen was really no longer in pain, and the little guy held his small chest. With a look of "I'm an adult, I can help", everyone laughed again.
After breakfast, Meng Hao began to help Meng Qi make swings in the yard.
Su Shen was very active in helping her, but Hao Mengyun dragged Yan Zhenwu into the mountains together.
Now that Meng Zhen, Meng Qi, and Su Shen have all come out of the filial piety period, her marriage with Yan Zhenwu should also start preparations, so Hao Mengyun is very keen on hunting in the mountains during this time.
And because she and Yan Zhenwu are strong in martial arts, every time these two go into the mountains to hunt, it is as if they deliberately run to bully small animals.
In Su Shen's words, these two people are still picky when hunting, and they only pick those relatively valuable prey to hunt every time.
Like pheasants and hares, even if the two of them encounter them, they basically won't make a move, and people can't help but want to beat them up, these guys who pick and choose because of their martial arts.
"I plan to go to the county seat next month to open a grocery store, and then send you and Ah Qi to study in the school next year. Of course, the premise is that you want to continue on the path of entering the imperial examination. ”
While trying to fix the rope and plank together, Meng Zhen told Su Shen about his follow-up plan.
Her family originally had a total of 300 acres of fertile land, four shops, and two houses, one in the city and the other in the ancestral hometown, that is, the house in Mengjiazhuang where her parents died before.
In the past two years or so, Meng Hao has not only bought two Zhuangzi near the county seat, but also used various means to get back the three shops that had been occupied by the Meng clan.
The largest and best remaining shop is now occupied by the wife and children of the king's shopkeeper.
The main reason why the shopkeeper Wang betrayed the master's family and colluded with the Meng clan was because the Meng clan promised him this shop.
After the shopkeeper Wang was killed by Meng Hao, his son Wang Wanyou naturally inherited the shop left by the shopkeeper Wang.
What Meng Hao wants to do now is to put her own shop in her hands again.
"Is there anything I can do to help?" Meng Hao has been staring at the shop that she has not been able to take back for the time being, so Su Shen is not surprised that she plans to open a grocery store to fight with the Wang family.
"That's a lot." Meng Hao's smile brightened, "You also know that I don't have much use, so I have already planned to arouse you and Ah Yang, Ah Song, Da Hu, and Xing'er." ”
Yan Zhenwu has been waiting for Hao Mengyun for ten years, and their marriage must not be able to continue to drag on, so Meng Zhen can't count on his master and Yan Zhenwu at all during this time.
Not only could they not count on it, but Meng Hao and Su Shen even had to help them in turn.
"Uncle Yan has already rented it for me, just opposite my grocery store, the area and layout of the two shops are similar, and they are very suitable for doing the same business and competing with each other."
Meng Hao said as she winked at Su Shen.
Su Shen: ...... Okay, he'll just think that's what happened.
"Don't worry, the last loser will definitely be the Wang family." Seeing that he was silent, Meng Hao thought that he felt that he was too childish, so she decided to explain her advantages to Su Shen.
"First of all, the shopkeeper Wang didn't have time to explain my family's previous purchase channels to his son, so Wang Wanyou could only explore it slowly by himself. He couldn't find a way, he couldn't get good and cheap goods, so many of the things he sold now were expensive, poor, and not very profitable. ”
As long as the mother and son of Han and Wang Wanyou take it lightly, Wang Wanyou's mother-in-law will take the opportunity to lack two catties, and then quietly pull the difference to her mother's house. If she does business, where will customers come to her to buy things after a long time? ”
In the end, Wang Wanyou is not as delicate as his father. Not to mention taking the initiative to honor the petty officials in the yamen, he doesn't even want to deal with the fast catch of patrolling the streets now. ”
"But Uncle Yan is the kind of bold character who knows the world all over the world, whether it is a petty official in the yamen, a quick catcher, or a gangster or a second-rate person on the street, as long as I am willing to spend some silver, Uncle Yan can help us settle it completely."
"With the above three points, which family do you think I will lose to?"
"As for the shopkeeper, the bookkeeper and the guy to be used in the shop, I have also asked Uncle Yan to help me find the old man that my father used to use before."
"After my father passed away, these four people were all my father's henchmen, so they were quickly kicked out of the shop by the shopkeeper Wang and the Meng family."
"Now that they have all had new errands, they still agreed to go back to the Meng family to do things again because of their relationship with the old master."
There is a saying that "the predecessors planted trees, and the descendants enjoyed the shade", and the preparation of the shop was able to be done so smoothly, to put it bluntly, it was thanks to the blessing of Meng Qingze and his family.
"Then there is the wedding gift for Uncle Yan and the makeup for the master. In the past two years, Uncle Yan and Master have helped us a lot, and now that they are getting married, I plan to prepare more things for them. ”
Su Shen didn't have an opinion, he bowed slightly towards Meng Hao, "Then it's better to give more." Aunt Yun's side, I suggest you help her buy a Zhuangzi, and Uncle Yan can give him a silver ticket directly. ”
Meng Zhen felt that Su Shen's idea was very good, Hao Mengyun and Yan Zhenwu were the kind of people who couldn't save money, they didn't have much money at all, and getting married was just a very money-consuming thing.
The main expenses of the woman are the dowry, and the main expenses of the man are the bride price and the banquet on the day of marriage.
They sent Hao Mengyun fields and Yan Zhenwu silver, which just happened to help them solve the main problem.