Smoke curled in the courtyard of the Shen family.

Shen Tuantuan had already gone to Niu Hongmei's house to buy back three catties of pork belly and a big bone. There were bones stewed in the pot, and Shen Tuantuan deliberately took a wooden basin to the east wing to find some dried tofu, thinking about making some dishes.

As soon as you enter the east wing, you can see a few baskets of dried tofu at the door, which was originally the dried tofu for the two restaurants today, but because there was no carriage coming early in the morning, Shen Zhong had to put the dried tofu back.

Shen Zhong has always been diligent, and after renting the work in the field to Shen Xiao's family, he devoted himself to serving these dried tofu. In addition to these smoked dried tofu, there are also tofu racks on the side, and some dried white tofu, which are not smoked.

Shen Tuantuan picked some of everything, and as soon as he straightened up, he heard a familiar voice from the courtyard.

It was the voice of the Yanagi family.

"Big brother, big brother, are you at home? Tuan Tuan, Tuan Tuan—"

Shen Tuantuan held the wooden basin, freed up one hand, opened the curtain, and saw Liu and Shen Wan standing in the courtyard. The Liu clan glanced around the courtyard, if it wasn't for Shen Wan pulling it, I am afraid that the Liu clan would have rushed into the house.

"Second aunt, Sister Wan'er, do you have something to do?"

Shen Wan glared at the Liu clan before looking at Shen Tuantuan. "We heard that there were people from the city, so we were a little worried, so we came over to see if we could help."

Liu's mouth responded, but the two looked at the wooden basin in Shen Tuantuan's hand with straight eyes. "So much dried tofu? Will you be able to eat it all at home? I heard that your dried tofu business has turned yellow, and none of the carriages in the city have come to pull the goods today, so this will be put away, otherwise, I will help you eat a little? ”

"Mother! What nonsense are you talking about again! Uncle doesn't often send dried tofu to our family, when is there a short time to eat! Shen Wan shouted anxiously, she didn't see how her mother was on weekdays, and she couldn't care about it. Tuan Tuan, my mother and I heard about this, thinking about coming over to see if we could help, I heard that Changzhi accompanied the shopkeeper from the city to the dock, we estimated that we were going to keep food, and we came to see if we could help do something. ”

Although Shen Tuantuan is not close to Shen Wan, after all, they are cousins of their relatives, and they are always passable on the face. "Then thank Sister Wan'er and the second aunt first. In fact, there is nothing to do, just to cook a few simple dishes. As for business, it still depends on my father and my brother. ”

When Liu heard this, he wanted to go back. "I'll just say, what can we do to help, Wan'er has to pull me over."

Shen Wan couldn't take the Liu family, so she had to smile apologetically at Shen Tuantuan. "Then let's go back first, and if you want to help when you go back, you can come to my house to find us again."

"Well, thank you, Sister Wan'er."

"No, you don't."

Shen Tuantuan sent the two to the gate of the courtyard, and seeing that the Liu family had not gone far, he began to count Shen Wan.

"You said that you have to drag the old lady to help, you are looking at the rarity of people, so that the old lady ran away in vain and didn't say anything, and didn't get anything at all. You don't know that salt and rice are expensive, so many dried tofu, I just take a little bit of it is also a dish, you say you, you have to drag the old lady to death, you want face, don't eat the things that the old lady moved back! ”

Liu almost vomited a mouthful of old blood, when he was in the courtyard of Shen Tuantuan's house just now, he just wanted to do it, but he was pulled by Shen Wan, and as soon as he had the meaning to speak, he was cut off by Shen Wan, so this time out of the yard, Liu couldn't help it anymore, and complained all the way.

The more Liu thought about it, the more unwilling she became, no, she had to go back!

"No, I'll have to go back and ask your aunt if she has brought a message."

"What's the message?"

"It's not your family business, your aunt took it at the beginning, but there is no reply to it until now, and I don't say whether your family affairs have been settled, so it won't drag on until this one, even if it doesn't work, we have to find a good family by ourselves, the older it gets, and it will be worthless at that time."

Thinking of this, Liu was really anxious.

"Mother, be cautious, it's outside, is it a place to speak!"

"Don't you follow me all these things that you don't have, men should get married, women should get married, what can't you say, or do you have a ghost in your heart?" Liu decided that Shen Wan had a person in her heart, so she was reluctant to say goodbye.

Shen Wan couldn't help but have a headache, she really couldn't do anything about her mother's nonsense. I had to speed up my pace and go to my house.

"I'm not afraid that you know, but there is no place in the city, so I'll find it for you in the nearby village. If you don't want to marry into the city, then that's fine, I'll find a matchmaker and find a nearby village. In the future, when you go to the field to farm, don't go home and complain. ”

Although the Liu family is messing around, they also take great pains to teach Shen Wan, the eldest daughter, and they are also carefully raised on weekdays, and they never let Shen Wan do those rough jobs.

What Liu said was obviously angry, such a nurtured girl, if she really went to someone else's house to work in the field, Liu would not follow it.

Putting aside these words, the Liu family just wanted Shen Wan to retreat.

Shen Wan almost didn't go to the city alone, and the people she knew were nothing more than the wild boys in the nearby villages, how could the Liu family agree to these people!

"Mother, I said, I didn't! You can do what you want, you can do it, if you think it is a good person, I can't get married! Shen Wan hurriedly finished speaking, and her eyes turned red.

Shen Wan is a very face-saving person, but she didn't think about it, she was forced by her mother like this on the village road, if she was accidentally heard by others, would she still want to live!

Shen Wan always knew that her mother was not stingy, but she didn't expect to treat her children like this. The more Shen Wan thought about it, the more sad she became, and when she lowered her head, her tears couldn't stop falling.

Liu Shi looked at Shen Wan's staggering figure, and he was also a little overwhelmed. But when he thought that he was doing this for Shen Wan's good, his heart hardened again.

Shen Tuantuan didn't know about the commotion between the Liu family, and even if he knew, he couldn't help it.

She was also waiting for her aunt's reply recently, but who knew that the little aunt didn't even bring a message, and Shen Tuantuan couldn't help but be a little worried.

Shen Zhong hurried away, but came back empty-handed.

"Dad, didn't you buy game?"

Shen Zhong couldn't hide his worry on his face. "I ran to three villages in a row, and the hunters all went up the mountain, saying that they were going to hunt wild boars together. It's really not a coincidence. ”

"There's no way to do that, and I can only cook a little home-cooked food. Since Shopkeeper Qin didn't leave, he shouldn't mind these coarse tea and light rice. It was also thanks to Shen Tuantuan's plan that he went to Niu's house early to buy meat.

"Alas, Tuan Tuan, you said, if the shopkeeper Qin is not happy to eat and thinks that our family is not sincere, will he not be willing to do business with our family?" Shen Zhong lit the fire, and watched Shen Tuantuan cook it all at home, saying that it was home-cooked, and it was indeed home-cooked.

"It's a big deal, I won't do business, I just happen to send my brother to the academy." Shen Tuantuan stir-fried the dishes in the pot and replied casually.

"You kid, why are you still talking about being angry, this dried tofu business is more profitable than when you sold tofu, so you have to work a little hard. In the future, if your brother gets married, this business will be passed on, and he will not have to worry about eating and drinking for the rest of his life. "Shen Zhong is poor and afraid, since Mei's marriage has lived a good life for a few years, it didn't take long, and he began to count the copper plates again. He was really poor.

Shen Tuantuan didn't think so, "I don't want my brother to deal with beans all day long, and my brother won't like it." ”

"Stupid again! Your brother is a country boy, if he doesn't make tofu, can he still go to the ground? If it weren't for your mother who had to let your brother go to the academy to study and read, maybe your brother would have learned the craft of making tofu like me. ”

Shen Zhong was originally a farmer, with limited vision and limited thinking. For Shen Zhong, it is a big deal to be full and have silver in reserve! As for studying or something, it's better to leave it to the rich to do it.

"That's because my mother has a good eye and knows that my brother is a reading material!" Shen Tuantuan didn't want to argue with Shen Zhong, "Dad, we have already said it, you can't meddle in this silver matter." ”

"Cheng Cheng Cheng, our tuan tuan is a housekeeper!" After handing over the rights of the housekeeper, Shen Zhong really never had to worry about the silver again, and he had a full meal every day, and Shen Zhong was already satisfied. "However, how much silver do we have in store now? Is it enough to buy an acre of land? ”

"It's enough, it's still affordable to buy an acre and a half acre." Shen Tuantuan replied vaguely, for fear that Shen Zhong would know about the family's silver deposits, and his brain would be hot and he would agree to lend it out again.

"I'll just say, it's only been a few months, how can I save a few hundred taels of silver! The people in the village have asked me a lot, saying that I have made a few hundred taels of silver by giving away this dried tofu day by day? ”

"What did you say?"

"I'll tell you the truth, it's already good to have ten taels, how many copper plates can a tofu sell, even if it makes money, it is impossible to sell it at a sky-high price." Shen Zhong really felt that the amount he could save a dozen taels of silver was already the limit, otherwise, he would not have gone out of his way to sell dried tofu in every market.

Sometimes in a hurry, it is already a good business to be able to sell a dozen taels of copper plates.

Besides, the soybeans at home have long been gone, and Shen Zhong has already spent several taels of silver to buy soybeans. Now there are still a lot of soybeans in the utility room, and if the dried tofu business can't be done, what can this soybean do?

As soon as Shen Zhong thought of this, he suppressed the idea of buying good land again.

By the time Shen Changzhi and the two of them came back together, the fragrance of vegetables had already wafted out of the courtyard of the Shen family.

"What kind of good food is made, I can smell it from so far away, it seems that I really want to feast on it today!" Shopkeeper Qin laughed loudly, just going out for a walk with Shen Changzhi, but he had a new impression of Shen Changzhi.

Although the shopkeeper Qin has been in contact with Shen Changzhi a few times, although Shen Changzhi can read and write, but he stays in the impression of a dropout boy who is neither humble nor arrogant, but he didn't expect that from the courtyard of the Shen family to the dock, whenever the shopkeeper Qin points to a place, Shen Changzhi can always say a few allusions, citing the past and the present, and eloquence.

However, along the way, Shen Changzhi did not mention anything about business.

It's like the two of them are really just old friends, and they went out for a walk.

Shopkeeper Qin knew very well in his heart that if Shen Changzhi mentioned it in a scenic, Shopkeeper Qin might follow this set in the business field, and one yard would be counted as one yard. But after walking this circle, Shopkeeper Qin knew very clearly that if he gave this young man a way, maybe this young man would be amazingly talented.