Song Sanniang's Journey to Wealth

Chapter 107 Licorice

Song Sanniang asked someone to put the gifts in the backyard room and then continued to work in the store.

In just half a day, several groups of customers came and went in the store, and everyone left with a smile on their face.

By the afternoon, the dishes in the store were running out, so Song Laoer and his friends went to purchase another batch. It seemed that they would have to go shopping every morning and afternoon.

Gradually, the sun sets and night falls. The shops on the street light up lanterns and candles one after another.

Sweetness is no exception. The sweetness at this time feels different from the sweetness during the day.

The sweetness of candlelight at night gives you a hazy feeling of looking at a beauty under the lamp, and the atmosphere is created spontaneously in the dim environment.

People in the store feel the romance, and people passing by the store feel the sweetness and have the illusion of returning home. Therefore, a lot of customers are attracted to the store.

Everyone at Tian Mi Mi was so busy that they had no time to rest. It was not until late at night that the number of customers in the store gradually decreased.

The curfew time in the city is 10 pm. People will go to the shops to eat dinner in batches around 6 or 7 pm. The kitchen staff will prepare dinner.

We close at around nine o'clock, and everyone cleans the shop, washes the things in the kitchen, tidies up the kitchen, prepares some ingredients for tomorrow, and then goes back to the inn to rest.

After everyone left, Song Sanniang and her family began to count their accounts. Song Sanniang had learned how to use an abacus from Song Zuen before. It was quite fun to hear her fingers clacking on the abacus.

The tables are numbered, and the store's account book is based on how much money each table spends, how many tables are turned over in a day, and how much money is spent in total, and then the spending of all the tables is added up.

After doing some calculations, after deducting the food expenses, I earned a total of more than 28 taels. Because the store opened today, I got a 20% discount with coupons, and I also gave away some sour plum soup, so this income should be lower.

If the business is good every day in the future, it should be possible to maintain more than thirty taels a day. In that month, the decoration expenses of the store should be earned back quickly.

But I was really tired. Si Niang and her three children were not idle today. They couldn't do anything.

But they also helped to check the heat, skewer the skewers, and sometimes run errands and pass on messages. After they finished their meal and took a shower, they went to bed soon.

Song Sanniang put the account book away, stretched herself, and then said to Song Laoer and his wife,

"I plan to send a letter to the clan leader's family, asking them to ship the bamboo bowls that everyone has made. Do you have any letters to bring? I will write one for you and send it together."

Song Lao Er laughed and said, "Then write a letter to your uncle and tell him that everything is going well with our store opening in the city. Tell him not to worry about it and to write to me if there are any problems with the building."

Hearing this, Song Sanniang took out a piece of paper and prepared to write a letter. Song Ersao also smiled and said, "You should also write a letter to your grandparents. Just as your father said, everything is going well in the capital city. Your aunt and cousin are all doing well."

After she finished speaking, she thought for a moment and then continued to say to Song Sanniang, "When do you plan to send the letter? Ask your aunt and the others if they want to write a letter home. Also, ask your Aunt Cuihua and Aunt Niu San if they want to bring a letter home."

Song Sanniang agreed, and the family of three chatted there. Qin Haodong and his brother were washing up, and it would be their turn only after they finished.

"Hey, I don't know how your Uncle Niu is doing. I don't know if his wife treats him well. And I don't know how Xiao Huang is doing after she left Da Huang." Second Sister Song chatted about Niu Lao San's eldest brother.

Previously, Niu Laosan and his friends went to the provincial capital to sell mooncakes and made some money. They said they would use the money to buy a wife for his eldest brother. Since Niu Laosan was going to the provincial capital to help, the couple did not spend too much time choosing a wife and went directly to find a matchmaker.

The matchmaker introduced a girl from Tanjia Village to Niu Lao Da, who was from the same village as Dandan, and her name was Gancao.

Gancao is 20 years old this year. His family is poor, his grandparents are very old, and his father is a hunter. But he missed a step while hunting and broke his leg.

Her mother died of severe hemorrhage when giving birth to her youngest brother, leaving two lives. She was the eldest and had three younger sisters.

Girls here usually get married when they are 16 or 17 years old, and some even get married when they are 14 or 15. In order to support the family, Gancao has stayed here until now.

It's not that no one in the village liked her. After all, she was hardworking and capable, and supported her family. But those people didn't want her to help her parents after she got married.

The idea of ​​the betrothal gift was to give some food so that her family would have something to eat, so Gancao refused to marry and has remained like this until now.

Originally, she thought that she would just stay single and raise her younger sisters and brothers. However, in the Chen Dynasty, if a woman was not married at the age of 20, she had to pay a fine of 600 coins to the government.

In a blink of an eye, Gancao had reached this age, but how could she pay such a large sum of money? So her grandparents had no choice but to ask a matchmaker to find a good family for her.

Don't think her grandparents are kind-hearted. If they were, her mother wouldn't have sacrificed her life just to have a son.

The two of them hoped to marry Gancao to a good family so that they could get more dowry, and Gancao could also help the family more.

The matchmaker felt sorry for Gancao. She was well-informed and knew that Niu Laosan and his men were all kind-hearted people.

Although Niu Lao Da's IQ is not normal, he is a good person. He is very hardworking. He goes to Niu Lao San's house for dinner every day and helps with the housework.

Moreover, their family is willing to pay a betrothal gift of more than ten taels. This couldn't be better.

So the two of them simply exchanged gifts and got married, and Niu Laosan even invited his close relatives to a wedding banquet.

Seeing that the young couple could make ends meet, Niu Laosan gave the calf Xiaohuang born by Dahuang to them to take care of, and asked them to make bamboo bowls at home to earn some money.

Gancao knew what Niu Laosan was worried about, so she told him not to worry and that she would take good care of Niu Laoda.

Niu Laosan gave fifteen taels of betrothal gift, but the matchmaker and Gancao's grandparents agreed on ten taels. Gancao was asked to keep the remaining five taels for herself so that when her grandparents spent all the betrothal gift, she could still provide food for her younger sisters.

After hearing what Song Ersao said, Song Sanniang felt a little sad. She didn't expect that she would be fined for not getting married before the age of 20. It was simply unfair.

According to Gancao's personality, she will definitely live a good life in the future. Although she thinks that Niu Lao Da is not worthy of her, Niu Lao Da also has his advantages.

Life is like this sometimes, nothing is perfect. All we can do is live every day well. If you want a good life, work hard and keep looking forward.