The daughter-in-law of the first assistant is a super prosperous husband, and the whole family is vy

Chapter 112 Year-end Dividend
On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, Ran and Ye Ximing returned to Xiyao Village to celebrate the New Year.

On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Ye family's roast duck restaurant also had a holiday. Ye Erlang took the store's accounting room, account books and banknotes back to the Ye family, and the family reconciled the accounts together.

The business of the roast duck restaurant has been very good since it opened. Only in November, due to heavy snow, the business was greatly affected. This month's sales fell off a cliff.

However, by the twelfth lunar month, the business had recovered. In the past eight months, the roast duck restaurant's net profit was 9,100 taels.

When the accountant reported this amount, the Ye family's eyes all widened.

"So much?" Mrs. Zhang couldn't believe it. Father Ye was already quite capable. He used to work hard to hunt in the mountains every day, and their family only saved a dozen or twenty taels of silver throughout the year.

But this roast duck restaurant has only been open for a year, and it has already made money that they will never make in their lifetime.

Li said happily: "No wonder businessmen are so rich. It turns out that doing business makes so much money."

Madam Zhang glanced at Madam Li, "Do you think business is so easy to do? If Aran hadn't come up with the roast duck recipe, would this shop have been able to open? Would the business have been good?"

Finally, Zhang said with a warning: "If you have any intention of messing around with this money, please put it away as soon as possible. If you let me know, all the money you will receive in the future will be handed over to me. Keep it for you."

Mrs. Li quickly shook her head, "Mom, let me just say that. I know that this business can only be done because of the third younger brother and sister. The third younger brother and sister are the lucky stars of our family. I don't have that ability myself, so I definitely won't waste money randomly. I will keep all this money for studying and marrying a wife after Huaili."

"That's pretty much a saying."

Madam Zhang nodded with satisfaction, then looked at Madam Chen aside: "You..."

Mrs. Chen hurriedly expressed her position: "Mom, I will never mess around with money,"

Mrs. Zhang waved her hand: "I'm not worried about you spending money squandering money. It's just your mother's side. You have to know it yourself. It's not that I don't allow you to support your mother's family, but you know what your mother's temper is like. , before doing anything, think carefully about your own two sons."

Mrs. Chen lowered her head: "Mom, I know."

After admonishing the two daughters-in-law, Zhang's eyes fell on Zhou Ran again.

Zhou Ran subconsciously sat up straight and straightened her back, but Mrs. Zhang smiled at her and said softly: "A'ran is a great contributor to our family. Tell your mother what you want to eat these days, and she will give it to you." you do."

The rest of the Ye family all agreed with Zhang's words. Mrs. Chen nodded attentively and said, "I'll help mom."

Even Mr. Li, who always likes to be lazy, said, "I'll help too."

The family happily divided the money, and then everyone in the third room tacitly agreed to hand over three hundred taels of silver to Mrs. Zhang as filial piety money.

Zhang did not shirk and accepted it directly.

Finally, thinking of Mrs. Li's big mouth, Mrs. Zhang worriedly warned Mrs. Li and Mrs. Chen a few more words.

"No one of you is allowed to tell how much money your family makes, not even your parents! If any of you dare to talk about it with such a big mouth, get out of the Ye family, do you hear me?"

Mrs. Li and Mrs. Chen shrank their necks, nodded and said, "I heard it, mother."

After her sons and wives left the house, Madam Zhang muttered to Father Ye, "It would be great if Madam Chen and Madam Li could make me worry less like Aran."

Father Ye shook his head and said coldly to Zhang: "You can't find a daughter-in-law like Aran among thousands of people. It would be great if you can marry one. Do you want to marry three at once?" Zhang thought for a moment. He stood up, nodded and said: "You are right. Although Chen and Li have some minor problems, they are still filial to Da Lang and Er Lang. I shouldn't have too high demands on them."

Mrs. Zhang thought about it and stopped talking about her two daughters-in-law. Instead, she discussed with Father Ye: "The money in my hand is just sitting idle. Why don't we find someone to build a few more houses next spring?"

"Although our current house is big enough for our own family, we have no place to stay when guests come to our house. Moreover, in two years, when our children grow up, they will have their own separate house."

Father Ye nodded, "Okay, I'll go and tell the village chief later, isn't there a large open space next to our yard? Let's buy it and use it as a homestead."

The old couple settled the matter quickly and mentioned it to Ye Ximing and the others during dinner.

Naturally, no one in Ye Ximing and the others objected, but everyone agreed that if they wanted to build it, they should build it a little bigger.

In the blink of an eye, the New Year was over. Ye Ximing had to go back to Mr. Zou to take classes. They returned to the county seat before the fifteenth day.

Mr. Zou is now very strict with Ye Ximing's homework.

Zhou Ran originally thought that Ye Ximing would not be able to ask for leave to accompany her back to the village on her birthday this year like last year.

But she didn't expect that she had just returned from Liuguang Pavilion at noon that day, and Ye Ximing had also returned home.

"Why are you back? Actually, you don't need to ask for leave today." Zhou Ran said.

Ye Ximing smiled and said: "It's okay. Half a day won't waste much homework. Go pack up quickly and I'll take you out."

"Okay." Zhou Ran smiled and went back to the room to dress up again.

Zhou Ran always dressed plainly when she returned to the village, and it was the same today. She only wore a silver hairpin on her head and an inconspicuous silver bracelet on her wrist.

Ye Ximing changed his clothes, looked at Zhou Ran's dress, stepped forward and took off the silver hairpin from Zhou Ran's head, and took out the gold and ruby ​​hairpin he had given to Zhou Ran from the jewelry box. He put a hairpin on Zhou Ran, then pinched Zhou Ran's hand, took off the silver bracelet from her wrist, and replaced it with a white jade bracelet.

Zhou Ran waited for Ye Ximing's action to end, then hesitantly looked at herself in the mirror and said, "Isn't this a bit too ostentatious?"

The jade bracelet was just fine, but the gold and ruby ​​hairpin was very valuable at first glance. She rarely wore it even when she went out in the county.

Ye Ximing shook his head, "No."

Zhou Ran thought for a while, but still did not reject Ye Ximing's kindness.

Before going out, Ye Ximing took the newly made fox fur cloak and put it on Zhou Ran. He himself was also wearing the big cloak that Zhou Ran bought for him before.

The two walked together as if they were wearing couple's clothes.

Zhao Wu had already tied up the carriage and was waiting outside the gate. After Zhou Ran and Ye Ximing got on the carriage and sat down, the carriage drove towards the outside of the county town.

After waiting for the carriage to leave the county town for a while, Zhou Ran realized something was wrong. The road back to Xiyao Village was not uphill.

(End of this chapter)