The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 169 Planning for My Mother's Family
With the return of Gan Minglan and others, the medical team became famous overnight.

In addition to the glory, they were also greeted with rigorous and professional training in medical knowledge.

The team members did not utter a single complaint.

The more you learn, the more valuable you become.

They also wanted to go to the battlefield with their captain.

Previously, when people mentioned battlefield team members, they could only think of various dangers.

But the team leader told them from his own experience: Fortune favors the bold!

God!
Killing enemies can actually make you rich!

The She family had previously owed a total of more than thirty taels of silver in debt.

After completing this mission, not only were the debts paid off.

The remaining silver in her hands was enough for her and Zuo Chixia to live on for several years.

Before we knew it, the days were filled with something to look forward to!

After discussing the more than one hundred truckloads of cotton cloth they had brought back, Tian Jiu and the others decided to liquidate it as soon as possible.

Ideally, the pension should be given to the military families together with the compensation.

What is the current situation in Huaiqing Prefecture?
The situation is that there is a severe shortage of all kinds of daily necessities.

As soon as a shop dares to open its doors, thousands of people rush to buy things without a care in the world!
Standard fabric is so great! It can be used to make both inner and outer garments.

More than a hundred cartloads of cloth wouldn't be enough to sell for three days!

The profit increased fivefold from the original purchase price!
This sum of money was distributed together with the pension.

The entire border town's military families were in an uproar!

The families of soldiers never forget those who dug the well when they drink the water.

Every evening, military dependents would bring gifts to No. 36 courtyard to express their gratitude.

Some people came specifically to thank Captain Gan for saving their son's life.

There are also those who thank her for allowing the families of soldiers to live off the money left behind by their loved ones after they have lost them.

Several hundred households expressed their gratitude to the medical team for taking good care of the wounded during the battle, preventing them from suffering serious disabilities.

In short, both the medical team and Captain Gan himself gained both fame and fortune.

Immediately afterwards, his family also benefited.

Zuo Wenkang has gone from being a laborer to a labor organizer, and has taken charge of a team of fifty people.

Instead of building city walls, they chose to help with farming.

The military households throughout the border town have been busy with spring plowing these days, and the labor intensity of manually turning the soil is not low.

So when he no longer had to do hard labor, he became the envy of many people.

Envy is useless; what wife can be as capable as Captain Gan?
The capable Captain Gan was at a loss.

Because her father was very obsessed with slaughtering pigs, after searching all the villages around the border town and not being able to find a single live pig, he even wanted to go to Huaiqing Prefecture to look for one.

They were single-mindedly focused on restoring the former glory of Gan's Meat Shop.

In this regard.

She had something to say: "Dad, you should have gotten to know the locals' eating habits a little bit over the past two weeks, right?"

"They like to eat mutton and noodles, and they also eat pork! Girl, do you mean to change from slaughtering pigs to slaughtering sheep? What's so difficult about slaughtering sheep? Every household here knows how to do it!"

Gan Minglan said mysteriously to her family:

"Last year, we discovered a herb on our way to exile. The root of this herb is a rather potent flavor enhancer."

No matter what kind of meat it's stewed with, the cooked meat and broth will be so delicious it'll make your eyebrows fall off!
When the time comes, our family will open a mutton soup restaurant in the border town, and you, Dad, will just have to slaughter sheep, skin them, and debone them every day!

My mother was cooking meat in a big pot in the back kitchen! As long as she put a few handfuls of herb roots in the pot, it was guaranteed to make anyone passing by our mutton soup restaurant swoon with its aroma!

When I learned of its wonderful uses, I secretly collected a big bag of grass seeds! I was planning to send someone back with the grass seeds when I sent them back to you.

I didn't want the refugees to cause such chaos, and on top of that, I was immediately sent out on official business as soon as I arrived in the border town!

Upon hearing her daughter's words, Gan's mother, who was most skilled at making pork offal soup, immediately pushed Gan's father aside, grabbed her daughter's hand, and asked repeatedly:
"Really? It tastes this good! Won't it be poisonous if people eat it? Can these herbs be grown in the border town?"

"Mother, don't worry! I'm not the only one who thinks it tastes delicious. You can ask your son-in-law and your eldest grandson later! The young master and his wife of the Zuo family's direct line were eating so well that they licked their bowls clean!"

We ate it five or six times, and nothing happened to us! In fact, drinking this soup made from the roots made our stomachs feel very comfortable!
Don't weeds just grow naturally? Let's try planting a circle of them around the corner of courtyard number 52 first. With the current weather, I reckon they'll be grown in less than two months!
Dad and my two younger brothers have been looking around town these days, trying to find a restaurant that's lively and has a nice place. Let's buy the place first and decorate it properly.

The original owner's parents were truly exceptional.

Gan Minglan would naturally consider her family members wholeheartedly.

She planned to cheat on the dog rice grass seeds when she got back.

Make sure that all the grass seeds germinate and emerge from the soil within three days of being planted.

Finally, she also gave her family a small amount of silver notes worth one thousand taels to open a restaurant.

Gan's parents were stunned by her extravagant spending.

Gan Mingshou stared at the roll of silver notes, his jaw dropping in astonishment: "Sister, sister, you, you guys made such a fortune?"

Gan Minglan suppressed a laugh and said:
"Now you know what I'm capable of, right? Don't worry, this is only a thousand taels! I keep several times more money for myself!"
Parents, please don't refuse. This is your daughter's way of showing her respect to you!

"If we're going to do something, let's do something big. Let's buy a large courtyard facing the street, renovate it thoroughly, and strive to make Gan's Lamb Soup Restaurant a century-old brand!"

The Gan family members are not stubborn.

They value family and kinship more.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have given Gan Minglan, a woman who married out of the family, the profits from the pork shop every month.

Of course, there was another main reason for accepting the thousand taels of silver.

On their way to the border town, they were unfortunately robbed or stolen by refugees, who took most of their money.

Now, the family of four has less than two hundred taels of silver in savings.

This is also why Gan Hongzhen was in a hurry to start the butcher shop business and wanted to find a source of income.

I never expected my daughter to be so capable.

He could spend a thousand taels of silver in one go.

Gan's father happily put away the silver notes:
"Great! I'll use the money you gave me to set up the mutton soup restaurant, and I'll give you a share of the profits every month from now on!"

Gan Minglan said she didn't care.

She had ten thousand taels of gold stored in her space, and several thousand taels of loose silver and banknotes.

These days, even if you have money, there's nowhere to spend it!

Gan's mother, Gan Mingfu, and Gan Mingshou naturally had no objection to Gan's father's suggestion and were even eager to give her a larger share.

When they have something important to do, the Gan family's spirit immediately changes.

I wish I could search every nook and cranny of Courtyard No. 52.

They vowed to plant grass seeds in every patch of soil.

Next, the three of them wandered around the city, asking around for information about the shop.

On the contrary, Gan's mother would spend all her time, whether her eyes were open or closed, watching over the movement of her precious medicinal herbs in the yard.

Three days later, just as dawn broke.

Before Gan Mingfu and his brother even got out of bed, they heard their mother shout with delight from the yard:
"It's sprouting! It's sprouting!"

(End of this chapter)