Rebirth of the poor elder sister-in-law

Chapter 229 Expansion of the store
After Liu Man'er and the others sat down, Mrs. Dong looked at the doll in Liu Man'er's hand and said, "Is this your child?"

"Yes." Liu Man'er nodded, and handed the child to Mrs. Dong, "Her name is Rou Rou, and she is a girl."

"It looks really good-looking." Dong took the child, with a smile hidden in the folds of his face, "This doll looks better than when you were young."

Liu Man'er also pursed her lips into a smile, and asked again: "By the way, mother, what did you mean by what you just said outside the door?"

"You don't know. People in the village say that you owe debts to others, and your whole family has sold themselves to others. I asked your elder brother to visit your house secretly. He really doesn't know the people living there." Dong While teasing the child in her arms, Shi casually explained to Liu Man'er.

"Those people can talk nonsense." Liu Man'er shook her head and said, "I don't owe anyone money now. You said that the family living in my house is a servant bought by my house."

"Oh, it turned out to be a misunderstanding, so my mother can rest assured." When Dong Shi heard Liu Man'er say this, she didn't even lift her head, she was still teasing Rou Rou, her heart and eyes were filled with relief.

"Mother, this is my sister-in-law. She has always wanted to come to our mountain to play, so I brought her here this time." Liu Man'er pointed to Ye He and introduced.

"Hello, Auntie." Ye He greeted Mrs. Dong very politely.

Seeing the well-behaved Ye He, Dong also smiled, and asked Fang, "Is your mother okay?"

"My mother had a serious illness some time ago, but she's cured now." Ye He replied.

"That's good." Mrs. Dong nodded, and said: "I have no news on the mountain, and I can't see your mother. It's really rude. Let your mother not take offense."

"It's okay, my mother can understand." Ye He replied.

"Why didn't you see the eldest brother and sister-in-law?" Liu Man'er asked, "I heard that their children also made noises, so they must be able to walk by now."

"Oh, that child is unlucky." Dong shook his head, with a look of sadness in his eyes, and said, "Your elder brother's child had a fever some time ago."

"How could this be?" Liu Man'er also felt a little unacceptable, "I haven't even met him before."

"Forget it, don't talk about these unhappy things." Mrs. Dong returned the child to Liu Man'er, stood up, walked to the stove in the corner to work, and said, "Your brother, sister-in-law and your father have gone to work on the mountain. , I think they should be back later, they will be happy to see you."

"En." Liu Man'er nodded, sitting in the room like a guest, quite reserved, but Cao'er had already stood up and started to help clean the room.

Although she has been living in Liu Man'er's house for the past two years, she is still from the old Liu's family. When she returns home, she is truly returning home, while Liu Man'er is returning to her mother's house when she returns home. There is a big difference.

Dong's method of hospitality is still to cook the most simple egg soup, Liu Man'er did not push her back and forth this time, and accepted Dong's wishes.

Finally, when her daughter returned home, Dong was busy cooking and killing chickens. Liu Man'er took out all the rabbits and mussels they had caught on the way and handed them to Dong, and took advantage of Dong's cooking time to take the gifts. Come out to Dong Shi.

Of course it is necessary to give Dong some money, Dong accepted Liu Man'er's gift, but he absolutely refused to accept the money, saying: "It's not easy for you yourself, you always give me money, how dare you do that?"

In fact, it was also because Ye He was here. Dong was worried that Ye He would tell Fang when she went back, and Fang would say that Liu Man'er was turning her elbows and always bringing things to her mother's house.

Who knew that Ye He also followed Liu Man'er to persuade Dong Shi, saying: "Auntie, you can accept it. This is all my sister-in-law's wish. If you don't accept it, sister-in-law will be very sad."

After hearing this, Mrs. Dong looked at Ye He, saw the sincerity on her face, hesitated for a while, and thought that the family really needed money, so she accepted it cruelly.

Seeing her accepting the money, Liu Man'er said: "If you have any difficulties at home, just come to me. Our family may go to the county town after a while, and we don't know when we will come back."

"Why are you going to the county?" Dong asked puzzled.

"Something." Liu Man'er didn't want to explain more to Dong Shi. Fortunately, Dong Shi saw that Liu Man'er didn't want to say more, so she didn't ask any more questions, but was busy cooking.

Liu Man'er took Ye He and Ye Tianchen to look around while Mrs. Dong was cooking, and took them to appreciate the scenery inside the mountain. They seldom come to this mountain, so they are quite curious about it all. .

The clear stream was flowing, and a small waterfall not far away also attracted their attention. There was a small pool under the waterfall. Liu Man'er and the three of them walked past and felt a burst of cold air rushing towards their faces. Liu Man'er told them: " We used to wash clothes in this pool, and many boys would come to take a bath in summer."

Seeing that Ye He and Ye Tianchen were too close to the pool, she reminded again: "Be careful, don't fall."

"Understood." This small pool is crystal clear, and not far away is the splash of the waterfall, which is different from the river in the village. It is quite beautiful. Ye He and Ye Tianchen couldn't help squatting by the pool When I play in the water, I feel chilly when I reach out and touch the water.

After playing for a while, Cao'er came over and asked the three of them to go back to eat. The three of them followed Cao'er to the house. Old Liutou and Liu Guisheng had already returned. Seeing Liu Man'er, they all had joy in their eyes.

After eating, and gossip about the housework, Liu Man'er packed up and prepared to go back, Cao'er stayed at home for two more days, Liu Guisheng will go outside the mountain to buy some daily necessities in a few days, and will bring Cao'er here .

I am busy every day in the county, but it is rare that no one comes to disturb me at home these few days. Apart from writing scripts and taking care of the children, Liu Man'er spends more time in a daze.

I thought carefully about how to develop my business next, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt annoyed. Now my goal is to make money, but what should I do when I have money?Suddenly, I feel that this strong woman is not easy to be.

She likes money, but she doesn't like spending all her time on making money. She doesn't want to take this as her pleasure.

But what could she do?

I can't live in this small village with children all my life, it's too boring, alas, let's make some money first, and when I have money, I can go to the great rivers and mountains of Liang State to see it.

If the mountain doesn't come, I'll go there, if he doesn't show up, I'll go find him, and when the time comes, I'll lead a handsome man, ride a horse, wander all the way, pursue all the way, it's not a bad thing.

She has never been a person who puts love above all else, but now love is taking more and more weight in her mind, even as the child grows up day by day, she misses him more and more deeply, after all, the child I can't live without my father.

I really hope that he can suddenly appear in front of her like before, but helplessly, until she left the countryside and went to the county town again, there was no news of him. He seemed to be really dead and there was no news.

Liu Man'er led the family back to the county seat again, and Manager Wu also found a place in the county seat. Liu Man'er entrusted the child to Fang's care, while she and Manager Wu went to the county seat to take care of the newly opened restaurant.

With the experience of opening a teahouse for the first time, this time it is not too difficult, decoration and signboards do not need to be troubled, as for storytellers and Xiao Er, they can be recruited anywhere, even if Liu Man'er has written a storybook, now Journey to the West is here It was also circulated among the county towns, but after all, the stories circulated were all pirated versions. Liu Man'er made a sign saying that she was the first to tell the follow-up story. After a few days, the audience flocked to it.

This county town is a more prosperous existence than the county town, but it is also a safer place than the county town. The county town is mixed with fish and dragons.And in the county town, you don’t have to worry about someone coming to cause trouble. The government will have special people to patrol and collect taxes. These gangsters also have their own special sites. As long as you pay them money, they will not bother you.

As a result, Liu Man'er's teahouse opened extremely smoothly, and even opened a second one a month later, and it was full of business every day.

With the money to be made, Manager Wu is smiling all day long. Now he and Liu Man'er are running a teahouse alone, and he feels very contented.

It's just that Liu Man'er didn't want to spend all her time in this teahouse, so she bought some servants who could read and write in the county town, trained them as shop assistants, and let them work in this teahouse, waiting for one or two After a month, if you are familiar with it, choose two outstanding ones and let them be the acting shopkeepers. In this way, both Guanshi Wu and her can be regarded as relaxed.

This county is much bigger than the county, so there are many more opportunities. Seeing that it is summer again, Liu Man'er went back to the county again and asked Liu Yunsheng to open her snack shop to the county, next door to her teahouse. , Liu Man'er has already bought this shop at a high price.

Thanks to the printing house and the tea house, Liu Man'er is not so short of money now. If she wants to open a shop, she can just buy it. It is so convenient, and it can be regarded as accumulating some real estate for herself. dowry.

After these few years, Liu Yunsheng has also grown a lot, and he has grown into a mature man. He has helped Liu Man'er a lot during this time. Liu Man'er needed him to come, so he came here without hesitation.

But after the shop opened, he and Liu Man'er euphemistically expressed his wish to return to the county seat.

Liu Man'er asked him to come here, just asking him to teach the people in the store. Now that the store has opened, it doesn't matter if Liu Yunsheng goes back.

It's just that Liu Man'er asked him to be the big shopkeeper of this snack bar. No matter how many branches he opens in the future, he will manage it, while Guanshi Wu is in charge of all the teahouses, and Han Shixin is in charge of the printing workshop.

Now the printing shop's business is getting better and better, and it is too busy every day. Han Shixin has expanded the printing shop a lot, and most of the workers in the shop are servants bought by Liu Man'er. She thinks that the people bought in this way It's more reliable. Anyway, servants in this era are cheap, and she is not short of this money now.

As for Liu Man'er herself, apart from visiting these three places occasionally, she also often goes home to visit Fang and the others. Her main job now is to write scripts and train the store's waiter, and prepare for the reserve shopkeeper.

Now Liu Man'er bought a big yard in the county town, and brought some modern training concepts to the ancient times. She trained a group of waiters in the store.

All the mistresses who have been trained are gentle and courteous, and after two months of internship on the job, they will be qualified mistresses, and those who are more capable can be shopkeepers.

Liu Man'er didn't have that much patience. With the accumulation of original funds, she felt that it would not be so difficult to open this shop.

It may be that everything is difficult at the beginning. Now that her head has been opened, the next thing she needs is to expand.

There are many troublesome people in poor mountains and bad waters, Liu Man'er now feels that this sentence is quite reasonable. She thinks it is better to open a shop in a big city. Even if there are local snakes in a big city, there are various forces coexisting in the county. A situation where the family dominates is more suitable for her to survive and grow in the cracks.

When summer came, she already had five snack shops and three teahouses in the county. Liu Man'er asked Piaoxu Feihua to come over and teach them how to cook food. Forgive them for not daring to divulge the formula.

If someone really leaked it, she is not afraid now, after all, her signboard has already been sold out, not to mention, she still has so many ideas in her mind, compared with these pedantic ancients to open a shop here, she has never been afraid of anyone , She didn't use so many routines and so many promotional methods.

Of course, she hasn't thought about using it, and she doesn't want to destroy this ancient society until she has to, and she doesn't want to use routines to trick these simple and simple people.

Compared with the county town, there are more rich people in the county town. This Fengyang County was originally a big city, and it was also the city of silk and the capital of embroidery. Among these cities in Daliang, it is quite famous and quite popular. of prosperity.

People here also pursue pleasure, there are taverns and teahouses everywhere, even at night, some dark alleys are brightly lit, and there are bursts of vocal music, so in this summer, you can have a variety of ice-made food entrances, which is Huazai. They also think it is worth the extra money.

(End of this chapter)