The First Military God of the Border

That day, Lin Hui looked at all the meat in his house.

Suddenly an idea came to me.

We don't lack silver for the time being, so there's no need to sell it. We'll just store it up and make it into dried meat.

It's freezing cold right now, so things are going to get very slow.

If you can't finish it, the meat will quickly rot and spoil after spring arrives.

So he decided to tidy up the small cave in the backyard and turn it into a smokehouse to store all the meat as cured meat.

Lin Hui had no idea what was going on inside the cave dwelling in the backyard, which had been unused for many years.

He crawled into the cave and found that some parts had collapsed and there were spider webs everywhere.

Lin Hui looked around. Since it was a smoke room, it needed to be cleaned thoroughly before figuring out what else to do.

Fortunately, the cave dwelling was not large, so it was not difficult to deal with.

He first cleared away all the collapsed soil inside, and then swept away the spider webs that had accumulated over the past few weeks.

Lin Hui was busy when Ling Ziyi arrived.

"I'll help you."

While working, Lin Hui said, "Your injury hasn't fully healed yet, so don't worry about it. I can manage on my own."

"It's alright, I've recovered very well. If it weren't for you taking care of me, I would have died long ago."

Ling Ziyi slowly swayed her arm: "Look, I'm much better now. If I kept lying down, I'd turn into a piece of wood."

Whether to respond with a confident or dismissive attitude: "No need, I can manage on my own."

Ling Ziyi ignored Lin Hui, picked up a broom, and went into the cave.

Lin Hui shook her head helplessly and said nothing more. She knew that Ling Ziyi was a very strong-willed woman, and simply refusing her would not be a good thing.

The entrance to the cave dwelling was small, but the interior space was large, with a height of two meters. It took two people a whole morning to clean the entire interior.

Ling Ziyi couldn't do heavy work, so she did some cleaning and helped Lin Hui by handing him tools.

Lin Hui installed a row of wooden racks above the cave dwelling; these racks were where the meat was hung.

By lunchtime, the cave dwelling was finally cleaned up.

Next, Lin Hui cut the meat into roughly the same size pieces and hung them one by one on the rack with rattan.

While I was working, the sound of a water kite rang out.

"Husband, Sister in Purple, hurry up and wash up, dinner is ready..."

The water kite stood in the yard and cried loudly towards the backyard.

Shui Feiyuan's daily task is to cook different dishes for Lin Hui and Ling Ziyi. Today, they are having wild rabbit meat and white rice.

Lin Hui had been busy all morning and was now starving. Seeing the fragrant wild rabbit meat, he immediately started eating.

Shui Feiyuan and Ling Ziyi chatted while eating, discussing all the private matters women discuss, making Lin Hui want to disappear into the conversation.

"After you finish eating, you can rest at home. I'm going to the county town to take care of some business."

Lin Hui finished eating quickly and then gave instructions to the two women.

"Remember to close the gate properly. Don't open it until I'm back."

"If the border troops come and try to force their way in, Ziyi, you take Feiyuan and climb over the back mountain to the valley of Cangying Ridge."

Shui Feiyuan asked, somewhat puzzled, "Husband, are you going to do something dangerous again?"

Lin Hui shook his head: "No, I'm currently doing business with He Shi Wei Tian Restaurant, and I haven't been there for more than ten days. I'm going to check on how business is going and settle this month's accounts."

Hearing this, both women were stunned. When did Lin Hui learn how to do business?

What kind of business do you run?

"For the restaurant, my main responsibility is to modify their brewing process, and then I'll get 60% of the profits each month?"

"You can also brew wine?"

Ling Ziyi was even more surprised.

Lin Hui smiled and said, "I was lucky to get my hands on an ancestral brewing recipe. I tried it out, and the wine turned out great."

"My lord, the profits are split 60/60, how much will you get?"

Lin Hui shook his head: "The wine has only been sold for a few days, we'll have to wait until the accounts are settled to know for sure."

"Husband, then go and come back soon. My sister in purple and I will be waiting for you at home."

Lin Hui nodded: "Don't worry, I'll come back soon. Once we've earned enough money, we'll build a big house and a large heated kang bed, and we won't have to worry about being cold anymore."

Shui Feiyuan nodded: "Husband, then you'll have to build a big heated kang bed, big enough for at least three people to sleep on." Upon hearing this, Ling Ziyi immediately blushed and pinched Shui Feiyuan without any embarrassment: "Sister Feiyuan, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Watching the two women laughing and joking with each other, Lin Hui felt that this was the essence of life, the joy of family.

He then happily went out.

But she hadn't gone more than a few steps when Ling Ziyi caught up with her: "Wait for me, I want to go too."

Lin Hui rolled her eyes at her: "Where are you going? I'll be back soon."

"No, I want to go."

Ling Ziyi said coquettishly, "I've been cooped up inside for half a month, can't I go out for some fresh air?"

It's not that I'm afraid of beautiful women who know martial arts, it's that I'm afraid of beautiful women who know how to be charming.

Lin Hui smiled helplessly. What else could he do but bring it along?

After leaving the village, the two walked along the main road for a while. To speed things up, she led Ling Ziyi along a side path.

Ling Ziyi, dressed in a water kite outfit and with her hair tied up, walked beside Lin Hui, looking just like a newlywed bride.

I thought that even if Shiweitian Restaurant's business was better than before, it shouldn't be as good as a long-established place like Shuangji.

But once he arrived at Shiweitian, Lin Hui truly witnessed what it meant for business to be booming.

It was already afternoon, not lunchtime, but the first floor of the restaurant was packed with people, a stark contrast to the usual sparse two or three tables.

Waiters carried wine jugs and side dishes to the lobby, and the private rooms on the second floor were no exception. You could hear the drinking games going on on the second floor from the lobby on the first floor.

"Five horses... five champions..."

That's not all; people were standing outside, holding wine glasses and savoring the wine.

Lin Hui was overjoyed. The bustling crowd was the best news for him. What did a large crowd mean? It meant good business.

He can get more silver.

This is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! It's the first time he's ever felt so refreshed.

"Oh, it's Master Lin! Please, please come in..."

A sharp-eyed waiter recognized Lin Hui and immediately called him "Master".

These guys weren't stupid; they all knew that Lin Hui was now one of the restaurant's owners, so naturally they couldn't call him "Brother Lin" like before. Only the big boss could call someone "Brother Lin."

"Let's go find Boss Song."

Lin Hui led Ling Ziyi into the restaurant and asked the waiter, "Where's your boss?"

"Master Lin, Miss Xiao Wan is over there. Please ask her. How would I know what the master is doing?"

Lin Hui looked in the direction the waiter pointed and saw that it was Miss Xiao Wan sitting behind the counter in the lobby.

"Brother Lin, what brings you here?" Xiao Wan greeted him excitedly when she saw Lin Hui.

"Where's Boss Song?" Lin Hui asked directly.

"He's talking to Master Chen in his room. Come on, Brother Lin, I'll take you upstairs."

"No need, I'll go myself. You go ahead and do your thing."

As they spoke, Lin Hui led Ling Ziyi up to the second floor, and then all the way to the third floor.

This was Ling Ziyi's first time at Shiweitian Restaurant, and she curiously observed the layout of the entire restaurant.

When they arrived at Song Qingyan's bedroom on the third floor, Lin Hui knocked on the door and then pushed it open to go inside.