allonlinenovel Chapter 100 He should have been drowned in a urinal back then.
Chapter 100 He should have been drowned in a urinal back then.
Sister Wang immediately took the lead, saying, "That's right, that's right. You all go wait over there while your son waits. What's wrong with making things difficult for your daughter-in-law? We're all waiting to do our business. Don't crowd around here and delay everyone."
"Yeah, are you guys going to let us pass or not? You're delaying our sales."
"Make way, make way..."
"Get out of the way..."
The crowd cheered, eager to see the drama unfold.
Seeing everyone siding with Liu, Sun was furious and resentful. She muttered under her breath, "He's just a manager of a restaurant, not a county magistrate. What right does he have to interfere in our family affairs?"
Mr. Shen's dark face turned red with embarrassment. Hearing his wife still grumbling about not leaving, he scolded, "Aren't you leaving? Are you going to embarrass us by staying here?"
The sons immediately pulled their mother and followed their father outside, slinking away amidst the whispers and strange looks from the crowd.
But they didn't go far.
Waiting for the boss at the street corner.
When the people saw that everyone had left and there was no more excitement to see, they all dispersed.
Manager Yao glanced at Madam Liu and sighed, "Qingchuan's family, if this happens again, come find me in the backyard of the restaurant."
The couple were both mild-mannered, yet they ended up with such a cannibalistic family; they were incredibly unlucky.
Liu immediately bowed and thanked her, "Thank you, Manager Yao, for the trouble."
"Qingchuan and Xiaotang have helped the restaurant a lot. At this point, there's no need to say thank you."
Manager Yao led Xiao Zhu back to the restaurant.
After wiping her face and comforting her youngest daughter, Liu busied herself putting a few raw sweet potatoes into the oven to continue roasting and selling them.
Street corner.
Sun was so angry that she kept talking.
"Pah, that couple has no conscience. No matter how we treated them, we fed them and raised them to adulthood. In the end, they were so heartless that they didn't even tell us where they lived. We raised him to adulthood for nothing. We should have drowned him in a urinal in the first place."
The fourth son, Shen Qianchuan, said weakly, "Mother, murder is against the law."
Sun was so angry that her eyes rolled back and she almost fainted.
She yelled, "You unfilial son, how dare you speak up for him! What do you mean murder is illegal? There are plenty of girls killed in the village, why don't the authorities arrest anyone then?"
Shen Qianchuan pouted, not daring to provoke his mother any further.
But he felt that his mother was wrong. When girls in the village were killed, it was because they were secretly killed after birth. His older brother was different. His older brother was born to his father's first wife. Who in the village didn't know that?
If Mom really killed my older brother when he was a child, things would definitely escalate!
For the first time, he felt that his mother was too harsh when she got angry. Whether it was a boy or a girl, they were all lives. How could she just kill them like that?
Mr. Shen hadn't seen his eldest son and was being ridiculed and gossiped about by so many people in the street. His head was buzzing, and when he heard his wife's incessant nagging, he suddenly exploded.
"Shut up, all of you!"
Seeing her husband get angry, Mrs. Sun was so frightened that she dared not utter a sound.
She whispered, "I didn't say anything, why are you getting so angry?"
"You didn't say anything? If you hadn't insisted on questioning the eldest son's wife, would so many people have gathered here? You've completely disgraced the whole family!"
If they had asked the eldest son's wife properly and not been so forceful, she might have been willing to entertain them and lead them into the new house in town.
Mrs. Sun looked at her husband in disbelief, pointed at herself, and said, "You're saying I forced you to tell me? You didn't force me to tell you?"
The couple had a fight, and their sons immediately surrounded them to try and break it up.
noon.
Qing Shen Xiaotang sat on the mule cart, feeling both sleepy and hungry.
"Dad, we've been so busy lately. How about we go out for wontons for lunch, and bring Mom and Xiaoyu along?"
Ever since Manager Su had them supply braised pig's trotters to the two restaurants, their daily net profit was about one and a half taels of silver. With the money in hand, he started to spend it more freely.
My daughter wants to eat wontons, so we'll have them.
The money was all earned by my daughter, and she can spend it however she wants.
“Okay, let’s go a little further ahead and we’ll be in town. Your mother and Xiaoyu must be hungry too. I wonder if they’ve eaten yet.”
“My mother is used to being frugal. She earns about twenty coins a day from roasted sweet potatoes, but she can’t bear to spend them. Sigh…”
Shen Qingchuan nodded in agreement, "Yes, we've been poor since we were little. Over the years, whenever there's income at home, your mother and I haven't missed out on a single penny. Now that we have money, we don't even know what to do with it."
Shen Xiaotang chuckled, finding her father, who was gradually becoming smarter, rather endearing.
“Dad, you don’t know how to spend money, so I’ll guide you. In just over two months, it will be almost New Year’s. I’ve calculated that we’ll have over a hundred taels of silver by then. We can ask the broker how much the cheapest house in town costs. If we have enough money, we can buy a small house and move in. We can’t spend the New Year in Manager Su’s house.”
"More than a hundred taels?"
"So many?"
Shen Qingchuan's eyes widened in surprise. He hadn't calculated it carefully yet. He would have more than a hundred taels of silver in his hands by the New Year. What did that mean?
The Zheng family was the richest family in the entire Guihua Village, but even they were only worth a hundred taels of silver at most.
They can earn more than a hundred taels of silver in just a few months of hard work.
Shen Qingchuan exclaimed excitedly, "Tang'er, are you right? So much silver! Are you dreaming? Are we really going to get rich?"
Shen Xiaotang nodded and said with a smile, "It's more real than real gold. Dad wasn't dreaming, and neither were we. Once this business is established, there's plenty of time to make money in the future."
Shen Qingchuan grinned broadly and said, "If Tang'er says it's true, then it's true. We're all living a good life because of Tang'er's cleverness. Your parents and Yu'er are all living well thanks to you."
“Dad, after a few months, once we’ve saved up some money, I have other ideas. Earning money from just this one source isn’t enough; we need to find ways to make money grow.”
What?
Is earning just this one thing not enough?
He immediately asked, "Besides selling braised pig's trotters, roasted sweet potatoes, and waiting for the turmeric to ripen in the fields, what else does Tang'er want to do?"
"How can money make money? By lending money at interest? I heard that some people in the county lend money at high interest rates, making money grow."
puff……
Shen Xiaotang almost vomited three liters of blood!
That simple-minded dad!
He thought that after leaving the Shen family, his father had gradually become more capable and smarter, but he didn't expect him to still be so simple-minded!
Is high-interest lending something that poor people can afford?
The poor must not touch or borrow from such places; they cannot afford it, let alone repay it!
Poor people can't lend money either. They have no power or influence. If they lend out money, it will all go down the drain. If people don't repay, can you arrest them and beat them to death?
If the authorities find out, he will be immediately imprisoned, and it's uncertain whether he can save his life!
With a helpless expression, she instructed, "Dad, we must never touch loan sharks. We won't borrow money from others, and we won't lend money either. Remember that, no matter where you hear about it in the future, just pretend you didn't hear it, don't participate, and don't discuss it!"
Shen Qingchuan nodded. "Okay, Father understands."
If my daughter says I can't touch it, then I absolutely can't touch it!
He then asked, "But if we don't lend money at exorbitant interest rates, what other ways are there to make money grow?"
Shen Xiaotang grinned, brimming with confidence.
"Once we've saved enough money, we'll open a braised pig's trotter shop in the county. And once we've saved even more money, we'll open braised pig's trotter shops in all the surrounding counties!"
Shen Qingchuan was shocked!
"Tang'er, we're currently supplying Manager Su with braised pig's trotters. If you open a braised pig's trotters shop, wouldn't that be competing with his business? Would Manager Su be willing to do that?"