Chapter 12 Business
"Hey, speak slower!" Pan Yingying crossed the "38th Parallel" and kicked him.

Yu Chaosheng rolled to the side, and continued to mutter, "We still need weapons that suit us. If nothing else, we need two broadswords."

Pan Yingying frowned and read to him the descriptions and prices of the swords she had searched for one by one.

Yu Chaosheng chose a reasonably priced one and urged Pan Yingying to join him in buying a crossbow or crossbow blueprints.

Pan Yingying refused resolutely and would not agree no matter how much he tried to persuade her.

What a joke! A broken blueprint costs 3500 taels, and a crossbow costs 150 taels, and there are no arrows. Why don't you just go and rob it? I won't buy it! I won't buy it even if I die!

That night, the two of them stewed two large pots, filling even the gaps with eggs.

The next morning, the two of them got on Old Man Yu's ox cart again.

As soon as I arrived at the stall and hadn’t put my products on the stage yet, people who had bought from yesterday came over.

"Oh! You're finally here. I've been waiting for you for so long!"

Pan Yingying: ???

Yu Chaosheng: ???

They both looked up at the sky. It was indeed 7:30 in the morning, right?
Even more things were prepared today, but the stall was closed earlier than yesterday. Even the braised pig's trotters that Yu Chaosheng had hidden away to fill his stomach were snatched out by Pan Yingying and sold.

Even so, there were still several that I didn’t buy.

Pan Yingying had to promise to prepare more tomorrow.

When they got home, they went into the kitchen to boil water and wash the dishes. Pan Yingying suddenly said, "If business continues to be so good, let's hire someone to do the work."

She really didn't want to wash pig offal anymore, because it smelled so bad! And she had to wash it over and over again.

Yu Chaosheng was very careless and couldn't be cleaned at all, so he could only do other work.

She thought of finding someone to help wash the things to be braised, and if conditions permit, hiring someone to run errands and collect some local chickens and ducks raised by farmers.

After killing them, she replaced them with chickens and ducks bought from the mall.

Well, the chickens and ducks in the mall smell like feed, not fragrant.

Yu Chaosheng threw away the eyebrow tweezers he was using to hold his hair. "What are you waiting for? I'm going to find someone right now!"

The thing that annoys him most now is plucking the feathers of dead chickens and ducks!
Didn't they say that setting up the stall was just a cover-up? Why did he still have to do so much work!!!
Pan Yingying thought Yu Chaosheng was going to hire someone, but he went directly to the Yu family's old house and asked Yu Laoer to help him find someone.

When Xiao Wang heard that she would be paid for her work, she immediately recommended herself.

The work in the fields was almost done, and Yu Laoer could finish it in a few days by himself, so she had time to help the third brother's family.

As for collecting chickens and ducks, Xiao Wang recommended her younger brother Wang Yougen.

Wang Yougen used to be a peddler. There was everyone in the nearby villages that he was familiar with. He changed his career after something happened to him. I'm sure this job will be no problem for him.

Yu Laoer was not very happy about it. He felt that there was no need to pay for doing something for his younger brother. However, Yu Chaosheng firmly disagreed and offered Xiao Wang a high salary of 80 cents a day.

As for chickens and ducks, he could give 18 cents per pound. He didn't care how much they paid per pound, as long as he got the result.

Yu Chaosheng came over for half an hour and took Yu Laoer's family of four with him when he left.

Hearing that Pan Yingying and Yu Chaosheng couldn't finish the work, the whole family came over to help.

The six of them worked together to prepare and stew the food to be sold tomorrow. Pan Yingying wanted to keep them for dinner, but the four of them disagreed. They just left as soon as they finished their work without any delay.

She had no choice but to take out two cents of silver and ask Yu Chaosheng to chase after him and give it to Yu Laoer.

The six people worked together, and the efficiency was much higher. After the two pots of stew were stored in the space, two more pots of stew were taken out before stopping. Yu Laoer knew how much money Yu Chaosheng had when he split up the family, and thought that the capital for his stall was from the Pan family. He pulled Yu Chaosheng and talked to him for a long time, asking him to remember the friendship between Pan Yingying and the Pan family.

Pan Yingying went to bed early in the evening. She was very tired in the past two days. Fortunately, she would be free tomorrow and could go up the mountain to make money.

Yu Chaosheng tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, so he got up, put on his clothes and continued to write his novel using a small solar-powered desk lamp.

That woman was right. When he got rich, he would pay for the book himself, but he still had to finish writing the book first.

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When she came back from selling the braised meat, Xiao Wang was already waiting at the door. Fortunately, Pan Yingying had made preparations. She bought two pigs and some offal from the mall when no one was around in town, and asked Old Man Yu to help her transport them directly to her doorstep in a ox cart.

Locals don't buy much. Most of them are managers and workers on the ship who do business. Some of them can weigh more than ten kilograms, and some can weigh at least two or three kilograms.

After unloading the goods, Xiao Wang took a few pigs and went to the river to wash them without saying a word.

Pan Yingying and Yu Chaosheng looked at each other, changed their clothes and went up the mountain.

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Three days later, Wang Yougen and Wang Youcai came to Yujia Village on a cart pushing chickens and ducks.

Pan Yingying and Yu Chaosheng had just returned from town when they were startled and stepped back by the "chi chi chi", "ga ga ga" and "ke ke ke" sounds coming from the doorstep.

It was so spectacular! Dozens of chickens and ducks were piled up at the door, with feathers flying everywhere and the smell hitting my head.

Pan Yingying quickly covered her nose and raised her hand to pinch Yu Chaosheng's lower back, "Go, go, solve it!"

Yu Chaosheng didn't want to go. He couldn't even put his feet down. He even saw a chicken pooping ah ah ah ah ah!
Pan Yingying pushed him and said, "Hurry up!"

Yu Chaosheng had no choice but to bite the bullet and move forward holding his breath.

Little Wang came over with a smile on her face, "Chaosheng, this is my elder brother and younger brother from my mother's family, you still remember them, right?"

Yu Chaosheng nodded stiffly, then bowed to Wang Youcai and Wang Yougen, "Hello, both of you."

His scholarly and elegant demeanor made the two people opposite him blush.

Wang Youcai hesitated for a long time and whispered "Good morning, everyone." But his voice was drowned out by the crowing of chickens and ducks, and there was no sound at all.

Wang Yougen reacted quickly and bowed in a strange manner, "Hello, Chaosheng."

The two sides had a formal greeting.

However, Yu Chaosheng was determined not to let the chickens and ducks into the house, and would rather pay more money to get them to the Yu family's old house.

The chaos along the way also attracted the attention of people who had rarely encountered the couple before.

Yu Shuanzhu, who lived not far from the old house, was holding a bundle of firewood. He was shocked by the large number of chickens and ducks. "Hey, second brother, why did you bring back so many chickens and ducks?"

Little Wang said, "Isn't it that Chaosheng sells stewed food in town? He was too busy, so he hired my brothers from my mother's family to help collect some chickens and ducks."

She was eager to announce to the world that the third brother had turned over a new leaf and was now successful and able to earn money, and could even help her brothers from her natal family, and was no longer the idler he used to be.

Yu Shuanzhu was stunned and turned to look at Yu Chaosheng who was following him.

(End of this chapter)