0p0 Chapter 211 Family Business 1
Chapter 211 Family Business 1
Wang Jinyi's thoughts were drawn away by Ouyang Wen Ce's carriage. Her mother shook her daughter's hand and said with a guilty look on her face:
"My Jin'er has grown up. You must have suffered a lot over the years, right?!"
As the mother spoke, she caressed her daughter's hair lovingly. Wang Jinyi's thoughts were pulled back, and she held her mother's hand and comforted her:
"Mom, have you and dad been doing well these years? What are the conditions there? It must be very hard! We are not afraid, after all, we are in the capital city, and we have our grandparents to take care of us. We have lived a good life these years."
"Mom, there is one thing I have always wanted to ask you. Why can't we communicate?"
In fact, although Wang Jinyi had no direct communication with his parents over the years, he knew about his parents' situation, because before leaving, Wang Jinyi arranged for Wang Jinlai to establish a communication channel as soon as he arrived in Qiannan Prefecture.
Not to mention that Wang Jinlai lived up to expectations, he sent letters to the young lady in Qiannan City every month without his parents' knowledge, and opened the first Tai Sheng Rice Shop in less than two months.
Now all Tai Sheng Rice Shops in Qiannan Prefecture are under the name of Wang Jinlai. People who are not aware of the situation still think that the owner of Tai Sheng Rice Shop in Qiannan is Wang Jinlai. In fact, he is the one who set foot in Qiannan Prefecture in search of Chen Zhiyuan.
Over the past six years, under the arrangement of his mistress, Wang Jinlai has opened Taisheng rice shops in all the counties of Qiannan Prefecture. Although they are all small shops, they are operating and making money while collecting couplets for "Stars in the Night Sky"...
This time his parents came back first, and Wang Jinlai became the last group to retreat back to the city, mainly because the young lady hoped that he would arrange the Taisheng Rice Shop in Qiannan properly before returning home.
Tai Sheng Rice Shops have been opened in all 12 prefectures of the Daqi Dynasty. Some counties under the prefectures do not have any shops yet. For example, there are no Tai Sheng Rice Shops in the two remote mountainous counties under the city of Xunyang Prefecture.
However, by the end of this year or the beginning of next year, Taisheng Rice Shop will be opened in all the counties of Xunyang Prefecture. Wen Bai's cousin, Wen Xiao, is preparing for Wang Jinyi to open Taisheng Rice Shop in Xunnan County.
The mother hesitated, not knowing how to answer her daughter. She couldn't say that she was asked not to communicate with the outside world because she was protecting someone and couldn't reveal her whereabouts, right? But her daughter's eyes forced her to tell the truth.
My mother lowered her head to drink tea, wanting to consider what to say, when she suddenly saw a pile of account books on the tea table and picked them up.
I flipped through the book while drinking tea. It turned out to be a list of new employees in the second house, and the list was divided into very detailed sections.
There were people from the backyard and the outer courtyard. My mother opened the list of people in the backyard.
There were about 40 people in the backyard of the second house. The account books clearly divided them into two groups: two groups in the sewing room, two groups in the accounting room, two groups in the treasure workshop, and a financial room. There was even someone in charge of the warehouse! …
Mother put down the tea bowl and opened the list below, on which was written the word "Sewing Room".
There were 12 people in total, divided into two groups. One group was managed by the wet nurse, and the other group was managed by Zhao. The mother pointed at them and asked:
"Who is this person?!"
Wang Jinyi hurriedly explained: "Mother, this is Zhu Yu's mother. She is the team leader of my sewing room and is responsible for making samples of my designs. She has been a great help to me and is a good assistant."
The mother nodded and flipped open the account book below. Wang Jinyi stretched her head to take a look and saw the name "Zhen Workshop" written on the account book.
My mother didn't understand what he meant, so she pointed at Zhen's studio and asked:
"What is this for?"
Wang Jinyi explained to her mother with a smile:
"Mother, you know, I have always wanted to build a school or a library.
In order to save money, I made samples of the good ideas I read in books and thought of, and then gave them to the clan members to share some of the dividends. I saved them up and accumulated a lot."
At this point, Wang Jinyi deliberately lowered his voice, put his mouth close to his mother's ear, and whispered:
"Mom, I have saved a lot of money now, do you know?"
The mother also lowered her voice and asked, "Oh? How much is it? It makes Jin'er so happy!"
Wang Jinyi pretended to be mysterious and stretched out two fingers, then gestured by stretching out three fingers of his other hand.
The mother asked tentatively, "Two thousand taels? Three thousand taels?"
Wang Jinyi smiled like a greedy cat, sweetly but beautifully, shaking her head and saying:
"It's not mother, guess again!"
The mother looked at her daughter in surprise, grabbed her hand and asked:
"Jin'er, can't you? All these years you have actually..."
Wang Jinyi smiled brightly and said, blinking like a mother:
"Mother, try your best to guess, it's what you think, guess!"
This time it was the mother's low voice that asked:
"You actually earned 20,000 taels? Really?"
"Mother, it's 23,000 taels. This is the account that was just checked a few days ago."
When the mother heard her daughter say 23,000 taels, she was indeed a little excited and couldn't believe it. She stretched out two fingers in front of her daughter and asked:
"Jin'er really earned 23,000 taels? You didn't lie to me!"
"Mother, why would Jin'er lie to you? Jin'er told you this because I wanted you to know that Jin'er has not been wronged in these years. Jin'er lives a good life. Our family has extra money now, and I am planning to build a library!"
"Hasn't Jin'er always wanted to build a school? Why is he building a library now?"
"I have discussed this matter with my grandfather. He said that to build a school like the one I mentioned, it would cost at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. The money I have now is a drop in the bucket. I thought I would start with the library, complete the design first, and then build one building at a time..."
The mother held her daughter's hand and patted it gently. Wang Jinyi smiled brightly at her mother and said:
"Mother, what I have done now is not enough. I will work hard. I just want to build a library that both mother and I can enter, so that we don't have to work so hard to read any book in the future!"
Endless emotion was written on the mother's tired face. Wang Jinyi smiled happily and advised:
"Mother, you have worked hard on this journey. You should take a rest first. These rosters are all here with you. You can look at them when you have time. I am afraid you will be busy when father comes back later!"
He stood up and took his mother to the main bedroom, helped her take off her outer robe, forced her to sit on the big bed, helped her take off her shoes, and said:
"Mother, I'll let Qingmei take care of the things outside for the time being. When you are in good spirits, we will talk about it in the afternoon. You can take a rest first!"
Wang Jinyi placed two cushions behind her mother, took a thin quilt to cover her mother, tucked the quilt in for her mother warmly, stood by the bed, looked at her mother happily for a while, knelt down in greeting, and went out, swinging her long hair.