Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 385 How to Make Money with the Money in Your Hands

Li clasped her hands vigorously together and continued, "If I had known that at the time, my hands would have been so trembling that I wouldn't have been able to make any cakes."

"How can I complete these two days' work so smoothly and give Abbot Ci'en a satisfactory explanation?"

As Li spoke, she stood up excitedly, took the envelope in her hand, took out the banknote and read it over and over again.

After walking around the kitchen twice, she asked Shen Yu again: "Yuzhi, is everything you said true?"

"Is this banknote real?"

"I was too late baking cakes yesterday, so I must be dreaming now!"

Li had an anxious expression on her face and held the envelope tightly in her hand, fearing that this was just a dream and everything would be gone when she woke up.

Shen Yu patted Li's hand with a smile and said, "Mom, of course it's true."

"With this one thousand taels of silver, we can pay off our debts."

"This restaurant will truly belong to us from now on."

Li also laughed, and tears welled up in her eyes as she laughed.

She pursed her lips, suddenly sat down on the chair, and started sobbing.

Shen Yu was stunned for a moment, and hurried forward nervously to ask Li what happened, whether she was feeling unwell, and why she was crying when she was just fine?

Li cried and sobbed, "I, I am happy, you, you don't have to worry about me, let me cry for a while."

As she said this, she took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears, but she cried even harder.

Shen Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat quietly beside him, looking at this middle-aged woman who was usually very energetic but was crying like a child at this moment. He couldn't help feeling sad in his heart.

After sitting and waiting for a while, Shen Yu heard Li's crying become softer. He guessed that she had cried enough, so he poured some hot water into the basin, soaked the face towel in it, wrung it dry and handed it over.

Li cried for a while and finally felt relieved.

She stood up, took the warm face towel somewhat embarrassedly, unfolded it and covered her face, covering her eyes.

After a while, he took off the towel and went to the basin to wash and wipe his face.

Li tidied up again and came back to see Shen Yu sitting next to her looking at her. She grinned sheepishly: "Yuzhi, you must be laughing at your mother in your heart."

"Mother is such a loser."

"When I think back to half a year ago, I was still worried about where to borrow food for my next meal."

"Now I have enough food and clothes, I have my own shop, I can live comfortably in the county town, and I have extra money. I can't help but want to cry."

Shen Yu comforted her, "Mom, don't talk about you. Even I felt like I was dreaming when I held the banknote. I smiled foolishly all the way back in the car."

"Don't worry, we will get better and better in the future."

The mother and daughter sat at the dining table in the kitchen and began to discuss how to use the remaining money after paying off the debt.

According to Li's suggestion, he put the silver in the bank and took good care of the snack shop.

Find a good family for the sisters Shen Yu and Yu Tao to marry into and live a good life.

Let Yucheng go to school and study hard, pass the imperial examination, and then get married and have children.

Now that her children are settled, she has finally done justice to the deceased Mr. Shen.

Shen Yu shook his head and expressed his thoughts after careful consideration over the past two days.

When Shen Yu first came to the market, he found that the inn here was extremely simple.

Most of them are converted from residential houses, and there are only two larger inns.

Shen Yu later passed by there when he went shopping and delivered food, and he also heard the shop owners talk about it. They all said that although the place was big, the accommodation conditions were not very good, it was dirty, messy and cramped.

Taking advantage of the fact that the merchants passing by would only stay for a day or two and then leave, the guest rooms were barely habitable.

Moreover, no meals are provided, so guests have to go out to find food after settling in.

At that time, Shen Yu just felt that the market here was prosperous due to the convenience of the canal, but the surrounding accommodation facilities did not keep up.

If an inn has good accommodation conditions and can provide comprehensive services including accommodation and food, then its business will definitely be good.

But Shen Yu had just arrived in the county town and had limited money, so he just thought about it and immediately threw it aside, concentrating on setting up a stall to sell buns.

But things are different now. She has her own restaurant, which is doing more and more prosperously, and she has some spare money. The idea that she could only sigh at as a bystander at the beginning immediately popped up in her mind.

Silver deposited in a money shop is just dead money. Even if it earns a tiny amount of interest, it is meaningless. Only by turning money into living money and making money can you make more money.

I own a restaurant at home, so I don’t have to worry about food and clothing every day. What I think about now is how to make more money and how to make money more easily.

If you open an inn like this yourself, you can provide both accommodation and food.

With the help of the market, we have no shortage of customers and a group of regular diners, so business is bound to be good.

After listening to this, Li's original idea of ​​just saving the money safely changed, and her mind became more active.

She receives guests in the restaurant every day, meets many guests and gets a lot of information.

She thought for a moment and said hesitantly, "Hearing you put it that way, it's really good to open an inn."

"I often hear customers complaining that the prices at the inns in the market are high and the accommodation is not comfortable."

"But in order to allow the team to travel less distance and make transactions more convenient, they have no choice but to stay here for a while."

"But it's hard to find a house here if we want to open an inn."

"It's rare for guests who stay here to be one or two solo travelers."

"They usually gather in groups when they arrive. There are rarely three or five people, but most of them are convoys of more than ten people."

"In this case, we need to find a house with a large courtyard."

"But where can I find such a suitable house nearby?"

When Shen Yu saw that Li agreed to open an inn, he smiled and said, "Mother, have you agreed to let me open an inn?"

"This matter is not urgent."

"We always have to agree on what to do first, and then we can take the next step."

"Besides, I have been thinking about this for the past two days and have paid attention to the alley behind us..."

Before Shen Yu finished speaking, he heard knocking and talking coming from the small door in the backyard. It turned out that Jiang and the others had returned.

The two stopped talking. Li picked up the envelope on the table and handed it to Shen Yu, asking her to put the banknote away first. Then she went to open the door.

As soon as the door opened, Yucheng ran in and asked repeatedly, "Big sister, are you awake? We brought you some blessing flower cakes."

Before he finished speaking, he looked up and saw Shen Yu standing at the door of his room, looking refreshed, smiling at him.

Yu Cheng hurriedly stepped forward and handed over a large lotus leaf bag in his hand, saying, "Big sister, open it and take a look."