MTL - Traveling Through Ancient Times To Be a Shopkeeper-Chapter 57

"I have a fiancée—"

After Yun Chengfeng dropped the words, he continued to eat mooncakes.

Wei Cheng: "......"

Zhou Yuan: "......"

Yun Chengfeng has a fiancee? ! He didn't look like a person with a fiancee at all, and he didn't care about what he said.

"Why didn't you two respond?" Yun Chengfeng raised his head and asked, seeing that no one spoke, "Aren't you curious?"

Still not a friend! He has a fiancee, so don't even ask him!

Wei Cheng glanced at him: "If you want to say it, you can say it, but if I ask you, you may not be able to say it."

"Young Master, are you focused on eating, or are you going to talk now?" Zhou Yuan said.

People obviously don't want to talk about it, and they won't casually inquire about his privacy, they will definitely be curious if they are curious.

Yun Chengfeng: "......." Does he look like a foodie?

In fact, he told Wei Cheng and the two of them that he had a fiancee, and he didn't seem to care, but he was very entangled in his heart, so he ate to cover it up. But the couple's words left him speechless with his entangled emotions.

"By the way, you don't look like someone who has a fiancée, but you say you have a fiancée..." Wei Cheng said, "It's the order of your parents! Don't you like it?"

Yun Chengfeng instantly retorted excitedly: "Am I like the kind of person who is obedient and lets the family arrange the marriage? If I don't like my young master, no one in the family will try to arrange for me a random person who doesn't know what to say."

He is not his eldest brother, it doesn't matter how the family arranges the marriage, getting married and marrying a wife is like completing a task.

So excited, he guessed wrong!

It seems that there is no emotion.

Wei Cheng raised his eyebrows, "Let's talk about it." Then he put on an air of listening attentively.

"...."

"My fiancée, I must like it, that's, that's..." Yun Chengfeng's expression became a little irritable, and he didn't want people to misunderstand that he didn't like his fiancée, and he was agitated when he mentioned things. "I agree to the marriage, but I'm conflicted..."

Like or contradict? !

Wei Cheng and Zhou Yuan looked at each other, wondering whether people really like it or fake like it, if they like it, they like it, and there are contradictory likes?

What a strange idea!

Yun Chengfeng shattered: "Wei Cheng, was your marriage with brother Yuan arranged by your family, or did you get married because you liked each other?"

"We got acquainted on a blind date. I like it myself, and I chase it myself. Yuanyuan likes me too, and I like Yuanyuan too. We are in love with each other." Wei smiled, "Otherwise, should I learn from you, liking people is contradictory, I like it People don’t hit the iron and marry while it’s hot.”

Do you keep it for the New Year!

If you keep it for the Chinese New Year, you won't have a daughter-in-law to hug you!

Zhou Yuan next to him blushed. Why did his husband even say this? He glared coquettishly at him. Wei Cheng smiled at him. His big hand under the table touched his daughter-in-law's hand, wrapped his palm around her limp hand, and squeezed it lightly. , provoked Zhou Yuan's cheeks to be hot, but he liked this kind of sweetness very much, letting others hold it without struggling.

"It's that simple?" Yun Chengfeng didn't notice the warm interaction between the two husbands, Wei Cheng's words made him stare.

After pondering for a moment, Yun Chengfeng said, "However, the two of you were born in ordinary families. I am different from him. I was born in a distinguished family. Our marriage can be settled smoothly because the two families are well matched."

Wei Cheng asked: "What else do you have to worry about?"

"The problem is that when we get married in the future, the family will arrange concubines." Yun Chengfeng said, "Three wives and four concubines are the rules, and I don't think there is anything wrong with it. I don't know why, seeing my mother, my sister-in-law, They are gentle and virtuous in front of others, but forced to smile when they are married. I think of him and think of him going through the same situation as my mother and sister-in-law in the future. I am afraid of him. How should I face him."

Yun Chengfeng spoke incoherently, and felt conflicted and uncomfortable. One of the reasons why he left home was because he was afraid of seeing him. He will feel useless.

He wondered what he would do if he made him sad.

His liking for him is belated, and when the marriage is settled, he will be at a loss when facing him, and he doesn't know how to get along with him. Don't talk about pleasing people, sometimes when you want to please people, your friends will talk nonsense, saying that you can't treat people too well if you marry a brother, that's unmanly, and then you feel that pleasing people is a shame in front of friends.

Every time he saw that no one in Weicheng was caring for his husband, he felt that a man should treat his husband like this, so that the other party would be happy from the bottom of his heart.

If the other party is happy, he will be happier!

"You said you wouldn't accept the arrangement at home, so what else do you have to worry about?" Wei Cheng asked, "From another perspective, if your family arranged for you to have another fiancée, would you resist?"

"Of course—" Yun Chengfeng said without thinking, and he was stunned after speaking.

He will, he will object. How could he accept the arrangement of a concubine in that family?

This kind of natural situation doesn't seem to be so natural?

Yun Chengfeng settled down and fell into thinking.

For a long time, it has been the etiquette for a man to marry three wives and four concubines, but this etiquette doesn't seem to be strictly followed...

Yun Chengfeng asked in a deep voice: "Wei Cheng, you will become a wealthy family in the future, what will you do?"

Zhou Yuan didn't understand this sentence, but Wei Cheng understood, and he said without thinking, "I only have one wife in this life."

Zhou Yuan glanced at her husband.

"Not a wife." Yun Chengfeng looked at Wei Cheng and asked seriously: "I said you would marry a concubine?"

Zhou Yuan's body shook and his pupils shrank.

Wei Cheng sensed his emotions, his eyes were fixed, he lightly pinched his daughter-in-law's little hand to comfort him, and said in a deep voice: "The young master may not understand what I mean, I mean that I will only have one person to accompany me for a lifetime, and my wife and concubine will only be alone. There will be no one else."

Wei Cheng was very focused on saying this, and his focus was on looking at Zhou Yuan.

Zhou Yuan stared fixedly at Wei Cheng, his heart was full of sourness... The sourness was not sadness, but wordless excitement and unspeakable emotion.

At this moment, he didn't want to move away, he just wanted to look at his husband, and even wanted to throw himself into his arms, so that the sourness would settle and turn into honey—

Wei Cheng held his daughter-in-law's hand tightly, looked at her, didn't look away, just focused on her.

Yun Chengfeng: "..."

He didn't come to see people to show affection, but he was very envious.

However, he got the solution from Wei Cheng today that he had always wanted to resolve the conflict.

It seems that he used to be too stubborn and his thinking was too fixed.

Yun Chengfeng, who was in a good mood, waved his hand, "Order 800 boxes of mooncakes for me, and I want every type." Thinking of something seemed emotional, "Another five boxes of sweet-scented osmanthus mooncakes and lotus paste mooncakes."

The two couples looked at each other with a smile and moved away. Wei Cheng was in a good mood and said leisurely, "Didn't you ask for several hundred boxes before? No!"

Yun Chengfeng shook his fan and was also in a good mood: "Before, I wanted to give gifts. Your mooncakes are delicious. Now I want to send them home. There are many relatives and friends at home, so 800 boxes are not many."

"...."

"Okay! Ten in a box, three in one box, four in egg yolk lotus paste and sweet-scented osmanthus in one box." Wei Cheng said, "No bargaining!"

Yun Chengfeng shouted in dissatisfaction: "It's so expensive! This price is even higher than that of Shanghuangcheng, you are starting from the ground!"

Wei Cheng was unhurried: "The gift boxes are all transparent gift boxes made of resin, and the gift boxes are worth one tael of silver. You can negotiate the price. If you change it to a brocade gift box, each box will cost one or two taels less."

"That won't work!"

As soon as he heard that it was a transparent gift box, Yun Chengfeng was not willing to change it, and he was not short of money, "If you don't bargain, don't bargain, just follow the price you just paid, and make it for me in advance, and I have to ship it home before the Mid-Autumn Festival. "

By boat, a few days away.

Wei Cheng nodded in agreement, not only 8,000 moon cakes, but only more than 2,000 egg yolks are used, the materials are all ready-made, and they can be made in a few days.

The moon cakes were ordered and eaten, but it didn't mean that people left.

Yun Chengfeng asked leisurely: "I heard that the owner of the ship merchant sent you a large amount of mountain goods. What are you going to use these mountain goods for?" He was really curious.

He was curious, and Wei Cheng didn't want to reveal it yet: "I can't tell, you'll know when it's commercially available."

"..." Yun Chengfeng: "What do you want fish maw for? This can always be explained clearly, right?"

"Make it dry!"

"..." Yun Chengfeng felt that he was being perfunctory. He didn't know that the seafood was made into dry goods, and he needed to say it. Isn't this nonsense!

The question is what is the use of fish maw made into dry goods, so I can’t say a few more words, it’s too obvious to be perfunctory.

The Haizhou Fucheng workshop was established and has already started. There is no shortage of seafood, and he purchased a large number of them.

Haizhou Fucheng has no shortage of seafood, and most of them are sea fish. The price of these seafood is very cheap in Haizhou. If it is transported to various state capitals, it will cost manpower and material resources to keep it fresh, and the price will double when it is sold everywhere.

Sea fish can also be made into dry goods for sale, and they have to be cleaned up for work, and a lot of fish maws are cleaned up. Wei Cheng said that if they are thrown away, they will be half-dried and shipped to him.

Wei Cheng still kindly told him: "The fish maw is to be sold as dry goods. The fish maw has many functions. You can buy a batch and send it back."

"I sent you a boat, you want to sell it to me?!"

"Then do you want to buy it? If you don't buy it, I won't sell it."

"purchase!"

The more Wei Cheng said this, the more he wanted to know the function of the fish maw, but he didn't mention it, just bought it, and if he bought it, he couldn't tell him the function and method of the fish maw.

Not just fish maw, how much is it worth?

"A box of ten taels!" Not a catty.

"You grab the money—" Yun Chengfeng stared.

"The original price is fifty taels a box, but I'll give you a discounted price!" Wei Cheng said, "Don't worry, you will definitely not suffer! You will still feel that it is worth the money!"

Yun Chengfeng: "..."

He is now at a loss. The fish maw was sold for ten taels a catty, and he gave it to Wei Cheng for free. Now he is asked to pay for it, and Wei Cheng has signed an agreement with him to give him all the fish maw. He also said at the time that this Guy has chicken guts.

If Yun Chengfeng knew, he thought it was ten taels a catty, but later he realized it was less than half a catty, and he felt even worse!

—

Xianmanju launched mooncake sales.

Guests who have eaten Xianmanju pastries are looking forward to it!

Looking at the mooncakes placed in the window cabinet, each mooncake tastes unique and exquisite, but the price is not cheap. I heard that the price of a palm-sized mooncake starts from 200 yuan, especially the egg yolk mooncake and osmanthus mooncake, which cost 500 yuan each. Many customers Hope to stop.

With the gift box, it will cost six or seven taels a box!

This is too expensive!

There are also ordinary ones, which cost hundreds of coins each. If the family has spare money, they will buy one or two to try. Once they try it, they want to eat it even more. The ones with a hundred coins are so delicious, so the five hundred coins are even more delicious.

They were not short of money, so they bought the most expensive mooncake to try. After eating it, they felt that the price was worth it. This was the best mooncake they had ever tasted. If it was used as a gift, it would definitely save face.

Except for the few members who want to order gifts, the owner of the restaurant uses a brocade box for the gift box. Wei Cheng would not easily let go of the opportunity to promote the transparent gift box, and immediately ordered someone to send several gift boxes for people to choose.

It is a transparent gift box, the lower box is a brocade box, and the upper cover is a white crystal box. This name is given by Wei Cheng. You can't call it plastic, it's not classy.

Seeing the gift box covered with white crystals, the store owners who are outside the staff don’t need to worry about the price. This white crystal gift box is a rarity. It looks high-grade and the price is not expensive, so they immediately choose the white crystal gift box.

The moon cake gift box of the store owner outside the staff is to curry favor with the rich and powerful.

There are countless people who receive gifts from high-ranking and wealthy households every festival, and they all want to use this to build relationships.

Gifts that are not on the guest list are all piled up in one piece, put into the warehouse if they are useful, and reward the servants if they are not useful, and they are not even qualified to present them in front of the host.

This is the case every year when it is sent up, and the boxing ceremony has to be given away. Spending expensive money to choose the boxing ceremony is nothing.

After ordering Xianmanju's mooncakes, they had a premonition in their hearts that their gifts would definitely go to the hands of the master of the big family.

Not to mention the delicate and delicious mooncakes, even the gift box is a surprise.

Sure enough, the moon cake gift box was sent to the servants who were in charge of receiving the festival gifts. When the servants saw the gift box, they hurried in to ask the housekeeper for instructions. The gift box was actually transparent, so how could they dare to decide.

The butler of the rich family has never touched any good things. When he saw the transparent gift box, he heard that it was a rare white crystal gift box. He immediately talked politely with the bosses who came to give gifts. Butler, you have to humble yourself. They were overjoyed when the butler of a wealthy family talked to them.

With the gift box of Xianmanju mooncakes, their names are all on the guest list of these wealthy families.

After the housekeeper returned, these non-member bosses blushed with excitement. The money was worth it, and they thought about going to Xianmanju to order another batch.

The white crystal gift box is a limited edition, how could Wei Cheng let them pre-order it if they want, otherwise it would seem that the white crystal gift box is rare.

These non-employee bosses played the emotional card and even raised the price. Wei Cheng insisted on not letting go. He pretended to be wrong: "It's not that Wei doesn't want to sell this face in front of everyone, it's that white crystal gift boxes are rare. There are not many. Before When I got the box, the owner of Taifulou heard the news and ordered 800 boxes on the spot. After you guys ordered another batch, I don’t have many white crystal gift boxes left on hand, so I always keep them as a prestige. I gave it to you, No one else can buy it."

I have it on hand, it's not that I don't have it, those non-employee bosses will not let it go, begging and asking Wei Cheng to sell a few boxes.

"Boss Wei, we are all regular customers of Xianmanju. We are so familiar with each other. You can sell me another twenty boxes for the sake of friendship, no, ten boxes."

"Boss Wei, if you are willing to do this favor this time, I owe you a favor. I will never shirk anything in the future."

"The sauces for my five restaurants are all ordered from your workshop. In terms of the cooperative relationship, you can sell me a few more boxes, just a few boxes."

Several non-member bosses surrounded Wei Cheng, sat a large table in the Xianman residence, and ordered all the mooncakes for this year, begging Wei Cheng to sell them.

One runs a restaurant, the other runs a cloth shop, one sells tea and southern goods, and the other sells pottery.

Wei Cheng will definitely not offend him!

Wei Cheng said slowly: "Several bosses have said that, if Wei refuses to agree, he will take Joe. We can only buy eight boxes per person, no more." His tone was very embarrassed.

Several non-member bosses immediately expressed their understanding and warmly toasted.

Wei Cheng drank his wine and smiled without showing a trace.

For the mooncakes of Xianmanju, Taifulou gave gifts to the distinguished guests in the restaurant, and the sales peak really started.

Whether it is the novelty of the mooncakes or the rarity of the white crystal gift box, it makes the big families and inner city families who receive the mooncake gift box feel rare for a while. They all started to inquire about Xianmanju and Baijing gift boxes, and even ordered people to buy them.

Xianmanju's mooncakes spread in the wealthy circles of the inner city.

The white crystal gift box is limited to purchase, and the egg yolk lotus paste is limited, and it is hard to find a box. The most popular ones are egg yolk lotus paste mooncakes and osmanthus lotus root mooncakes, two of which are favorites of brothers and girls.

Cao's house in the inner city.

The housekeeper reported on the matter of Xianmanju, and the housekeeper was shocked to learn that the boss behind Xianmanju was the country man back then.

Mr. Cao was very surprised when he heard that, the country man was indeed as he thought, an extraordinary person.

Butler: "Master, do you need to inquire about the formula?"

Mr. Cao took a look at the butler before saying, "You are late. If we had wooed people back then, our Cao family could still take advantage of it."

The background of Taifulou is that the Cao family can offend them. It doesn’t matter that Cao’s family is backed by third-rank officials. The power behind Taifulou is in the imperial city, which is a place of real power.

This country guy is really smart, and it was his luck to get on Taifulou early. It just so happened that the young owner of Taifulou came to Nanshan County again, this kind of luck is what he deserves.

The Cao family doesn't care about it, but there are many big families who care about Xianmanju.

The first one is the owner of Baixiangzhai's pastries. This Xianmanju sells mooncakes, which directly affects the business of Baixiangzhai, so they can try their best to get the pastry recipe.

Although they are afraid of Taifulou, they can do it secretly.

No matter how tight the formula is, they can get the formula.

Baixiangzhai relied on this method to bring down the century-old shop, but now it wants to repeat the same trick and find someone to infiltrate Weiji workshop to get the formula.

—

Wei house.

"This mooncake is so delicious. Ms. Min really deserves to be a noble lady. The osmanthus mooncakes can't be reserved for a couple of boxes. Miss Min's house can still make reservations. It's really the Min family." Wei Chengda The aunt complimented, "I want to ask someone to buy it, but I can't."

Min Yueting came to give a Mid-Autumn Festival gift to Wen Lanzhi, a good sister in her boudoir, and she was in Wei Zhai at this time.

Facing the compliment from the wife of Wei Zhai, Min Yueting just smiled politely.

Wen Lanzhi was holding her young son in her arms. Ever since she heard her mother-in-law and husband talking that day, she felt a lingering depression in her heart.

Although the mother-in-law didn't mention letting her husband take a concubine again, her mother-in-law didn't want to give up, because her husband will take the Juren examination next year, and all his body and mind are preparing for the exam, so it's not good for her mother-in-law to propose taking a concubine at this time.

But the Wang family's mother and daughter frequently entered the Wei residence, which was clearly to bring the Wang family's daughter into the house.

If her husband is in high school next year, Wen Lanzhi knows very well that her mother-in-law will definitely let her husband take a concubine. When the time comes, she is faced with having to serve her husband with someone else, what should she do.

At the beginning, she disregarded her family's objection to low marriage, just wanted to rely on her family's power, and she was careful to prevent her husband from taking concubines.

"Lan Zhi, my family is urging marriage. I don't want to find someone I don't like as a husband. I'm so envious that you can find someone you like to marry. Although it's a low marriage, your husband is devoted to you. I want to find someone too. A husband like Huaben meets someone who treats me sincerely and can stay with me for the rest of my life."

A year ago, there was a story that was very popular and caused waves in the boudoir. The story was about a man who devoted himself to his wife. The two stayed together for a lifetime and never had a second person.

This made the girl in the boudoir envious, and had longing in his heart.

Min Yueting is one of them.

Wen Lanzhi had nothing to do with Min Yueting before she left the cabinet. Now she doesn't want to tell her about the family affairs, so she doesn't want to be too embarrassed. She doesn't know that her mother-in-law is going to give her husband a concubine.

Wen Lanzhi hugged her young son tightly in her arms.

The only thing she can rely on is her son.

But, after her husband is admitted to Juren, is he really going to betray her?

Only for money.

She didn't dare to ask, she was afraid that she would collapse!