Chapter 80: Doing Business Without Worries

  Shen Sisi just smiled, watching the couple talk like this, deeply feeling that even poor couples are not sad about everything, the key is their own attitude and whether the two people can be mutually supportive. This couple really refreshed her understanding, sharing the joys and sorrows, and after so many years they had never quarreled or lost their temper.

  "Mother, I'm going to decoct the medicine..." Shen Sisi said as she entered the kitchen.

  At this time, he came with silver and smiled: "This is twenty taels, Gen Sheng, you take it."

  Zhong Gensheng was shocked and said: "How can the land be sold so quickly?"

  "It just so happens that my younger brother-in-law wanted to buy land, and as soon as he heard the news, he bought it. The procedures are being handled now. I'll give you the silver first, and we won't bother each other. Those two mu of land are good land, let's sell them at market price, twenty taels in total. You take care...". Li Zheng smiled and handed it over to him, then smiled and said: "I'm leaving first."

  "Uh..." Zhong Gensheng looked embarrassed, feeling that taking twenty taels was too much, his face was a bit tangled, seemingly wanting to say some polite words, but being very clumsy, afraid of saying something wrong.

  He didn't mind either, and smiled: "Take it," he wouldn't take advantage of such a big deal, and would rather not provoke idle gossip.

  Although Li Zheng has great power, he also needs to be in line with the crowd. He can't afford to tarnish his reputation for nothing. It's not that he doesn't love money, it's just that some things can be done secretly, but openly, they must be aboveboard.

  "Here, Dad, there's a reason for everything...". Shen Sisi poked her little head out of the kitchen and smiled: "No big deal, next time you catch something, just don't sell it. Anyway, we won't get much money for it. We can eat some at home, give some to Li Zheng and Li Lai Tou, and that'll repay their kindness..."

  "This is also...". Zhong Gensheng nodded and said: "This silver, Tuniu you collect it..."

  "Dad, put it away, we need money at home too." Shen Sisi said with a smile.

  He Qiu shook her head and said, "Tuniu, you'd better keep it. Our home is so dilapidated, there's really no good place to hide the money. Your father and I don't have any ideas either, we don't know where to hide it. You keep it and we'll feel at ease. When we need money, we'll ask you for it..."

  "Alright..." Shen Sisi took the silver and casually tossed it into her storage space, then smiled and said: "Once we build a house with blue bricks and glazed tiles, our family will have a place to hide our silver..."

  Hehe, He Axiu burst out laughing, "How much silver would it take to use a green brick house for storage? Our family isn't a landlord..."

  Shen Sisi just smiled and didn't say a word, later... all these will be had.

  After brewing the medicine, she carried it into the room. Si Ba was staring blankly at the wall, and when he saw Shen Sisi coming in, his mouth corners twitched slightly.

  "Come on, take your medicine..."

  Si Bao sat up and obediently drank the medicinal soup from the bowl she handed over, but under her gaze, he couldn't help feeling a creeping sense of unease.

  He gulped down the medicine, put down the bowl and handed it to her. Seeing Shen Sisi still not leaving, he said, "......I've finished drinking." The implication was that she should leave now, watching him with a mixture of tension, fear, and headache...

  "Ah, nothing much, I just wanted to settle some accounts with you..."

  "What account?!" As soon as he heard that they were going to settle accounts, the four treasures' eyes all turned red, and they hastily said: "What account do we have to settle?!"

  "Let me calculate it for you, finger by finger: the cost of the medicine you drank, ten doses of medicine cost two taels and two coins of silver. And then there's the medicinal plaster on your head, although Li Lai doesn't charge us for it, but he'll want to hunt later, and hunting isn't cheap either, that's another part of the cost. Adding to that, the loss of work during your recovery period, the labor cost of people taking care of you, as well as our family's spiritual loss fee... all together, let's just say it's ten taels."

  Si Bao Ting's head was extremely painful, his fingertips were trembling, and he couldn't say a word, "What is this spiritual loss fee?! How can there be such a fee?!"

  "You see this injury of yours, no one in our family can work now, I still have to work, this is called spiritual loss fee. You see your mistake, we were going to sell braised meat tomorrow, you can't even do the work, I call it mistake fee. We also need to take care of your food and daily life, this is called labor cost. Hmm, what else don't you understand? Speak up, I'll calculate ten taels for you..." Shen Sisi said matter-of-factly.

  Si Baoqi's face almost turned upside down, and he angrily said: "...... Earth, earth girl?! You're really ruthless, I was injured for your family, protected your family's property, and you even received twenty taels from Li Er Dan, didn't you? I just heard everything, why are you still putting the blame on me..."

  "Li Er Dan owes me compensation for the spiritual loss of my family, which has nothing to do with you..." Shen Si Si smiled and said: "Don't worry, don't worry, take your time to recover from your injuries, and when you're better, you can slowly pay it back...it's not like you won't be able to pay it off eventually..."

  "Four Treasures is so angry that he can't speak, 'You, you... this is intentional, not letting me take good care of myself, you just want to exhaust me to death...'"

  "Hey, don't say that... " Shen Sisi smiled and said: "Take good care of your injury, don't get angry, I'll go to Zheng Tufu's house to buy some bones to stew a soup for you to nourish your body, it will be fine soon..."

  Four Treasures hand trembled, afraid she would mention food expenses again. Fortunately, Shen Sisi was a kind-hearted person and didn't bring it up. However, now he felt nauseous thinking about the meals she had provided, the care he received, and the medicine. He thought that in the future, he would have to work to repay her for all of these things, and this made him feel like crashing into a wall.

  He stared blankly as Shen Sisi walked out of the room, gritting his teeth and punching the bed, "One day, country girl, one day... I'll make you wait. A noble like me being ordered around by you is just too much..."

  He also said that one day he wanted to do something! ? He just felt that this girl was a complete and utter money fanatic, completely obsessed with money, calculating everything in terms of money, too ruthless, too poisonous!!

  These words were not spoken lightly, and Shen Sisi naturally heard them all. She smiled and said, "What do I care about being a descendant of a prestigious family? Now that there's someone with poor labor skills who doesn't work hard to peel and chop, she feels guilty for her own hardships in crossing over."

  Cut, a descendant of a famous family? Who cares about the famous family. She's just a Superman fan, what kind of famous family hasn't she seen? Emperors, empresses, princesses, princes... Western queens have them all, and even aliens have everything.

  As for herself, she was still a princess, albeit one from a cold palace.

  That kid, looking at his wretched appearance, I don't know if he's bragging or telling the truth. Even if it's true, ending up like this, that famous family probably isn't great either.

  Shen Sisi didn't care, went into the kitchen, and ordered Dabao to wash the pots and bowls. Dabao was a honest person, humming and scrubbing the pots and bowls like an old cow. After checking the time, Shen Sisi took Dabao to Zheng Butou's house at the village head.

  Zheng Tutu smiled as soon as he saw them. Now, who in the village doesn't know that the Zhong family has money on hand? Yesterday they got eighteen taels, plus the chestnuts they sold during this time, and today they sold their field for twenty taels. They must have at least forty taels or more now. Thinking of how they've been eating meat every day lately, he felt happy. Although it's true that last time when selling chestnuts they didn't buy meat from him, but now the Zhong family has money again and wants to eat meat, they'll definitely come to his place to buy some. So he smiled even more happily.

  "Big treasure, earth girl, come buy meat?!" Zheng butcher fiddled with the meat on the chopping board and smiled: "There's also top-grade fatty meat, you see, this one, eighteen cents a pound, how about it?"

  It's already noon now, and it's not a festival season, so the meat is not selling well. After all, people who eat meat every day are rare. He kills a pig and often has to carry it to other villages to sell it out. The villages are far apart, heavy, and if they don't sell, they're afraid of spoilage, so it's very tiring. Now he is even more actively promoting sales, just hoping to sell one catty at a time.

  Tuni smiled and said: "Uncle Zheng, how much meat can you sell in a day?!"

  Zheng Tufu furrowed his brow and sighed, "It's not a good time to sell now, it's not a festival, the weather is hot, I've run myself to death just to barely sell the meat, what can be done if I don't run? Can't let the meat go bad..."

  Shen Sisi smiled and said: "Uncle Zheng, I buy at least 20 kilograms a day, can you give me a reasonable price?!"

  Zheng Tutu's eyes lit up, and he immediately said suspiciously: "Your family buys every day? Twenty kilograms of meat, what does your family want to do?! How many people can't finish eating it..."

  "We're doing business, after all..." Shen Sisi smiled and said: "Uncle Zheng, you don't need to worry about this. Just give us a price. If it's a fair price, we'll buy from your family. If it's expensive, we won't be afraid to go to the county town to buy it either..."

  Zheng Tufu smiled and said: "What business are you doing?! Does your father agree?!" After all, looking at her as a child, he was still not at ease.

  "Don't worry, Uncle Zheng. My father will definitely agree. The other day when I was selling chestnuts, it wasn't me who sold them..." Shen Sisi said with a smile.

  Zheng Tu Fu smiled and said: "You're also a thoughtful girl, knowing how to make money for the family. Your parents are really lucky, we're all from the same village, I won't charge you an exorbitant price, one step at a time, don't haggle with me either, I really can't take it... If you can sell at least 20 catties a day, and the lowest is 15 wen, what do you think..."

  Zheng Tufu's heart was also nervous, and he hastily looked at Shen Sisi.

  Shen Sisi smiled and said, "Uncle Zheng is really a straightforward person, I won't haggle anymore. It would be great if you could give us a few bones every day and some cheaper pork offal..."

  Zheng Tu Fu let out a sigh of relief and smiled, saying: "This is no problem, anyway these things nobody dares to buy and eat, even if they're cheaper they won't sell well. Alas, I'll give them to you, but you must definitely buy from me, can't run away..."

  Actually, bones and internal organs are not worth much money. Zheng didn't mind. In the past, when people bought a catty or two of meat from him, they would ask for bones and internal organs as well. He couldn't bear to refuse his fellow villagers, so he gave them away. Now the Zhong family wanted twenty catties, even if he gave it all to them, it wouldn't be a big deal, so he readily agreed, fearing that they might not buy from him otherwise.