[75] Zhao Yan falls into a dream

A few days after Zhan Zhao left, Mrs. Liu and the two little ones were still talking about it every day, while Mu Yan began to figure out how to use Zhan Zhao's 100 taels of silver.With this money, Mu Yan plans to move to live in the county town after the new year, and then set up a stall at the goods yard outside the county town.I and Uncle Zhou's family are in charge of each other, but if this is the case, the Zhou family must also go to the county seat.

In the evening, after dinner, Mu Yan went to Zhou's house.Said that Liu's nephew knew that we were short of money to do business and lent her 100 taels, and told her his plan.Uncle Zhou is very grateful, because Mu Yan can leave them alone and do it by herself.Uncle Zhou agreed to Mu Yan's plan almost immediately, and the two families agreed that they would go to the county together after the fifteenth day.On the tenth day of the new year, the county opened its first market for the new year, and Mu Yan and Brother Zhou agreed to go to the city together to go to the front stop.

On the morning of the eleventh day of the lunar new year, Mu Yan and Brother Zhou rushed to the county seat. Brother Zhou went to look at the stalls in the warehouse outside the city, and Mu Yan went to the dental store in the city to find a house.After a morning of rushing, Mu Yan took a fancy to a small courtyard under the introduction of Yaren. The asking price is 70 taels without any counter-offering.But Mu Yan was a little hesitant because she didn’t have much money in her hand. The Yaren said that there was a business of depositing money in the bank, but some interest had to be paid, and the house deed had to be mortgaged in the Ya Bank first. When Mu Yan heard it, the commercial development of the Song Dynasty was indeed not a lie. , There is even a mortgage loan business.

After a little consideration, Mu Yan agreed to buy the house.So I followed Yaren to go through the formalities, paying 30 taels first, and the other 40 taels Mu Yan signed a contract to be paid in full for one year, and received an annual interest of [-] taels.Yaren saw that she was quick to do things, and introduced her to a rented yard, which only costs three taels of rent a year. What is rare is that it is very close to the yard Mu Yan bought. Mu Yan hurriedly rented it and thanked Yaren. .

After renting the house, Mu Yan rushed out of the city to have a round with Brother Zhou.Brother Zhou is anxiously waiting for Mu Yan to discuss about the shop.It turned out that there was a tea shop in the goods yard that was to be sold, only for sale but not for rent, so I waited for Mu Yan to make a decision.I followed Brother Zhou to meet the owner of the tea shop, and said that the shop is actually very simple, because the asking price outside the city is not high, and 50 taels are sold together.

After discussing with Brother Zhou, Mu Yan felt that it was feasible. With the dental bank's mortgage business, Mu Yan was not afraid of not having enough money, so she hurried back to the dental bank to ask the dental man to guarantee it.An hour later, there was another mortgage contract in Mu Yan's hands, with 20 taels to be paid first, and 30 taels to be mortgaged for one year, with an annual interest of three taels.

In one day, I spent 50 taels of silver, owed the dental bank 70 taels, and exchanged two mortgage contracts.Mu Yan and Brother Zhou happily returned to the village and told the Zhou family and the Liu family the good news. Even they themselves did not expect things to go so smoothly.Now I have waited for the fifteenth day to open for business, and I hope the business will be as smooth as buying a house.

Time flies, and two years have passed in a blink of an eye.Ren's fast food restaurant is already very famous among the people in the county. The business of the two stores in the freight yard and the wharf is booming, and there is a constant flow of customers at noon every day. The Grand Hotel felt that this business would not make much money, and it hadn't caused any trouble in the past two years.

Liu's son is almost two years old, he is very chubby and chubby, and his name was also given by the patriarch, Xingyun.Under the leadership of Mu Yan, the Ren family is getting better and better, and the deposits on the shop and house have already been paid off.Xing Chen has also studied in a famous private school in the county for two years, and Mu Yu is no longer the thin little girl she used to be, she followed Mu Yan around all day long with a pink and tender appearance.Besides, the Zhou family has now bought the small courtyard that they rented back then.Brother Zhou also married a wife in the county seat, and now sister-in-law Zhou is pregnant with Liujia, Uncle Zhou and Aunt Zhou are happily busy every day.

A year ago, Mu Yan broke up with the Zhou family, and the business of the wharf was handed over to the Zhou family. At Uncle Zhou's insistence, Mu Yan agreed to accept the share for three years.Mu Yan, a fast food restaurant in the freight yard, is also doing well.The business is getting better and better, and the few people are too busy at all. Mu Yan and Brother Zhou accepted the suggestion of the dental firm and each bought a helper from another family. They both signed dead contracts.

Brother Zhou bought Xu Cheng's family of four. Xu Cheng and his wife are in their 30s with a pair of children.Xu Cheng and his wife took their eldest son to work in the store with Brother Zhou, and the daughter of Xu's family helped with housework at Zhou's house; Mu Yan bought Uncle Zhang Xiang's family of six, Zhang Xiang and his sons Daqiang and Xiaoqiang worked in the store, Zhang Xiang's wife, Jing Shi, helps Liu Shi with housework at home, and her two daughters, Dou'er and Hua'er, follow Mu Yan and Mu Yu respectively.

After two years, the Ren family and the Zhou family have a stable foothold in this small county town.During this period, the matchmakers in the county also came up to match the capable young lady of the Ren family one after another, but they were all rejected by Liu.Now there is still one year before the filial piety period, as the time is getting closer, Mrs. Liu can't sit still, and often urges Mu Yan to go to the capital to find Zhan Zhao.

That night, Mrs. Liu issued an ultimatum, saying that if Mu Yan didn't go to the capital to find Zhan Zhao, she would go by herself, and then she would discuss the date with Zhan Zhao and let him come and marry him.Mu Yan had no choice but to wait for the New Year to move to a new house and see if she could bring the business to the capital.Because of Zhang Xiang's family, the original small courtyard seemed crowded.Mu Yan bought another yard a few years ago, which is much bigger than the one she lives in now, and she will move there after a new renovation.This small courtyard will be handed over to a dental firm to sell.

If it is said that the family has changed the most in the past two years, it belongs to Mrs. Liu.From the very beginning of studying with Mu Yan to later sitting in the cabinet to collect money, and now sitting in command, she already has the demeanor of being a housewife.Talking and doing things have also changed from being submissive at the beginning to being one-sided today.As life gets better and better, I take Nebula to relax at home every day, with a charming look in my eyes.

It was another New Year's Eve, and Mu Yan finished her calculations.A year of hard work was not in vain, except for the cost, the total net profit was 150 taels of silver.Including the family savings and the Zhou family's share, the family now has more than 500 taels of silver in savings.Mu Yan still buried the 500 taels of silver notes under the bed, and put more than a dozen taels of silver and copper coins in the cabinet for daily use.I packed a few more purses, and prepared to make New Year's red envelopes to distribute to Zhang Xiang's family, as well as younger siblings.The family celebrated the new year happily.

After moving house after the year, the matter of looking for Zhan Zhao started to be put on the agenda by Mrs. Liu, talking about it almost every day, which annoyed Mu Yan so much that she wanted to pull out her hair.Let it go, let's go, anyway, the ready-made business has stabilized now, Zhang's father and son are doing very well, Mu Yan can go to the capital with peace of mind.Early the next morning, Mu Yan went to Zhou's house to tell Brother Zhou that she was going to Kaifeng. Uncle Zhou asked Brother Zhou to go with her as soon as he heard it, saying that there is no daughter who goes to the capital alone, and she is not afraid of being caught by others. Bullied to go.When Mu Yan heard this, she couldn't laugh or cry, what could happen after a full day's work?Unable to screw Uncle Zhou, Mu Yan also thought that Big Brother Zhou would be with her, and she would discuss things with her personally, so she agreed to set off for the capital together on another day.