Lu Lin and the Chen Brothers were once again the talk of the village after the Winter Fair.
“Have you heard they made 50 taels of silver from selling gloves at the market?”
“Yes! I can’t believe those rich people are actually willing to spend two taels of silver on a pair of gloves! I heard that all of them have even been sold.”
“Chen Xiao Mi has made another fortune.”
“More than 50 taels! It is a fortune.”
“The problem is that they dare to charge that high for palm-sized items!”
“I heard that Grandma Shen sewed for them.”
“Yes, Grandma Shen also made their winter jackets.”
“I wonder if Grandma Shen will get a cut.”
“I doubt it, I think the way it works is that Lu Lin pays Granny Shen for the workmanship, but Granny Shen gets no cut no matter how much money they make from it. But I’m sure Granny Shen doesn’t mind, she’s already making money from her sewing. Plus Lu Lin asked Zhang Da Zhu to make the kang for him for free.”
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The villagers used to feel sorry for Lu Lin for marrying into Chen Xiao Mi’s family, now they thought Lu Lin was lucky for marrying a great young Bio. They used to think Chen Xiao Mi was a scary person now they started talking about Chen Xiao Mi with a touch of awe and fear mixed in because Chen Xiao Mi became so rich, even the people who worked for Chen Xiao Mi became richer, like Zhang Da Zhu and Grandma Shen.
The villagers all agreed there must be something that Chen Xiao Mi was doing right.
At Chen Xiao Mi’s house
Chen Xiao Mi sat cross-legged on the kang, he kept counting their savings again and again.
Lu Lin showed a loving smile: “I remember it was 83 taels and 536 cents when you calculated it five seconds and fifteen minutes ago.”
Chen Xiao Mi smiled: “I just counted it again to make sure I got the numbers right.”
“You got the numbers right, I can be your witness.”
“I can’t believe we have so much money now!” Chen Xiao Mi became a little emotional.
Lu Lin narrowed his eyes and said: “If we can make double this amount of money, we can buy a house in the city, right?”
Chen Xiao Mi gasped slightly: “In the city?”
Chen Xiao Mi found the idea of moving to the city quite terrifying like all the other villagers.
“How can we live in the city? We don’t have farmland here, but we do have vegetable fields in our yard. And I won’t be able to go hunting every day. If we sit still, doing nothing, everything we earn will be used up.”
Lu Lin smiled: “This is just a thought, of course we need to think about this matter further.”
Chen Xiao Mi nodded. He felt very happy that Lu Lin married him, it took him a lot of time to finally decide to spend 10 taels on an engagement gift. And look at them now, Lu Lin had made over 80 taels for him family.
“I think we should buy more land if we have more money, but the villagers won’t sell their land because they all rely on the land for agricultural output.” Chen Xiao Mi said.
Lu Lin frowned and said: “I’m not a fan of farmland, it sounds like work.”
Chen Xiao Mi rolled his eyes inwardly: ‘What a spoiled rich kid! Farmland! He’s not a fan of farmland because he doesn’t like to work!’
Lu Lin blinked a few times and added: “Well, we can buy land and rent it out to tenant farmers.”
Chen Xiao Mi’s lips twitched, he thought what Lu Lin had just said was crazy talk.
At Grandma Shen’s house
Tears of joy sprung up in Grandma Shen’s eyes as Chen Xiao Cai sent a bonus for the gloves.
“Grandma, is Xiao Cai here just to send you money?” Shen Chi asked in surprise.
Grandma Shen took a deep breath to calm down: “Yes, Lu Lin said this is a bonus. How kind of them!”
Two taels of silver, she could buy two pigs with that much money, she and Shen Chi could enjoy a cozy winter now.
Grandma Shen didn’t want to accept the bonus at first because Lu Lin had paid three hundred cents for her sewing, and Lu Lin had given two pairs of gloves as a gift.
But Chen Xiao Mai passed on the message that Lu Lin said that he really wanted to work with Granny Shen more, he would feel hesitant to give her more work if she refused the bonus. Therefore, Grandma Shen changed her mind, she would be happy to work for Lu Lin for the long term.
Shen Chi put on the gloves Lu Lin gave him as a gift and said: “Grandma, Xiao Cai told me that they had made about 50 taels of silver at the Winter Fair.”
The few villagers who had seen Lu Lin’s stall at the fair had observed them for some time, they were counting, and they also calculated the rough figures. But Granny Shen was still surprised when she heard it from Chen Xiao Cai.
“That’s a lot of money, I can’t believe it’s so profitable.”
Grandma Shen was not optimistic when Lu Lin sent her hides and sewing equipment and asked her to make gloves in that strange shape, she was worried about the young couple: ‘What if no one buys these strange items?’
But now Grandma Shen is finally relieved that they made a lot of money from selling the strange items.
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