The resentful best friend travels through daily life

Zhou Ning was wondering how to encourage Shen Yi when she heard Liu Qingxiu say, "A Ning, call A Wan and Xiao Si, we should go shopping."

Shen Yi grumbled in dissatisfaction: "Mom, it's not fair. Why do you leave me alone at home?"

Liu Qingxiu looked around the yard, which was full of wood and tools, and said, "No, there's still your wood and work. Besides, what I want to buy today is the betrothal gift, why are you going there? You don't know how to pick things."

Shen Yi said: "I haven't been out for a long time, mother, please let me go."

"Aunt Shen, let Xiaoyi go. I also need to prepare my dowry today, and he can also take some things with him."

The person who spoke was Zhou Wan, who had just entered the yard. Today, Zhou Wan was wearing a pink dress, which looked very bright.

Shen You also said, "Yes, mother, let my third brother go. He has indeed worked hard."

"Okay, let's all go." Liu Qingxiu said.

Yesterday, Zhou Ning and Shen You took the opportunity to buy dowry and betrothal gifts to count their property.

Zhou Ning's income mainly comes from Hongyanfang and Lanyanfang.

Zhou Ning went to withdraw the money two days ago, a total of 532 taels. Ji Jinshu knew that Zhou Wan was going to get married, so he also gave her 20 taels as a share of the money.

The five hundred and thirty-two taels were used to pay for the wages of the past few days and the money for building the workshop, and there was still nearly five hundred taels in cash.

Of the five hundred taels, I need to prepare a budget of one hundred taels to prepare for the next hot pot restaurant.

Shen You didn't have much income. The money he made from the restaurant before, plus the Shen family's savings over the years, after building the house and Shen Zhong's marriage, was basically gone.

After the two of them discussed it, they realized that they had almost earned enough money. Getting married was a big deal and they couldn't be careless.

Shopping together was somewhat inefficient, so the group split into three groups.

Liu Qingxiu went to buy the betrothal gifts.

First of all, food and drink.

I need to buy four bottles of wine, which is not cheap. It costs nearly 500 coins.

There were also fish, rice, tea, boxes, fruits, three kinds of meat, four kinds of sugar, four kinds of Beijing fruits, betrothal cakes, and seafood.

These flowers cost about three taels of silver.

In fact, a marriage in the village doesn’t require so many gifts, it’s just that Zhou Wan had lived a hard life in the past, so they just wanted to give her some face.

She also had to buy some jewelry. Liu Qingxiu bought a pair of gold bracelets. They were simple in style but looked very gorgeous.

Zhou Wan bought things basically according to the rules, including a comb, a ruler, a mirror, scissors, a money box, a bucket, a scale, and an abacus. None of them were expensive, and she only spent two taels of silver in total.

In the morning, Zhou Ning gave Zhou Wan many instructions and asked her to buy something good for her, and she gave Zhou Wan ten taels of silver.

Looking at the remaining silver, Zhou Wan gritted her teeth and bought some snacks, which were very exquisite.

For example, this date is not just a date. It is filled with walnuts and coated with sugar. However, it is not sweet or greasy, but has a faint sweetness of osmanthus. It is also very expensive.

Zhou Ning passed by several times but still couldn't bear to buy it.

After all, this box costs two taels of silver!!!

It's simply a money grab.

Zhou Ning and Shen You guessed that Zhou Wan would be frugal, so they went to the jewelry store.

Wanjin Store, well, it looks like a very wealthy store at first glance.

Although their place is just a small town, it has a good geographical location, is not far from the capital, has well-connected roads, and can be considered prosperous.

Zhou Ning and Shen You were cautious and did not buy it directly, after all, it would be too conspicuous.

Zhou Ning carefully selected a white jade pendant.

Shen You used his ultimate move.

A gold hairpin.

Two pairs of silver earrings.

A gold bracelet.

Finally, they were all sent to Hongyanfang, making people think that they were bought by Ji Jinshu from Hongyanfang.

As a lady, it's normal to spend money occasionally and buy something you like.

After Ji Jinshu knew about this, he smiled happily, but he also had someone secretly send him to Shen You and Zhou Ning's small courtyard.

But it's not over yet.

Now is the autumn harvest season and the price of grain is at its lowest. It is a good time to store grain.

The Shen family was an outsider household and did not have much land, so in previous years they would buy grain cheaply during the autumn harvest.

This is also true this year.

It is also during the wedding period. If too much food is bought, people will also think about the wedding banquet.

Mulan went to the East Market to buy a horse, the West Market to buy a saddle, the South Market to buy a bridle, and the North Market to buy a long whip.

The Shen family buys noodles at the East Market, rice at the West Market, meat at the South Market, and salt at the North Market.

Noodles and rice are also bought from several stores.

Some of the goods would be too conspicuous if transported directly to the village, so Zhou Ning bought an ox cart and transported them to Shen's house in the middle of the night.

Once, the old cow was very sleepy and wanted to yawn, but Zhou Ning covered his mouth.

Buying food this time is different from before. The money spent is several times more than buying betrothal gifts and dowry.

In the following days, Zhou Ning and Shen You's lives turned upside down.

After Shen You's experiment achieved some success, she stayed in the village to take care of her seedlings.

As for Zhou Ning, he was preparing for the hot pot restaurant.

After the two discussed, they decided to open a store after getting married. If it succeeded, they could make a small profit. If not, they would stop the loss in time. Although they prepared a capital of 100 taels, they would not actually need that much, so if they stopped the loss in time, the loss would not be too big.

Before that, everything needs to be prepared.

The first thing is to finalize the menu.

A spicy hotpot, a tomato hotpot, and a shabu-shabu hotpot would be enough.

When Zhou Ning showed the blueprint of the pot to the blacksmith, the blacksmith scratched his head and expressed hesitation.

Zhou Ning took out a deposit of five taels of silver.

Master: It’s settled.

Then there are the ingredients and manpower.

There was no need to worry about manpower, as Shen You invited back the original chef and waiter.

As for the ingredients, before Zhou Ning had decided, Auntie Pang volunteered, saying that her own dishes must be clean and the price would not be high.

Zhou Sanhua and Daya also immediately indicated that they had designated their own dishes.

However, he didn't know whether this amount of food was enough, so he agreed to it first and said he would talk about it after September 28th.

September 28th is a good day to get married.

Zhou Ning gave Zhou Wan a few days off. After all, Zhou Wan had to embroider her wedding dress and red veil by herself, so she couldn't stay up late.

At first Zhou Wan was reluctant because she was afraid that Zhou Ning would get tired.

But Zhou Ning said he had other plans, so Zhou Wan stopped talking.

Actually, Zhou Ning... was talking nonsense.

In this way, Zhou Ning had to watch them work every day.

Fortunately, the workshop was built.

After laying the mahogany boards, the floor became much cleaner.

While the workshop was being built, Zhou Ning climbed onto a piece of wood and gave a speech.

Zhou Ning said that there is no order without rules, and everyone in the workshop must abide by the rules, including the following ones, which are written into a contract.

1. Everyone has a fixed work area and is not allowed to run around.

2. Keep clean and hygienic. Newcomers should wash their hair and hands.

3. You cannot disclose your production steps to others.

The twelve women looked at each other, and finally all expressed no objection.

Zhou Ning nodded with satisfaction and said, "It's great."