Chapter 74.2

Translated by Aviana

When basking under the sun in the yard outside, Lin Qingwan often got to see Yang Xuezhnag’s new wife while going in and out of the house. Ever since Yang Xuezhang got married, contrary to his former self, who would usually remain holed up in his room, he would often be seen following behind his wife everywhere. The relationship between the two seemed pretty good. Even He-shi regarded this new daughter-in-law of hers highly and would seldomly assign any house chores to her, forget about having her work in the fields.

The new daughter-in-law’s surname was Feng, and was called Feng Xuilan. A very beautiful young lady. But at the same time, it could be seen that she was shrewd to be able to coax Yang Xuezhang around her in circles. Even He-shi treated her well.

Once, seeing her basking under the sun by her room’s door, Feng-shi approached and began conversing.

Lin Qingwan didn’t have any favorable impression of anyone associated with the main room. Thus, she simply paid no heed to her. Even after speaking several sentences, Feng-shi only got monosyllabic replies like en and oh from Lin Qingwan. This Feng-shi also seemed to be perceptive enough, for she never approached to speak up after being ignored by Lin Qingwan as such.

Feng-shi’s days were smooth-sailing, and Wang-shi was certainly unwilling to reconcile with such a situation. Both of them were daughters-in-law, yet one seldomly did any work while the other was swamped with work. This scenario was undoubtedly similar to Wang-shi and Yao-shi’s before Lin Qingwan married in.

Wang-shi couldn’t take it anymore and didn’t give anyone a face either. Thus, every two to three days, chaos would rise over there.

As astute as that Feng-shi was, she never confronted Wang-shi openly. She would always flee behind He-shi and let her deal with Wang-shi. At least for Yang Xuezhang’s sake, He-shi would never let her eldest daughter-in-law bully her youngest daughter-in-law. Thus every single time, Wang-shi was severely rebuked by He-shi and met a disastrous end.

If you are oppressed, you ought to rebel. And Wang-shi was never the type who liked getting oppressed. Nevertheless, she had never rebelled against He-shi in a genuine sense. However, you would never know if you don’t try rebelling even once, no?

The more Wang-shi was oppressed, the more she liked to rebel. Thus, as of late, there was absolute mayhem in the main room.

However, all of these were the least of concern to Lin Qingwan and them.

With the changing climate and warming weather, preserving laweixian to their utmost quality was their topmost priority.

Yang-shi and they no longer dared to make laweixian in large quantities and store them to sell slowly. Rather they only made them every few days and delivered them to the town when they were done.

Yang Tiezhu’s shoulder was also completely healed. But apart from a few close ones, none of the outsiders had the idea about it.

Once Yang Tiezhu was completely back to normal, Lin Qingwan shared her plan of expanding the sale of laweixian to neighboring villages and towns.

Upon hearing this idea, Yang Tiezhu felt it was pretty good and wanted to give it a try.

Currently, Laweixian’s supply was solely limited to a few restaurants in Luoyun town. And their daily sales volume amounted to about 40 jin . Although the quantity didn’t amount much, they generated a revenue of about 2-3 silver taels per day. This was before the initial cost and dividends deduction. After deducting manufacturing costs and other expenses, Yang Tiezhu and his wife earned approximately 1 silver tael, while Yang-shi and the third husband’s husband and wife earned about 400 wen each.

Riches and wealth could stir people’s hearts. These were only Luoyun town’s profits. If they managed to sell these in other town’s restaurants like Luoyun town, wouldn’t they make even more profits?

No one would deny wealth. This was particularly so when Laweixian’s business was going smoothly, unimpeded. Riding this wave, they had to rush to expand it. Even if it might get exhaustive, for peasants who toil in the fields with blood and sweat, how much of a problem would this pose?

After contemplating it, Yang Tiezhu wanted to give it a try. However, Lin Qingwan felt transportation might be a problem.

The current situation was unlike her past life, where you could go anywhere on cabs. Even if there weren’t cabs, they could use public transportations, subways, and travel to distant lands via trains and flights. The transport here was lagging. It was possible to go to the other towns and the distance wasn’t much. There were even mule carts available, but the fare price was too high.

If she solely relied upon the person to travel by foot or even hire a mule cart, wouldn’t the person become exhausted to death? Furthermore, if they truly begin selling laweixian in other areas, they can’t count only on travel by foot or mule cart for delivering the goods. Not only would it be inconvenient timewise, but transporting would also be difficult in that way.

Thus, Lin Qingwan decided to buy a mule cart. As for a horse-drawn carriage, forget about it. There wasn’t any need to mention, this sort of luxurious article could only be afforded by wealthy households. Currently, they were at most wealthy peasants. Not to mention, their wealth was limited, and they couldn’t afford such pointless expenses. It also can’t be an ox cart. Because, for one, they didn’t have a space at home to accommodate an ox and cart. And two, the ox cart’s speed was too slow. If they had to rely upon ox carts to travel long distances, it might make people too impatient ah..

A mule cart was just right. Though it wasn’t as fast as a horse-drawn carriage, it was also not slow. And most importantly, the price was also reasonable. A mule cart and rear carriage would cost about twenty silver taels.

A mule cart would cost a little over ten silver taels. But the two-wheeled cart that comes along with it won’t do. They have to have a separate carriage made with a few extra silver. Though a cart was also good for traveling. But if they wished to transport the goods, they had to have a completely enclosed carriage.

Taking out twenty silver taels wasn’t much of a problem for them at the moment. Lin Qingwan had earned about 100 silver tales from Laweixian business in the past few months. Furthermore, she still had savings left from selling her embroidery piece. Recently, their expenses haven’t been much either. Thus, they still had 200 silver taels altogether and could easily afford a mule cart.

If you desire to buy something, you could. Such was the capriciousness that came with wealth.

Yang Tiezhu too clearly understood that his wife was worried for him. Owning a cart was a must if he wanted to expand the business to other places. Moreover, delivering in one’s own mule cart would be convenient to deliver large quantities at a time. Else he would have to deliver the goods in a large wicker basket every day by hiring an ox cart.

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