After two more people at home, it became much more lively.

Lu'er and Hong'er came from Ninghua, and their accents and living habits were exactly the same as Hui Niang, Zhou's, etc., and they quickly adapted to the new identity of the maid. Although they were illiterate and had to learn a lot of things slowly, the most important thing was that they could share part of the work of the pharmacy, which allowed Zhou and Hui Niang, the two shopkeepers, to save a lot of effort.

Among all the women, Hui Niang and Xiao Yu are the ones who can read.

Hui Niang is the shopkeeper of the medicine shop, and she often doesn’t stay there. Xiaoyu’s status among the five maids has become prominent. However, Xiaoyu is not very good at speaking and does not like to call others. Seeing this, Ning'er took the initiative to stand up. She took the initiative to do anything, and she became the foreman among maids.

It was soon August, midsummer gradually passed and the weather gradually became cooler. Although it had been years since I started school, Chen Xi's schoolwork did not become heavy. He had plenty of free time every day to complete the original paintings of comic strips and could also conduct some strange experiments.

The old lady Li took over and allowed Shen Ming, the second uncle of Chenxi, to run a tea shop, now is unable to make ends meet and is on the verge of bankruptcy. Even the nightclub storytelling that he could rely on before, the people no longer buy it later. There are storytelling everywhere in the city, and nightclubs have even added to compete. As one goes up and down, the glory of the tea shop will never return.

On the fourth day of the eighth month, the old lady took Shen Mingyou to the Chenxi yard. Because she said hello in advance, Shen Mingjun got off work early and went home. Even Zhou was called back from the pharmacy.

"Your second brother is not good at doing business, so this is the current situation. But ask yourself, have you ever taken the initiative to share and help? Now your elder brother is renting an inn outside and spends money every day. Can't the youngest and the youngest wife help share some of it?"

Chen Xi took Lin Dai's little hand and hid outside the yard door, listening to the old lady scolding her father and mother.

When the business was good, Li thought it was a family business, and she, the head of the Yi family, should be handed over to the "capable" second son Shen Mingyou, to run it, and let Shen Mingjun, the founder of the tea shop, concentrate on working in the Wang family, earning five or six hundred cents a month to supplement the family income.

Now that the business is over, the old lady finally admits that her second son is "not good at doing business", but pushes the matter to Shen Mingjun and his wife.

It’s not that Li is favored by one and the other, the old lady is as clear as a mirror. The decrease in money she earns in the first month can be said to be due to investment, but the money she handed over to her in the next two or three months was getting less and less, so she asked the people from the big house to help check the account. When she found that her second son was lazy and embezzled the money on the books, she immediately regretted it.

But due to the face of the head of the Yi family, she was unwilling to admit defeat. In the end, her plan to revitalize the family business was placed on the tea shop. Since then, Li has increased the supervision of Shen Mingyou, and sometimes even went to the tea shop to take charge. However, as time goes by, the business is still worse than that of yi, and now it can no longer hold on.

Li was afraid that Shen Mingjun and his wife would use this matter to question her original decision, so they came over and blocked their youngest son and his wife's mouths first.

It was Li who thought things too complicated. Shen Mingjun was so filial to my mother that he was obedient. He didn't even say anything about the operation rights of the tea shop that was taken away, let alone any dissatisfaction with Li now. Zhou devoted his energy to how to manage the medicine shop well, and occasionally paid attention to the printing workshop, and his mentality was very relaxed.

After hearing Li's words, Shen Mingjun said bitterly: "Mom, I have handed over all the wages I earned from the Wang family and the medicine shop every month to you. I really don't have any extra money to help the tea shop and my elder brother's family."

It would be fine if you didn't say this, but after Yi said this, Li immediately became angry: "Then do you mean that your mother is making things difficult for you?"

Zhou quickly said, "Mom, don't get me wrong. My husband didn't contradict your old man's intention. In fact, how much money my wife and husband earn every month, my mother should know and should not have more requirements for us."

Shen Mingjun and Zhou made a defense, wanting Li to let their family go, but this was very unhelpful when the old lady heard this.

Li said with a dark face: "Yes, I know you two have the ability and the tea shop is in your hands. Even if you manage less, you can make a lot of money every day. Now I hand it over to your second brother, and you will pay every day, and you will have to use money to fill it. I originally thought that business was just a temporary difficulty, but now I have to support those friends and pay rent. It's already too late to make ends meet. I think it's better to close the door directly."

Shen Mingyou was anxious when he heard this: "Mom, you just closed the shop like this. Didn't you cut off our hopes?"

Chen Xi thought to himself that the lazy second uncle was definitely not for the sake of his family, but was afraid that he would have to go back to the countryside to farm after the shop closed, and from then on he lived a life of facing the loess and facing the sky.

"Why?" Li started to get angry with Shen Mingyou, "How come the business is getting worse when the tea shop comes to your hands?"

Shen Ming was speechless when he had sex.

In fact, the reason is very simple. Because there are too many storytellers in the city, the competition has greatly intensified. With the printing of talk books and comic strips, the people have more ways to entertain, and they no longer have to go to the tea shop to listen to books to pass the boring time.

But Shen Mingyou never did market research at all. With his ability and insight, he was only attributed to the gentry and wealthy people in the city who learned so smartly and refused to go to his place to pack a VIP table to listen to books.

"Young wife, aren't you doing a good job in the pharmacy now? After all, this is someone else's business. Too hard work is not good for your family. It's better to take the time to go to the tea shop more and let's hold on for a while to see if you can get through it."

Li's words were a little soft, but in fact he wanted Zhou to go to the tea shop to see if he could clean up his business.

Now even Shen Mingyou stopped talking. The old lady Xiang Zhijiao was stern. He performed extremely badly in running a tea shop this time and had no say.

However, as long as the tea shop exists for a long time, he doesn't have to go back to the countryside. Even being a guy is much better than going back to the village.

Zhou Shiyi was unhappy when she heard this. When the tea shop was making money like water, the old lady insisted on taking away the shop when she went into the city. Now she was unable to manage it at a loss, and she wanted her to go back and take care of it. Then she went bankrupt and still had to rely on her? It was said that it was caused by her poor management?

Zhou is now managing Yi's pharmacy and secretly participating in the operation of printing workshops. He is already very busy.

"Mom, my wife is doing well in the pharmacy now. She is not young and old every month. She doesn't want to ask about the tea shop. I think she should let her second uncle continue to take care of it." Zhou said tentatively.

Li was very angry when he heard this, and stood up and shouted, "Okay, okay, you have grown up, you have both grown up and have a hard wing. You don't follow what your mother says. You would rather do things for outsiders and help others to take care of the shop than help the family. What's the use of supporting you in that family?"

The old lady stood up angrily, slammed the door and left. Shen Mingjun quickly followed him to explain. Shen Mingyou looked at Zhou's eyes, hummed, and left.

Zhou felt very aggrieved. When Li left, she was still wiping her tears in the yard.

Chen Xi and Lin Dai hid behind the door and looked at Li and Shen Mingjun. Shen Ming's two brothers' backs disappeared from the alley. Then they walked out and stepped into the yard. Zhou saw that they were two little guys, so he calmed down a little and said, "Your father probably won't come back for the night today. We'll go to your Aunt Sun's house tonight."

In the past, Zhou would tell her husband that her husband was a family member of her and she regarded Shen Mingjun as her only support.

But after Li took the shop away and her husband didn't help her, she began to have a grudge against Shen Mingjun, so she didn't mention the matter of running a printing workshop with her husband.

Now she has saved the money privately and sent it to Hui Niang for 2,000 taels of silver. Although this money is not enough to restore the Shen family's former glory, she can at least buy a large house in the county town and build more than 100 acres of land outside the city to live the life of a landlord.

Unfortunately, the old lady and her husband yi hurt her heart again and again, so she lost interest in taking out the money and decided to keep it confidential.

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