Chapter 56: Aunts Coming To Their Door
Handmade candles and soaps begin to be produced.
The first batch produced had styles that were simple as it was necessary to test the skills of the newly employed people first.
As for complicated and delicate styles, they mean that they need to search for skilled people, and their character must pass the test so that they can make complex and delicate styles for them.
As for Zhou Qiu’s elder brother, Zhou Yongtao, Wei Cheng arranged for him to make transparent packaging boxes at the workshop. Resin glass is made by people who have been bought with a contract and they will not easily reveal the method.
After starting their work, the gers and women went home with a scent, and their family members were curious about what kind of crafts the workshop was making. Wei Cheng asked them to tell the outside world about making candles and soaps.
People who made these candles and soaps signed contracts and dared not disclose the specific details but it was alright to tell their family that they were just making ordinary candles and soaps.
As for the raw materials for making candles and soaps, they were prepared separately, the key processes were separated, and the names of each material were replaced by codes. Even if they know the process, they will not know the raw materials.
In this way, after the sale of candles and soaps, various forces will be prevented from secretly inquiring about their methods of production.
Even with Tai Fu Luo as their backer, in the face of interests, it is impossible to stop the forces behind others from secretly inquiring.
It is necessary to eliminate the root of the disaster and prevent future troubles.
Candles and scented soaps are styles that these people have never seen before, and they are all amazed as they are making them. These novel and expensive goods are made from their own hands, and they thought that they were going to be sold to rich people. They were making things for rich people, thinking of this, some people felt honored in their hearts.
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Half a month before the Mid-Autumn Festival came, Zhou Yuan’s eldest paternal aunt and Zhou Lanlan came to their door.
They didn’t go to Wei Cheng’s house but went directly to the grocery store.
Ever since gers and girls were recruited there to work, everyone in the village knew that the workshop was run by Wei Cheng’s family.
When the mother and daughter came, several guys were working in the lobby of the grocery store, and when they entered the grocery store, they put on airs in front of the grocery store guys.
Zhou Yuan’s aunt stood in the lobby of the grocery store, and shouted arrogantly to a clerk: “I am the eldest aunt of your boss, pass this news on to them.”
The mother and daughter put on makeup and dressed up beautifully, Zhou Lanlan turned her nose up and looked at others with arrogance;
The guys working in the grocery store looked at each other in blank dismay.
Who are they? How could they be so arrogant?!
Their boss is easy-going to the people below, and they have never acted arrogant in front of them!
“Please sit down for a while, and wait for the little one to pass the news.”
Wei Shi of the grocery store was in charge of looking after the guests, he arranged for the mother and daughter to sit on the seats in the lobby and called for someone to pour tea for them.
According to the rules of Wei Cheng’s family, anyone who comes is a guest, and they must be treated equally with courtesy, and no one should be underestimated, even a ragged beggar.
The mother and daughter misunderstood that Wei Shi was treating them courteously because of their identities, and their expressions became even more arrogant.
If there are distinguished guests in the grocery store, the reception will not arrange for people to sit in the guest seats in the lobby, but arrange for them to sit in the side hall. The side hall is the place to receive distinguished guests, and the private room upstairs of the grocery store is the place to receive important distinguished guests.
The reception for important guests with identities is distinct.
The guests staying in the lobby are either unknown or ordinary guests.
Wei Shi reported the arrival of the two in the living room in the backyard.
When Wei Cheng and Zhou Yuan heard that their aunt and Zhou Lanlan had arrived, they were obviously taken aback.
They immediately looked at each other.
What are these two people doing here?
Now that they were already here, they still had to meet them.
Wei Cheng said, “Wei Shi, you arrange for them to be put in the side hall but follow the same rules as when you are receiving guests in the lobby, no special treatment.”
When Wei Shi heard that he was going to arrange people to the side hall, he thought he had made a mistake, but after listening to what his master said later, he knew that there was no mistake in judgment- mother and daughter were not in good terms with the masters.
With such an arrogant attitude, putting on a show as soon as they came, they will not be welcomed!
Wei Shi retreated.
Zhou Yuan asked, “Husband, what are the eldest aunts and her daughter doing here?” His cousin Zhou Lanlan also followed! Zhou Lanlan has always disliked him, how could this happen?
Wei Cheng shook his head, it’s not that he couldn’t guess, it’s just that it was hard to say which one of his guesses was right. They couldn’t have come for no reason, after all.
“We’ll know if we go and meet them.”
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Wei Cheng thought for a while, then nodded, “Let Xiao-Liu go with you, don’t be in a room alone with Auntie and her daughter.”
Anyways, their aunt is an elder who is not easy to get along with so he was afraid that his wife would suffer. He would feel more relieved letting his wife go to see the eldest aunt alone with Xiao-Liu is around.
Zhou Yuan took his maid, Xiao Liu, to the side hall.
“Auntie, Lan Lan.”
Zhou Yuan’s aunt got up from her seat and shouted enthusiastically, “Yuan-ger!”
His cousin Zhou Lanlan was still sitting in her seat without moving a bit, and called casually, “Cousin.”
Zhou Yuan’s aunt looked behind Zhou Yuan, there was no one there so she asked, “Yuan-ger, why are you alone, where is my nephew-in-law?” Her purpose here was to find Wei Cheng, not Zhou Yuan.
“Auntie, are you here to talk with my husband?”
Zhou Yuan sat down, Xiao-Liu prepared tea, put it at his side, and then stood behind Zhou Yuan without leaving. Her actions attracted Zhou Yuan’s aunt as she stared at her, as if dissatisfied with Xiao-Liu’s presence, what she wanted to say was something not meant for others to hear.
But today, she came here to ask for help, so she did not let anything stop her.
“There are distinguished guests here, so it’s inconvenient for my husband to come over.” Zhou Yuan had no choice but to lie.
When the mother and daughter heard the word ‘distinguished guest’, their eyes lit up instantly, and Zhou Lanlan’s bored and perfunctory attitude changed, suddenly becoming both joyful and excited.
“Yuan-ger, the honored guest that my nephew-in-law was entertaining, is it… the noble young master who was sitting next to my nephew-in-law that night?”
Zhou Yuan didn’t understand what the aunt said at first, but after being stunned for a while, he suddenly realized what night his aunt was referring to, and the young master she was talking about should be Young Master Yun Chengfeng.
Zhou Yuan was not stupid. Seeing his cousin Zhou Lanlan’s excited expression, her face blushing, and his aunt’s amazingly bright eyes, she knew why the two of them were here today.
Could it be that his eldest aunt and cousin Zhou Lanlan are trying to trick Yun Chengfeng’s family?!
“No.”
After Zhou Yuan finished speaking, the mother and daughter lost interest and didn’t even bother to inquire who it was.
“Yuan-ger, Auntie treats you well, right? Today I am here for Lan Lan’s affairs. Lan Lan is your cousin. Only you can help with this matter. You can’t shirk it to others.” Zhou Yuan’s aunt directly entered the topic she wanted.
Zhou Yuan: “…”
When did his eldest aunt treat him well?!
If she were to say this in front of outsiders, she would seem to be a kind aunt now, if she were to say this in Qinghe Village, everyone would think that his aunt’s head was broken!
“…Your cousin said that he will definitely be admitted as a scholar next year. Next year, our family will be a scholar’s family, and Lan Lan will be the sister of a scholar. I think the noble young master from that night matches my Lan Lan very well.”
“That noble young master is your guest, and he is so familiar with our nephew-in-law, so he must have a good relationship with him.” Zhou Yuan’s aunt said, “Ask your husband to arrange for that noble young master to meet with my family’s Lan Lan. This noble young master will definitely like my family’s Lan Lan. It is a good thing that the man is unmarried and the woman is not married! The two of them met by fate so this is a match made in heaven!”
From the beginning to the end, his aunt was talking while Zhou Yuan only speechlessly sat there.
Fortunately, he didn’t let my husband come, otherwise, he doesn’t know how they should say no. It is much simpler for him to reject his aunt since he is married to her, he can just say that this was not up to him.
“Auntie, it’s hard to say, I can’t decide this matter.”
“You definitely can’t decide this matter. All I’m asking you is to mention it to your husband. I’ll just wait for good news from your husband.”
What a thick face.
The mother and daughter pair were happy to leave as if things were already decided!
Zhou Yuan: “…”
Xiao-Liu: “…”
As soon as they left, Wei Cheng went to the side hall of the lobby, and seeing the speechless expressions of his wife and maidservant, Wei Cheng was immediately curious about what his wife’s aunt said to make them show such expressions.
“Yuan Yuan, what did your aunt say?”
Zhou Yuan, “Lan Lan has taken a fancy to Young Master Yun’s family…” It was already this difficult to say out loud!
Wei Cheng raised his eyebrows, not surprised.
Xiao-Liu added, “They also said that Young Master Tang will be admitted as a scholar next year. Miss Lan Lan and Master Yun’s family are very suitable. This marriage is a match made in heaven. Young Master Yun will like Miss Lan Lan. If the marriage between Master Yun and Miss Lan Lan were successful …” Xiao-Liu paused for a moment, and said with a smothered smile, “My lord will have a good face to show at his husband’s house for arranging such a match, and it’s Miss Lan Lan’s blessing to have such a good cousin.”
Wei Cheng: “…”
Why should his wife rely on outsiders for his face at home, this person thinks too highly of herself!
When his wife is at home, he has to obey him!
Later on.
The older aunt left and a younger aunt came.
However, when his wife’s maternal aunt came, she was with his mother-in-law and they came together so Wei Cheng had to personally receive them.
His mother-in-law had accompanied Zhou Yuan’s aunt but it was the aunt who had a request. They did this since it was not too embarrassing to talk about things with his mother-in-law.
Zhou Xiaorui also likes Yun Chengfeng.
In the conversation between the aunt and mother-in-law, the young master Yun Chengfeng is his friend, and he can talk to him. If it weren’t for Zhou Xiaorui making trouble at home, and her aunt thinking that her daughter was not too bad and maybe she could marry my aunt thought her daughter was not bad, and if she could marry that noble young master then the family situation would be different. The aunt went to his mother-in-law to let him act as an intermediary, and the aunt and mother-in-law came to the door.
When did Wei Cheng become a matchmaker?!
“What do mother-in-law and auntie think of that young master’s family background that day?”
The two were taken aback.
Zhou Yuan’s aunt asked tentatively, “He is a young master of a rich family in the inner county?”
Wei Cheng didn’t know what to say about Yun Chengfeng’s family background for a while as he knew only a little bit about Yun Chengfeng’s family background. However, from his conversation, and the status of Tai Fu Luo in the entire county, his identity background definitely means that he comes from a big family, a high-ranking official family.
Zhou Yuan’s aunt said, “Xiaorui said that Young Master is your friend, and his family must be wealthy, so he is technically not someone who could be seen interacting with you and Zhou-ger It can be seen that the son-in-law and the Young Master have a good relationship and are friends, it also seems that that young master does not look down on us country people. Xiaorui said that us two families are relatives- we are in-laws and Yuan-ger is our nephew. If we get in touch with the master and get along more then there won’t be a problem with our family status.”
Zhou Xiaorui’s original words were more confident, saying that if she could get close to that noble young master, he would definitely like her!
Zhou Yuan’s aunt also needs to be shameless since her daughter has no shame, she has to use her words correctly.
Wei Cheng: “……”
People are quite good at making small calculations.
If it wasn’t for his mother-in-law, Wei Cheng didn’t want to meddle in and remind her.
“That young master’s family is not from Nanshan County, he is from the provincial capital, maybe even from the imperial city,” Wei Cheng said bluntly, “Let’s put it this way, auntie, even with my relationship with Young Master Yun’s family, we would even be able to be involved with such high-ranking people of the imperial city.”
If Yun Chengfeng has a crush on someone, it’s a different matter but otherwise, it’s impossible!
Zhou Yuan’s aunt instantly showed embarrassment.
What Wei Cheng said was blunt. Fortunately, it was all in front of their own family. If they was in front of outsiders, she would feel ashamed, people would be saying that her family wanted to aspire to power.
That she and her daughter were greedy and delusional.
Her daughter can forget it- she is too confident and was already fantasizing about marrying into a wealthy family… No matter what, she’ll have to dispel her thoughts.
Her family is still not worthy!
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The first batch of mooncakes was out of the oven.
The first batch of mooncakes was baked and tried for sale at Xian Manju.
Wei Cheng and his wife were about to try freshly baked mooncakes in the private room of Xian Manju when Yun Cheng heard the news.
“This is the mooncake you mentioned. It looks exquisite and smells delicious but I still don’t know how it tastes.” Yun Chengfeng sat down and picked up the uncut mooncake on the table to look at it.
“Wei Cheng, you are so mean, you don’t even call this young master when you already have mooncakes.”
Wei Cheng glanced at him and moved the palm-sized six types of mooncakes placed on the table plate to his face, with a wooden knife and fork beside him, and cut them open with the knife and fork, dividing them into four small pieces.
When he and his wife are alone, they don’t let anyone serve them as they like to do it by themselves most of the time.
Wei Cheng took the cut mooncakes, put small pieces of mooncakes on a plate, and gave a portion of it to his wife.
“Yuan Yuan, try it if it’s delicious.”
Zhou Yuan looked at the mooncakes placed in front of him, and signaled with his eyes: Husband, don’t you want to give the young master a piece, isn’t that bad?
Wei Cheng gave his wife a reassuring look and asked him to eat first.
Fortunately, Zhou Yuan is used to it. Every time he eats with Yun Chengfeng, he always gets to eat first, and now there is no pressure.
Yun Chengfeng stared at them indignantly, “What about mine? You only take care of your wife, why don’t I get some?”
He came here to eat mooncakes, not to see others eat them.
He is used to seeing Wei Cheng as the first to take care of his wife and they were friends and got along with each other casually which is why he was never truly offended.
He was still dissatisfied with Wei Cheng though, why didn’t he have a share?!
After Wei Cheng waited for his wife to take the first bite, he got one for himself. Yun Chengfeng just smiled, thinking that Wei Cheng was gonna give some to him, but Wei Cheng put a small plate of mooncakes in front of himself and ate them with a fork.
Yun Chengfeng was dumbfounded!
After thinking about it, he didn’t offend Wei Cheng with such a difference in treatment, right? He got the salted eggs for the mooncakes, and he deserves credit for his hard work.
Wei Cheng said leisurely, “If you want to eat, do it yourself.”
Yun Chengfeng: “…”
Zhou Yuan ate the lotus paste-flavored mooncake, “Husband, this lotus paste mooncake is delicious. It is served with salted egg yolk. The lotus paste is fragrant and the egg yolk is salty. Unexpectedly, the taste is not weird, but very delicious.”
His family has bought mooncakes sold in the market before. They are oblate, red bean flavored, which are the most common type of mooncakes for them.
The moon cakes in front of him are round and flower-shaped, with the word “福” printed on them.
There are six flavors, egg yolk lotus paste, egg yolk rose bean paste, winter rong, barbecued pork with five kernels, walnut sesame, osmanthus, and lotus root.
The moon cakes are burnt yellow on the outside, but the osmanthus and lotus roots are white.
The mooncakes are the best mooncakes he has ever eaten, no wonder his husband insists on making salted egg yolks.
Wei Cheng said softly, “This is sweet-scented osmanthus and lotus root flavor. You like sweet-scented osmanthus so I specially arranged to make it. You can try it.” He took a wooden fork and put it on the wife’s plate.
Zhou Yuan took a bite and his eyes lit up, “It smells so sweet, even more fragrant than osmanthus cake.”
Wei Cheng asked him with a smile, “Do you like it?”
Zhou Yuan smiled softly: “I like it, thank you, husband!”
Wei Cheng said gently, “Eat more if you like it! Try the other flavors, they are also delicious.”
“It is good!”
Yun Chengfeng: “…”
Since neither the husband nor the wife paid attention to him then he has no choice but to do it himself, and put a piece of each style on his plate. As soon as the mooncake was in his mouth, Yun Chengfeng thought it was the best mooncake he had ever eaten.
Wei Cheng finally looked at Yun Chengfeng this time, and said slowly, “In the past two days at the grocery store, Yuan Yuan’s two aunts came to visit one after another, disturbing my wife.”
Yun Chengfeng ate a piece of mooncake, rolled his eyes, and thought: What do I have to do with your husband’s aunts coming to visit?!
Wei Cheng continued to speak slowly: “Both of them have a daughter, and these two cousins have the same goal and fell in love with the same person, and they came to ask us to be the middleman.”
Yun Chengfeng was about to eat a piece, but he gave it some thought. It’s really strange that the two cousins fell in love with one person, and he said casually, “Which man is so lucky to have caught the hearts of your husband’s two cousins at the same time?”
Two people related to one another fell in love with a man at the same time, and if they realized that they fell in love with the same person then this would be a good show!
“Master Yun’s family must be very lucky.” Wei Cheng smiled, “Congratulations to Master Yun, my husband’s two cousins seem to have fallen for you.”
“Ahem—”
Yun Chengfeng choked on a mouthful of mooncake!
After taking a big sip of tea, he swallowed the mooncake that was stuck in his throat.
He dared to make such a trap for him to step on, they wanted to see him make a joke of himself!
Come on, he really has no luck when it comes to these two!
No wonder he was being treated differently today, it turns out that’s what happened! Wei Cheng was exacting revenge for his wife!
Wei Cheng continued jokingly, “Young master, which one do you want to choose so that I can reply to them?”
Zhou Yuan covered his mouth and snickered.
Yun Chengfeng smiled, “…Thanks but I have a fiance!”
Husband and wife: “????”
HAHAHAHA the best reply possible 😂😂
Hahahahaha!! I hope Young Master Yun’s fiance will get to enter the scene and face-slap those two cousins! 👹
Wow, some poeple went delulu~
Thank You for the new chapter (灬♥ω♥灬)
Yuan-yuan I’m snickering with you 🤭🤭🤭
Zhou Yuan snickering on the side gives me life
Lmao Yun Cheng Feng choking is kinda pitiful but also funny 🤣