Chapter 57: Selling Mooncakes
“I have a fiancée—”
After Yun Chengfeng dropped the words, he continued to eat mooncakes.
Wei Cheng: “……”
Zhou Yuan: “……”
Yun Chengfeng has a fiancée?! He didn’t look like a person with a fiancée at all, and he looked like he was uncaring of such a fact.
“Why didn’t you two respond?” Yun Chengfeng raised his head and asked, seeing that no one spoke, “Aren’t you curious?”
Were they not friends?! They just learned that he has a fiancé but they haven’t asked him about it yet.
Wei Cheng glanced at him, “If you want to say something you can say it, but if I have to ask you, you may feel like you’re being obligated to answer.”
“Young Master, are you still focused on eating, or are you going to talk about it now?” Zhou Yuan said.
He obviously doesn’t want to talk about it, and they won’t casually inquire about his privacy, they will ask if they are curious.
Yun Chengfeng: “…….” Does he look like a foodie?
When he told Wei Cheng and the two of them that he had a fiancée, while he seemed like didn’t seem to care, he was very entangled in his heart, so he ate to cover it up. But the couple’s words left him speechless with his entangled emotions.
“By the way, you don’t look like someone who has a fiancée, but you say you have a fiancée…” Wei Cheng said, “It’s the order of your parents! Don’t you like the other person?”
Yun Chengfeng instantly retorted, “Am I like the kind of person who is obedient and lets my family arrange my own marriage? If I don’t like the other young master then no one in the family will try to arrange a random person for me to marry.”
He is not his eldest brother, for him, it doesn’t matter who the family arranged the marriage with, getting married and marrying a wife is like completing a task.
His brother seemed incapable of showing emotion with his partners.
Yun Chengfeng was excited that Wei Cheng managed to guess wrong.
Wei Cheng raised his eyebrows, “Let’s talk about it.” Then he put on the face of someone listening attentively.
“….”
“My fiancée, I like him, that’s, it’s just that…” Yun Chengfeng’s expression became a little irritable- he didn’t want people to misunderstand that he didn’t like his fiancée but he became agitated when he mentioned such things. “I agreed to the marriage, but I’m a bit conflicted…”
Do you like him or not?!
Wei Cheng and Zhou Yuan looked at each other, wondering whether the other person liked their fiancé or was faking it. If they like them then they like them, is there such a thing as a contradicting ‘like’.
What a strange idea!
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If he keeps this attitude up until the new year then he won’t have a wife to hug him on the days of the Chinese New Year!
Zhou Yuan next to him blushed. Why did his husband even say this? He glared coquettishly at him. Wei Cheng smiled at him. His big hand under the table touched his wife’s hand, wrapping his palm around his limp hand, and squeezing it lightly. It made Zhou Yuan’s cheeks hot, but he liked this kind of sweetness very much, he let his husband hold his hands without much resistance.
“It’s that simple?” Yun Chengfeng didn’t notice the warm interaction between the two husbands, Wei Cheng’s words made him stare.
After pondering for a moment, Yun Chengfeng said, “However, the two of you are born into ordinary families. I am different from you, I was born into a distinguished family. Our marriage can be settled smoothly because the two families are well-matched.”
Wei Cheng asked, “What else do you have to worry about?”
“The problem is that when we get married in the future, the family will arrange concubines for me.” Yun Chengfeng said, “Three wives and four concubines are the rules for most men in my family, and I don’t think there is anything wrong with it. I don’t know why but seeing my mother, my sister-in-law, both gentle and virtuous in front of others, but forced to smile when they were married to my father and my brother. I think of him going through the same situation as my mother and sister-in-law in the future and I became afraid for him. How should I face him like this?”
Yun Chengfeng spoke incoherently, he felt conflicted and uncomfortable. One of the reasons why he left home was because he was afraid of seeing him and feeling useless.
He wondered what he would do if he made him sad.
His liking for him is belated, and when the marriage is settled, he becomes at a loss when facing him, and he doesn’t know how to get along with him. It was hard to please people, sometimes when he wanted to please his fiancé, his friends would talk nonsense, saying that he couldn’t treat him too well since he was just a ger, that it was unmanly, and then he’d feel that pleasing his fiancé was a shame in front of his friends.
Every time he saw Wei Cheng caring for his husband, he felt that a man should treat their husband like this so that the other party would be happy from the bottom of their hearts.
If the other party is happy, he will be happier!
“You said you wouldn’t accept any arrangement they make at home, so what else do you have to worry about?” Wei Cheng asked, “From another perspective if your family arranged for you to have another fiancée, would you resist?”
“Of course—” Yun Chengfeng said without thinking it through, and he was stunned after he realized what he said,
He will object. How could he accept the arrangement of a concubine in that family?
Why did it seem that this kind of natural response didn’t seem to be so natural?
Yun Chengfeng settled down and fell into deep thought.
For a long time, it has been the etiquette for a man to marry three wives and four concubines, but this etiquette doesn’t seem to be strictly followed…
Yun Chengfeng asked in a deep voice, “Wei Cheng, you will become a wealthy family in the future, what will you do then?”
Zhou Yuan didn’t understand this sentence, but Wei Cheng understood, and he said without hesitation, “I only have one wife in this life.”
Zhou Yuan glanced at his husband.
“Not a wife.” Yun Chengfeng looked at Wei Cheng and asked seriously, “I asked if you would take a concubine?”
Zhou Yuan’s body shook as his pupils shrank.
Wei Cheng sensed his turbulent emotions, his eyes hardened, he lightly pinched his wife’s little hand to comfort him, and said in a deep voice, “The young master may not understand what I mean, I mean that I will only have one person to accompany me for a lifetime, and my wife and concubine will only be him alone. There will be no one else.”
Wei Cheng was very focused when saying this, and his focus was on Zhou Yuan.
Zhou Yuan stared fixedly at Wei Cheng, his heart was full of emotions… The emotion was not sadness, but wordless excitement and unspeakable joy.
At this moment, he didn’t want to move away, he just wanted to look at his husband, and even wanted to throw himself into his arms, so that the emotions would settle and turn into honey—
Wei Cheng held his wife’s hand tightly and looked at him, he didn’t look away and just focused on him.
Yun Chengfeng: “…”
He didn’t come to see people to show their affection for one another, but he was very envious of their relationship.
However, he got the solution from Wei Cheng today, one that he had always been seeking since the conflict appeared in his heart.
It seems that he used to be too stubborn and his thinking was too fixed.
Yun Chengfeng, who was in a good mood, waved his hand, “I’ll order 800 boxes of mooncakes, and I want every type.” Thinking of something that seemed to be sentimental, he continued, “Amd another five boxes of sweet-scented osmanthus mooncakes and lotus paste mooncakes.”
The couple looked at each other with a smile and moved away. Wei Cheng was in a good mood and said leisurely, “Didn’t you ask for several hundred boxes before? No!”
Yun Chengfeng shook his fan and was also in a good mood, “Before, I wanted to give them as gifts. Your mooncakes are delicious so now I want to send them home. There are many relatives and friends at home, so 800 boxes are not many.”
“….”
“Okay! It’ll be ten taels for a box of lotus paste and another ten for every box of sweet-scented osmanthus.” Wei Cheng said, “No bargaining!”
Yun Chengfeng shouted in dissatisfaction, “It’s so expensive! This price is even higher than that of Baixiangzhai’s, you are just starting with this business!”
Wei Cheng was unconcerned as he said, “The gift boxes are all transparent gift boxes made of resin, and the gift boxes themselves would be worth one tael of silver. You can negotiate the price but if you change it to a brocade gift box, each box will cost one or two taels less.”
“That won’t work!”
As soon as he heard that it was a transparent gift box, Yun Chengfeng was not willing to change it, and he was not short of money so he said, “I don’t bargain, we can just follow the price you stated, and make it for me in advance as I have to ship it home before the Mid-Autumn Festival.”
By boat, his home was a few days away.
Wei Cheng nodded in agreement, for about 8,000 moon cakes, he needed more than 2,000 yolks- the materials were ready and could be made within a few days.
The moon cakes were ordered and eaten, but it didn’t mean that Yun Chengfeng had already left.
Yun Chengfeng asked leisurely, “I heard that the owner of the ship merchant sent you a large amount of mountain goods. What are you going to use these mountain goods for?” He was curious.
He was curious but Wei Cheng didn’t want to reveal it yet, “I can’t tell you yet but you’ll know when it’s commercially available.”
“…” Yun Chengfeng, “What do you want fish maw for? This can always be explained clearly to me, right?”
“I’ll dry it!”
“…” Yun Chengfeng felt that he was just being perfunctory. He already knew that the seafood was being made into dry goods so there was no need to say it, what he wanted to know was what kind of goods it would be made of.
The Haizhou workshop in Fucheng has already been established and has already started. There is no shortage of seafood, and he just purchased a large number of them.
Haizhou has no shortage of seafood, and most of them are seafood. The price of this seafood is very cheap in Haizhou. If it were transported to various state capitals, it would cost manpower and material resources to keep it fresh so the price will double when it is sold everywhere.
Sea fish can also be made into dry goods for sale but they have to be cleaned up for work, and a lot of fish maws were collected. Wei Cheng said that if they were just gonna be thrown away, they could be half-dried and shipped to him.
Wei Cheng still kindly told him, “The fish maw is to be sold as dry goods. The fish maw has many functions. You can buy a batch and I’ll send it back.”
“I sent you a boat and you want to sell it back to me?!”
“Then do you want to buy it? If you don’t want to buy it, I won’t sell it.”
“I’ll buy!”
The more Wei Cheng said so, the more he wanted to know the function of the fish maw, but since he didn’t mention it, he just bought it, and if he bought it, he should tell him the function of the fish maw.
It’s just fish maw, how much could it be worth?!
“A box costs ten taels!”
“You money-grabber!” Yun Chengfeng stared at him in shock.
“The original price is fifty taels a box, but I’ll give you a discounted price!” Wei Cheng said, “Don’t worry, you will not suffer! You will definitely feel that it is worth the money!”
Yun Chengfeng: “…”
He is now at a loss. The fish maw was being sold for ten taels a catty but he gave it to Wei Cheng for free. Now he is being asked to pay for it, and Wei Cheng has signed an agreement with him to give him all the fish maw. He really admired Wei Cheng’s guts.
If Yun Chengfeng knew, he thought it was ten taels a catty in that box, but later he realized it was less than half a catty, and he felt even worse!
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Thanks for the chapter! That young master is being fleeced, lol.