Chapter 63: Warm Dishes
The autumn rain pattered down, and the damp cold wind made people shiver.
Both Wei Cheng and his wife stayed at home.
In this kind of weather, with slanting wind and rain, a person’s whole body would become wet and cold when going out.
Nanshan County is extremely cold in autumn and winter, and there is a lot of rain in autumn. During winter, the rain is mixed with ice and snow so those who venture outside would feel the chill from head to toe without any warmth.
The business of the stall has declined in the past few days, despite the stall staying open, barely anyone wanted to eat with the cold wind blowing at them
The business of Xian Manju is very stable, but the peddlers in the county town sell a lot more goods. Even if they wanted to keep selling in the cold wind and rain, the raincoats are easy to get wet, and the goods carried by the peddlers are also easy to get wet.
Wei Cheng was thinking about this issue.
Zhou Yuan walked along the eaves from the kitchen back to the living room in the backyard, followed by Xiao-Liu, who was holding a stew pot in his hand. The fish maw soup in the stew pot was one of the tonics that Wei Cheng specially ordered the kitchen to stew for his wife every day.
Zhou Yuan was watching people doing things because his husband didn’t allow him to bother looking at the account books, so he walked along the porch of the house, and after walking back to the backyard, Xiao-Liu followed behind him with the stewpot.
Looking at his wife entering the house against the light, Wei Cheng got up, took off the cloak for him, held the man’s hand, and found that it was quite cold, Wei Cheng said, “It’s raining outside, your body is feeling cold- the moment I don’t pay attention, you ran out to meet with the cold wind.”
Zhou Yuan felt guilty and obediently let his head drop.
Wei Cheng pulled the other person to sit down and asked him to drink the tonic to warm up his body. After Zhou Yuan finished drinking, he said, “I have to go out and walk for a while, so as not to catch laziness from sitting for a long time.”
Wei Cheng touched his wife’s hand, found that his wife’s hand was still cold, and frowned, “You can walk around the house, look at your hands, it’s still cold, is it too cold?” He covered his wife’s hand.
“You’re thinking about something. I’m afraid of disturbing you by walking around.” Zhou Yuan said, “I’m not cold. I just have cold hands, every year in cold weather, my hands get a little cold but it’s not because my entire body is also feeling cold.”
His physique is like this, he is used to it.
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Wei Cheng said, “Let the doctor check on you some other day, and we can see how to rectify it.”
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Since he couldn’t go out, he sat next to his husband.
Zhou Yuan was reading a book beside Wei Cheng. The book was full of anecdotes, and literati customs, some were all kinds of intrigues in the back houses of the rich. The book was found by his husband for him to read. He wondered why his husband let him read these, and his husband said that it was so that he would see more, and so that he would know how to deal with all kinds of white lotus tricks.
At first, he didn’t know what a white lotus was. Although the story was about concubines being favored, using any means to compete for favor, he simply saw it as three wives and four concubines competing for favor. His husband told him that the means of these three wives and four concubines were ‘white lotus tricks’, he seems to understand a bit of what his husband meant now.
He looked at it for a while, and then leaned over to see the people around him writing with a pen, scribbling in a mess, and asked in doubt, “Husband, what are you writing? Why can’t I understand it?”
Wei Cheng stopped writing, “The business at the stall has declined because it’s too cold in autumn and winter. We can’t sell liangpi and coleslaw this season so the food at the stall needs to be changed, and the layout of the stall also needs to be changed. I wrote it too quickly so it’s normal if you can’t understand it since it’s scribbled.”
Zhou Yuan asked again, “Should we also remove the cold dishes from Xian Manju?”
Wei Cheng answered, “Yes, cold dishes are not suitable for sale in autumn and winter.”
Zhou Yuan thought for a while and said, “In this case, will the supply of coleslaw to Steward Chen in the inner county be stopped, and will Steward Chen have any objections? The purchase of vegetables in the village will also stop, and the helpers like Aunt Yang and the others will lose their jobs, then how should all these be dealt with?”
“I will tell Steward Chen in advance that there are other new foods for him to choose from. If he wants to continue selling coleslaw then I can still supply them to him. It depends on his choice.” Wei Cheng said, “Vegetables in the village still need to be purchased but there will be fewer purchases- Aunt Yang and the others don’t have to worry as there are plenty of jobs in the workshop for them to do, and we won’t kick people out”
He wants to keep recruiting workers, and Aunt Yang is a skilled worker, so how could he make her stop her work?!
He was relieved to know that his husband had arranged things properly, he then asked curiously, “What new food are we going to do?”
“Hot pot.”
“Hot pot?” He has never heard of it, anyway of his husband’s new food.
Wei Cheng said with a smile, “After two days, I will prepare the tools and ingredients, we can try them at home, and you will know.”
It was not raining anymore but the sky was still dark and heavy.
Yun Chengfeng, who had been hanging outside for a few days, came to their door in a carriage. He came to Wei Cheng’s house just as Wei Cheng was preparing hot pot food. He happened to come just as they planned to eat new food today.
When Wei Cheng saw Yun Chengfeng, he finally remembered that he hurried out that day of the incident with the sisters-in-law so they hadn’t finished talking- the man came to the door with great momentum so it seemed that he had come to settle accounts with him.
“Young Master Yun is truly radiant. Come, Xiao-Liu, serve Young Master Yun some tea.” It was the first time that Wei Cheng, who was with a guilty conscience, greeted a certain someone so enthusiastically.
Yun Chengfeng watched Wei Cheng and his husband drinking tea leisurely, and compared with him who was busy every day, his heart became unbalanced, “You are really too promising, you just drink tea with your husband at home every day, don’t you don’t plan to make any more money?”
Wei Cheng said coolly, “You can’t always be making money, you have to rest when you should rest.”
“You stayed at home for six days, isn’t that enough?” Yun Chengfeng said, “Be careful that your husband would think you’ve become lazy.”
Wei Cheng glanced over, “Are you here to argue with me?”
How could his husband despise him, his husband likes him the most.
“I’m here to ask you for the goods.” Yun Chengfeng said, “Give me as many isinglass craft goods, candles, handmade soaps, and fish gelatin goods as you have.”
If his brother hadn’t written to ask for him something then he would’ve been too busy to remember to come to find someone.
He didn’t expect those isinglass, candles, and handmade soaps to be demanded so vehemently at the imperial city, that it became too popular. The elders in the family were so annoyed that the women of the aristocratic families kept coming to ask them when they could purchase more so the elders asked his brothers to produce some and, well, his brother ordered him to send back a batch of those goods- his tone was so distasteful to those aristocratic women.
If the goods were not delivered to the imperial city then his brother would come in person.
The prospect of his brother coming in person was so terrifying- if his eldest brother truly came, he would have to face his brother’s ice-cold expression.
“You want all of it?” Wei Cheng asked, “Are you going to open a shop to sell it?”
Yun Chengfeng replied, “What shop can I open, they are all going to be transported to the imperial city. Last time, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, everything sent there became a rarity in the imperial city so my brother gave me an order to deliver a batch to him, otherwise he would have to come to Nanshan County in person. My glass workshop hasn’t started yet, otherwise, I wouldn’t ask you for all the goods in your hands.”
He does not care how his brother sells the goods, as long as he doesn’t come here in person.
Wei Cheng thought about how much inventory he had, and how much goods he could distribute, “I’ll give you half of the goods- half of the goods are already a lot, and the price would be based on the shipping price. As for how much you sell them for in the imperial city, I have nothing to do with it.”
“Deal!” As long as the goods are transported back to the imperial city.
So straightforward! Wei Cheng raised his eyebrows, “I think you have premeditated this deal.”
“I didn’t premeditate anything.” Yun Chengfeng took a sip of tea, thought of something, and said with a smile, “By the way, Xian Manju egg yolk cakes and osmanthus cakes are also needed, one hundred boxes of each. My family likes to eat them, so I will deliver them along the way back.”
Wei Cheng squinted his eyes, “It’s for your fiancée, I know you want to pamper him!” With such a happy smile, it seems that the emotional matter has been resolved.
Yun Chengfeng admitted, “Giving gifts to my future family is the most important thing. By the way, I allow you to spoil your husband, so why don’t you allow me to spoil my husband?”
Wei Cheng looked at his wife and nodded seriously, “That’s true.” He really had nothing to refute, they were both people who dote on their wives.
Zhou Yuan’s face turned red.
If they want to talk about things then they should talk about serious ones. Since they were talking about their wives, Zhou Yuan found an excuse to slip away.
Zhou Yuan left, and the two of them were talking about the things they hadn’t finished talking about last time,, Wei Cheng said, “The white sugar is in stock, leave me a few thousand catties.”
Yun Chengfeng asked, “What do you want so much white sugar for? Do you want to eat it yourself?”
Wei Cheng despised his words, “Who wants to eat so much sugar,” He did not want to have diabetes, “I’ll use it to make handmade food.”
The despised Yun Chengfeng: “…”
He should just say it directly, why does he have to let him guess?
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We’re the ones eating too much sugar (✿◕‿◕✿)
Why can’t I find a husband like A’Cheng???😭😭 They’re talking about white sugar but are feeding us dog food lol
Thanks for the update!
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