The fool has become a spirit, and she can speak

As Chen Qingsheng repaired the wooden door, he said slowly, "We've almost found a house. The reason we haven't paid the deposit is because my eldest brother wanted to bargain down the price. Now that so many people have moved into the palace, my brother said we can't wait any longer and have to buy it even if we don't have much money. My eldest brother said that my second brother will go take a look at the house today and there's nothing wrong with it. We can move in in the next few days."

He Ye squatted down opposite Chen Qingsheng, with a wooden door between them. "Are you moving out in the next few days?"

Chen Qingsheng nodded. "My elder and second brothers are shy and embarrassed to bother you like this. After all, there are too many people at the mansion. By the way, your father beat your mother several times last night. I heard that her leg was broken and she is still lying in bed. I think she can stay quiet for a few days. Don't be afraid. You don't have to go out to the streets to help me sell wooden basins anymore."

He Ye looked at Chen Qingsheng and put her hand on a door panel. Chen Qingsheng found two nails and wedged them into the board.

After a long while, He Ye finally spoke: "I'd better go to the street with you, otherwise what are you going to eat for lunch?"

Chen Qingsheng smiled. "Hey, I wouldn't eat without you! Just buy two buns and I can fill my stomach. Listen to me, you'd better not go. You'll be exposed to the wind and sun, and I won't pay you. Why are you going to set up a stall with me?"

"I have nowhere else to go except to look for you on the street." He Ye felt a little sad. She knew a few people in Fengying City, but they were all just acquaintances, not a close friend. If she didn't sit next to Chen Qingsheng's stall, she would just be wandering the streets.

Chen Qingsheng also noticed that He Ye had a cold personality, but he couldn't have a woman sitting next to him every day while he was setting up a stall. "He Ye, don't rich girls always go to places to listen to music and opera? Why don't you learn from them and go listen to music. You can sit somewhere where you can avoid the wind and rain, and someone will sing for you on the stage and someone will pour you water in the audience. What a wonderful thing!"

He Ye chuckled when she heard that. "You talk like you know a lot. Have you ever had tea or listened to music?"

Chen Qingsheng's eyes widened, and he looked very energetic. "Of course I've been there. Brother Fengzi took me there a few times. He would ask me to go there for tea and listen to music when he had nothing to do. My mind was on the stall, so I followed Fengzi and listened to the songs a few times, but then I didn't go again. But I have to say, the songs here are really authentic." At this point, Chen Qingsheng stretched his neck towards the lotus leaves through the flat wooden door and said mysteriously: "Let me tell you, the water here is also nourishing. Have you noticed that the girls here are also beautiful? Every girl walking on the street is a beautiful girl."

He Ye chuckled again when she heard this, "No wonder you sit on the street whether you have business or not, it turns out you are looking at girls."

"Don't talk nonsense. I'm squatting on the street to make a living. If I had money, I would also go there to drink tea and listen to music. Look at those people going in and out of the teahouse and theater. They are all rich young men. So you can also go there to kill time."

He Ye shook her head. "I'm not a rich girl. I won't go to that kind of place."

"Alas, your uncle is the prince! How can you not go? I heard from my sister-in-law that your monthly salary is twenty taels, so how can you not listen to music?"

He Ye nodded and said, "I do receive twenty taels of silver every month. My uncle and aunt love me, and the master and mistress of the Wan family are also very kind to me. They provide me with everything I need for food, clothing, and daily expenses. I have almost nothing to spend my monthly salary on."

When Chen Qingsheng heard this, his eyes widened and he threw the hammer in his hand at the flat wooden door, "Then you must be very rich!"

"Let me tell you this, not counting the jewelry and fine goods, I should have about two thousand two hundred or three hundred taels of silver."

Upon hearing the figure of 2,200 to 3,000 taels, Chen Qingsheng was completely convinced. "You've only been in the mansion for four or five years, and your monthly salary is 20 taels. Where did you get 2,200 to 3,000 taels?"

"The palace gives out bonuses every year, and everyone favors me, so I get more bonuses than others. I don't spend it, so I save it. My uncle saw that I kept all the money, so he took me to a reliable shop to deposit it to receive my monthly allowance. At first, the amount of money I deposited was small, and the monthly interest was also small. Later, it gradually increased. Now I can get a monthly allowance of nine taels from the shop, and I keep this nine taels at home. When the interest accumulates enough, I will also deposit it in the shop to continue to earn interest, because I have almost no place to spend the money."

Chen Qingsheng said in disbelief: "Money can actually make money this way."

He Ye smiled and nodded. "Yes, if my uncle hadn't taken me there, I wouldn't have dared to lend the money. Qingsheng, when you save enough money in the future, let my uncle help you find a shop to receive your monthly allowance. My uncle has many connections and knows a lot of people. Mainly because of his status, no one dares to embezzle the money he lends out. The shopkeepers my uncle introduces are all very reliable."

Chen Qingsheng felt sorry for himself, "I can only sell a basin for fifty coins, and I have to give it to my sister-in-law when I get home. I'll never be able to make any money!"

He Ye comforted him, saying, "It's better to keep the money at home. Aunt Yuhua always keeps it in her own hands because she's afraid someone else will run away with her money. She believes it's safer to keep it in her own hands. There are also many capable people who use their money to buy shops and land, so that they can make money faster. I don't have that ability. My uncle said that it's the easiest for me to keep the money in other people's shops and collect my monthly allowance."

Chen Qingsheng said enviously: "He Ye, I finally figured it out. What I, Chen Qingsheng, lack is not money, but an uncle. Ask Brother Fengzi if he needs a nephew. If he does, I will be his nephew..."

Before he finished speaking, a smiling voice came from behind Chen Qingsheng, "Who wants to be your nephew?"

The two people squatting on the ground hurriedly shouted for help, one called "uncle" and the other called "brother".

Not only Cheng Feng came, but Cheng Tiezhu also came.

When she saw Cheng Tiezhu, He Ye turned her face away.

At this time, Chen Qingsheng had already jumped up from the ground. With a gleam in his eyes, he pulled Cheng Feng's wrist and said, "Brother Fengzi, please help me make some money. I'm almost broke."

"Aren't you selling well at your street stall?"

Cheng Tiezhu said with a sad face: "I sell three pots a day at most, and usually I can only sell two."

Cheng Feng shook his head: "Do you really have to sell wooden basins?"

“I also sell wooden stools.”

"According to you, those who don't know how to do carpentry are not qualified to set up stalls?"

Chen Qingsheng was confused, "What does Brother Fengzi mean?"

He Ye whispered helplessly, "What my uncle means is that the things you sell don't have to be made by your own hands. You can sell something else."