The first step in the book is to start selling tofu

What does nearly a hundred taels mean?

If you add a little more, you can buy a slightly smaller house on their street.

Rich people confirmed.

I just don't know how much money this rich widow has left to squander.

The neighbors hoped that Lin Zhi would come to their shop one day and buy a lot of their goods, but in their hearts they also wanted to make fun of Lin Zhi's family and hoped that their money would be squandered and they would become penniless.

Today, not long after Lin Zhi and Daya returned home from their shopping spree, people from several nearby stores immediately gathered together to gossip.

The topic was how much money Lin Zhi and his friends spent today.

As they were talking, they were interrupted by a strong aroma.

"Gulu!"

I don't know who made the swallowing sound, but it seemed like it was the beginning, and the rest was the sound of swallowing saliva.

People in this dynasty only ate two meals a day. Those who could afford it would have some desserts between meals, while those who couldn't could only wait until the next meal.

A few days ago, the smell of food could be smelled from Lin Zhi's house every noon. I don't know how many times I have been criticized behind his back for being a spendthrift by these people.

They stayed here for so long at noon today, and they thought that Lin Zhi's family would finally have two meals a day as normal.

Who knew that today he was not not going to eat, but instead made a big one.

The aroma would make them eat two more bowls of food.

"She wants to open a restaurant, doesn't she?"

One of the women resisted the urge to run and knock on the door to beg for food and began to analyze the situation.

These stores near the end of the alley are not big, and most of them are run by couples. Moreover, due to their geographical location, there is almost no customer flow.

So these people like to get together and chat to kill time.

"Opening a restaurant? She will lose a lot of money." Another woman curled her lips and said disdainfully: "Our shop relies on craftsmanship to make a living. Except for those who want to make things, no one would come here specially."

Even the group of students from the college would take a shortcut and bypass them in order to get to the other end of the alley to eat more delicious food.

Swatting flies is their daily routine.

"Didn't the Li family just start a food business out of desperation? They went bankrupt in less than three days. If she wants to start a food business, I bet she won't last three days."

"Yeah, right, right."

The first woman who spoke nodded in agreement, but in her heart she was thinking that if Lin Zhi really opened a restaurant, she would definitely go and try it first.

The fragrance is so good.

While this group of people were still chattering and criticizing Lin Zhi, the fragrance changed again.

Stronger and more overbearing than before.

"I have made some soup at home. I want to go back and take a look."

"My husband seems to be calling me, so I'll go back first."

"My home..."

......

All of a sudden, the women who had just gathered together found excuses to leave, leaving only the owner of the store.

When the woman saw everyone had left, she curled her lips.

Everyone said that there was something going on at home, but how could it be such a coincidence that everyone's family problems happened at the same time.

She sniffed hard, her face intoxicated and fascinated.

But thinking that the fragrance came from Lin Zhi's house, she closed the door in disgust.

But the fragrance was so overbearing that even with the door closed, it would still seep in through the crack.

"You want to do business behind closed doors in broad daylight?"

The woman's husband came back from outside and saw the store door closed. He opened the door and found his wife at home, and he couldn't help but scold her.

Their store's location is not good to begin with, and business is very poor. If they close the store, they won't even be able to eat this month.

When the woman heard what her husband said about her, she immediately became unhappy: "You said that as if you would get business if you kept the door open."

Upon hearing this, the man immediately slapped the woman in the face and said, "You're such a bad mouth, you've ruined my business."

Women are not good-tempered. How can they bear it when they hear men blaming themselves for the poor business of their own family?

"You blame me for everything. Why don't you think about whether it's because you have no ability. If you have ability, spend more money to buy a shop with a good location. Can I stay here and swat flies every day?"

"You said I'm incompetent?" The man was so angry that he couldn't speak smoothly. He pointed at his nose and said, "Is it because I don't want to buy a shop in a better location? It's because your father is sick and has spent all the money I have as a son-in-law."

"That's my father. He's sick. What's wrong with spending a little money from you?" The woman retorted stubbornly: "If you were capable, how could you not have any money left to buy a better shop after spending so little money?"

The man was furious when he heard this, and felt that the woman in front of him was too unreasonable:

"Your brother who sells tofu is quite capable, isn't he? Why don't you go back and live with him? I want to see if the man who refused to pay money even when his father was dying would take in a married sister and raise her."

Having said that, he kicked the woman out.

He spent so much money on his deceased father-in-law and never regretted it. What he regretted was why he married such a woman.

The woman was pushed out of the house with a look of disbelief on her face.

"This man gets angry when I tell him the truth. I was really blind to marry him at all costs..."

The woman kept complaining about all the bad things about her man, but she never went to the home of the person her man hated, even if that person was her brother.

It was not because she cared about her husband's feelings, but because the matter her brother asked her to help investigate had not been clarified yet.

Recently, the largest restaurant in the city, Fu Man Lou, suddenly stopped ordering tofu from her brother, and her brother lost a large amount of fixed income.

After checking, I found out that they had found a better supply of tofu and didn't like the one her brother made.

But her brother couldn't find out who supplied the goods, so he asked her to keep an eye on it.

How could she, who stayed in her own shop every day, check it out? It was giving her a headache.

The newly moved neighbor suddenly brought a gift, and it turned out to be tofu.

She grabbed a piece and ate it on the spot. It was not the tofu sold by her brother. It was obvious that the tofu made by her brother was far inferior in texture and taste.

It was for this reason that she set her sights on Lin Zhi, hoping to find out the source of the tofu from her.

Originally, she thought that the tofu was bought by Lin Zhi, and never thought that the tofu was made by Lin Zhi.

She could just ask directly, but she was jealous of Lin Zhi. She was jealous that she could buy whatever she wanted, but when she wanted to buy something feminine, her husband would ask her the reason.

So she didn't want to ask Lin Zhi any questions at all, as she felt that asking Lin Zhi questions would make her look inferior to her.

So, she not only did not greet Lin Zhi and build a relationship with him to get the answer she wanted.

Instead, out of jealousy, she and a few nearby women came to slander Lin Zhi every day.