A time-travelling peasant girl becomes a wealthy woman

The two men received the silver and left happily.

In early August, the houses and workshops in Xiushan Village gradually took shape.

Huang Mulin went back several times and confirmed the construction details with Lao Tian again and again. He also answered Lao Tian's questions about the structure, and everything went smoothly.

The layout of the workshop next door is much simpler. According to Huang Mulin's current needs, the craftsmen's construction focus is temporarily on the workshop, and it is estimated that it will be put into use soon.

Yang Lijun sold the black pearls she dug out of the seashell last time on the black market. The two black pearls sold for 10,000 taels, and the other golden and milky white pearls sold for a total of 13,000 taels.

It was a huge sum of money, enough for her to build the house and workshop.

The fourth son of the Huang family went to a private school.

In private schools, some children who live far away can pay extra to stay in the backyard of the school. There are special people to cook, clean, clear excrement, wash clothes, etc. The amount of money paid is proportional to the service provided.

Because they were transfer students, the teacher who received them in the private school thought they had got in through a backdoor. Although he accepted the children respectfully, he did not have any expectations.

However, when he conducted the academic test as usual, he found that these children had read quite a lot of books and their handwriting was quite good. Especially the third child, Huang Xilin, was a definite good prospect!

This made the teacher very happy, so he directly enrolled them in the senior class and taught them personally, and also informed another teacher.

The private school had some promising students with good academic backgrounds, so the two teachers naturally taught them wholeheartedly, allowing the four children to make rapid progress.

During this period, Tang Jide returned to the Tang family.

Tang Zhongguan had some opinions about Tang Jide's behavior because he hadn't been seen for many days and hadn't explained the reason. But when he heard Tang Jide's report, he instantly felt that the Tang family was lucky.

"Dad, I want to settle down in Linhai Town temporarily."

This was a decision he made after thinking for a long time before returning to Changling Mansion.

Although Tang Qian is in charge of that place, he does not have much say in the Tang family. The details of the cooperation with the Huang family still need to be decided by him or his father. It would be better for him to go there and gain more face in front of Yu Zhenzhou and his wife.

Tang Zhongguan also thought of this, and without hesitation, asked him to go back and discuss and pack with his wife and children, and just tell him when he was ready.

At the same time, he said that regarding the cooperation with Linhai Town, as long as it would not cause any serious damage to the Tang family, Tang Jide could make the decision directly.

Tang Jide agreed.

Three days later, he went to Linhai Town with his wife, children and a group of servants.

After Tang Jide left, Tang Qian bought a large courtyard on North Street as he requested. The price was relatively expensive, but it was a drop in the bucket for the Tang family.

After Tang Jide arrived, Tang Qian took them to settle down.

That day, Huang Bo and Huang Mulin came to Qian Donglai's pottery kiln.

The squat toilet finally worked.

During this period, Qian Donglai had no idea how many semi-finished products he had broken or burned. There were always defects. This time, he finally produced a work that could be considered a success.

After comparing the thickness, hardness, smoothness, cleanability, etc. of the squat toilets, Huang Mulin gave Qian Donglai a thumbs up.

Although there are still some flaws, it can meet the needs of daily use.

It can also be put on the market.

Qian Donglai glanced at Huang Bo proudly, only to receive a glare from Huang Bo in return.

Huang Mulin gave Qian Donglai one hundred taels of silver notes, firstly to pay for the materials and labor Qian Donglai had consumed during this period, and secondly to order a batch of squat toilets for the house and workshop, including Yang Lijun's embroidery shop, the servants' house, and the backyard of the shop where they lived now. She wanted to renovate them all.

Qian Donglai accepted it, and with the experience he gained he felt more confident.

In addition, Huang Mulin told him that the workshop would be put into use soon and there was a great demand for pottery jars, so she ordered two thousand.

Huang Mulin placed so many orders at once that Qian Donglai was a little unsure because he only had two sons to help him make embryos and it was difficult to make so much goods at once.

Huang Bo gave him some advice.

"Old Qian, if you still have savings and ideas, buy some land to build a bigger pottery kiln workshop, recruit apprentices or hire long-term workers. Our Mu Mu is very good at business, and we will give you more and more orders in the future. Please consider it."

Huang Bo naturally hoped that Qian Donglai could take over the business of pottery jars and squat toilets.

First, Qian Donglai is a good person and can be trusted. Second, everyone is familiar with him and wants to help him make big money together.

Qian Donglai naturally understood what Huang Bo said and nodded to indicate that he would consider it.

Huang Mulin asked for the successfully made squat toilet and gave it to Huang Bo to take to Lao Tian, ​​asking Lao Tian to study how to build it and how to design the sewage disposal more reasonably based on the actual object.

Huang's Canteen now serves both lunch and dinner. Except for the restaurants and diners on North Street, business in other streets has been affected to some extent. The food here is delicious and the price is reasonable. Word of mouth has spread, and more and more customers are coming.

The good business here naturally hurts the business of competitors, so some people have some not-so-good ideas and practices.

The Tang family and Mr. Jia had both received the news in advance, and both sides contributed manpower and effort to intimidate those small local tyrants, so the matter did not come to Huang Mulin's attention.

Yu Zhenzhou and Yang Lijun received the news, and also knew that the two families had already dealt with the matter in advance, so they stopped interfering.

Some traveling merchants also heard about Huang's Canteen and came to try it out of curiosity. They have naturally eaten many local dishes during their travels, but the dishes here are very different.

Because of a condiment called "fermented bean curd".

The businessman had a keen sense of smell and immediately spotted the business opportunity, but it was too late.

Deng Da, as the head chef, came forward to explain. Firstly, he was just a servant and the "fermented bean curd" was the master's unique recipe that would not be passed on to others. Secondly, the recipe had been signed off by the Tang family and would not be sold to anyone else.

The merchants were very disappointed and went to find out the way out.

But how could these small businessmen shake the Tang family? Therefore, some people looked for other big families that could rival the Tang family.

There are three big families doing business: the Tang family, the Song family, and the Ge family.

The ownership of the wharf was originally obtained by the Tang and Song families through private cooperation, which squeezed out the Ge family, so on the surface the relationship between the Tang and Song families was still good.

The first family to receive the news this time was not the Song family who had business operations at the dock, but the Ge family who had a merchant caravan under their command.

When the head of the Ge family received the news, he immediately sent people to Linhai Town to inquire, and he sat in front of the desk for a long time.

Nearly a month later, the person who went to investigate came back.

The man was very impressed by the dishes made with fermented bean curd in the Huang family canteen. He even brought back a jar of fermented bean curd, which he had spent a lot of time and effort to buy. He also found out about the various uses of this condiment.

The head of the Ge family tried the taste and understood its value.

This condiment has a wide range of uses and is also a consumable product with huge market potential.

But the Tang family got there first.