The whole family travels through the book, the plot is broken but the characters are not

The Mid-Autumn Festival is getting closer.

Lu Yanyan and Chen, together with the six new cooks, made Cantonese and Chaozhou-style mooncakes.

Both types of mooncakes are durable and not too greasy.

A lot was made, and except for those given to the Yan family and the Lu family, the rest was prepared to be sent back to the village.

After tasting the mooncakes and asking his daughter about the low cost, Lv Youtian finalized the first business deal between Mingxianglou and Lv Yanyan.

Mingxianglou is the Lu family's teahouse that is still under renovation and is expected to be completed in early September.

Lu Fugui and his party are expected to return from Yuezhou Prefecture in late September.

The opening of Mingxianglou is tentatively scheduled for early October.

Although it is still early for the opening, we still need to do some publicity.

Lu Youtian wanted to promote the reputation of Mingxianglou during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The mooncakes are not big, and the cost of each one is less than a penny.

Lu Youtian and Lu Yanyan agreed to buy the goods at three cents each, and this would be the same price even when they sold them in the teahouse.

I heard that they were distributed for free in order to advertise the teahouse, so Lu Yanyan asked Tan Mu to modify the mold.

The mooncakes made later would have three small characters "Mingxianglou" on their surface.

In addition to the 5,000 mooncakes that Lu Youtian wanted, Lu Yanyan made another 500 and prepared to send them back to Baiyun Village.

Fortunately, we built three more ovens, otherwise we would not be able to finish making so many mooncakes.

Early in the morning of August 14, Lu Yanyan took Han Huaian and Han Huaixi back to Baiyun Village.

Several houses in Fengye Village have been built at the west entrance of the village.

They didn't do any major renovations, just put in some furniture and moved into the new house.

There were fewer people in the courtyard, and it seemed less crowded.

Lu Yanyan distributed the mooncakes to everyone and specially packed two boxes for Bai Jianian.

Bai Jianian said a few polite words and then accepted it.

Han Qingyun's house is connected to the houses of the Lu and Yan families.

These three houses are also the most magnificent.

It is not completed yet and it is estimated that the beams will not be put up until late August.

Around three o'clock in the afternoon, Li Dezhi, Yan Dahu and his party returned.

Lu Yanyan looked at Han Beiwang, who was tanned black, and was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

Children's skin is not as good as adults' and darkens very quickly.

Li Dezhi paid Han Beiwang a monthly salary of 300 wen and Wang Daxin 600 wen.

However, Li Dezhi mentioned to Lu Yanyan that Han Beiwang performed very well, was not afraid of hard work or fatigue, and was smart and capable, no worse than others.

Lu Yanyan suggested that Han Beiwang stay at home and help Zhou Taohua and others, and his salary would remain unchanged.

Han Beiwang disagreed.

Although his work at the dock was hard, he was able to meet different people and learn accounting from Li Dezhi, which was more beneficial to his own growth.

Lu Yanyan felt somewhat relieved that the four children of Han Qingshan's family had grown up a lot overnight.

The one who has changed the most is this young boy.

Li Dezhi took the time to settle accounts with Lu Yanyan.

They started setting up their stall on July 12th, and as of August 11th, their total revenue for this month was 243 taels and 6 cents.

If they hadn't made so little in the first few days, they would have sold more.

Most of the ingredients for the marinade are bought at the vegetable market.

There are also several kinds of medicinal materials that are not rare and expensive when bought in pharmacies.

Each package of marinade weighs two taels, which means the cost is about sixty cents.

The marinade that Lu Fugui brought to Yuezhou Prefecture was intended to be sold at 500 coins per package.

What Yuezhou Prefecture lacks the least is rich people and people who are curious. The price of five hundred wen is not high in Yuezhou.

When they first started selling braised pork, Lu Yanyan suggested calculating the cost price of the marinade, and Lin Shan and others agreed.

But Lu Yanyan said that he would only take 30% of the profit, so Lin Shan and others could no longer calculate the cost of the marinade based on the price of 60 cents.

Lin Shan and Yan Erhu believed that this kind of marinade would cost at least three hundred wen on the market.

Finally, it was agreed with Lu Yanyan that two hundred coins per package would be paid directly to Lu Yanyan, and the remaining money would be distributed after deducting the cost.

As the amount of their braised dishes increases, the daily amount of marinade used is also increasing. Now they use about seven or eight packets every day.

This time, the accounts counted 204 packages of marinade, and the 40 taels and 8 cents were given directly to Lu Yanyan.

Apart from the marinade, the rest of the pig's trotters, chicken wings, eggs, including flour and bones used to make instant noodles, vegetables, etc., are not valuable.

But the quantity was so large that the expenditure was seventy-one taels and one qian.

In the end, in addition to the 40 taels and 8 qian for the marinade, Lu Yanyan could also get a dividend of 39.5 taels.

When Li Dezhi calculated the cost, he did not include the wages of Wang Daxin, Zhou Taohua and the other five people.

Lu Yanyan suggested that this part should be included, but Li Dezhi disagreed.

After deducting the wages of these people, the money shared by the eight of them was more than eleven taels per person.

In the past, they couldn't earn that much in a year, but now they can earn it in just one month.

Lu Yanyan's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered his previous considerations.

"Are you eight people always like this? Do you count all your money together? What will you do when you get married?"

"Getting married?"

Li Dezhi quickly shook his head and said, "I will never get married. I will never get married."

Women are all trouble!

But Li Dezhi didn't dare say it in front of Lu Yanyan.

When we first met these people, everyone said that it was rare that these eight people were not young at all and still had no families.

Looking at Li Dezhi's expression at this moment, Lu Yanyan felt even more strange.

This is not the free and tolerant era of the previous life. This era emphasizes that there are three types of unfilial behavior, and the worst is to have no descendants.

Among the eight of them, the oldest, Yan Dahu, is 32 years old, and the youngest, Yan Erhu, is 26 years old.

Every time they were teased by the villagers and asked to introduce a wife to them, they all looked ashamed and angry.

Yes, it’s shame and anger.

Not right.

"If you don't get married, aren't you afraid that others will say you're unfilial?"

"We are all orphans. We don't even know who our parents are. Who cares if we are filial or not?"

"Brother Dahu probably won't get married again. But Erhu, we still have to let him have a child. We can't let Father Yan down."

Li Dezhi decided to wait for Yan Erhu to come back, and he and his brothers would find a woman to give birth to a child for Yan Erhu.

Orphan, remarriage, Father Yan, Lu Yanyan was a little confused.

Li Dezhi felt that Lu Yanyan was a good person and also his master.

It is better to talk things through to avoid misunderstandings and estrangements.

On the other hand, he also wanted Lu Yanyan to help take care of Yan Erhu.

The story of these eight people dates back more than 20 years...

Jinling Town is the junction of several prefectures.

This resulted in Jinling Town being the most prosperous town nearby on the one hand, but also becoming a gathering place for abandoned children on the other.

There are always people who throw their abandoned children into Jinling Town.

The officials didn't know which city to go to find the child's parents.

During the reign of the previous emperor, there was a clear decree prohibiting the abandonment of young children.

But even though the ban is in place, there are always some people who abandon their children for various reasons.

Most of these abandoned children are young and cannot even remember where their homes are.

For very young children, the government will help find someone to adopt them.

Children who have no one to adopt are sent to orphanages.

But the shelter doesn't have much money, and it's good enough if it can raise the child until he is four or five years old.

When they reach the age of begging, these children will be sent to the shelter.

Li Dezhi, Lin Shan, Tan Mu, Chang Fei, Wang Gui and others were the children who were thrown into Jinling Town.

They were successively sent to the shelter in Wuping County by the Inspection Office of Jinling Town.

The few of them were of similar age and personality, and people said they were all sent from Jinling Town, so they treated each other as a family.

Later, when they were a little older, they were kicked out of the shelter.

They have to make room for the outcasts younger than themselves...