Chapter 161 (1/2)
Laowang was really an honest person. As long as he promised, he’d do it. While Ling Jingxuan and his family were having dinner, a few ox carts came sending over seven hundred clay jars. Now his house was big enough, so the ox carts directly drove into the big factory in the backmost on the left. After the workers unloaded them all with sweat all over, Ling Jingxuan asked Shuisheng to stuff string of copper coins in each other their hand, saying that buying them some drinks. So the workers all left gladly with the money.
“Isn’t seven hundred too little? Given our present speed, they will be used up in about a day, and the new ones will be delivered in at least two or three days, which may be a little too late.”
After dinner, since having nothing to do, Yan Shengrui and Ling Jingxuan played chess in the yard. Ling Jinghan and others watched aside, while the kids were chasing each other in the yard.”
“It’s OK, don’t we still have a lot of big jars left? If the small jars can’t be delivered in time, put it in the big jars first. Anyhow, it’s for sale. No big deal.”
Moving his xiang (In Chinese chess, a xiang can move along the diagonal of a square which composed by 4 grids.) to capture one of Yan Shengrui’s piece, Ling Jingxuan said with ease. Their shipment was too large, it was only normal Laowang couldn’t make them in time. Next year, if Laowang still couldn’t expand his factory, he had to more cooperative partners, since next year his quatity demanded would be over a hundred times more than now, or even more.
“Hmm, you can’t get fat on one mouthful. So don’t give yourself too much pressure. If we can’t make it this year, we can make it next year, right?”
Raising his eyes to give an eye at Ling Jingpeng aside, Yan Shengrui tried to echo with him. Not knowing why, every time Ling Jingxuan made a lot of money, the whole family was very excited, especially the two little buns. But only him, however much he earned, he wouldn’t have any mood swing, like in his subconsciousness, he had seen much more money than this.
“You are right. Now we’ve got nearly all the wild fruit on the outskirts of the mountains. I’m afraid we’ll have to venture deeper into the mountains. Even if there’s still wild fruit in there, we can’t make more jam.”
No matter how important money is, it’s not as important as your life. Ling Jingpeng’s eyes were not without regrets. It was obvious that he had tasted the sweetness from jam. Ling Jingxuan shook his head while casting a glance at him, “Even if we can’t make jam, we can make other things, Anyway, you wouldn’t have free time.”
There were many ways of making money if one would only use his head, and he had never intended to make a fortune by making jam.
“Hehe, so you mean you already had a plan?”
Ling Jinghan, who was sitting on a chair, picked his eyebrows while looking at him with expectations. Although his job at home was reading, no other stuff, as long as it was concerned about the whole family’s bread-and-butter issue, he still should show some concern, right? The most important thing is, his big brother’s place could always surprise all of them. Be it doing business or life principles, he always had his own unique thoughts, which would also be helpful to his essay writing. So he was really anticipating it.
After what he said, others’ eyes all fell on him, even Yan Shengrui who was playing chess with him couldn’t help throwing him a peep, with only affections in those peach blossom eyes.
“Sort of, but it’s also a seasonal thing, it’s only suitable for cold weather before the snow. Can’t be before or after that. Stop wondering it now. Whether it’s workable or not, I am still in the process of experiment. Now we only need to concentrate on the jam making.”
Throwing him a sweep lightly, Ling Jingxuan shook his head helplessly. Why do those people look like hungry wolves every time they heard there’s money to earn?