Chapter 558 - Chapter 558: Chapter 545: Accepting Favor Makes One Obliged (1/2)

Chapter 558: Chapter 545: Accepting Favor Makes One Obliged

“In life, other than food, the only joy is in accumulating wealth some day. I will have to gradually enlighten the Prince about this.”

“This time, now that the Prince remembered me, I must push my skills to the limit, to the full extent of what I have learned, and show the Prince what I, Zhong Yingcai, am capable of!”

Yingcai, Yingcai, the name suggesting an exceptional talent. I must prove to the Prince that I did not get this name for nothing, and that it genuinely reflects me!”

“That’s enough, no more talking.”

Zhong Yingcai quickly stood up, “Hurry up, pack up, we’ll leave now.”

“Leave now?” Qi Er was shocked again.

Zhong Yingcai’s impulsive persona seemed to be growing more and more severe.

“That’s right, we’re leaving right now.” Zhong Yingcai said, “Time waits for no one, and even less for money. Opportunity slips away the moment you hesitate. If you hurry though, the opportunity is still there. But if you delay, it may be gone forever. We absolutely can’t afford that.”

“Also, don’t pack too much random stuff. Just bring some clothes for changing and your banknotes. If you bring too much, it’ll slow us down.”

“Yes, take a few more people if possible. Although that means we’ll have to pay more wages, these are the people we’re used to working with. If we look for new people there, we might waste time, energy, and money adjusting. In short… hurry up and inform those reliable people. We’ll set off in the afternoon.”

“Move quickly, we’ll take care of the rest on the road and save some time…”

Time is money, every moment we delay might be a loss to our earnings. The thought of this is just too terrible!

“Yes, I’ll leave right away.”

Qi Er hastily agreed and ran off to the other room to pack for Zhong Yingcai, while also informing the others. He was extremely busy at that moment, with his feet barely touching the ground.

But at this moment, he finally understood why, when the letter arrived, it was instructed that no matter what, the letter could only be delivered to Zhong Yingcai today.

It was precisely because they understood Zhong Yingcai’s impatient character!

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After the Lantern Festival, the New Year atmosphere gradually faded away.

The laziness of winter gradually disappeared, and everyone began to get busy with things for the new year.

This year’s start of spring came early and so did the warm weather. In these few days, the wind was not as bitterly cold as in winter, but carried a hint of spring warmth.

Wheat shoots were turning green, little plants were sprouting, and wild vegetables in the fields were growing competitively. It attracted many children to dig up wild vegetables with a little spade and a bamboo basket, so their parents could steam them with buns and steamed cornbread.

Zhuang Qingning’s workshop had also started to get busy, the business was as normal as in past years, and even seemed to be booming compared to the past.

Take the tofu skin workshop as an example. The number of people working there was almost double the original number when it first started, and the number of people working on century eggs had also increased by half.

It’s not that the sales of century eggs were not as good as tofu skin, but because the tools for making century eggs had been improved recently. It greatly sped up the process of applying mud to the eggs, thus not requiring as many people.

This meant that the cost of labor in the century egg workshop was effectively reduced, and the output increased, earning much more silver.