Chapter 463 - Chapter 463: Chapter 463: Romantic Affairs (1/2)

Chapter 463: Chapter 463: Romantic Affairs

“Oh? What else did Old Master say?” Liu Sisi became curious, as Di Yelei had many ideas.

Old Cheng said with pride: “Old Master also said that Madam, you’re capable and earn more silver in a month than he does in a year. He needs to earn more silver, so he won’t be outdone by you.”

This made the smile on Liu Sisi’s face disappear.

At the end of the month, when settling the accounts, she received more than 1200 taels of silver from her share of the wine-house, Silver Pavilion, and bookstore’s profits during the Spring Festival. This terrified her!

However, after some thought, she realized that businesses like wine-houses and silver shops usually have their biggest profits before and after the Spring Festival. On normal days, they mostly consume their own capital or even lose silver. With this in mind, she could understand.

Of the 1200 taels of silver, she kept the small change and invested the remaining 1200 taels in the two shops. She had initially invested hundreds of taels of money when she started the business, and now she received so much in return, she felt a little embarrassed and naturally invested the money again to supplement her initial investment.

At that time, Di Yelei just watched and didn’t say anything.

She always thought that he didn’t care, but after hearing Old Cheng’s words, she realized that he had been concerned about this matter all along.

The carriage bumped along the official road and followed it to the small town. Upon arriving, she didn’t go straight home, instead, she asked Old Cheng to park the carriage in front of the blacksmith’s shop.

There were only two blacksmith shops in the small town, and business at this one was relatively slow. However, it was closer to her home.

As the carriage stopped, they could hear the sound of iron forging from inside the shop.

“You go back first, prepare dinner, and tonight you can take a horse to deliver it to the Old Master; I won’t go.”

“Yes, Madam!”

Old Cheng agreed and drove away.

Liu Sisi entered the blacksmith shop and saw various iron tools hanging on the walls, such as hoes, sledgehammers, iron plows, sickles, kitchen knives, spatulas, planers, door rings, bubble nails, and door bolts. She even saw bows and arrows and knives and guns on the wall!

It is worth noting that weapons like knives and guns were regulated at that time, and being able to see them in this small shop showed how far they were from the Emperor’s reach!

She stood in the shop for a long time, and apart from the sound of forging inside, no one came out to greet her. Out of curiosity, she peeked inside.

In the courtyard inside, there was a huge iron stove with a sweating blacksmith hammering a hot iron block in his hand.

“Is anyone here? Shopkeeper!”

Liu Sisi called several times before a married woman carrying a child came out slowly.

“Customer, what do you need? I apologize, the kid who used to sell ironware here has been conscripted for service, so our shop is short on hands…” The woman said with a shy smile.

“Don’t worry, Madam, I want to customize some iron tools. I wonder if you can make them according to my design? Oh, we can negotiate the price.”

Seeing the woman’s hesitation, Liu Sisi quickly added the last sentence.

Indeed, the woman thought for a moment before hesitating to say: “I can’t really make that decision. How about this! I’ll get the houseowner to talk to you, Madam.”

As she spoke, she went inside to call someone.

Liu Sisi waited for a while before the man came out wiping sweat from his forehead. He spoke with a foreign accent.