C35 Smash a Man to Death with Money

Under Liu Hsingzu's and Shen Jingli's plans, the dried fruit shop started to grow quickly, and was managed by Liu Hsingzu himself. Shen Jingli provided the formula and marketing strategy, and the final profit was sixty-four percent.

The first shop to be opened was in the next town, where it was free to try its food on the day it was opened, followed by a variety of preferential policies. After half a month, the camp was in good business, and Liu Hsingzu was in a hurry to open his shop in the next few counties.

Mu Chen handed over the three thousand silver to Shen Jingli. Looking at him, Mu Chen's eyes lit up, and started to giggle like a chipmunk, the corner of his mouth couldn't help but to curve.

He never thought that the preserved fruit business would be so good. In the beginning, he had only thought that the dried fruit in this time and space were horrible to eat, and thought that he could get some dried fruit to satisfy his craving. However, he didn't expect that Liu Hsingzu would actually propose to cooperate with him.

Liu Hsingzu's personality was really similar to his childhood in his previous life. He was in a rush like him, but now meeting this person in a foreign world, he truly felt very lucky.

Mu Chen sat by the side and watched him count the silver bills, then looked at his somewhat bigger stomach. He felt his heart warm and couldn't help but hug him.

"Has the child been making trouble for you recently?" When he was young, he saw those pregnant aunties before him. Their bodies were like willow branches falling with the wind, causing him to be unable to eat or vomit a lot. Their faces were all pale white, and he needed a few maidservant s to help him out when he went out the door.

Even if he was sick, he had to wash up and cook. Otherwise, the whole family would have to starve, but fortunately, his son was sensible and did not cause too much trouble, otherwise, when he was born, he would definitely spank him until his butt blossomed.

"No, I'm just a bit sleepy." Even though Shen Jingli had never carried a child, he had taken care of his big sister before. The big sister was extremely fond of the child and often vomited after eating it, causing her body to become haggard and haggard. She had caused him to leave behind a shadow in his heart, so whenever it came to the day of parents' sacrifices, she had to make some confession in front of her mother.

As for the baby that Shen Jingli was carrying, it didn't have any unpleasantness to it, and would occasionally get sick, but would also have to face the awkward situation of his family, being forcefully suppressed. Luckily, this child was strong, otherwise, it would have been lost long ago.

With a yawn, Shen Jingli snuggled up to Mu Chen and asked lazily: "How's the business with your bookstore going?"

It's good. It's more profitable than I thought." After Shen Jingli found out that he had opened a bookstore, he excitedly asked him to write a few words to sell. For example, < The Ghost Story of a Beauty >, < Liu Yi's Legend >, < Hua Mulan >, < God Sealing Romance >, and so on. Unexpectedly, he was welcomed by the young masters and mistresses of a wealthy family, making his bookshop greatly profitable.

With the money, he also had people open shops in Jing City and Jin City. The response was also very good.

"Oh, what about my red one?" The moment he mentioned money, Shen Jingli's eyes instantly lit up, the stars in the sky looked like a beautiful picture scroll in his eyes.

"I bought fifty mu of paddy field and thirty mu of dry land in Jincheng and Peng City respectively." With money in his hands, it was not because he wanted to buy more stores and expand his business, but because he wanted to buy large amounts of land. Although Mu Chen did not understand his small hobbies, he was willing to spoil him.

In other words, one hundred mu of paddy field, sixty mu of dry land, in the south, were more expensive than those in the north. In other words, one hundred mu of paddy field, sixty mu of dry land, were worth one thousand and two hundred taels of silver, and sixty mu of dry land were worth four hundred and twenty taels of silver, for a total of one thousand six hundred and twenty taels of silver. That meant there was still some left.

"What's the rest?" He is a little miser, and he is not allowed to be coveted for a penny.

"Go buy a manor, please." After buying a field, he couldn't just leave it at that.

Mu Chen passed the land deed and the manager's indenture contract to Shen Jingli, "I have arranged for a reliable person to take care of it, you don't have to worry too much."

Shen Jingli nodded his head in approval, he touched the land deed and indenture contract in his hands and felt extremely safe.

Seeing his satisfied look, Mu Chen laughed from the bottom of his heart.

After caring about the bookstore, Shen Jingli mentioned about the dried fruit shop, "Tell me about the dried fruit shop's situation, I want to see if there is anything that can be improved on."

There were only two types of ingredients for candied fruits in this country: kumquats and prunes. Shen Jingli had improved the country's method of making candied fruits, in addition to nectar kumquats and prunes, there were dried apples, dried pears, dried apricots, dried peaches, hawthorn slices, and so on. The tastes were sour, sweet, and salty, and were welcomed by women and young.

Once the dried fruit shop went public, Liu Hsingzu was the first to come to Da Ping Village to collect the fruits. Although they were busy with farming, the villagers of Da Ping Village still found time to go up the mountain to pick the fruits.

The villagers did not know that Shen Jingli had not only offered a way to earn money for Liu Hsingzu, but he had also bought several stores with his own money. Currently, out of the dozen or so stores that were opened, three of them had their Mu Family and were listed in his name.

Liu Hsingzu saw that he could bring about unlimited ways of making money, and understood that Shen Jingli could want his own shop. Without wasting any persuasion, agreed to Shen Jingli opening his shop, and as outsiders, they only knew that it was the Liu Family's shop, the deeds and the money earned would all belong to Shen Jingli.

Recognizing the properties of Shen Jingli's money grubber, Mu Chen smiled dotingly and calmly told him about the shop. There were a few stores, where they were located, how the market was, and what products were lacking compared to what was requested. Tell Shen Jingli everything in detail.

Shen Jingli, who was about to fall asleep, heard that there were only a few products in the dried fruit shop, and due to the lack of fruit supply, he had to stop selling them. His heart was filled with anger, but after a while, his eyes lit up as he thought of a new way to earn money.

The problem of fruit in the season can be solved by planting in a large shed. Although he did not know how to grow fruits, but Mu Shisi still had someone capable, as long as he understood the principles behind the plant.

"Fourteenth, can we buy the land at Da Ping Village?" Shen Jingli remembered Mu Chen's identity as a criminal.

"I can't, but you can." Sinner could not purchase land and property, but Shen Jingli was not a sinner. Even though he had married him, he married him as a commoner with the status of a commoner, and they were allowed to bring dowry to him. Thus, all of his shops, purchased mansions and lands were all under Shen Jingli's name.

Shen Jingli heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that Guan Zhenggang could purchase land in the surrounding area, and continued to ask, "Fourteenth, how much money do we have left?"

He was so concerned about buying ice and snow lotuses and buying land that he was careful with every penny. He seemed to be making a lot of money, but in reality, most of it had not yet been covered by the heat and had entered someone else's pocket.

No matter what era it was, earning money was not an easy task.

"Other than the three thousand taels I just gave you, I still have twelve hundred taels in my hands." Mu Chen roughly calculated.

Shen Jingli let out a long sigh, and said: "My body is more or less healed, Doctor Lee said that it will not affect my children, and now the main thing is for you and Brother Jin, especially Brother Jin, to force the poison out of him, he is unlike you, and needs to be treated properly."

Thinking about this terrible thing, Shen Jingli couldn't help but resent those people from Mu Family. What kind of deep hatred did they have for him? He treated a child so cruelly. As expected, large families had many troubles.

He entered the army camp at the age of twelve, and started off as a logistics soldier until he became a general. The Emperor had bestowed upon him that he was able to take care of his mother and younger brother in the hands of the people from the Mu Family.

Shen Jingli didn't notice the change in Mu Chen, but continued to mutter. "Doctor Lee said, an ice and snow lotus needed five hundred gold, adding the other matching medicinal ingredients, a set of pills need six hundred gold, if you take it three or four times you would be able to completely recover, but Brother Jin's physique is weak, so it would take at least half a month to recuperate."

Saying that, Shen Jingli's heart became heavier and heavier. He stared at the box that held the silver, feeling that the silver had almost come to an end.

"Don't worry about me, don't tire yourself out." Seeing that he was worried about his money, Mu Chen was unable to explain the feeling in his heart. Sometimes it was sweet, sometimes it was bitter, and sometimes it was restless.

Shen Jingli hesitated for a moment, but when he thought about Mu Family and those berserk jackals who were throwing stones at him when he was down, as well as the children who were growing up in his stomach, he gritted his teeth and said resolutely: "Let's go buy all the land. We can buy as much as we want in the uncultivated wastelands next to our house, we'll use all of it to grow fruit trees."

Recently, because Mu Chen had taken over the business, Shen Jingli was also exhausted. Other than wandering around the village eating some food, he had never gone to the back mountains, but in his heart, he knew very clearly that there were a lot of wild fruits there, such as cherry, mountain bamboo, plum, fragrant pear, persimmon, raspberry and so on, most of them were temperate fruit trees, but there were also a few tropical and Asian fruit trees. Shen Jingli did not study the climate and only thought that the fruits were genetic mutations, but the fruits here were only fruits, pears, grapes, plums and other fruits.

Besides, there was also a pond beside the orchard that could be used to raise hundreds of ducks. When the ducks grew up, they would open a crispy duck shop and sell them to rich families. They would sell them for thirty or fifty ducks a day, each for a tael of silver.

He was actually very lazy and didn't want to work every day. But for the sake of the meat on his stomach, he had to earn more money no matter what. When Mu Family and people from Shen Family came to cause trouble, he would use money to beat them to death.