Travel to ancient times and become rich women with your bestie

Chapter 125 Follow the Backer and You Will Get What You Want

The morning light shines on the earth, and wisps of smoke swirl up.

Early in the morning, Zheng Yuan had already prepared all the meals.

Today, Master Jiang and Aji have to rush back to town, and they also have a lot of things to do.

After the meal, Aji packed up Mr. Jiang’s things and stood aside waiting for his own master to come out.

They had to come back in a few days, and they didn't confiscate anything, so they took a small package with some personal belongings.

Young Master Jiang came out from behind, walked straight up to the two men, and handed over a bulging purse and several silver bills.

The children standing by were almost staring with their eyes popping out. Silver bills! They had never seen silver bills before. How much money was this?

The two were also shocked. The face value of the silver note seemed to be one hundred taels, so there must be at least five of them.

Five hundred taels, I guess it's about half a million in modern times.

"What is Mr. Jiang doing?"

"Aunts, there are sixty-five taels of silver in this purse. We agreed to stay at your house temporarily, five taels of silver per day. Today is exactly thirteen days. Please keep it. These five hundred taels of silver notes are for the initial expenses. You can use them as you like. If it is not enough, just go to Mr. Zhang's house and explain the situation, and someone will give it to you."

Zheng Yuan reached out and took the five hundred taels, but confiscated the purse.

"Mr. Jiang, I will accept the five hundred taels. We will not be polite to you if we do business clearly. You can take back the sixty-five taels."

"Why? Didn't we agree on five taels of silver a day?" Young Master Jiang was dazed as he looked at the purse in his hand. This was the second time these two women refused the silver he gave them.

"Although you have lived here for so many days, we have only cooked for you every day and have not done much else, and the room is still so shabby. You have also replaced new quilts for our whole family since you came, and the food is also the best I have ever eaten in my life. These are enough to offset your accommodation expenses for the past few days. I really can't accept these sixty-five taels."

"But......"

"There's no buts. We're already partners now. With Jiang's leadership in developing the toothpaste and toothbrush business, are you still worried that we won't be able to earn back the sixty-five taels?" Mr. Jiang wanted to say more, but Duan Minmin took over and stopped him from saying the next thing.

"Okay, I appreciate your kindness. But I have to come back in a few days, so you two aunts are not allowed to chase me away then." Mr. Jiang took back his purse.

"You are the God of Wealth in our family. Whenever you come, my door is always open and I am waiting for you with open arms..." Duan Minmin couldn't help singing as she spoke, but she stopped when she realized what was happening, feeling a little embarrassed.

Zheng Yuan was also embarrassed for her and wished he could carve out a thatched house with three bedrooms and a living room on the spot so that Mr. Jiang could move in directly when he came back next time.

Mr. Jiang was stunned: "Hahahaha...Auntie is really humorous."

"Ahem, I just have a little talent for singing. It's getting late, you two should leave quickly." Duan Minmin coughed twice and urged the two to hurry up, otherwise her toes would become weak.

"Then Aji and I will set off. When we get to town, I will have someone send the raw materials for making toothbrushes that we have collected during this period to here. Please find a place to store these materials as soon as possible. By the way, what materials do we need to buy to make toothpaste? I will arrange for someone to buy them and send them over to save you the trouble."

Yeah, I almost forgot about that.

The merchants' shops always have their own purchasing channels, so naturally they can control the quality better than they do and it is much more cost-effective.

So the two of them estimated the amount of each raw material needed according to the ratio they had studied before, and told Mr. Jiang about it. They also told them a series of tools that would be needed.

Master Jiang and Aji memorized these ingredients silently and were very surprised that these unrelated materials could be mixed together to produce such a good toothpaste.

After explaining everything to Mr. Jiang and he repeated it and said there was nothing wrong, they set off.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin looked at the five hundred taels in their hands, their hearts trembling with excitement. After traveling through time for so long, they only had more than forty taels of silver in their hands, and this silver note of one hundred taels was really an eye-opener.

Isn't this equivalent to your boss giving you $500,000 and letting you do what you want without worrying about it?

Seeing Master Jiang and his companions walking away, the children could not wait to surround them.

"Mom, can I touch this banknote?" Erhe looked at them eagerly with light in his eyes.

The other children also looked expectant.

"Touch it."

Zheng Yuan handed the banknote over, and Erhe held it reverently in both hands, breathing lightly, not daring to use any force for fear of crushing the banknote.

After Erhe finished looking at it, he handed it to other children. The children took it one by one and looked at the huge sum of money carefully.

Seeing them like this, Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin found it a little funny.

"Mother, Auntie, why didn't we take the sixty-five taels of silver? Wasn't it because he asked for five taels of silver a day that we let him stay?"

Erhe was recalling the feeling of touching the silver note just now. He felt that his heart was filled, but at the same time he was a little confused about the sixty-five taels.

That was sixty-five taels. Even if a farmer saved his entire life, he would not be able to save that much money. Seeing the two mothers rejecting this huge sum of money so casually made him feel worse than killing Erhe.

Seeing the confusion on the children's faces, Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin simply asked everyone to sit under the eaves.

"Children, we can't just look at the small profits in front of us, we have to look at the long-term. Of course, it's not that sixty-five taels is too little. Sixty-five taels is quite a lot. We are both so old, and even if we count the money for the coffin, we can't get sixty-five taels."

"At that time, we agreed to let him stay because of the temptation of five taels of silver a day. Our family was really poor at that time, and your wife Duan and I were also money-grubbers. But we also did it for the sake of Zhang Guanshi, and to help her solve her problem and repay her favor."

"But we really can't accept Mr. Jiang's 65 taels. Not to mention that he has been at our house for the past few days, you all know how easy life has been. What is our family's condition? This shabby thatched house, this shabby bed, even the sheets and quilts were sent by others. Is it worth five taels a day? If it were us, we would have carried the carriage and left overnight if we were charged five taels of silver per bowl. Although Mr. Jiang is generous, we can't take advantage of him by relying on his generosity."

"We hope you will remember this saying: A gentleman loves money but gets it in a proper way."

Seeing that the children seemed to understand but not quite, Duan Minmin clapped a few of them’s hands.

"We are going to do business with him in the future. You heard it yesterday. If this deal is really successful, there will be thousands of sixty-five taels falling into our hands in the future. Are you still worried that the money will not return to us?"

"This Mr. Jiang and the Jiang family behind him are now equivalent to our backers. If you follow the backers, you can get everything you want. If you have a long-term vision, it is equivalent to investing one penny and others giving you one hundred pennies. Don't worry about the sixty-five taels, understand?"

When the children heard that there were tens of thousands of sixty-five taels, they seemed to understand and became visibly happy.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin did not expect them to understand all at once, so they simply explained it to them in a simple and rough way using the principle of returning one hundred for one.

"Next, we have another important announcement, which is that our whole family has to start learning."

Seeing that the children were happy, Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin took the opportunity to announce the news.