Song Sanniang's Journey to Wealth

Chapter 130: Get Rid of Bad Luck

The next day, Song Sanniang suggested that everyone go shopping together. Song Sanniang wanted to see if there was a chance to open a branch here in the future.

Qin Haodong felt that Qin Yuanyuan had come to Guangling Mansion but had never left the house, so he wanted her to go for a walk to relax, so everyone started walking around the area.

In fact, this place is similar to Xiantao Prefecture, with a huge crowd of people on the streets, and it is very lively. However, in addition to the shops for daily eating, drinking and entertainment,

Most of them sell porcelain, with all kinds of porcelain on sale. Donkey carts and ox carts carrying tightly packaged porcelain shuttle through the streets from time to time.

Song Sanniang noticed that the food and drink shops here were relatively ordinary, unlike the ones in Xiantao Mansion, which had many varieties. She felt that she could definitely seize the market by opening a shop here.

After she had this idea, she began to pay attention to the prices here. She found that the prices here were much higher than those in Xiantao Prefecture. This might be because porcelain was the only thing sold here.

Because Song Sanniang's habit of bringing gifts to others has been passed on to everyone, everyone is thinking about what gifts to bring back when they go out.

Everyone bought some small things here, thinking of bringing them back to make them happy.

Song Sanniang also missed Si Niang and the others very much. They had been out for a long time, so everyone planned to take a boat back to Xiantao Prefecture the next morning.

The next day, everyone checked out of the hotel and took their own donkey carts to the dock.

The dock was already very busy early in the morning. The boatmen and coolies were busy moving goods. Various donkey carts, ox carts, and mule carts were transporting goods.

Qin Yuanyuan followed everyone and bought a ticket and boarded the boat. After she got on the boat, she looked at the dock behind her for a while. She was completely hopeless when she came, but she didn't expect that when she left, she would be in a completely different situation than when she came.

"I plan to open a branch here in the future." Song Sanniang noticed her gaze and came over to her and said,

Qin Yuanyuan still admired Song Sanniang very much. She was younger than herself, but she had already opened a store with her family, and she also helped her relatives and friends to live a good life.

He only came here once, but he already thought of opening a branch here. Qin Yuanyuan praised him with some admiration, "You are amazing."

"If I told you that I opened a branch and asked you to run it, what would you do?" Song Sanniang asked curiously.

Qin Yuanyuan was a little surprised. She opened her mouth and said after a while, "I don't know. Can someone like me be a shopkeeper?"

His tone was full of doubt and uncertainty about himself.

"Why not? Look, I've opened my own shop at my age, and you can read. You've even stayed at the Su family.

You should also know how they manage their families and how the maids manage their servants. "Song Sanniang felt that Qin Yuanyuan had a great advantage.

Qin Yuanyuan was a little overwhelmed. Song Sanniang did not continue to instill her own ideas into her. She just said, "When you return to Xiantao Mansion, you should slowly adapt to it. Don't think too much now."

After Song Laoer and his companions had stored the donkey cart, everyone went upstairs and returned to their own rooms. They lived in the same place as when they first came, except for the addition of Qin Yuanyuan, who shared a room with Song Sanniang.

Qin Yuanyuan is a person of few words, and Song Sanniang is a relatively extroverted person, so she kept chatting with Qin Yuanyuan, and Qin Yuanyuan learned more about what had happened to her brother and younger brother during this period.

The boat went back with the current, so it was much faster than coming here. After sailing for a day, it stopped at the dock of Xiantao Prefecture early in the morning.

Qin Yuanyuan followed the team down the boat. She had never been to the city before. Although the dock in the city was similar to that in Xiantao Prefecture, she still looked around curiously because she seldom went out. When she went out, she would go to places near her home or to the market.

After Song Laoer and his donkey cart got off the boat, everyone got on the donkey carts and went back to Tianmi.

The donkey cart stopped at the door of Tian Mi Mi, but Tian Mi Mi hadn't opened the door yet, so everyone had to go in through the back door.

Qin Haodong stopped Qin Yuanyuan who was about to follow him in and asked her to wait at the door.

Then he went in and said something to Song Ersao and the others, and they started to get busy chattering away, and some of them even ran out.

After a long while, Qin Haodong called Qin Yuanyuan to the gate, and the gate was opened from the inside.

Song Ersao and her friends placed a copper basin at the door. In the basin, they used peach wood as a kindling, and the peach wood was burning.

Song Ersao and the others clamored for Qin Yuanyuan to cross the brazier. At first, Qin Yuanyuan didn't dare to do it, but Song Ersao and the others persuaded her.

Qin Yuanyuan looked at her elder brother who was looking at her with encouraging eyes, and finally mustered up the courage to lift up her skirt and step over the brazier.

Everybody started cheering too, and everyone was saying some auspicious words, like "jump over the fire basin, bad luck will go away, may every year be peaceful, and may every day be prosperous."

Liu Zezheng and the others were still banging on the table, making it sound like beating gongs and drums.

Then someone dipped some pomelo leaves in water and sprinkled the water from the top of Qin Yuanyuan's head to the soles of her feet. This is also a custom to remove bad luck and welcome a new atmosphere.

Qin Yuanyuan was still a little dizzy because there were too many aunts talking around her. Everyone was talking at once, making her confused.

Seeing her like this, Song Sanniang pulled her out from the encirclement of her aunt and the others.

"Okay, the bad luck is gone. What we need most now is to take a bath and have a good sleep. We can't sleep at all on the boat.

Aunt, could you please boil some hot water for us to take a bath?

Everyone, please keep busy. We will close early tonight and have dinner in the store so that Sister Yuanyuan can recognize everyone.

Those who buy food in the afternoon should buy more meat. If you want to eat something, just tell us and we will buy it for you.”

As soon as Song Sanniang said this, everyone agreed and went back to the kitchen to get busy.

After everyone went back to the kitchen, the store finally became much quieter.

Qin Yuanyuan smiled and said to Qin Haodong, "Brother, when will you do these things to get rid of bad luck?"

Qin Haodong scratched his head. "I don't know how to do it either, but I know how to do it this way. Once I tell my aunts, they will know how to do it."

Then he added seriously, "Now you've been found, too. We're going to go home one day. Thank Aunt Hu and the others."

Qin Yuanyuan nodded, and Song Sanniang listened and said, "Then you can go back tomorrow, I will give you two days off.

But I have already agreed that the days I spent in Xiantao Prefecture, minus the remaining two days of vacation, will not be counted as wages."

Hearing this, Qin Haodong hurriedly agreed. The few days' wages deducted by Song Sanniang were just a drop in the bucket compared to what she had paid. He knew that she didn't want him to feel that she was indebted too much, so she emphasized that official business should be handled impartially at this time. He could only keep it in mind.

After Song Sanniang finished her words, she didn't care about Qin Haodong's reaction. She pulled Qin Yuanyuan back to the room, because it was so strange that Si Niang and Wu Niang didn't come out to join in the noise when the store was so noisy.

When the two of them pushed open the door, they found the room was quiet and there was no one inside.

Song Sanniang put her things down and said, "I'll sleep on the upper bed, you can sleep with me. You may not be used to climbing up and down at first, so be careful when going up and down.

My two younger sisters sleep on the lower bed. My older sister is called Ruyi and my younger sister is called Fulu, but we all call them "Si Niang" (Four Sisters). You can call them that too."

After she finished speaking, she pulled out the drawer that was occupied by Si Niang and the other two, "You can use these two drawers to store things."

Then he pointed at the room and said, "You can put things anywhere in the room where there is no space for things.

You pack your things first, I will go ask where my two sisters are."

After saying that, she turned and went to the kitchen.