And she raised her face, looked at the cup of tea on the table, and stretched out her hand to bring it over.
"Shuangshuang, I feel like I've failed a bit," she said, holding the cup in both hands, really losing her previous energy.
"This is not like you." Shen Shuang also sat down. "You have always been fearless. When you encounter difficulties, you don't back down easily. You only get more and more courageous. You don't know what it means. Frustrated, why did I become scared this time?"
"I'm not afraid." Shen Bingning grabbed a handful of her hair.
It's not that she's afraid, it's just that she doesn't know what to do. She moves forward bravely, but now that there's no way ahead, she can't jump into the ditch.
Speaking of which, God has been really kind to her. She has been doing business smoothly from the beginning, including going overseas. Although she encountered several risks, they were all without surprises. I survived the danger,
It's just that this time, she really didn't know what to do, because she was facing people in this state, and it didn't seem easy for her to promote sweet potatoes.
Therefore, the above points prove that it is really not easy to solve this problem now.
She Shen Bingning is not omnipotent, and the imperial power here is not omnipotent. She can forcefully take other people's land to grow her sweet potatoes, but she is afraid that behind this, she will be drowned in other people's spit. Shen Bingning She walked upright and sat upright, but she didn't want to be scolded like this, and she didn't know how these people would scold her.
She stood up and walked around from time to time, which made Shen Shuang's eyes dazzle.
A few days later, Shen Bingning settled the last house. She walked out. The bright sunshine shone on her face, which was exceptionally kind and warm. She squinted her eyes and put her hands on her eyes. Alas. , everything is finally OK, and she can plant sweet potatoes.
"Can you imagine it?" Shen Shuang came over and stood beside her, looking at the endless fields. But she couldn't imagine that by next year, everything here would be full of trees. Sweet potatoes, then, what kind of scene will it be like when you enter Jinzhou?
"Alas..." Shen Bingning opened her eyes, turned around, and suddenly smiled.
"I almost forgot."
"Forgot something?" Shen Shuang raised his eyebrows.
"Money can make the world go round," Shen Bingning stretched out, "Just give me money. Look, now there is no need to say anything, they will put the land deed in my hand."
"How much land did you buy?" Shen Shuang asked with a frown.
"Well..." Shen Bingning thought for a while, "I don't know, there are probably a lot of them anyway. Those villagers who didn't want to farm sold their land directly to me. For those who wanted to farm, I just rented their land for a few years. , just give them the land deed every year. I really don’t know, am I a landlord or a tenant now?"
She was still thinking hard about this problem, but she still couldn't figure it out. Forget it, she didn't want to think about it anymore. Let her husband-in-law handle these things, and he would be able to sort them out by then.
However, when she returned to her residence in Jinzhou, she almost cried when she turned over her account book.
She spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to build a school, buy land, and rent land. She still had time to spend more. Although the shops on both sides of the official road were owned by her, selling sweaters and making clothes. All businesses are profitable, but you can't spend it like her, right? This spend is tens of thousands of taels, and she doesn't seem to get back much of it.
Looking at the accountant, the money in her hands now is just for food and clothing.
It's over, I'm going bankrupt. She was lying on the table with tears in her eyes.
Shen Shuang came over, picked up the account book and took a look. It was almost done. If you continue to spend like this, you will lose all the gold and silver.
Shen Bingning sighed, this will not be effective until next year, and this year has not yet passed the winter, and the money has already been spent. In other words, she will not even be able to pay for the money in a few months, because she owes money outside. There are so many debts and so many white notes.
She was lying listlessly on the table. She seemed to be feeling very uncomfortable without the money in her hands.
"Shuangshuang, let me know, from today on we can only eat radish, pickles, and steamed buns. Three meals a day will be reduced to two meals. By the way, there will be no snacks or anything else."
Shen Shuang remembered them one by one, and she raised her eyes and looked at Shen Bingning, "Do you want my salary to be halved as well?"
The corners of Shen Channing's eyes twitched, "Forget it, Yao Qi will kill me." He said that he had sold it to her for the past three years, but like an uncle, he kept a straight face every day and said, "This is a year's salary." It's higher than it has been in a year. She can't even afford such a high salary.
She can deduct anyone's salary if she dares, but she doesn't dare to deduct their wages.
Therefore, the wages will not be reduced, but the expenses will be halved.
And Shen Bingning said it was true. After eating the pickled buns for more than a month, the shop's income was not included in the account. This was tens of thousands of taels of silver. Fortunately, this sweet potato was successfully sold throughout Jinzhou. The seeds were planted.
When Rong Xiaoyu arrived, she was holding a bun and gnawing on it.
"Why is it like this?" He walked over and asked, "Putting your hands on Shen Bingning's face, why did you suddenly become a vegetarian?"
Vegetarian? When Shen Bingning talked about it, she burst into tears and almost beat her chest. How could she be vegetarian? She was just eating pickles, okay?
"I don't have any more money. I have to pay off the debt. I can only eat this." She shook the steamed bun in her hand.
Rong Xiaoyu really didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "No matter how short of money I am, I can't miss this meal of yours. Look, what have you lost?"
"Just in time to lose weight," Shen Bingning took a bite of the steamed buns. She had indeed lost a lot of weight after eating the steamed buns for a month. Also, she had enough money for these few meals, but she just couldn't spend it.
Rong Xiaoyu shook his head and ordered the people in the courtyard to make some delicious food for Shen Bingning to prevent her from starving to death like this. She also said that in order to save money, she probably said that she was planning to lose weight. , just have an excuse.
And he opened the account book, and when he saw it, his eyebrows tightened.
"Bing Ning, why did you buy so much land?" He rubbed his eyebrows and felt that the middle of his eyebrows was folded and painful.
How many acres are there? What was she doing buying all this land?
"Growing sweet potatoes," Shen Bingning was still chewing on the steamed buns.
"This is the only solution I can think of."
"No one willingly gave me the land, so I bought it back and made it my own. However, now that I have bought all the land, I have gone bankrupt. If there were more, I might have to eat pickles and steamed buns for a year. .”