The rice shop had been in business for only two months, and the pure profit for the first month was nearly 700 Liang. This month’s business was better than last month’s, and the accounts already showed 850 Liang. Adding today’s business inco and after deducting processing costs and wages, the pure profit wouldn’t be less than 860 Liang.
Two months of easy work had earned fifteen hundred tael, which was already quite good. Mo Yan was very satisfied as well. Next year, with more cash on hand, he could hire more people to properly cultivate the 120 acres in the mountain valley and strive for a great harvest in the first year.
When Mo Yan returned ho, he stopped Tie Tou and Wang Pangtou, who were about to leave, and after giving them their monthly wages of 700 Wen, he gave them an extra red envelope as well.
Tie Tou and Wang Pangtou accepted their wages but resolutely refused to take the red envelope.
Seeing that they were truly unmoved, Mo Yan’s smile grew even more evident, "Take it. This is a reward for your diligent work over these two months. When the eighth day of the first lunar month cos, I’ll still need your help managing the rice shop’s business!"
They still refused to take it. Wang Ironhead scratched his head, sowhat embarrassed, and said, "Working diligently is our duty, Little Boss has already given us our wages. We really can’t accept this reward."
Tie Tou, not good with words, just echoed in agreent, nodding his head, "Can’t take it, can’t take it!"
Mo Yan, without a choice, pretended to be angry and stuffed the two purses into their hands, "Since I’ve given them to you, you keep them. If you don’t want them, after you leave my house’s doorway, you can throw them away if you like."
With things having reached this point, the two n dared not to refuse any longer and reluctantly accepted the purses.
Seeing Tie Tou stuff his wages into his purse and hang it at his waist, Mo Yan couldn’t help but remind him, "Brother Tie Tou, put the purse inside your jacket and hand it directly to your aunt when you get ho. Don’t let soone else take it away."
Over her cousin’s monthly few hundred Wen wages, Mo Hong’s family had made quite a fuss. Mo Niu’s had also shown her true colors, trying to take a cut, which sowhat eased her relationship with Mo Hong’s.
With his cousin’s honest nature, and his carefree way of carrying the silver ho, if Mo Hong’s or Mo Niu’s were to see it, his aunt wouldn’t get a single Wen.
Tie Tou blinked, not quite understanding his cousin’s aning, but obediently he took down the purse and carefully tucked it inside his jacket, pressing it with his hand to make it look less bulky.
After giving them the silver, Mo Yan also divided two strips of cured at and two envelopes of pastries between the two n as their year-end benefits. This moved them so much that they repeatedly promised to work hard next year and not let down the Little Boss’s nurturing.
After the two left, happy and content, Mo Yan returned to the dining room to eat with his family. While they ate, they excitedly discussed the preparations for tomorrow’s New Year’s Eve dinner. In total, they decided on sixteen dishes. Besides the indispensable fish and at for ancestral offerings, there would also be a dish cooked for each person’s liking, to everyone’s great joy.
anwhile, Tie Tou, carrying his silver, hadn’t yet arrived ho when he coincidentally t Mo Hong’s, who was just leaving her house to go to the toilet, in an alleyway not far from ho.
"Oh, my dear eldest grandson is back. Grandma has missed you terribly."
Mo Hong’s, who stood waiting for her grandson to co greet her, saw the cured at and pastries he was carrying, her eyes shifted, and with a grin, she approached to take them from him.
Rembering his cousin’s warning, Tie Tou subconsciously hid the items behind his back and said naively, "Granny, the cured at is a bit heavy; Tie Tou can’t let you get tired."
Mo Hong’s face stiffened, and she said unhappily, "What are you talking about? I’m not so old yet. A piece of dried cured at isn’t going to exhaust anyone." As she spoke, she reached out again, trying to take it.
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