CH 65.3

The couple saw that the toothbrush was ready, and collected another two catties of horse hair. It was really hard to collect horse hair, but they got it because they quoted a high price of 120 copper coins a catty. After hearing the price, the villagers sold the horse hair if they had horses.

Pig hairs were abundant, and when buying pigs, the hairs could be taken away. They could get two catties of pig hair from a pig, and a few catties could be accumulated quickly.

The hair thay had now could already make more than one hundred toothbrushes, so the two sent the rinsed and dried hair to Grandpa He, and paid the deposit of one hundred copper coins.

After being busy with these things, the couple went to the city to set up a shop.

Zhang Fangyuan felt that since their goods were expensive, it was not appropriate to choose a shop in a narrow alley, it should be on the main street of Xiangyang Avenue, where there were many people.

Now that they had a direction, there were only four main streets in the city, the couple chose Tianjie very tacitly, which was the place where Xu He set up a stall to sell braised meat.

This was one of the main streets that provided a lot of food, drink and entertainment. According to Xu He's experience when he set up a stall, eating was something everyone should do, so their shop should be located in the market with the most food.

But Xu He also knew that the shop over there was expensive, and he knew the price beforehand.

Zhang Fangyuan said: "Our shop can be small, and we only sell toothbrushes and tooth powder so it doesn't take up much space, as long as there is a place in the main street to sell things."

Xu He told him that there were quite a few shops in the city that had store front and a place to rest in the back, but such shops were relatively large and the price was high.

When he planned to open a restaurant before, he was very fond of such a shop, not only for selling food, but also for self-occupation, but unfortunately it was defeated by the price in the end.

Now if it was a toothbrush shop, there was no need to choose this kind of shop. After all, this business was not like a restaurant where you needed to prepare ingredients from morning to night, and whether you could live in the shop or not was not so important.

"Okay, but most of the shops on Tianjie Street are three or two storeys, there are rows of shops, but the small ones are not many."

Zhang Fangyuan said: "I have checked it a long time ago, there are more than two shops, and with you here I can save more time to choose the right shop. "

Xu He then went to look at the shops. There were four small shops in total, but two of them were at the end of the street and there were not many pedestrians. The other two were in the same location, but one was old and sold hot soup before, so it didn't look so good.

In this way, only another one was good, with a restaurant on the left side and a cloth shop on the right side, both  were the places where money was spent, and Zhang Fangyuan was satisfied.

The monthly rent for the shop was 8,000 copper coins, and they needed to pay for three months in the front.

When Xu He took out twenty-four taels of silver, although he could afford it, he still felt a severe pain in his flesh. One month's rent was what the couple could earn at the peak of their monthly income, and the three months’ rent was what the villagers had saved for most of their lives.

The problem was not once and for all, it was only money for three months’ rent. In addition, if you wanted to set up a shop, you had to hire someone to repair it, which was another expense.

Xu He’s heart was bleeding, he sighed and said to Zhang Fangyuan: "It's better to have a shop like this. You don't have to be busy with anything. You can get 8,000 copper coins a month just by sitting. Isn't this better than many other families?"

Zhang Fangyuan laughed: "If you really want to compare, then you will be pissed off when you compare yourself to others."

Xu He let out a breath, no matter what, they have a shop in the city now, and it was still the busy street Tianjie!

It was already September when Zhang Fangyuan's toothbrush shop was ready, and the village was harvesting rice in full swing.

The pig they bought was sold well in these days and very easy to sell, and they could sell a quarter after being slaughtered and pulled to the tea shed.

Chen Si had been working with Zhang Fangyuan for more than a month, and he had become more and more proficient with slaughtering pigs. Even without Zhang Fangyuan's help, now he could slaughter and handle the pig by himself, but his movements were not as fast as Zhang Fangyuan's.

The pork could be sold in the city, but he was more relaxed when he sold it at the tea shed. His fulang also often came to the tea shed to help Xu He with his work.

During the busy farming season, the families were busy harvesting rice. Zhang Fangyuan felt that Chen Si was almost ready to finish the apprenticeship. If he continued to follow him, his progress would be slow, so he took advantage of this time to let Chen Si go home to help harvest the rice. After the busy farming season, it happened that Zhang Fangyuan was able to let go of his stall and open his toothbrush shop, so Chen Si officially took over the pork stall.

After working for more than a month with no income, Chen Si and his fulang were very happy that they finally could run the stall to make money.

These days, there were many complaints from the family, especially the sister-in-law, who thought that Chen Si had learned the craft by himself, and after earning money, the family could be separated logically.

But she was dissatisfied with people running outside with his master, not doing the work at home, and not bringing money to the house, and she was even more annoyed that the skill of making money like this was not learned by her own man.

For this reason, she went to her parents-in-law to talk about it. Chen Si's mother knew that this kind of craft learning matter was not something that the couple could call whoever they wanted. Who in the village didn't know that Zhang Fangyuan made money by slaughtering pigs? How could you teach other the craft you had to make money? Her fourth child could learn this craft because of the love since he grew up with Zhang Fangyuan.

The sister-in-law couldn't be more angry, so she made some complaints against Lin ge'er, but Lin ge'er didn't say much, just did more works, he knew in his heart that this kind of day would end anyway, and after his man earned money, his life wouldn't be so hard anymore.

"Well, you don't talk about Zhang Fangyuan anymore, let Chen Si learn the good craft."