Chapter 188 Dowry
Chapter 188 Dowry
"Okay, I'll go later." Yang Dashan was very happy to see his daughter still asking him to do things. He was afraid that his daughter would ignore him because of some things.
"Do you have any other arrangements regarding the soap?" Mrs. Li asked Xiaocaoer.
"No." Xiao Cao'er was confused by the question. "I told my third brother and the others about my ideas in the study this morning. Now it's up to my third brother to make the plan. Let's see how he arranges it."
Li looked at Sanmao and questioned her son with her eyes.
Sanmao was also speechless about her mother's attitude today. In the past, her sister always had the final say, and her ideas were also suitable for the family. What happened today? It was like she was a completely different person.
"Yes, my sister told me her idea, but I haven't had time to plan how to implement it yet."
"You only know how to use wood ash and lard, but you don't know how much to use?" Li asked again.
"Then we can only continue to research. My sisters have just started making it and have no experience yet. Let my grandparents continue to research. They have experience in this field. Before, my sisters gave me a recipe for making tofu skin and they were able to make it. This soap should not be difficult to make." Sanmao looked at Xiaocao'er and said to Li. He didn't quite agree with his mother's approach, but he couldn't resist.
“That’s right. We only gave him the recipe for making tofu skin before, and after that they made it on their own.” Li said complacently.
"I think we should stop taking the share of the brine and tofu. The money we have received over the years can be used to buy the recipe."
Over the years, the profits from brine and tofu have been divided equally between the two families. In addition, there are many people in my mother's family, and the children have grown up, got married and had children, everything costs money, and with more people there are more ideas.
The sisters-in-law were relatively good and didn't say anything, but they couldn't stand the daughters-in-law who were married into the family saying every day that they all wanted to keep the 50% of the share at home, so that their own families could be a little richer and they could also help their own families.
So this time, Li went back and told them that Damao was going to the capital, and asked them if anyone wanted to go with him. When they heard that they were going to be book boys or servants, they refused to do it. They had a job at home, and who would be willing to go to the capital to run errands for you, even though it sounded good. So no one wanted to go.
Old Man and Old Lady Li would like their grandchildren to go with them, but many of them are already of marriageable age, and they don't know how long it will take them to return, and they are afraid that it will delay their marriages.
The most important thing is that the two elders are old and don’t care about these things anymore. The great-grandson is also so old, and it is understandable that the daughters-in-law and granddaughters-in-law are concerned about their own families, so the two old people don’t ask about these things.
The niece's wife said to Li, "Da Mao is a juren now. From now on, you can just make the things you make by yourself. You don't have to share anything with others. Who would dare to cause trouble for a juren?" These words made Li very excited.
He also mentioned the molecules of brine and tofu to Li, saying something like the children in the family are growing up and the expenses are high. Your family has income here and there, so you don't need these little things, but your family is different. They only make a living from these two things, and the children get married one after another and have children one after another, so the expenses are huge.
Li didn't agree at the time. But she was flattered by her niece's wife, "Although you are not the head of the family, the old lady hasn't been in charge for many years, but the uncle has to listen to you, right? If you say you don't want to take the share, who dares to say no, right?"
In the past two years, Li was praised by the newly married young wives in the village every day in the workshop, and she was very proud of it.
Today, no one from her in-laws' family went to the capital with her, which made her lose face. Then, Xiaocaoer said without her consent that she wanted to make soap with Goudan and his two families and demand a share of the profits. Isn't she very angry?
In this family, I haven't even given a word yet, but you, a girl, have already made the decision. That's terrible! How can I put my face aside if this gets out?
When Xiao Caoer heard that Li said she would no longer take a share of the Li family's two businesses, she found it very funny. I didn't want it at the beginning, but you pretended to be generous and gave it to me. Now you want to take it back. Will the soap business be like this in the future?
Xiao Cao'er thought so in her heart, but she smiled and said, "I'll listen to my mother."
Old Lady Yang was not happy: "Why don't you take it? We agreed that these were for my little Cao'er as a dowry."
"Mother, Xiaocaoer herself agreed to it. Besides, she has saved a lot of money for her dowry over the years. Do you think any other girl has as much money as she does?" Mrs. Li
"No, that should be given to us. We agreed at that time that the two families would split it equally. We have never looked at the account book over the years. We took whatever they sent us. And not all of it was given to Xiaocao'er. Most of it was kept at home. Don't you know how much you gave her every time?" Grandma Yang really loved Xiaocao'er. Her grandsons were not around, and Xiaocao usually spent the most time with her. She couldn't help but favor her granddaughter.
"Mom, it's been so many years, it seems unreasonable for our family to still give a share of the tax. Besides, we don't have to do anything. Everything is taken care of by their maternal grandparents. The money we have earned over the years is enough to buy a house." Li continued to say to the old lady.
"According to what you said, shouldn't we take the share from the Jixiang Restaurant? We just provided the recipe and they gave us so much money. As for the sweet potato workshop, that's not cooperating with Huaming's Xingyun and others. Shouldn't we take it too?" Old Lady Yang didn't listen to her advice.
"That won't do. Huaming and his family are outsiders. How can they compare with their maternal grandparents? Their maternal grandparents are their biological children." Li panicked when she heard that Zheng Huaming didn't have to take a share of the business. All the family businesses were related to them. What would the family eat if they didn't take a share?
"Hua Ming is also the grandson of Teacher Damao? Teacher and father, how close are they?" Old Lady Yang was very grateful to Mr. Zheng and treated them as her own family. If it weren't for Mr. Zheng and his family, she wouldn't know what her family would be like.
"That won't work. We signed an agreement at that time." Li said anxiously.
"Does that mean that if we don't sign an agreement with their grandparents, we don't have to follow what we said before?" Old Lady Yang was furious. "Sanmao, from now on, no matter who you do business with, you must sign an agreement. If anyone doesn't follow the agreement, we will report them to the police, including your grandparents."
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