Chapter 33 Brothers United

Customers kept coming, and the voices of praise grew louder. Shen Dong’s hands were numb from collecting money, and Zhao Uncle was sweating profusely. Shen Dong told him to rest, he would fry the pancakes, and Wei Shi would collect the money.

The two girls finished their scallion pancakes and wanted to buy another one, but when they came back, they saw a long queue in front of the stall selling scallion pancakes.

“Why are there so many people suddenly?” The girl in pink frowned.

The girl in blue pointed at the queue and said, “Ah! Sister Chunxi, look, those are the two people who were standing behind us before, didn’t they already buy pancakes? Why are they queuing up again?”

Chunxi said, “Probably because the scallion pancakes are too delicious! With so many people, how long will we have to wait? I knew I should have bought two more just now!”

The girl in blue asked, “Should we still buy them?”

Chunxi thought for a moment, then finally gritted her teeth: “Buy them, let’s go, join the queue!”

By the time it was their turn, it was already half an hour later.

Seeing the two girls come back, Shen Nian’s family didn’t find it strange at all, because they had already encountered several repeat customers!

But since these two girls were their opening customers, Shen Nian told Shen Dong and gave them two pancakes, charging them for two out of four scallion pancakes.

When they closed the stall, Shen Dong carried a heavy money bag and couldn’t stop smiling.

In less than half a day, all the pancakes were sold out. This business was so easy to do!

It was much easier than hunting!

Seeing Shen Dong’s family, with their children and grandchildren, sell out their goods in a short time, some of the nearby breakfast vendors were jealous, some were curious, and some were full of anger.

This was because Shen Dong’s family had taken away a lot of their business.

After buying the ingredients needed for tomorrow at the market, Shen Dong and his group went home.

It was not yet You Shi (5 pm) when they got home.

Seeing them come back so early, the two elders and the other three families were surprised, thinking that they had messed up the business.

Grandpa Shen hugged Shen Nian and comforted her: “Nian Nian, don’t be sad, business is like this, we’ll take it slow, it will get better in the future…”

Before he finished speaking, Shen Dong took the ingredients off the cart and put the money bag in Grandma Shen’s hand: “Mother, all 160 scallion pancakes were sold out, 34 plain pancakes, 26 braised meat pancakes, 18 preserved mustard greens and pork pancakes, 32 potato shreds pancakes, 21 meat pie pancakes, 29 five-spice pork pancakes, two five-spice pork pancakes were given to customers for free. We sold a total of one tael of silver and 45 copper coins, we spent 460 copper coins on tomorrow’s ingredients, and we have 585 copper coins left. You count it, Mother, and see if your son has made a mistake.”

As he spoke, his tone was a little excited.

A net profit of over 500 copper coins a day, even after deducting the 20% share for Zhao Uncle, they could still earn over 10 taels of silver a month, which was much more than farming, even a shopkeeper in the county couldn’t earn that much.

They could finally build a big tiled house!

Oh, ho, ho, ho!!!

The two elders and the other three families were stunned, they never dreamed that setting up a small stall to sell pancakes could make so much money.

They had made a fortune!

“Let’s go, let’s go, go inside, close the door, let’s count the copper coins.” Grandma Shen excitedly hugged the money bag, pulled Grandpa Shen and Nian towards the house, and shouted to the other families: “Second Brother’s family, Third Brother’s family, Fourth Brother’s family, you all come over too.”

Liu Shi, Jiang Shi, and Jiang Shi quickly put down their work and went to the eldest family.

They were also very excited, and they knew clearly that with Big Brother and their parents’ personalities, they would definitely not leave them out of any good things.

“One, two, three…” After counting the copper coins in the bag, the two elders laughed.

Grandma Shen patted her thigh: “I can’t even sell that much money in a month selling vegetables, oh, my Nian Nian! You are so capable! And my Third Son, Ninth Son, and Zhao Uncle, they are all amazing!”

Shen Dong pointed at himself: “And me, Mother, you haven’t praised me yet!”

Grandma Shen pushed him aside, counted out two-tenths of the copper coins, strung them together and stuffed them into Zhao Uncle’s hand: “Zhao Uncle, this is your share, take it well, don’t give it to the children, keep it for yourself, use it when you need it.”

Zhao Uncle insisted he didn’t want it, he wanted to give the share to Shen Nian.

Grandpa Shen said: “No, yours is yours, you can’t give it to Nian Nian, we know you love Nian Nian, but one thing is one thing, this money matter can’t be mixed up, take it.”

Zhao Uncle still refused to take it, Shen Nian said a few words, and Zhao Uncle finally accepted it.

Putting the remaining copper coins back into the money bag, Grandma Shen handed it to Wei Shi: “This is your hard-earned money for today, keep it well.”

The other three families didn’t say anything.

Wei Shi took the money bag.

Grandma Shen then said seriously to Liu Shi and the others: “You’ve all seen that selling pancakes is indeed a profitable business. What do you think, do you want to start doing this business with your eldest brother and sister-in-law now, or wait a little longer? If you also want to sell pancakes, you have to give Zhao Uncle two-tenths, then each family sells separately, don’t interfere with each other, and keep the money you earn.”

Jiang Shi was the first to shake her head: “I want to wait a little longer, I don’t want to do this business with eldest brother and sister-in-law for now, Shen Xuan needs to go to school, my husband is going to teach at a private school recently, I have to take care of the family and farm, I’m too busy.”

Jiang Shi also said: “I want to wait for my husband to come back and discuss it with him before making a decision.”

Before Liu Shi could speak, Shen Duo couldn’t wait to say: “Mother, let’s do it! Let’s do it! Fourth Brother and I can do it! If you and Father don’t have time, then we brothers will sell the pancakes, Fourth Brother will make them, and I’ll sell them.”

Shen Cai nodded: “Yes, yes, Third Brother and I can do it, Mother, scallion pancakes are very easy to make, this business is a sure win.”

Liu Shi glared at her two sons: “Shut up, I didn’t say I wouldn’t do it, what are you getting excited about?”

She said to Grandma Shen decisively: “Mother, I already discussed it with my husband last night, we also want to do this pancake business, let us prepare tomorrow, and we’ll start working with eldest brother the day after tomorrow.”

Opportunity doesn’t wait for anyone, as long as it makes money, she has to grab it!

Shen Duo and Shen Cai laughed mischievously.

Grandma Shen slammed the table: “That’s settled then, your second family will also go to sell pancakes the day after tomorrow, Third Brother’s family, wait for Third Brother to come back from work and discuss it with him, if you also want to do it, then hurry up and don’t waste time. We’re all together today, we need to make things clear, from today onwards, you don’t need to tell us how much money you make from selling pancakes, your father and I won’t ask, you take care of your own families. Brothers united, their strength is like a sharp blade, our Shen family will stick together, we won’t fight among ourselves, we will definitely live a prosperous life.”

“Father, Mother, you two elders can rest assured, we will definitely not let you down!”

Liu Shi and the others promised in unison.

Seeing the smiles on their family members’ faces, Shen Nian felt warm in her heart.

Her grandparents were really rare, open-minded and understanding.

After discussing, Liu Shi and the others went their separate ways.

Shen Dong discussed tomorrow’s pancake business with his wife and daughter.

Shen Dong said to Wei Shi: “Tomorrow, you, Nian Nian, Ninth Son, and Zhao Uncle don’t need to go, just let Shen Bo and Shen Xue go with me, anyway, they don’t need to go to the academy these two days.”