CHAPTER 226: CHAPTER 226: NOT THAT FOOLISH

The next day, Lin Sanshui went to arrange for the preparation of hot pot to open his restaurant. Before that, he also visited the village chief, talking about getting the villagers together to make smoked sausages.

In less than half a month, the Wang Family, who had been riding high, began to fume with frustration.

During this period, they earned about a dozen taels of silver from the sausages, but their reputation was completely ruined. Mrs. Wang was sent back home, and another engaged daughter in the family had her engagement called off.

Moreover, a few other girls from the clan had their engagements broken by the North Mother-in-law’s family, and even those already married were guarded against like outsiders by their in-laws.

After all, with Mrs. Wang’s precedent, who wouldn’t fear that the things earned through hard work might later be taken back to the daughter-in-law’s parents’ house.

Because of this matter, the Wang Family and a few other families in the clan didn’t cease their bickering, and before long, their reputation was ruined throughout the nearby villages and countryside.

However, as long as they could earn silver, nothing else seemed important.

But just now, when the eldest son of the Wang Family went to town to deliver goods, he was told that the smoked sausage had to be sold at a lower price, because many farmhouses had suddenly started selling sausages on the street in the past two days at reasonable prices, and with complimentary vegetable recipes.

As a result, what used to be a unique offering at Qinglin Restaurant, the smoked sausage instantly lost all its advantages, and business took a big hit.

When something stops making money, Qinglin Restaurant naturally opts for the more cost-effective supplier.

Since the Lin Family stopped making smoked sausages, the Wang Family had arranged with the pork seller to reserve all the pig intestines for them every day. However, today when they checked, not only had the price of pig intestines increased, but they had already been bought by someone else.

At night, the old couple of the Wang Family looked at the few taels of silver they had earned over this period, and thought about the daughters who had been abandoned and were left at home, and they burst into tears.

To ruin the entire family for a few taels of silver, only to lose the business in the end, it really wasn’t worth it!

"Old man, tomorrow you and the young ones send the girl back to the Lin Family, we’re ending this business!" Mrs. Wang, who was usually harsh and critical, now showed some rare softness.

Old Man Wang looked dispirited, "Last time the Lin Family made it clear, and only now that we can’t keep the business running are we thinking of sending the girl back, will they be willing to take her?"

"What else can we do? We’ve agreed not to do this business anymore, whether it’s good or bad, we have to leave her with them. A married daughter is like spilled water; carrying the shame of being abandoned, none of us can hold our heads high, and are we planning on supporting that dead girl for life?"

While the Wang Family felt heartbroken and distressed, the Lin Family was thriving.

Including the once dispirited main house of the Lin Family.

Making meatballs is physically demanding work, especially since the more you pound them, the chewier they become.

Gu Nian is now fully focused on the restaurant and can’t personally make these things. The family can’t manage it all, so she handed over the task to the main and second houses.

This time, it was different from before; they were not working for themselves but were adopting the supply arrangement Gu Nian previously had with Qinglin Restaurant.

Of course, Gu Nian isn’t as foolish as Zheng Shaochen; she had signed a contract, and the meatballs made from her recipe could only be supplied to her.

This time, Gu Nian wasn’t afraid of someone stealing the recipe.

She ground all the ingredients into powder and mixed them according to the ratio, preventing others from easily identifying what’s in them.