Reborn and married to uncle, husband and wife teamed up to abuse scum.

The grocery store business cannot be said to be making a fortune, but it is a goose that can only lay golden eggs. Mrs. Liao, who spends more than Xin An, is naturally anxious to continue opening the store and make more money during the New Year holidays.

Seeing that Xin An had been unable to find a suitable shop to open a new store, she arranged for someone to look for it herself, and she actually found a good place.

"Sister Xu, you said this is a shop?"

The two of them rode in the same car to the place Mrs. Liao mentioned. Standing at the door, Xin An was still a little unconvinced. There was clearly a courtyard in front of him. After entering the gate and walking around the screen wall, there was a square courtyard, but no one lived there and the courtyard looked a little gray and dilapidated.

Mrs. Liao smiled and said, "Just tell me if this place is good or not."

The street where the courtyard is located is not only home to many people, but also has a college and a constant stream of pedestrians coming and going.

"We have carefully checked and found six grocery stores on the three streets nearby. Without exception, all of them are small and dark, and the goods are not complete."

"But there are thousands of households living in these streets. That's a lot of people. There should be a large sundry shop there."

She already had a plan for how to open a shop. She showed Xin An around the yard and said, "This place is bright and spacious. We just need to knock down the walls facing the yard and turn the house into a shop. Then we will have six shops, and the items can be clearly classified. We can also add a place for pens, inkstones, paper and inkstones. This way, we can also take care of the students. The paper in Linzhou is very good..."

As she explained, Xin An understood that she wanted to build the largest grocery store in the capital. "When the time comes, put a few tables in this yard and arrange for people to make some free tea to attract students. When students come, adults with children will come, and business will naturally improve."

Mrs. Liao asked with a smile, "Free tea?"

Xin An said that there was plenty of tea in Huaijiang, and some inferior tea was worthless. "If it doesn't cost money, then naturally we can't expect to drink good tea, right?"

Mrs. Liao suggested, "Why don't we just open a tea shop? We sell tea anyway, so we can set it apart and hold a tea tasting party here whenever new tea arrives. Naturally, more people will come here to visit."

"If we don't have enough tea, we can ask other tea to be consigned, which is also a kind of income."

Xin An smiled, "It seems that Sister Liao has already made up her mind. If she has made up her mind, then let's do it. But can we buy this shop?"

Mrs. Liao smiled and pulled out the property deed from her sleeve. "You got it early. Are you feeling at ease now?"

Xin An understood. Everything was ready. She just needed to take a look and nod. "Then let's talk about the capital."

The shop on Yinghui Street is hers. Mrs. Liao paid the bulk of the capital. Now it's the other way around, and Xin An is not vague either.

There are too many cases where friends who do business together break up halfway. The two of them are doing business just as a side job. There is no need to worry about the minor gains and losses. Anyway, she is not short of money.

After lunch, the two men agreed on the general details, and what remained was for the managers of both sides to discuss the details. Fang Da was very active, and he just felt that it was not too easy to do business with the support of two big companies. The current business could no longer satisfy him, and he urgently needed to expand and become stronger.

"The next thing is for the stewards to do. I won't delay any longer if there is something else going on in the mansion. Just send someone to tell me if there is anything."

Mrs. Liao was the mistress of the household and there were still many things waiting for her to deal with. She stood beside the carriage, gave Xin An a few words of instruction, and then went back home.

Xin An took a deep breath. It was a pleasant surprise that he made a deal during his trip.

Cao Gui, who was in charge of driving the carriage, was driving the horse on the road. Xin An, who was in the carriage, could not help but lift the curtain to look in when he heard the noisy and lively sounds outside. "It's really the New Year, and everyone has started setting up stalls and writing couplets."

"Let's get some more small lanterns and hang them in the yard to make it more festive."

Chunyang and Chunlv complained about the coldness in the capital and talked about how nice the winter was in Huaijiang. Xin An's lips curled up slightly. She would be going back in a few months, and it made her happy just thinking about it.

Several men squatting against the wall appeared in sight, with several baskets of charcoal in front of them. Upon closer inspection, one of the men was missing a piece of his arm.

Thinking of the reason why Mrs. Wang had been slow to light the charcoal fire before, he had a guess in his mind and told Cao Gui, "Go to Mrs. Wang's house."

Mrs. Wang was angry at the moment, looking at the mother and her two children with impatience, "This year's charcoal is twice as much as last year, how can it not be enough?"

The woman smiled flatteringly, "Ma'am, our family is really not enough. Look, these two children are sick from the cold."

There was a boy and a girl. The boy was wearing new clothes with two slugs hanging from his nose. The girl was wearing patched clothes that were obviously ill-fitting. Her exposed wrists were dark and several of her fingers were covered with frostbite.

Mrs. Wang sneered, "This is only the second snowfall, and all the charcoal has been used up?"

"Liu family, I told you clearly when we distributed the charcoal. Tell me yourself, where did the charcoal go?"

The woman was still smiling. She didn't say where the charcoal had gone, but only said that life was too difficult. She also said that her father-in-law and her husband were both disabled because they fought for the court. She implied that she wanted more, and made the two children kneel down and kowtow, as if she would not leave until she got the charcoal today.

Mrs. Wang was angry, but there was nothing she could do about this woman. She was wondering whether she should give her some in private when a voice sounded in her ears.

"Since you were injured for the sake of the court, you should ask the court for compensation."

The housekeeper of the Wang residence led Xin An in. She stood three steps away from the woman and said, "Mrs. Wang took the trouble to prepare enough charcoal for you to get through the winter. She wanted you to have a safe winter. But you took the charcoal and sold it. Now you come back to ask for more when it's gone. What do you think this place is?"

"Shantang?"

He looked up at Madam Wang and said, "Madam, I think we should just find a car to take them directly to the Ministry of War. The Ministry of War might be able to get her some charcoal."

Mrs. Wang knew that Xin An wanted to scare her, so she ordered the steward to prepare the car on the spot. The woman was obviously panicked and wanted to leave with an excuse. Xin An sneered, "Now that you are here, it would be a shame to go back like this."

The woman thought Xin An was going to give her something, and her eyes kept wandering around Xin An. Xin An said, "Ask her husband to take her back, and tell him this is the last time. If it happens again, the Marquis' Mansion will remove him from the list of those who will be helping them."

Mrs. Wang nodded, and the steward immediately asked the mother and her two children to leave, ordered someone to look after them, and then went to look for the man in the family himself.

Madam Wang invited Xin An to sit down and have some tea, and spoke earnestly, "If you do this, they may hate you. It will be bad for your reputation. If they make trouble at the Marquis' Mansion again, you..."

After spending so many days together, she still knew Xin An and was afraid that she would suffer because of this matter.

Xin An put down the teacup and said, "Madam, you are worrying too much."

"It is unacceptable to be soft-hearted to these people. I guess this is not the first one to come to us, right?"