BHBF Chapter 75.2

Boss, He’s Becoming a Father (Arc 4) Chapter 75.2: Playful Son (14)

But after so many years, the results are very touching.

Just by looking at it from the outside, you can see that this shop is bustling with people, and business doesn’t seem to be bad at all.

Shao Yu brought his son in. The shopkeeper was stunned for a few seconds before recognizing him and immediately called out “Master”. Shao Yu waved at him and went to the inner room.

“Master, is here with the eldest young master and…” The shopkeeper knew Shao Jiashan, but when he saw Qian Jiong, he became a little confused.

“This is the eldest young master’s friend, you can just call him Young Master Qian.” Shao Yu said.

Qian Jiong kept smiling shyly at the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper just thought that this was the son of some wealthy family in the capital and didn’t think much about it.

Shao Yu said: “Take out the account book and show it to the eldest young master.”

The shopkeeper paused when he heard this, but then he quickly thought that Shao Jiashan was uneducated and unskilled, so even if he really gave it to him, he probably wouldn’t understand it.

And that was indeed the fact. After Shao Jiashan got the account book, he felt a headache after just one look at it.

“Father, why are you showing this to me?” Shao Jiashan asked. He didn’t even realize Shao Yu’s intention.

Shao Yu asked, “Do you know all the characters?”

Shao Jiashan flipped through them and said, “I know them all.”

Shao Yu took the account book from him, flipped through it, pointed to a character with many strokes, and asked, “What is this character?”

Shao Jiashan was immediately dumbfounded. He opened his mouth and tried for a long time, but still didn’t know how to read it.

Shao Yu looked at Qian Jiong who was standing beside him, and Qian Jiong said immediately, “This is the word 瀣, which means to be in cahoots with each other.”

Shao Jiashan never expected that he was even worse than Qian Jiong, whom he had always looked down upon.

“I only don’t recognize this word, but I recognize the others and I can understand them all.” Shao Jiashan said arrogantly.

Shao Yu smiled and casually turned another page.

Shao Jiashan stretched his neck to take a peek, and at a glance he felt that he recognized every word, and he immediately felt relieved.

But Shao Yu asked: “What is recorded on this page?”

Shao Yu’s unconventional behavior made Shao Jiashan feel aggrieved: “Why didn’t father ask me if there were any words I didn’t know?”

Shao Yu said: “I brought you here to check the accounts, not to teach you literacy.”

Shao Jiashan:…

Shao Jiashan took the account book. He knew every word, but when he put them together, he felt like he didn’t understand anything.

“This…” Shao Jiashan’s eyes were almost shrouded by this page of paper. Finally, he gave up struggling and said, “I don’t understand this, but so what. After I get married, someone will take care of the housekeeping and accounting. I don’t need to understand.”

“That’s even more difficult.” Shao Yu said.

Shao Jiashan’s eyes were full of confusion.

“You don’t want to learn it yourself, so you want to push it to your future wife? What kind of person would a girl who is able to manage the household want to marry?” Shao Yu asked.

“If I go before you got married, I don’t know if you could get married.”

Shao Jiashan was stunned. With the help of Shao Yu, he now successfully realized himself. He was a dandy boy who enjoyed himself all day long. Without the halo of his father, it seemed that he had nothing left.

“Shan’er, I don’t ask you to become powerful, I just hope you can understand some of the simplest things so that you won’t be fooled by others.” Shao Yu said.

Shao Jiashan said with some doubt: “But Shopkeeper Sun is my mother’s dowry, he won’t fool me…”

Shopkeeper Sun also said, “Don’t worry, Master, I will never fool the eldest young master.”

Shao Yu glanced at the man, then turned to look at Qian Jiong beside him.

Qian Jiong naturally knew that it was his turn to appear, and he also had something to ask Shao Yu, so he would naturally do his best to help at this time.

“Shopkeeper Sun, your business is booming inside and outside your store, why is the profit so meager?” Qian Jiong kept asking with a smile.

When Shopkeeper Sun heard this, he seemed to have seized an opportunity and began to complain about his grievances to Shao Yu and Shao Jiashan.

“Master, Young Master, Young Master Qian, you don’t know that although this business has many customers, the lady is kind and never allows me to set a high price, so the business can only go the route of small profits but quick turnover.”

“Some things in the store were sold for two cents many years ago, and they are still sold for two cents today, but the prices in the shops outside have long been raised to four cents. If you calculate carefully, it is difficult for us to even recover our costs with this price.”

After hearing this, Shao Jiashan immediately asked, “Since there is no profit, why not raise the price?”

“Master, once the price is set, it is difficult to change. It is precisely because our shop has maintained a unified price for many years that we have so many customers coming to our shop.”

After hearing this, Shao Jiashan didn’t know what to say for a moment. It seemed that according to what Shopkeeper Sun said, if the price was low, there would be customers, but if the price was high, there would be no customers. It was really a dilemma.

Seeing that Shao Jiashan was so easily fooled, Shao Yu glanced at Qian Jiong who was standing beside him.

Qian Jiong immediately said, “If it is really as the shopkeeper said, then how did other shops survive?”

Shopkeeper Sun rolled his eyes and said immediately, “I don’t care how other shops survive and how they make money, but the two ladies in this shop are kind-hearted people and don’t want to make money from the poor, so now we can only barely break even.”

“What you said makes sense.” Qian Jiong nodded continuously.

Shopkeeper Sun breathed a sigh of relief.

But Qian Jiong continued, “The purchase price of a pound of eggs is ten coins. Shopkeeper, your purchase price is more expensive than the prices sold in other shops.”

Shopkeeper Sun rolled his eyes and said immediately, “Can these eggs be the same? The eggs I bought are all raised in the deep mountains and old forests. They eat insects caught by special people and drink spring water from the mountains. They are fed with such careful feeding. Although the purchase price is expensive, the taste is a hundred times better.”

When Shao Jiashan heard this, he immediately nodded and said, “If the eggs are really fed in this way, it is worth it even if they are sold ten times more expensive.”

Shopkeeper Sun said, “Master, have you forgotten the rules set by the two ladies? You can’t make money from the poor.”