My domineering ex-husband is living off his wife in ancient times.

Chapter 93 Renting a Courtyard in Town!

The deposit for repairing the house... I don't understand.

But that didn't stop Si Nian from nodding as if she understood: "Getting rich means lots and lots of money, Nian Nian understands!"

"Well, in short, until the power of managing the household is returned to your mother, you and your brother should either go out to eat with your mother and father, or eat with your maternal grandmother. Just don't stay at your paternal grandmother's house for meals, understand?"

"Okay~" Si Nian nodded obediently.

Cheng Ruoan smiled as she pulled out a small bundle, which was actually a bag of soft, white steamed buns from her spatial storage, along with several cans of milk in bamboo tubes.

“Brother Xin, come on, have breakfast with your sister. Master, you can make do with dry steamed buns and milk this morning too.”

Tomorrow, my mother and the others will also set up a shack next to the house plot, and we'll eat hot breakfast with them.

“Either is fine, I’m not picky. But I can’t be short of a can of milk every day.” With that, Dr. Hu picked up a white steamed bun and started eating it.

Cheng Ruoan was both amused and exasperated. "Master, milk is rare and expires easily. We haven't been able to store much of it after all this buying. These few cans are the last ones."

After that, you'll have to wait for my family to contact someone with cattle before they can continue the service for you.

She lied.

There are also about twenty boxes of pure milk in the space.

She had been stocking up on milk, and seeing that it had a shelf life of six months and offered a discount for every three boxes, she thought she should also donate some to the orphanage, so she bought thirty boxes at once.

Before they could even be sent to the orphanage, she and Si Shaoheng were transported to ancient times.

For the sake of the children's growth and health, Cheng Ruoan gave milk to the youngest children every day.

Dr. Hu smelled the aroma and liked it, so she made sure to give the old man a jar every day after that.

So we consumed several boxes along the way.

But this thing is special; if I bring it out in front of Dr. Hu, I have to find out its origin.

In addition, Cheng Ruoan and Dr. Hu planned to start a hand cream business, and she wanted to involve her family members.

It's a good opportunity to have her family help her find sources for beef tallow and marrow, and we can also collect the milk along with it.

The carriage traveled smoothly for about half an hour before they arrived at Huangyang Town.

The town was small, with only one inn. Cheng Ruoan and his companions asked around and quickly found the inn.

"There's an inn...that's an interesting name." When Si Shaoheng stopped the carriage, Cheng Ruoan saw the name of the inn and couldn't help but exclaim.

Si Shaoheng didn't even look up, and said, "It's similar to your naming style."

Cheng Ruoan: "Hmm?"

"Forgot? You named the new hotel built by the Si family 'Famous Hotel'."

Cheng Ruoan: ...

It has a silly vibe.

"I don't understand what you're saying. Go find my mother and the others." Cheng Ruoan handed the child to them and got out of the car, then got out herself. Doctor Hu got out of the car and they parted ways temporarily.

The old gentleman wanted to check out the clinics and pharmacies in this town to see what level they were at.

The family of four entered the inn, and the waiter kindly led them to room number one or two.

"The room on the left is number one, which is your matriarch's room. The room on the right is number two, which is the young lady and her husband's room."

The waiter always spoke with a smile and was very kind.

Cheng Ruoan handed him two copper coins, saying, "Thank you, sir."

The waiter thanked him repeatedly, put away the coins, and took his leave.

Without thinking, Cheng Ruoan knocked on her mother's door.

"Mother, we've come to pick you up!"

But to everyone's surprise, it was her older sister, Cheng Ruotong, who opened the door.

"Hey little sister, you've arrived already? Is everything settled in at home?"

Cheng Ruoan peeked inside suspiciously: "Big sister, do you live with Mother? Where's your husband?"

Cheng Ruoan waved his hand, "Don't mention it. Songshan County is full of mountains. There are two deep mountains right behind Huangyang Town. Your brother-in-law, that old hunter, couldn't stand it. He took his household registration to the yamen early this morning to get his bow and arrows and went into the mountains."

The household registration system in Daxia was divided into four categories: scholars, farmers, artisans, merchants, lowly, and slaves. The first four were considered good households, while the latter two were considered lowly households.

Because the Cheng family had always had little land and were in the tofu business, Cheng's mother's household registration was as a merchant.

Shao Yang's household registration was obtained by Cheng's mother through someone before he married into the Cheng family, and it was registered as a hunter's household registration under her employment registration.

The weapons control in the Great Xia Dynasty was very strict. Even hunters could not make bows and arrows at will. They had to buy them from the government office or get a receipt from the government office and then order them from the blacksmith's shop.

The bows and arrows that Shaoyang used to have in Baihua Village were damaged in the earthquake.

Later, when they went to the mountain stronghold, Shaoyang did find a sword, but this thing couldn't be used casually.

After learning about Cheng Ruoan's "great supernatural powers," Shao Yang kept asking Cheng Ruoan to hide the sword for him.

“An’an is here? I was just telling your sister that this inn isn’t cheap. If we wait until the building is finished before we move in, we don’t know how much money it will cost.”

As she spoke, Cheng's mother came out from the inner room. After seeing the family of four, she nodded to Si Shaoheng and went to hug her two beloved grandsons.

Cheng Ruoan looked at the interior decoration of this "ancient hotel". The "Di" class room was equivalent to a standard room in modern times. It was divided into an inner and outer room, with a canopy as a partition and a small screen to cover the canopy bed.

The inner room contained a canopy bed, a dressing table, and a wooden frame.

On the left is a carved window, and on the right, against the wall, is a bathtub with a curtain hanging outside.

The outer room contained a round table and four stools.

It's simple overall, but practical.

“Yes, this inn doesn’t look cheap.” Cheng Ruoan nodded in agreement.

Cheng Ruotong helplessly spread her hands: "There's nothing I can do. The rooms in the 'Human' section are half the price of here, only eighty coins a day, but they're too cheap."

The first thing you see when you open the door is a four-poster bed; there's not even a place to wash up.

"Eighty coins? That's not so bad..." Cheng Ruoan did the math in her mind. Three people in two rooms, a month's stay would only cost less than five taels.

Does that mean that prices are generally low in Huangyang Town?

She felt a shameful flutter of attraction.

Si Shaoheng saw a glint in her eyes and knew what she was thinking, so he said, "Niannian is craving candied hawthorns. I'll take the kids out for a walk. You can chat with your mother-in-law and older sister."

Si Nian's eyes lit up as well.

Wow.

Is there such a good thing? !

As expected, her father is the best father in the world!

"Okay, okay, you go."

After the father and his two children left, Cheng Ruoan pulled his mother and eldest sister to sit down at the small round table and told them that their final household registration had been settled in Daxi Village, that Si Erlang had taken over the power of the household, and that it would be difficult to settle them in the village for the time being.

And about the lard hand cream.

“Mother, eldest sister, this is what I’m thinking. I plan to let you two have a stake in this hand cream business. I’ll provide the capital, and you can just wait to share the profits. But since it’s a joint venture with my master, I won’t make it too big at first.”

But I still have quite a bit of money here, as my older sister knows. So I was thinking, if prices are low in Huangyang Town, why don't you rent a courtyard here first and start our business?

Of course, Mother and Sister, you can still make tofu, but I'll trouble Brother-in-law to help me collect lard, mutton fat, and beef tallow, or other animal fats.

Cheng Ruotong asked in surprise, "Us? Little sister, aren't you coming to stay in town?"

Cheng Ruoan shook her head: "Master plans to buy the mountain behind our homestead. He said there are many medicinal herbs there, so I can only go back to the village with him and go up the mountain to gather herbs every day."