Farm Girl Turns Everything Around: Sly Husband, Let's Farm

Chapter 1153: Chapter 1153 She’s at too much of a disadvantage _1 Chapter 1153: Chapter 1153 She’s at too much of a disadvantage _1 Zuixian Building had a change of owner, but the business was not affected. Yang Wenxiao replaced the shopkeeper, waiters, and chefs, bringing in a chef from the Imperial Kitchen, whose skills were on par with, if not better than, the previous head chef.

The chef’s skills held up; for the common folk, as long as the taste was good, they were willing to come.

For those who were well-informed and had witnessed Yang Wenxiao’s explosives and the Divine Crossbow Team, they were especially keen on flattering Yang Wenxiao.

Yang Wenxiao, who had lived in the deep Palace for a long time, seldom left the Palace and hardly met with anyone; since they couldn’t see him in person, they could only patronize the Zuixian Building to show their support.

There were quite a few people with such ulterior motives, so the business of the Zuixian Building picked up again, showing signs of competing with Jiwei Building like before.

Qiao Xiaomai and Tong Sanlang didn’t go to the upstairs private rooms, choosing a spot in the main hall on the ground floor instead and casually ordering two dishes. After they were served, three words were written all over Qiao Xiaomai’s face: not happy.

Now that Yang Wenxiao had become the owner of Zuixian Building, those who wanted to suck up to the Royal family would surely do their utmost to support Zuixian Building’s business, wouldn’t they?

The market in Capital City was only so big; when Zuixian Building had more patrons, Jiwei Building had fewer.

And she was still burdened with a debt of over ten billion!

“Let’s go back quickly, it’s time to make lunch.” Tong Sanlang knew why she was unhappy, but under these circumstances, he couldn’t offer much consolation.

The Shen Family fell with lightning speed, the owner of Zuixian Building changed, and thinking about the series of upcoming events, his head began to hurt too.

The two returned to the Imperial Palace, made meals for the Yang Family, and then left the Palace in the afternoon to go straight to Jiwei Building.

The business at Jiwei Building was booming, crowded to the brim, packed inside and out, forcing them to move to the back courtyard.

Shopkeeper Hong welcomed them warmly and said gleefully, “They are all here for ‘Skyfall Love Chronicles.’ It’s been told in rotation three times now, but the ending has never been revealed, keeping the customers’ hearts itching like kittens scratching; many are asking when will the book finally be available.”

“If this book really comes out, at the very least we could sell a few thousand copies!”

A few thousand copies.

And that was just the sales volume in Capital City; across the whole of Daqi, it would definitely be tens of thousands of copies.

Tens of thousands of copies, according to the previous agreement, they would receive one tael silver for each, ultimately giving them tens of thousands of taels silver.

Tens of thousands of taels, and compared to the debt of over ten billion, this number truly seemed so insignificant that Qiao Xiaomai couldn’t even muster a faint smile.

Qiao Xiaomai let out a long sigh, sprawled listlessly on the table, toying with a delicately crafted teacup in her hand, and said in a sullen voice, “Had I known, I should have given the printing technology to Prince Liud, what a loss.”

With the downfall of the Shen Family, the bookstore business also fell into the hands of Yang Wenxiao.

Yang Wenxiao made a fortune, while her debt crisis intensified.

“If the retired emperor continues to demand our novel ideas for free, then I quit,” she said with a huff.

Competing with her in the food and beverage industry and then demanding her to come up with new ideas, she was ready to throw in the towel!

“Actually, he didn’t just take those novel ideas for free,” said Tong Sanlang.

“He didn’t take them for free, but the amount of silver given was not much,” Qiao Xiaomai rolled her eyes.

Take, for example, the movable type printing press: they were only compensated with one tael of silver for each book, while the remaining four taels all went to the Yang Family.

There was also the adult tricycle, which Yang Wenxiao had manufactured and sold without even informing them beforehand.

Collaborating with the Royal family resulted in very low profits.

She lost too much.