Chapter 96 Chinese New Year
In a flash, another month has passed.

The chill of early winter has already set in, but there is no sign of depression in Qizhou City. Instead, it is becoming more and more lively as it is near the end of the year.

Of course, the atmosphere in the Chen family was not so good.

Chen Jin has been locked up at home for more than a month and is not allowed to go anywhere.

Feng no longer takes care of the household. After half a month of silence, she saw that Chen Huaiqian's anger had subsided a little, so she started to try to please him again.

There are some results.

Xu Shuhe listened to these things and just treated them as jokes to be had after dinner.

She didn't have time to join Feng in any house-side quarrels. It was the end of the year and everyone's enthusiasm for buying was high. It was a good time to do business.

Lin Jinyi went back to the capital recently. After all, she is the only daughter of the Lin family. She has been away from Qizhou for a long time. The New Year is coming soon, so her parents naturally urged her to go back.

Before leaving, I had already agreed with Xu Shuhe that I would not come to Qizhou again until after the first month of the lunar year. During this period, if there is anything, we can keep in touch by letter.

As soon as she left, Xu Shuhe had to take care of a lot of things and was very busy.

It's almost back to the time when Chen Zhi and I were running the business together.

Chen Zhishi was eager to do so.

He really didn't like seeing Lin Jinyi and Xu Shuhe being intimate.

Although they are all women, I just feel uncomfortable looking at them.

I feel like my wife has been taken away by someone else.

Now that Lin Jin is gone, he will have more time to spend with Xu Shuhe.

In fact, during this period of time, Xu Shuhe has gradually adapted to his changes.

Holding hands became natural and familiar, and she was no longer as surprised and nervous as before when they occasionally got intimate with each other. Sometimes she could even take the initiative and tease Chen Zhi.

But most of the time, he tried his best to find ways to quietly divert as much of Chen Zhi's attention as possible to business.

It's not easy to do two things at once. If you think more about business, you will think less about other things.

However, Xu Shuhe also discovered a problem.

Chen Zhi’s business attribute growth has reached a bottleneck.

It's stuck at 59% and won't move.

Xu Shuhe thought that it was probably time to expand the development platform. After all, Qizhou City was so small, and no matter how successful one was in the city, it would only be limited to Qizhou City.

Next year, why not try to open a store in Beijing.

While thinking about it, Xu Shuhe also mentioned this matter to Chen Zhi.

Chen Zhi also had this plan in mind, because he knew that Chen Xun would pass the imperial examination next autumn.

The capital city is more prosperous than Qizhou, so there are naturally more opportunities to accumulate wealth.

Moreover, if he opens a store in the capital, he might be able to get closer to the Fifth Prince. When the family is divided, he will have a bigger backer and will not be afraid of Chen Xun, a newly promoted official.

Yes, Chen Zhi is already planning to split the family.

It would be good for him to separate the family as soon as possible, otherwise he will be tied to the Chen family in the future and become a cash cow for Chen Xun's official career.

However, he did not tell this to Xu Shuhe.

Chen Zhi planned to do these things by himself so that Xu Shuhe wouldn't have to worry about them.

No matter what, their goals are now the same, to make money and expand the store to Beijing next year.

So Xu Shuhe discussed with Chen Zhi about organizing year-end promotions so as to make some extra money while people's shopping desire is high during the New Year.

This idea coincides with Chen Zhi's.

Therefore, the two of them quickly planned how to carry out this wave of marketing.

Just when everyone was busy outside, Feng couldn't sit still at home.

Ever since she found out that Chen Zhi's private shop was doing a booming business, she had been jealous. Now, in order to pay off the debt of Chen Jin's good-for-nothing son, he had taken eight thousand taels at once. Feng felt even more pained and wanted to get it back.

At least, she would never watch Chen Zhi and Xu Shuhe earn money. After much thought, although the younger son was capable, he should not disturb Chen Xun's studies, so she decided to let Chen Jin work in the Chen family's store.

Chen Zhi must not be allowed to steal the show in front of Chen Huaiqian.

Originally, Chen Zhi had already taken away one-tenth of the shares. If he really grasped the lifeline of the Chen family's industry, he would be unable to control it over time.

So Feng pleaded with Chen Huaiqian, said all the nice things she could, and made all the gestures she could think of, and finally made Chen Huaiqian agree to let Chen Jin go and work in the Chen family store.

After receiving a lesson last time, Chen Jin has become a lot more honest. When he comes out, he is no longer busy having fun like before, but helps out in the store quietly.

The New Year is approaching, and as a parent, Chen Huaiqian is looking forward to a harmonious family reunion. Seeing the changes in Chen Jin, his anger has subsided a lot, and he occasionally gives him some advice and teaches him how to do business.

After all, he is my biological son.

But Chen Zhi just found it funny when he saw him behave himself.

It is easy to change the country but difficult to change one's nature. He doesn't believe that people like Chen Jin will really change their ways.

It's just that I'm temporarily at peace now.

There is no need for anyone to deliberately guide it. After a while, its true colors will surely be revealed.

However, Chen Zhi was not in the mood to laugh at Chen Jin's joke. Business was booming at the end of the year and he was busy counting money.

Yunshang Pavilion and Rouge Shop have the best business.

During the New Year, women love to buy new clothes, new rouge and powder, and dress up beautifully to celebrate the New Year.

And because Chen Zhi found a skilled master who could make rouge from the capital through the Fifth Prince, their rouge is now definitely one of the best and of the highest quality in the entire Qizhou city.

With the help of Xu Shu and this little marketing genius, various color numbers were arranged, and the girls went crazy buying them.

Many people bought them as gifts.

Just like that, in just over a month until the Chinese New Year, the profits were astonishingly high.

Xu Shuhe looked at the account book and decided to reward himself.

After all, her own dowry shop had made a lot of money this year.

Not to mention anything else, new clothes and new jewelry must be arranged, and things to honor my mother Zheng have also been bought.

There is also Chen Zhi, who also needs to be taken care of.

Dress up like a nobleman.

Otherwise, standing next to her, it would be like being her hired farmhand, which would not look good.

Chen Zhi didn't expect that Xu Shuhe would make new clothes for him. When he came to Fuyunju with two sets of new headwear purchased for Xu Shuhe, the clothes made by Xu Shuhe for him were also delivered.

The two of them were stunned when they looked at the things they had prepared for each other, and then they laughed.

Xu Shuhe joked, as if it was an exchange ceremony.

But although he was joking, he still felt somewhat warm and touched inside.

There is no need to mention Chen Zhi.

Seeing Xu Shuhe thinking about him, his heart felt so warm.

Just like that, at the Chen family's New Year's Eve dinner, the couple were both dressed in low-key and noble attire, and as they stood there, their aura gave people the feeling that they were on a different level from the rest of the Chen family.

Chen Huaiqian and his son Chen Jin were not sensitive to these things and did not notice anything. But Feng and Li Mingzhu were all jealous when they saw Xu Shu and the expensive clothes on his body.

It’s not that Chen Xun was jealous, but he still felt uncomfortable.

This discomfort came from the fact that he felt that his third brother Chen Zhi, who had always been unknown, brainless and whom he had never taken seriously, seemed to have transformed into a different person, and even seemed to be superior to him.

But no matter what, no one dared to make trouble at this New Year's Eve dinner.

At least everything went on peacefully.

The Chen family did not have the habit of staying up together on New Year’s Eve, so after the New Year’s Eve dinner, Chen Huaiqian asked everyone to leave.

Everyone went back to celebrate the New Year.