7. Warmth at the waist

Translator: muzgodass

After Mo Yanzhi left, Qian Rongying looked at Zhou Lin. "Lin, what do you think about Han Tingxuan?"

"He is very different from before," Zhou Lin said while pondering. "I still remember the last time I saw him, he was just a little hooligan. I couldn't see the slightest bit of talent in him. But this time... If I hadn't confirmed that this person was really Han Tingxuan, I would've thought it was someone else."

"Really?" Qian Rongying muttered, "He is not simple."

Zhou Lin nodded and laughed bitterly. "He is great at doing business. Five hundred taels of silver. If someone claimed that he could take five hundred taels of silver from us just with a recipe, I would never believe it. I would also treat that person as a madman. Now, I believe it."

Qian Rongying smiled bitterly. "Yes. It is true. In a small town like this, it is surprising to have such a talented business. We have to investigate this Han Tingxuan. If he is really a useful talent, we might be able to recommend him to Master."

Zhou Lin got serious when he heard this. "are you serious?"

Qian Rongying nodded. "Master needs such a talent now..." Qian Rongying cupped his hands together and waved above his head as a manner to show respect to the emperor, "His majesty is a wise emperor, which is also why Master can achieve what he has now. However, even though Master wants to help, he is not a match for those old families. If not for that, he wouldn't have thought of opening a restaurant as a way to attract talents. Over the years, I have been running dozens of Restaurant of Bon Appetite, big and small, but discovered very few useful people. Today, some of Han Tingxuan's ideas made me believe that he might be someone we can use!"

Zhou Lin's eyes brightened slightly. "Is it why you agreed on the 500 taels of silver offer?"

Qian Rongying smiled silently.

Zhou Lin chuckled in a daze. "Your great vision and farsightedness is as impressive as ever. I will personally observe Han Tingxuan."

"Okay," Qian Rongying said, "I'll go to State of Yong tomorrow. I'll probably be back in half a month. I'll leave the restaurant to you."

"You can count on me."

Han Tingxuan, who had walked out of the restaurant, did not know that he was chosen as the potential talent by the two shopkeepers! In fact, there was only one person in his eyes.

That person was standing at the gate of the restaurant with a worried expression.

Mo Yanzhi wanted to go in and see what was going on a few times, but didn't as Han Tingxuan told him to wait outside. Now, he was finally relieved when he saw him come out.

Han Tingxuan walked out. "I'm fine. Sorry I've worried you."

Seeing the smile on Han Tingxuan's face, Mo Yanzhi was puzzled why he was in such a good mood, but this was not a bad thing for him. Although he is not afraid of Han Tingxuan's punches and kicks, which couldn't make any harm to him, it was always good to not be beaten. He hoped that Han Tingxuan would be in a good mood every day.

"It's good that you're fine," said Mo Yanzhi.

"I earned some money, but it's just silver bills. Let's go to the bank to exchange some silver. We don't have much food at home. Let's buy some." Han Tingxuan said.

He earned some money? Mo Yanzhi was stunned.

At this moment, Han Tingxuan handed over the silver bills to Mo Yanzhi.

Mo Yanzhi looked at the number on the silver bills and was shocked. "Where did you get so much money?"

If it wasn't for Mo Yanzhi's cold personality and the fact that he wouldn't have been shocked easily at all, it was likely that the amount of money would have made him scream. He was being incredibly surprised just by raising his voice.

It was the one thing Han Tingxuan liked Mo Yanzhi! He didn't intend to hide anything from Mo Yanzhi, so he told Mo Yanzhi about the recipe, still with the excuse of his great-grandfather's recipes.

Mo Yanzhi was shocked, "Can you make so much money just with a recipe?"

Of course, a recipe was not worth so much money. But Han Tingxuan's business brain was! However, Han Tingxuan did not plan to elaborate details. Mo Hanzhi knew the original owner very well after marrying him for two years. He might be exposed if he mentioned too many details.

He did not want to be treated as a monster.

"Shopkeeper Qian and Shopkeeper Zhou are very nice men," Han Tingxuan gave all the credits to the two shopkeepers.

Mo Yanzhi's heart is full of gratitude. Looking at the large amount of silver bills in his hand, he feels a little unreal.

The most unreal thing was, how could Han Tingxuan let him take this silver bill!

With that thought, Mo Yanzhi said directly, "You are the master in the family. You should take this silver bill yourself," he said as he was about to hand it over to Han Tingxuan.

Master was how a male wife addressed his husband.

However, Mo Yanzhi rarely addressed that.

Han Tingxuan shook his head and smiled. "You should take this first. I don't know any martial arts, so it's safer for you to take it."

Mo Yanzhi thought about it and decided not to object.

When they arrived at the bank, the two of them exchanged 100 taels of silver while the rest were exchanged for four hundred silver bills.

"I don't like coarse food grain. Yanzhi, we should buy fine rice."

Mo Yanzhi smiled and said, "Then you eat fine rice. I'm used to eating coarse food grain. I'm fine."

Han Tingxuan disagreed with this decision, so he said, "Yanzhi, I didn't say anything before because we don't have fine rice at home. Now that we have money, you should eat whatever I eat. Otherwise, there would be rumors saying that I mistreat you, which I don't like."

Mo Yanzhi paused and didn't say anything.

Han Tingxuan smiled and said, "Alright, that's the decision. Yanzhi, I will leave you to buy rice."

Then they entered the rice shop.

The shop owner probably knew Mo Yanzhi because there was disdain in his eyes and he was not polite at all.

"Hey there. Are you here to buy rice again, Mo?"

Han Tingxuan squinted his eyes and glared at the shop owner quietly.

At the same time, the shop owner was surprised to see Han Tingxuan, "What! Is this Han Tingxuan or what? It is such a big surprise that you come with your male wife. It is really..."

The shop owner did not continue, but what he was meaning to say was something nice.

Han Tingxuan searched through his memories and did not find any grudges between the original owner and this shop owner.

"Yes, I came with my male wife. Is there anything wrong with it?" As Han Tingxuan said, he walked over to Mo Yanzhi and put his arm around Mo Yanzhi's waist. At the same moment, he could feel Mo Yanzhi froze there.

However, Han Tingxuan did not let go.

The shop owner was a little surprised and said with a smile, "No problem, of course, no problem. However, the coarse food grain in my shop had been prebooked and we only have fine rice. Sorry there is nothing I can help if you want to buy rice."

"That is too bad..." Han Tingxuan sighed regretfully. "Actually, I want to buy fine rice, but I don't think the fine rice you sell is not good. Yanzhi, we should go to another shop. It's almost winter, so we have to buy more. If we keep more at home, you don't have to go hunting in the winter."

The way Han Tingxuan said and looked at Mo Yanzhi was full of love, as if he loved his male wife very much. The shop owner's face was turning red! If you call the way Han Tingxuan loved Mo Yanzhi a true love, then there would probably no one in all over the world who didn't love their male wife!

After Han Tingxuan finished speaking, he hugged Mo Yanzhi's waist and left.

There was another rice store in the town.

After he left, Mo Yanzhi tried to get away from Han Tingxuan as he felt a little uncomfortable being cuddled by Han Tingxuan. It wasn't that he couldn't tell that Han Tingxuan had deliberately done it to upset the owner of the rice shop.

Now that they came out of the shop, they didn't have to act anymore.

Han Tingxuan knew that it was not a day's effort. Since his action made Mo Yanzhi awkward, he calmly let go of him and said, "Let's go to another shop."

In the other shop, they received a warm welcome. The owner of the shop was not there,but the staff was good at entertaining customers. They were very warmly welcome from the start.

The two of them bought a total of 300 kilograms of fine rice and spent 25 taels of silver.

Such a huge deal of business caught the shop owner's attention. The shop owner smiled and sent out a bull cart, agreeing to send them back personally!

Thus, Han Tingxuan asked the staff who drove the bull cart to pass by the previous rice store.

The boss who was still talking about Han Tingxuan didn't have money was almost stunned when he saw this!

And after finding out that the sacks were filled with fine rice which was paid by silver, the shop owner regretted and hated himself for believing what Mo Guangning said.

According to Mo Guangning, Hang Tingxuan was extremely poor! And Han Tingxuan and Mo Yanzhi were in a bad relationship. All of these were bullshit!

25 Taels! What a huge loss!

Therefore, the shop owner really hated Mo Guangning, Mo Yanzhi's younger brother!

They didn't drive the bull cart straight back home because Han Tingxuan said that he had to buy some other things. As the staff member had already been told to listen to Han Tingxuan by his boss, so he smiled and said, "No worries. There is no rush. If you want to buy anything, go ahead and put them on the bull cart and we will send them all back to your home."

It was a great chance to go shopping for Han Tingxuan.

Hence, Han Tingxuan bought a lot of things, including a lot of cloth which were all made of cotton.

In addition, they also bought some daily necessities.

Thanks to the bull cart, Han Tingxuan was happy that he did not need to walk home!

When they arrived home, the night had fallen. Thanks to the dark night and their home being distant from other villagers, barely no villagers saw them coming back with a whole bull cart of things.

The staff helped to unload the stock. It was when Han Tingxuan also saw how powerful Mo Yanzhi was.

Mo Yanzhi was so powerful that he held the sacks of rice like empty bags.

Looking at his thin arms and legs again, Han Tingxuan was really dissatisfied!

After the staff left, Mo Yanzhi started to organize the things they bought. He stocked them in the cellar and in the kitchen.

Han Tingxuan was not satisfied with the current cottage and knew that he would freeze to death in winter!

However, there was no need to buy a new house. Because buying a house wasn't cheap. His own funds were used to do business as a flow capital. Buying a house was not worth it!

However, repairing the cottage was necessary. Nowadays, the payment of hiring a labor was definitely not high!

After he came up with a plan, Han Tingxuan's stomach rumbled, which he could not bear. He walked over to Mo Yanzhi who was still packing up.

"Yanzhi, I'm hungry. Let's cook first.

Mo Yanzhi immediately put down his work. "Okay."

"I want to eat braised chicken," Mo Yanzhi's skills were pretty good. Han Tingxuan didn't want to cook himself today.

"Sure enough," Mo Yanzhi agreed immediately.

Han Tingxuan lay on the bed for a while like a master. It was not that he was lazy, but he was really tired. The original owner was too weak. After such a long day, a proper rest was necessary.

When Mo Yanzhi came over and told Han Tingxuan that they could eat, Han Tingxuan almost fell asleep!

After yawning in a daze, Han Tingxuan felt like he was too hungry!

After dinner, Han Tingxuan felt sleepy. He got so fatigue because of his poor physical health.

But it was killing him for not taking a bath on daily basis because he was used to bathing every day in modern times. Therefore, he told Mo Yanzhi to boil hot water.

Mo Yanzhi did not refuse him. He prepared a full bucket of warm water before he went out of the room. Han Tingxuan took a good bath.

When he saw that Mo Yanzhi moved the bucket to the kitchen and bathe himself with the cooling water that he had washed, Han Tingxuan felt a little sour. He wanted to stop him but he didn't say anything.

In his memory, Mo Yanzhi seemed to have used cold water to wipe clean his body during the winter.

The used bath water was already quite good.

Han Tingxuan was already very sleepy, but he could not fall asleep lying on the bed.

After Mo Yanzhi was busy for a while, he finally entered the room. Then, he took out a bedding and a quilt from the old cupboard and laid it on the ground. It appeared that he was going to sleep on it.

At this very moment, Han Tingxuan criticized the original owner for being a jerk!

In the past two years, he not only did not share the bed with Mo Yanzhi all year round, but also spread the rumor that Mo Yanzhi was infertile . It was not pity that such a jerk died.

"There's no need to make the bed. Come and sleep here," said Han Tingxuan in a low voice.

Mo Yanzhi paused and said lightly, "No need. I am fine with sleeping down here. You should..."

"One more time. Sleep here," Han Tingxuan's voice became deeper.

Mo Yanzhi pursed his lips, lowered his head and put away the quilt. Then he took off his coat and went to bed.

The quilt wasn't big, and Mo Yanzhi slept very outside. Was he trying to get cold overnight?

Han Tingxuan sighed and pulled him into his arms.

Mo Yanzhi's body stiffened.

Han Tingxuan understood that Mo Yanzhi probably didn't want to be physically touched either.

However, since he decided to spend his rest life with Mo Yanzhi, there were things that he must make Mo Yanzhi get used to!

"Yanzhi, I've figured out something after this big illness."

Han Tingxuan hugged him and said softly.

Mo Yanzhi did not respond and his body was still stiff. However, Han Tingxuan knew that he was listening!

"Yanzhi, in the past two years, it was my fault. Father and daddy died all of sudden. I took all my anger out on you and treated you as a murderer who harmed them. That's why I treated you so bad... "

Mo Yanzhi's body stiffened even more.

"This time, if I weren't for a near-death experience, I might not have been able to think through it. I know that you might not believe me. But give me a chance, alright? You've already married me, and we're family now. We are going to spend the rest of our lives together. From now on, let's start all over again. What do you say? "

Mo Yanzhi remained silent, feeling complicate as he lied there with his back at Han Tingxuan.

As a profiteer, no, a great businessman, Han Tingxuan knew exactly how to proceed his target step by step. Therefore, he didn't expect that he could get a great answer within one day.

Thus, he hugged Mo Yanzhi and softly said, "Now sleep" before he fell asleep.

Han Tingxuan really fell asleep after he uttered all words out.

However, Mo Yanzhi's eyes remained open until a long time later before he slowly closed his eyes.. His body was still stiff, but his waist, where he was hugged, felt warm.

It was very uncomfortable, but it was really warm...