Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 133 - 131 Limited Quantity Sale

Chapter 133: Chapter 131 Limited Quantity Sale

Mrs. Lu was pregnant, naturally, everyone was overjoyed. Mrs. Liu immediately sent her steward’s son, Xie Zhong, to notify Shen Chengzu. Shen Chengzu was so pleased that he rushed back overnight.

Because Mrs. Lu’s pregnancy was not yet past three months and relatively unstable, Shen Chengzu specifically went to Mrs. Shen and Master Shen the next day and said, "Father, mother, my wife is pregnant. Doctor Luo said her pregnancy is not yet stable, and she should not do much heavy work during this period."

"Has the fourth son’s family got a child on the way? This is great news! Whatever she craves, let the fourth son get it from the town for her. Take good care of yourself and give me a chubby grandson," Master Shen chuckled.

Mrs. Lu smiled in response.

"Wife, don’t burden the fourth son’s family with household chores anymore," Master Shen laughingly told Mrs. Shen.

"Which woman doesn’t know how to be pregnant? They work until the day they give birth, only she is the most delicate that she can’t even do household chores!" At these words, Mrs. Shen’s face turned black in an instant.

If the fourth family does not work, who will?

For the second family, supervising them to do one thing requires constant attention, and they can upset you at the blink of an eye!

Something as simple as feeding the pigs can get swamp water splashed everywhere!

Cooking a meal can somehow consume half the usual amount of firewood, rice, oil, and salt!

Mrs. Lan was often absent from home, and Mrs. Liu moved to the outskirts of the village, which was too far. If she had to go to the village every day to summon her to do work, Master Shen would definitely not agree, saying it would disgrace their eldest son. They live with their eldest son’s family, yet they had to rely on an daughter-in-law who moved out to do the household chores. He wouldn’t stand this humiliation!

"There isn’t much to do around the house. You and Yuzhu can take care of it," Master Shen then glared at Mrs. Shen.

"Yuzhu is of marriageable age, how can she do chores!" Mrs. Shen grumbled, but she dared not let Mrs. Lu work in this furious atmosphere!

She was aware that Mrs. Lu had spent all her money on medical treatments and recuperating her health. The west wing was filled with the smell of medicine every day!

The smell even made her feel like vomiting. She wanted to throw a tantrum, but got scolded severly by Master Shen, who said that if she dared to do anything that would harm the daughter-in-law’s childbirth again, he would divorce her.

Nowadays, she only dared to say this much! Though she couldn’t do anything, it felt good to make Mrs. Lu feel uncomfortable!

As for the chores... Mrs. Lan was living too comfortably in town, Mrs. Shen decided to make her come back and do the work!

This made Master Shen truly happy. He also felt relieved! How could Mrs. Shen mess around again! He knew how harsh she was when she ordered her daughters-in-law around. The fourth family’s wife finally got pregnant, but had a difficult childbirth because she slipped while making a midnight snack for Mrs. Shen and Yuzhu while heavily pregnant.

If Mrs. Shen had been willing to spend some silver on health care for the fourth family’s wife after childbirth, she wouldn’t have taken so long to get pregnant again.

However, they were short on money then, just as Wen’er needed to attend a poetry meeting in the county, and they needed silver. Otherwise, he would have made Mrs. Shen pay some money.

Back then, the fourth family’s wife was pregnant within two months of marriage, who wouldn’t say she was fertile!

If not for... there would not be just Jie’er, the single child in the fourth family now. But it’s good that she’s pregnant now.

Mrs. Lu was not pleased by this talk, but she vowed to protect herself and her child this time!

She remembered Xiao’er saying that being angry is bad for the baby, and quickly calmed herself down.

After Shen Chengzu returned to the town, Mrs. Lu went to Xiao’er’s house to make dolls. With one more child coming, she must save more silver to provide the children a better life.

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The bicycle, which had been in preparation for several months, was finally launched!

The children’s bicycles were all sold in the toy store. Each bicycle was bought in at fifty taels of silver.

The adult bicycles and tricycles could be pre-ordered at the toy store, each with a sales fee of one tael of silver!

Because the clientele of the toy store consisted of sons and daughters of wealthy families, the pricing of the bicycles was relatively high.

Even a single bicycle was sold at a high price of one hundred taels a piece, and in less than two hours, all twenty bicycles in stock at each of the ten toy stores in Minze Kingdom were sold out!

In addition, a lot of pre-orders were made, and some wouldn’t be available until next year!

The blacksmith’s shop also sold bicycles, but only adult bicycles and tricycles.

The adult bicycle was priced originally at fifty taels each.

The tricycle, however, with two wheels at the back and a small cart wedged in between, was convenient for servants from grand households for shopping, and also for villagers to carry things to the market to sell. Therefore, the price was somewhat cheaper, only ten taels. The aim was to benefit the people.

Two days before the market day, Shen Chengyao let the long-term workers in his house ride tricycles filled with goods, traveling back and forth in the town and the county!

The goal, of course, was advertising!

When curious people asked where the bicycle was bought from, they would tell them where the shop was and when the bicycles would be on a limited sale.

Normally, a tricycle that costs ten taels would only cost three taels that day, and only a hundred would be sold. These hundred bicycles were sold at a loss, aiming to take care of the villagers.

Before long, this news spread far and wide! Many itinerant peddlers and villagers, who had some savings, needed a cart, but didn’t have enough silver to buy a bullock cart, were moved!

The day before the sale started, there were already more than a hundred people queueing overnight! And those who were at the back of the line beyond the hundredth spot were reluctant to leave, thinking that some people might not endure and left in the middle of the night.

The day of the sale, all one hundred and fifty tricycles in the shop were sold out!

Many wealthy families from the county who came to shop arrived too late and didn’t get any in-stock items, but they all made orders.

The adult bicycles, however, did not sell so well. The price deterred a lot of people from purchasing!

Out of fifty adult bicycles, not a single one was sold!

In this era, though women weren’t exactly confined to homes, and it was seldom that they’d wear veils when going out, unless they were extremely beautiful, no woman would accept riding a bicycle around town!

As for the pampered young masters, they were also unwilling to ride out on their own bicycles!

Without a servant in front and behind, where would they get the semblance of a young master!

Xiao’er had foreseen this! She was neither impatient nor worried about selling. The bicycle was a very good means of transportation, faster than a bullock cart, and didn’t require feed for care! How convenient is that!

After some time, she would gradually lower the price to a relatively civilian price, then there wouldn’t be any issue with sales!

In this era, with transportation being so backwards, bicycles were really an efficient way to travel. There was no reason not to popularize them! It was a good thing! It could be seen as a charitable deed!

However, being the first to make a move was something that had to be done! As a businessman, nothing is more enjoyable than making a fortune!

So, she asked Di Shaowei to host a noble bicycle race in the Imperial Capital!

This race was planned by Xiao’er herself, and it caused a sensation throughout the entire Imperial Capital, even nationwide!

The elegance shown beneath the flamboyant appearances of the young masters, the power emanating from the youthful and brash hearts, the never-say-die spirit that gushed from the surging hot blood!

Each one captured the hearts of countless young ladies and spurred the fighting spirit in the youth!

Then, bicycles began to gain popularity!