However, despite this, he still secretly opened two shops, one a fur shop and the other a pawn shop, both of which are doing extremely well, earning three to five hundred taels of silver every month with ease.
Unfortunately, he has to do business sneakily behind his family's back, otherwise, if he were allowed to proceed openly, earning thirty to fifty thousand taels of silver a year would be no problem!
Now it is December, the busiest season for his fur shop business, with daily transactions reaching hundreds of taels of silver. He is earning a fortune, feeling very satisfied.
To welcome his future sister-in-law, he also specially set aside two pieces of excellent black fox skin, intending to give it to his future sister-in-law as a meeting gift. All the things for the New Year at home have been prepared, just waiting for his brother and sister-in-law to return for the celebration.
