Chapter 618 - Plans for the Family
In Yu Hang's opinion, most of the family businesses were his younger sister's credit. He never thought about taking the properties in Tanggu Town for himself. He wanted to help his younger sister as much as he could so she wouldn't have to worry about everything.
However, he didn't know that Xiaocao regarded the money made from the greenhouse vegetables in Tanggu Town and thirty percent of the profits from the seed breeding farms as income for the family. In addition, all of this would be inherited by him, the eldest son of the family, in the future.
Xiaocao naturally wouldn't treat her other siblings badly. The pharmaceutical workshop in Dongshan Village had expanded to three times the original size and was used to just supply the Tongren Medicine Halls in the region south of the Yangtze River. Ever since Yingtao transferred to the capital to develop a new pharmaceutical workshop, Xiaolian had been in charge of the workshop in Dongshan Village.
Every year, forty percent of the annual profit of the Dongshan Village Pharmaceutical Workshop was taken out by Xiaocao and deposited in the bank account Xiaolian had opened. When she saw a good shop, she didn't just buy it for herself but also bought several for Xiaolian. Every year, there were several thousand taels of income just by collecting rent.
Xiaolian was kept in the dark about all of this. That is to say, Xiaolian unknowingly had an annual income of more than ten thousand taels and was now a rich woman!
As for Little Shitou, who had the best relationship with Xiaocao, she naturally wouldn't be stingy towards him. The fruit and medicinal wine business in her hands had thirty percent taken out for her little brother. In the future, her younger brother would take the path of an official. With his teacher Headmaster Yuan, there definitely wouldn't be a shortage of connections. However, in the official's circles, without the backing of money, it was difficult to do anything.
With the large share of annual income every year, her little brother would be able to become an upright official without any worries. Xiaocao helped him plan this in secret!
In the middle of the twelfth month, the family gathered in the capital and surrounded Yu Hai and Madam Liu, gossiping about their daily lives. Xiaocao took out a few papers from her room and gave them one by one to her parents and siblings.
Yu Hai looked at the title deed with his name on it. He frowned slightly and looked at his daughter with disapproval, "The property in Tanggu Town is the business that Cao'er bought with money you saved up cent by cent. I'm just managing it for you. In the future, it will be for your dowry. You...How could you secretly change the name on the title deed to mine?"
"Father, I don't agree with you if you say it like that! Our family's property was clearly bought by the little bit of money we accumulated from the watermelons and vegetables we worked hard to grow. It should be counted as shared. You put all the credit on me, but be careful as Older Brother and Older Sister may say that you are biased!" Yu Xiaocao quickly gave a sweet smile when she saw that her dad was upset with the decision she made on her own. Yu Hai, the perfect example of a good father from the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, couldn't stay upset faced with the cute smile of his youngest daughter.
Madam Liu laughingly looked at her man, who was coaxed by their little daughter, and hurriedly said, "Cao'er, the methods of planting the early maturing vegetables and fruits were thought of by you. We can't take that credit. Also, when you bought the land for the property, the money you obtained from your recipes, and your share of the Zhenxiu Restaurant went into it."
"Mother! I'm your daughter. It's my duty to contribute to the family. We're family, so why do we have to be so clear on this? Father, Mother, I've seen a lot in the capital these past few years and naturally thought further in the future about things. Many of the officials in the capital go home to worship their ancestors every year as they all have ancestral homes."
