The Big Landlord 153.2

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Chapter 153.2 – To Make Amends

An Zi Ran got a ready-made restaurant from Elder Zhuo, and he was very happy about it, because right now, he was really short on money. The revenue from Tian Long Gambling House was no longer enough to meet his needs, so now he urgently needed to earn even more money.

At the end of every month, An Ziran, in addition to looking at several profitable properties under his control, also has three ledgers that continuously exported large amounts of money.

The three ledgers were An Yuan County, Chang Province, and Ali Xiang.

An Yuan County was not bad. The An family owned an industry in An Yuan County. The money earned every month could supplement the wages of the workers and still have surplus leftover. Some time ago, An Zi Ran implemented the same plan as Ali Xiang in An Yuan County. That was, those who have worked for three years could get a piece of land.

But Chang Province and Ali Xiang were different.

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The project in Chang Province required repeat investments of funds. It was impossible to recover these funds until the following year.

As for Ali Xiang, there was income from agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry, but Ali Xiang was located in a remote area. This was especially so after Fu Wu Tian blocked the secret passage to and from Gaoze Country. They needed to find a new buyer. As a result, the income from Ali Xiang was not as high as when Xu Wei Ye was around.

Because of these reason, An Zi Ran didn’t have much money in his pocket yet. The only industry that could really make money was Tian Long Gambling House. The others could only be regarded as small projects for the time being. It was going to take some time before those projects would produce any substantial results.

A month ago, An Zi Ran had also opened another Tian Long Gambling House in Feng City*.

[*T/N: Here the author wrote 凤城 fèngchéng, which would translate into “Phoenix City.” But previously the author wrote this as 枫城 fēngchéng, which would translate into “Maple City” instead, and that’s what I had previously translated it as. I’m not sure if the author made a typo here or previously, but I’ll just call it “Feng City” from now on for simplicity’s sake.]

The population flow of Feng City was not as high as that of Jun Zi City, but it was still a big city and the income coming from Feng City was not a small amount. However, the two gambling houses could not meet his current demand for money.

Yesterday, Zhuo Hai Tang showed him the restaurant’s ledger, which recorded the restaurant’s income for that day.

Although Zhuo Hai Tang’s surname was Zhuo, he had nothing to do with the Zhuo family. He was originally a painter for the gambling house, but there was not enough manpower [in the restaurant], and there were not as many people applying for gold cards [in the gambling house] now, so An Zi Ran temporarily transferred him to the restaurant to manage the accounts.

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An Zi Ran had already looked through the ledger, and the profit of the restaurant was more than he had imagined, so he came up with the idea of opening a restaurant. He already had plans to open a third gambling house in another city. So if he opened a few more restaurants, he should be able to make enough money from all the new establishments to temporarily meet his urgent need for money.

The next day, Elder Zhuo brought Zhuo Gao Ming and his wife, Bao Xin Chun, out of the ancestral hall.

The two of them felt deeply ashamed and resentful, but they still had to publicly apologize to An Zi Ran, according to An Zi Ran’s demand, for the sake of the future.

The Zhuo family was a reputable family. As soon as this incident happened, the news immediately spread far and wide.

With the spread of this news, the An Family Restaurant became famous. People also found out that the owner of the restaurant was the wangfei of Prince Fu’s Mansion. Many people were talking about this matter, including several of Emperor Chong Ming’s sons, especially the fifth prince, Fu Yuan Jian, who had always suspected that the person behind Tian Long Gambling House was a member of the imperial family. And now, such news was spreading.

The An Family Restaurant’s reputation became very famous after this drama.

But asides from the restaurant, there was also this novel food item called hamburger, and what made Fu Yuan Jian concerned was that the meat used in these hamburgers was beef.

Just a while ago, they were wondering who was helping the cattle farmer with the surplus fresh meat, so they have been paying particular attention to any information about beef. With the appearance of this hamburger, Fu Yuan Jian could not help but wonder if the helper was Prince Fu’s Mansion.

“Do you guys think it could be Prince Fu’s Mansion?”

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Fu Yuan Jian looked at his two confidants.

Luo Yang was deep in thought and did not say anything.

Jiang Sheng thought for a while and replied, “Wangye, there was tens of thousands of kilograms of fresh meat returned to the cattle farmer’s slaughterhouse. This is a lot of meat. There is only one An Family Restaurant. Even if they bought everything, in such a short amount of time, it is impossible to make food out of such a big quantity of beef and sell it all.”

“What you said does make sense.” Fu Yuan Jian nodded. He thought so too. Then he turned to Luo Yang and asked, “What do you think?”

Luo Yang replied, “Wangye, this subordinate thinks that it would be better to kill a thousand people by mistake than to let go of the one right one. We can look into Prince Fu’s Mansion. Even if it’s not them, it will have no impact on us.”

Fu Yuan Jian made an immediate decision, “Then let’s do this. I’ll leave this matter to you and Jiang Sheng. Remember, I want a definite answer.”

“Understood!”

Jiang Sheng and Luo Yang responded at the same time.

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