Peasant Woman’s Decreed Life as a Wife Chapter 2203 - 2200: Seeking Partners

Tang Dongfeng listened and instinctively said, "How is that possible."

"Look at this first." Ye Muyu also wanted to test his reaction and handed him a copy of the Four Books and Five Classics annotated with pinyin.

At the same time, she pondered in her heart; to expand the bookstore, she would have to have outlets across Great Chu, opening at the same time, just waiting for the official newspaper to report on this pinyin matter.

Then they can open for business.

Ultimately, the difficulty lies in not having enough money to buy the stores.

Ye Muyu realized she was short on money.

This was truly a rare experience.

Since she opened her first bookstore in her hometown County City, she hadn’t felt the sensation of lacking money.

"Lady, what is this?" Tang Dongfeng asked, feeling puzzled after reading it; he didn’t understand much, especially pinyin itself, which was so different from Chinese characters and includes initials, finals, tones, etc., it was too strange.

Ye Muyu handed him a dictionary of Chinese characters along with some basic pinyin teaching books.

Tang Dongfeng was not foolish; after reading the dictionary, he set aside the Four Books and Five Classics and went to pare it with the basic pinyin teaching books.

Once he looked at them, he understood.

"Would you like me to read a few for you?" Ye Muyu saw he hadn’t realized the true benefit of pinyin and couldn’t help but say.

Tang Dongfeng naturally nodded, "Then I’ll trouble the lady."

Ye Muyu then taught him to recognize some simple words, such as the pinyin for big, sky, people, and she also taught him a few homophones to let him appreciate the charm of the tones.

Of course, the teaching did not lack the front and back nasal sounds.

Tang Dongfeng listened, his eyes lit up, "This teaching method is quite peculiar."

"Lady, although I can’t express the subtlety right now, I feel that recognizing characters through pinyin will definitely be faster than just looking at the text."

"Exactly, pinyin was invented to help everyone recognize characters," Ye Muyu said, smiling.

"Good, good stuff." Tang Dongfeng, somewhat excited, couldn’t help but stand up and loudly read several words, even sang along with the pinyin song in the basic teaching materials.

Ye Muyu thought that listening to this familiar yet strange pinyin song felt quite peculiar.

"This song is so smooth; after singing it once, I’ve memorized all 26 letters."

Ye Muyu nodded with a smile, thinking that it was indeed smooth; it was the accumulation of the experience of predecessors, she was just a transporter.

"Lady, you’re right, we have to open a bookstore!" Tang Dongfeng calmed down after a while and nodded at her, "But the stores I previously bought, some are quite large due to bargains, they are too big just for the bookstore, maybe for these large stores, we could open a food shop next door to boost business together."

Ye Muyu nodded, having to admit Tang Dongfeng knew how to do business.

"So, our most urgent matter now is to train suitable shopkeepers, and since our funds are not sufficient, we need to find partners to do this business together."

"Find someone to partner with?" Tang Dongfeng also realized this; he had just bought stores in a dozen places, costing him forty thousand taels, and if he were to buy them all, it would need over a million taels.

So much silver, the Chu family definitely couldn’t afford it right now.

Even though the stores under Ye Muyu’s name now generate an ine of tens of thousands of taels monthly, in a year, it’s only a hundred thousand taels.