Chapter 036: Debt-free
Before leaving, Su Wan greeted the proprietress and said that the next time he came, it might take ten days or so, as she had developed a newer soap.
There are still floral scented, goat milk soap and pink goat milk soap. According to the market supply, lard goat milk soap will account for the majority, because most of the customers are ordinary people. Their wallets are not full and they can only afford the most common and practical soap. As for pink soap, there won't be too much, because it is expensive. Except for wealthy families, there won't be too many ordinary customers buying it, so it's better to make too much to avoid accumulation of goods.
Her new type of floral soap eliminates goat milk as a raw material, so the price is not much higher and it can also be used to wash clothes. Otherwise, everyone would be scented with goat milk, which would be too monotonous and uniform. So she had to come up with some other tricks to ensure the popularity of the product.
She and the boss's wife achieved mutual benefit, and Su Wan signed another agreement with her.
It was clearly written above that she could only make a profit through her own channel and was prohibited from reselling her soap to other places and driving up the price for profit.
Su Wan is also a smart person. She is afraid that the boss lady will become greedy one day and sell her soap to other places at a high price, so as to make another profit. She also wants to expand the market. How can she only do business in Qinghe County?
The proprietress also agreed. She knew what Su Wan meant. If she wanted to do this business for a long time, she must abide by the agreement.
Holding the receipt, Su Wan handed it to Su Chen and asked him to keep it for him.
"Let's go, Third Brother and Fifth Brother, let's go find Boss Zhang!"
Su Chen and Su Yi smiled and nodded. The three siblings left the grocery store and went to Boss Zhang's house.
He was a loan shark and made his fortune by earning interest. Now he owns a three-story house in Qinghe County.
There were thugs guarding the door. After Su Chen explained their purpose, they went in and said hello, and then he came out to invite them in.
"Our master invites you in to talk!" The person who came was none other than the lackey who followed Boss Zhang around last time.
Su Chen heard this and said to his younger brothers and sisters:
"I'll go in alone. Lao Wu, take good care of Wan Wan and take her to the alley entrance to wait for me!"
To be on the safe side, Su Chen decided to go in alone.
Su Yi nodded in agreement. Su Wan gave the thirty taels of silver he had prepared to Su Chen, and followed his fifth brother to the entrance of the alley to wait.
Boss Zhang shouldn't cause any trouble. In the original novel, the five brothers were all fine in the end.
Sure enough, after waiting for a quarter of an hour, Su Chen came out.
Seeing his figure appear at the other end of the alley from afar, Su Wan pulled Su Yi and couldn't wait to pick him up.
Su Yi was suddenly held by a warm little hand. His heart skipped a beat, and then he felt a sense of security.
"Third brother, how is it? They didn't give you any trouble, did they?"
Seeing Su Wan's anxious look, Su Chen couldn't help but grin, and even reached out to brush the scattered hair on her face behind her ears.
"Don't worry, they didn't give me any trouble!"
"Did you see him tear up the IOU with your own eyes?"
This is the key point. If the IOU is not destroyed, the money will be repaid in vain.
Su Chen continued to nod:
"Boss Zhang returned the IOU to me after he took the money. We'll burn it soon. We don't owe them anything anymore!"
He took out the IOU, which was wrinkled due to age.
The three siblings were very happy. They had finally solved a big problem and were now debt-free, so they naturally wanted to celebrate.
"Third Brother, Fifth Brother, I'm hungry. Let's go get some noodles, shall we?"
Seeing her smiling face, so happy, with two deep dimples, the two men couldn't bear to refuse.
In fact, given their frugal nature, they would not waste the money.
"Okay, Wanwan's treating, so we won't be polite!"
The three siblings came to a noodle stall with many customers. Since there were many people here, the noodle food must be good.
Su Wan ordered three bowls of meat noodles. The ancients were really honest and generous. Although there was not much meat, there was a lot of noodles!
A bowl cost seven cents, and after Su Wan paid the bill, he only had two taels of silver left.
The three of them ate their fill and agreed not to tell Fourth Brother when they got home, otherwise he would make a fuss and say that Su Wan was biased.
After eating, Su Wan thought about his three brothers at home, so he thought about buying some food for them. He had bought meat buns several times, but this time he wanted to try something different and bought leek and meat pancakes.
I bought four pancakes, each costing four cents. There was only a little bit of minced meat in them, which barely gave them a meaty taste, and the rest was leeks.
But this is very satisfying. At least Su Wan remembers his brothers at home every time he goes to the county.
There are still a lot of vegetables at home, both the ones I bought and the ones sent by Uncle Jiang, so there is no shortage of meat for the time being. The autumn harvest has just been completed, and there is also rice at home. Since Su Wan came, our lives have been getting better and better.
When leaving the city, there was a blind woman selling chicks with her granddaughter at the city gate.
There were more than 20 chicks in the two cages. They were said to be raised by the hens in the family, but they were orphans and their grandmother was blind, so she couldn't take care of so many chicks, so she took some out to sell.
A rooster costs twelve cents and a hen costs fifteen cents.
Many people gathered there to choose, and some tried to bargain with the old lady, thinking that she was selling too expensively. The chicks were still young and would not survive if they got sick. It would take at least three months to raise them until they were old enough to eat, and half a year to lay eggs, which required a lot of food. After some negotiation, it turned out to be eight cents for a rooster and ten cents for a hen. The old lady was blind, and her granddaughter was only a few years old, so how could she be their match? She looked at a loss.
Some people have already started choosing, despite their mother-in-law's objections.
Su Wan thought that since there were no livestock at home, if he could raise a few chickens, he could start raising them now and kill them for meat after the New Year.
After my eldest and second brothers left, the house became quiet, so it would be nice to raise a few chickens.
So, Su Wan decided to buy a few chicks, two roosters and two hens.
She squatted down and picked out four that looked in good spirits, then put them into her basket.
The little girl next to her mother-in-law looked at her timidly, with fear and worry in her eyes.
Su Wan counted out fifty-four coins and handed them to her mother-in-law:
"Grandma, two cockerels and two hens, that's fifty-four cents in total. Not a cent less. Please count carefully!"
Her actions caused the women next to her to roll their eyes.
She started it, how can they take advantage of her?
The old woman was also stunned when she heard this, and her little granddaughter's eyes lit up.
She thought she was a bad sister who took advantage of others, but it turned out that she was overthinking it.
"Girl, this is not very kind of you, is it?" One woman was already very unhappy.
"How I buy is my business. How does it bother you? I have no right to control how you buy!" Su Wan retorted rudely.
She paid the money and didn't want to argue with them any further, so she got up and left.
Anyway, she has started it, and the old woman can do whatever she wants. If she is forced to lower the price, there is nothing she can do. Even if she wants to lower the price, she can't do it that low.
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