Chapter 117 Wholesale
Someone heard the village chief talking and gradually quieted down. Qin Fangci spoke again in this silence.
"Brother Village Chief, I'm not kidding you. I might only harvest five or ten kilograms of beans now, but in a month or two, I'll expand my tofu business and turn it into a large workshop. I'll harvest dozens or even hundreds of kilograms of beans. Brother Village Chief, do you still look down on me, the manager of the bean harvest?"
The old village chief and the villagers were all excited by Qin Fangci's words.
How much tofu can be made from hundreds of kilograms of beans? How much money can the Li family earn?
Some people thought so, and others thought that if the Li family built a big workshop, they would have to hire people. Then, would they be able to make money together with the Li family?
It makes me happy just thinking about it.
The old village chief also became cheerful. He stood up on his own without Hu Hui's help. "Okay, okay, I'll be your bean harvesting manager. I won't ask for your wages until you build a big workshop."
Hu Hui: “…” Dad, you speak so fast today.
The person who wanted to be the first to fight for the management position suddenly stopped talking.
No wages until the workshop is established. This...
Qin Fangci is not the kind of black-hearted person who would keep the stupid donkey without any food. The matter of paying the old village chief can be discussed later, so there is no rush to talk about it now.
She had more important things to say now.
"I have one more thing I want to ask everyone. Is anyone willing to start a tofu business?" Qin Fangci explained. "I want to buy tofu from our family and sell it in other villages and towns."
Some people's eyes lit up, while others hesitated, "What if we can't sell it?"
Someone else asked, "How much are you selling it to us? You won't be able to make any money out of it, right?"
"Can I trade beans for tofu?"
The voices were drowned out by one another, the noise was like a surging tide, making people's heads buzz.
Qin Fangci did not speak, waiting for everyone to discuss, and then she walked to the old village chief.
"Brother Village Chief, can you lend me your gong?"
"Ah?" The old village chief pulled his ears in confusion, "What did you say?"
"Gong!" Hu Hui leaned close to the old village chief's ear and said, "Dad, I'll go back and get the gong."
"Oh, go ahead. It's too noisy." The old village chief waved his hand. Hu Hui turned around and waved at his son, "Go get your Grandma Li a gong."
Hu Dalang ran away.
When Hu Dalang brought the gong, Old Li's yard was still noisy and messy.
Hu Hui picked up the gong and struck it, and finally it became quiet.
Qin Fangci, who had covered her ears in advance, lowered them and said, "Listen to me. For the first batch, we will only select five families. These five families can come to our house in the morning to buy tofu on credit, and come back to pay after they have sold all the tofu in the evening."
Qin Fangci snatched the drumstick from Hu Hui's hand and continued with a "duang" sound, "We sell wholesale tofu from our family, so we naturally keep the price as low as possible. Tofu is not expensive to begin with, and you can earn more by producing more. Similarly, if you sell more, you will definitely earn more."
"...Duang, listen to me. However, the first time you wholesale tofu from us, you can't take more than ten kilograms. If you sell out that day, we'll decide how much you can add the next day based on the time of day. For example, if you sell out before noon on the first day, you can add ten kilograms. If you sell out before dusk on the second day, you can only take ten kilograms the next day."
"If you don't sell out on the first day and some are returned, three kilograms will be returned, and you can only wholesale seven kilograms on the second day. In other words, you can only take out the kilograms you can sell."
"If more than half of the tofu is returned, I'm sorry, but we can't wholesale it to you anymore. We'll find another family."
"Duang," Qin Fangci simply took the gong from Hu Hui's hand and struck it herself. "For the first five families, we'll give them ten days' credit. After ten days, we'll know whether they can continue to do business. After ten days, they'll need to settle the payment when they wholesale tofu. Anything not sold on the same day cannot be returned."
"Duang, if you still don't understand something, raise your hand and ask now."
The black monkey ran from the back to the front at some point, jumping and raising his hands.
Qin Fangci pointed at someone and said, "Black Monkey, you go."
"Auntie, do these five families have any requests? Can I do it?"
"That's a very good question. These five families naturally have to be selected by me. I'm leaving the first spot for the two brothers, Ma Datian and Ma Xiaoshan. I'm not asking you to agree now, I'm just telling you that if you want to come, I'll choose you first. If you don't want to, I won't force you. You can go back and think about it and give me an answer later. If you have any questions, you can come and ask me again."
Ma Datian and Ma Xiaoshan, who were squeezed in the back, were confused.
what happened?
The people around them looked at them with envy and jealousy.
Ma Datian and Ma Xiaoshan were so lucky because they sent the bleeding Li Baisong back to Old Li's house that day.
Alas, I didn’t know that much earlier.
The old village chief's eyesight and ears were no longer blurry, and he winked at Qin Fangci. As the head of the village, it was not appropriate for him to ask Qin Fangci to favor him in public.
But he also wanted a spot.
There's no way, the village chief is also poor.
As the bean collector, he doesn't even ask for money, so he has to think of other ways to earn some.
However, the old village chief was winking at the blind man, and Qin Fangci was being besieged by the old women in the village.
"Duang!" Qin Fangci struck the gong again. "Today and tomorrow, anyone who wants to wholesale tofu can contact Yuan Taohua and Wang Cuiyun to sign up. I'll then select the candidates. Three days later, I'll have them come to each of them and tell them."
Qin Fangci intentionally said some new words, such as wholesale and registration. In this context, everyone seemed to understand, and no one asked about these two words.
Over time, people will naturally accept these two words, as if they have been saying them that way from the beginning.
"Okay, that's all I have to say. I'm done. You can all go home and think carefully. The crops in the fields can't go to waste. Think carefully. Don't act rashly. There will be problems later. It will delay your work and mine."
Qin Fangci returned the gong to Hu Hui and said kindly, "My dear, please tell them all to go back. My yard is small and can't accommodate too many people. We just bought some animals and need to build a barn. If we can't build it well today, the animals will have no place to stay at night and I'm afraid they will get sick."
Hu Hui took the gong again, "..."
Old Li's yard finally became quiet again.
Several more people stayed to help build the cowshed and donkey shed.
The Ma brothers stayed behind. They arrived later and had just returned from collecting firewood in the mountains, so they didn't catch the first wave of people to watch the fun.
Then it was the Wang brothers' turn. At first, Wang was reluctant to ask them to help and dragged them forward. But after listening to Qin Fangci's words, she took the initiative to push them forward.
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