Chapter 125: Buy and Sell
After dinner, Qin Fangci called the children over.
"I have something to tell you."
The children all looked at Qin Fangci.
"Now we have enough pens, ink and paper at home for you to practice calligraphy every day."
This sentence successfully froze the smiles on the children's faces.
Daya and Erya breathed more lightly. When they saw the box of paper today, they wondered if they could let their younger sister practice calligraphy with paper as well.
I can't write on paper every day like her and my uncle do, but it's good to write on paper a few times a month.
I didn't expect grandma to talk about this at this time.
The skin of the big egg was tight.
Ever since he was fined ten cents, his parents have had calluses on his ears from reading to him every day, and now he is a little annoyed by writing.
Erdan was both happy and unhappy. Using a wooden stick to practice calligraphy allowed him to practice outside. But if he wrote on paper, wouldn't that mean he would have less time to play outside?
No matter what mood the kids are in.
Qin Fangci's decision will not change.
"Except for Si Ya and Sandan, I will give you two sheets of paper every day. You need to write two sheets of large characters every day."
"Mom, can you only write one?" Li Yulan bargained quietly, "Two is too much, we still have to help with housework every day."
"So I'm telling you now, you need to manage your time so that you can finish writing two large characters without interrupting your household chores. Everyone's writing will be placed in one place. After ten days, the one with the worst writing will be fined five cents. This is the new rule."
"Ah!" the children shouted in unison.
Qin Fangci looked at the eldest, second, third, and third Li brothers, Mrs. Du, Mrs. Yuan, and Mrs. Wang, and said, "Next year, the adults will also need to practice calligraphy on paper every day. This year, start by working hard to learn to read."
The eldest, second, and third Lis, the Dus, Yuans, and Wangs: "..."
It's so easy for the sky to get dark.
The smiles will not disappear, they will just move from the faces of adults to the faces of children.
…
Time flies.
The day before the wholesale of tofu, Qin Fangci called together the people selected from each family.
Brothers Ma Datian and Ma Xiaoshan, Hu Laosan and Hu Erlang, Black Monkey and his third brother, three cousins of the Wang family, Liu Shitou and Liu Erge.
The main purpose of Qin Fangci gathering people together was to assign areas to them. Everyone should meet in advance to discuss it, so that everyone would not rush to the same place and delay themselves and others.
Then Li Laoer gave some simple training on the details of going out to sell things.
Li Laoer thought that her mother might have a problem with her brain. She had a mother like her, who not only divided the family business but also asked others to do the business.
Are you afraid that others can’t make money?
But his short-sighted thoughts suddenly became clear after Qin Fangci's guidance. At this moment, he spoke passionately, wishing he could take out his heart and lungs and stuff them into other people's mouths.
"Do you remember everything? If you have any questions, ask me again. Don't go out like a silent fool. You can't do business without shouting!"
Li Laoer waved his arms like a marketing boss.
He San Ge raised his hand tentatively, and then received an enthusiastic response from Li Lao Er, which made everyone have more questions.
Li Lao Er was talking with saliva flying all over the place, and Qin Fangci was very satisfied. Then she looked at Li Lao Da who was dozing off and Qin Fangci kicked him without hesitation.
This son is not as capable as the donkey in the family.
Boss Li was startled by the kick. "What's wrong? Mom, what's wrong?"
As he said this, he wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth.
"Go to the village chief's house and bring back some beans. Soak them."
"Oh." Boss Li stood up and walked out. "Mom, should I go alone?"
"Yes, your second and third brothers are busy."
"Then mother, should I go there by ox cart?"
"The third brother has taken the cattle out to pasture. You can pull the cart."
Boss Li: “…”
The old village chief collected more than 100 kilograms of soybeans for the Li family.
One pound of beans can produce more than three pounds of tofu. Qin Fangci calculated that to make fifty pounds of tofu, she needed to soak sixteen pounds of beans.
To make it an even number, Qin Fangci soaked twenty kilograms of beans.
There are many people in my family, so it is no problem for me to consume two kilograms of beans and tofu.
In the middle of the night, the little donkey went out, and the sound of grinding the mill continued until dawn.
In the second half, the little donkey was very tired. No good family would ask a donkey to work in the middle of the night. The cows could all sleep well.
Qin Fangci hung a carrot on the little donkey, and the little donkey finally persevered.
The little donkey who finally ate the carrot: "..."
The eldest and second Li carried soy milk home one basket at a time.
Yuan took Li Yulan to boil the big pot to cook soy milk, while Daya and Du filtered the bean dregs together.
Qin Fangci kept adding brine and cooking the tofu.
Li Laosan and Wang both came along to help.
Finally all the tofu was made and everyone was exhausted.
Before daybreak, people started coming to Lao Li's house to buy tofu on credit.
Li Baisong was not at home, so Daya, who had the best handwriting, was doing the registration for people.
Daya can't write so many words yet.
For the Ma brothers, she just wrote "tian" followed by the weight.
Three people came from the Wang family, one each from the first, second and third families of Wang.
Daya wrote a king.
Liu Shitou's family wrote "stone", and Hei Houzi's family drew a black dot.
The black monkey looked at the ink dot that represented him, pointed at it and asked Daya, "Why does my name look like an ink dot?"
Daya blushed, "I can't write, so I'll use a black dot instead."
Black Monkey: “…”
The others laughed unkindly, and the black monkey stepped back silently.
At the old village chief's house, Hu Laosan and Hu Erlang drove the family's ox cart out, so the Hu family took the maximum amount given by the old Li family, ten pounds of dried tofu and a bucket of tofu pudding.
In the past, when Lao Li's family took out tofu, it cost two cents per piece, and each piece weighed about three or four taels.
That pound of tofu would cost about eight cents, and the wholesale price Qin Fangci gave was six cents per pound, so ten pounds of tofu would cost sixty cents.
A spoonful of tofu pudding costs two cents, and we have a big spoon at home.
Before, one bucket could produce about fifty spoonfuls.
The cost price Qin Fangci gave for taking a bucket away was seventy cents.
The tofu that the Hu family took away cost 130 wen, and Daya wrote the price on the back.
The Ma brothers were carrying a load on their shoulders, with five pounds of tofu in a basket on one side. They didn't bring any tofu pudding, which was sixty cents.
The Liu brothers, like the Hu brothers, took away goods worth 130 wen.
He San Ge wanted to take less, so at the instigation of Black Monkey he also took away 120 coins.
The three brothers of the Wang family took away 120 coins, and when their three families divided it, each family got exactly 40 coins.
After sending the people away, Qin Fangci took the lead and went back to the house to take a nap, while Du Shi took the third and fourth daughters to busy herself around the house.
Feed the pigs, feed the donkeys, feed the ducks and feed the chickens...
When Qin Fangci woke up, it was already time for lunch.
The Ma brothers came back just after lunch. They brought the least tofu and went to several villages. They followed Li Laoer's instructions honestly, but they didn't expect that once the business came in, they couldn't stop it.
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