Chapter 173 Chapter 173 He is right
Xu Yunfan had previously worked with Qin Da and several other men to burn hundreds of bags of charcoal, including ordinary charcoal and medium-quality gray charcoal. As for silver frost charcoal, Xu Yunfan had people burn the most.
Qin Run immediately started thinking about the charcoal sales. "I want to use ordinary charcoal to meet the needs of the store and the cafeteria first. For the rest, we'll sell it at the market price."
"As for the Gray Flower Charcoal, I'm planning to advertise it in the Yunrun store, and set the price according to the market price. But for the Silver Frost Charcoal, I want to contact Xiu Ze and use his connections to sell it to the capital and the prefectural capital."
There are quite a few rich people in towns and county towns, but no matter how many there are, they are far fewer than in the provincial capital and the capital.
The more prosperous a place is, the higher the people's spending power is.
With so much silver frost charcoal, according to its price, it will probably take some time to sell it all here. Once it arrives in the capital, I am afraid that the supply will not meet the demand.
Although Silver Frost Charcoal is just a type of charcoal, it is also a good choice for gift giving.
In previous winters when Qin Run was looking for work in the town, he heard that in places like the provincial capital and the capital, after the royal family had bought up all the silver frost charcoal, if there was any left, one pound could be sold for more than one or two taels of silver.
More than one pound and one ounce, what does this mean?
The idea is that there are now 360 bags of silver frost charcoal in the charcoal shed, each bag weighing about 100 jin. One jin is priced at 1,200 to 300 wen. Qin Run's brain is not enough and he can only ask Xu Yunfan.
Xu Yunfan calculated in the blink of an eye, "We can make 46,800 taels."
Qin Run was so happy that he almost fainted.
Thinking about how much money he could make from selling Silver Frost Charcoal, Qin Run couldn't help but say, "Yunfan, I'll have Brother Dayou and the others burn more Silver Frost Charcoal. We can make a fortune during the winter."
"Yes, you can burn more Silver Frost Charcoal and Black Charcoal as well. After all, Black Charcoal has a lot of target customers. I'll leave these things to you. The college exams will be coming up soon, so I guess I'll be busy."
It's impossible for me to be busy. It's just invigilation and grading papers. It's no big deal.
What Xu Yunfan is really busy with is naturally other things.
During dinner, Qin Run thought of the several jars of sweet potato wine brewed by Xu Yunfan, and took out a jar to smell it.
"Yunfan, where is the sweet potato wine you brewed before? Do you want to sell it in the store?" Qin Run asked. If you want to sell it, he will arrange it.
Xu Yunfan: "No, I won't sell it. I want to keep the wine."
"Keep it?" Qin Run looked at Xu Yunfan. "Yunfan, can you drink? Can you finish all that wine?"
Privately, Qin Run didn't like Xu Yunfan to touch alcohol. Xu Yunfan could drink, but not without restraint. Every time he touched alcohol, he was like a gambler in a gambling house, unable to stop.
In the village, he had seen and heard that some men would vomit and have diarrhea when drunk, which was not a big deal. What he feared most were those men who got drunk and beat people up.
Two years ago, Qin Fang's married daughter brought her son-in-law back home. The son-in-law was a wine lover. He drank a few glasses with Qin Fang and finally wet his pants at the dinner table. This embarrassing thing was spread all over the village. Qin Fang's son-in-law was so ashamed that he didn't dare to come again for several years.
Xu Yunfan shook his head. "I don't drink baijiu, but don't the men in the village like wine?"
"so what?"
"So I'm going to keep these bottles of wine. I'll be eighteen in two months."
"That's so much wine, you can't finish it even if you celebrate your birthday, or are you going to give it away?"
"No, we're going to use this wine later. Who are we going to give it to?"
Qin Run was still confused and didn't know the inevitable connection between them.
Seeing that Qin Run still didn't understand and looked puzzled, Xu Yunfan blew a breath at him, "Brother Run, you...why are you like this? Can you please pay more attention to some things? In two months, I will be an adult."
This guy is really good.
She had always said she wanted to marry him, and he had hinted so obviously, but he hadn't thought of it yet.
As if he had thought of something, Qin Run's eyes suddenly widened and he smiled foolishly, "Yes, yes, that wine will not be sold. We will keep it for our wedding. I won't sell it anymore."
"Now you know what this wine is used for, why don't you move the wine back? I guess Li Liu and his family will be here soon." Xu Yunfan put his hands behind his waist, looking quite official.
The Li Wei family was good at choosing the time. After Xu Yunfan had dinner and rested for about quarter of an hour, they came over.
Xu Yunfan went to the kitchen to get a few wooden cups. Qin Run came in with a bucket of hot water. After pouring the hot water, he sat down next to Xu Yunfan.
From the moment they entered the door, Li Wei and Liu Niang had been secretly observing Xu Yunfan. This little man was different from what they had imagined.
When visiting other people's homes, it is the women who do the work of pouring tea and water, and the men basically do not get involved.
Xu Yunfan was different. After he asked everyone to sit down, he went to the kitchen to get the cups and also got stools for them.
He didn't value them. After all, Li Wei and his companions were very self-aware. They were just ordinary people. Xu Yunfan treated them like this without any ulterior motives. It was just a courtesy that was ingrained in his upbringing.
Just for this point, Liu Niang was secretly very satisfied.
Admittedly, what Xu Yunfan said today about the book boy made them very excited, but if Xu Yunfan was not a good person, their family would definitely not let Li Liu come.
Li Wei felt uneasy. They came to ask for help, but Xu Yunfan treated them like this. Li Wei didn't know how to start.
Tonight, what Xu Yunfan said made it sound as if he made a profit by hiring Li Liu, but that was not the case.
Because of the scandal surrounding Li Liu, if Xu Yunfan uses Li Liu, there might be some untrue and unbearable words spread by someone with ulterior motives.
For someone like Xu Yunfan, who has a certain status and will take part in the imperial examinations in the future, some scandals will ruin his future.
When he thought about this, Li Wei couldn't bring himself to speak.
Xu Yunfan watched Li Wei open his mouth several times but couldn't come out for a long time, and Liu Niang could only sob softly, so he could only take the initiative to speak, "You came to me probably because of the book boy matter, right? As for me, I asked Li Liu to be my book boy, actually just to save trouble. In the future, when I go to the provincial capital or the county town to stay in a hotel, I will need someone to help me, so he can be considered as someone I hired. Here is the contract, you can take a look, some of the provisions in this contract are not specific to Li Liu, but also to other uncles and aunts who have contracts with my family."
Li Liu's job is more like a personal assistant than a servant. Some servants sign a living indenture, while others sign a dead indenture. Li Liu signed a living indenture back then. Otherwise, with the indenture in place, he would never be able to come back.
The contract that Xu Yunfan showed to the Li family was similar to a living contract. Since it concerned their son, Li Wei and his wife asked Li Liu, who could read, to read the contract carefully.
After hearing the contents of the contract, Li Wei knelt down in front of Xu Yunfan with a thud. "Master Xu, I, Li Wei, am a farmer and I don't know how to say nice things. But I will remember your kindness to our Li family. In the future, if Master Xu needs any of our family's places, please feel free to come to me."
It shortens your life!
Xu Yunfan stood up and said, "This is unacceptable. Get up quickly."
"father……"
Li Liu and Xu Yunfan held Li Wei. Li Wei didn't get up. He looked up at Xu Yunfan and said, "I, Li Wei, am incompetent. As a father, I can't protect Liu'er. He has suffered a lot over the years, and I have seen it all. Now that Master Xu has allowed Liu'er to follow him, it is a blessing for him. My son will definitely work hard. If Master Xu leaves Dali Village in the future... I hope Master Xu can protect my son a little."
If it was anything, everyone present would know.
Xu Yunfan: "Don't worry, since he is close to me, I will naturally protect him. You can rest assured about this. In the future, whether he goes to the capital or the provincial capital, no matter who provokes him, I will not let him be bullied in vain."
He couldn't even protect his personal assistant, so if this got out, Xu Yunfan would be too embarrassed to face anyone.
Liu Niang wiped her tears and was speechless on the way home. It was not until she got home and her eldest son and daughter-in-law looked at each other in bewilderment and went back to their rooms that Liu Niang took Li Liu's slender wrist and said, "Liu'er, have you ever blamed me?"
"No."
To be honest, Li Liu never blamed his parents. What his parents said was right. It was not necessarily a good thing for the young master that he had always been with him.
The young master was born into a wealthy family and had made some achievements in the imperial examinations. It was only a matter of time for him to enter the official career. What would the young master do if it was reported that he had an improper relationship with a student?
For some mistakes, it doesn’t matter if you make them at the beginning. What’s important is to know how to turn back and stop the loss in time.
"Liu'er, do you regret it?" When Liu Niang asked this question, she actually already knew the answer.
If Li Liu regretted it, he should have returned to the right track over the years and married and had children like other men, instead of making himself half-human and half-ghost and being unable to let go.
“No regrets.”
Li Liu knelt on his knees in front of Liu Niang, lying on her lap like a child, and choked up, "Mother, I don't regret it. Before, they all said I was abnormal and wrong, but Master Xu said I wasn't sick, he said I was normal. He also said that there was nothing wrong with me falling in love with him, it was the narrow-mindedness of others that was wrong."
Before leaving Xiao Qin's house, Li Liu chatted with Xu Yunfan alone for a while.
He asked Xu Yunfan: "Aren't you going to ask about my business?"
Xu Yunfan said seriously, "What's the matter? Will your past deeds hinder me in any way? Or are you afraid that I might fall for you, or are you afraid that the more we get along, the more I'll discover my unique personality charm and fall for me?"
"First of all, let's talk about the first point. The possibility of me falling for you is really... non-existent. Of course, I'm not saying you're bad or anything like that. In fact, you're quite good, and I don't deny that. But I'm just a stubborn person. I've decided that Run Ge'er is my partner in this life, and I'm going to like him forever. It's impossible for me to like just any good-looking guy. There are tens of thousands of good-looking guys in the world, so wouldn't I be able to like them all? I guarantee with my face that I can treat you as a friend, but liking you is absolutely impossible for me."
"Secondly, it's useless for you to like me. It's impossible for us. I don't like men. Hey." Xu Yunfan touched his chin and reorganized his words: "That's not right. I don't really have much interest in men or boys."
Li Liu: “…”
"Don't you think your words are... inconsistent?"
In the previous sentence, this person kept saying that he only liked Qin Run. Qin Run was a boy, so Xu Yunfan didn't like men. He believed it, but he said he didn't like boys. Who was he kidding?
Xu Yunfan: "Is it contradictory? No, I like Qin Run, but the premise of my liking him is not that he is a man. I can only say that I like him and he just happens to be a man, just like you, you like... what's his name? It's just that your master happens to be a man like you, but do you think that you like him because he is a man? Does this make you think that you will like anyone as long as the other person is a man?"
To be honest, Xu Yunfan used to be busy with studying and playing, and came to Dayan Dynasty before he could develop feelings. He met Qin Run, and after they got to know each other and fell in love, he, who considered himself a straight man, became gay. If he asked himself, if Qin Run was not a boy but a man, it would not make any difference to Xu Yunfan. After all, in Xu Yunfan's eyes, Qin Run was no different from a man in other aspects except for his ability to give birth to children.
Although Xu Yunfan is gay, she is not attracted to every man.
So, what's the contradiction in what he said?
Li Liu's eyes welled with tears. "No, I won't fall in love with anyone else. He's enough for me," he said, choking back tears. "Just liking him has taken all my courage. They all say I'm sick, that I'm not a normal man. What normal man would be subservient to another man like a man or a woman? At first I thought I was sick too. I went to see a doctor and took a lot of medicine, but I'm still sick and still in love with him. To this day, I still wish he would come to see me because of our relationship as master and servant."
Li Liu thought, he was indeed sick, he was terminally ill and there was no cure.
It is because of the illness that one becomes wishful thinking and has unrealistic dreams.
Although it is a beautiful dream, it is still empty after waking up.
“That’s hilarious.”
Just hearing what Li Liu said, Xu Yunfan was furious. "Those who say you are sick and abnormal are the ones who are sick. These people must have brain atrophy. Li Liu, listen to me, being a man and liking other men is not a disease, nor is it abnormal. Believe me, what I say is right."
To be honest, when Xu Yunfan saw Li Liu’s red eyes, he understood what it meant that “love is often the most hurtful thing.” He felt distressed and wanted to comfort this poor man.
Xu Yunfan's voice was clear and pleasant, with a hint of the low bass that is unique to men who have experienced the precipitation of time. Those who didn't know him would think that this guy was already in his thirties, and his words were more credible. "You should know that I'm from overseas, Li Liu, do you know that in other countries around me, it's not actually something incredible or shameful for men to like men? They can get married and get marriage certificates. Their marriage relationship is protected by the law. If this is a disease, an abnormal thing, do you think their relationship will be recognized? It's just that in your place, secular ethics are different, so many people naturally have different views on many things. You can't think that you are sick because of these differences. You are not a child anymore. You can't easily make conclusions about right and wrong based on what others say."
"I can understand your loss and confusion after being hurt by love, but I can't understand the way you live. If your young master is sincere to you, if he has you in his heart, even if you are separated, do you think he wants to see you being so self-deprecating now? If he doesn't have you in his heart, then the way you are now is undoubtedly a joke. Of course, don't say how much trouble your love will bring to your young master. Li Liu, you have to know that some things cannot be changed by your subjective will, and didn't you leave for him? So, stop saying those stupid and foolish self-blaming and denying words."
"Listen to my advice, brother. Starting tomorrow, you will follow me and start a new life. Yesterday is gone, there is no need to recall it. You just need to follow me and work hard towards a better life. Don't worry, follow me, I will not treat you unfairly. Listen to my advice, change yourself, start from scratch, start from yourself, in order to welcome a brand new tomorrow, go back tonight and work on yourself."
It was the first time that Li Liu heard Xu Yunfan's words in the middle, and it was also the first time someone told him so. He was also the second person to affirm his feelings.
It would be a lie to say I wasn't moved.
Li Liu almost covered his mouth and cried.
Unexpectedly, Xu Yunfan changed the subject and said the following words. Li Liu was no longer moved and her tears were wiped away.
Perhaps, after saying so much, the following words are Xu Yunfan’s real purpose!
Yes, Li Liuke has not forgotten that when he got close to Xu Yunfan that day, this guy vomited.
Now when I think back to Xu Yunfan’s words, the affirmation from a stranger whom I had only met a few times seemed to give me an answer to all my years of persistence.
He is not wrong.
What's wrong with falling in love with a guy?
At this moment, Li Liu could firmly tell everyone, "Mom, I'm not sick, nor am I abnormal. I like the young master, and that's not wrong. Even though my love may bring trouble to the young master, I... I haven't hindered anyone, Mom and Dad. I won't hurt anyone because of my love. I just want to keep that person in my heart and think about him when I have time. I... I'm destined not to follow the life path you idealized. I'm sorry."
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