Chapter 87
"What Master Gu? He's just scraping for food in the dirt, and luckily found a way to make money." Gu Daniu said with a smile, cupping his fists and shaking them at the man. "Where is Master Liu going now? Has he eaten yet?"
The man waved his hand. "Why call me uncle? I'm not an uncle anymore. There's not much age difference between us. You can just call me brother, and I'll call you brother. Brother, you're not the same person now. In Dafeng Town, everyone knows that your Gu family has a workshop specializing in selling fried dough twists. I've tried your fried dough twists before, and they're really good. You've got a wonderful daughter, brother."
Gu Daniu curled his lips in his heart, what a good daughter, if she was really a good daughter, she would give him all the money.
Now, he had no idea how much money his family had. He had never touched the money earned from the workshop; it was all handled by Gu Xinxin. At the end of the month, he only received two taels of Gu Xinxin's hard-earned money.
However, although Gu Xinxin did not give him the silver, Gu Daniu only complained in his heart and had no intention of using force to get the silver back from Gu Xinxin - if he insisted on managing the silver himself, he would not have taken the initiative to give the family's silver to Gu Xinxin and let Gu Xinxin be the housekeeper.
How to say it, Gu Daniu is not a good father. He often beats and scolds Gu Xinxin, and he will watch his own daughter starve. When he is in a bad mood, his own son Gu Xiangrong can't get any benefits from him.
However, Gu Daniu is not a bad person.
He neither ate, drank, gambled, nor enjoyed his own money, and treated his wife and children as slaves, not providing them with food and clothing. His money could be managed by his wife or daughter, as long as his wife or daughter was capable of providing for the family.
He is just an ordinary man with a bad temper.
So Gu Xinxin didn't want him to die. The worst revenge she could think of for him was to wait until she had learned the archery skill, beat him up, and then lock him up and starve him for three days.
"She was just lucky and got some advice from her damn mother." Gu Daniu said, unwilling to ruin Gu Xinxin's reputation.
The man surnamed Liu came over and said, "Brother, we are old acquaintances. Don't hide it from me. Your family has a workshop. If you go out now, do you always have to carry money with you?"
Gu Daniu waved his hand. "No, don't think the workshop sounds impressive. In reality, we don't have much money. We have to buy lard, rice, and flour all day long, and pay our wages. We work so hard to make a bunch of fried dough twists, and then we send them to the shop, but they still have to wait until the end of the month to settle the bill."
He shook his head. "It's really not much money. All the money I earn is hard-earned. I'm not as free as I am hunting. If it weren't for my daughter's insistence, I would have asked her to close the workshop."
The man surnamed Liu didn't believe it. He raised his eyebrows and patted Gu Daniu on the shoulder: "Brother, if you really can't make money, why don't you transfer the workshop to me?"
Gu Daniu snorted and laughed. We were all social people, so who couldn't tell whether what he said was true or false? The man surnamed Liu said this on purpose, but it was disgusting.
The man surnamed Liu came over and said, "Don't pretend in front of me. Don't worry, I'm not asking you to borrow money. I'm just remembering the kindness you gave me when you gave me meat. I have a good thing going on, and I want to get rich with you."
Without waiting for Gu Daniu to speak, he pulled Gu Daniu to a corner and lowered his voice: "Honestly, if I weren't so broke, I would rather do this myself and keep all the money I earn. It's because I'm broke that I have no choice... I can't just watch the opportunity to make money slip away from me, right? We are brothers, you have money, I have information, let's make some money, and then you can really be the master of the Gu family, and I can also be the master of the Liu family."
Gu Daniu was a little tempted: "What kind of money-making opportunity is this?"
"There's a cloth shop in the county town. It rained a while ago, and rainwater entered the warehouse, flooding the cloth inside." The man surnamed Liu said, pausing. "For the masters and ladies in the county town, the soaked cloth is definitely not worth buying. But for the old ladies in the countryside, it's cheaper. After washing and drying, this cloth is good, right?"
Gu Daniu nodded and said, yes, the villagers are not as particular as the city people.
The man surnamed Liu held out his hand. "There's a clerk in that shop who's related to my family. He told me specifically that the cloth used to cost a few taels of silver per piece, but now it's only a hundred copper coins a piece. If we buy it, we can sell it for three hundred copper coins, not five hundred. That means we can make two hundred copper coins per piece, right?"
Gu Daniu was not very good at math, but he could still calculate the difference between three hundred and one hundred. He nodded subconsciously.
The man surnamed Liu smiled and said, "If I didn't think I had some friendship with you, who else could I ask for help? If you think this business is viable, let's go to the county town right away. I'll let you see the fabric with your own eyes, so you don't think I'm deceiving you."
Gu Daniu waved his hand: "Not today, I have something to do."
Gu Xinxin asked him to do something, so he couldn't delay it.
Gu Daniu neglected the two children born to his deceased wife, but that doesn't mean he really doesn't care about his children - Gu Xinxin and Gu Xiangrong, the brother and sister, are not starving, right?
Now, Gu Xinxin has drawn a very beautiful picture of the future in his mind - Gu Xiangrong and Gu Wenshu are both successful in their studies, and in the future someone from the Gu family will become an official, changing their status from an old farmer to an official family.
How should I put it, men always have an inexplicable obsession with family and family background.
He felt very happy when he thought about the Gu family's family history being singled out for praise. He felt very happy when he thought about the Gu family's family tree being opened with his generation in a new volume.
Therefore, Gu Xinxin's explanation was very important. After all, studying required money. Gu Xinxin would occasionally check the accounts at home, and he also had an impression of how much money Gu Xiangrong and Gu Wenshu spent on pens, ink, paper, and inkstone.
If he didn't have a workshop at home, he wouldn't be able to earn enough money just to buy the pens, ink, paper and inkstone even if he worked himself to death and lived in the mountains all year round.
Not to mention, we have to buy books and go out with classmates from time to time to broaden our experience and knowledge - we don't have to go when our classmates invite us, but the teacher will occasionally take them hiking or watching the sunrise.
So the money spent on studying is like pouring water out with a basin.
Gu Daniu thought that this had been delayed for a long time, so he hurried to the ox cart and said, "Let's talk later. I really have something to do."
The man surnamed Liu took two steps after him and said, "Don't look back! There are many people waiting for this cloth. If that guy wasn't a relative of mine, the news wouldn't have reached our town. If we go a little late, we won't be able to buy anything. What are you going to do? I'll go with you, and we'll talk it over on the way. How much money do you have? This is a rare opportunity, so let's buy as much as we can. Take your oxcart with you, too. We have to bring back what we buy, right? How about this? I'll provide the information, and you provide the oxcart and the capital. We'll split the money 40% to 60%, 60% for you and 40% for me."
Gu Daniu sat on the cart and drove the cattle forward: "I can't make up my mind about this matter now. I have to go back and ask."
The man surnamed Liu continued, "It's okay to ask. Besides, if you don't have time to sell in other villages, we can just buy less. You have daughters and wives at home, so wouldn't it be okay to buy some cloth for them? Besides, your village is a big village, and it's the first in Dafeng Town. Even if we only sell in your village, you should be able to sell ten pieces of cloth, right?"
Gu Daniu didn't say anything, but was thinking in his mind that if he was just buying some for his own use, it seemed quite appropriate. After all, Gu Xinxin and the others had bought new clothes for him before.
Many families in the village are making money now, so they should be willing to buy some new fabrics, right?
He was thinking all the way and went to the kiln owner. He ordered a batch of clay pots from them and agreed to have them delivered in three days.
Because he needed it urgently, the other party raised the price by 30%. Gu Daniu did not bargain much. Working in a kiln is hot and tiring, and he may have to work all night to catch up with this batch of goods. It is normal to ask for a little more.
When he was about to go home, the man surnamed Liu finally let him go and stopped following him. However, he did not forget to urge Gu Daniu to make a decision quickly, fearing that the fabrics would become someone else's if he was late.
Gu Daniu went home and asked Gu Xinxin for money. Gu Xinxin was puzzled: "What do you want the money for?"
"Buying fabric." He didn't hide anything and told Liu everything he had said. Gu Xinxin frowned and paused before saying, "Did he say what his relationship was to the clerk? Besides, if he could really make money like that, wouldn't the shopkeeper have many relatives, not just the clerk?"
How come this money-making idea fell into the hands of an outsider?
There was a saying in the previous life that Gu Xinxin felt made a lot of sense - any way of making money that was spread out to ordinary people was either no longer profitable or had started to lose money and was anxiously looking for someone to take over.
She always thought this made sense, just like her little fried dough twist, why didn't she make it public so that everyone on the street could know? Because she was still making money now, and she would only make it public when no one ate it and it stopped making money.
Gu Daniu frowned: "Why is he trying to coax me?"
"They're trying to coax money out of you." Gu Xinxin raised her eyebrows. "They call you Master Gu, aren't they just looking at the money you have and trying to coax it out of you? Otherwise, what about that Liu family? His family's downfall, so how many other relatives does he have? If every household chipped in, they couldn't buy ten pieces of cloth, let alone three or five. Why would they want to make money with you?"
Gu Daniu snorted: "He wants to make more money."
Three or five horses are nothing, just enough to fill the gaps between your teeth. So, you have to find someone rich to work with and make more money.
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