Chapter 27:

Since Zhengxing came to help him, it has really eased a lot. In the past, I could only make five tofu a day, but now I have no problem making more than a dozen. Although Zhengxing's legs and feet are inconvenient, he still has the strength to do it, and he doesn't feel tired after a whole day of grinding beans.

It's just that Baili Village has always been a village, and he can't digest so much tofu, so Shumin decided to try to sell tofu in the town.

But first, she is really not familiar with the town, and secondly, Hui'er's illness is inseparable from herself. So she just got the plan on hold.

Since Hui'er met with the horses last time, her love for horses has been almost fanatical, and she has to shout almost every day to go to the back of the peak ridge to see the night lion, which Shumin is puzzled by. So she told Dr. Hu about it when she sent tofu to Dr. Hu, Dr. Hu touched his beard, thought about it for a long time, and finally summed up the reason why Hui'er likes horses: Hui'er was dying that day, and only heard the sound of horses' hooves in a daze, and then Chunquan sent life-saving medicine. If it weren't for the horses running fast, Hui'er's situation would be even more dangerous. We only think that Hui'er is unconscious, but at that time she should be conscious, and subconsciously she thinks that the horse begged her, so she will have a love for and even dependence on the horse.

Listening to Dr. Hu's analysis, Shumin felt that it made sense. Now that Hui'er is reluctant to communicate with the outside world and closes herself in her own small world, Shumin is becoming more and more worried.

Now that you know where Hui'er's heart knots, then the only way to do it is to prescribe the right medicine. But a horse gets dozens of taels of silver, and Shu Min has a heart but is weak. The bearded man has a lion who shines on the night, but it is a divine horse, how can he say that he can see it immediately? Even if the bearded man doesn't mind, he can't always give the horse to Hui'er to play with, right? Besides, the bearded man is not easy to get along with, and after seeing him twice, he didn't even give himself a straight eye.

On this day, after Hui'er fell asleep, Shumin went to the village for something, and when he came back, he found that Hui'er was gone. She was in a hurry to look everywhere, fortunately Chunquan just came back from hunting, and met her when passing through the peak ridge, and then hugged her back, it turned out that she woke up and saw no one at home, and cried for a while to go to the horse to play. She remembered that the horse she had seen a few days ago was behind the peak ridge, so she staggered away alone, but how did she know where the back of the peak ridge was. I walked around with my senses, and finally came to a canyon in the peak ridge. Fortunately, he was met by Chunquan, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

Chunquan knew what happened, comforted Hui'er well, and said that he would give Hui'er a horse another day. Shumin only thought that he was comforting the child, and did not take it to heart.

Who knew that a few days later, he would actually give Hui'er a pony: a pony carved out of wood. Hui'er is very happy. Finally, I stopped yelling every day to go to the horses to play.

So Hui'er had her first toy, and she had to hold it when she went to sleep.

"Thank you, I can't see that you still have that skill." Shumin said

Chunquan smiled and said, "I grew up eating hundreds of meals, and I know a little bit about all kinds of crafts." If I hadn't learned to hunt later, I would have been a carpenter. Chunquan's life experience Shumin has heard people in the village talk about it, and he is also deeply sympathetic to his experience. But it's more admiration. After all, Chunquan used his own hands to earn a family business in the village, and he also married his sister beautifully.

"You're making so much tofu now, are you sold out?" Seeing that Shumin had invited someone and made a lot more tofu than before, he asked with some concern.

"Of course I can't sell it out, I plan to sell it to the town, but there is no way. You know tofu is so heavy, I can't carry it to town every day. Shumin said truthfully.

"It's easy to do, I think someone can help you." Chunquan said, "But that person is a little snobbish"

"I'm sorry for you, I don't mind." Doing business is about profits, not about making friends. What kind of temper people have, Shumin really doesn't mind.

"Well, well, you can come into the city with me tomorrow, most of my prey will be destroyed there." Chun Quanjian yì said.

"Okay."

The next day, Shumin sent Hui'er to her aunt to drag her to take care of her for a long time, picked up a few pieces of tofu and went into the city with Chunquan. During the conversation with Chunquan, Shumin knew that today's destination was a restaurant. So she just brought a few pieces of tofu, thinking that she could make a few dishes of tofu to make dishes, and she didn't have to bring a lot, otherwise she would have to find a way to sell it if the restaurant didn't accept it, or she would have to carry it back if she couldn't sell it.

Zuifeng Lou is the largest restaurant in Baili Town, and it is said that the boss behind it is not small, but no one has ever seen it. Chunquan was familiar with the road, and soon weighed the prey and sold it for two taels of silver. After the sale, Chunquan secretly stuffed 20 yuan to Lao Zhou, who was in charge of procurement, and introduced Shumin and said, "This sister-in-law is from our village, and she has recently researched a new kind of food, which is very popular with the people in the village, so I want to sell it to your restaurant." I don't know if Mr. Zhou can make it convenient.

"Oh? Fresh food? "Lao Zhou is about 40 years old, and he has been doing procurement for decades. What to eat has not been seen. But when he saw those pieces of white tofu, he really didn't know what they were.

"This is called tofu?" Lao Zhou asked Shumin. "Really made of beans?"

Although he didn't know what the tofu was like, he felt the need to talk to the shopkeeper with his years of experience.

The shopkeeper is receiving a distinguished guest in a private room. At this time, after listening to Lao Zhou's words, he frowned and said, "For such a trivial matter, you can call the shots." ”

"Shopkeeper, we've never seen that thing, I'm afraid the small one won't be the master." Lao Zhou said truthfully.

"Joke, our Drunken Wind House is the largest restaurant in town, and we haven't seen anything before." The guest was here, and the shopkeeper felt that Lao Zhou's answer had helped him save face, so he said, "I want to see what it is." Bring those two in. “

Lao Zhou didn't dare to slack off, and immediately brought Shumin and the others to the box.

As soon as he entered the box, Chunquan's eyes lit up. "Master, why are you here too?" In the box, a bearded man was drinking tea with his eyelids lowered, and when he heard the voice, he raised his head, revealing a pair of beautiful Danfeng eyes.

Shumin was confused, isn't that a beard? Did it turn out to be Chunquan's master?

"Hmm" Hearing Chunquan's voice, the bearded man simply answered, and there was no follow-up, Chunquan knew his temper, and he didn't say anything, and stood aside respectfully. The boss next to him seemed to have known about their relationship and was not surprised, and ordered someone to bring two stools and invite them to sit down.

"This little sister-in-law, I heard that you have fresh food, I don't know what it is?" The shopkeeper asked

"It's made of beans, I call it tofu." Shumin took the tofu out. Like everyone else's reaction, the shopkeeper had a hard time believing that it was made of beans.

"Seeing is believing, I don't want to say more, this tofu is very delicious, if the shopkeeper doesn't mind, you can let the kitchen make a few dishes to taste." Shumin said.

Shopkeeper Zhou immediately called the chef up and asked him to make tofu, but the chef was also very embarrassed after seeing the tofu: I have never seen this thing, how to do it? Can anyone mention him?

Shumin had no choice but to go to the kitchen together, ask the chef to make a few home-cooked dishes, and also talk about the dishes that can be made with tofu during the chat. A chef is a chef, and Shu Min just ordered it a little, and he made a few dishes that were full of color and flavor, which were much better than what he had made: well, Shu Min admitted that he had no talent for cooking.

There are four dishes in total: mapo tofu, golden tofu, crucian carp tofu soup, and a dish of stuffed tofu. There are meat and vegetarian, spicy and non-spicy.

The bearded man was an important guest of the shopkeeper, and naturally he was also invited to taste it together. Shu Min watched them eat from the side, but he was a little nervous in his heart.

The shopkeeper and the bearded man tasted the dish silently, until the last dish was finished, and the shopkeeper asked, "Little sister-in-law, you said this tofu is really made of beans?" Why can't I taste a little bit of beans? ”

"Naturally, it is made of beans, and the process is complicated during the period, and the taste of the beans will naturally fade." Shumin replied.

The shopkeeper seemed to have some truth when he heard what she said, so he nodded, secretly made eye contact with the bearded man, and said, "The old man decided to buy your tofu, I don't know how much it costs?"

Shu Min thought about this question on the way here, she didn't think about asking the lion to open her mouth, just be the same as the one sold in the village. "My tofu is fifty wen a piece, and a tofu has twenty-five pieces, and each piece is as big as you can see."

"Fifty wen a piece, it's cheap. It's better that you only sell tofu to my family, and I'm willing to pay three times the price. How is it? ”

The shopkeeper thought for a while and said, "If my sister-in-law is willing to sell the secret recipe for making tofu, I am willing to buy it for two hundred taels."

Two hundred taels, Chunsheng has never seen so much money in his life, he looked at Shu Min, hoping that Shu Min could agree. With this more than silver, what kind of tofu can you buy a house in the city and do some small business. Besides, how tiring it is to make tofu, she is a woman with a child, and she has to keep making tofu every day, to be honest, she really suffers.

Shumin himself didn't think so. Since coming here, I have been struggling to survive, and with these two hundred taels, it can be said that I have reached the sky in one step. Shumin seemed to agree, but then she suddenly remembered what her uncle, the dead old man, had told her on his deathbed.

"If we had known that there was such a thing as tofu, no one would have died eating beans. To be a man, you must not forget your heart! ”

The shopkeeper drank tea, quietly observing her expression, and when he saw Shu Min's eyes lit up, he was sure that he could buy this tofu secret recipe for a mere two hundred taels. It's nothing more than a peasant woman who has never seen the world, if she masters this secret recipe, it is only a matter of time before she masters this secret recipe, not only two hundred taels, but also twenty thousand taels.

But when he saw that her eyes suddenly dimmed, he was puzzled, "Little sister-in-law, if you have any doubts, you might as well say it." ”

"Alas," Shumin sighed and said, "Thank you for the shopkeeper's love, but I don't plan to sell this recipe." ”

Chun Quan was a little anxious when he heard it, and he couldn't show it because of the presence of the master, so he had to scold in his heart "stupid woman"

"Oh? Why? Is it because the price is low? How about I add another fifty taels? The shopkeeper tapped his hand lightly on the table and said.

"Thank you, the shopkeeper, I can't sell the secret recipe for any amount of silver, because I will give it away for free in the near future, if the shopkeeper still wants it at that time, just talk to me," Shumin said.

"I stumbled upon this recipe for tofu, and I originally planned to make a fortune with it, but it was too selfish to think about it. I remember the elders saying that during the disaster year, many people boiled beans because they were hungry, but the beans were festering, and some people were strutted to death because they were too full. If I give a recipe for tofu, imagine that there will never be a similar tragedy in a disaster year, and in a good year, tofu can become a delicacy on the table of thousands of people. Moreover, beans are not like cereals and wheat, and do not require much land, but the yield is quite abundant, and the harvest is guaranteed in drought and flood. If I give the recipe, then the beans will no longer be a low-grade grain store, the price of the beans will increase, the income of the people will also increase, and the life of the people will be better at that time, therefore, I must not have him and the secret recipe privately, and as for not making it public now, it is because I still need to solve my own life problems. ”

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Shumin explained.

The people in the room were already stunned by Shu Min's remarks, but the bearded man glanced at Shu Min, and continued to drink tea without making a sound, but his heart was not calm: it is really not simple for a little peasant woman to have such an insight.

Chunquan never knew that Shu Min would think like this, he grew up in the eyes of people since he was a child, he only knew how to fight for his own interests, how the people lived, that was the business of the people who were officials, he never cared, he felt that it was a matter far away from him, but now Shu Min's words made him start to ponder.

The shopkeeper is a businessman, and although he thinks that Shumin's ideas are noble, he is too stupid after all. The merchant pursues profit, and as for how the people live, he is too lazy to think about it.

"It's a pity," he shook his head, "if you regret it one day, come to me, my mention is still valid." ”

Since Shumin had no intention of selling, he lost interest and sent Lao Zhou over to sign a supply contract with Shumin. Because at the beginning, Lao Zhou didn't dare to make more decisions, so he temporarily made five tofu a day. It needs to be delivered early in the morning.

But considering that he didn't have an ox cart, Shu Min took the initiative to reduce the cost of ten yuan per tofu and asked the restaurant to send a car to pick it up. (Because it's a sole offering, each tofu is one hundred and fifty yuan, and I don't care very much about ten Wen Min if it's missing)

The class of the contract is very simple, in duplicate, and Shumin hides it close to him.

At this time, Chunquan followed the bearded man out, and the bearded man said that he still had something to do, and asked Chunquan to go back first, so Chunquan said goodbye to him and left with Shumin.

"He's your master, huh? You seem to be afraid of him. Shumin teased. Chunquan's face blushed and said, "The master is actually quite good. ”

Shumin thought to herself how good a guy with eyes to the sky could be, she hadn't forgotten to meet so many times, he hadn't even looked at her directly. Especially last time, she ran away for a whole hour.

The two walked back slowly, and the people in the countryside spent two pennies for one penny. Along the way, Chunquan didn't speak, and Shumin kept frowning: although he didn't think about making money with tofu, but thinking about the two hundred taels of silver flying away, Shumin's heart began to hurt, it seems that she has always been a philistine woman, and she has nothing to say about the people of her country.

"That's a good thing you said today." Chunquan suddenly said: "I only realized today how narrow I am. You know, the master rarely praises people. ”

"Your master praises me?" Shu Min was surprised, remembering the bearded man who had always treated himself as air, and said incredibly

"Hmm" once the master asked himself, what is your ideal, and he remembers that he said that he said to make money to support his family. What would you do if you were able? His answer was to take care of his family from harm. At that time, the master said that your idea is very good, but unfortunately the pattern is not enough. If one day you figure it out, there is no limit to what you can achieve. He was puzzled at the time, but today he woke up after listening to Shumin's words. Remembering Master's Yan Sù's face when he was in the box, he rebuked himself and asked, "Do you understand now?!" Chunquan's face was blazing with shame

"That's a good thing you said in the restaurant, how did you come up with that?" Chunquan was a little unwilling and asked

"That's what I thought, that's what I said." Shumin replied a little carelessly.

"Don't you want the two hundred taels of silver? Two hundred taels, how many tofu do you have to make? Chunquan is still unwilling.

Shumin was already a little regretful and a little upset when she heard him mention two hundred taels, but if she loses, she doesn't want to show her careful thoughts now, coughed, looked at Chunquan seriously, and said, "Do you know that the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband?" Although the strength of our people is small, but a drop of water is like a river, and everyone gives a little bit, then our country can be rich and strong. After all, there is a country before there is a home. After a pause, she said, "As for the two hundred taels of silver, hehe, I was born to be useful, and I will come back when my daughter is gone."

God knows how much her heart hurts at the moment, but the way she pretends to be is so chic and righteous Ling Ran, she just coaxed Chunsheng to the ground. She didn't know how her jokes affected the young people in front of her, but her words made Chunsheng choose another life. From today onwards, her status in Chunsheng's mind has also risen significantly.

"The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband. I was born to be useful. Chunsheng repeated these two sentences, and a lot of pride suddenly rose in his heart.