Chapter 241: Reckoning
The hottest days of summer have passed, and it is getting cooler, and the horseshoe on the return journey has finally stepped into Huicheng.
Zhao Hexuan and the guards dragged the reins to open the way, Cao Beibei followed behind with the entourage goods, holding the scriptures in his hands, but his head poked out of the car window, and a pair of eyes followed Zhao Hexuan's figure.
The maid who was sitting in the carriage looked at Cao Beibei a little helplessly, hugged her chest and mouthed, for several days, Cao Beibei's eyes were about to fall on Zhao Hexuan, she was afraid that Cao Beibei's neck would be twisted, or she would be paralyzed by the wind.
The horse's hooves stepped on the loess road that was being renovated, raising a large amount of dust, and the wind came, but it was not wasted at all, and all the poles pounced on Cao Beibei's face, and a face instantly turned into a catfish with closed eyes, and the head that had been poking out outside could be regarded as home.
Poof, her lips rolled like waves, the maid took out a handkerchief to wipe Cao Beibei's face with a little disgust, opened her mouth to complain, and was taken away by Cao Beibei without wiping the handkerchief in her hand twice.
"Miss is not covered with a face of dust before she comes back to sit quietly, what does the slave say, this time it is full of soil, the next time it is paralyzed by the wind, the slave knows that the diplomatic envoy is handsome and chic, honest and promising, it is reasonable for the young lady to like it, but it can't be like this."
Cao Beibei took a handkerchief and rudely wiped his face with fine skin and tender meat, and when he heard this, he suddenly clenched his fist and pounded it on his leg, glared at the maid, and opened his mouth with a snort.
"Tsk, you're so bold, you can't hope I'm better, and you can't hide if I'm paralyzed!"
Pouting and saying viciously, the maid was not restrained, it was all a joke atmosphere, and he finally put down the scriptures that he had not read in the past few days, and leaned back to the wall of the car with his buttocks.
"Besides, the diplomatic envoy saved me once, and I helped him once, which is considered to be even, and I like others? Is your young lady such a person full of love, I am calculating! Give me the abacus. ”
The maid's eyes were full of disbelief, and she silently took out the abacus in the package and handed it over, just to see Cao Beibei's experienced take the abacus and shake it, with a bang, the two fingers have been dialed with beads, crackling and calculating very quickly, and there are words in the mouth.
"At present, our family's herbal medicine trading is dominated by ordinary merchants and small officials, and it is spread out in Huicheng as the center, and now it has spread all over more than a dozen towns, throwing away the cost of herbal medicine, manpower and material resources, etc., and earning at least 20,000 taels of silver a year, but now there are more and more people doing herbal medicine business, one or two to see our family dividends also come to mix a piece of the pie, the first year is clearly not able to catch up with the net surplus of the previous few years, so developed, within five years, this business will not be able to continue.
We can't compare to those ruthless, the price is pressed to the lowest, the income of the busy meal is meager, and we can't do those black-hearted, in the end, we can't even involve the county uncle, and we don't have the strength to fight with the rest of the merchants at that time, so we can only find another way, ordinary herbs are not easy to do, you might as well try the ones that are cherished at a high price, and move your eyes from the small officials to the high-ranking officials, and from the ordinary merchants to the businessmen on the rich side.
The purchase of a large number of cherished herbs of rot and age kite can reduce the cost to one hundred and one plants, and the five hundred and one plants that change hands out are less, and for the time being, according to the net income of four hundred taels per plant, the main business is to prolong the life and benefit the qi, one plant a day and thirty plants in a month, how ~ fifty plants in a month are also available, that is, 20,000 taels, one month can catch up with the net surplus of the previous year, and in December of a year, it is 240,000 taels, according to the business is not smooth, the net surplus is split in half, that is also 120,000 taels of silver. ”
Swinging the good abacus in front of the maid's eyes, he talked about such a long list of things that the maid had already said, and he had known that he was doing business with Cao Beibei for many years, and he was used to not admiring it, so he only stared at the abacus and slowly frowned, and opened his mouth to talk about his doubts.
"Miss's plan is very good, it's just that the precious medicinal materials with high sales prices, not to mention the need for more principal, and the connections that need to be able to buy our herbs, the slave maid heard that this kind of livelihood is not untried, but it is all smashed in his hands, and the lord and the elders of the clan are afraid that they will not agree."
Cao Beibei looked at the maid's suspicious face and clapped his hands even more excitedly, as if he was waiting for the maid to say this, his eyes were as bright as light bulbs.
"That's it, why do I want to make friends with the diplomatic envoys, and build good relations with the guards along the way, isn't this just for this! Uncle Cheng of the county has a low official position and limited connections, so we need to plan it ourselves! The father of the diplomatic envoy is a military attache from the third grade, how can there be no connections in his hands, the military attache is often killed, how can he not need herbal medicine, the Zhao family is even more friendly with the Cai family, if it is a big family of the old kite family, will our business still have to worry about in the future~"
Put the abacus aside and hugged her chest and smiled proudly, this distant gaze should have been imagining that she was sitting on a mountain of gold overlooking her Cao Beibei's business empire, the maid was still sober, sitting upright with her back upright, and she didn't have to be so concerned about diplomatic relations when she opened her mouth at will, and everyone promised her to go back to help her introduce and publicize, and Cao Beibei was also familiar with Zhao Hexuan's second sister, and Cao Beibei's ears were snorted, and his face changed.
"You follow me as a shrewd person can't even open accounts, it's really rotten wood that can't be carved! If you really make a living, you have to be ready for a long time, acquaintances, friends, such a relationship can't, you have to be closer to get more help, if the county uncle is not the Cao family, can help the Cao family business for so many years? It is estimated that it will be annoyed after a few times, and the relationship will be completely cut off directly.
I think now, if I can marry into the Zhao family, the Cao family's business will not be worried, not to mention that the diplomatic envoy also saved my life, he is really a good man, the hero in the book saves the beauty, don't all beauties have to be promised by themselves~"
Talking and shy, the maid immediately pouted in disgust, squinted at Cao Beibei, who was a nymphomaniac, and came to force her back to reality, really, the world is sober.
"Miss to put it bluntly, don't you still like the diplomatic envoy, just do the dream, Miss didn't forget that the diplomatic envoy and the Lingli county lord childhood sweetheart, the two love each other, on the way back, the young lady is not unseen, the young lady and the Lingli county lord robbed the man, is it better to beat the family or the status can overpower the people, the young lady also has a big business ability, a good mouth, take this meager advantage, the odds of winning are really small."
The maid said this really without any affection, but Cao Beibei was speechless, choked for a long time and didn't think of any other advantages of himself, and wanted to open his mouth to be beautiful and good, recalling Cai Wenxi's appearance and figure, and she was also a beautiful beauty, but she was even more angry, the old cow's nostrils were heavy and breathless, and he raised his hand and slapped the maid's thigh violently, and gave the maid a roar, which was very beautiful.
"You're so angry, I've never seen such an elbow turned out, I'll try! I'll try it but I can't! If you don't become a mother, you can change people! If I hadn't lived past eighty, I would have you off, and I would definitely have taken you away with me. ”
said angrily, the carriage slowly stopped, the driver turned around and lifted the curtain and said that he had arrived at Cao's mansion, and then there was a handsome figure in the field of vision, Cao Beibei immediately changed a gentle smile on his face, everyone slowly moved out of the carriage like a lady, and looked up at Zhao Hexuan on the ground.
Zhao Hexuan has been tanned a little bit in the past few days, but he is still handsome, a little stubble has appeared, revealing the charm of a mature man, he did not get off the horse, and he still needs to go to the palace to restore his life when he opens his mouth to Cao Beibei, and then he will come to the door to apologize after everything is dealt with, and asked Cao Beibei to listen to it and wave his hand again and again and say that there is no need, it is clear that she should prepare a thank you gift to go to Zhao Mansion to thank her, and the embarrassment of politeness is still Zhao Hexuan to sort out the situation in a word, turn the horse's head and leave.
The maid stood behind Cao Beibei and rubbed her hot thighs, watching her staring at Zhao Hexuan's side face, and suddenly approached her to speak, which scared Cao Beibei.
"Miss, wake up, we still have to report the goods to the master and go to the storehouse to keep an eye on it."
Cao Beibei took a deep breath and finally eased up, and looked at the maid again and raised her leg to give her a kick, but the maid was fine, laughing and jumping away, this master and servant are too interesting.
Cao Beibei came back to his senses, and he didn't waste time with her, turned around to enter the shop, looked up and saw the high hanging plaque and was stunned, and immediately turned around and asked the coachman why he pulled her back to Cao's mansion, and she should go to the shop with the goods! The coachman replied as a matter of course.