Chapter 35: A false alarm
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"Li Gongzi, Li Gongzi!"
"Brother Li, are you okay?"
Wu Furong's uncle and nephew were very surprised when they saw Li Qi sitting on the stool in a daze, sweating profusely.
Wait--- wait, why should I be afraid, isn't this just a piece of paper, if you are afraid, you have to ask clearly before you are afraid.
Li Qi suddenly took a sharp breath, stood up from the stool, grabbed Wu Furong's sleeve, and asked, "Uncle Wu, where did this --- paper come from?" ”
Wu Furong was slightly stunned, and immediately replied: "This is written by the old man." ”
"You wrote that?"
Li Qi looked at it carefully, wasn't it Wu Furong's handwriting, he was very puzzled in his heart, and asked, "What do you mean by writing these things?" ”
"Alas!"
Wu Furong sighed and said, "Gongzi Li, this is what I just want to sue you." ”
Li Qileng said: "Sue me for what? ”
"After you left this morning, the mansions of the court officials who wrote it on it sent people to buy stinky tofu from us." Wu Furong sighed.
"Buy stinky tofu?"
Li Qi blinked his eyes and asked incredulously, "You said they all came to buy stinky tofu?" ”
Wu Furong nodded and said, "Of course, otherwise what do you think you are doing?" ”
Depend on! I'm scared to death!
Li Qi let out a long breath, he was frightened just now, in his impression, anyone who was found by these traitors would not be a good thing, and they would generally be unable to escape death, and the lightest would be the frontier.
But he never expected that these predators were here to buy stinky tofu.
"Uncle Wu, you too, they come to buy it, you just sell it to them, why bother to scare me with this thing, you don't know that I am timid, and my legs will be weak when I see the yacha." Li Qi shook the white paper in his hand, suddenly his face tightened, and asked again: "By the way, you --- you didn't ask them to line up, did you?" ”
Is Richie timid? Wu Furong really didn't know about this, pulled the corners of his mouth a few times, and said, "How can the old man have the guts." But---! ”
"But what?" Li Qi exclaimed again.
"But--- but how can we have stinky tofu to sell to them." Wu Furong said.
That's a key question!
Li Qi frowned and asked, "When did they come?" ”
Wu Furong said: "Some are noon, and some are afternoon. Don't you know, these big officials have a lot to buy, and Uncle Zhang only shipped less than 200 copies yesterday, even if I want to sell it to them, there is no stinky tofu to sell. ”
That's just as well!
Li Qi nodded, and asked again, "Then what did you tell them?" ”
Wu Furong said truthfully: "Their masters are all members of the imperial court, and we can't afford to mess with any of them, so I didn't dare to refuse them, but just asked someone to send them to the mansion tomorrow." ”
Li Qi frowned and asked, "Tomorrow?" What time --- tomorrow? ”
"Unitary time! Li Gongzi, you are not here, so I have to delay as much as possible. Wu Furong replied.
The unitary hour is the period from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Li Qi asked again, "Uncle Wu, have you calculated how much stinky tofu they need in total?" ”
Wu Furong said: "It takes about four hundred copies. ”
"Four hundred?"
Li Qi frowned again, there are more than 20 households on this paper, and they need so much stinky tofu, MD, these officials really like to stand and talk without backache.
This is a Beijing master, and there are many officials who are in charge, and how can these officials abide by the rule that one person is only allowed to buy one copy.
"Brother Li, what can I do?"
Wu Xiaoliu saw that Li Qi was also full of sorrow, and his heart was even more worried.
"What should I do?" Li Qi snorted angrily and said, "I can't just send them as much." ”
In Li Qi's era of advocating freedom and equality for all, those who were officials were still so arrogant, not to mention in this era of feudal and slave classes, if they didn't agree to them, hum, there would definitely be no good fruit to eat.
"But how could we have made so much stinky tofu all at once?" Wu Furong said worriedly.
"By the way, is Uncle Zhang here?" Li Qi asked suddenly.
"Not yet." Wu Furong shook his head and said.
Li Qi took a deep breath and calculated in his heart before he said: "Wait for Third Uncle Zhang to send nearly 300 copies of stinky tofu, I will ask him to send 300 copies overnight, and then draw 400 copies from it, and leave the rest for tomorrow to sell." ”
"If that's the case, then we won't be able to sell much tomorrow, Li Gongzi, don't you know, those people who didn't eat stinky tofu today are already very angry." Wu Furong said worriedly.
"I can't help it, it's better to offend them than to offend those big officials."
Li Qi sighed and explained: "Uncle Wu, you don't know, in fact, it takes a lot of time to make this stinky tofu, first you have to use good soybeans to grind into tofu, and then you have to cool it for several days, and then you can put it in that urn when it is dried tofu."
I went to Uncle Zhang several days in advance, told him to make tofu, put it aside to dry, and then send it to me when the tofu became dried tofu.
Although I was a few days in advance, but in fact, it is not much different from making and selling, I waited for him to send an extra thousand yuan in advance, in fact, it was also a big risk, and the taste of fried tofu must be worse. ”
This is not alarmist!
I remember that at the beginning, after Li Qi made a contract with Mrs. Qin, he was abandoned at home for a few days before he started selling stinky tofu.
In fact, he didn't mean to do this, but he didn't have a way, even if the time was urgent, he had to wait for the tofu to dry first, but he also calculated the time first, otherwise he wouldn't have said that it only took fifteen days, but he thought about it for a long time before he set it, which not only satisfied Mrs. Qin, but also gave Uncle Zhang time to dry the tofu.
It's a pity that Li Qi did everything he could, but he missed these wolf-like traitors.
At the beginning, in order to control the cost to the minimum, Li Qi discussed with Uncle Zhang early in the morning, how much tofu to make, how much tofu to make every day, how many days to make, and when he started to open and sell tofu, Uncle Zhang only needed to take out the tofu made on the first day and send it, and so on.
He also did this in order to optimize the taste of this stinky tofu in the shortest possible time, no matter what dish he cooked, the control of time is always the most critical, and it is the most difficult to work hard, and this 'time' does not just refer to the 'time' on the stove.
Wu Furong listened to it and pondered for a while before he sighed: "It seems that it can only be like this!" ”