Chapter Thirty-Eight: Ingenuity? Robbery?
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"Uncle Wu, you handled it very well!"
Li Qi nodded, and then asked, "By the way, then Cai Laosan has no θ§hΓ¬ιΈΈYaojun."
Wu Furong shook his head and said, "He didn't say a word about you, Gongzi, but he asked a few words about stinky tofu." β
Could it be that I miscalculated?
Li Qi narrowed his eyes, his face full of confusion.
Wu Furong saw Li Qi's heavy face, so he wondered: "Li Gongzi, why did you think that Cai Laosan was here to find you?" Could it be that you've known him before? β
"I'm because ---- forget it, and it's useless to talk about it now."
Richie sighed, frowned, and paced around the room.
Wu Furong sat on the side, didn't dare to disturb him, and waited quietly on the side.
After a while. Li Qi suddenly stopped and said in surprise: "I understand!" β
Wu Furong was taken aback by him, relieved himself, and hurriedly asked, "Li Gongzi, what do you understand?" β
"Oh, it's okay, it's okay!"
Li Qi smiled a few times at Wu Furong, but the gloom on his face had been swept away. Thinking that this old fox originally wanted to kill two birds with one stone, he must have also seen that the Drunken Immortal Residence has gradually risen momentum, and the further it drags on, the more difficult it is to buy the Drunken Immortal Residence, and he must have found out my origin, knowing that I was originally a homeless drunk man on the street, so he wanted to buy this Drunken Immortal Residence at a high price, and then I had nowhere to go, but to take refuge in him, and then the secret recipe of this stinky tofu would also become his bag.
Sure enough, it's a clever plan.
It's just that you definitely didn't expect that your Qi Ye has now become half the master of the Drunken Immortal Residence.
Wu Furong saw Li Qi standing there in a daze, with a wicked smile on the corner of his mouth, and asked curiously: "Gongzi Li, what are you thinking?" β
"Oh---, I'm --- I'm thinking about how to reply to that Cai Laosan." Li Qi was slightly stunned and said matter-of-factly.
"Did you think about it?" Wu Furong asked.
Li Qi narrowed his eyes, slapped the table and said, "Doesn't he want to buy this Drunken Immortal Residence, okay, then we'll sell it to him." β
Wu Furong's face tightened, and he said: "Li --- Li Gongzi, did you --- you say that you want to sell the Drunken Immortal Residence to that Cai Yuanwai?" β
"Of course."
Li Qi smiled and said, "Sixteen thousand, not a penny." β
When Wu Furong heard this, he almost didn't bite his tongue, and exclaimed: "One --- sixteen thousand? Li Gongzi, this is the price of two drunken immortals, if you say so, it is better to reject him directly. β
"Uncle Wu, this is wrong!"
Li Qi smiled slightly: "I think that at the beginning, when we were at the lowest point of the Drunken Immortal Residence, it was also worth eight thousand guan, and now, hmph, it's not me Li Qi bragging, in the entire Bianliang City, no one knows that we are drunk in the immortal residence, just this reputation, selling him eight thousand guan, we don't make much money." β
Haven't earned it yet?
Wu Furong sweated in his heart, shook his head and said, "I don't think Cai Yuanwai will be willing to pay such a high price." β
"That's his business, we've already left it here, as for whether to buy it or not, we don't care, and we don't plan to sell it, Uncle Wu, you say no." Li Qi spread his hands and said with a smile.
"Pole, pole! You're right, we don't plan to sell it anyway. Wu Furong nodded, and suddenly said, "But what if he is willing to buy it?" β
Li Qi laughed and said: "Then what else to say, of course sell it to him, and then we will use this sixteen thousand guan to build a more luxurious restaurant on the edge of this drunken immortal residence, directly squeeze him to death, and then send another four thousand guan to the drunken immortal residence." At that time, Cai Yuanwai had to jump off the building in anger. β
Wu Furong listened, the two looked at each other, and laughed in unison.
He laughed for a while before he stopped.
Li Qi said with a straight face: "Uncle Wu, if Cai Laosan asks me tomorrow, you still say that I will go out early in the morning, but if he asks about my news, you can just tell the truth, but I can't say anything about the Drunken Immortal Residence, you just say that I am a cook." β
Wu Furong took a breath and wondered, "Why is this?" β
Li Qi showed a mysterious expression, smiling without saying a word.
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The next day, before dawn, Li Qi slipped out quietly and did not return to the store until late in the evening.
"Brother Li, what are you doing when you run out every day these days?"
As soon as he entered the door, Wu Xiaoliu greeted him and asked curiously.
"Why do children ask so much?"
Li Qi waved his hand, found a table and sat down, Chen Xiaozhu consciously brought him a cup of tea, Li Qi took a sip of tea, and asked Wu Xiaoliu, "Nothing happened today, right?" β
Wu Xiaoliu shook his head and grinned: "What else can there be, isn't it that everyone is rushing to buy stinky tofu." β
In the past two days, Wu Xiaoliu has been in the limelight, and some people have already begun to call him the sixth master.
"That's good!"
Li Qi rested for a while, looked left and right, didn't see Wu Furong's figure, and asked, "Sixth son, where is your uncle?" β
"My uncle ---γ"
Speaking of this, Wu Xiaoliu suddenly lowered his voice and said in Li Qi's ear: "Brother Li, Cai Laosan on the opposite side came just now." β
"Isn't it!"
Li Qi stood up abruptly and asked nervously, "Where?" β
"Just gone! My uncle sent him there, and I think he's coming back soon. β
No way! I'm scared to death!
Richie breathed a sigh of relief and sat down again.
Wu Xiaoliu was very puzzled when he saw Li Qi, and asked, "Brother Li, what did you say that Cai Laosan came to our store?" β
"I don't know! By the way, weren't you just here? β
"Alas, it's all my uncle's fault, they talked in the room, and they didn't give me a chance to eavesdrop on it. Or I can eavesdrop on some news for you. Wu Xiaoliu said with regret on his face.
What is this?
Li Qi glared at each other and said: "You kid, you love to take care of these idle things all day long, if you have nothing to do, go to the kitchen to find a cucumber to cut and practice, practice knife skills, and when you have free time, I will teach you my ancestral Xiao Li knife method." β
Xiao Li's knife method?
Sounds like a great deal.
Wu Xiaoliu hurriedly responded: "I know, I know, I'll go." β
Saying that, he ran to the kitchen happily, and the pillar brothers on the side listened to it and followed them secretly, it seemed that they also wanted to learn the "Xiao Li knife method" very much.
It's finally quiet!
Li Qi took a few sips of tea leisurely, and suddenly heard Wu Furong's voice outside the door.
"Li Gongzi, you're back!"
Li Qi turned his head and saw that it was Wu Furong, so he hurriedly got up, greeted him, and asked, "Uncle Wu, how are you talking?" β
Wu Furong looked left and right, then made a look and said, "Go to the room and say." β
The two came to Wu Furong's room.
After Wu Furong closed the door, he said: "Li Gongzi, you didn't see it, I told Cai Laosan the price you gave me yesterday, and I almost didn't scare him under the table." β
Li Qi laughed a few times and asked, "Then what does he say?" β
"He said that we were deliberately teasing him, and then I told him what you said yesterday, and then he had nothing to say, and said that he would go back and ask that Cai Yuanwai." Wu Furong said with a smile.
"I saw that it was a vain question."
Li Qi sneered and asked again, "Then did he mention me?" β
"Yes!"
Wu Furong nodded hurriedly, with a bit of admiration on his face, and said, "Li Gongzi, as you expected, when we were talking just now, Cai Laosan asked about your news on the grounds of stinky tofu several times. β
"And what did you say?"
"I'll do what you say."
"That's good!" Li Qi nodded.
Wu Furong frowned when he saw Li Qi's excited expression, a trace of worry appeared between his eyebrows, and he lowered his voice and said: "Li Gongzi, I just listened to that Cai Laosan's tone, their Jade Xuan seems to be very interested in this stinky tofu, according to the old man, that Cai Yuanwai must have a bad heart for your stinky tofu secret recipe, you have to be careful." β
Bad heart? Hmph, I'm not afraid, I'm afraid that he won't move this evil heart.
Li Qi gasped and said in fear: "Is there such a thing? β
Wu Furong glanced at him suspiciously, nodded and said, "I don't think Cai Yuanwai will find you in the near future, and then he will definitely be the same as the last time, and he will tempt you with a lot of money and let you sell him the secret recipe of this stinky tofu." β
After that, Wu Furong told Li Qi how Cai Yuanwai stole the secret recipe of "Flower Carving Drunk" from the Drunken Immortal Residence last time.
Li Qi already knew about this, and he also knew that Wu Furong was probing his tone, so he waved his hand and said: "Uncle Wu, you can rest assured, how can I Li Qi be the one who sees money, no matter how much money he pays, I will not sell it to him." β
"Yes, yes!"
Wu Furong was overjoyed, nodded and said: "Li Gongzi, you may not know, this secret recipe is the lifeblood of the restaurant, over the years, that Cai Yuanwai has sent people around to collect secret recipes about dishes, and several restaurants have closed for this, we are not afraid of him robbing openly, but we also have to prevent him from playing tricks behind his back." β
Li Qi nodded modestly and said, "That's, that's." β
Clever and clever?
Li Qi is naturally not afraid, and he doesn't know who gets it.
As for forcible seizure?
Richie wasn't scared either.
He had already inquired about it, and it was true that Cai Yuanwai came out of Taishi Cai's mansion, but it was because he was driven out because his hands and feet were not clean in Taishi's mansion before, and it had nothing to do with Taishi Cai. The reason why he is so horizontal is entirely because when he was in the Taishifu before, he had some ministers, and it is said that he sent silver to those ministers' mansions every year.
As long as Cai Jing is not supporting him behind him, Li Qi is not afraid of him.
Moreover, Mrs. Qin's maiden family is also a prominent family, and when it comes to strength in this regard, the two families are on equal footing, both are businessmen, and they all eat by their ability.