Chapter 158: The Fortune Trap
As soon as the morning dawned, Li Dongdong found Li Yanqing angrily, "Brother Qing'er, something happened?" ”
Li Yanqing was writing a letter to his family, he put down his pen and smiled: "Don't worry! Slowly, what's wrong? ”
Li Dongdong was so anxious that he was about to cry, "My secret recipe is gone!" ”
"What is a secret recipe?"
"It's a book that records the recipe of mosquito repellent and mosquito coil and how to make it. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Li Yanqing suddenly thought of Liu Da and Liu Er, there would be no one else except them, but how could they be missing? He calmly asked, "When did you lose it?" ”
"It was last night, I saw it last night, and I ..... this morning"
As soon as he said this, Li Dongdong's face turned white, and he stomped his foot fiercely, "Damn mother-in-law, look at how I clean her up!" ”
No one knows where the secret recipe is hidden except for his wife? It must have been her, she stole the secret recipe to her mother's family.
He turned around and left in hatred, but Li Yanqing grabbed him, "Don't mess around, it won't be your wife who did it!" ”
"Why?"
Li Yanqing sighed, "If you think about it, you can understand, if she had this heart, she would have stolen it out a long time ago, and then put it back after copying a copy, is it necessary for your brother-in-law to torture you like yesterday?" ”
Li Dongdong was stunned for a moment, it is true, although his wife uses mosquito repellent to honor her father, she will not give up the opportunity to make a fortune to her eldest brother.
"So what should I do?" Li Dongdong was anxious.
Li Yanqing took two steps with his hands in his hands, suddenly remembered something, and asked: "I remember that you husband and wife are illiterate, who copied the secret recipe?" ”
"I dictated it, and my son recorded it."
Li Dongdong suddenly woke up, "Could it be my son-"
Li Yanqing took a sip of tea and said lightly: "Actually, I wanted to persuade you yesterday, so I simply told your eldest brother the recipe and used five hundred guan to take down his restaurant." ”
"But this secret recipe took me several months and countless failures to succeed, what did their Liu family do to just let them snatch my way to make a fortune?"
Li Dongdong was extremely excited, but Li Yanqing shook his head, although Li Dongdong was shrewd and capable, but the level was still a little lower, this kind of mosquito coil and mosquito repellent liquid was not a high-tech thing, as long as it appeared on the market, imitations would come out immediately.
Besides, whether the people of Bianjing can accept it is another matter, the Liu family is willing to spend money and effort to promote and publicize, and is willing to be a martyr, why not?
Anyone can make perfume, so why Chanel's perfume is so expensive, the key is still in the brand.
However, Li Dongdong couldn't accept this kind of thinking, and Li Yanqing continued to enlighten him, "Do the math yourself, how many people know this recipe?" ”
"You know, your father knows, Li Yanbiao knows, there are two incense makers, my son also knows, a total of seven people know."
"That's right, seven people know this recipe, can you prevent it? If I'm not mistaken, Liu Da must have looked for your son yesterday afternoon, and if you don't give him the formula, he will kidnap your son, what should you do? Fortunately, thanks to the secret recipe, your son escaped, didn't you think of it? ”
Li Yanqing's words pierced Li Dongdong's heart, he was afraid, angry, and unwilling, he simply squatted down with his head in his hands, and moaned in pain, "Brother Qing'er, what should I do now?" ”
Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and said: "Now that the sky is just dawning, in terms of time, it is very likely that the secret recipe is still in your son's hands, you hurry up to find your son, and then bring the secret recipe to me." ”
Li Dongdong jumped up and swept away like a gust of wind.
Li Yanqing was pacing back and forth in the room, he had thought of making mosquito coils because he didn't know the actual situation in Bianjing, but since he saw the rouge shop with his own eyes yesterday, he realized that making mosquito coils actually couldn't make money at all.
The reason is very simple, mosquito coils want to make money completely by running volume, even if Li Dongdong makes mosquito coils, how much market can he occupy? Imitators sprung up all over the world, and each state had its own mosquito coils, and Li Dongdong occupied a small part of the market in Bianjing at most.
Mosquito coils, rich people use incense, poor people use cheaper moxa ropes, and they can only be used by ordinary civilians, and they can only be used for one summer, to put it mildly, I am afraid that Li Dongdong will not even be able to collect the book when he arrives.
If you want to make money, you still have to rely on high-end brands or high-tech things, such as rouge perfumes and the like.
Li Yanqing has decided to give up mosquito coils and switch to the cosmetics business, which is a broad market.
After a while, Li Dongdong ran back out of breath, holding a small notebook in his hand, he smiled and said: "Brother Qing is still amazing, the secret recipe is really in my son's hands, Liu Da coaxed him yesterday and exchanged it with him for cakes from Nongxiangzhai, and the little rabbit cub couldn't withstand the temptation and agreed." ”
Li Yanqing flipped through the small notebook, and he took a pen and copied it as it was, but changed the key formula of mosquito repellent liquid wild chrysanthemum to wormwood juice.
He handed the copied book to Li Dongdong, "You take it to talk to your father-in-law, you tell him that you not only promise to give him the secret recipe, but also teach them to make kojipan mosquito coils, I believe he must be very willing, of course not in vain, you can put forward a condition that you want the most." ”
"Is it really for them?" Li Dongdong said unwillingly.
"It's up to you to decide whether to give it to him or not, I don't interfere, I just want to tell you one thing, if you have a deep relationship with them, then don't give it, but if you hate them to the bone, you want them to go bankrupt, give them the secret recipe."
Li Dongdong was stunned, "Brother Qing'er, how do you say this?" ”
Li Yanqing said lightly: "The risk of mosquito coils and mosquito repellent is too great, the reason why I let you do it is because I have a way to make money with it, but they definitely can't." ”
Li Yanqing pointed to his head, "They lack this!" ”
Li Dongdong finally understood a little, so he gritted his teeth and said: "Then change my son's surname back, let his surname be Li, and no longer have the surname Liu." ”
Li Dongdong turned around to leave, but Li Yanqing stopped him again, "Wait a minute!" ”
Li Yanqing picked up a drawing from the table and handed it to Li Dongdong, "Please ask Brother Dong to find a blacksmith to make this set of utensils out of pig iron, this set of utensils is very important, we rely on it to make a fortune, Brother Dong must not let anyone know." ”
Li Dongdong looked at it for a long time and didn't understand, "What is this?" ”
"You find a blacksmith to build it first, and I'll tell you later."
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Li Yanqing came to the capital a little early, and there was still a month before Taixue officially registered, several good friends were isolated and trained, and the new friend Niu Gao he met couldn't leave martial arts at any time, he was really a little bored.
But the shopkeeper still found something for him to do, and as soon as Li Dongdong left, the shopkeeper Han came to the door with a Zhuang Zhaiya person.
Zhuang Zhaiya people are today's real estate agents, and there are many in Bianjing, but they are more standardized, more strictly managed, and punished more severely.
After three generations of unremitting struggle, he finally bought three houses in Bianjing when Li Gouer was born, and officially became a property owner in Bianjing.
In the eyes of the people in the hometown, if you can buy a house in the capital, you will get ahead, so in your hometown, whether it is a father-son quarrel, a grandfather or a husband and wife, Li Gouer will be involved, 'Look at Li Gouer, and then look at you'.......
So the grandfather was furious, the father was furious, the grandson gritted his teeth, the husband hung his head, and then there was no more, the days still have to live, and the example of Li Gouer's family has to be established, unless Li Gouer's family sells the house in the capital, the example will collapse, and more people will gloat, just like Li Daqi back then.
Maybe it's because he is from the capital, Li Goo'er has a straight waist in front of his fellow villagers, and his chin is habitually slightly raised, but when he heard the shopkeeper say that Li Yanqing is Xiangzhou Xie Yuan, all his problems disappeared, he became extremely enthusiastic, and his waist was invisibly softer.
"Since last year, the certification conditions for first-class and second-class households have been lowered, and the five-bedroom and four-bedroom houses in one courtyard are very tight everywhere, and I only have a three-room house in my hand, either a scattered five-room house, not in one house, or mixed with others in a compound."
Of course, Li Yanqing didn't want to live with others, and he didn't want to live separately, because in addition to his father, there were magpies, Qing'er and Ju's sister-in-law all coming over, at least one courtyard and four rooms, and he was also a little embarrassed.
At this time, Li Gou'er suddenly remembered, "Little official, do you think about the house outside the city?" There are two properties outside the city! The rent is also cheap. ”
Li Yanqing didn't know whether to think about it or not, this kind of thing like a house, instead of listening to the tooth man blowing the sky, it was better to take a look at it on the ground, and said: "Go and see it!" ”
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The two houses Li Gouer said are outside the west city, not far from the city gate, one is one mile away from the city, and the other is two miles away from the city.
The first house is one courtyard and five rooms, but the surrounding environment is too bad, dirty and messy, and there is no difference from Erhuai Lane, where his father lives now, Li Yanqing immediately vetoed it.
The second house is not bad, one courtyard and four rooms, the surrounding environment is quiet, the transportation is convenient, and it is close to the Bianhe River, although there are already four families, but the owner promises that as long as they sign a three-year lease and pay off the rent at one time, he can drive all four families away.
Li Gou'er saw that Li Yanqing was a little hesitant, thinking that he couldn't bear to drive people away, so he smiled and said, "The little official just came to the capital!" It's normal to change a house in the capital, unless you go to rent public housing, you can live for a long time, this kind of private house is of course the landlord has the final say, this is someone's house, people want to take it back, and the lease deed is clearly written! ”
"Let me think again!"
Of course, Li Yanqing was a little unbearable, but he felt more that something was wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong, and his intuition told him that he needed to be cautious.
"The petty official thinks about it slowly, and I will go to the owner to negotiate the price."
Li Gou'er left, Li Yanqing stood in the distance, looked at the house carefully, he finally found out what the problem was, such a big house, covering an area of at least two acres, with a front yard and a backyard, only two yuan a month.
It costs at least ten yuan in the city, like the warehouse that Li Dongdong rented on the side of Tianbo Bridge, only a big room, and four yuan a month, although it is outside the city, it is very close to the city, and it is not only two yuan, why is the rent of this mansion so cheap? There must be something wrong with this.
At this time, an old man came over and slowly swallowed: "Since the little official can afford to rent a mansion, why should he rent this mansion, he will regret it." ”
"Excuse me, old man. Is there anything wrong with this house? ”
"Didn't the little officials notice that its terrain was too low-lying?"
Li Yanqing was stunned, he noticed that the terrain was indeed a little low-lying, and the old man said: "It's early spring, and I can't see it, in the summer, a rainstorm, the whole house is soaked in water, the year before last, the Bianhe River rose, and the house was flooded directly, if it wasn't only 300 yuan a house, who would rarely live here?" ”
After speaking, the old man walked back to the courtyard slowly on crutches, although Li Yanqing couldn't judge that the old man's words were a bit exaggerated, he had lost interest in this house.