Pingyue's hometown.

"Erde, is there any news from Guiyang?" In the pond in the yard, Chen Liqing threw some chopped green leaves into it to feed the ducklings, and couldn't help but ask Erde, who was feeding the chickens.

Chickens and ducks are raised together, and the chickens and ducks in the yard are probably starting to grow wings, of course, Chen Liqing exchanged them from the super farm, with 100 chickens and 100 ducks.

It's been almost ten days since I fed this chicken and duck, and the chickens and ducks have begun to see results and start to grow, but the soap I made has not yet come to the news of success.

In the past few days, Chen Liqing has been a little uneasy, because after all, it is the first time to make soap, Chen Liqing is a little apprehensive.

Although he swore to his second brother Chen Liqun that the soap would definitely sell well, after the actual product was actually made, he realized that the soap might be too ordinary, or it might be a little too expensive.

Ordinary people naturally can't have so much spare money to buy soap to bathe or something, and the young lady and aunt of the rich family may have something better. His soap may not actually have any advantage, so Chen Liqing is very worried when he thinks of these situations.

Five hundred pieces of soap have been out for a few days, and his second brother Chen Liqun has not come back, if the business is good, he will be sold short as soon as he goes, and he will come back a long time ago, and it has been four days since he was there, and his second brother has not come back yet.

"Little master, don't worry, it's only been a few days, the soap will definitely sell well, my mother likes soap very much, and she is reluctant to use soap." Erde looked at Chen Liqing, who was worried, and comforted.

Of course your mother does!

Looking at Erde's appearance, Chen Liqing didn't pay attention to Erde. His mother, an ordinary peasant woman, had never used such a high-end thing, but of course she liked it. But she likes to like it, it doesn't mean that a certain class of customers like it, Chen Liqing wants to use soap to prove to Chen Liqun that he can make money.

If he can't make money, he may not be able to gain the trust of the second brother, and if he goes to the second brother to do some things in the future, it may have no effect. If he doesn't get the trust of his second brother, his follow-up plans may be disrupted, and once the follow-up plans are disrupted, and he doesn't know when he will be able to implement his plans, if he can't make plans, his family may be affected after the Xinhai Revolution.

Soap was an important part of his plan, so whether this first shot could be fired was a crucial matter.

"Ah, little master, Sanshun is back!" Suddenly, when Chen Liqing lost his mind and thought about things, Erde's eyes turned and he saw Sanshun outside the house.

"Sanshun is back!" Chen Liqing hurriedly turned his head to look, and really saw Sanshun who followed Chen Liqing at the door and had just dismounted.

"Sanshun!" Chen Liqing shouted, put down the feed in his hand, his small body flashed, and he rushed to Sanshun in two or three steps and asked directly: "Sanshun, how are things selling?" ”

Sanshun was still a fourteen-year-old child, and he had already followed Chen Liqun to do business, because he had seen a lot, Sanshun was much more mature than Erde, and was grabbed by Chen Liqing, he took a deep breath first, and then said calmly: "Little master, the effect is not very good." ”

"No, not so good?"

Chen Liqing's face couldn't help but turn pale, this news was a bit shocking.

"Young master, you, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that the little young master was almost unstable, Erde and Sanshun immediately held on.

"No, it's fine."

There is a second time if it can't be sold!

Chen Liqing tried to take a deep breath to comfort himself, but his face was still a little ugly.

"Sanshun, tell me the situation in detail." After trying to adjust, Chen Liqing wanted to know more detailed information and wanted to know where he was defeated.

A day later, Chen Liqing appeared at the gate of Guiyang City.

"Is this Guiyang, or the provincial capital, compared to those slightly smaller cities in later generations, it is not as good as ......" Looking at the somewhat dilapidated city walls in Guiyang, as well as some old houses in the city walls, Chen Liqing's heart couldn't help but sink.

Hearing Sanshun say that the soap business was not good, and he gave the chickens and ducks to Erde and the old mother to take care of, he wanted to come to Guiyang to see without saying a word.

No, he went out from Pingyue early in the morning, and after about six or seven hours of horseback riding, he arrived at the provincial capital of Guizhou Province at three o'clock in the afternoon.

During this period, Guizhou was still very backward, although it was only more than 100 kilometers from Pingyue to Guiyang, it was not open to traffic, and there were mountain roads on the road. Chen Liqing also wanted to follow his second brother to Guiyang a few days ago, but he couldn't stand the bumps along the way and didn't dare to follow.

However, in the end, he endured the bumps in the road and came to Guiyang for the first time.

If he usually visited Guiyang City a hundred years ago with an attitude of insight, but because he was worried about the soap business, he paid more attention to the housing and clothing of the people in Guiyang to see if they could afford to buy soap.

You know, in order to make money, he set his soap at five cents a piece. Now the market has begun to circulate silver dollars, one silver dollar is equivalent to the purchasing power of fifty or sixty yuan in later generations, can buy thirty or forty catties of rice, rice is almost 4 cents a catty, pork is two cents to three cents a catty, ordinary farmers, a month costs almost one or two silver dollars, and he set the price of soap in five cents, are enough to buy more than a dozen catties of rice, two or three catties of pork, this price is of course a bit high.

So after setting such a high price, Chen Liqing's attention was on those Guiyang citizens.

It's just that from this point of view, the residents of the provincial towns are not necessarily much better than the countryside, and they are not very well dressed, but one is not in such a good mental state, and some even carry an opium-smoking cigarette stick, which looks inferior to the beggars of later generations.

Looking at these people, Chen Liqing's mood can be imagined.

He was silent and did not speak, and followed Sanshun and them all the way to his second brother's shop in Guiyang.

When I came to the shop, the situation was much better than when I first entered the city.

This should be the commercial street of Guiyang, a long street, all kinds of shops and pawnshops, all kinds of cries and selling are endless, there are still a lot of people, there are still some crowded, and among the people shopping, Chen Liqing also saw that the people here are better dressed than outside, and even one or two aunts and ladies are shopping in very fashionable cheongsam.

Such a situation made Chen Liqing breathe a sigh of relief.

"Sanshun, where is my second brother's shop?" He turned his head to look at Sanshun.

"Just around the corner ahead, young master." Sanshun hurriedly pointed out the direction.

"Okay, let's go over and have a look." It was about to arrive at the second brother's shop, Chen Liqing took a deep breath and was ready to be deserted.

But when he really got to the shop, he was still frightened by the deserted appearance of the shop.

Under a plaque marking Chen Kee's shop, Chen Liqing saw his second brother's shop: a guy was boredly fanning a fan to drive away the flies on the counter because of the scent, and the other guy was already dozing off bored, and Chen Liqun was not there. In the shop, there was not a single guest, although the guests outside smelled the scent of soap and wanted to enter, but the desertion inside made the guests decisively not choose to go in.

Such a cold appearance really hit Chen Liqing.

Isn't the first pot of gold prosperous? Why is my brother so bleak and lonely?

Chen Liqing felt a lot of frustration.

"Precious, Niansheng, I haven't come to see the little master!"

Chen Liqing was frustrated at the door, and Sanshun behind him saw the deserted appearance of the store, and his face obviously changed a little, so he hurriedly rushed over and woke up the sleeping guy.

"Ah, little master!"

When the two guys saw Chen Liqing standing at the door with a gloomy face, they were suddenly a little frightened, and hurriedly crawled in front of Chen Liqing.

"Where's the second brother?" Chen Liqing did not blame these two guys, but asked Chen Liqun for the first time.

"Second young man, the young master went to sell soap." The two guys hurriedly said.

"Where?"

"Qianlingshan Park."

"Let's go, Qianlingshan Park, Sanshun!"

Chen Liqing turned around decisively.

Qianlingshan Park is also another place where the people of Guiyang are scattered for shopping.

Under a large pine tree, there are pieces of Chen Ji soap.

"From France, high-grade soap, everyone come and take a look, take a look, high-grade soap from France, Napoleon's royal family exclusive soap, best-selling French royal soap for 20 years."

In front of this booth, Chen Liqun shouted to the surrounding crowd with his fellows.

"French royal soap? How much? ”

People were really curious and came to ask the price.

"It's not expensive, it's not expensive, the original price is five cents, and the current price is twenty percent off, as long as four cents, guest officer, do you want a piece?" Chen Liqun's face was overjoyed, and he hurriedly took a piece of soap and gave it to the man who asked the price.

"Four, four! That, so expensive? ”

But as soon as the man heard the price, the soap was like a hot potato, and he quickly pushed it off.

For four cents, you can eat a good meal in a restaurant, and you can also order a fried meat and a good green vegetable. This price is very expensive for ordinary people.

"Expensive, fellow, how can it be expensive, I was shipped from France, and I took the boat for two months!" Chen Liqun's face was a little unsightly, but he continued to introduce.

"Don't buy, don't buy, it's too expensive, it's too expensive." The man hurried away, far away.

Chen Liqun was a little frustrated, he did it according to his younger brother's marketing methods, but the price of this soap seemed to be really expensive, and Chen Liqun only wanted to price it for five cents at that time.

"It's such an expensive soap, why don't you grab it......"

Hearing the price reported by Chen Liqun, the people who were still a little interested just now were also frightened and did not dare to approach, so they could only wait and see from afar. After all, the fragrance of soap is still very fragrant, if it is not ridiculously expensive, there may be people who really buy it.

"Well, my pricing, is it really a bit expensive?"

Coming here, Chen Liqing just happened to witness the frustration of the second brother, he sighed helplessly, and then stepped forward: "Second brother ......"

"Little brother? What are you doing here? Hearing the familiar call, Chen Liqun turned his head and saw Chen Liqing.