"When I came today, my mother also said that the grandfather was looking for me, and I estimated that the grandfather was going to talk to me about the oil mill again, and he had been making the idea of merging our current oil mill into our original oil mill. He talked to me a lot about this. ”

"And what do you think?"

"Me? What else could I think? Li Yuanwai is Li Yuanwai, I am me. Li Yong said seriously, "Although he only has one son now, but the beautiful concubine in the courtyard of the master outside the Guanyuan, I don't know when I have to give me a few more younger brothers, my mother is in Li Yuanwai's house, then I have to fight for some money, and I will keep the old lady in the future, right?" Besides, when you first looked for me, there was an appointment in advance, although our Li Yong is not a good person, but he also knows that the gentleman has faith, without your seventeenth brother, I am still the bastard who is blind and has nothing to do on the street. But the outsider is my father in the end, and you have to help me sum it up for this matter. ”

"There's nothing to sum up," Lu Qiqi smiled, "You just need to tell your father that once you break the contract, we wrote it clearly in the original terms, if you can't do anything, you have to unconditionally withdraw from the soybean oil business, and the entire oil mill belongs to me Lu Qiqi, and the deed has already been filed in the government." I can't regret it. ”

At the beginning, it was clear from the deed that once Li Yong breached the contract, he would have to withdraw from the oil mill and hand it over to Lu Seventeen unconditionally, and this method of refining oil, once it was leaked, Li Yong would have to accompany Lu Seventeen to taste 50,000 copper coins. What's more, even if Li Yuanwai can see the profits in the future, his Li family can afford the 50,000 yuan, with Lu Seventeen pressing the price of soybean oil to such a bottom, the two will compete again, if Lu Seventeen really doesn't want to fight for a penny to fight for his life and then lower the price, he Lu Seventeen doesn't want to rush to fight for money and can afford it, it is the people who benefit, and he can still have a good reputation, but he Li Yuanwai can't afford it.

Therefore, with that contract, Lu Qiqi was not afraid of Li Yuanwai's devastating tricks at all.

In terms of power, the Lu family is no worse than the Li family, and after all, Li Yuanwai has been a few years old, but the Li family still has many of his cousins who are officials in the court.

This is also the reason why Lu Seventeen was looking for Li Yong to partner with Li Yong. Not only to stabilize Li Yuanwai and give him some benefits, but also not to compete with the Li family's original oil mill, how much trouble to save himself, if Li Yuanwai is smart, he should be satisfied with the three points of profit.

Soybeans are cheap, and the refined oil, although it is not expensive, is not without profits, not to mention that the market is too big, Lu Qiqi believes that it will not be long before this oil can be popularized throughout the Great Song Kingdom.

At that time, even if it is only this three points of profit, I believe that it will be able to make Li Yuanwai and his old man wake up with a smile in their dreams.

Lu Qiqi said again: "Tell your father, let him not be jealous of my seven points of profit, I actually only keep three points, the remaining four points, I will donate it, take it from the people, use it for the people, when the time comes, I will pay, the good reputation you can get, and you Li Yong's share, you think, neither of us is reading material, the emergence of soybean oil can be regarded as solving a lot of practical life problems for the people's lives, and we will donate most of the profits, not only can we get a good reputation of a good person, maybe the court can also give us a reward, Give you and me a fellow jinshi, or the grace of the heavenly family, and give us a shadow to fill the official position, even if we are not given a real difference, when the time comes, wouldn't our two brothers be regarded as official bodies? Maybe he joined the Department of Agriculture and became an official. ”

Li Yong's eyes lit up when he listened.

His family member is a master who makes mistakes, so he can't have the opportunity to rely on the shade to make up for it, and he can't study, being a white man in the Great Song Kingdom is not a good thing, and the prospect that Lu Qiqi said is indeed attractive.

Li Yong made up his mind and said, "Brother, don't worry, I will never ask the master to coax me." In short, I, Li Yong, have followed you in my life. ”

Lu Qiqi patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I remember this, after all, if I eat in the future, you will drink it." Actually, I don't have much interest in being an official, but with an official body, our Great Song Kingdom treats officials very preferentially, and it is just cheap to act in the future. ”

The two talked for a while, and Meishu brought a hot meal over, Li Yong was hungry and devoured, and after a while, he ate a bowl with the bottom facing the sky. After he finished eating, Lu Qiqi smiled and said, "If you want to be fine, go back early, I have a lot of things to do here, and I don't have time to spend time with you." ”

Li Yongyuan came here to find his daughter-in-law, but if this matter didn't work out, where was he still impatient to stay in this poor place in the countryside? Seeing Lu Qiqi driving him away, he wiped his mouth, took a sip of tea from the teacup, and said: "Cheng, then I'll go back, I heard that the old lady of the Zeng family has a ninetieth birthday in a few days, although I didn't send a post to our family, but that's your old Taishan family, I'm a younger brother, I should go to the service anyway, and when the time comes, our brothers will have a few cups, by the way, you said that Mrs. Huang has a big birthday, my nephew, what gift should I give?" They are like a Confucian family, this gift is really not easy to give. ”

Lu Qiqi waved his hand, and said with a smile while sending him out: "After all, your family has a lot of money, if you are really worried, why don't you send a golden statue of Guanyin?" ”

Although Li Yong was reckless, he also knew that Lu Seventeen was entertaining himself, a Guanyin statue still needs a gold sculpture, how much gold does it cost? No matter how rich his family is, he can't play like this. glared at him: "I'm serious." ”

Lu Qiqi couldn't help laughing and said, "What do you ask me to do about gifts?" If you really have the heart, go home and ask your wife? Coming and going from the house, you and I are both laymen. ”

Li Yong thought about it, isn't it? Even if you want to give a gift, you can't ask his mother to discuss it?

He resigned from Lu Seventeen, got on his horse and whipped away.

Lu Qiqi didn't enter the courtyard again, and said to Meishu, twenty-one that the kid went to her house to find her sister Meihua to play, so that she had time to take a look, so she went to the field behind the courtyard with chili peppers to take a look.

Some of them are the seeds left by the pots of peppers that Banniang moved back last year, and some of them are the pepper seeds he asked his fourth aunt in Mingang, Fuzhou, to find the pepper seeds, and the whole two big bags are planted nearly three acres of land. Lu Qiqi also waited seriously, now this large area of chili peppers has bloomed small white flowers, and in a few days, it will be time for the flowers to bear fruit. It will take more than a month to harvest the first batch of chili peppers, and with this chili, Sheraton can at least slowly add a lot of new dishes.

A restaurant will always have a day when it will decay with new dishes that it launches from time to time.

Sichuan pepper star anise and other ingredients, are all in the Great Song Dynasty, if you add chili peppers, in addition to today's Huaiyang cuisine, Sheraton can develop the time and space where he and Banniang once lived, and the whole of China's Sichuan cuisine. Although he and Banniang are not good at cooking Sichuan food, can't they be prepared that both of them are senior foodies, have raw materials, and have chefs, and are afraid that they will not be able to research new dishes?

Thinking of the spicy and happy taste thunder, Lu Qiqi couldn't help licking his tongue, wishing that the chili seedlings in this place would be filled with small lanterns one by one overnight.

In the evening, I called Zhuangtou to come over, told Zhuangtou about the details that should be paid attention to before harvesting the wheat, and handed over the beautiful trees on the street, looked for a few reliable ones on the farm, and sent the twenty-one back to the Lu Mansion in the city.

Early the next morning, Lu Qiqi went to Nanyuanzhuang, and the head of the Zeng family had already been instructed, knowing that the person who came to inspect the grange this time was the eighth son-in-law of the Zeng family, and he was good at farming, and after listening to a few words, he also knew that this seemingly unruly son and brother was indeed an expert in all matters on the farmland, and he was convinced.

Lu Seventeen also carefully looked at the terrain, carefully inspected the soil conditions in various fields, and circled a few places, so that after the head of the village harvested the wheat, it was kept and planted with soybeans, and the rest was planted with rice as before.

After staying in Nanyuanzhuang for a few days, Lu Qiqi returned to Nanfeng City.

I went back to Lufu, washed up, first asked my aunt to say goodbye, and then went to the restaurant, at this time, the lights were on, it was the time to go to the guests at night, Cang'er saw him coming, and said with a smile: "Just Banniang is still talking about you, I don't want to come." Just back? ”

"Banniang is also in the store?"

Cang Er smiled: "What you said is strange, she is the owner of this restaurant, how can she not be there?" ”

"In the back kitchen?"

Cang Er nodded while settling the accounts, and when he saw that Lu Qiqi was leaving, he hurriedly stopped him: "By the way, you will see Chang'an in a while, ask him to come here, I have something to look for him." ”

Lu Qiqi nodded, went to the back kitchen, and saw that Chang'an had just come out of the large private room in the main hall in the backyard, and was bypassing the water pavilion, wanting to go directly to the private room on the second floor from the corridor in the backyard to check, Lu Qiqi hurriedly called him: "Chang'an, the shopkeeper of Cang'er is looking for you something, and asked you to go." ”

When Lu Changan saw Lu Seventeen, he was overjoyed: "Son, you're back." ”

"Oh? Could it be that something is wrong? ”

"It's not a problem!" Chang'an hurriedly saluted, and the joy he had just seen when he saw Lu Seventeen was gone, and he replied with a bitter face.