Shopkeeper Lu pretended to be surprised and said, "Didn't Zheng Xu say yesterday that raw materials are easy to find?" It's not difficult to make, and we can provide as much as we want, so our owner has already contacted the merchants in the next few towns yesterday afternoon, and the agreement has been signed and the deposit has been collected.

If we can't ship on time, we will have to compensate a lot of money, if we can help you collect it because of raw material problems, we can also let people help if we don't have enough manpower. ”

"It's... It's not difficult to collect raw materials... Ay... Forget it, we will deliver the goods within three days, and as for the collection of manpower and raw materials, we will not bother you, we will solve it ourselves. Zheng Chen sighed deeply.

"That's good, we will prepare the rest of the payment in three days, you can come to us anytime if you need it in these three days, and we will definitely try to help." The shopkeeper Lu looked very kind on the surface, but he sneered in his heart: even if it can be delivered this time, there are a lot of raw materials needed to make 10,000 pieces of soap, as long as people go to find out, they can know what the raw materials are, and then secretly let people buy a large number of them, and place an order of 10,000 again, and when the time comes, they can get the secret recipe justifiably if they can't deliver the goods.

"Then I'll thank Shopkeeper Lu first, and I won't be polite when the time comes." Zheng Chen bowed his hand to the shopkeeper Lu and thanked him.

"It's easy to say, I'll directly help you exchange the deposit into silver, here is forty-seven taels of silver, you can take it."

Zheng Chen took the silver and Zheng Xu left directly, then went to buy a car that cost ten taels of silver, and went to buy a few clothes and some spices, exchanged ten taels of silver for copper coins and hurried home.

It happened to be noon when they returned home, and Zheng Fang and they just happened to deliver the goods, and this morning's harvest was even more than yesterday's, more than 1,500 catties, plus a car of fire.

Zheng Chen settled the bill with them on the spot, Zheng Chen and they finally breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the money, Zheng Chen really didn't lie to them, the hard work in the past two days was worth it.

After dividing the money, Zheng Chen asked Zheng Fang to stay and let the others go back first.

"Xiao Chen, do you have any instructions for me to stay?" Although Zheng Fang was anxious to go back to the mountains and forests to collect green fruits after eating, Zheng Chen asked him to help, and he would not refuse, if it wasn't for Zheng Chen, how could he have earned the same amount of money in just one and a half days.

"You go and make an agreement with a few butchers in the town that they will have the oil delivered here every day, and the third aunt will ask her family to order some oil as well, and then deliver it here every night. And let the third aunt's family also collect green fruits and send them with oil. The shopkeeper Lu has taken the bait, and Zheng Chen has begun to implement the next plan.

"No problem, I'll go back and tell your third aunt to let her go back to her parents' house after dinner, and I'll go to town after dinner." Although he couldn't collect green fruits to make money, Zheng Fang didn't complain, and let others take a few of their children to go.

"I'll give you money first, and I've hired your whole family for the past few days, and I'll give you two dollars a day, and you can take it." Zheng Chen thought that his plan really needed manpower, and the third aunt's family could trust it and directly hire their family.

"Xiao Chen, what are you doing here, I'm your uncle, how can I collect your money for helping you do something? Take it back. Zheng Fang said with a displeased face.

"Third uncle, I really need help, and I don't want to delay your family's time without giving some money. In addition, your family helped our family so much before, and I still don't repay you when I make money? If you insist on not taking this money, I won't let you help, I'll find someone else, the big deal is that the secret recipe is stolen, and our family will return to the way it was before. Zheng Chen also said from his heart, taking over the identity of that idiot, he must return the favor he owed before.

"How can that be, people outside can't believe it, this kind of thing still has to rely on their own family help. But I can't ask for that much money, just give me a day and I'll be fine. Zheng Fang knew the importance of the secret recipe, so he didn't refuse to accept money for help, but he insisted on not accepting so much.

Zheng Chen didn't insist this time, thinking that he would make up for it later.

In the afternoon, Zheng Chen asked a few children to bake green fruits together, used a knife to break the heart, and then skewered it to build a fire to roast, Zheng Xu made soap in it alone, and when Zheng Fang came back with oil, Zheng Chen went in to help make soap, Zheng Fang and his children roasted green fruits outside.

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After Zheng Chen and the others left, the shopkeeper Lu ordered a servant to follow secretly, and it was not until Zheng Chen and they left the town that they came back to report to the shopkeeper Lu.

Shopkeeper Lu called another person to go to Zhengjia Village to inquire about the situation, and saw Zheng Chen roasting green fruits, which were ground into powder after drying, and asked the family to help.

I also heard that Zheng Chen was collecting green fruits, and he didn't go back to report to the shopkeeper Lu until the evening.

"In other words, green fruit is one of the raw materials, no, it should be the main raw material, there should be no mistake." The shopkeeper Lu has determined that green fruits are the main raw materials for making soap.

The next day, Zheng Xu delivered the goods by himself, and the shopkeeper Lu saw that he was a little out of energy, but there were more than a thousand pieces of soap, but these soaps were several percent better than before.

Thinking of yesterday's report by his henchmen, there are several yards in Zhengjia Village that are drying green fruits, and Zheng Chen personally roasted the green fruits and dug out the heart, that is to say, it was used as a whole before, in order to be able to roast and dry as soon as possible, cut it and dig out the heart.

So these soaps sent today will be so good because they are made of green fruit flesh, so they will be so good.

Let the henchman go to inquire about the news again, and when he came back in the afternoon, his henchman told him that now the hundreds of people in the entire Zhengjia Village, except for the elderly who can't move and the children under the age of three who stay at home, the rest of the people have gone into the mountains to harvest green fruits, and the price of green fruits has risen to five cents a catty.

Confirm his conjecture that the shopkeeper Lu reported to the owner, and suggested that the owner buy a large number of green fruits, and those green fruits will be out of date in another month, and they will not have until this time next year, otherwise there will be no main raw materials even if they get the secret recipe at that time.

Out of trust in the Lu shopkeeper, the head of the Lu family agreed to buy green fruits.

The next day, when the shopkeeper Lu sent people to collect the green fruits, the people from several surrounding villages had already gone to the mountains to pick the green fruits, and they also received more than 2,000 catties at the price of five cents, while Zheng Chen received more than 10,000 catties, and it is said that Zheng Chen rose to ten cents a catty, and also subsidized the freight.

The green fruits on the nearby mountains have almost been harvested, and the shopkeeper Lu can only ask people to go to the next town to buy them at a price of five yuan, and buy them at a price of eleven yuan in this town to subsidize the freight.