Chapter 47: Counterattack
After chatting for a while, the soy milk was cooked, Ji Lianshou led a few aunts to order water tofu, Ji Nuan took his mother to make dried tofu, dry tofu was time-consuming and labor-intensive, Ji Nuan told his father that this could not be sold for three cents a catty, how could it be sold for five cents.
"Will it work?" The output of dried tofu and water tofu is about the same, but it is more troublesome, to say that it is okay to say that it is expensive for one penny, but it has risen by two pennies all of a sudden, Ji Ruinian is a little worried, afraid that he will not be able to sell it.
I haven't heard of anyone making dried tofu in Daqi, and the method is really cumbersome, Ji Nuan feels that asking for five cents a pound is not a sky-high asking price, so let's send some out today to see the reaction.
The water tofu is good first, Ji Ruinian and Ji Lianqiu, who has already gotten up, loaded the tofu in the car, Ji Nuan took two pieces of water tofu for a few cousins, more than a dozen pieces of dried tofu, and the neighbor who came to buy tofu in the morning asked Ji Ruinian what his family was cooking again, and could it be exchanged for soybeans?
"Ladies and sisters, this is called dried tofu because it is too hard to make, and there is no high yield of water tofu, so it is more expensive, and it is okay to exchange new soybeans, but you have to take two pennies for processing fees." Ji Nuan taught the seventh brother what to say, and asked him to tell those who came to exchange for tofu that when they heard that they still had to take money, some people retreated, and only the village chief's daughter-in-law changed half a catty and wanted to take it home to make snacks for his wife.
Gu Shuzhen secretly stuffed the money back into the hands of the village chief's daughter-in-law, if it weren't for the village chief to uphold justice and help divide the family, they are still living a miserable life in the old house.
When the ox cart was leaving, Ji Nuan fed the old cow some water: "You have to behave well, we saved your life and the child's life, don't run around on the way, don't break the tofu, do a good job and I'll feed you water when I come back at night." ”
Lao Niu "moo" a few times, as if in response to Ji Nuan, Ji Lianduo asked his sister what he said to Lao Niu, it seems that they are chatting very happily.
"I won't tell you!" Ji Nuan stuck out his tongue at Seventh Brother and ran away.
Today, my father followed, Ji Lianxi wanted to accompany his sister to Cuiping Village on vacation, Gu Shuzhen was not at ease, Lianxi was too young, and he didn't have a long life, and he didn't feel comfortable handing over his daughter to him.
In the end, Gu Shuzhen decided to let Ji Lianshou and Ji Lianxi accompany their sister to Cuiping Village, Ji Nuan was too sleepy and wanted to sleep before setting off, and the brothers and sisters set off after half an hour.
Before he slept for half an hour, Ji Nuan was woken up, and when he opened the door, he saw Liu Xiuhong leading a person with a pimple on his face, nostrils and eyes standing in the courtyard, and after listening to it for a while, Ji Nuan figured out what was going on, it turned out that someone wanted to buy a tofu recipe for five taels of silver, of course Gu Shuzhen refused, so she would not agree to Liu Xiuhong.
"I said sister-in-law, Steward Qin gave me five taels of silver! It's not five dollars, isn't your family short of silver, hurry up and sell the tofu recipe and you'll have money! Liu Xiuhong thought that if she gave five taels of silver, Gu Shuzhen would take out the recipe in a hurry.
The Qin housekeeper who came was a rich man surnamed Zhu in the village of her mother's family, and he was somewhat related to the Liu family, and the master gave him twenty taels of silver to come over to buy a tofu recipe, and he just left the village and gave half of the silver.
When he found Ji Liu's family, he told Ji Liu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law that he could pay ten taels of silver to buy a tofu recipe, and if they could take the tofu recipe with one or two taels of silver, the remaining nine taels would go to the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
In Ji Liu's and Liu Xiuhong's opinion, it was already a lot to give Ji Ruinian five taels of silver to buy their tofu recipe, and they should hand over the tofu recipe happily, but they didn't expect Gu Shuzhen to be so stubborn and refused to sell anything.
"Our family depends on this tofu recipe to make a living, I really can't sell it, not only do I not agree, but your eldest brother will not agree." What Gu Shuzhen said was already very clear, and turning around to clean the yard already had the meaning of chasing customers.
The Qin housekeeper rolled his triangular eyes: "That's it, I'll add three taels of silver to you, our Zhu family is very famous in this ten miles and eight villages." You go to Jinquan County to inquire, there are very few people who don't know our Master Zhu, do you still want to settle down here in the future for a tofu recipe to offend our master, I tell you that it is impossible. Steward Qin's face was already gloomy, why didn't the woman in front of her go in with oil and salt, it seemed that she had to be gracious and powerful, and scare her by the way.
"Master, you let me out, I'll kill these two disgusting guys, ugly people are weird." A sloppy woman with bad breath and bad breath is disgusting enough, and there is another greasy ugly man, and the more Xue'er looks at Steward Qin, the more she looks like a toad.
"I just want to take my family to start a small business and improve my living conditions, why is it so difficult." Ji Nuan sat there with his hands on his cheeks and frowned.
"Don't be afraid if you have space and me, wait for us to save up some more points and exchange them for your stunts, such as acupuncture, poison making, or fighting techniques."
"Is that okay?" With the ability to protect himself, he can move forward fearlessly, and now he feels too aggrieved to be bullied by his relatives and threatened by the head snake, Ji Nuan can't let his mother face the bad guys alone, open the door and go out.
"Nuan Nuan, do you know where the tofu recipe is at home? Take it out, and the third aunt will give you five taels of silver, so you can buy new clothes and meat buns. Liu Xiuhong coaxed.
"Is the third aunt talking about the recipe for making tofu?" Ji Nuan shrunk her shoulders like a frightened little beast, and outsiders would only think she was a timid and weak child when they saw her.
Liu Xiuhong nodded: "It's the recipe for making tofu in your family, and it's good to use it for the third aunt." ”
"Didn't I give it to you yesterday when I didn't have anyone at home? You also said that you would sell it at a good price in the county seat, and sell the money to buy me new clothes and buns. ”
"Don't talk nonsense, when did I take your tofu recipe, I haven't seen it at all."
"Third aunt, why are you like this, you have taken all the things and still don't admit it, oh I know, the third aunt must have sold the tofu recipe, in order not to buy me new clothes, she actually found an uncle to come over and scare us. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been obsessed with taking the tofu recipe to the third aunt, now the tofu recipe is gone, and we are still being targeted, and we all blame the girl for not being good! Ji Nuan hugged her mother's thigh, crying so hard.
Ji Lianxi, who was in the other room, opened the door and ran out: "Mother, I went to see it just now, the tofu recipe is really gone, how can you ...... Ay! Ji Lianxi glanced at his sister when he lowered his head, how about I cooperate.
Today's best assist award is awarded to you, Ji Nuan secretly squeezed his eyes at the fifth brother, and when he turned his head to look at Liu Xiuhong, he was already full of tears, don't be wronged.
"You two little rabbits, don't frame me, how can I know where your tofu recipe is, I haven't even entered your house."
"The third aunt still dares to say that she didn't take the tofu recipe, if you didn't take it, how would you know that the tofu recipe was originally placed in my house."
"Don't talk nonsense, if you dare to lie again, I'll stone you to death."
"That's what you said yesterday when you came to get the recipe, if I dare to tell anyone about it, you'll stone me to death." Ji Nuan seized the loophole in Liu Xiu's red words and continued to fight back.