"After today's incident, I am afraid that the little junior brother will be able to become famous in these major academies." Yan Fu said.

"But I'm afraid that Zhang Zijian and them will secretly hold a grudge and take revenge on the little junior brother when the time comes, but how can they be born." Yan Jingwen said.

Yan Fu listened and replied nonchalantly: "Then I am even more afraid, in this Yangzhou City, if they really dare to be presumptuous, my Yan family is not easy to bully, not to mention that there is a master above, if they really want to bully others, who is unlucky." However, the little junior brother still pays attention, they probably won't use selfish means, they still have this bit of style, but if you meet it in the poetry club and literary club in the future, they will definitely have to make it difficult for you in every way, just pay attention to yourself. ”

Li Hao listened to it and said with a smile: "Then it's fine, if it's a poem, it's just a local chicken, and it's not worth mentioning." ”

These words made Yan Fu look up to the sky and laugh, and said: "The little junior brother is arrogant and angry with me. Yan Jingwen next to him listened to the words of the two and shook his head silently.

Then Li Hao asked: "By the way, senior brother, aren't you playing polo, why did you come here." ”

Yan Fu said: "Isn't it the beginning that those people in our academy couldn't think of it, so someone went to the front court to find me, let me take a look, but as soon as I arrived, I saw that the little junior brother was in the limelight." ”

Then they chatted for a while, because Li Hao's legs were still difficult to move, so he didn't go back to the front court, and went back to the academy in a carriage.

After the polo field dispersed, this matter spread among several major academies, and the final result was that Li Hao's reputation in Qingtan Academy gradually improved, and there were always college classmates who came to talk about it, which made Li Hao's life richer.

In the end, even Master Qin heard about it, and warned Li Hao in class: "I have heard the two poems you wrote on the polo field, and they are indeed neatly written. However, you have to guard against arrogance and rashness, and study hard to get results. Moreover, in the imperial examination, poetry is not the main thing after all, and the essence of the article is the fundamental, understand. ”

"Yes, teacher, I will definitely study hard." Li Hao said.

After listening to Master Qin's follow-up, he continued to assign homework to the three of them, and left. Li Hao thought that Master Qin didn't like to be in the limelight, but later he heard from the senior brother that in the next few days, Master deliberately invited the mountain chief and other teachers to drink and eat every day, and he was able to drink more meat than usual, so he realized that he was still proud, but he didn't talk to the students.

After this incident, Li Hao's follow-up life became orderly again. The academy studied and practiced calligraphy, and occasionally went to a polo club with two senior brothers. However, when the township test was slowly approaching, Yan Fu also began to study in retreat at the request of Master Qin, and then Li Hao never went to the polo club again.

However, Li Hao's side slowly stabilized, but Li Jian and Wei's side encountered a difficult matter. It turned out that as the soap was getting better and better, in order to keep up with the output, Wei's side went to Yaxing to buy people, and then built a new house behind his house.

Originally, no one paid attention to the Li family's business, but later the movement became big, which aroused the curiosity of the villagers.

As a result, people who are closer to the village have come to ask if they can also get involved in helping to sell soap and make some money. Wei discussed with Li Jianyi, and was also willing to let the villagers participate and earn some money. But the specific rules still need to be discussed, so let people go back first, saying that the husband and wife will discuss it first, and then tell how to cooperate.

At this time, Li Jian actually didn't have any ideas, so he wanted to say that he would go to Li Hao one day to see what he thought. But Wei didn't want to bother Li Hao about this matter, so he said: "Since you are a person in the village, you should help each other. My idea is that the uniform price is still 20 yuan, and then let them go to the city to sell the goods, and we don't care how they sell it, anyway, if they don't sell a piece, we will give them two yuan. Now the two of us can sell a few hundred dollars a day, and the more they are, the more they can sell, so that they can make money, and we can make more money, isn't it great? ”

When Li Jian heard this, he felt that it made sense, so he agreed. So the next day, Li Jian invited Li Zheng to do the guarantee and demarcate the contract. However, there were eleven families added this time, and each family first took 200 pieces of soap to sell, and then let them negotiate the division of places to sell their own food.

In this way, the sales suddenly increased greatly, because of the abundant manpower and the ability to make money, the enthusiasm of each family to make money increased dramatically, so the soap market suddenly hit Yangzhou City, and many people went to the nearby market town to sell.

Later, basically everyone's pick-up volume was increasing, which made Wei and Li Jian very happy.

But just like that, it didn't take long. Two families sent people to the gate of the Li family, which put Li Jian and Wei in a difficult choice. It turned out that the soap was selling well, and in the eyes of the Cheng family and the An family, it was the two big families in the village.

In fact, at the beginning, the two families also knew about the soap business, but at the beginning, because Li Jian and Wei's only sold it themselves, after all, the audience was limited, and the sales volume was not very large, so the two families didn't care too much, but later with the increase in the number of sales, it expanded to the surrounding towns, and the two families sent people to visit the village to inquire, and then they each calculated, probably able to estimate how big a business this is, and now the Li family has no less than 50 taels of silver every day, and it is nearly 20,000 taels of silver in a year. And this is just Yangzhou, if they take over and sell it in various places, the income is not small.

So I wanted to intervene in it, but it was Zhang Hu who came from the Cheng family, and the tone of his voice was good, but he only said that the family wanted to invite the two to meet and communicate whether they could cooperate. But the An family came to be very polite, and directly said that they wanted to buy the soap formula, let the two think about it and quote a price, and said that they would come back to negotiate in a few days.

Li Jian and Wei's are naturally unwilling to sell the formula, but the An family is big after all, and there are people in the big house who are officials, and Jinshi is now serving as the governor of Hongzhou on Jiangnan West Road.

Therefore, compared with the An family, Li Jian and Wei thought that the Cheng family might be better, and there was no way, so just two days later, they asked Li Jian to go to the Cheng Mansion to meet Cheng Shi to see how the Cheng family wanted to cooperate.

To Decheng Mansion, Zhang Hu greeted all the way into the lobby, only to see the front door, into the hall, then see both sides of the hand verandah, among them is through the hall, in the middle there is also a red sandalwood shelf marble large interstitial, turn the interpolation, small three halls, behind the hall is the main house courtyard, the front of the six upper rooms, all carved beams and painted buildings, on both sides through the mountain verandah wing room, hanging all kinds of parrots, thrushes and other birds.

The scenery along the way shows the wealth of the Cheng family, but at this time, Li Jian has no heart to take a closer look at these.

After entering the main hall, Zhang Hu asked Li Jian to sit down on the side, and then went to find Cheng Shi to come out. When Cheng Shi came out of the inner courtyard, he saw that this old man Cheng looked rich, with the calmness and indifference between his eyebrows that had been precipitated by years of wind and rain, and he was wearing a blue wide-sleeved cardigan, which looked quite majestic.

After Cheng Shi came in, he didn't directly mention the matter of soap, but first talked to Li Jian about trivial matters in the village, and also asked about Li Hao's current study in the academy.

Li Jianhou had no choice but to answer them one by one, but when he talked about Li Hao, he was full of energy, and he was quite proud in his words.

Cheng Shi also praised the young man's own demeanor after listening to it, but after chatting for a while, he didn't get to the point, but Li Jian was anxious, and he really wanted to know how the Cheng family planned.

Li Jian asked directly: "Master Cheng, I don't know how you want to cooperate with us last time when you sent someone to cooperate with us on soap matters." ”

Cheng Shi saw Li Jian say this, and understood that the Li family still didn't have much confidence after all, it seemed that Li Hao's Jinshi teacher had no intention of coming forward to help, so he could talk about this business.