One evening a few days later, Zhou Huiqin came again.

She came to tell Chen Xiao the news about rubber.

According to what she learned from Gao Can, the rubber is produced in Jinghe County, which is called tree milk by the locals. This thing has a waterproof effect, and they use tree milk to smear straw hats and shoes, which can be waterproof on rainy days. In particular, shoes are smeared with tree milk, so you won't get your feet wet when walking in the rain.

Gao Chan and the others plan to make this kind of shoe, but there is a problem with this shoe, the coating will break after wearing it for a long time, and they will have to recoat it. As a result, the shoes cannot be sold to other places, and can only be painted and worn locally.

As for the toy balls, they found that the milk was elastic after coagulation, and it was just for children to play with.

Chen Xiao understood that they wanted to develop "rain boots", but they had not yet solved the technical problems.

She was relieved to know that the progress was going on, even if they developed rain boots, it would not conflict with what she was going to do.

Just, how many rubber trees are there? Zhou Huiqin didn't ask this, she didn't think of this question. However, she thinks that there should be a lot of them. Because Gao Can originally planned to sell it, they were doing bulk trading, and the amount of tree milk was enough for them to make shoes in large quantities.

In the end, Zhou Huiqin asked Chen Xiao: If she wants to do any business, please bring a small stone as a helper, and she will try her best to help.

Zhou Huiqin is not stupid, after asking Gao Can, she feels that Chen Xiao seems to want to do a tree milk business. I don't know what to do, but Aunt Shen told her that these two people may have some origins.

Aunt Shen saw Fang Yu and Chen Xiao for the first time, although the two were dressed as mountain people, one was wearing a gold bracelet, and the other was thin skin and tender meat. As soon as he made a move, he took out six hundred taels of Xiling official silver tickets. Aunt Shen felt that the two of them seemed to have "eloped", maybe there was some rich family background behind them.

To be honest, Fang Yu and Chen Xiao, two handsome men and beautiful women, are indeed very eye-catching.

Others see them as a couple, even if women appreciate Fang Yu's handsomeness and men like Chen Xiao's cuteness, for most people, they just watch and appreciate from a distance, and they won't do anything.

Including the young shopkeeper of Ruyi Building, although he was attracted by Chen Xiao's appearance, the more businessmen he was, the more he had to pay attention to proportion. This is the country of South Vietnam, not Xiling. Even in Xiling, he will not do things that are ingenious and robbed.

Red Garden.

Gao Can and Boss Lu drank tea, and Gao Xiang sat aside.

Gao Can said: "Boss Lu, we are just doing things for Lord Liu. To put it bluntly, this business is not our Sheng'an. Don't say five or five points, even four or six points, Lord Liu will not agree. He's not the only one there. ”

Boss Lu pondered for a while and said, "Sanqi, this is the bottom line. ”

Gao Can smiled: "Boss Lu, what do you think, Sancheng?" Is it possible? We've only got 10 percent. ”

"And how much do you say?"

"Master Liu also likes that the Red Garden is a ready-made garden, and if it takes time, we can also build a new garden.

"You can't get a wrestling cockfight! Ding County Ling knows what Lord Liu means, will he let you open it? ”

After Gao Can finished speaking, he shook his head with a chuckle, picked up the teacup and took a sip.

Before Gao Xiang talked with Boss Lu about buying Hongyuan, it was actually for this matter. Lord Liu wanted to engage in some private business to open a green building, but it was inconvenient for him to come forward and let Gao Can do it for him. Gao Can didn't have time outside, so let Gao Xiang go to investigate first.

Boss Lu sighed: "I understand! You say directly, how much? ”

"Ishei."

"Impossible, too little." Boss Lu shook his head. Even if the garden earns 10,000 taels a year in the future, he can only get 12,000 taels of silver.

"Boss Lu, the person was found by Lord Liu, we did the thing, and Lord Ding will take care of any problems. What else do you have but a garden?

"There is no such big garden as Red Garden in the county. But there are also smaller, delicate gardens. Big deal, I persuaded Lord Liu to change places. But I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to manage this garden in the future. ”

This business is not the cooperation between Sheng'an and Lord Liu, but the cooperation between Gao Can and Lord Liu. The Sheng'an is a business under the exclusive management of the imperial court, and neither the court officials nor the Gao Can shopkeeper dare to intervene easily. If it is discovered, it will be a "death" word, and it will be copied all over the house.

However, they can personally participate in things that require some connections but are not so important, even if they are discovered. What's more, Gao Can has already thought about it and wants to report to the owner. The proprietor doesn't care about a small business like a green house. At the beginning, Sheng'an opened Ruyi Lou so that they could eat hometown food in a foreign country, in other words, the owner didn't care how much money Ruyi Lou could make.

"Boss Lu," Gao Xiang said, "I suggest you sell the garden!" ”

He had offered a price of 30,000 taels of silver before.

"Huh!" Gao Can waved his hand to stop his nephew: "Don't persuade people to sell their property." ”

He turned his head to Boss Lu and said, "We don't buy Hongyuan, we only talk about cooperation." ”

Boss Lu is in trouble now. Either promise them a percentage, or run it yourself. He also knows the consequences of offending Lord Liu and Ding County, and I am afraid it will be difficult to continue operating in the future.

Gao Can said: "You think about it and give me an answer within two days." Lord Liu was in a hurry. ”

Lord Liu really urged him. The imperial court investigated and punished a number of criminal officials, and many female dependents wanted to be demoted to slave prostitutes, which was a good opportunity.

Boss Lu gritted his teeth: "I'll promise you now." One achievement, one success. ”

They don't buy the Red Garden, who can he sell it to? It is also difficult to run it on your own.

After that, the two sides negotiated to clean up the red garden and start the transformation, which was completed before the end of the month, and the slave prostitutes would arrive immediately.

……

Chun Kee Snack House.

At the beginning, Chen Xiao set a goal of selling 80 bowls a day to save his capital. Now, at least 180 bowls are sold a day.

On the last day of May, business closes and four people settle the bill.

For the whole month of May, the operating income was actually two hundred and ninety-seven taels of silver. Excluding costs, the net profit was 118 taels.

Chen Xiao added a fraction, Chunhong and a small stone, each of them got twelve taels.

Little Stone took the silver and thought for a moment and said:

"Sister, this month's salary is a lot, but I'm tired enough. Can you hire two more? ”

"I've thought about increasing the number of people, but I don't have a place to live."

Chen Xiaozao looked at Cao Yong and Erlong, who called for help from Xiaoshi, and they knew everything in the store, and they did a good job. It's just that their family lives in Caojia Village, which is fourteen miles away from the county seat, and it is okay to come once in the morning and evening on every market day, but it is unrealistic to run every day.

Fang Yu leaned over to Chen Xiao and said, "The two of us live together, can't we make room for us?" ”

Chen Xiao gave him a big look.

"I mean, let's get married!" Fang Yu's eyes burned.

"You want to eat!"

Fang Yu touched Chen Xiao's buttocks.

"If you must give, I will take it."

Chen Xiao was speechless.