"Sugar?"

Mu Ping, his wife and a pair of children, looked at a few bowls of white sugar and a few wooden boxes on the table, their eyes were puzzled.

This is what the people of the house went to buy and give them a taste.

"Can you eat this thing?" Mu Ping's face was full of disbelief.

Mu Qinxue hurriedly scooped up a spoonful of sugar, put it in her mouth and tasted it, her beautiful eyes lit up.

"Dad, mother, it's really sweet, and the taste is far better than stone honey, and it's not as sticky as caramel candy!"

The servant explained: "Miss, Boss Liang said that this white sugar can only be tasted in a small bite, and if you eat too much, you will get tired." ”

"Then he bought sugar cane just to make this kind of thing that can only be tasted in a bite??" Mu Ping frowned.

The servant hurriedly pointed to the wooden box on the table and said, "No, master! According to him, it can be used to make pastries and the like. In this box is a pastry made of sugar that Boss Liang gave him. ”

Mu Ping opened the wooden box in confusion and found ten pure white pastries inside.

Mu Qinxue picked up the pastry and took a bite, and said in surprise: "Dad, it's really delicious......

Mu Ping and his wife glanced at each other, and then looked at Mu Lingxiao, who was also full of disbelief, and the three of them each picked up a piece to taste, and their eyes lit up at the same time.

"It's really much better than the usual pastry, and there is no such miscellaneous texture!"

A family that is accustomed to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas is extremely picky about food, but is still conquered by Liang Xiao's pastries.

At the bazaar, Jiang Fuxue stayed by Liang Xiao's side, looking distressed.

It's been a long time, and Liang Xiao has only sold less than twenty catties of sugar, but he is still calm.

"Brother doesn't want me to worry, maybe he's already dying......"

Jiang Fuxue looked at Liang Xiao, who was smiling freely with the customers, and muttered to herself in her heart.

"It seems that my brother is not a businessman, so let's arrest him back to Bashu~"

Liang Xiao didn't notice Jiang Fuxue's "concerning" gaze behind him, but calmly answered the customers' inquiries, and occasionally took a sip of water from the kettle.

In order to stop worrying Cher, he has not drunk a drop of alcohol for several days.

At this moment, there was a shout in the distance: "Boss Liang! ”

Liang Xiao fixed his eyes and saw that it was the servant of the Dingguo Marquis Mansion who had been ordered to buy a few jars of sugar just now.

"Boss Liang, two hundred wen per catty, these white sugar and icing on the scene, how much is counted, we want all of them in the Dingguo Mansion!"

The servant's excited voice alarmed the surrounding customers, and everyone flocked to inquire about the situation.

"Two hundred wen, you want them all?" Even Liang Xiao was a little surprised.

"It's all about it, don't explain much! The shopkeeper is coming soon! The servant said urgently.

"I have a full five hundred catties here, that's one hundred taels." Liang Xiao reminded.

"All of them!" The servant's categorical response made everyone around look at each other.

Jiang Fuxue's tense heartstrings were finally loosened, and she cried with joy.

"Finally, I don't have to arrest my brother to go to Bashu......"

Five hundred catties can be sold for one hundred taels!

You know, these 500 catties of sugar only consumed 2,500 catties of sugarcane.

The clever Jiang Fuxue is good at mental arithmetic, and estimates that 50,000 catties of sugarcane can probably make 10,000 catties of sugar, and then it can be sold...... Two thousand taels?

The shopkeeper specially purchased by the Dingguo Marquis Mansion came, checked the sugar on the spot, weighed, and paid, all in one go.

People looked at the distant carriage convoy of the Dingguo Marquis Mansion with a bewildered expression, at a loss.

The Dingguo Marquis Mansion is a huge wealth in the capital, and it rarely does loss-making business.

"What? Liang Xiao's 500 catties of white sugar were sold for 100 taels?? ”

When Bai He received the news, he looked at the sugar jar on the table and frowned.

He tasted it, it was sweet, it tasted good, but that's about it.

What can this white sugar do?

Bai He was puzzled, and then sneered: "Then he only earned a hundred taels, counting the wages of the workers, and those sugarcane and utensils, the cost is estimated to be a thousand taels, right?" If he can't come up with the money to fulfill the contract at that time, he will mortgage his ancestral house and the little girl next to him to my Bai family, tsk......tsk"

The workers who followed Liang Xiao to the market watched their boss earn a hundred taels, and everyone had a cheerful smile on their faces.

Even if it was just for themselves, they hoped that the boss who had taken them in would make a lot of money, so that the boss could continue to take them in instead of driving them back to the camp.

Five hundred catties of sugar were transported to the Dingguo Marquis' Mansion, and Mu Ping immediately arranged for the chef in the mansion to try out various pastries and make them all night.

Only Mu Qinxue and Duan Yunsleeve stayed in the boudoir, waiting for news.

Yahuan soon came back to report: "Miss, the shopkeeper asked Liang Xiao privately, and he said that there are still goods!" ”

After Yahuan left, Mu Qinxue and Duan Yunsleeve couldn't help but high-five each other.

"He didn't lie to me, five catties of sugarcane can produce a catty of sugar at most, and at least a catty of two taels!" Duan Yunsleeve was excited,

This means that if the price of white sugar has always been at this price, Liang Xiao can make a profit from 50,000 catties of sugarcane products.

And those appliances can be reused, saving hundreds of taels of cost......

"Five hundred catties of sugar, placed in the capital with a population of one million, is no different from a drop in the ocean!" Mu Qinxue said with a proud face, "He is worthy of being a mother's man!" ”

Duan Yunsleeve said aggrievedly: "Sister Qin Xue, that guy bullied others yesterday......"

After listening to Duan Yunsleeve's narration, Mu Qinxue comforted: "Don't worry, when my sister cheats him, the leather whip and red candle will come with you, let's train him well!" ”

"Hmm~" Duan Yunsleeve smiled contentedly.

In the workshop, someone who was supervising the workers' sugar production shivered inexplicably.

At night, Duan Yunsleeve returned to the imperial study with the special pastries made by the Marquis of Dingguo Mansion and handed them to the empress who had been waiting for a long time to taste.

Duan Yunyi took a bite carefully, his eyes lit up, he looked at the jar of white sugar on the table, and praised: "I didn't expect that this little white sugar can be so polished, it can replace honey, but it is much cheaper than honey." My sister has a hunch that this thing will definitely be promoted to the whole country in the future, and even to Da Chu, so that our Da Zhou can make Da Chu's money. ”

"Sister, he has proven that he can save the country through industry!" Duan Yunsleeve began to be coquettish again, holding Duan Yunyi's arm.

"Okay, it's all up to you! When he is done, you will take him into the palace and cleanse him. ”

"Cleanse? Nope!! ”

Duan Yunsleeve was shocked, looked up at the empress who seemed to be smiling, and said angrily: "Sister is bullying others again!" ”

The empress just let her continue to be coquettish, caressing her sister's green silk, and sighed: "Good sister, I hope Da Zhou can have a good concubine." ”

"What did my sister say!"

"Okay, good, Da Zhou will definitely have a good colt."

"Sister!!"

……

Back home, Liang Xiao took a bath and sat in the yard, enjoying a rare leisure.

After two busy days, he was even more convinced that he needed to find a reliable person to be the shopkeeper and supervisor, and he could neither enrich himself nor abuse the workers.

"Young master, the Dingguo Marquis Mansion sent someone to visit privately."