Little wealth

"You said someone went to sell oil in Lucheng today?"

"That's right, before you got up at the meeting, master, I decided to give them two hundred catties of oil. The few of them only made up five hundred cash, and they still owed the rest of the oil money. here."

The oil shop opened too early in the morning, and when Josh and the children got up in the morning, the oil at the oil shop was basically sold out, and all the oil sellers left.

Seeing the ledger sent by Ah Qiu, and hearing that he had sold out all the stocks in the oil shop today, Josh was still a little surprised, but knowing that he took two hundred catties of oil to Lucheng, it's no wonder up.Seeing the name on the list, "Liu Changhong?" He was not very impressed with the name, maybe someone had seen it before, but he didn't know the name.

"Mum, do you know who Liu Changhong is?" Josh turned to ask him, Mu.

Zhao Amu knew more about the people and things in the village, so she replied: "I know, boy Changhong, he is the third boy of your old uncle Quan's family. That boy often runs outside, usually in the town. You may not have seen it much. You have seen the other two boys from your old uncle Quan’s house. Before that, they followed his father to help us build a house, and they often followed your old Quan. Beside Uncle, the two brothers are short and strong, the two who look a bit like your old Uncle Quan."

"Oh, Eminem, I'm a little impressed by what you said." Josh still had a good impression of Liu Laoquan and his two sons who helped build the house at their house some time ago.But as for the men who went to work on the docks in the town, he did remember a few, but he didn't know which one was Liu Changhong.

But when he knew that Liu Changhong was Liu Laoquan's son, he was not worried that Liu Changhong would rely on their family.

Because of the fact that Liu Changhong dared to take the lead to go to Lucheng, he felt that this person was a little courageous and dared to venture into it. They needed such a person now, and it would be great if they could find a suitable man.

"I'm just looking for someone to go to Lucheng. If this Liu Changhong is capable, I can consider letting him take charge of Lucheng's orders in the future." Originally, Qiao Xu planned to go to Lucheng by himself. I took a look at it, but because of the child in his stomach, it was not convenient for him to travel too far.Right now, he can only wait for the little boy in his stomach to come out next year, and it will be more convenient for him to do what he wants to do.

Zhao Amu didn't understand these things, so she said: "You can figure it out. If the person is suitable, Bufan can use it first. Liu Laoquan and his family are still good in our village. With you Old Uncle Quan is here, and the boys below dare not mess around."

"Well, I'll take a look at this when the time comes, don't worry about it." Josh didn't make a decision so quickly, he still has to wait for someone to come back to see if he is a person who can do business and know how to do business, and wait for him to meet in person People make decisions later.

Just at this time, someone shouted from outside, it was people from the village who brought lotus roots.

"I'm here, are you here to send lotus root?" Hearing the voice outside, Zhao Amu stretched out her head and looked out, and in response, she got up and walked out.As soon as Ah Nian, who was playing at the back, saw Ah Mo go out, she threw away the little toy in her hand, and ran away with her two short legs.

After walking a few steps, Zhao Amu found that the little grandson came out with him, and reached out to hold the little grandson's hand, and the grandson and grandson went out together.

"You keep this." Josh looked at his son who ran away, gave the ledger to Aqiu to keep it, and got up, and said to Aqiu as he walked out: "When Liu Changhong and the others come back, let him Come to my place, I have something I want to talk to a few of them."

"Okay." Ah Qiu took the ledger and followed behind their master.

The people who planted lotus roots in the village outside sent several loads of lotus roots. They were all lotus roots that had just been pulled out from the ground. Some of them were longer than an adult's arm, and some of them were short because they had been pulled out. , is also very thick, a large chunk of fat.

Both feet of the father and son who brought the lotus root were still covered with mud, and both trouser legs were wet. It seemed that they had just plucked the lotus root from the ground, and sent the lotus root to their home before they could go home in time to change their clothes. .

The lotus roots of the four major burdens have been weighed, and there are more than 100 and less than two hundred catties.

Knowing that it is not an easy task to pull out lotus root in the mud in the cold weather, so when paying the bill, Qiao Xu asked Aqiu to give them a few extra coins, and made up a round number of 190 coins for them.

After taking the money, the old man didn't leave in a hurry, and asked, "I don't know if there will be more lotus roots tomorrow. We still have some in our field. If you want more, we will pull them out tomorrow morning and bring them to you."

"If you want, you can just send this much tomorrow. If you want more later, I will tell you one day in advance." After Josh told people, he asked them to go back first, and he will deliver lotus roots at about this time tomorrow. Just come and give them that.

After getting an affirmative answer, the father and son went back happily.

The lotus roots delivered were washed and peeled like yesterday, boiled and baked. There were more lotus roots this day than yesterday, and they were not finished drying until the afternoon.

The oil dealers who went out to sell oil this day did not expect that lotus root candy is very easy to sell. Maybe it is because no one has sold this kind of food. Everyone saw that it was fresh, so someone bought some from them and tried it.Those who know how to do business not only sold out the oil and lotus root candy they brought, but also customers ordered several catties of lotus root candy from them.

The men who went out to sell oil in the morning came back to the village one after another in the afternoon. The first time they came back to the village, they didn't go home first, but went to Zhao's Oil Factory first, ordered the oil they wanted tomorrow, and returned to the village. Someone ordered a few catties of lotus root candy.

In the afternoon, Ah Qiu was busy again, registering the oil and lotus root candy that these people wanted tomorrow, as well as some accounts that needed to be registered one by one, and kept the account books for their master to see at any time.He does these things every day, and he has already done them with ease.

He didn't finish his day's work until he saw off the last person who came to order oil.

However, he still remembered that those men who had borrowed two hundred catties of oil from him had gone to Lucheng and hadn't returned yet.

Those few people probably took the oil and ran away and never came back, right?

Going to bed at night, Aqiu was still thinking about this matter when he was lying on the bed, but he soon couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell asleep.

***

The few people who went to Lucheng didn't return to the village until noon the next day. When they came back, they all had smiles on their faces, and they knew that they had made a lot of money by going out.

As soon as he came back, Liu Changhong took a few brothers to the Zhaojia Youfang to settle the accounts they owed, and the four of them could get at least one hundred cash for each of them, so they used it A day and a half less than two days.

You must know that it will take half a day for them to go back and forth, and they only have less than half a day to sell oil, but even so, the brothers made a trip to Lucheng and asked them to take two Hundred catties of oil are sold out!In addition to the travel expenses spent on the way back and forth, as well as the money for staying in Lucheng for one night and eating for several people, in the end each of them had no less than [-] Wen in their hands.

In the past, they went to the pier in the town to carry goods, and they could only earn thirty to fifty yuan a day at most, and it was hard work, and they had to carry goods on and off the ship, but this time they went to sell oil. , except for a little bit of walking back and forth on the road, this section of the road is still what they usually walk every day. When they arrive at the pier, they take a boat to Lucheng. Less money to carry goods!It was worth the trip back and forth.

"It's not bad, it's all sold out? Thank you for your hard work." Aqiu saw a few people went to Lucheng and came back after selling [-] catties of oil.

"It's not hard, it's not hard." Liu Changhong took the money he got, and he was already planning to go to Lucheng again tomorrow morning. Knowing that Aqiu is the steward of the oil factory here, he said to Aqiu: "Aqiu is in charge, we I want to go to Lucheng again tomorrow, and then I will need two or three hundred catties of oil, do you think we can give half of the credit and half of the account?"

They take more than a hundred catties of oil, and the cost of a catty of oil is ten Wen, and the cost of two or three hundred catties of oil is two or three taels of silver.But besides the money they got last time, they had the gas money they earned today, and this little money was almost their entire net worth.

It’s not impossible to make up the two taels of gas money when you go home, but if you can sell the oil and then come back to pay the bill, it will definitely be more convenient than going back to collect money, and it’s not like they don’t give money, Just thinking about giving it later.This is almost a no-cost business. As long as they can sell the oil, they can make money. There is no better business than this.

"There's no rush in advance. Our master said he wanted to meet you. You can tell our master directly later. Wait here. I'll go see if it's convenient for the master." Aqiu didn't agree immediately, and asked several People wait here, then go back and tell their master the news of their return.

Seeing Ah Qiu go, Liu Laosan could only stand outside and wait, one of them asked their boss in a low voice, "Third brother, what do you think Mr. Zhao wants to see us?"

"It shouldn't be a bad thing." Liu Changhong had some guesses in his heart, but he was still not sure, and he would not know until he met him.

After a while, Ah Qiu came out, saying that he wanted them to go in.

"Let's go." It happened that Liu Changhong also wanted to know why Mr. Zhao was looking for them, so they followed Aqiu into the Zhao family compound.