Chapter 196: Earned one thousand taels in one day

These people stated their requirements one by one, but none of them wanted as much as the first person. Obviously, they didn't dare to be overconfident. Even though her family's soap reputation had spread to several towns, they didn't dare to take out all their family assets to stock goods, so they stocked a small batch first to test the waters.

After Jiang Xiaoxiao finished recording, she blew on the dry Xuan paper and said: "The amount you want is large, and my family's soap workshop will need some days to make it all. How about you come to pick it up in three days?"

The amount of soap these people wanted was nearly three thousand pieces, and her family's soap workshop could produce at most five hundred pieces a day. Adding the previous inventory, it would take at least three days to provide the amount they needed.

"Naturally, that is fine." The few people nodded repeatedly.

In their view, the Jiang family's willingness to sell them soap was already very generous.

Although the cheapest unscented soap cost three hundred wen, they transported it to other places to sell, and how much they wanted to sell it for was up to them.

Soap that was better to use than bath beans, who wouldn't want it?

Even if they sold it for double the price, there would be people scrambling to buy it.

"Little Lady Jiang, this is the deposit." The merchant from Qingping County took out a silver note of one hundred taels.

Jiang Xiaoxiao, seeing this, couldn't help but look at him with high regard.

This person's surname was Bai, and he didn't seem to be a local of Qingping County. He had previously done bath bean business in the county city, but later the business lost money, and he had to come to Qingping County to seek another place.

The one thousand pieces of soap he wanted were worth a total of more than three hundred and eighty taels of silver, but he took out nearly one-third of the deposit.

It seems that this person valued this business very much.

Jiang Wei took the silver note, and there was more of a smile on her face: "The amount of one thousand pieces is not small. In three days, please be sure to drive a horse carriage to transport the goods."

The man nodded repeatedly: "Thank you, Little Lady Jiang, for the reminder."

The rest of the people, seeing this, also took out their deposits one after another.

Although it was not as much as Mr. Bai gave, it still gave this wholesale business a bit of contractual spirit.

After sending the few people away, Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't wait to estimate according to the Xuan paper. The amount ordered by these people was worth nearly one thousand taels of silver!

She couldn't help but feel a burst of excitement in her heart.

One thousand taels of silver!

Earning so much money in one day, if it were sold in her family's soap shop, it would probably take more than half a month.

Ah, so much money, how to spend it...

"Alright." Jiang Wei tapped her head lightly with her finger. "Don't be excited, go and see how the goat milk and petals prepared in the backyard are. I'll go to the soap workshop to check the inventory."

"Alright!" Jiang Xiaoxiao responded and hurried to the backyard.

She knew what her mother meant.

The raw materials needed for the soap workshop, besides plant ash and lard, are goat milk and petals.

Goat milk is provided by their family's milk goats, so there is no need to worry at all, but these petals are not. The flower season is only a few months. When winter comes, the flowers wither, and there is no place to pick them. We must take advantage of these few days to hoard more petals.

Her mother sprinkled some flower seeds on the courtyard wall a few days ago. It is now late autumn, and the flowers will not bloom until next spring at the earliest.

Jiang Wei went to the soap workshop, and Jiang Xiaoxiao was busy in her backyard.

The merchants who came to talk about the wholesale business this time undoubtedly gave the mother and daughter greater motivation.

At the same time.

Li family.

In the dilapidated courtyard, the Li family sat around the table, looking at the table full of miscellaneous grain paste, unable to swallow.

Yun Ying sat beside Li Shoude, with a sallow complexion. This paste was black, mixed with rotten wild vegetables, without salt or oil, and she couldn't eat it at all.

"I say, Mother, didn't our family's grain just get harvested not long ago? Why have we fallen to drinking this paste every day?" Zhu Shi complained with a pout.

She stirred it twice with chopsticks, and the paste was as thin as water, not even as good as what she ate before.

Li Family Old Woman, upon hearing this, was so angry that she slammed her chopsticks on the table: "If you like to eat, eat it; if you don't like to eat, get out!"

Zhu Shi immediately didn't dare to make a sound, only daring to lower her head and complain in a low voice in her heart.

Originally thought that this matter had passed, but unexpectedly, Li Shoucai, who had always been indifferent, suddenly spoke.

"Mother, my wife is right. The autumn harvest hasn't passed long ago. Even families with poor harvests will reward their families at this time and eat a few dry meals. Our family has more than thirty mu of land. Even if the harvest is poor, it shouldn't be that we can't even afford a dry meal."

Zhu Shi suddenly raised her eyes and looked at her man with bright eyes.

This was the first time Li Shoucai spoke for her!

But obviously, Li Shoucai said this not for her.

"Second son..." Li Family Old Man spoke. "You know, your eldest brother is going to study in the state, to win fame for our family. This tuition fee is not small. Our family has no choice but to sell the grain..."

Before he finished speaking, Li Shoucai coldly interrupted: "For our family? Father, it's not that I'm talking about you. In these years, to win this fame, how much money has our family spent? But in the end, what benefits have we gained?"

After speaking, he looked deeply at Yun Ying beside Li Shoude.

He worked hard to farm at home, but what about Li Shoude? He took the family's money to be free and happy outside, and even had spare money to visit brothels, and even redeem prostitutes.

He, Li Shoucai, had never even entered a brothel in his life. Why!

Just because the eldest brother is the eldest son of the family, he enjoys the best resources of the family, while he, Li Shoucai, has to work hard to serve him for a lifetime?

The more Li Shoucai thought about it, the deeper the resentment in his heart, and his voice became colder and harder: "Father, these more than ten mu of land in the family are all farmed by me alone. Why should the grain I worked so hard to grow be sold to raise money for the eldest brother to study? And what about me? After working for a year, I can't even afford a dry meal? Why? Father, you are too partial!"

"I can't live this life anymore. If you sacrifice me for the eldest brother, then I have to leave!" After speaking, he slammed his chopsticks and got up and walked out.

Li Family Old Man looked at Li Shoucai who left angrily, opened his mouth, wanted to call him, but in the end, he could only close his mouth helplessly.

How could he not know the resentment of the second son?

But his lifelong dream is that there can be a scholar in the family.

The eldest son finally passed the scholar exam, so how can he not exhaust all the family's resources to support him?

The second son is indeed right, he is partial.

His heart has always been partial to the eldest son.

Even when he was raising money for the eldest son to study at the town academy, he pushed the third son to do corvée without hesitation.

Just because corvée has a compensation fee of five taels of silver.

Therefore, he does not regret doing all this at all.

At this moment, Li Shoucai did not know what Li Family Old Man was thinking, nor did he know that the other party had no regrets in his heart.

He walked angrily to the village, and when he looked up, he saw several horse carriages driving out from the direction of the Jiang family.