He held a leaf full of red berries in his tanned hands and handed it to her, smiling with white teeth.
"These are red berries. They are sour and sweet. They are very delicious. You can take them back and eat them."
Xu Yue was a little surprised. Was this a reciprocal of courtesy, returning the tofu pudding she gave him yesterday?
"Thank you." Xu Yue put the books in her hands into the backpack made by Xu Erniang, and reached out to take the red berries.
Yang Wazi looked at her scratching her head and smiling, looking relieved.
Xu Yue looked at him and asked him if there was anything else?
Yang Wazi chuckled and shook his head, Xu Yue thanked him again, turned around and walked towards home.
Unexpectedly, Yangwazi suddenly stopped her again.
Xu Yue seemed to have expected it, and turned around calmly, waiting for him to speak.
Seeing her reaction like this, Yang Wazi remembered what Old Wutou said before.
"The Xu sisters are very smart. If you talk to her, it's best to speak directly. If you hesitate, she will look down on you."
Old Wutou's words were still ringing in his ears. No matter how far away Xu Yue was, looking calmly waiting for him to speak, Yang Wazi hurriedly ran forward and boldly asked:
"Young lady, tomorrow my family is going to the city to deliver sheep to the butcher's house, so I want to take some of your tofu to sell in the county town, is that okay?"
Xu Yue had already guessed that he had something to say to her, but she didn't expect that what Yang Wazi wanted to say was actually this, and she was quite surprised.
With the brain capacity of a young man like Yangwazi, how could he come up with such a thing?
"Old Wutou asked you to come?" Xu Yue asked affirmatively.
Yang Wazi was stunned for a moment, then smiled sheepishly, "Young lady, you are so smart, you can think of all this."
Xu Yue shook her head helplessly, thinking that in this village, only Lao Wutou could have such a brain. Isn't it easy to guess?
"You want to take the tofu from my house and sell it in the county town to make a profit on the price difference?" Xu Yue asked.
Yang Wazi nodded crazily: "Yes, yes, yes!"
Xu Yue asked again: "You plan to give me credit on credit first, and then come back and give me the money after the sale is completed?"
Yang Wazi kept saying yes, yes, yes again, with his eyes shining, he almost pointed his thumbs at Xu Yue and said: You are so amazing, you guessed everything right!
Xu Yue looked at the sky speechlessly.
Yangwazi didn't wait for Xu Yue's affirmative reply. After being excited, he calmed down and asked anxiously:
"Young lady, is that okay?"
Xu Yue pondered for a moment and nodded, "That's okay, but you have to use your things as collateral at my house, so I can sell the tofu to you on credit first."
"Also, how much are you going to take? We will go to the city tomorrow. Our family can't make too much, only twenty boards at most."
"Can I only get twenty yuan?" Yangwazi was in trouble. In fact, everyone in the village wanted to sell the tofu on credit, but most people would not allow this kind of thing.
After all, I also want to make money. What’s rare is that the young lady of the Xu family agreed.
Yangwazi thought for a while and responded: "Then twenty yuan. I will tell everyone the news soon and ask them to bring the things to your house for mortgage."
Xu Yue nodded. After all, the villagers' reaction was what she had expected. Finding someone to help expand the market was a step in her sales plan.
Moreover, in this way, tenant farmers like Yangwazi can earn the price difference and improve their lives.
It was a completely win-win situation, and Xu Yue had no reason to refuse.
The two agreed verbally, and Xu Yue went home.
When Xu Dalang and Xu Erniang heard that they had to make twenty boards of tofu today, they were both excited and tired.
Last night and evening, I rushed to make ten boards of tofu, which kept them busy until ten o'clock in the evening.
The workload has doubled all of a sudden, so you have to be busy until midnight?
But thinking about the money they could put into their pockets, the three siblings plus Wang Youliang decided to give it a go.
Xu Dalang didn't say anything nonsense and turned around to soak the soybeans.
Xu Erniang came to the millstone and thought about how to make the millstone more efficient.
Xu Yue is responsible for the most important part, brine and order the tofu.
The three brothers and sisters were busy for only half an hour when the tenants who had already received the news from Yang Wazi came to their door one after another.
They were holding a handful of eggs, carrying a farm tool, or simply bringing over a large pot that was being used at home.
These things look messy, but in fact they are the things that big guys can best use as collateral.
Unlike the others, Lao Wutou directly carried a sack of soybeans over. Not only did he order the tofu for tomorrow, but he also put on credit all the four plates of tofu that the Xu family had just finished baking today and had no time to sell.
Then, under the shocked eyes of the tenants, he pushed a wheelbarrow full of tofu out of Wubao and hawked it to surrounding villages.
Xu Yue sells for eight yuan a piece, so he calls 10 yuan for one piece, and 18 yuan for two yuan. Anyway, no matter what, he can make a profit from selling a piece of tofu.
The total was 64 yuan for four plates of tofu. After spending an afternoon wandering around the surrounding villages and towns, I handed over the cost of 512 yuan to Xu Yue, and I still had 70 yuan left in my hand.
At this time, the tenants were dumbfounded, and they were annoyed that they had not thought of this!
It's a pity that the Xu family can only produce twenty slabs of tofu, otherwise they would have to borrow more.
You must know that there are many wealthy families in the county, and they will definitely sell better than those in surrounding villages and towns.
Under the stimulation of money, some people have come up with the idea that if they learn to make tofu themselves and sell it directly, wouldn't they be able to make more money?
At night, Wang, who had been immersed in studying weapons for the sake of his children's tofu business, and Xu Da, who had been practicing cross-legged as soon as he got home, all went out.
The family was grinding beans and cooking tofu in a makeshift mill set up in the yard.
Whenever it's time to order tofu, Xu Yue will take out a porcelain pot and scoop out the brine from it to complete this most important step.
The courtyard was brightly lit, but I couldn't see clearly what the mysterious brine looked like.
Some people rubbed their noses vigorously to smell it, but found that it was filled with the aroma of soy milk, but they could smell nothing and even made their mouth water.
I don't know who was squeezing behind them, and there was a loud "crash" sound. The pile of firewood that Wang had dried on the courtyard dam collapsed, and seven or eight dark shadows fell from the pile of wood with ouch and screams.
When Xu Erniang saw it, she immediately shouted: "Who is this person! Sneaky!"
Naturally, those people did not dare to reply and ran away in a hurry.
When Xu Erniang saw this, she gritted her teeth in anger, threw away the water spoon in her hand and rushed out of the door, cursing those people. Seeing them fall into the river again, she put her hands on her hips and said proudly:
"Hahaha, you deserve it! I let you peek!"
Xu Yue and her parents and brother in the courtyard looked at each other, not daring to comment on her sister's childish behavior, and just smiled helplessly.
It was just a small episode, and soon the whole family got back into the business of making tofu. It wasn't until twelve o'clock in the morning that all twenty boards of tofu were finished.
That night, Xu Yue, lying in bed with soreness all over her body, missed the efficiency of modern machinery.
