Perhaps out of guilt, or perhaps out of genuine concern, Xie Xuan often came to invite Li Hui's family to various gatherings, and wanted to introduce Li Hui to the children of rich families and celebrities in the capital.
After Li Hui went there twice, he no longer accepted the invitation. It was not entirely because the content of such gatherings was boring, but partly because Li Hui could not see how those people viewed him.
Although for Xie Xuan's sake, this group of people behaved very politely, their eyes and words showed a kind of contempt and contempt for Li Hui, who was born in a poor family. It was not Li Hui.
Sensitive, but really exists.
Li Hui was often the silent one in such occasions. Li Hui was not interested in their topics and felt the atmosphere was weird, so Li Hui simply stopped accepting Xie Xuan's invitations. He would often just complain that he was tired and would get up early tomorrow.
Waiting for excuses.
Xie Xuan is a smart man, and naturally he will not force himself. Instead, he often comes to Dongli Gate to visit Li Hui. He says he is passing by here, but in fact he comes here specially. He just wants to let the captain and captain soldiers guarding Dongli Gate
They knew that Li Hui was his friend Xie Xuan, so they did not dare to slight Li Hui.
Li Hui knew this very well and was grateful.
Although these two months were boring, they were also very peaceful and comfortable. However, these comfortable days could not last long, because the problems to be solved eventually needed to be solved, and it was time to face them.
One spring night in mid-March, after a passionate exchange with Ah Zhu, Ah Zhu lay on Li Hui's chest and finally spoke hesitantly about the current dilemma at home.
"Sir, we don't have much money left. I've been very careful with my budget, but it still doesn't work. Now we have less than 80,000 yuan left. The expenses here are too big, it costs 70,000 to 80,000 yuan every month.
Expenses. Things are too expensive. Meat and vegetables are very expensive, firewood, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are all very expensive. Just these things cost ten to twenty thousand yuan a month. Mules need to eat grass and other things, and someone got sick a few days ago.
Yes, it cost three thousand dollars to get two sets of medicine. Hey, everything is good in this capital, but it’s too expensive.”
Li Hui was about to fall asleep in a daze, but after hearing these words, he immediately sat up and woke up.
"Can't you survive? Don't you have enough food? I can't finish my monthly salary of fifty kilograms. Otherwise, I can just sell some rice." Li Hui said.
Ah Zhu raised his head and looked at Li Hui, pouted and said: "The food is enough to eat. The young master's monthly salary is fifty dan, but I can't finish it. But please don't forget, my hometown in Shicheng County also needs to eat. A few days ago, I asked Jiang
Sheng sent fifty stones back. There were also more than ten people eating at home over there. Moreover, when the aunt called for people last month, she said that some of your clan members did not have enough to eat, and offered to donate some food if they were able. The aunt did not
I can't bear to let them starve. I think you can't let people in your clan go hungry. They are your relatives."
Li Hui sighed, he knew this. Although there are only two families in the Li family in Shicheng County, they have a large population. Their life is also very poor. Now is the time when the economy is lean, and they have reached the point of making gruel to survive.
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Naturally, his mother couldn't bear to see this, so she often helped them. Li Hui also thought it was right. He had to take care of the Li family in Danyang by himself, so he naturally had to take care of his people. Besides, it wasn't because they were too lazy to eat, but because of their large population.
The year is not good and it is really unsustainable.
Li Hui originally thought that his salary was not low and he should be able to cope with the current situation. After all, the monthly salary of fifty dan was not a small amount. Calculated based on the current price of rice, it was five to six million yuan. But how did Li Hui know?
, these monthly stipends are only enough to feed the family, and there is no possibility of selling them for money.
At present, there are more than ten people in the family who cook 20 kilograms of rice every day, which means they need to eat one stone of rice in five days. Six stone of rice a month. In addition, the monthly income of these people in the family must also be paid in rice, which is about two stone per person a month. So,
Basically there is not much left.
In addition to eating, you have to spend money on firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea. Spending on everything is just living on your laurels because there is no other way to make money.
The same is true for the expenses in Shicheng County's hometown. There are more than ten people there to eat and to provide relief to the clan members. All these need to be spent from Li Hui's salary. In fact, although the salary for these two months is one hundred dan, it is only 778
After eight were consumed, there was no balance at all. Li Hui thought that it could be offset, but in fact it was just to ensure that he could have enough to eat.
Li Hui has taken a step forward. Ordinary sixth- and seventh-grade officials would not dare to keep so many servants. Two or three domestic servants are already a big deal. But Li Hui currently has several servants sent by Xie Xuan.
More than twenty mouths were opened to eat.
Of course, we can’t blame Li Hui for being a fat man. The people brought out from Juchao County were with Li Hui from the beginning, plus guards selected for safety. After all, they offended Huan Xu and almost caused death. As for
The house in Shicheng County and the care of the Li family are indeed a bit of a shame.
"I don't want to bother the young master with these things, but it's okay not to say it. The weather is getting warmer, and I want to make them a pair of thin spring clothes. They are all still wearing thick clothes. I can't pretend not to see it. It was a big day that day.
He said that he was very bland, which meant that there was no meat to eat, but I could only pretend to be confused. I thought, why don't you tell Mr. Xie that I will open some vegetable fields in the garden behind and let people build a fence around them?
Come out, let's plant some vegetables and raise some chickens and ducks, and we can also save some money." Azhu muttered.
Li Hui was in a bad mood and said in a deep voice: "How can that happen? This house is someone else's house. If you raise chickens, ducks and grow vegetables, isn't that destroying other people's homes? Absolutely not."
Ah Zhu heard that Li Hui sounded a little irritated and quickly shut up and stopped talking.
Li Hui breathed a sigh of relief, stretched out his hand to caress Ah Zhu's smooth buttocks, and whispered: "Don't worry too much, let me think of something."
Ah Zhu nodded and lay on Li Hui like a kitten, unable to speak.
In the next few days, Li Hui was no longer in the mood to study or run. Two words came to his mind every day: make money.
Li Hui didn't believe that he could be stumped by this matter. After all, he was a person from later generations, so how could he fall into financial constraints here. Li Hui felt that he must make use of the gap in technology and information to make money. If he could figure it out
Products that can be made in this era and can be accepted and widely used, and things that are not available here yet, will definitely make money, and it may even be huge profits.
In addition, the cost must be small, the cost must not be too large, and the manpower and resources must not be invested. Otherwise, it will not be possible given the current situation.
There are a lot of things in my mind, and it seems that this is okay, and that is okay. But when I think about it carefully, I feel that it is inappropriate. This situation makes people really tortured.
One night, when Li Hui was lying in the bathtub, A-Zhu came in to rub Li Hui's back. She took out a wooden box, took out a spoonful of something like flour with a wooden spoon and poured it on Li Huiguang.
Then he started scrubbing his back with his little hands.
Li Hui didn't pay attention at first, but when he smelled the fragrant fragrance in his nose, he noticed something strange. In addition to dry rubbing, he usually used soap locust juice or rice water to clean the dirt on his body, but he had never used it before.
I can't help but be a little curious about this thing.
"What is this? Why haven't I seen it before?" Li Hui asked.
Azhu smiled and said: "These are fragrant bath beans. I have never seen them before. They are only used by wealthy families."
"Bath beans?" This was the first time Li Hui heard this term. He reached out and dipped a little bit in front of his eyes and took a closer look. He found that it was a powdery substance like flour, with the aroma of spices.
"Bath beans are soybean powder, mixed with some soap locust juice and spices. Rich families use this for bathing and washing. How can ordinary people afford it? They don't have enough to eat, so they use beans to grind powder and bathe? Here it is.
A lot of herbs and spices have been added, and it smells very fragrant. I heard that some wealthy families also use pearl mill powder to add to it. After taking a bath, it smells delicious." A-Zhu said while rubbing Li Hui's back.
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Li Huidao: "Where did this come from? Did you buy it? How much does it cost per box?"
Azhu thought that Li Hui blamed him for spending money recklessly, so he hurriedly said: "I didn't buy it, I just put it in the bathroom. It belongs to Mr.
Even if the corner is gone, I won’t touch it. You can’t buy it. This box is very expensive. I’ve seen it in the market. A box of ordinary ones costs two cents. This kind of scented one costs tens of thousands.
Money? I can’t bear to buy it.”
Li Hui understood that this was Xie Xuan's house, and there were things for bathing in the bathroom. This kind of bath beans was a common bathing thing for rich families like the Xie family. It was just that they had never been used before.
This thing is made from soybean powder mixed with saponin juice and dried in the sun, which is somewhat luxurious. Moreover, Li Hui thinks that the decontamination ability of this thing should be average. It is nothing more than making use of the adhesion function and staining ability of dry bean powder.
It’s just the skin-beautifying function of plant protein after water.
The decontamination and bathing products that Li Hui has seen are usually made from juice extracted from honey locusts, rice water, plant ash or even fine sand. Li Hui always thought that it was just because other effective cleaning products were too expensive.
The common people couldn't afford it. Li Hui didn't even think about whether there was such a thing as soap these days. Because even if there was, it would be an extremely expensive thing that ordinary people couldn't afford.
But at this moment, seeing the bath beans, Li Huicai suddenly realized that in the Jin Dynasty, there might not be such a thing as soap. If this was the case, he might have found the right way.
I have always been thinking about how to make money by taking advantage of the gap in technology and information. I have been struggling to think of something suitable to make. If there is really no soap in Dajin, this thing will definitely make money. After all, personal cleaning, washing clothes and bathing
It is a basic human need. Without washing, oil and other dirt will not clean clothes and bodies.
Realizing this, Li Hui suddenly laughed. He remembered that when he first time traveled, he had despised the behavior of travelers in the time travel novels he had read who made soap, perfume, burned glass, etc. to make a fortune.
.But now, I realized that those methods were not whimsical, but really useful and simple methods.
It is because of poor technology and poor information that the methods of making soap have not been discovered these days. Therefore, people here will use methods such as those plant ash, rice water, pounded soapberry juice and other methods to wash them.
Clean clothes and body. Once something more effective is available, will they still use it?
For example, the so-called bath beans are actually not very effective in cleaning. According to what A-Zhu said, the price is so expensive. Don’t wealthy people still use them? If you can really make soap by yourself, that’s not a problem.
Do you charge their IQ tax?
This opportunity before me, I actually had an attitude of ridicule and rejection at the beginning. Now it seems that the clown is actually me...