Happy time is always short-lived, and it was almost noon soon. Since he had to deliver food to Master Li later, Li Qi reluctantly stood up from his seat and prepared to leave.
"Qigong, you lost 45 guans in total. Xiaojiu was pretty good and only lost 30 guans. Uncle Hong---hehe, you are not very lucky today. You lost 68 guans in total. The total is 143 guans.
One hundred and forty guan, minus the odd bits."
Li Qi took the account book and read with a smile.
"Ahem, cough, weird, why is that chicken's butt not done yet? I'll go take a look." Hong Qi stood up, patted his butt, and ran away under two resentful looks.
Hong Tianjiu played with the simple playing cards with great interest, as if the matter had nothing to do with him. In fact, strictly speaking, it really had nothing to do with him, because the money must have been given by his father.
The person who was taken advantage of in this card game was none other than Hong Bajin. His face looked like an eggplant with frost, and he said very unwillingly: "Li Qi, let's play a few more games. Why are you leaving in such a hurry?"
The money was not much for him, but it was just a matter of face. It was really frustrating for a family to join forces and beat one person, and then be beaten to the point of being unable to fight back.
Li Qi apologized: "I'm so sorry, I have something important to do later, so I can't stay for a long time. Please forgive me, Uncle Hong."
Hong Bajin curled his lips and said, "Okay, okay, go ahead. I'll ask someone to send you the money later, but you have to come often. You won't be so lucky next time."
Losers usually say this, but the result will be the same next time. Otherwise, I have played cards in vain these past few years, and besides, I will deal cards from the bottom, how can you be my opponent?
After coming out of Hong Mansion, Li Qi immediately rushed back to Zuixianju.
"Brother Li, you are back."
"Eh? Xiaoyu, why is it you?"
As soon as Li Qi just walked in, he saw Xiaoyu standing at the counter. He asked curiously: "Where is Uncle Wu?"
"Uncle Wu went out this morning and asked me to watch here."
Li Qi nodded and asked: "That's right. I asked you to arrange for people to go south with the canned meat. How did you arrange it?"
Xiaoyu nodded and said: "Everything has been arranged, and everything is done according to your instructions. There are thirty people in total, ten of them came to Zuixianju with me, and the remaining twenty were recruited for the second time.
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This Xiaoyu is really speechless when it comes to things.
Li Qi nodded with satisfaction, and suddenly heard a singing voice coming from the side, "The sky is blue waiting for misty rain, and I am waiting for you. The smoke from the kitchen is rising thousands of miles across the river."
Blue and white porcelain?
Li Qi turned around and saw that the person humming was none other than Chen Anan, who had just walked downstairs.
Xiaoyu pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Brother Li, you don't know. Just this sentence, Anan has been singing it all morning, why don't you tell him about it."
This is necessary. Li Qi laughed and shouted: "Anan."
Chen Anan turned around and saw that it was Li Qi. He hurriedly ran over and said, "Brother Li, when did you come back."
"just came back."
Li Qi looked at him with a smile and said, "Anan, who taught you the song you just sang?"
Chen Anan chuckled and said, "I overheard it from Sister Hongnu's yard this morning. But I just remembered one sentence, Brother Li, what did you say about my singing?"
Li Qi patted his head and said in a feint of anger: "You sing so quietly, you have a purpose. If you want to sing, sing louder. You will be treated like a bitch."
Chen Anan straightened his back and shouted: "The sky is blue and waiting for the misty rain---."
After this first sentence, Li Qi couldn't stand it anymore. If anyone heard this, Hong Nu's debut would probably be delayed by a year, so he hurriedly said: "Oh, I'm wrong, you just have to hum and forget it."
Chen Anan's face froze and turned red.
Xiaoyu couldn't help it anymore, covered her lips and giggled.
"Master Li."
At this moment, Wu Furong suddenly walked in from outside.
Li Qi chuckled: "Uncle Wu, are you going to Beicheng?"
Wu Furong was surprised and said: "How do you know?"
Li Qi blinked and said, "Didn't you say last time that you still had --- what in Beicheng?"
Wu Furong was stunned for a moment before he realized that Li Qi was referring to his two-bedroom concubine. He coughed violently and said, "Don't talk nonsense. I've gone to do some serious business."
Li Qi chuckled and said, "That's business, too."
Wu Furong rolled his eyes, knowing that he couldn't defeat him, so he pulled him to the side and whispered: "Do you remember that you asked me to help you find a glaze workshop?"
Li Qi's eyes lit up and he hurriedly asked: "Is there any news?"
Now that the bar is about to open, if there are glasses to help, it will be even more powerful.
Wu Furong nodded and said: "Well, I heard last night that the Liuli family's glaze workshop in Beicheng was in a hurry to sell. I went to inquire about it this morning. It turned out to be true, and the price is very cheap. It only costs 800 guan. What do you think?"
so cheap?
Li Qi frowned and said, "There's no fraud involved, right?"
Wu Furong said: "It's like this. A while ago, his workshop spoiled a batch of goods, and now the customer is chasing him for debt, so he sold it so cheaply."
"Uncle Wu, what I mainly want to buy is not his land, but the workers. I can just build a workshop anywhere. The main reason is that experienced workers are hard to find."
Wu Furong said hurriedly: "If we buy that workshop, those workers will become ours."
Li Qi sighed: "But you said it yourself, they just ruined the customer's goods, how good can such craftsmanship be?"
Wu Furong nodded and said: "That's true, but the business of their workshop has always been good. This time there must have been an accident that caused such a mess. By the way, when I came here just now, I bought some products from their workshop.
The glass beads are fine, I think." As he said that, he took out a bead from his arms.
Li Qi took it and took a look and almost didn't curse. This glass bead was dozens of grades worse than the inferior products of later generations. The color was unknown and the workmanship was rough. It had no color at all. What the hell. He said depressedly: "Wu
Uncle, is this thing considered a good product?"
Wu Furong nodded and said: "That's right. There are not many colored glazes nowadays. In my opinion, apart from the ones fired in official kilns, these beads are pretty good. We can't buy them in official kilns."
Li Qi was not very familiar with the colored glaze market in the Northern Song Dynasty. The only thing he knew was that there were relatively few colored glazes at the moment. He said, "Are you sure this is good?"
Wu Furong nodded again.
It seems that the only option is to take a step back.
Li Qi nodded and said: "That's okay. Let's go and see what we should do in the afternoon. We'll discuss it then."
After talking to Wu Furong, Li Qi went to the kitchen. He had already ordered Wu Xiaoliu and others to prepare the soup he was going to make for Master Li today. After a while, he took the soup to Master Li's attic.
Since there was still something to do in the afternoon, Li Qi didn't stay in there for too long this time. He came out after Master Li finished eating.
But he also received good news and bad news. The good news was that on the way there, he thought of some ways to make Master Li happy. The bad news was that Master Li just told him that Feng Yinu had also dined with her in the recent days. The underlying meaning is that he will have to be the weight of two people in the future.
afternoon.
Li Qi and Wu Furong came to Beicheng. They did not go directly to the shopkeeper of Liulicong, but came to a foot shop next to Liulician.
"Two distinguished guests, what would you like to eat?"
The lady from this footwear shop saw that Li Qi and Wu Furong were well dressed, so she hurriedly came over and greeted them.
Li Qi casually threw out a small sling of copper coins and said, "Madam, how is Liulicang over here?"
The aunt was stunned and said: "Sir, why do you ask this?"
"Oh. I plan to buy a batch of colored glaze and go back."
"Then you've come to the right place. The Liu family is famous for its excellent colored glaze. Their master's craftsmanship is also quite good." The aunt praised her, sweeping her rough hands across the table, and the little girl The hanging copper coin slipped into her sleeve.
Li Qi smiled slightly and said, "But I heard that they recently spoiled a batch of goods."
The aunt sighed and said: "My lord, you don't know something. You can't blame the craftsmen for this. If you want to blame it, it's the shopkeeper Liu. If he wasn't greedy, he pushed the craftsmen hard to work and shortened the construction period." Nearly half, that batch won’t be ruined.”
Li Qi frowned and said, "Oh? How do you understand so clearly?"
The aunt said cheerfully: "The masters from their workshop often come here to eat, and I heard what they said." Then she pointed to a table outside the house and whispered: "Have you seen that man outside the house? He is the head craftsman of Liulicang, Zheng Quan, Master Zheng."
Li Qi glanced outside the house and saw an old man in his forties. He glanced at Wu Furong, and the two of them immediately stood up and walked outside the house.
Li Qi came to Zheng Shenchen, cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Master Zheng."
Zheng Quan looked up and saw two strangers. Seeing that they were gorgeously dressed, he didn't dare to neglect him. He stood up and returned the greeting and asked, "Who are you two?"
Li Qi smiled and said: "I am a businessman from the south. I want your workshop to make a batch of colored glaze for me."
Zheng Quan's face was happy at first, but then he immediately became sad and said: "You two, you'd better find another family."
"Why?"
Zheng Quan sighed: "To tell you the truth, our shopkeeper has already planned to sell this workshop."
"But because you messed up the customer's goods last time?"
"you know?"
"I've heard a little bit about it."
"Then you still come to us?"
"This kind of mistake is quite common, it's not a big deal."
"Hmph. The old man has been working here for more than 20 years, and he has never made such a mistake. If the shopkeeper hadn't pressed hard, and the brothers worked day and night, without sleeping for several nights, how could he have missed it? .”
Zheng Quan became more and more enthusiastic as he spoke, and after he finished speaking, he poured a large bowl of wine into his stomach.
Li Qi's eyes flashed and he said: "Master Zheng, you said you have worked here for more than 20 years?"
Zheng Quan was stunned for a moment and nodded.
Li Qi smiled and said, "Then you are quite loyal."
Zheng Quan sighed: "So what if we are loyal? The shopkeeper is in a hurry to sell the workshop, and he won't care about us. If the new owner doesn't want us, we won't have to live on the streets. Now the brothers are already looking for another way out. well."
Li Qi raised the corner of his mouth and said: "That's not necessarily the case. You tell your brother not to worry and take a good rest for a few days. After a few days, everything will be fine."
Zheng Quan was stunned and said, "Who are you?"
Li Qi smiled, stood up and said, "You will know this later. Remember, don't worry, everything will come out of curiosity." After that, he stood up and cupped his hands and said, "Goodbye."
Zheng Quan was confused and subconsciously raised his hand.
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"Leaving now?"
Wu Furong couldn't help but wonder when he saw that Li Qi didn't even go to Liulifang and just went back.
Li Qi smiled and said: "Uncle Wu, do you know how to make colored glaze?"
"don't know."
"I don't understand either, so I went in and looked, but it was in vain. But I want to know and I know almost everything. You should immediately ask someone to find out how much money shopkeeper Liu owes that customer. We can only make a decision on this basis."
Plus a hundred dollars, this is our bottom line."
"You don't understand, but you still plan to buy it?"
"Uncle Wu, think about it, even if we fail, we will only lose a thousand or eight hundred yuan at most. If we succeed, we will make a lot of money. If I don't even fight, I might as well go home and raise my children."
Already."
Seeing Li Qi's confidence, Wu Furong wiped away all the doubts in his heart and said sternly: "But the price is low enough now. If we keep lowering the price, I'm afraid that Old Liu will sell it to someone else."
Li Qi sneered and said: "His workshop has a bad reputation now. Who dares to buy it? Besides, it doesn't take a day or two to make a glass back to the original source. Just do what I say. Taking advantage of the situation is my strength."
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