Seeing that Cui Wending agreed, Li Zhi said: "To get the goods at this price, you need to pay a deposit first. You pay me half of the payment first, and then I can transfer the goods from the south. Otherwise, if you don't want my goods, I will
Isn’t it a big loss? When the goods arrive, you will pay the next half of the payment.”
Cui Wending said calmly: "It doesn't matter, fifty thousand pieces of soap and eight hundred and fifty taels, I will send you a deposit of four hundred and twenty-five taels tomorrow!"
Li Zhi said calmly: "Xianggong Cui is a cheerful person!"
Cui Wending laughed when he saw that this young man was smart and interesting.
After sending Cui Wending away, Li Zhi looked at the spices on the table and thought about it.
Li Zhi knew how to make soap, but he was short of spices. Now that he had the materials, he naturally wanted to give it a try, so he went into the kitchen and started making soap. It was easy to turn soap into soap: while the soap was still soft,
Li Zhi added the small box of mignonette sesame oil into the soap and stirred it evenly. After the soap dried, it became fragrant and turned into soap. Use it to wash your hair and body, and there will be a lingering fragrance on your body. I'm afraid it will
Very popular with women.
However, there was no chemical industry in this era, spices were expensive, and there were too few families who could afford soap. Such products could not be sold in large quantities, and Li Zhi was not prepared to produce them on a large scale. It would be okay to make some occasionally and give them as gifts.
Li Zhi put the soap on the kitchen cabinet.
Early the next morning, Cui Wending led someone to deliver 425 taels of silver. A whole box was packed heavily and two boys carried it over together.
After the servants of the Cui family left, Li Zhi moved the silver into the house, called his brother and mother to open the box and took a look. He saw ten silver ingots worth forty taels and one worth twenty-five taels.
Seeing so much money, the three members of the family all exclaimed in surprise.
Those silver ingots are all privately minted horseshoe silver. They are large at the top and small at the bottom. They are shaped like a gold ingot, and the big ones are more than half the size of a fist. The silver ingots are all white and have the metallic luster of silver. Apparently they were cast not many years ago.
Not many times.
A box of silver ingots sparkled in the light, seeming to light up the dilapidated Li family hall.
Li Zhi picked up a forty-tael silver ingot and saw that the silver ingot was engraved with an inscription, which clearly read "Forty Liang" in large characters, and next to it in small characters was "Gu Akui, Wuning County, Nanchang Prefecture, in the first year of the Apocalypse".
It is the time, place and name of the caster.
Mrs. Zheng looked at these silver ingots, touched her heart and said: "Zhi'er, mother has never seen so much silver in her life! Can you make so much soap this month? With such a large deposit, if you can't make it by then,
Mr. Cui will definitely not be happy with the delivery."
Li Zhi replied calmly: "Mom, don't be afraid. Fifty thousand pieces of soap are nothing. I'll ask the second grandfather to come tomorrow and recruit a few helpers from the clan. Anyway, there are many empty rooms at home, so I will use a few wing rooms in the south room as a workshop, and half of them will be used as workshops."
I’ll make it for him in just a few months!”
Mrs. Zheng believed Li Zhi's words when she saw that he was so promising. Seeing that Li Zhi was so promising and no longer as stupid as before, Mrs. Zheng was filled with joy and sat on her chair without talking.
Li Xing asked: "Brother, how much money can we make from these 50,000 pieces of soap?"
Li Zhi did the math and said: "There is a gross profit of more than 500 taels. After excluding the labor required, there are also 400 to 500 taels."
Li Xing was frightened by Li Zhi's calculation result, and said: "There are so many?"
Zheng was also shocked by Li Zhi's words. She stood up and said, "How can you make so much money?"
After a while, Li Xing came to his senses, jumped up happily and said, "Brother, aren't we going to become a rich family in the future?" He couldn't help but hugged Li Zhi and said loudly: "Brother, we are going to be rich."
Get rich, get rich! From now on, you will live the life of a wealthy family!"
Li Zhi smiled and scolded: "Look at your future!" Breaking free from Li Xing's arms, Li Zhi said: "With this money, let's pay off the debt we owe the Xiao family first!"
Li Xing nodded when he heard this and said loudly: "What the eldest brother is saying is that if you owe someone so much money, you always feel like you can't hold your head high!"
When Mrs. Zheng heard that Li Zhi said she wanted to pay back the money, she burst into tears with excitement. In the past few months, she had been worried about the debt her family owed. She was worried that her house would be taken away by the Xiao family and her family would live on the streets with hair loss.
She felt a lot lighter. How could she not be excited now that Li Zhi said he had to pay back the money?
Mrs. Zheng wiped the tears from her eyes with her sleeves and said, "Okay, Zhi'er, you are really promising. You and Xing'er go together and pay off this debt first!"
Li Zhi took out two silver ingots from the box, cut off two taels from one silver ingot with a knife and put it aside. He collected seventy-eight taels of silver. He weighed the weight with the scale at home. After confirming that it was correct, Li Zhi held up the silver.
Take Li Xing and walk to Xiao's house.
As soon as Li Zhi walked out of the house, he met Aunt Lan next door. Seeing Li Zhi holding up the silver, Aunt Lan asked loudly:
"Li Zhi, where did you get two big ingots of silver? Did you borrow this silver?"
"I earned it from the soap business!"
Aunt Lan was surprised and said: "You made so much money? Then what are you doing with so much money?"
What Li Zhi wanted was Aunt Lan's gossip, and he replied loudly: "I'll go to Xiao's house to pay back the money!"
Hearing Aunt Lan talking to Li Zhi, several women nearby came out of their shops and looked at Li Zhi.
When Aunt Lan heard Li Zhi's words, she took a deep breath and said, "In just a few days, you have already earned enough money to pay off your debts?"
Li Zhi did not answer Aunt Lan's words and said loudly: "If I pay back the Xiao family's money today, my family will no longer owe anyone else money!"
After Li Zhi said this, he straightened his back proudly in front of the neighbors and felt indescribably proud.
Aunt Lan looked at Li Zhi, nodded and said, "You kid is really promising. He has turned around so quickly. He is not like the dull look before. Li Cheng has a good son, and he is also happy underground!"
Li Zhi smiled, did not answer Aunt Lan's words, and took Li Xing to Xiao's house, letting the neighbors point at him.
Along the way, Li Zhi was not in a hurry, holding up the money and walking on the street with his head held high. From time to time, people asked Li Zhi, and Li Zhi explained to people what he was going to do, so that the neighbors knew that he was going to pay back the money. Halfway through,
Li Zhi saw Cui He coming over with a maid. Cui He saw Li Zhi holding up the silver and ran up quickly and asked, "Li Zhi, what are you going to do?"
Li Zhi joked a few days ago that Cui He was his sweetheart. It didn't seem to offend Cui He, but it made the relationship between the two closer. At this time, Li Zhi saw Cui He's innocent question and felt funny in his heart. He replied: "I'm going to pay Xiao back."
The family’s money!”
When Cui He heard this, he asked in surprise: "In just a few days, you have earned more than seventy taels of silver?"
