When Li Zhi walked home and told his mother Zheng that the money had been paid off, she was already in tears.
Mrs. Zheng wiped her tears, walked to her husband's seat, lit a stick of incense, and muttered: "Master, your son is now promising, smart, and will no longer be stupid. The debt you owe for medical treatment,
Your son will help you pay it back, and our family will no longer live on the streets. You don’t have to worry about it over there!"
Li Zhi waited for Mrs. Zheng to finish offering the incense, took out the IOU that was torn in half, and burned it in front of his father Li Cheng. Seeing the IOU burned into ashes, the family of three was filled with joy.
From now on, the Li family no longer owes any debt to the Xiao family! The mountain that weighs on the Li family no longer exists!
Seeing that Li Zhi's family was so excited, Cui He felt a little depressed and was about to leave. Seeing that she was leaving, Li Zhi took out a piece of soap from the kitchen and said with a smile: "This is for you!"
Cui He smelled it, opened his eyes wide and asked, "It smells so good, what is this?"
"This is soap. Just like soap, you can use it to wash your body and hair, but after washing your hair, your body will smell delicious. It's perfect for a beautiful girl like you!"
Hearing Li Zhi praise her as a beautiful girl, Cui He giggled happily, then took Li Zhi's soap, waved and said, "Thank you! I'm leaving!"
After sending Cui He away, Li Zhi calculated the raw materials and labor needed every day: his store can sell 15,000 yuan a month, plus Cui Wen's 50,000 yuan a month, it's 65,000 yuan a month.
Thousand pieces, an average of 2,200 pieces of soap are produced every day. To produce this much soap, more than 430 kilograms of soybean oil and about the same weight of soda ash are needed every day, as well as a little more than 100 kilograms of quicklime.
To produce so much soap, Li Xing and Li Zhi are far from enough. They have to hire about ten more people.
But it is easy to hire people. Just recruit some poor relatives from the family to work as helpers. The first thing to solve is the problem of raw materials. With such a large production scale, the original raw material supply channels are definitely not enough, Li Zhi
Need to find a big supplier.
With a few coins in his pocket, Li Zhi walked out of his house and walked to the stall of an oil seller named Wang Da in the vegetable market.
"Wang Da, where did you buy this soybean oil?"
Seeing Li Zhi coming to see him, Wang Da was stunned: Didn't Li Zhi buy oil with Zhao San a few days ago?
Li Zhi and Zhao San have bought more than 100 kilograms of soybean oil in the past few days, and he is already Zhao San's biggest customer. Zhao San's business has made Wang Da quite jealous in the past few days. Seeing Li Zhi questioning him at this time, Wang Da lost his temper.
He said with courtesy: "Brother Zhi, if you want oil, just buy it from me, and I'll give it to you cheaply."
In just a few days, the success of the soap has transformed Li Zhi from a nerd in the Li family who everyone can bully into a respected "Brother Zhi".
Everyone in the vegetable market knows that Li Zhi is not stupid anymore and is very shrewd. Moreover, Li Zhi's soap business is booming, and it will be a matter of time to pay off the debt. No one in this vegetable market dares to discriminate against Li Zhi. Wang Da calls Li Zhi
I plant my brother one mouth at a time, showing special respect.
Zhao San stood aside. He saw Li Zhi finding Wang Da today and felt nervous. He was afraid of losing Li Zhi's business, so he came over and said, "Brother Zhi, why did you find Wang Da today? You want to buy oil with me?"
I’ll give you something cheaper.”
Seeing Wang Da call Li Zhi Brother Zhi, Zhao San quickly followed suit, fearing that he would lose a big customer because of his rude words.
Li Zhi said disdainfully: "How can you provide me with oil from a small stall like yours? Now I need more than 400 kilograms of soybean oil every day. Can you provide it?"
Zhao San was stunned when he heard this, and immediately put on a sad face, and said with a look of reluctance: "Brother Zhi, your business is getting bigger and bigger. Then won't you buy oil from me in the future?"
Taking out a hundred cents, Li Zhi said to Zhao San and Wang Da: "Which of you two will take me to the largest oil refining workshop near Tianjin Wei? I will give you one hundred cents."
Zhao San weighed the pros and cons and knew that he was small and could no longer satisfy Li Zhi's appetite. He would definitely lose this big customer. However, Zhao San still had to earn the one hundred cents in traveling expenses - he didn't earn it.
Let Wang make a lot of money. He snatched the money from Li Zhi's hand and said flatteringly: "Brother Zhi, I will take you there, I will take you there!"
Li Zhi had always been Zhao San's customer. Although Wang Da also coveted the hundred cents, he couldn't compete with Zhao San, so he just grunted a few times and remained silent.
"Brother Zhi, come with me."
Zhao San asked a friend in the vegetable market to help him look after the stalls, and then walked eastward with Li Zhi. Zhao San walked in front, but he did not forget the gossip.
"Brother Zhi, your business is getting bigger and bigger, I'm afraid it won't be long before you can pay off your debts!"
Li Zhi smiled and said: "My family's debt has been paid off just now. The IOU has been burned. From now on, my Li family will no longer owe the Xiao family any money."
When Zhao San heard these words, he secretly said, "Li Zhi didn't know where he came from this soap business. He made more than seventy taels to pay off his debt so quickly. It's really surprising." Although he muttered in his heart, Zhao San said to him verbally.
Li Zhi respects Li Zhi even more - if Li Zhi can make money, the Li family will become a wealthy family in the future. As an oil seller, isn't it just a matter of flattery?
The two passed through Dongcheng Heng Street, exited Deshengmen, the east gate of Tianjin Acropolis, walked two miles east, and entered a Gaojiazhuang. Zhao San and Li Zhi stood at an open door.
In front of the large courtyard of the shop, he smiled and said to Li Zhi: "This is Gaojia Oil Factory, the largest soybean oil workshop in Tianjin Wei. Even if Brother Zhi needs to buy several hundred kilograms a day, he can easily supply it here.
"
Li Zhi stood at the door and looked around. He saw that the shop outside the yard was quite large, and there were several oxcarts transporting oil parked at the door. Inside the shop, there were more than a dozen guys busy, carrying oil out one jar after another.
He poured oil into the bamboo barrels of the bullock carts outside the shop. At first glance, he knew that this was an oil refining workshop with a large volume of input and output.
Zhao San did not lead the way randomly, Li Zhi nodded.
Seeing Li Zhi nodding, Zhao San's face lit up with joy. He walked into the shop and said, "Gao Laosi, call your shopkeeper quickly. A big deal is coming!"
The young man called Gao Laosi was sitting in the store and looking at the account book. He looked up and saw Zhao San and said impatiently: "What big deal?"
Zhao San pointed at Li Zhi and said loudly: "This is Brother Zhi from our Jingbianfang. He buys hundreds of kilograms of soybean oil every day. I'm going to introduce you to such a big business, why don't you call your shopkeeper quickly?"
"
Gao Laosi was stunned for a moment and looked at Li Zhi. Seeing that Li Zhi was wearing a patched cotton-padded jacket and didn't look like a rich man, he looked a little disbelieving in his eyes.
Li Zhi walked up and said: "I will buy hundreds of kilograms of soybean oil every day from now on. If your family can provide it, I will buy it from you."
Seeing Li Zhi's words, Gao Laosi was moved. He stopped talking nonsense, said "wait a moment", walked into the yard and called the shopkeeper out.
