Chapter 118 The charcoal fire has arrived
Li Huyu wanted to say what happened to the merchants?
Wouldn't it be nice to have good food, drink, good housing, and be nice to someone's daughter, so that the couple can live a smooth, peaceful and happy life?
But then I thought about it, Shui Qing has the ability to make money, and Fan Jin is also a scholar. He has not won the lottery now, but if he does one day, he will change his family immediately.
When the time comes, Yan Qiu and Xing Hui will naturally be worthy of becoming officials.
As long as you choose a good man, it's okay for your couple to be successful, safe and happy. Why should you choose their merchant family?
Thinking of this, Li Huyu's excited look dimmed.
The little flame of hope had just begun to grow, but it died out again.
There was no sound in the carriage for a long time, and Bai Manshan could only console him: "Don't think about it, it's good to get along as friends now;
When Qian'er gets older,... he can recognize Shui Qing as his godmother, so that they can have a long-term relationship. "
In the end, he never gave up.
Thinking about it, what if the children get along with each other and develop feelings for each other?
In that case, it's not impossible.
But you can’t mention it before that, not even a little bit, otherwise it won’t work out later, and I’m afraid you won’t even be able to communicate with friends!
Li Huyu focused on recognizing his godmother.
What I thought was that once Qian'er recognized Shui Qing as his godmother, it would be impossible.
She thought silently, Qian'er isn't too bad, right?
Then he thought of the young man named Ling Ran.
He has outstanding appearance, tall and slender figure, calm and dignified speech and demeanor, and is diligent and willing to work... On the other hand, there seems to be no one who can compare with his own son.
Hey, it’s really annoying to compare people with others, so I have to throw away the goods.
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The group of people watched Bai Manshan and Li Huyu's carriage leave until they could no longer see it.
Shui Qing was just about to turn around and comfort Bai Ziqian with a few words, asking him to treat this place as his own home without being restrained.
When he turned around, he saw Bai Ziqian jumping up and down to get the machete and basket. His cheerful back showed no sadness at all.
But she still said: "You are a guest now, so you don't have to work too hard."
Bai Ziqian's eyes were wide open, and his fair face was full of sadness: "Why are you a guest?
In the past, I was still a member of the family. Now that Brother Ling is here, can I only be a guest? "
Shui Qing: .....You didn’t listen to the last half of the sentence at all.
"Okay, just treat it as your own home and go to work."
Bai Ziqian finally regained his energy, agreed happily, and ran outside.
However, he was very aware of the crisis and thought that he had to find an opportunity to tightly tie himself to Uncle Fan's family and become their real family!
Shui Qing didn't know what the boy was thinking. She had something very important to do now.
Taking paper and pen, she shouted into the room: "Yan Qiuxing is back, come here, I have something to tell you."
After a while, Yan Qiuxing came out of the wine shop, looked at Shui Qing cutely and asked: "Mom, what's the matter?"
"Now the amount of rice wine we make every day is less. In your free time, mother will teach you how to read the account book." Shui Qing said happily.
Reading account books is one of the must-learn items for women in wealthy households.
Only by understanding the ledger can you manage your family's money and property without being fooled.
No matter how small your family is, whoever holds the economic power will be comfortable.
The ability or lack of ability directly determines the quality of life of the entire family!
“You need to be able to earn money, you need to be able to save money, and you also need to know where the money is spent.”
Yan Qiu and Xing Hui have learned to read with their father in the past few months.
I learned arithmetic from my grandma.
Although they are not as skilled as their parents, they are willing to learn.
His eyes were shining brightly and he said: "Auntie, tell me!"
"I will definitely remember it!"
Shui Qing is most afraid of people who blame everyone and make excuses to avoid others, and likes people who are serious and hard-working.
Seeing my two daughters working hard to improve themselves at a young age and absorbing all the knowledge they can learn, I felt very relieved.
She took out the account book she had made before and began to teach: "This is the account book I made. You can see at the top that income, expenditure, cost, profit..."
This is a modern accounting method, scientific and reasonable.
By the way, I also taught you how to identify fake accounts.
In the end, it was revealed that they learned this from businessman Bai Manshan, and they must not let down their hard work.
"Uncle Bai is so kind!"
"No secret at all."
Until one day later, one of them married into the Bai family, officially took charge of the central government, and took over the Bai family's account books. They looked at the obviously different account books and did not have the reasonable account books taught by Grandma, and fell into deep contemplation...
As the new year approaches, the weather is getting colder and colder.
On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhang Jinniu delivered the first batch of charcoal this winter.
The black charcoal fire, about one meter long, was placed neatly in the bamboo basket.
Looking at the layers of charcoal piled up in the warehouse, the family just felt that this was not charcoal, but a sense of security!
"Tainniu, how much money?" Shui Qing asked happily.
Zhang Jinniu scratched his head in embarrassment and asked after a long while: "Two cents per pound, is that okay?"
Shui Qing thought he heard wrongly.
How many kilograms of dry firewood can be used to burn a kilogram of charcoal after cutting, drying, transporting, burning, and delivering it? The result is only two cents per kilogram?
How can it be.
"We have agreed that even if it is not the price of Fucheng, it must be the price of Niutou Town. We can give more, but we can't make any more concessions!"
"No, the price in Niutou Town is five cents per catty, but we have to send it there. Not to mention the time wasted on the way back and forth, we might not be able to sell it.
Not to mention the number of pounds that need to be given away for bulk sales, so two cents per pound is very good for us, and there is no bargaining. "Zhang Jinniu said honestly.
Then he said with tears in his eyes: "In fact, it is not cheap. Two pounds of charcoal can buy a pound of black flour. Charcoal can be saved, but food cannot be eaten;
With this money, others would rather use it to buy black flour. It is only because you take care of us, sister-in-law, that we ordered so much charcoal. "
Shuiqing: .....No, her family really needs charcoal!
Taking care is part of the care, but it is not the main reason.
"Sister-in-law Shuiqing, this is 500 pounds of charcoal, which is one or two silver coins at a time. It can burn so much charcoal in five days. Are you sure you still want it? "Zhang Jinniu asked uncomfortably.
In fact, he wanted to say, one tael of silver can buy 500 kilograms of charcoal, isn't it painful?
That's a lot of silver.
Shuiqing nodded affirmatively.
One tael of silver can buy 500 kilograms of charcoal. If you burn it yourself, you will be exhausted from chopping wood several times.
Bai Ziqian, who was standing by, heard that 500 kilograms of charcoal only cost one tael of silver, and his eyes unconsciously turned to the wood he chopped.
Is he worth only one tael?
No, less than one tael!
He waved his hand heroically, showing the momentum of booking the whole place: "Yes! Take as much as you want, I'll pay for the silver!
All of you, I'll pay for the charcoal this year and next year!"