The lucky girl in the village has a good way of making money.

Chapter 74 Can’t just let it go

This pomegranate was carefully calculated yesterday. It is a wooden box, the wood is painted, and it is carefully carved. It is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it cannot be cheap.

Pine, beech, birch, cherry, mahogany, nanmu, rosewood, sandalwood, and rosewood can all be used to make wooden boxes. The first few types of wood are common, but the latter ones are better and more expensive, especially The best red sandalwood is hard to come by, so I won’t talk about it.

Just talking about the other types of wood, the prices of the wooden boxes naturally vary. After some back and forth between Pomegranate and Shopkeeper Huang, they finally settled on a price that both parties were satisfied with.

Pine, beech, and birch cost 350 coins each, cherry wood costs 400 coins, mahogany and nanmu cost 500 coins, and rosewood and sandalwood cost 600 coins each.

There are also styles of carvings, such as peonies and roses that are rich and auspicious, deer and cranes that spring together in the same spring, and pine trees, which are difficult to carve patterns. Even if they are difficult to carve, fifty coins will be added to the price.

After negotiating the price and signing the document, Shopkeeper Huang immediately placed an order.

"For all the styles that can be made, pine, beech, birch, cherry wood will be reserved for 30 pieces first, and 20 pieces for each of mahogany, nanmu, rosewood and sandalwood. Before the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, these pre-ordered items will be delivered. Follow-up Then place the order.”

Immediately, he gave twenty taels of silver as a deposit. The reason why he gave such a large deposit was because he was afraid that Shiliu's family would not have enough money to buy these lumber.

Pomegranate naturally accepted the 20 taels of deposit with great gratitude. Anyway, the more he paid, the less he paid, so there was no need to worry that she would swallow the deposit and refuse to give it back. Just kidding, such a long-term business must be easily grasped.

Shopkeeper Huang, who is a business negotiator, needs to be carefully won over!
Reluctant to let go of the child, Pomegranate was also brave, so she immediately decided to treat Shopkeeper Huang to a lunch, and Li Jili naturally accompanied her.

As for where the guests are, Shiliu asked about it when he was walking around. There is a restaurant not far from Jixiang Inn, which can be regarded as the most famous restaurant in Luoshui City.

A meal with wine and meat would cost seven or eight taels of silver!
Shopkeeper Huang couldn't help but look down upon her sincerely when he saw that Shiliu, a girl from the village, was so generous. She was not from a wealthy family and was willing to spend a few taels of silver to treat her to a meal.

This girl knows how to get things done! Worth visiting!
Shopkeeper Huang was naturally very happy at this lunch, accompanied by Li Ji and his two brothers.

Because of this meal, Shopkeeper Huang will also be of great help in Pomegranate's carpentry business in the future.

However, this is all a story for another day.

After noon, Li Ji and Li Jili, who were all red from drinking, rented a mule cart with Shiliu and drove all the way back to Xiahe Village. It was almost dark.

After sleeping all the way, when he got off the car and the cold wind blew, he walked into the village and completely woke up from the wine. Li Jili could only think about today's things, so he couldn't bear to stay overnight. Go straight to the patriarch's house.

Pomegranate did not follow, but strode back to her home at the east end of the village with the basket on her back, thinking of sending the basket back with the money and then heading directly to the old house.

Li Jihe arrived at the patriarch's house. The patriarch had just had dinner and was relaxing around the brazier. He would be ready to go to bed soon.

Seeing that the three of them came in a hurry at this hour, and Li Jili was there, the clan leader immediately asked: "What happened? Jili, why are you back from the city?"

"Something serious has happened!"

Li Jili answered: "Clan Chief, something terrible has happened in our clan! Someone is destroying the peace in the clan and colluding with outsiders to harm the interests of the clan. Chief, what do you think we should do?"

The clan leader was confused when he heard this, but that didn't stop him from replying: "If this is the case, it should be dealt with according to the clan rules! No, Jili, what happened?"

At that moment, Li Jili told the story vividly, but did not mention the pomegranate prescription and the wooden box order. When the patriarch heard that the prosperous business of Jihe's family would no longer be possible, he was also heartbroken.

He had previously suppressed the clan members not to care about this matter, because he thought that if the Jihe family could live a prosperous life as a sole leader, it would be best if they became rich, so that they could support and help the clan in the future.

But now, this idea has been abruptly cut off before it even sprouted. How can I not be angry?

Not only that, the Li family will never tolerate such people!
At that moment, the patriarch took his son and Li Jihe to the west of the village aggressively. As soon as they left the door, they met Li Yishan who was looking around in the yard and saw his son. When he came out to ask questions, he also joined in.

The group of people went straight to the old house, and Pomegranate, who arrived panting, quietly stood behind Li Jihe.

Li Rongsong opened the door and saw the patriarch coming home, accompanied by his own family. He was also puzzled. He let everyone in and fell behind, not forgetting to wink at Shiliu and ask her what was going on.

Although Mrs. Wu is a sweet-faced person with a sweet heart and a bitter heart, and Li Jiren is also a scornful person, let alone the children he gave birth to, especially Li Rongsong and Li Rongbai, they are all honest and loyal people. .

Pomegranate has no objection to this cousin at all, and still respects him very much.

But she couldn't say much at this point, so she just shook her head at him.

In the main room, Father Li, who was about to go into the back room to sleep, heard the noise outside. He came out to greet him and said in surprise: "Clan leader, brother, why are you here? Jili? Why are you back from the city? Is this a strange incident? What happened?"

The clan leader didn't answer and just said: "Fourth, let Jiren and the others come in and talk!"

Father Li was extremely puzzled and quickly asked Li Rongsong to call his parents to come over to the main room, and then asked the clan leader and others to come into the main room.

After a while, Li Jiren and Wu's couple came. Li Jiren was puzzled when he saw the eldest uncle of the clan was there, but Wu's heart skipped a beat when he saw Li Jihe and Shiliu were also there.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, the clan leader immediately looked at Li Jihe and asked him to speak for himself.

Although the Wu family had nothing to do with this matter, he still couldn't say anything bad about his sister-in-law in front of the elders.

He just said: "Dad, someone sold this fructose recipe to the owner of Hu Ji's snack shop. I didn't know until I went to the city yesterday that Hu Dong's family is the brother-in-law of the county captain. He is in charge of this fructose business. My family I don’t dare to do it again!”

"What?!" Dad Li was shocked. "What's going on? Who sold the recipe to Hu Ji?"

Li Jili was not afraid of offending the Wu family, so he immediately answered, "Our shopkeeper helped us find out, and the person the seller sold to Hu Ji is none other than the second sister-in-law's eldest brother Wu Gui!"

As soon as these words came out, Father Li, Li Jiren, and Li Rongsong, who was standing near the door, all looked at Wu.

Wu's heart trembled, her face turned a little pale, but she said innocently: "It's my eldest brother? Is this a mistake?"

Father Li's face turned black with anger, "My dear, it turns out that you really leaked this matter! A mistake? How could this be a mistake! Who else could it be if it wasn't you? Isn't Wu Gui your natal brother? He can sell it Didn't you tell me this recipe? I really didn't expect that you would do such a thing!"

Father Li was so angry that the hard-earned livelihood of the second family was gone, gone!

(End of this chapter)