Chapter 24: Thoughtful and kind!

April 18, 2023Ai Hrist

The Xiao Family’s eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Wang, and third daughter-in-law, Mrs. Wu, looked at each other and walked quickly to the gate of the yard.

They heard someone ask: “Dalang’s wife, do you want to sell this tofu outside?”

Shi Qingluo smiled and said: “We have to make and sell it here, the family doesn’t have the energy.”

“So if you have the idea, you can buy it from our house, and then carry it to the town or other villages to resell.”

“As long as you buy 3 catties of tofu at my house, you can exchange it for taels worth of soybeans or other things per catty.”

“But if it exceeds 3 catties, it can only be exchanged for soybeans or money, and other things will not be exchanged.”

“You can sell it for 4 or 6 yuan a catty, but it can’t be higher than this price.”

“Otherwise, if I hear that someone sells it at a high price on purpose, I won’t sell my tofu to him again.”

Shi Qingluo intends to expand the tofu business, so the price of tofu cannot fluctuate greatly.

The reason for this was to consider some factors.

For example, if someone takes it to the county town to sell, or picks it up at a distant place, the time and physical cost will be greater, so the ups and downs of price per catty will not be similar.

Hearing what Shi Qingluo said, many people’s minds became active.

Daliang has just been founded more than ten years ago, and the war has just ended. Although the people have settled down, they don’t have much money in their hands.

So everyone was willing to take advantage of slack season or spare time to earn some money.

“This is good. My family would like to try selling a few catties.”

A big man stood up and continued with a smile: “But your family makes too little tofu now. I’m afraid there won’t be enough tofu in the village today. We want to buy more, but you don’t have it!”

The tofu was almost sold out at this time. There was not enough to exchange in the village, so how they will sell it?

Shi Qingluo replied: “So in two days, we are going to open a tofu workshop and invite people to help make tofu. The number will increase a lot.”

“And I will try my best to finish it at dawn so that those who want to resell it can pick it up and start selling early.”

“This is good. I’ll buy a few catties to try in 2 days.” The big man nodded with a simple smile.

They have a lot of families and little land. When the years were good, the food from the fields was not enough to eat, so they have to go to the city to do part-time jobs.

Part-time labor costs a few pennies a day, not to mention the hard work, but not necessarily every day.

Their family changed some tofu yesterday and tried it. It was delicious, and they were more hungry than eating vegetables.

In addition, there was no such food in their county, so he thinks it should not be difficult to sell.

If this tofu sells well, earning one or two pennies per catty will not be worse than working at a part-time job. If it was sold out early, they can go home and help with farm work.

Many people thought the same as a big man.

All of them laughed and said to Shi Qinglou to make some more in two days, and then they would all come and try to sell it.

Someone also asked: “Dalang’s wife, your family wants to hire someone to make tofu. Have you hired people already? How much is the pay per day?”

Compared to selling it by themselves, someone also came up with the idea of making tofu to earn money.

Shi Qingluo replied with a smile: “My husband has already asked the patriarch to help recruit people, I don’t know the details.”

Asking the patriarch for help was easier than recruiting workers yourself.

First, the patriarch was familiar with Xiaxi Village, he will screen which ones would be suitable for work so that they will not be tricked.

Even if the patriarch suppress those who were lazy to work, they won’t dare to fight back.

Secondly, the opening of the tofu workshop will be of great benefit to the entire Xiaxi Village, which means they can bring everyone together to become rich.

The patriarch was very happy to see, so he was more willing to help.

Now Daliang has stabilized, and many management systems were still not perfect.

The displaced people from the war returned to their original villages to settle down, so most people with different surnames in the villages were dominated by clans, and the patriarch was the highest person in charge of a village.

In a village with many mixed surnames, a village headmaster will be elected to manage it.

Therefore, when everyone heard that the patriarch helped find them, many people showed disappointment.

Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Wu rolled their eyes while thinking carefully.

Seeing that the tofu was almost finished, Mrs. Wang hurried in.

She looked confident as she pointed to the remaining tofu on the table.

“Dalang’s wife, we want this tofu.”

Shi Qingluo saw the two come empty-handed, so she asked, “What are you going to exchange?”

Ms. Wang was stunned for a while, and then she said, “I am your aunt, what’s wrong with giving us some tofu, but you want us to exchange something?”

Mr. Wu was even more scheming, and said with a smooth smile, “We ask for it because the old man and the old lady want to eat tofu, so they let us come.”

Ms. Wang also said: “Yes, this tofu is to honor your grandparents.”

“And you, the old, the weak, the sick, why are you going to run a tofu workshop?”

“It’s better to let your first uncle and third uncle take care of it for you. It doesn’t matter if they work hard, we are a family.”

She has made up her mind, she will let his man help manage the tofu workshop first. Once they make money, they will take it for themselves.

If they don’t make money, they will sell it immediately, and they won’t lose money anyway.

They heard that Xiao Hanzheng was weak and had to lie on the bed, so he couldn’t do anything. They were not afraid of Mrs. Kong.

Hearing what the two said, many villagers showed speechless expressions.

These two daughters-in-law of the main Xiao family were shameless. They want to occupy the tofu workshop of Xiao Hanzheng’s family.

Everyone looked at Mrs. Kong together, fearing that they were about to be bullied again.

Her son was not in good health, and there were only three weak women and a child in his family. How can he be the opponent of the two shrews from the main Xiao family?

Mrs. Kong was habitually afraid at first, but then there was a trace of warmth on her hand.

She found that it was her daughter-in-law who shook her hand.

“Mother, don’t be afraid, I’m here.”

Shi Qingluo also discovered that Mrs. Kong might have been oppressed by the old lady before, and was bullied too much by these two people, so she was habitually afraid when she saw them.

Mrs. Kong gritted her teeth and nodded: “Well, I’m not afraid.”

Then, under Shi Qingluo’s encouraging eyes, Mrs. Kong looked at the two and said, “This is my family’s tofu workshop, so I won’t bother the first brother-in-law and the third brother-in-law.”

“We also already promised to exchange this tofu for others. You are late.”

After she finished speaking, she suddenly found that it was not too difficult to reject these two people.

Mrs. Wang did not expect Mrs. Kong to dare to refuse. So she said with a fierce look on her face: “Second sister-in-law, I’d better think about something before I say it.”

If there were not so many villagers standing around, she would have already started to deal with this bitch, just like in the past.

Mrs. Kong couldn’t help but freeze. Ever since her son fell into a coma, she had been beaten several times by the two of them. Seeing Mrs. Wang’s appearance, she couldn’t help being a little scared.

Shi Qingluo didn’t want Mrs. Kong to be bullied all the time as a soft bun, so she had to stand up by herself.

Of course, she didn’t expect her to be too ruthless from the beginning.

Now, under her encouragement, Mrs. Kong can take the initiative to reject the two of them, which was progress.

So she picked up the kitchen knife and chopped it heavily on the cutting board.

Such a sudden surprise shocked everyone.

Shi Qinglou looked at Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Wu with a cold face: “What kind of relatives are you two talking about? Who are these first and third uncles? Do they have anything to do with us?”

If they want to make a fortune, they must not leave the impression of being a bully or being too talkative.

Shi Qingluo was about to do something to make a name for herself in the village.

Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Wu took the initiative to send themselves to her door and give her early warning signs. They were so thoughtful and kind!