Chapter 12 A new way of making money
Su Chen sent the old man of the Bai family away and asked himself, although it was a pity, even after the battle between heaven and man, his heart was bleeding, but he had no regrets. The stunning beauty and the wealth of the family were important, but he didn't want to lose his life because of a tree.
Give up the entire forest and sacrifice your freedom.
There is a limerick that says it best: Life is precious, love is even more valuable, and both can be thrown away for the sake of freedom.
Su Chen is only eighteen years old and has unlimited possibilities, so don't rush for a while!
"Brother Su Chen, do you really want to refuse this marriage?" Yang Ling'er asked with a bit of a smile.
"Yes, you heard it just now. We have our own ambitions. Mr. Bai really looks down on me. Do you think I am the kind of man who is greedy for vanity and will eat soft food all his life?" Su Chen put his left hand on his belly.
Standing in front of me, with my right hand behind my back, I felt extremely tall.
Yang Ling'er tilted her head, thought for a while, and then asked: "What if the Bai family does not need you as a son-in-law, but directly marries Bai Susu into the Su family, and gives her a large dowry?"
"That's...that's a different matter. Ahem, the assets of the Bai family don't matter. The main thing is that Bai Susu is a person who can make me like him. Otherwise, even if he has a fortune of hundreds of millions, I won't care.
It's rare to inherit it!" Su Chen felt that these words made him feel a little guilty.
"Brother Su Chen, you are so ambitious!" Yang Ling'er's eyes seemed to be full of little stars.
Su Chen smiled and started to count the copper coins in the room. Today he sold nearly sixty coins in one day and received 314 coins. Some were sold for six coins per coin, and some were sold for two coins for ten coins, after deducting the cost.
, earned nearly 300 yuan.
"That's a lot of money!" Yang Ling'er stood aside and clapped her hands happily.
Su Chen picked up a pen and began to keep accounts. Today's profit reached three hundred cents. If the output doubled tomorrow, he would probably sell more.
However, this project alone is definitely not enough. Even if you make the same amount of money in one day, you will only get 20 money in 20 days. This does not include the imitation products that will appear on the market in a few days. At that time, there will be a price war.
Liuwen may fall back, which will affect profits and sales.
"No, there are only twenty days left. I definitely can't earn back 500 yuan from just one variety of candied haws. I have to get a few more varieties!" Su Chen thought hard, what would be easier to make?
Since Yang Ling'er is still young and a little girl, she doesn't feel confident going out to sell things alone. After all, the manpower is limited. There is no such thing as a franchise in this era, so she can't pass on her skills to others and collect dividends.
Su Chen thought carefully and felt that it was difficult to make huge profits by making such a small amount of money. The real rich people in Runzhou City, apart from the high-ranking officials and nobles, were the country squires, wealthy ladies, and dandies. He had to find a way to make money from these people.
Make them willing to spend money.
The way to get rich comes from life. Su Chen walked around the house and looked at some household items. They were very shabby. For example, the toothbrush was made of willow branches and there was no toothpaste. They all used coarse salt water. When washing clothes, poor people wash them directly with water.
, Wealthier families will use soap locust, algae beans, or detergents made from fat beads, which are simply extracted from plants.
"Soaps and toilet soaps, one for the general public and the other for high-end users, if they can be produced and sold in Runzhou City, it will definitely be a huge profit."
Thinking of this, Su Chen felt hot and planned to take action immediately.
In the afternoon, Su Chen went out to buy algae beans, pig fat, caustic soda and other materials, and brought them back for experiments.
In ancient times, there was no modern processing equipment for this thing. Whether it could be made successfully required repeated attempts. It was different from the situation when he was doing physics experiments in high school.
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Mr. Bai returned home and sat at the pearwood table in the inner hall. He took the prescription prescribed by Su Chen and compared it with the prescription prescribed by Su Mingyuan before.
"Ephedra, cassia twig, licorice, bitter almond, yam, Sichuan clam..."
He found that five of the herbal ingredients were the same, but the other three were different.
Mr. Bai picked up the prescriptions prescribed by other doctors in the past few years, but they all had fewer Chinese herbal medicines than Su Chen's prescription.
"Sure enough, it is a new prescription, and the proportions are also different. They are indeed herbs for treating asthma. I have never seen this formula before!" Bai Fengxian perked up, thinking of giving it a try, and asked the housekeeper to send someone to get the medicine.
"Master, don't you find a doctor to see if there is anything wrong with the prescription?"
Bai Feng thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "No need. Since it is the secret recipe of the Su family, it is inconvenient to spread it to others. Take two pieces of paper, copy half of them each, and send people to the two medicine halls to get the medicine separately."
"Okay!" After Tao Fang copied it, he went out to arrange for his servants to get medicine.
At this time, Bai Susu, wearing a purple double-breasted shirt, with bright eyes and white teeth, unparalleled beauty, walked in from the courtyard with graceful steps, and came to visit her grandfather. She heard her grandfather and the housekeeper seem to be talking about the prescription, and asked by the way:
"Grandpa, what are you talking about? What medicine are you going to get?"
Bai Feng's ancestors have matured and have strict requirements for the younger generations in the family. He only loves Bai Susu and smiles a lot. He smiled softly and said: "I found a secret recipe to treat asthma. I asked the housekeeper to send someone to get the medicine.
Come back and suffer, take it and try the effect."
Bai Susu also knew that her grandfather had been suffering from asthma for sixteen or seventeen years, and it was getting worse every year. In the past few days, there were signs of coughing up blood, and complications were increasing. In the past two years, famous doctors and quacks in the city have been invited.
, I have tried several prescriptions, but the effects are all average. I can still take one pill at first, but then there is no effect.
"Which famous doctor gave me the prescription this time? Did he tell me the key to the disease?" Bai Susu asked.
Bai Feng first thought of Su Chen, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "What kind of famous doctor is that? He's just a bastard! What kind of seasonal... allergies... asthma, what is an allergy? I don't understand, listen.
What he said was very accurate and he even prescribed a secret recipe. Seeing how confident he was in swearing it, I felt that this recipe might be effective, so I decided to give it a try."
Bai Susu couldn't laugh or cry when she heard this. This prescription was not prescribed by a famous doctor in the city, but by a stupid boy. He couldn't understand the words he said. Grandpa, who had always been cautious and cautious, actually planned to try it. The more he listened, the more ridiculous it became.
?
"Grandpa, you were not such a casual person before!"
"I'll get up casually...it depends on who I am!" Bai Feng smiled first and handed out the paper in his hand: "Let me show you this recipe!"
Bai Susu took it over. Although she didn't know medical skills, she had a filial piety and cared about her grandfather since she was a child. So every time the doctor gave her grandfather a prescription for medicine, she would take a second look. Over time, many prescriptions have been memorized.
In my mind, I don’t know how to treat the disease, but through comprehensive comparison, I can also tell whether it is a prescription for treating asthma.
After reading the prescription, I found that most of the Chinese herbal medicines above had appeared in different prescriptions before, but this time there seemed to be more combinations and special ratios, and there were one or two more herbs that I had never used before.
"This font and strokes..." Bai Susu's heart moved slightly, feeling very familiar.
"Could it be him?" Suddenly, Bai Susu thought of whose calligraphy it was.
When Bai Susu raised her head, Bai Fengxian was looking at her with a kind smile.
"Have you guessed who it is?"
Bai Susu's heart was like a mirror, she nodded and asked: "Grandpa, have you seen him?"
Bai Fengxian picked up the tea cup and took a sip. He nodded calmly and said, "I've seen you before. After all, we are old friends and descendants, and we have an engagement with you. Let's talk to him."
"What did grandpa talk about with him?" With Bai Susu's intelligence, she guessed that grandpa was not looking for Su Chen because he was an old friend and he wanted to reminisce about the past. Otherwise, he wouldn't have turned a blind eye and ignored him in the past few years.
"Talk about your marriage. Su Chen is already eighteen years old. You are also old enough to get married, so you think it's time to talk about this marriage!"
Bai Susu was a little surprised. Regarding her marriage, in the past two years, even though some squires and wealthy families sent matchmakers to propose marriage, they were all rejected by her grandfather.
Many wealthy businessmen could also see that Mr. Bai did not have any men with high business talent available, so they placed high hopes on Bai Susu.
Some people want to get Bai Susu, a beautiful woman who is so beautiful and has such intelligence that she can become a good wife of the family.
There are also people who plan to marry into the Bai family, become wealthy businessmen, expand their business scale, and join forces with powerful forces.
Some people have ulterior motives and want to marry Bai Susu, causing the Bai family to gradually decline and collapse. Even like the Cao family, they have the ambition to annex the Bai family.
Mr. Bai is also a monkey spirit, so how could he be fooled, so he declined them all.
This time, he went to Su Chen to discuss marriage on his own, which surprised Bai Susu, thinking that the probability of breaking off the engagement was higher.
Chapter completed!