Fisherman Fubao made his fortune by fishing

Now that people have bought it, it is impossible to return it.

Because Stone's parents are blood-sucking leeches, and leeches never spit out blood on their own initiative.

But how to arrange it?

If things are not planned well, people will have thoughts that they shouldn’t have.

Li Yuer sat next to Old Lady Cai, holding her arm and said, "Grandma, does this mean that the person we bought is our servant?"

Old Mrs. Cai was just an ordinary citizen. How could she understand these things? For a moment, she didn't know what to say.

Li Erlang's eyes lit up. Yesterday he said that he didn't have an attendant to match his belt, but now he has one. Could it be that God has sent him an attendant specially?

When Li Laosan heard what Li Yuer said, his face changed immediately and he wanted to say that Shi Tou was his brother, not a servant.

But he was stopped by Shitou, who ran to Old Man Li and Old Lady Cai and knelt down directly, "bang bang bang!" and kowtowed three times.

It made everyone confused.

Li Laosan was about to go and get someone, but he heard Shitou say, "Brother San, I know you are a man of honor, but I have sold myself to the Li family now, and I will be a servant from now on.

Shitou must fulfill his duties as a servant and serve the master well!"

At this moment, Li Yuer felt that she had underestimated Shitou. Although Shitou looked simple and naive, he was actually a very smart person. It seemed that all the ups and downs of human nature she had experienced over the years were not in vain.

Li Laosan felt upset and said, "Shitou, why are you doing this? You know I am here..."

"Brother San, please stop talking," Shitou interrupted him. "I know you are doing this for my own good, but I cannot make things difficult for you. If it weren't for Brother San, I would have been taken to the mines to do hard labor. It was also because of you that I was not sold this time. You saved me time and time again. I cannot help but be grateful. I was bought by the Li family for five taels of silver. It is a great favor that I was not sent to a place where people are eaten. "

As he spoke, Shitou's tall and strong body began to tremble and he actually started to cry bitterly.

"If you want to blame someone, just blame my bad luck for having such a cold-blooded father. I was sold out by my own father. It has nothing to do with others."

Mr. and Mrs. Li are both honest islanders. They have never seen such a scene in their lives. They were stunned to see them kneel down, kowtow and call the master.

Seeing Shitou crying so heartbrokenly, they instantly softened their hearts.

Old man Li quickly pulled the stone up and said, "Kid, what are you doing?"

Li Yuer shook his head and sighed in his heart, saying that his third uncle was impulsive, but his grandparents were different. Including everyone in the Li family, they were actually soft-hearted people. It was estimated that if any one of his grandparents encountered the same thing, the result would be the same.

Li Yuer finally understood that the Li family members were basically all kind-hearted people. Good people had their strengths, but one should not be too soft-hearted, otherwise they would be easy to bully.

Li Yuer said, "Grandpa and grandma are both good people. They will definitely not chase Brother Shitou away, right? Don't worry, Brother Shitou."

This is actually nonsense. Given the current situation, it is impossible to send the person away.

It's not that Li Yuer is cruel. Even brothers have to settle accounts clearly. If he doesn't make things clear today and put the stone in the right position, it will be bad if unnecessary troubles arise in the future.

Li Yuer said, "Grandpa and grandma, please don't chase Brother Shitou away. Brother Shitou is very strong and can definitely do a lot of work."

What this means is that Shitou needs to work for their family.

Li Laosan was afraid that Li Laohan and his wife would really chase him away, so he quickly said, "Dad and Mom, Shitou is very good at work. He is still, he is still so good at work!"

Li Laosan didn't know what Shitou would do. Cooking and embroidering? Impossible. Going out to sea? There were a lot of men at home, but only one boat. It seemed that Shitou was not needed.

In short, let's leave the stone behind for now.

Li Yuer has been brewing an idea these days, but hasn't found a chance to speak it out. Now seems to be a good opportunity.

There was a stone blocking the way ahead, and she took advantage of it to confuse her plans.

So, Li Yuer said, "Grandma, I remember now, since Brother Shitou is so good at working."

Li Laosan: "Yes, I can do the job!"

Old Madam Cai rolled her eyes at Li Laosan and said, "Yu Baoer, please continue."

Li Yuer imitated Old Lady Cai and rolled her eyes at Li Laosan, "There's a business over at Nongchao Tower that wants to cooperate with our family."

"Nongchao Tower?" Li Laoer jumped up excitedly.

Old Madam Cai rolled her eyes at Li Erlang and said, "Erlang, what are you doing? Are you imitating your uncle? Sit down, Yu Baoer, continue talking."

Li Yuer rolled her eyes at Li Erlang and said, "Grandma, it's the shopkeeper Qian who wants to hire our family to help him collect seashells. They charge one cent per pound. They also want to buy fish bladders. Fresh ones are one cent per pound, and dried ones are three cents per pound."

"What? There is such a good thing?" Old Man Cai didn't believe that there was such a good thing in the world. The shells everywhere were one cent per pound, which was more expensive than ordinary fish. When the sea opened, fish were sold by the piece and by the basket. If a fish could be sold for one cent, it was a good one.

Or is Nongchaolou going to buy it? Who in Xinpu Town doesn't know Nongchaolou? It's the number one restaurant in town. To eat there, you need not only money but also status to enter the private room. "Yu Baoer, you are young and may not know how sinister people are. Don't be fooled by those black-hearted vendors who impersonate you."

Old Mrs. Cai knew very well that this was most likely true.

Although he was her own younger brother, Mrs. Cai also had her own reservations and could not tell anyone about their family's and Nongchaolou's business.

She felt a little regretful. Her brother was right about one thing. Yu Baoer was still young after all. How could she say such a thing so directly?

Li Yuer certainly had her own plans. As someone who made sesame-filled glutinous rice balls, Li Yuer naturally had her own little calculations in mind.

Ever since she learned that Shopkeeper Qian was going to use shell oil lamps at the Whale Tasting Banquet, she knew that shell oil lamps would be a huge hit.

By then, there will be a huge market demand, and there will definitely be many businessmen who will seize the opportunity to grab a piece of the pie.

If she had the ability to make a batch of shell oil lamps in advance and quickly put them on the market when other merchants were just starting to get started after the Whale Tasting Banquet, she would definitely make a fortune.

But the speed at which she and Li Meir could make the oil lamps was totally insufficient. Her ideas would then just be given to others for nothing, so she had to hire someone else.

Hiring someone else might leak business secrets, so she planned to break down the production process of shell oil lamps into an assembly line, assigning the picking of shells, applying oil film, and making fish glue to different people. The production of fish glue also had to be divided into several steps.

It would be best if it could be completed in several different places, such as completing part of the assembly line in Rabbit Island and another part in Fushui Village.

The shell oil lamp business was first started by Li Yuer's children. She didn't want to hand it over to her family, but she also wanted to make money with her family, so she had to contract this part to them under the name of Nongchaolou.

For example, she offered to buy shells at one cent per pound, but in fact the original price was one cent per two or three pounds, and the difference was the share given to the Li family.

The reason why she said this in front of the Cai family was naturally because she wanted to get the Cai family to join in and divide the production line between Tudao and Fushui Village.

Old Mrs. Cai was afraid that Li Yuer would make more mistakes if she said too much, so she took over and said, "This matter is indeed not for the child to decide. Let me and the old man check it out tomorrow to see if it is true. If it is true, we will say it later."

Mr. Cai nodded and agreed with it. This matter needed to be verified carefully. He believed that this was basically a scam.

Shitou was finally kept, and the Li family decided to employ him as a long-term worker, and the five taels of silver were used as his wages.

Old Lady Cai offered the remaining 800 wen, but Li Laosan refused to accept it and asked Li Yuer to calculate how much he could get from the money for the oil lamp.

Only Li Laosan got a share of the final payment for the oil lamp, and the costs had to be deducted, such as the rent, clothing and food expenses for the two big guys, as well as possible costs in the future, such as the money planned to be used to purchase shells, fish bubbles, and hire people.

Li Yuer's plan was not to share the money in the early stage and to keep it for investment to grow bigger and stronger. She kept a record of the money paid in advance to Li Laosan and the money spent by other people.

In the end, she still advanced Li Laosan another tael of silver, but this meant that Li Laosan would have no financial investment in the next oil lamp business and could only provide manpower, but he could only provide three people.

Li Yuer decided not to deduct his share, but also stopped managing the expenses of his subordinates. He directly assigned the stones to him for management. He was equivalent to a contractor, and after taking the share from Li Yuer, he would give his subordinates the wages.