Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

Because it is difficult to price ingredients such as red beans and mung beans, Li Yu and her friends only plan to sell jelly. One bowl of jelly can make about 30 bowls, and 30 cents is just right.

"No one knows how to make jelly. In town, a bowl of pure jelly can be sold for two cents, so even if they don't add any ingredients, they can still earn thirty cents a day." Aunt Wu said, "I think this price is appropriate."

Several others agreed.

Only the village chief's wife was a little worried. "After they buy the jelly, they shouldn't steal our business, right? Should we sign a contract?"

"No need." Li Yu said, "We know how to make jelly. If they are not fools, they will not do something like stealing our business and destroying their livelihood."

The village chief's wife thought so too and felt relieved.

*

Li Yu went back and told the old men that they could sell jelly.

When they heard that they could buy jelly for thirty cents a bowl, everyone was happy. They took out their wallets and handed them to Li Yu one by one.

Li Yu didn't take any. "Today's jelly is out. If you want some, just come here tomorrow morning (7 to 9 am). Someone will take you to get it then."

Some people were worried that Li Yu and her friends wouldn't prepare enough jelly tomorrow, so they wanted to give her a deposit. "Boss Li, we have the money anyway, how about we give you half first?"

Li Yu refused all of them: "Don't worry, since I promised you, I will definitely prepare enough. But everyone should remember that there are six of you here today, so I will only prepare six bowls of jelly. If you bring others, that person won't be able to buy it."

"Don't worry, Boss Li, we won't do that kind of thing." They had finally gotten the chance to make money, so they wouldn't tell anyone else.

*

The whole business of selling jelly was settled, and Li Yu didn't care about it anymore.

She devoted some of her energy to looking for the accountant.

She wanted to find a woman, but Huangmei Town was a small place, and there were not many women who could read, and even fewer who were good at math. She searched for five or six days in a row, but found nothing.

When Li Yu was thinking about whether to try with an old man, a young girl ran to her door.

The girl had probably been running for a long time, so her hair was a little messy. When she saw Li Yu, she took a step forward, not even taking the time to calm her breath, and said anxiously, "Boss Li, I heard you're looking for an accountant. Can you take a look at me?"

The girl's voice was thin, and her eyebrows and eyes were still familiar. Li Yu stood up, stared into her eyes and said, "Pei Mingzhu?"

It was Pei Mingzhu who disguised herself as a man and mixed in with the bricklayers to build a house for her, but was frightened to tears by her own menstrual period.

Seeing that she was wearing women's clothes, Li Yu invited her into the yard and asked as they walked in, "Don't you have to hide your identity as a girl?"

Pei Mingzhu shook her head. "No need. Last time, I was talking to my mother at home. I wasn't paying attention and the villagers heard it. Since then, everyone knows that I am a woman."

"What about the work of a bricklayer?"

"It's gone too. The uncles and aunts in the village didn't say anything, but they didn't dare to hire me anymore. They were afraid of the gossip in the village and also afraid that something might happen to me." Pei Mingzhu was dejected. Building houses was the most profitable business nowadays, but it was all gone like this. She regretted it very much.

"Boss Li." Pei Mingzhu looked at Li Yu anxiously, "I can read and do math, can you let me be your accountant?"

Li Yu looked at her for a while and asked, "Can you use an abacus?"

"No, but I can count." Pei Mingzhu said, "Boss Li can test me if you don't believe me."

Li Yu thought for a moment and said, "Then find a place to sit down first. I'll give you some questions and you can do the math."

Pei Mingzhu nodded.

*

Li Yu returned to the house, found a piece of paper, ground ink and started writing.

Although she admired Pei Mingzhu, the necessary procedures had to be followed. If Pei Mingzhu couldn't pass it in the end, she would not give her the accounting job.

A few days ago, when she had nothing to do, she looked for some questions in the current book, and now she copied them onto paper, which can just serve as a set of test papers.

Outside, Pei Mingzhu sat on a chair, looking around curiously.

She contributed to the building of this house. Looking at it now, it would be a lie to say that she is not happy.

Han Xiaomei didn't have a deep impression of Pei Mingzhu, but she looked familiar, so she asked, "Have we met before?"

Pei Mingzhu said: "Yes, I have. I built a house for your family before."

Han Xiaomei frowned, and after a while, her eyes widened: "Which Pei are you?"

Pei Mingzhu knew that she had understood, and nodded, "I am Pei Ming, and now my name is Pei Mingzhu."

Han Xiaomei looked shocked.

Pei Ming was a man, how come he became a woman now?

*

Li Yu took out a test paper and found Han Xiaomei in a daze when he came out.

She asked Pei Mingzhu: "What's wrong with her?"

Pei Mingzhu smiled embarrassedly: "He must have been scared by my identity."

Li Yu understood, and told Pei Mingzhu to get up and go into the room to write the test paper. "Go and finish the questions on that paper. There are a total of ten questions. I'll give you two quarters of an hour. If you can answer eight or more questions correctly, you can come and try to be an accountant tomorrow."

Pei Mingzhu was very nervous and walked into Li Yu's room with a stiff body.

*

Seeing her sit down and start writing, Li Yu poured a glass of water and handed it to Han Xiaomei.

Han Xiaomei drank it in one gulp, put down the cup and said, "Second sister-in-law, she is so brave."

She actually pretended to be a man to build a house for others. She couldn't imagine what the villagers would say about her in private.

Li Yu sat next to Han Xiaomei and whispered, "When people are in desperate situations, they won't think so much. As long as they can survive, they won't care about anything else."

Han Xiaomei fell silent.

*

Pei Mingzhu did not lie, she really knows how to count.

In less than two quarters of an hour, she finished all ten questions. Li Yu read them from top to bottom and nodded, "You only got one wrong out of ten. It's OK. But your handwriting isn't very pretty."

Pei Mingzhu said embarrassedly: "I haven't touched a brush for a long time, so I'm a little rusty."

Li Yu raised an eyebrow.

If she used to be able to touch a brush frequently, I think her family must have been well off. I just don't know why she ended up in this situation.

This question flashed through Li Yu's mind, and the next moment it was thrown out by Li Yu.

Putting away the test paper, Li Yu said, "You have initially met my criteria for recruiting accountants, but this does not mean that you can be an accountant here in the future. If you do not do well, I will replace you."

Pei Mingzhu immediately asked, "What are Boss Li's standards?"

Li Yu said: "Fewer mistakes, don't talk nonsense, keep your mouth shut, and most importantly, good character. I need an accountant with good character."

Pei Mingzhu breathed a sigh of relief, "I can do all of this, Boss Li, don't worry."

Li Yu hummed.

*

In the afternoon, Li Yu told Aunt Wu and the other six people about finding the accountant. When they heard that it was a girl, they were all happy. Although they didn't say it, they didn't want to find a man to be the accountant because it was inconvenient. Now it was a woman, which was just right.

Li Yu cleared out the room where she and Han Xiaomei had lived before, put a table and chairs in it, and laid out pens, ink, paper and inkstone, so that Pei Mingzhu could settle accounts here in the future.

As the ceremony was going on, the village head's wife walked to the door and said, "Xiu Wen's wife, have you heard that Yang Qiuyue was sold by her family?"