Rebirth in 1980, the rise of the golden age

The milk purity and sweetness are the same.

The only difference is the choice of starch.

The ingredients were so similar that Li Youcai had no doubts. He was almost certain that his recipe had been leaked!

Otherwise, such a coincidence would never happen!

"What should we do now? Should we continue looking?" Wang Qiang asked.

Li Youcai's face was gloomy, and he put away the ice cream in his hand: "No more looking, let's go back!"

The ice cream produced last night plus the one produced this morning totaled 2400 pieces. In the morning, only more than 1600 pieces were sold, and there were still a lot of unsold ones piled up in the freezer.

This made Li Youjie very worried. With so much left, he didn't know whether he should continue production today.

In the workshop, after Zhang Laoer and Lao Du finished making a round of ice cream, they each found a place to sit down and rest, waiting for lunch.

Zhang Laoer sat on the cement floor, pouting and saying, "Hey, today is really strange. I see there's a lot of ice cream piled up in the warehouse. If they're usually not enough to sell, how come there's still some left today?"

Du Yong felt nervous when he heard Zhang Laoer's words.

Du Yong's wife was also nervous and glanced at Du Yong secretly.

"Maybe the novelty of the first few days has worn off. No matter how delicious the ice cream is, no one can buy it all the time." Du Yong added.

"That's true." Zhang Laoer felt that what Du Yong said made sense.

Although ice cream is delicious, a piece of it costs as much as a worker's daily salary, and no one can buy it every day.

When it first came out, it was new and everyone wanted to try it. Now that the novelty has worn off, it is possible that it is not selling as well.

Li Youcai and Wang Qiang returned to the factory.

Li Youjie was about to go to the restaurant across the street to order food when he ran into him head-on.

"Brother, you are back. How is your investigation going?" Li Youjie asked anxiously.

Li Youcai gave all the ice cream he bought to Li Youjie.

"Isn't this the ice cream we made?" Li Youjie didn't react at first and thought it was their own product.

"Two of these were made by someone else."

"How is this possible?" Li Youjie couldn't believe it.

Li Youcai looked at Li Youjie and asked, "Let me ask you, you've always been in charge of purchasing raw materials. Who have you taken with you to do the purchasing?"

"Da Zhuang! I only took Da Zhuang to the supply and marketing cooperative."

"Brother, what do you mean?"

Li Youjie didn't understand why his elder brother asked this.

But Li Youcai was almost 100% certain that someone must have leaked their ice cream recipe, but the other party himself didn't know about corn starch, so this situation occurred.

There are only a few people in the factory. Let’s exclude those who know about corn starch first. Among the remaining people, there must be the leaker!

"Youjie, the ice cream they made uses our family's recipe, which means someone in the factory leaked the recipe." Li Youcai said.

"What?"

"The formula was leaked?" Li Youjie was shocked and even a little bit unbelievable.

They didn't hire people from the city in order to prevent such things from happening, but they didn't expect such a situation to happen now.

I was wondering in my mind who the leaker might be.

Li Youjie subconsciously looked at Wang Qiang.

Except for Wang Qiang and his sister, the rest of the people in the entire factory were all from their Dongsheng Brigade, and the imitation ice cream only appeared after Wang Qiang came. Li Youjie felt that Wang Qiang was the most suspicious.

Being stared at by Li Youjie like this, Wang Qiang immediately understood that the deputy factory director was suspicious of him.

He simply spread out his palms: "Whether you believe it or not, it's not me."

Li Youcai put his arm around Li Youjie's shoulders and said with a smile, "It's definitely not Wang Qiang! In this courtyard, the people I trust the most are you and Dazhuang."

Wang Qiang was very pleased to hear Li Youcai say this.

Leaking the formula is a serious matter that will cut off someone's financial resources. The fact that Li Youcai still trusts him so much shows that he really trusts him.

"Brother, who do you think it is?"

Li Youjie couldn't figure it out. If it weren't for Wang Qiang and his sister, there would only be the six people in the workshop.

Li Youcai shook his head: "I can't say for sure now."

On the way back, he also made many guesses.

He could only determine that the problem occurred with the remaining three families, but as for who it was, Li Youcai was not sure.

The more Li Youjie thought about it, the angrier he got. "How despicable! We were so kind to give them jobs, we paid them the highest salary, reimbursed their travel expenses, and even provided them with meals, and yet they actually betrayed us. They must have lost their consciences!"

"Well, there's no use getting angry."

"The process of making ice cream is too simple, with a low investment threshold, and it's easy for others to copy it. It was only a matter of time before something like this happened. I originally thought I could make it through the winter, but I didn't expect it to happen so soon."

"Brother, you are optimistic. What should we do now?" Li Youjie asked.

"Lower the price! If they charge 9 cents, we'll charge 8 cents. If they charge 7 cents, we'll charge 6 cents! Since they want to engage in a price war, I'll wear them down!" Li Youcai said.

At this point, a price war is almost inevitable.

Since he was going to fight, Li Youcai was going to fight hard to let the other party know that he was not someone to be trifled with!

"Then fight!" Li Youjie also got angry. He was furious at being bullied like this.

"Go order some food. Remember, until you find out who the leaker is, you must remain restrained. Be as you normally do and behave in the future as you do in normal times, okay?" Li Youcai deliberately warned.

"Okay, I see."

Li Youjie muttered something and then walked to the Beiwei Restaurant opposite the factory.

Watching his brother leave, Li Youcai looked at Wang Qiang with a smile: "Don't mind what happened just now."

"I came later, so it's normal for me to be suspected when something happens. But you, you really trust me so much. Aren't you worried about what you will do if it's really me and the people outside who are working together?" Wang Qiang said with a smile.

"You are not that kind of person." After saying that, Li Youcai strode towards the factory.

Wang Qiang was stunned for a moment, then he smiled and quickly chased after him.

In the afternoon, the wholesale price of ice cream at the factory dropped from one yuan to 8 cents. The news spread like wildfire to the ears of the peddlers.

They all turned around and ran to Li Youcai and his team to purchase goods.

The ice cream that was originally piled up was sold out in an instant and was once again in short supply.

Li Youjie took out the ice cream piece by piece. He made 2 cents less for each piece. Feeling distressed, he hated the leaker even more.

In the yard of a private house in the north of Teng County.

There are 7 big black pots on the open-air stove, the fire in the stove is burning brightly, and ice cream is produced one after another.

Baldy Chen was sitting on the kang in the room, happily counting his money.

He earned thousands of dollars in turnover in just this morning. How could that not be great?

At this moment, a younger brother rushed in in a panic: "Oh no, big brother! The ice cream factory has lowered the price. They are now selling it for 8 cents a piece. All those peddlers are running to them to buy their stock again!"

"What did you say? 8 cents?"

Baldy Chen rubbed his bald head, his eyes gleaming with ferocity.