Divorcing your wife might feel good for a moment, but seeing me make money will make you regret it f

The villagers were unhappy when they heard this.

"Your service is terrible. We're supposed to be neighbors, and you're going to deny responsibility after you've sold us the goods?"

"I want my money back, I don't want to buy it anymore!"

Xu Qing maintained his professional smile, showing no annoyance whatsoever: "Think about it, everyone. I taught you how to build your own toilets... outhouses. You've learned this skill."

If people in other villages buy squat toilets in the future, you can help them build them and earn some wages, right?

That's all I have to say. You can decide for yourselves. If anyone still wants a refund, just come to me.

When the villagers heard Xu Qing say this, they thought about it and realized it was true.

These days, you have to pay a master and give gifts before someone will teach you a trade.

If you encounter someone without conscience, they won't teach you all their skills; they'll keep them to themselves.

Now, after buying just one item from Xu Qing, she taught me a skill for free.

You can earn 30 coins a day by helping others build outhouses.

This is such a great profit!

The villagers stopped asking for a refund and all treated Xu Qing like a god of wealth, wishing they could worship him.

"Qing, we were just in a hurry and talked nonsense. Please don't take it to heart."

"We're all from the same village, whose business should we support if we don't support yours?"

"Once my outhouse is built, I'll go to my parents' house to tell them about you. Don't worry, Qing'er."

Xu Qing maintained a polite smile throughout, remaining neither arrogant nor impatient.

At this time, Zhao Da led the workers to set up tables in the courtyard of the new house.

Xu Qing stopped Zhao Dazhi and asked him to set up a separate table in the reception room to entertain the managers of various restaurants.

Hui Niang then led the employees of the milk tea workshop to start serving the dishes.

As dish after dish was served, the villagers' mouths watered.

"Please sit down and start eating. Tomorrow I will arrange for workers to deliver the squat toilets to everyone in the order they were registered."

As soon as Xu Qing finished speaking, the villagers couldn't wait to sit down at the nearest table and start eating voraciously.

"This trip was definitely worthwhile. Not only did I get to eat all this delicious food, but I also learned a new skill."

"Who says otherwise? If I ever hear anyone say anything bad about Qingya's family again, I'll be the first to beat them up!"

Xu Jian stood next to Xu Qing and said with a stern face, "Little sister, these people talk to people like humans and ghosts like ghosts."

Why would you sell it to them?

We even taught them how to build outhouses. If we teach them, won't they come and steal our business from our construction team?

I'd rather not sell to them! And I'm giving them such good food...

Seeing all the delicious food you painstakingly prepared go into their stomachs makes me feel so resentful.

Xu Qing chuckled and patted Xu Jian's shoulder, saying softly:

"Brother, do you think it's a thankless task to sell them for 150 coins each and go through so much trouble?"

Although Xu Jian really didn't want to hurt his younger sister's feelings, that was indeed what he thought, so he kept a straight face and didn't say a word.

Xu Qing looked at Xu Jian, who was stuck in a rut, and gently comforted him:

"Brother, do you know how much we can make per ordinary squat toilet sold to the villagers?"

Xu Jian shook his head.

He always just kept his head down and did whatever his younger sister asked him to do.

He didn't understand these things, nor did he want to care; he just wanted to listen to his younger sister.

Xu Qing: "100 coins, compared to selling it to restaurant owners, do you still think it's too little, brother?"

Xu Jian continued to shake his head: "Little sister, it's not that I think it's too little, it's that I think you shouldn't have taught them how to build outhouses."

"If we help them build it, we can earn some extra money."

Xu Qing patiently explained, "It's already quite remarkable that the villagers are willing to spend money to buy squat toilets."

Do you think it's possible to ask them to pay someone to build a latrine?

Furthermore, the outhouses in the villagers' homes are not as dirty and smelly as the outhouses in restaurants where people use chamber pots.

Let the villagers build it themselves; we just need to focus on selling our products, which saves us a lot of trouble. Although we don't earn as much as we would selling to restaurants.

However, the number of ordinary people is huge, and once the villagers spread the word about our squat toilets, sales will increase significantly.

How can this not be mutually beneficial? Do you know how much you sold to the villagers today?

Xu Qing didn't keep him in suspense and directly showed Xu Jian the order that he had just recorded on the paper.

Xu Jian took it and counted them one by one, his eyes gradually widening.

Xujia Village has only about fifty households, yet they managed to sell 50 of them?

Their villages are all very small, with most having seventy or eighty households, and some larger villages even having around a hundred households.

If they could sell this many squat toilets in every village, it would be a considerable amount.

Xu Qing continued, "This squat toilet isn't something only we can make. Anyone who knows how to fire ceramics can make it if they've ever seen it made."

Therefore, we need to quickly capture the market. The large flow of people in the restaurants in the town has helped us achieve a promotional effect.

In each village, it was up to our villagers to spread the word. Although our Xu Family Village is small, there are women from other villages who have married into it, and daughters who have married out.

One person tells ten, ten tell a hundred, and the word spreads in just one meal. It's a great deal, brother.

"Letting you go from village to village to promote it yourself would be exhausting, and the results might not even be as good."

Xu Jian finally realized his mistake, and he hung his head in defeat:

"Little sister, I'm sorry, I almost messed things up today."

Xu Qing encouraged him, "It's okay, you'll know what to do next time."

Let's go inside and eat with Mom and the others. I'm starving after all this work."

Xu Jian shook off his low spirits and caught up with Xu Qing.

What does it matter if he's stupid? We'll see what happens next time something like this happens.

He will definitely control his temper and ask his younger sister how to handle the situation.

Just listen to your little sister in everything.

After seeing all the guests off, Hui Niang and Aunt Zhao helped clean up the mess.

Xu Qing and Xu Jian, along with Lao Shi and Zhao Da, sat in the reception room.

Xu Qing took out today's orders: "There are 50 unglazed toilets in total, and the restaurant has ordered 75 glazed squat toilets."

The unglazed ones are simple to make; you just need a mold. The glazed ones have an extra step. Lao Shi, you should select 10 people from among the workers.

Five people will do the initial shaping, three will apply the glaze, and two will fire the kiln. That's how it will be for now; we'll add more people if needed.

Xu Qing looked at Zhao Dazhi: "Of the remaining 10 people, choose 6 to lead. Tomorrow, go and build the outhouse at Zuifeng Tower."

The remaining four people will start clearing land and planting sweet potatoes tomorrow. I've already bought the tools for plowing; we just need to harness them to the oxen.

I'll teach you how to use it later. Work in pairs; one person holds the plow, and the other picks out the large stones from the ground.

Then Xu Qing looked at the Xu brothers and said, "The task of delivering milk tea will be left to the eldest brother and Hui Niang."

You guys have experience, I'm not worried. My second brother and I are going to Ferry Town to promote our squat toilets.

After the tasks were assigned, Xu Qing asked, "Everyone, please feel free to raise any opinions you may have."

Old Shi: "Boss, there are only 3 cows in total. I want one cow to haul clay."

"We're making too many squat toilets, which means we need a lot of clay. It'll be easier to transport them by oxcart."

Xu Qing thought about it and realized that three oxen were indeed not enough. After the squat toilets were finished being fired, they would also need to be delivered by oxcart.

Luckily, we hired Xu Jianguo's oxcart, otherwise there wouldn't be a vehicle to deliver milk tea tomorrow.

"Alright, tomorrow we'll use one ox to plow the fields, Lao Shi will get a cart, and Zhao Da will drive one to town. I'll go buy a few more oxen tomorrow."

This means the cowshed needs to be expanded.