As soon as he came out of Zheng's house, Li Yanqing hired a ox cart to Xinqiao. From a distance, he saw his father saying something to several young people at the door of the store.

Li Daqi just returned from Tangyin County two days ago and brought out eight young boys and girls from Liwen Village. They were all over ten years old, four boys and four girls, half of whom were from the Li clan. In addition, three experienced flower farmers were brought out, and they had already sent them to the manor first.

These eight young men and women were needed to start the Rouge Workshop in Li Daqi. Previously, Baoyanzhai's rouge, foundation, ink and other items were purchased from outside, and the quality could only be considered medium. Since they exchanged the rouge formula from Zhang Gulao with perfume, the quality of the purchased rouge can no longer bear the Baoyanzhai brand, and they cannot reveal the formula, so they can only produce it themselves.

It is precisely for this reason that Li Daqi finally made up his mind to buy the Baihua Manor with a thousand acres of land, and bought a rouge workshop outside the city. A medium rouge workshop costs at least 30 people, and someone needs to make each kind of cosmetics. For example, Zhang Gu Lao's own workshop has more than 40 people.

There were more than 20 people in the rouge workshop that Li Daqi bought, but the number was still insufficient, so he brought out eight young people from Li Wencun and hired them at a price of six guan a month. Li Daqi promised that their parents would have their wages to ten guan a year later. You should know that the shop assistants in Lushan Town can only earn three guan a month.

So when Li Daqi paid a salary of six jin of money, his family's threshold was almost broken. Li Daqi picked eight smart and clever children to come to the capital.

These children are currently living outside the city. Today, Li Daqi took them to the city for dinner and visited the capital.

The eight children were dressed in a relatively rustic manner, the girls were wearing coarse cloth dresses, while the boys were wearing short cloth shoes and gaited with white cloth. A group of children were shy and followed Li Daqi closely.

Li Yanqing walked forward quickly, and he recognized several of them at once. Aunt Gu San's youngest son Tiesuo and daughter Xiao Cui, two of them pulled their elder brother Tiezhu's arm from left and right.

Li Yanqing saw Li Yuer and the daughter of the patriarch Li Zhen. She was the most beautiful among them. She held hands with Tiezhu's sister Xiao Cui. It seemed that Tiezhu was a little interested in her and always secretly glanced at her.

There are also Uncle Zhang Jiu's eldest granddaughter Lanhua, Li Zhonger's son Li Xiaoyong, two are Li Dongdong's nephew and niece, and one is Zhang Crook's son.

The eight children recognized Li Yanqing and hurriedly bowed to him. Li Yanqing was Jie Yuan and had a very high status in Li Wen Village. Even their parents had to salute Li Yanqing respectfully, let alone them.

Li Yanqing had an urgent matter, and waved his hand at them with a smile, and asked his father anxiously: "How much jade we have now?"

"About one hundred and fifty yuan!"

"It's only 150 yuan!" Li Yanqing screamed in dismay.

"Didn't you say don't rush to do it, and you want to see the effect? ​​So you didn't do it more."

Li Yanqing stomped his feet in a hurry, "This is a bad thing, the five thousand guan business is like a business!"

Li Daqi's eyes lit up, "Where is a business worth five thousand cents?"

Li Yanqing told his father about the Zheng family ordering him five hundred sets of makeup boxes today. Li Daqi immediately stomped his feet and beat his chest. What a great opportunity. Not only is it a business worth 5,000 yuan, but more importantly, Baoyanzhai's reputation has been improved and the sales of jade fat have been completely opened, but they are out of stock now.

"There are other boxes, just jade fat. I wonder if it's time to do it now?"

Li Yanqing shook his head. It would take at least one month to dry up. The day after tomorrow it was the 70th birthday and the goods would have to be delivered tomorrow.

"What should I do?" Li Daqi was also anxious.

At this moment, the iron pillar next to him stuttered: "Uncle San, I still keep the jade fat you asked me to throw away!"

"What's going on?" Li Yanqing asked anxiously.

Li Daqi sighed and said, "This brat was trying hard to tinker with jade fat alone while I was not in the capital. He wasted three large cans of fish oil. The jade fat was all strange in shape and all colors. I scolded him yesterday and told him to throw them away."

Li Yanqing thought in his mind that three large cans of fish oil could make at least two thousand pieces of soap, and it was very likely to make up five hundred pieces. He asked quickly: "Has it all dried?"

Tiezhu scratched his head, "It's done well, but the appearance is too ugly. A few of them are made like cow dung."

"It doesn't matter, just use a plane to cut it into shape."

Li Yanqing pointed to the eight children and said, "It happens that someone is in charge. Thank you for your hard work tonight and you will get 500 yuan. How to do it specifically, I will teach you how to do it."

In the room, the iron pillar shook out a pile of soap from several large sacks, most of which were small square. It seemed that the iron pillar wanted to make a new mold but failed. The dyeing was uneven, half red and half white, or half blue and half white. It can be seen that he had placed more algae ash, making the soap translucent.

This is a defective product in later generations, but it can be slowly cultivated into a balanced shape with a sharpener. The only disadvantage is that it is different in size. However, since it is given to customers for free, I believe that customers will not pay much attention to these details. The key is that the soap itself has a strong jade feel, which is extremely important.

"Oh no, the box containing jade fat is not enough!" Li Daqi suddenly had a serious problem.

"How much is still missing?" Li Yanqing asked.

"It's still about two hundred."

"Father, hurry up and find a carpenter's shop to customize it! Add double the wages so that they must make it by noon tomorrow at the latest. If you can't do a carpenter's shop, find a few more."

"Okay! I'll go now."

Li Daqi hurried away with Tiezhu and Li Yanbiao.

Li Yanqing asked the magpies to teach everyone how to cut and polish them. The eight children were smarter and strong in accepting new things. They quickly mastered the trick. The pieces of soap like crooked melons and cracked dates were cut and ground by their hands and turned into pieces of balanced and beautiful jade.

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"If it's a real jade, I don't know how valuable it should be!"

Li Daqi took a piece of jade that had failed to dye, and looked closely through the morning light of the window. This was a piece of half-blue and half-white jade, which looked like a piece of top-quality Qingtian jade, crystal clear, warm and delicate, which made him amazed.

Manager Wu next to him smiled and said, "The key is that the jade fat has a good texture. No matter what color it dyes, it will have a charm, like this half-red rouge jade, just like the sunset. Fortunately, it is not real jade, otherwise, we will lose a lot if we spend fifty cents a piece."

"The shopkeeper is right, but fortunately Tiezhu didn't throw it away."

"What I said!"

Tiezhu muttered in a low voice: "I scolded me so hard that I was so angry that I praised me again now."

"What are you talking about, a stinky brat?" Li Daqi patted his head and cursed with a smile: "I'll endure it if I feel wronged, don't complain!"

"Shh!" Li Yanqing shrewd softly next to him. Only then did Li Daqi remember that the eight teenagers were sleeping on the table! After staying up all night, everyone was exhausted from sleep.

"Yanqing, how many are there?"

Seeing that his son had already counted the jade, Li Daqi asked in a low voice.

"There are 1,344 yuan in total, plus 150 yuan in the warehouse, it's almost 1,500 yuan."

Li Daqi frowned, "Is it too cheap to sell so much jade fat for only 75 taels of silver?"

"Dad finally feels that he's losing money?"

The price of fifty cents per dollar was Li Daqi insisted. He believed that a ball of balm was only sold for twenty cents, and they could make a net profit of thirty cents for 50 cents, so Li Daqi firmly opposed Li Yanqing's high-priced suggestion.

At this moment, he suddenly felt that the rare goods were affordable. It was a loss to sell them for fifty cents. This unique technology alone was more than this price.

Li Daqi regretted it a little. People who were poor in balm could not afford it, at least for middle-aged and above people, they were not sensitive to the price of such low-value luxury goods.

Manager Wu next to him asked with a smile: "Why does the owner think it is more appropriate to sell?"

Li Daqi thought for a while and said, "At least ten times more, it will be sold for 500 yuan per piece."

At this time, Manager Wu suddenly remembered something and hurriedly said, "What if jade oil suddenly becomes hot and we don't have any inventory?"

This is indeed a big problem. Li Daqi was also anxious and asked Li Yanqing: "Yanqing, is there any solution? Do you have to hang it in the dark for a month?"

Li Yanqing thought for a while and said, "Last time Aunt Yang rented an ice warehouse to store grease, and the same is true for jade. Rent an ice warehouse and put the grease contained in a bamboo tube into the ice warehouse. It will harden at most two days, but it is not as good as the shade."

"Don't care about that much first, and then increase inventory!"
Chapter completed!