Baby brings his own shopping mall to travel through

Chapter 187 Compensation

"Are duck eggs easy to sell in the market? How much is one duck egg?"

"It seems to be hard to sell. It's cheaper than eggs. Eggs used to be two cents each, sometimes two for three cents. I don't know now." said Gou Shoudan.

Xiao Caoer took out two silver notes of 100 taels from her bosom and handed one to each of them, saying, "This is for you, as compensation for not making soap anymore, or as start-up capital for your next business. You must accept it."

The two were shocked when they saw that it was a silver note for one hundred taels. Both of their families had a little bit of wealth now, but not as much as one hundred taels, and they had never seen so much silver.

Pushing Xiaocao'er's hand away repeatedly, Goudan said, "What are you doing, Xiaocao'er? The soap is originally yours, so isn't it normal for us not to make it? What are you talking about compensation for?"

"Yes, the things you tinkered with originally belong to you. It is normal that others cannot make them. Why should you ask for compensation?" Tietou also said.

"I said I would take you guys with me, but now I'm breaking my promise." Xiao Cao'er kept the silver note in her hand.

"You didn't say that. You just asked us to help, but you didn't say you would take us to do it together." Goudan said seriously.

"Yes, you didn't say anything. You just asked Azhi and the others to help, and asked them to pick and dry flowers if there were any at their parents' home. You didn't say you would bring us along to do it together." Tietou also said.

"Really? Didn't I say I would take you to do it together?" Xiao Cao'er knew that they said this to reassure her, so she didn't dwell on it anymore and just walked down the steps they handed her.

"No, really not." They both shook their heads immediately.

"That's good, that's good." Xiao Cao'er felt a little sour in her heart.

"But you still have to take this money. I want to tell you something else." As he said this, he stuffed a bill into each of their hands.

"I have a new food here. It's made with duck eggs or chicken eggs. One is called salted egg and the other is called preserved egg. The methods are also very simple. I have never made them, so you can study them yourself. Some ways of eating them are also written on it. After you make them, I can tell you how to sell them." As he said this, he stuffed the papers with the two methods of cooking into Goudan's hand.

Goudan and Tietou looked at the paper in their hands, which was full of writing. "How can this be possible? This is your recipe."

"It's not mine. I copied it down from a book. It's not mine. You can study it without worry." He walked away, walked a few steps and stopped. After a while, he turned back and said to them, "Today I only told you that I will no longer make soap. I didn't say anything else. What happened in the past will remain the same in the future."

This time, he didn't care whether they agreed or not. He walked quickly for a while and then walked slowly.

Goudan and Tietou stood there, looking at the new food recipes on the silver notes in their hands. They felt heavy in their hearts. What happened in Uncle Dashan's family? Why did Xiaocao seem like a different person in just one day?

After a long while, the two looked at each other, and finally Goudan said, "Just listen to Xiaocao'er, and pretend that the soap incident never happened. We'll gather everyone together for a meeting when we get back, mainly to talk about the soap incident. As for the new food, salted eggs and preserved eggs, we'll slowly tinker with them first, and then scale up the recipe after we make them. It's fine only we know about it, and don't tell Liu Fang and Azhi yet. We'll tell them that it was Xiaocao'er's recipe after we make it."

"Then should we still let our grandparents pick flowers?" Tietou asked.

"Pick, Aunt Li knows about picking flowers. She even said the other day that we'll see what the price is when the time comes. We're not doing this for the money. We'll just pretend we don't know about their business. If they don't want the flowers, we can just give some copper coins to my grandparents, and then we don't have to continue picking flowers." Goudan arranged everything clearly.

"Okay, let's do as you say. So what should we do first?" Tietou asked.

"First, we have to recognize all the words on this paper, and then buy some duck eggs." They talked as they walked back. They said they were catching fish, but the bucket of fish was taken out and brought back the same way, without getting it wet at all.

As soon as Xiaocaoer returned home, she took out the agreement signed by Goudan, Tietou and others and showed it to Li and others. Although Li could recognize a few words, he still couldn't understand the agreement.

Da Mao took it and read the agreement from beginning to end, then looked at his sister again. For some reason, he sighed unconsciously. Then he read the agreement to everyone.

"Did the two families really sign it?" Li didn't believe it and asked several times.

"Mom, it's true. Didn't you see that the agreement has been signed? They signed their names and put their fingerprints on it." Damao said.

"That's good, that's good. This way, we won't have to worry about future troubles." Li put the agreement away and said to Xiao Cao'er,

"By the way, my girl, when will you give the recipe to your grandparents, and when will you start teaching your cousins how to make it?"

"Any time is fine. I've written the recipe for my third brother. It only requires wood ash and lard. But we've been tinkering with it these two days, and we haven't figured out the specific dosage of the two ingredients yet." Xiao Cao'er said truthfully.

"You've done so much and you still haven't figured it out?" Mrs. Li looked at Xiao Cao'er with disbelief.

"Yes, we didn't use a scale or measure, we just went by our feeling. If you don't believe me, ask Nai. She's been watching us the whole time." Xiao Cao'er replied.

"Yes, they didn't use a scale, and didn't measure the water or anything. They just added it in, stirred it, and said it was done." Old Mrs. Yang confirmed to Xiaocaoer that she was not lying.

"She didn't add anything special?" Li still didn't believe it.

"No, I was watching the whole time. A few people were heating up lard, pouring in wood ash water and stirring it all the time. Then they poured it into the molds, and it was gone." Old Mrs. Yang remembered it very clearly, and this saved Xiaocao'er from having to explain herself.

"That's right, grandma remembers it very clearly." Xiao Caoer did not forget to give a thumbs up to Grandma Yang.

"Oh, Dad, remember to settle the money for the molds. Brother Goudan ordered another batch yesterday. You can go and get it later. Then tell them whether you want them to continue making them." Xiaocao'er remembered that Goudan and the others came back yesterday and asked them to make more.