Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside-Chapter 123 Seeking

Gu Jinli understood and asked, "You guys want to buy tofu from my home and then go sell it?"

The middle-aged man immediately said, "Exactly, that’s what we mean. But we’ve been talking for a long time, and this Elder Qin simply won’t let us in to talk."

Gu Jinli looked at them and said, "With so many of you showing up at the door, which family would dare to open the door for you?"

All the women at home, and suddenly a group of grown men show up, who knows what they are here for? Who would dare let them in?

Gu Jinli addressed Elder Qin and the others, "Grandpa Qin, Uncle Luo, thank you very much."

Elder Qin waved his hand: "There’s no need for thanks, our duty at home is to protect our families. Seeing so many strangers approaching, naturally, we’d stop them."

Upon hearing Gu Dashan and Gu Jinli’s voices, Third Grandma hurriedly called from inside, "Dashan, Xiao Yu, you are finally back. What’s the deal with these people? They just arrived and began banging on the door, saying they wanted to come in to discuss tofu trading, not even giving their own names, acting like bandits, absolutely terrifying!"

Third Grandma was truly frightened, and quite angry, speaking quite harshly as she described the group, causing their faces to flush red.

The middle-aged man promptly bowed his hands and said, "Elders, this young lady, and Gu Family Brothers, it was our fault today, suddenly bringing so many people."

He quickly introduced himself: "My surname is Liang, and my name is Liang Zhuzi, I’m from Lianghe Village nearby, not a bad person. My intention today was to buy some tofu from your house and sell it in the villages around Qingfu Town."

The other people from Lianghe Village also quickly said, "Yes, yes, we’re all honest folks, won’t do anything bad, we’re here today to talk about trading tofu, no ill intentions."

No ill intentions?

Gu Jinli sneered, "Buying tofu from us to sell it? Our Gu Family’s tofu stand has always been open. On the stand, plain tofu, seasoning spices are all for sale, if you want to trade in tofu, just go to the town’s tofu stand and buy it, no need to surround my house with such a large crowd. Is this the way to buy tofu? Anyone unaware would think you’re here to rob us."

Gu Jinli knew that these people truly wanted to buy tofu, but also that they had other motives, otherwise they wouldn’t have come in such a large group.

The people from Lianghe Village were even more embarrassed after hearing Gu Jinli’s words, but they were clumsy with words and didn’t know how to respond.

It was Liang Zhuzi who spoke again: "Miss Gu, besides wanting to buy tofu today, we’d like to discuss other matters with your family."

He looked somewhat embarrassed, glanced at Gu dashan, then at Gu Jinli, and said, "This matter can’t be clarified in a few words, why don’t we open the door, let us in, sit down and talk this properly, what do you think?"

Liang Zhuzi was very polite, but Gu Jinli and the others still did not let them in.

Liang Zhuzi had no choice but to continue pleading, "Today, we were in the wrong, but we truly want to pursue this business, please help out our family."

Their village of Lianghe was poor, residents besides farming did odd jobs, struggling to earn any silver coin throughout the year. However, tofu suddenly became popular in the town. My, it sold well! Everyone from ten miles and eight villages, if they knew someone going to town, would surely ask to bring back a few pounds of tofu.

A few pounds for each family, with so many people in one village, amounted to hundreds of pounds; not to mention the many villages around Qingfu Town.

Being astute, Liang Zhuzi quickly enlisted his two brothers, the three siblings went to the town to buy tofu and then carried it to sell in various villages at a high price. You wouldn’t believe it, but this trade actually made them a tidy sum.

But they had only been doing this for less than ten days when the villagers found out and also wanted to trade in tofu. But Gu Family’s tofu stand only had so much tofu per day, not nearly enough for all the villagers.

Liang Zhuzi wanted to talk to the Gu Family about this, asking them to supply enough tofu daily for them to carry and sell in the various villages.

If possible, lower the price for them and sell it to them cheaper.

But who would have thought, their timing was off, and the Gu Family’s men were not around, only a few women were there. So many men came, which scared the women of the Gu Family, and they refused to open the door, even causing a disturbance among the neighbors next door who came to stop them, nearly resulting in a fight.

Liang Zhuzi kept apologizing: "I’m truly sorry, we didn’t know there were no men at your house today, this is really... we really didn’t mean any harm."

Gu Jinli didn’t care whether they had bad intentions or not, but as for the tofu business, the negotiation was not happening today.

She said, "The tofu business is a joint venture by several families, coming to our family is useless."

"This..." Liang Zhuzi and the villagers from Lianghe Village were anxious: "Is it really a joint venture by several families? Then, who should we talk to about this?"

Liang Zhuzi knew about Third Grandpa, so he asked: "Should we find Elder Gu?"

Elder Gu also lives in this courtyard.

Gu Jinli said: "This matter cannot be decided by Third Grandpa alone, we need to discuss it with all the families before we can give you an answer. Please leave for now."

Actually, she has been considering the tofu business these past few days.

Qingfu Town has a large demand for tofu, and their tofu business is growing bigger and better. There are also the seasoning spices, which are selling very well. The families involved can hardly keep up, and if they want to make money without getting tired, they need to change the management model.

But she hasn’t yet talked to the families about this idea, and Liang Zhuzi and his group came too abruptly today, frightening her family, so she wouldn’t let Liang Zhuzi get his wish too quickly. She needs to delay them, to prevent these people from causing trouble for her in the future.

Upon hearing this, the villagers from Lianghe Village were very anxious and kept asking: "How long will the discussion take?"

Gu Jinli said: "I don’t know."

Liang Zhuzi knew that today’s matter was a mess, and could only say: "Then we’ll go back and come again tomorrow."

Then, turning to Gu Dashan, he said: "Gu Family Brothers, we will come again tomorrow. Sorry for today’s trouble."

Saying this, he took two baskets from the hands of two villagers and handed them to Gu Dashan: "This is a small gift we brought, please accept it, Brother Gu."

Gu Dashan waved his hand, not accepting the gift: "Take your things back. We still don’t know if the matter will succeed."

Seeing that he was not accepting, Liang Zhuzi simply put the gift on the ground and ran off with the villagers from Lianghe Village.

"Hey, take your gift back." Gu Dashan shouted, picking up the gift to chase after them, but Gu Jinli stopped him: "Dad, don’t chase, they’re already gone."

Mrs. Cui and the others were quite frightened, so consider this gift as a soothing fee.

Gu Dashan watched as Liang Zhuzi and his group ran far off and could only give up.

Third Grandma opened the courtyard door, still angrily saying: "They finally left, never seen anyone come to discuss matters this way; even if it were a good matter, they would turn it into a bad one."

"They were just too anxious and messed things up." Father Luo and the others still have work to do. After saying this, they went home to continue grinding soybeans.