He gritted his teeth and kept moving his hands: "I won't eat it, you can take it away."
"Why are you so polite to me? Do you blame me for not coming to see you yesterday?"
Li Qiao looked at him with wide eyes, and was about to explain, but saw his ugly face, as if he was about to cry.
Feeling nervous, Li Qiao hurriedly asked: "What happened?"
"It's nothing. My brother arranged a marriage for me and asked me to get married." Tao Zhu said lightly.
But for Li Qiao, it was a bolt from the blue.
"Have I arranged a marriage for you?!"
Li Qiao walked over in a few steps. He didn't care about the man or brother, and grabbed Tao Zhu's hands: "Which bastard is targeting you?"
Tao Zhu: "..."
His nose was sore, and he was overwhelmed with grievances. He glared and said, "I know I'm ugly, but the person who is targeting me has to be a bastard? Can't he be a human being?"
"No, no, no, that's not what I meant!"
Seeing the mist in his eyes, Li Qiao felt distressed and quickly explained: "I mean, what kind of hero has a keen eye for people and discovers your excellence like me?"
"I was in a hurry and said the wrong thing, so don't be angry."
As soon as these words came out, Tao Zhu's grievance deepened, but he lowered his head, not wanting this person to see the mist in his eyes.
"Liar, I'm ugly and I know it."
"No, you don't know how beautiful you are. In my eyes, you are good-looking, and you are the prettiest. If you were not good-looking, why would I come to you every day? There are so many ways to repay my kindness, why should I choose this one that hurts my eyes? of?"
Tao Zhu: "..."
He grinds his teeth, liar!
If he is really good-looking, why doesn't this man confess his love?
He didn't ask him to come to propose marriage, after all, his eldest brother was Tai Chi.
But without even saying anything, letting him guess and letting his heart seamlessly switch between joy and melancholy, this person was definitely torturing him on purpose!
"I didn't say it before because I felt I wasn't qualified to say it."
"I owe a lot of gambling debts and have a poor family. You are already soaking in coptis juice. If I am not sure I can pull you out, why should I let your joy be in vain?"
Li Qiao sighed and explained seriously.
And, of course, an apology.
"I'm sorry, I've noticed your thoughts a long time ago, but I deliberately delayed it for the sake of a man's face and made you uneasy. This is my fault. If you want to beat or punish me, I will admit it."
Tao Zhu: "..."
He raised his eyes blankly and looked at the person in front of him, with a layer of crystal mist in his eyes.
Is that so?
"I'm not afraid of hardship."
"But I want to save face. How can I let you incur a lot of debt as soon as you get married?"
Tao Zhu: "..."
He shook off the man's hand and asked with a straight face: "You still owe a lot of debt, so what do you mean now."
"Well, that's what it means."
Li Qiao quickly opened the oil paper bag in the backpack, revealing the snacks inside.
"Although this thing can't help me pay off my gambling debt immediately, it is a long-term business. With this, I feel that I can straighten my waist and confess my love and propose marriage."
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Chapter 14 Proposal and Joy
"What's this?"
Tao Zhu lowered his eyes and looked at the square snacks in the oil paper bag dotted with black sesame seeds, his handsome face still stern.
"Shaqima." Li Qiao replied.
"……ah?"
Tao Zhu was confused.
His handsome face lost its expression, and his misty eyes widened a bit. What's this name?
Li Qiao was tickled by his confused look and said with a smile: "I call it Feng Gao. It is a cake eaten during the wheat harvest."
Tao Zhu: "..."
He was silent, but his eyes were looking back and forth between the faces of Shaqima and Li Qiao.
"This is a new delicacy I came up with. I am the only one who can make it now. It tastes pretty good. Today, shopkeeper Wang from Wangyue Tower only tasted one bite and then bought the whole thing."
"Besides Feng Gao, I have other dim sum recipes in mind."
"I have a job that can support my family. Although I don't earn much copper every day, it lasts a long time. Even if the gambling debt is not paid off, I still want to come and propose marriage."
Before the end of Li Qiao's last life, Kaogong was regarded as the end of the world and an iron rice bowl in people's minds.
In this time and space, of course Kaogong is also an iron rice bowl.
But in addition to taking the public examination, having a unique craft can also be called an iron rice bowl.
In fact, Li Qiao had the idea of doing business when he came here, but he was afraid that he would be classified as a merchant.
In the past few days, through questioning Zhuang Fengshou and going to bookstores to check information, he learned about Sheng Chao's determination of business status:
Divide according to the amount of income.
The Sheng Dynasty's criteria for classifying merchant status were not strict, not counting the output of one's own fields, but only counting other goods sold. Only those with a profit of more than 10,000 taels a year would be classified as merchants.
If they only sell dim sum, it would definitely not exceed 10,000 taels in a place like Pingcheng.
As for the future, you can put the shop under the name of other people and just take the profits yourself. This is also the way for officials to do business.
Of course, Li Qiao can't use this method at the moment, so he can just run the dim sum business without any worries.
The reason for choosing dim sum is that it is easy to make and sell. You can carry it in a backpack and sell it in the county town.
The second is pottery bamboo.
Tao Zhu definitely likes dim sum!
"Try it, it tastes really good." With this thought, Li Qiao raised the oil paper bag to Tao Zhu's lips.
But Tao Zhu just lowered his eyes and looked at Shaqima. He did not eat. After a few seconds, he whispered: "Yesterday, a scholar from the neighboring village went to my house to propose marriage."
"My eldest brother was unwilling at first, but the scholar said that he knew how to make maltose. My eldest brother agreed."
"But I don't agree. My family members took turns to persuade me, and even Tao Tao came to persuade me."
At this point, he turned his back to Li Qiao, with a bitter look on his face, but also a smile.
This man was actually really interested in him. He was not just nice to him out of repayment, he was even willing to come to propose marriage!
How could this make him unhappy?
He wanted to jump for joy!
But the current situation...
If he is not lucky, he will have a miserable life.
"Your eldest brother wants to make maltose?"
Li Qiao looked at Tao Zhu's back, raised his legs and walked around in front of him.
But Tao Zhu didn't want to face him. He was already ugly enough, and the one crying and laughing now must be even uglier, so he simply turned around.
Of course Li Qiao had to follow. He had already confessed his love. How could he turn his back to her? He had to face each other, face to face!
Just like that, the two of them turned around in a circle.
Tao Zhu: "..."
He was discouraged.
But the little bubbles of joy in his heart popped up one after another and enveloped him, making him unable to suppress the upturned corners of his mouth.
This person really likes him.
Otherwise, why would you want to keep looking at his manly face?
His mind was in a mess, so he simply lowered his head and said quickly: "My eldest brother has been trying to make maltose recently..."
He told the truth of Tao Shu's various struggles, and finally added: "Now that scholar says he knows how to make maltose, my eldest brother and sister-in-law are so happy that they almost go crazy."
what to do?
He had just resigned himself to his fate.
But when he was stimulated by this man's behavior of circling him, he wanted to go crazy. Why should he have to suffer for the rest of his life? Why should he...
Li Qiao didn't know that Tao Zhu was thinking about "treason" at the moment, so he breathed a sigh of relief: "That's it...that's okay, I also know how to make maltose."
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Tao Zhu suddenly raised his head, his moist eyes rounded due to shock: "You can also make maltose?!"
"I can do it. I read it from a miscellaneous book. To make maltose, you need wheat and glutinous rice. Your eldest brother only makes wheat, which is useless. You also need glutinous rice."
Li Qiao quickly explained how to make maltose.
I couldn't help but compare myself with that scholar.
