Chapter 90: Chapter 90 Earning Big Money with Tofu (2)_1 Chapter 90: Chapter 90 Earning Big Money with Tofu (2)_1 Lin Yuan curled her lips, quite curious about this Young Master.

Managing to annoy Lao Fan to such an extent, he must definitely be an oddity!

Back to the main issue, Lao Fan ultimately did purchase the tofu, but that was limited to the recipes.

As for the actual tofu itself, Lin Yuan was resolute in her decision not to sell it.

She planned to make and sell it herself.

Although the tofu crafting process wasn’t very secretive and could perhaps be figured out by others in a month or two, when it came to the assorted accompanying products for the tofu, Lin Yuan had definitely got a head start over everyone else.

Originally, Lao Fan had intended to buy all her tofu, but Lin Yuan disagreed.

She was determined to make her tofu business big, which meant she couldn’t sell exclusively to Fuman Building, because then ordinary people wouldn’t have access to it.

“One year!

I want to buy all your tofu supplies for a year!” Lao Fan stretched out a finger, making his intentions clear.

Lin Yuan shook her head and bent his finger, “At most half a year!”

Lao Fan wanted to raise his finger again, but, finding Lin Yuan’s strength to be formidable, he had no choice but to agree, “What on earth did this brat eat to grow so strong!”

Muttering softly to himself, Lao Fan had finalized the tofu deal.

When the tofu first hit the market, Lin Yuan was responsible for providing six tofu recipes, and thereafter two new ones each month.

As for the tofu, since she didn’t have a workshop yet and mass production was a bit challenging, she could only adopt a limited supply strategy, releasing two blocks of tofu every three days.

As the saying goes, scarcity adds value.

Even though there was only that much tofu, she guaranteed that Fuman Building would be extremely profitable.

For the recipes associated with the tofu, Fuman Building had spent six hundred taels of silver.

Although it was much more expensive than the previously sold frog recipes, because tofu was a novel food item never before seen on the market, sales were guaranteed to be excellent.

Wasn’t cold skin noodles a vivid example?

If Lao Fan knew that it was this very girl who had created the cold skin noodles, he probably would have eagerly paid out six thousand taels of silver without a second thought!

As for the tofu, it was sold at a price of ten taels of silver per pound.

This pricing was quite high, but Lin Yuan had her own plans.

With Lao Fan as the big spender, the tofu for this half-year would definitely sell at the price of gold.

After her contract with Fuman Building ended, she would lower the price and sell to the common folk.

She wondered if by then, this old man might be driven mad by her!

However, she needed to set up her tofu workshop.

The quantity of tofu required at the moment wasn’t much, and she could make it at home, but after half a year when she would need to produce in large amounts, her small kitchen and millstone wouldn’t suffice.

Thus, she also asked Lao Fan to help her find a spacious house in town, preferably an existing one, as it would be used for a workshop.

It didn’t need to be in a bustling location, just large enough with plenty of rooms.

As for staffing the workshop, she would not trouble the old man.

With his Smart Young Master around, she didn’t know how many spies might be sent.

It’d be more reliable for her to hire people herself.

Lin Yuan dictated, and Lao Fan wrote down the six recipes.

Then he, with the remaining block of tofu, cheerfully returned to town.

Since tofu was fragile and easily crumbled, she especially instructed Liuzi to drive the cart slowly; otherwise, upon return, they might only have tofu scraps left suitable for a simple scallion-mixed dish.

Lao Fan also promised to visit every other day to give Lin Jiaxin acupuncture treatments and, conveniently, take the tofu back to town.

Having resolved these two matters, Lin Yuan suddenly felt a great weight lifted off her shoulders.

After selling the tofu, they had run out of soybeans.

Lin Yuan hurriedly went to Lan Hua’s house after lunch, before Lin Fugui left for town, to ask him to bring back twenty pounds of soybeans that afternoon since she was about to start making mooncakes.

She also requested a variety of beans and fillings, and she passed on Lin Jiaxin’s message to Lin Changqing – that the formal apprenticeship ceremony would be omitted due to his health issues, but Lin Changqing could go and learn the trade at any time.

Lin Changqing had long wanted to learn carpentry from Lin Jiaxin.

Today, he was even more eager, having given up work in town just waiting for this moment.

After hearing Lin Yuan’s message, he readily agreed, preparing to head over the next day.