Xue De looked at the merchants who were leaving with empty hands, his face turned ashen, and his clenched fists hammered the table loudly.

    "The shop is just opposite, and you can't figure it out!"

    The servant was scolded, when he went to inquire about Linglong shop, he was surprised that the price of Linglong shop's tooth powder was so high. He thought it was expensive tooth powder from another shop, but he didn't know there was a new product, and he blamed himself for not inquiring about it in detail, so he hurriedly went to inquire about the new product.


    There was no movement in Linglong shop in the morning, when a string of firecrackers sounded, the people in the neighborhood knew that there was a new product in Linglong shop, and they all went to see it.

    "This is a new product in our shop. Like the previous tooth powder, you can also use it to clean your teeth. However, compared with the tooth powder that is easy to fall off when you put it in the toothbrush, the new product in our store this time is in the form of paste. When you use it, it can stick in the bristle of your toothbrush, and it will not fall off."

    With his big stomach, Xu He didn’t follow Zhang Fangyuan to promote and explain the new product. He sat in front of the counter to collect the money. He just watched the man took the toothpaste and showed the visitor how to use it, and then watched the situation on the Xue cloth shop.


    "It has herbal fragrance, which smells better than the tooth powder."

    The visitors were curious, they tried the toothpaste one after another, and smelled its fragrance again.

    "Boss, how much is it?"

    "Toothpaste is two hundred copper coins."

    Although there was a new product, the business in the shop was still not as good as when it was at its peak. The reason was because there were more shops in the city selling toothbrush and tooth powder, and all of them also sold this toothpaste. Naturally, the business was not as big as the previous one. They could only earn money from the people in the alleys around the shop, and the people in the west and south of the city naturally wouldn’t come here to buy, they could buy it nearby.


    But everything was not absolute, there were still people who recognized the shop that familiar to them and would come here from far away to see.

    Xu He thought that although their shop was no longer the only one, they made more money as a supplier than before. Now, not only they could squeeze out the business from the opposite shop, but they also made money. When he saw the owner of the cloth shop stood in front of the door of his shop with a dark face, Xu He felt a burst of joy in his heart.

It felt good to be able to deal with these unreasonable business grabbers. Wouldn't it be safe to open the shop elsewhere? But he still had to open the shop in the opposite side to be disgusting. When he sold lo mei before, he couldn't deal with the people who grabbed his business, and he could only hold back. After such a long time, it could be regarded as let go of his anger and resentment.

"Master, there are so many shops in the city selling toothbrush and tooth powder, the customer flow is not as good as before. Including the shop at the entrance of the street, there are three shops selling toothbrush on our street. Linglong shop and the one at the entrance of the street have lowered the prices of toothbrush and tooth powder in their shops a little bit, now their price is the same with our shop. They mainly sell new products, our shop doesn’t have the new product, so there is no business. "

"You don't need to say, I can see it!"

Xue De was unwilling to give up. It was a waste of effort and a lot of money to search for supplies for several months, and there was still a pile of stocks in the warehouse. Seeing that he hadn’t earned money yet to warm the cold stove, how could he be willing.


    The matter had come to this point, since the way to be supplier was blocked, the only way was to fight Linglong Shop. He could make new product, so why he couldn't make the new product himself.

    Xue De put the new product bought from the shop on the table: "Send this new product to the pharmacy, let them see how this thing is made, and we will produce it after knowing the price."

After hitting the wall again and again, Xue De's confidence also diminished, and he went to the room that provided tooth powder for him to talk about the a way out.

    Fortunately, the people in the pharmacy could see that the toothpaste was not a rare treasure. The Sophora japonica and mulberry branches were mixed with ginger ale and manchurian wild ginger, and there was also white shell powder. Just kept trying and researching.

    Xue De was relieved, and let the people in pharmacy do the research. He watched the shops selling new products in the city making money everyday, it felt like sitting on pins and needles.


    After waiting for half a month, it was like seeing hope after difficult days. Xue De ordered his people to prepare for mass production non-stop. After a busy work, he discovered that the raw materials for making toothpaste in the city were almost bought out. He inquired and it turned out that Zhang Fangyuan bought and stocked up all the raw materials to make a large amount of toothpaste to supply the merchants in the city. He could only buy the raw materials in the spring of next year.


    Other small shops could also make up some here and there, but when he bought from scraping together to make up for a shortage, it was not easy to negotiate the price, so the cost soared.


    It would be cheaper to wait for the shop he familiar with to replenish inventory, but with the production period added, the new products might not be available until March next year.

    At that time, the freshness of this thing wouldn’t be the same like when it was in its prime. He would still make a lot of money, however, after you scraped together to buy raw materials and still had to wait for a period of time for the production, it would almost be the New Year. If the cost was high, how much profit would he get?


    Xue De was so angry that he almost vomited blood. He thought that Dao was one foot tall, but he never thought that the devil was one foot tall.

[from Journey To ThE West: “The Tao is one foot tall, the devil is one foot tall, and the wrong karma is always with you, and you must pay back the debt eventually.”]

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