Song Tan's Notes

Chapter 1537. A House Full of Gold and Jade

Seeing the couple busying themselves, Song Tan sighed:

"With this kind of mobility, what can't you do?"

Wu Lan looked at her and said, "What do you think? She was like this when she was young. After she found your uncle, the couple was very busy. If she hadn't been so determined, how could she have saved enough money for two children?"

Even if houses were not so expensive in the early years, with one son and one daughter supporting them, it would still cost three or five hundred thousand. How could a rural family save up if they didn't work hard and seize opportunities?

Of course, because the action is so fast, there are occasional losses.

But the two of them have one advantage: they only look at the opportunities they can grasp, so they can bear the losses even if they suffer them.

Now, I have finally seized the opportunity again!

After Aunt Zhang Hong had told her family about this, she turned around and carried the tofu to the village office. At this time, Boss Chang followed Qiao Qiao's instructions and came to this house.

When he arrived, he saw a couple holding a plate covered with gauze, and his supreme VIP supplier was talking about something beside them.

Is this okay? !

With his decades of experience in running restaurants, he knew just by looking at the gauze that there must be tofu in it!

Boss Chang stepped forward quickly and said, "Boss Song! I was looking for you! What new products do you have?"

Song Tan: ...

When she saw Boss Chang, she remembered his pestering spirit, and immediately pointed at Aunt Zhang Hong beside her: "Come, try the tofu and see if it works."

Boss Chang chuckled and came over quickly.

When he opened his mouth, he must have tasted the beans soaked in mountain pond water. After tasting it for a while, his brows raised:

"My skills are average, and the tofu is not pressed evenly. But it tastes good. How do you plan to price it?"

Aunt Zhang Hong knew that this person was a big customer of the Song Tan family!

At this moment, she looked at Song Tan and hesitated slightly: "Your family also planted a lot of soybeans..."

Wulan was horrified: "We don't sell tofu!"

Oh my, there are a lot of young men in my family, but few of them are diligent. Grinding tofu is so tiring, you have to get up early and work late, and it's okay to make it for your own consumption, but you can't sell it, it's too painful.

Especially Boss Chang wants a large quantity.

Boss Chang was extremely resentful.

This year, the Song family planted several acres of soybeans. He really thought he had a chance!

But it's okay without fish and shrimp, so he looked at Aunt Zhang Hong with a burning gaze.

Aunt Zhang Hong was delighted and quickly said, "The tender tofu is five yuan a pound, and the old tofu has not been decided yet."

The two types of tofu use different amounts of beans, so the prices are generally different.

Boss Chang nodded and said, "5 pieces for tender tofu, 6 pieces for old tofu, and we'll add dried tofu if we have it later - 200 kilograms of each, and take it away with the truck that collects the vegetables."

He looked at Aunt Zhang Hong with a serious and earnest expression: "Can you take on this business?"

Aunt Zhang Hong's ears were buzzing.

200 kilograms of each kind, three kinds of food a day is 600 kilograms. The couple worked all day and all night and still couldn't finish it!

The pancake is tempting, but I can’t eat it!

Don't even mention building a workshop or anything like that. They are both new to making tofu and doing business, and they suddenly made it so big with just one chance. Not only will the villagers be jealous, but the couple can't afford it either!

So after struggling for a long time, she still shook her head and said, "We can't do it."

"Boss Chang, the two of us can't handle such a big business. If you like it, we can handle 30 to 50 kilograms a day, but we can't handle more than that."

Then he smiled awkwardly at Song Tan and Wu Lan:

"I know you're good to me, and I know my own worth, so I'll just sell it in the village first."

When the couple went to the village office with the tofu, Boss Chang smiled at Song Tan and said, "Of course! There are a lot of knowledgeable people in your village!" He was not making empty promises to please Aunt Zhang Hong. It was really that the store could guarantee so much sales every day. Of course, the more good sources of goods, the better. However, limiting the supply to thirty to fifty kilograms was not a bad idea in the early stage.

But his business approach is mature. The couple who make tofu are obviously novices. When they heard the order for real money, they knew to do what they can. They are really smart people.

Only Qiao Qiao, who followed behind, didn't understand: "Why?"

why?

Oh no, Xin Jun is not here! How can I explain this to a child?

Song Tan looked at Lu Chuan.

Lu Chuan pondered for a moment: "There are several reasons - Qiao Qiao, when you just learned to write, if Teacher Xin asked you to hand in a hundred pieces of calligraphy in one night, and if you handed them in, he would reward you with a hundred yuan, would you do it?"

Qiao Qiao frowned instantly: "No no no!"

When he first learned to write, he was very slow at writing big characters. It took him a long time to write a character 10 times. He couldn't finish writing 100 articles in one night.

"If you can ask your sister and your parents to write these 100 articles together, what will you do?"

Qiao Qiao thought about it seriously, but still shook her head: "I can't finish it."

"I have to draw, read poems and texts, play chess, do handicrafts, watch cartoons, and take care of the dog... Even if my sister helps me write 100 articles, I still have to check them."

He concluded: "I don't have enough time. I don't want to do just one thing all day, and it's something I'm not good at. It's so tiring."

After saying that, without waiting for Lu Chuan to say anything else, he also understood: "With 600 kilograms of tofu, Aunt Zhang Hong can't handle all the people she hires, right? That's why she doesn't agree."

Lu Chuan nodded: "Smart!"

Qiao Qiao raised the corners of her lips and became happy.

"There is another reason." Lu Chuan looked at his innocent eyes and knew that Qiao Qiao was also growing rapidly. So he still added:

"Aunt Zhang Hong and her husband make 1000 yuan a day. Do you think it's a lot?"

Qiao Qiao thought for a moment and said, "But they have to make tofu all day long! Grandpa used to say that making tofu is very tiring! One person earns 500 yuan, which is better than working, but not much better."

He calculated the accounts very clearly. Aunt Zhang Hong and her husband were capable. It was common for them to earn five or six hundred yuan a day during the busy farming season. Moreover, they could eat three meals a day in the cafeteria, which saved them a lot of trouble.

Now they make their own tofu and sell it for 1000 yuan. Without the artificial bean-making equipment, the couple still has to prepare their own food...

It's hard to say which one is more cost-effective.

Lu Chuan nodded: "If I sell 600 kilograms to Boss Chang every day, how much will that be? Is it a lot?"

Qiao Qiao is very good at arithmetic now!

If you weigh 600 kilograms, that would be more than yuan a day!

He opened his mouth wide, always feeling that he earned more than his own family!

"That...that..."

He was stuck for a moment, clenched his fists and thought hard, but no one urged him, even Boss Chang looked on with a smile.

When he returned to the yard, Qiao Qiao finally figured it out:

“It’s not good to earn too much!”

He concluded: “Teacher Tang once told me: If you have a house full of gold and jade, you cannot guard it, and you will suffer the consequences.”

"Teacher Tang said that if you have too much wealth and honor to keep, you will bring disaster upon yourself."

"Aunt Zhang Hong is very nice, but she...she..."

He thought about the adjective for a long time: "She didn't become rich at all, and her family is small. It's not possible to have a lot of income all of a sudden."

Coming! See you next door.
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"It is better to stop when you have enough. If you show your edge, you cannot keep it for long. A house full of gold and jade cannot be kept; if you are rich and noble and arrogant, you will leave yourself with disaster." It is better to stop when you have enough. If you show your edge, you cannot keep it for long. A house full of gold and jade cannot be kept; if you are rich and noble and arrogant, you will leave yourself with disaster.

From the Tao Te Ching