Yoshida Mii

Chapter 148
"I've come up with a plan, everyone listen to it and see if there's anything wrong with it." Dong Bao smiled, gesticulating on the table with water on his hands, "It's best to make fried dough sticks, steamed buns and pancakes right now Yes, customers are willing to buy it because they see it fresh. Soy pudding, soy milk and eight-treasure porridge must be prepared in advance. We also need to hire people to serve the guests, clean up the dishes and wash the dishes. Let’s find two people to specialize in making deep-fried dough sticks and steamed buns. For these, find another person to serve the meals, and one person to clean up and wash the dishes. Mother, aunt, and aunt Guizhi, the three of you will be responsible for making bean curd, tofu, soy milk, eight-treasure porridge, and serving rice. Sister Xiuyu and I will do odd jobs. Collect money."

"That's good." Zhang Xiuyu smiled, "I can't fault it, Dong Bao has considered everything."

Mrs. Li also nodded with a smile. My daughter is always careful in doing things, so she doesn't need to worry about it, "Then why do we count wages for others?"

"It takes skill to make deep-fried dough sticks and steamed buns. Let's give her twenty yuan a day. The two people who serve the food and wash the dishes cost ten yuan a day. If the business is better and the work is hard, add more money, and Aunt Guizhi will give it to you." She adds ten kuai, auntie adds [-] kuai, sister Xiuyu's wages are not counted, just like before, the profit from selling food at noon will be shared equally between us!"

"No need!" Li Hongqin rebuffed straight away, "You paid me enough wages. The work is not tiring, the food is good, and the life is comfortable. For fifty dollars a day, I can't find such a good job anywhere. Originally, I gave too much for the face of my relatives, so if I add more money, I will not do it!"

Zhang Xiuyu also echoed: "That's right, I can't add more money. My brother still comes here to eat every day. Does it have to be counted? There is also the matter of sharing the profits at noon. I see that I can't do this when I open the shop." In the past, only students came to eat, but now, I see that many workers in the town also come to eat, if it weren't for this shop, the food wouldn't sell so much, I, I'd better get paid like my mother."

Dongbao's original intention was to let Zhang Xiuyu save more money from his private house as a dowry. The situation of Zhang's family is different from theirs. Li Hongqin and Zhang Qian wanted to support him to study and build a house for him to marry a wife. The money Li Hongqin earned , Most of them will be saved for Zhang Qian, and only a small part can be given to Zhang Xiuyu.

However, Dong Bao can't do anything about it. After all, the thinking of this era is to rely on his son to live. In the future, Zhang Qian will also undertake the obligation to support Li Hongqin.All she could do was to help Zhang Xiuyu save as much money as possible.

"It's not very appropriate." Li Shi thought for a while and said, Dongbao was still young, so she didn't think so thoroughly, "Xiuyu was officially engaged to Liangzi in Qiuli, so it's not good to run around like Dongbao Or else, Xiuyu will cook vegetables and pancakes in the kitchen from now on, and you and Dongbao will get half of the lunch money, which is the private house of you two little sisters."

Mrs. Li also wanted to subsidize Zhang Xiuyu more. After all, the richer the dowry of her daughter's family, the more confident she would be after marrying into her husband's family. What's more, Xiuyu will have no in-laws in the future. The advantage is that she will not be angry with her in-laws, but the disadvantage is that she is too I'm lonely, and it's better to have money in hand.

Dong Bao nodded. She was running outside all day, but she forgot that women, especially unmarried women, are still very demanding in this era. Otherwise, Guizhi's hot sister-in-law would not have been divorced.

Zhang Xiuyu naturally understood that Li Shi and Dong Bao were subsidizing her in different ways, but she didn't say anything, but the corners of her eyes were red, and she only thanked Li Shi and Dong Bao with a smile.

When Dong Bao brought the wooden box where the money was placed, several people counted the money together, and after every hundred they counted, they strung them together with thick hemp rope. They worked for a long time before they counted the money clearly.

"We earned a total of three thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine dollars today." Dong Bao finally laughed.

Li Shi and Li Hongqin could no longer restrain the joy on their faces, they glanced at each other with disbelief in their eyes.

"Why, why are you so many?" Mrs. Li finally asked with a trembling voice.

Dong Bao smiled and said: "In addition to bean curd, we also sell tofu and bean sprouts, and there are vegetables and pancakes at noon, adding up... more." There will be more in the future, Dong Bao clenched his fist and thought.

"According to one-third of the profit, this day will be worth more than one or two taels of silver!" Li said with emotion, before this, who would dare to think about it?

Li Hongqin said with a smile: "It's more than one-third of the profit. Our shop is our own, so we don't need to pay rent, and we save a lot of money."

Several people nodded in agreement with Li Hongqin's words. At the beginning, Li Shi was reluctant to buy a shop. She was still a traditional farmer, and she didn't want to spend a lot of money. For the family property, Li's idea is to dig a hole and bury it in case of emergencies, and the income from setting up stalls for daily expenses is already inexhaustible.However, Dongbao insisted on buying it, and talked to Li for a long time with the principle of "money makes money" before she was moved.

The task of finding a helper was naturally handed over to Aunt Qiuxia, who was well-known in the village.

When Mrs. Li said that she was going to find three more helpers, Aunt Qiuxia smiled and said, "We are not outsiders, so I will tell you directly if I have anything to say. Do you think I can do it? Fried dough sticks wrapped in steamed stuffed buns?" Yes, I can do it."

"Why not?!" Li said in surprise, she was naturally very happy to have Qiuxia come to help her, so she could feel at ease and subsidize the Lin family, but she was the only woman in Qiuxia's family who took care of the housework. At first, Li I didn't want her to come, I just thought that Qiuxia might have this time. "Is your house busy?"

Aunt Qiuxia smiled nonchalantly: "In the past, I had to take care of the four of their fathers and sons by myself. Now that Dashi has gone to town and the son is grown up, I can let go of my hands a little bit."

"That's fine." Li said with a smile, "I'm in a hurry here, you have to get up early tomorrow, and when we leave, you have to go to town with us."

Aunt Qiuxia nodded, "I know when you guys are going to leave, and I will come over when I get up. There is also a person who serves meals, and a person who cleans up dishes and chopsticks..." Aunt Qiuxia pondered for a while, and said, "Serve the dishes. Fufa's sister-in-law, and lotus flowers for cleaning the dishes? Fufa's sister-in-law is [-] this year, and you have seen her appearance, she is white and clean, and she is not buried. Two days ago, when I was washing clothes by the river, I ran into it. When we arrived at Lotus, she even asked me if you had a lot of tofu in your house. She wanted her man to bring three uncles to pick and sell tofu. It's all gone, and the bride price and house building fell on the husband and wife, and it's very worrying! That daughter-in-law of the lotus flower has a sharp mouth, a good heart, and is very straight."

Dong Bao recalled that He Hua had spoken to them several times in public. The young daughter-in-law was not only good at talking, she was also good at all kinds of household chores, and Qiu Xia's arrangement was also very reasonable. Find a woman in her early forties When a clean woman comes to serve the dishes, it will not arouse the disgust of the guests, and there will be no risk of being "molested". The lotus is a young and beautiful daughter-in-law, she has strength, and it is very good to take care of the dishes.

Aunt Qiuxia is a quick-witted person. As soon as she came out of Dongbao's house, she went to Fufa's house and Hehua's house. The two of them were very grateful to Qiuxia. After Qiuxia left, Hehua said to her husband Dawei: " Look, the talented lady borrowed money from us in the twelfth lunar month last year, and it’s only been a few months before she can open a shop and hire people in the town!"

Dawei smiled and said: "Isn't this what people often say that good people are rewarded? We helped them at that time, and they remembered our love!" Not only did Hehua get a job, the wages were generous, and he and The three younger brothers all went to buy tofu and sell them.

"That's right!" He Hua said with a smile, "Let that black-hearted and bitter old woman of the Song family regret it! When she saw that the scholar was sick, she hurriedly threw her out. Thinking of others' kindness, my conscience is eaten by Gou La!"

With the joining of Dahui, the work of making tofu has become much easier, and the output of tofu has also made a quantum leap.In the afternoon, many men came out of Dongbao's house carrying tofu loads, with a distinctive "Bao Ji" flag on the front of the loads, and then according to the planned area, after leaving the village, everyone turned in a different direction.

According to the original agreement, Lin Fu became the captain of the "Baoji Squad", managing nearly ten people under him. He is the oldest, popular, and most prestigious. In addition, the relationship between the Lin family and the scholar's family has always been good, and no one dissatisfied with his management.

Seeing that even the members of the He Hua family were carrying the burden to sell tofu, Aunt Song's eyes were so sour that her eyes watered. On the one hand, she hated her husband for being a slacker, and on the other hand, she also hated Li's mother and daughter. , I feel that the two of them have earned so much money, and what leaked out from between their fingers is enough for the family to eat and drink, but they are so stingy and hold on to the money so tightly that they refuse to use it for their family at all.They live like fish and meat, watching their own family suffer.

On the second day of opening, we added tofu vermicelli buns and deep-fried dough sticks, as well as eight-treasure porridge and soy milk. The customer flow was even bigger than yesterday. Fortunately, the few people in the shop are hardworking and capable. Dongbao is only responsible for collecting money. I'm too busy.Looking at the rising copper coins in the wooden box, and the crisp and pleasant sound when the copper coins fell into the box, Dong Bao happily thought that if the goods are not complete, they will not be sold for money. This is indeed a wise saying.

Today is not the holiday of Wenfeng Academy, but Song Bai is hanging out with a few young men on the street at the moment. When he walked to the entrance of Baoji Tofu, a young man in a half-worn silk shirt at the head smiled and said: "You don't know, we have opened a new breakfast shop here, and the taste is really good! Come on, let's go in and try it!"

Song Bai hadn't been home for a long time, and he didn't know that his sister-in-law opened this high-end breakfast shop. As for Mrs. Li who served rice and cut tofu at the door, Song Bai didn't pay attention at all. In his eyes, isn't that the servant who is serving him? Does he need to look at it?
Just like that, Song Bai followed a few people into Baoji Tofu shop, and sat down carelessly.

(End of this chapter)