Reborn farmhouse busy farming

Chapter 71 Snack Stall

The master craftsman has been making iron all his life, so he naturally knows that this stove will be very popular when it is produced.He took advantage of a huge advantage, and he was very happy, so he said: "We craftsmen rely on craftsmanship to make a living. You sent this blueprint, and I took advantage of you. Even if you rush to work, I don't need you to pay more." money, and in three days you come for the pot and the stove."

After finishing speaking, he ordered the apprentice to turn on the furnace again.

The pot and stove have been arranged, and the rest is the skewers for skewers, which requires a lot of preparation.

There is no bamboo here, so Fang went to the pile of firewood to pick the fine-grained wood, split it into small pieces, and then cut it into thin and long sticks with a hatchet.

Because there are quite a lot of picks to be peeled, it would be too slow to rely on Fang alone. Luo Tian saw many teenage children in the village wandering around with nothing to do, so he fried a lot of potato chips and packed them in small bowls. Yes, use potato chips to attract those half-grown children to help peel sticks, and clearly mark the price, for every fifty sticks cut, you can get a bowl of potato chips.

Although planting crops is hard work, the real busy time is only during the time of planting, weeding and harvesting. Other times, it is relatively leisurely, especially for children. There is not so much work to do during the slack season, and it takes half a day to do what should be done. After finishing the work, there is still half a day left to play.At this time, hearing Luo Tian say that as long as you cut fifty sticks, you can exchange them for delicious food, they happily ran over to help.

These half-grown children are used to the job, and the knives are very nimble. Luo Tian doesn't have to worry about them getting hurt when they cut sticks. Those with quick hands and feet can finish it in half a day, and they can't wait for a moment. Bring a stick to exchange food with Luo Tiandu.Luo Tiandu counted and found that there were quite a few sticks, so he asked Luo Mingdu to help pack the potato chips. The person who received the sticks was satisfied, and the person who cut the sticks was also happy.There are too many people who come and go, and there are also children who are too young to play with knives.For this, most adults would scold the children, and there were those who were really idle and doted on the children very much, like Changhui Niang, who really helped cut a lot of sticks and got Luo The family exchanged two bowls of deliciously fried potato chips for their children to satisfy their cravings.

When there are too many people, the speed of cutting sticks is naturally not comparable to Fang's alone. In just one day, Luo Tian has changed to [-] or [-] sticks. Ah, if Fang was alone, he wouldn't know that it would be the year of the monkey.

Luo Tian thought that the sticks should be enough, so he stopped this activity of peeling wooden sticks for food. For a while, many people regretted it, and some who had tasted the sweetness came to ask Luo Tiandu, When it is time to sharpen wooden sticks again, be sure to tell them in advance.

Because these sticks are used to skewer, it is inevitable to be careful, so Luo Tiandu boiled water, put salt, put the sticks into the pot and boiled them for half a day, then picked them up and drained them for later use.

After getting the stove and pot, Fang led Luo Mingdu to wash and string vegetables, and Luo Tiandu went to cook the seasoned miso soup by himself.

The three of them were busy until midnight before they got ready.

Early the next morning, Fang pushed the cart to the town.

Luo Tiandu didn't compete with others for the market place, and asked Fang to push the car under the big banyan tree outside the school in the town.Firstly, children prefer fried food, and secondly, most of the families who can send their children to school are better off, and these children have more pocket money than the average person.

Fang pushed the car under the big tree, and Luo Mingdu took a bench from the car and stuffed it under the wheelbarrow to keep the car stable, then put a piece between the two armrests to form a simple table, and then After wiping the wooden boards clean, the baskets for putting vegetable skewers, sauce bowls, etc. are all moved up.

Fang lifted the stove down, lit the fire, and set the small iron pan filled with half a pot of oil on the rack to burn it slowly. When the oil was hot, put potato skewers and other hard-to-cook ones into the pot to fry until half-cooked , Take it out, put it on the iron grid to drain the oil.

The rule in the school is to study for an hour and rest for a cup of tea, so that students can move their hands and feet.

Luo Tiandu waited outside the school for more than half an hour, and he didn't even sell a bunch of vegetables. It wasn't until the school was closed that only two or three people who were lively and active on weekdays ran out of the school and saw the leaves under the tree. I set up a food stall and surrounded it.

The vegetable skewers at Luo Tiandu’s house were all freshly picked from the vegetable field yesterday. The old leaves were removed and washed clean. Served with chili sauce, the taste is very authentic, and it can also be skewered with wooden sticks, so you can take it with you, it is very convenient, and it is not expensive, no matter what, it is two yuan a skewer.

After all, Qiushui Town is just a small town in the north. It is not rich and the population is not large. Even if it is rich, it is limited. Besides, most of the students' homes only have a few acres of fertile land, which is better than ordinary people. Oil is also expensive. Most of the meals are steamed and boiled. Occasionally, an egg can be fried, or two drops of sesame oil can be added to the dish, it is a meat dish. Where is it like Luo Tiandu, who uses half a pot of oil to fry, and there are two greedy people right now. Yes, each touched two coins and fried a bunch of potato chips.

Potato chips are wrapped in flour in advance, fried golden in color, crispy and soft, and the sauce drips down after one bite, the taste is indescribable.

However, the break time in the school is short. When the bell rang for lectures in the school, all the students in front of Fang's stall dispersed, and Luo Tian even looked at the money pot. The pot of tea was actually sold out. Twenty strings.

She sighed, as expected, the best money in the world is women and children's money!
When the school started to give lectures, there was no more business. Luo Tiandu asked Fang to carry the stove and pots to the wheelbarrow, and started to sell them in the streets.

Fang's skin is thin, and he can't speak out, but Luo Tiandu has no such scruples. Every time he walks, he raises his voice and speaks crisply: "We sell fried skewers—delicious and cheap fried skewers , two pennies per string, buy ten strings and get one free—”

Soon, some adults came out with their own children. Seeing that Fang's wheelbarrow was clean, he said, "Fry a bunch first to try the taste."

Fang's fried a bunch of them, and Luo Tian brushed them with sauce and handed them over to the other party.

The adult took a sip first and thought it tasted good, so he handed it to the little ghost head who was drooling with his finger in his mouth. It was probably to see that the child ate deliciously. Before leaving, he bought five more skewers. When he paid for it, he asked : "I bought six strings, you can give one as a gift."

Luo Tiandu took the money over and said with a smile: "Small business is just to earn some hard money. If it wasn't for the oil we extracted this year, how would we be willing to sell this? Or if you buy two more strings, I'll give you another one." ?”

The lord laughed and said, "I heard that someone in Luojia Village on the edge of our town squeezed the oil out of the seeds of cloud sprouts. Is it your home?"

Luo Tiandu nodded cheerfully, and said: "Exactly, this oil is freshly squeezed, and the vegetable skewers are made by my mother and eldest sister who have been busy for most of the night, and they are cleaned and skewered. It has been boiled in salt water for half a day, and it couldn’t be more clean, so feel free to eat it.”

That person really bought two more strings, Luo Tiandu was not stingy, and gave her another string.

After walking around outside, guessing that it was almost time, Fang pushed the car back under the tree in the school, waiting for the second wave of business.In this way, at the end of the day, the business is much better than just staying under the school tree.

On the first day of doing this business, I didn't prepare many skewers, and when the school was over, they were all sold out.

Most of the money earned from this kind of snack business is the children's money. After school, Luo Tian urged Fang's to close the stall, and when he returned home, he was just in time to make dinner for Luo Baisu.

Luo Baisu solved it by himself at noon. Seeing that the three of their mothers came back in a good mood at this time, he was worried all day before letting go, knowing that this time the transaction should be considered smooth.

He put down his book, rolled up his sleeves, and said, "You guys just came back, go rest, I'll make dinner."

Luo Tiandu ran up to Luo Baisu, raised his head and asked him, "Father, doesn't the book say 'a gentleman is far from the cook'? Why are you still cooking for us?"

Luo Baisu rubbed her little head with a smile, and said, "Is Xiaodu afraid that the food that Dad cooks won't taste good?"

"Otherwise, it's not." Luo Tian denied it flatly, and became more and more curious about Luo Baisu in his heart.Men in the north have serious machismo, and they want more face than those in the south. They don’t easily enter the kitchen. They think it’s too embarrassing for a big man to cook in the stove like a woman. The old man, no matter how much he loves his children and grandchildren, he will never compromise on this point. Only this Luo Baisu always makes her look sideways.

For Luo Baisu's rare thoughtful approach, Luo Tian would naturally not refuse, and besides, they will continue to sell snacks tomorrow, and they have a lot of things to do.

Fang's and Luo Ming both stayed up late last night to skewer [-] skewers, and today they are almost sold out, only about [-] skewers are left, and they have to prepare some more skewers for sale tomorrow.

Fang went to the field to pick vegetables, while Luo Tiandu went back to the house to keep accounts.

Today, a total of 310 Liuwen was sold, of which 170 Wen was deducted for the two catties of vegetable oil lost, and the cost of seasonings such as salt and vinegar sauce and wooden sticks was [-] Wen. Neglecting it, at the end of the day, I made a net profit of more than [-] Wen, which is considered a huge profit.

Although selling snacks made money, Luo Tiandu only stopped selling them for five or six days.

The family's fields add up to a total of more than [-] mu, and now they are all planted with crops, and Fang is busy alone.The paddy field often has to grasp the field grass, and the corn and sorghum in the field also grow taller, and the weeds in the field also grow up.

Because there is a lot of land, and only Mrs. Fang is working hard. Although Luo Mingdu is diligent and willing to work, he is too young. He has to herd cattle every day. Mrs. Fang can really count on the work in the field.Weeding alone is naturally not fast. Often the grass in the paddy field is finished before the grass in the field grows up again. After weeding the grass in the field, the field will have to catch grass again. It is really impossible for a moment. idle.

(End of this chapter)