Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 126

Xiuyao thought of an idea, "Mom, let's not sell a pair by ourselves, let's find Boss Liu and Boss Jing, they will definitely freeze their hands when they go to the market, it's much more convenient."

Everyone thinks it is a good way. After all, being a hawker takes a long time and is tiring. It is not as convenient as selling it to others in one batch.

Although Liu An and the others were wearing big padded jackets and carrying muffs, they still had to weigh snacks with their hands after all. In the cold wind, their hands were not protected at all, and they were easy to freeze. Gloves could at least protect them.

On the second day, Xiuyao and Liu Shi went to the market with their gloves on.The snow on the road has melted, and the road surface is soft, but there are still snowdrifts blown into hard particles by the cold wind under the trees, glowing with light blue light.

Although the wind was cold, but the sun was just right, the two arrived at the market in one breath, and Xiuyao was sweating all over.

Seeing her unbuttoning the padded jacket and about to take it off, Mrs. Liu immediately said: "Yaoyao, you can't take off your hat, be careful and catch a cold from the wind." When she was sick and didn't have money to see a doctor, she herself suffered the crime.

Xiuyao obediently tied up the hat, and she led Liu Shi to find Liu An and the two, who were still selling goods, and they had been here for a long time. Although they were dressed like cotton balls, they were also freezing. Trembling, stomping his feet in the cold wind, clapping his hands, walking up and down incessantly.

Xiuyao stepped forward to say hello, "Business is good."

Liu An and Jing Tu leaned over and said with a smile, "It's good." Although it's cold, but at the end of the year, no matter how poor people are, they have to go to the market. After a year of hard work, they are willing to spend money to buy snacks for their children. Well done."

Xiuyao said with a smile: "It's because the sales are good at the end of the year and the beginning of spring in the first month. It won't work if you look back."

Liu An said: "Anyway, we still have to order [-] catties. The business is so good, don't forget our brothers."

Xiuyao smiled and said: "How could I forget you, I have something good to show you here." She asked Liu Shi to take out the gloves.

Liu An and the two took it over and looked at it, and put it on their hands without being prompted, and asked tentatively, "Is this worn on hands?"

Xiuyao burst out laughing, "These are gloves, which are used to warm hands. The cotton warmer we sewed is fine for copying hands, but it's hard to work with open hands."

Liu An tried it out, and the gloves fit very well. They didn't feel much, but they could resist a lot of cold. At least they didn't have to touch cold objects directly when working.He said happily, "That's great, how do you sell this glove?"

Regarding the price, Xiuyao and the others have discussed it at home. How much cotton, how much cotton thread, and how much work is required for a pair of gloves are all included in it. It's the best.

Xiuyao asked: "Bosses, if this glove were yours, how much would you pay for it?"

The two laughed and said, "The cheaper the better, of course."

Xiuyao said: "Let's put it another way, how much do you two think others will buy?"

The two of them pondered immediately. This thing is so expensive that no one will buy it, and if it is cheap, it is not worth it. After a while, Liu An said: "I guess it costs about ten yuan, but if it is too expensive, no one will buy it. After all, those who have to go out to work are poor people. I would rather have cold hands than spend money on gloves."

Xiuyao thinks so too, "We just weave it and wear it ourselves. If we sell it, retail sales may not make any money, but we can sell it to the government. People who give birth every day will definitely feel warmer wearing this."

Liu An nodded, "This is a good idea, but we are all small businesses, but we don't recognize the gods of the Yamen, so this business can't be done." He was a little regretful.

Xiuyao hummed, she wouldn't sell anything below [-] Wen, so she might as well weave it for her own home.

Liu An and Jing Tu knew from her expression that she might not be able to sell the price and didn't want to sell it. They asked, "We want to buy two pairs to wear by ourselves. How much do you want for a pair?"

Xiuyao said: "To tell you the truth, this is cotton thread. It can be used by spinning several strands together, but it is troublesome and labor-intensive to weave. It can't be less than [-] wen."

Liu An laughed and said, "Then let's have two for each of us, 25 essays."

Xiuyao shook her head, "If you want to be twenty, in fact, it's not worthwhile to sell this stuff if you weave it yourself, but it's good if you weave it yourself. If you want to learn, let a handy one come to my mother to teach you later." .”

Seeing her generosity, Liu An and Jing Tu were greatly moved. Whoever has a craft is not always covering it up and not passing it on to others, wishing to bring it into the coffin, and those who steal the skills from the teacher also tried their best.I didn't expect Xiuyao to be so generous that she wanted to teach them.

In fact, Xiuyao never thought of making money by knitting gloves and socks. Although no one else has done this, it doesn't mean that this thing can make money.Whether a new product makes money or not is affected by many factors, such as whether the product itself is easily accepted as a best-seller, the cost of the product, the time-consuming of the product, and so on.

Modern people buy sweaters to wear because modern people generally accept sweaters. Although they can also learn to knit sweaters, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is not as convenient as buying them.The reason why we only sell sweaters is because the production efficiency has been improved, and there are machines to replace human hands.Now the efficiency of knitting gloves and socks is too low, and the price is limited by people's purchasing power and cognition, so it is impossible to make money by selling this.

Although it can make people who work in winter warmer, everyone can still work without it, so not everyone is willing to spend tens of dollars for such a thing.

With limited technology, rich people may not wear such a harmful thing. After all, there are heating kangs, fire walls, earth dragons, smoked cage charcoal stoves, hand stoves and foot stoves in their houses. It is necessary to wear this thing.

Therefore, this thing is really not a profitable one, and can only be used for weaving at home.

Liu An and the others still bought two sets each, and the price was set at [-] Wen, so they got a total of [-] Wen.

After bidding farewell to the two, Xiuyao coquettishly said to Liu Shi: "Mother, let's not sell it, and use the money to cut some meat and go home to improve our lives."

Mrs. Liu said with a smile, "Okay, we've been busy for so many days, so we'll eat some meat."

Xiuyao said: "Mother, meat is too expensive, and the 馉餷 will be gone after a meal. Why don't we buy some bones with meat and go home to make bone soup. It can be drunk for several meals. Add some ginger to dispel the cold when it is hot." .”

Liu Shi thought for a while, "That's fine, let's go and have a look."

The butcher vendors were all fat, holding thick machetes in their hands, and yelling angrily with thick white air in their mouths, saying that their own meat was good.

An old lady over there was arguing with the butcher, "I said what's the matter with you, butcher, give me such a big piece of lean meat, I want fatter ones."

The butcher said: "Ma'am, this meat is both fat and thin, you can't just ask for fat meat, who will you give the lean meat to?"

The old lady muttered dissatisfiedly, "Then you cut it off, give me such a big piece of lean meat."

Xiuyao watched with gusto, it really is a different era, in her era everyone wanted lean meat, and unscrupulous profiteers tried to add clenbuterol or something like that of their ancestor Yinde.

The old lady saw her watching with great interest, and she glared, "Little girl, let me tell you, don't let you buy meat from Liu Dadao here, I will give you lean meat, and he will keep the fat meat for himself."

"Hey, ma'am, what are you talking about?" the butcher was anxious.

The old lady snorted, "Look at the fat you eat, isn't it all fat?"

The butcher said impatiently: "Come on, I'll give you a piece of meat, I'm unlucky." As he said he changed the meat, the old lady happily carried it away. Xiuyao was very surprised when she saw it. The combat power is indeed as strong as it is in ancient and modern China and abroad.

In my previous life, I often saw people say that the old ladies in the morning rush rush to grab seats, they can push the young people tottering, they have super fighting power, and they are also excellent in quarrels.

The pork seller looked sloppy, and he couldn't say no to her, so he had to study hard.

Over there, Mrs. Liu looked at the meat as she walked, thinking that she could buy some meat for stir-frying. Fat meat can rely on oil, while lean meat is not fragrant.

Xiuyao now understands all of these things, because of the lack of food, it is not easy to raise pigs, and more people raise cattle and sheep.Cattle can be used for work. Sick or old and weak cattle are slaughtered and sold for meat. Because it is not fresh meat, the price is cheaper than pork.And if you raise sheep, you can milk them and shear them. If any of them are eliminated, they can be slaughtered and sold for meat, so it is cheaper than pork.The most important thing may be that these cattle and sheep mainly eat grass, and although pigs can eat grass, they can also eat miscellaneous things, but if they want to grow fat, they need to eat some grains such as bean cakes.This is also the reason why farmers generously feed the pigs with bean cakes during the few days when they want to sell their pigs.

In the past, ordinary people rarely raised pigs. After all, pigs eat food and have no other use except for fattening and slaughtering. Not only cattle can plow the land, but sheep can be milked and sheared.However, the price of pork has risen recently, and ordinary people can't afford to raise livestock, so they can raise two pigs, so that they can wait until the end of the year to sell for money, and they can save money on weekdays.

Prices will go up as soon as the Chinese New Year is approaching, and pork has risen the most compared to others. It has risen from more than [-] yuan to more than [-] yuan per catty, and a pig is usually [-] catties. A hundred catties, if you sell it for money, a pig is worth two to three pennies.

For ordinary farmers, this is already a considerable amount of income, and the family's dime and various expenditures that require money rely on it.

Mrs. Liu hesitated for a moment, but instead of buying meat, she bought some bones, which were much cheaper than meat, and bought a piece of pigskin. In addition, she partnered with others to buy a piece of pork liver for the girls.

Just after buying the meat, I heard someone laughing and saying, "Mama is here to buy meat." Although it was a joke, it made people feel that there was something else in that tone.

Mrs. Liu turned her head and saw Mrs. Fu who lived in the front, and said, "Go to the market." Then she led Xiuyao away.

Fu pursed his lips, turned his waist and tilted his head, and said to the butcher: "See, you pretend to be noble all day long. You're so fake, you don't look down on people."

The butcher glanced at her, "I think that sister-in-law is pretty nice, do you want to buy it?"

Mrs. Fu snorted, "With your attitude, why should I buy it from you?" He twisted his waist and left.

Leaving the meat stall, Xiuyao said to Liu Shi: "Mother, let's go buy a few small teapots like that." There was a very cheap kind of porcelain in the market, and because it was broken, the shopkeepers were reluctant to throw it away. , I took it and put it aside. Some people who have no money and need it at home can choose two things for a few dollars.Just like that small teapot, although it is a bit crooked, or the lid cannot be closed, it can still hold water anyway, which is better than nothing.Buy a good ten or twenty penny, this kind of defective product only costs about one penny.

Xiuyao and Liu Shi went to pick and choose, she said: "Mother, it's cheap anyway, let's pick a few more, it's good to use them for odd things."

Mrs. Liu looked at it, and found that some of the mouths were a little crooked and couldn't be covered, some had a fine line cracked, and some had a rough mouth. She said: "Boss, it's cheaper, let's buy more."

The peddler said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, these are all given away. If you buy those, you will get one of these."

Mrs. Liu shook her head, not afraid of being laughed at, she said: "We can't afford that kind of thing, so we just want to buy a few of these."

The peddler looked at it and sighed: "Well, anyway, how much money you sell is how much money you sell, and how much money you save is how much money you save."

As soon as Xiuyao heard it, she immediately went forward to help Liu choose four or five kinds. One of the small pots had no handle, but it was wide-mouthed, which was just suitable for making lanterns. Xiuyao immediately chose it.

The peddler only wanted two Wen, and Mrs. Liu paid, and the mother and daughter left talking happily.

After rushing to the fair, Mrs. Liu took Xiuyao to the Four Eyes Village to see Xiuxian. The family where Xiuxian worked was Widow Xu's.

(End of this chapter)