Farmhouse Pastoral Notes

Chapter 174

After dinner in the evening, Huzi went to the study to study. Her mother, Yuan Shi, cleaned up the dishes, called Chunqiu who was walking around the house, and called Yang Weibo over, and the three sat on the kang to discuss today's business.

The few people were mainly discussing how to sell sugar-fried chestnuts. Although there are a lot of chestnuts sold in the market today, compared with the mountain of chestnuts in the warehouse, this is not enough. It seems that pointing to the market in Heishan Town, every day The first time I went to the market to sell it, I couldn't sell it all.

There are only three collections in a month, and if you sell 200 catties each time, it’s only 600 catties a month. There are thousands of catties of chestnuts piled up in their warehouse. It will take several months to sell these, no, no, it’s too long.

The Yuan family could also think of the problems that Chunqiu could think of. After all, rice would be harvested again in a while, and they couldn't spend all the time on chestnuts.

"...or sell it in my mother's shop?" Yang Weibo carefully made a suggestion.

After hearing this, Yuan shook her head directly, "No, there are a lot of people in the mother's shop, and you saw it today, there is no time to rest at all, if you put the chestnuts in the mother's shop again, the mother's body will not be able to bear it. Ah? No, no, no." At the end, Yuan Shi kept shaking his head and refused. Besides, being too busy is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that Yuan Shi is worried about how to divide the money for the chestnut?Moreover, frying chestnuts also takes effort. Thinking of these things, Yuan Shi feels a little worried, and it is really difficult to handle.

This doesn't work, that doesn't work either, Yang Weibo has no other way, so he can only point to the two people in front of him to think of other ways.

"...Why don't we recruit my aunt and her family into the business, and then the two of us will run separately and go to the surrounding towns to see, so that we can sell more, but we have to talk about it when we divide the money." Chunqiu bit Gritting his teeth, he still decided to take the uncle's family with him.

What her father said was rejected by her mother, so it would be impossible to set up a stall around Heishan Town for a long time, but besides Heishan Town, isn't there Yushan Town and Pingshan Town around them?Moreover, the time of the market in each town is different. When the time comes, they can run around. Although it is a bit troublesome and tiring, it is still a solution.

And it's not that it's not good to set up a stall in Heishan Town. If you want to set up a stall, you have to negotiate with the shop behind the stall for a day's rental fee, and the most prosperous place in Heishan Town with the most traffic is naturally not cheap, and the Chunqiu family sells Stir-fried chestnuts in sugar naturally make a lot of money, and she can't guarantee that the store will not increase the price after seeing them making money. You must know that no matter where it is in Heishan Town, the rental fee in front of the door is settled every day, and there is no way to hide it.

Yushan Town and the adjacent Qingshan Town are No. 4 markets, Pingshan Town is No. 7, Zhoushan Town is No. 8, and our Heishan Town is No. 10. According to the Spring and Autumn Annals, running around is not a good way. After all, a lot of them are sold in the market, and there is no need to pay for setting up a stall in the market.

Yuan thought about it for a while, and compared Yang Weibo's idea, Chunqiu's idea was not a problem, "Qiu'er's idea is good, but it's a bit troublesome to run around, but let's just use the chestnuts in the warehouse. If it’s all sold out, there’s nothing to worry about, our family will definitely not be able to handle it, so it’s okay to say hello to the elder brother’s family..."

"That's right," Chunqiu echoed, "Anyway, tomorrow will be fine, Dad, you leave the chestnut matter to Uncle, so we can go out together in two days."

"But our family doesn't have a bullock cart." Yang Weibo said another problem, which is the vehicle for traveling. Their family's bullock cart is still in the shop. Today they borrowed it from Da Niu's house when they went to Heishan Town. If I borrow it back later, I always feel embarrassed.

Yuan looked up, glanced at Yang Weibo, and muttered, "Well, tomorrow, you go to the town to get our ox cart back, and then go to the village to borrow one, and we will give you the money. Then we can talk about it. They are all from the folks in the village, so I have to borrow them." Even if they brought back the ox carts from the shop, their family didn't have enough, and Yuan didn't think about buying one. It's time to give some money.

Yang Weibo nodded after listening, and said in a serious tone, "I think it's okay. I'll ask people in the village tomorrow. There are not many people using ox carts during this time. If you give me more money, it should be fine." Because Yangjia Village There are a lot of mountains, so almost every household has an ox cart. It is not a busy time for farming, so it is not difficult to borrow, and there is money, so people should not be able to refuse.

"Okay... that's it, you go and look at the ox cart tomorrow, and then I'll talk to my sister-in-law about selling chestnuts..."

Chunqiu watched her father and mother bow their heads to discuss, but he kept silent and listened obediently.

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"Cluck...cluck..." Gu Shi stood next to the chicken rack with a pot of green vegetables and clappers, shouting and feeding the chickens. The early morning wind was still a bit chilly, but Gu Shi didn't care. After feeding the chicken, Gu Shi Open the door of the chicken rack directly, bypass the chickens competing for food, and pick out all the eggs in the chicken coop.

One, two, three...ten, Gu counted in his heart, put all the picked eggs into the basin, and compared them with yesterday's eight satisfactorily.

"Sister-in-law, are you busy?" A unique female voice came from behind Gu.

"Well, it's younger siblings, what's the matter?" Mrs. Gu turned her head, looking a little confused.

Gu's heart is somewhat contradictory towards Yuan's. Based on the previous incident, she is grateful, but at the same time she is grateful and jealous of Yuan's life...

When Yuan Shi saw Gu Shi standing on the chicken rack, he pouted the corner of his mouth, opened the side fence, and walked in quickly.

"Sister-in-law, are the eldest brother and the children at home? I want to talk to you about something." Yuan Shi smiled at Gu Shi.

After listening to Yuan's words, Gu's expression became even more complicated, and he said in an embarrassing tone, "Are they all sleeping in the room? Is there something serious about the brothers and sisters?"

Yuan Shi quickly waved her hands, shook her head and smiled, "It's nothing, I just want to ask my sister-in-law if she wants to join us in business."

Hearing the words "business", Gu's hand holding the basin was clenched tightly in vain, "Really? What kind of business is it?" There was obvious excitement in his tone.

Yuan Shi lowered her head, pulled Gu Shi's sleeve, and then pushed her to the side. Gu Shi wanted to shake off the other party's hand, but thinking of the business, the movement of her hand was also stiff. Yuan Shi pulled Gu Shi away. After arriving in a corner, he let go of Gu's hand, and whispered, "Sister-in-law, it's like this..."

Mrs. Yuan simply told Mrs. Gu that they made sugar-fried chestnuts, and then told Mr. Gu's strategy of selling them. The most important thing is that Ms. Gu only needs to send people, and they will pay for the rest themselves. When it comes time to divide the money, for 5 cents of fried chestnuts, she 3 Gu's 2, which is not a lot.

After listening to Yuan Shi's words, Mrs. Gu didn't know that this business could make money. Immediately, she looked at Yuan Shi with more complicated eyes. Yuan Shi also noticed the change in Gu's expression. After smiling, she bowed her head and said nothing.

Seeing that he had explained the matter clearly, Yuan Shi made another excuse to leave. Before leaving, Yuan Shi also told Gu Shi that he would let his eldest brother come over to learn the craft when he had time. Gu Shi naturally agreed again and again, and sent Yuan Shi away with a smile .

After Yuan Shi left, Gu Shi still stood at the same place and made a good calculation, then turned around and went back to the house, she was about to yell at the boss.

On the [-]rd, the two rooms set off in two teams, going to different county towns. Mrs. Yuan went to Yushan Town, and Mrs. Gu went to Pingshan Town. The two people in the room drove the ox cart and left. Chunqiu slept for half an hour, and was woken up by Yuan Shi, put on his clothes and yawned, got on the ox cart and left.

A few people finished this run and went to the next one, and harvested rice during the period. After running down the whole October, even Chunqiu, who had the easiest work here, lost weight, and the baby fat on his face disappeared. Yuan also had a certain degree of weakness. Thin, like her father who does heavy work, has lost more than a circle, but fortunately, this month has not been in vain. The chestnuts in the warehouse have been sold, and there is no leftover, and their family has a lot of money. It is a small amount of money.

(End of this chapter)