The safety and comfort of traveling through farming

Chapter 72

Three days later, it happened to be the end of the month, and Fu Quan took the store's account book to Dahuangdi to settle the settlement. After the calculation, the three talked about the Qingshan people.

Fu Quan has already negotiated with Mr. Jin. In the future, the fur shop of the Jin family and the Fu family will have the first right to purchase - of course, the premise is that the price is comparable to others, and the Fu family will also be responsible for helping the Qingshan people to purchase and reserve grain. The Qingshan people brought their furs and hands down the mountain to trade.

The price of flour in the grain store is ten cents. Fu Quan and Mr. Jin agreed that it would be nine cents a catty, but if you buy it directly from farmers, the price will not exceed eight cents, which means that there is a price difference of one cent per catty. Pretty much the same.According to previous experience, if the fur is resold, it can generally earn nearly three layers of profit.For this business with a turnover of 45 taels, the store can earn 13 taels on the food side, and 18 taels on the fur side, for a total of [-] taels.

Fu Quan was very excited when he mentioned this, patting his thigh with a proud face.

"Second Uncle, collecting food is too tiring, we don't want to earn this hard money!" He Tao felt that Fu Quan was working too hard, and he used himself like a robot.Now she has three secret recipes of tofu, konjac tofu and ice making in her hands. With these three secret recipes, she can guarantee a life without worrying about food and clothing. Naturally, she doesn't care about this small amount of money. inside!
Fu Quan said without hesitation: "Is there anything tiring? The four at home are fine anyway, and we have an ox cart, so what can we do! Besides, no matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat! The life of our two families is just getting by, and every penny we can earn is a penny!"

He Tao said that she couldn't understand it at all. She felt that she could easily earn 13 taels, so why bother to hold on to the small head of five taels!However, she doesn't plan to talk about this much, let's not talk about the three secret recipes for the time being, she is confident that after the hot sauce business starts, Fu Quan probably will not look down on the small head of purchasing grain!

"By the way, do you sell the wheat in Yunshui Village?" Fu Quan estimated that Dahuangdi's output in Yunshui Village was roughly [-] catties.

He Tao and Fu Shi had discussed this matter before, because the population of the family had doubled, and this season's new crops were not going to be sold.He only intends to dispose of the old wheat that was sold last year. Naturally, it will not be easy to sell the old wheat to friends who came from afar. Anyway, the wheat will be harvested soon, and there will be more people who want to sell grain. Fu Quan is not worried about not being able to buy it. It turns out that no one has bothered to convince anyone about this matter.

"Second uncle, Fu Shi and I thought of a new business!" He Tao took out the hot sauce that old man Jin gave her: "Try this taste."

Fu Quan lifted the lid and saw that the jar was empty, so he couldn't help looking at He Tao in a daze.

He Tao said with a blushing face, "It's so delicious, I couldn't resist eating it all, there is probably a little more at the bottom of the can..."

Fu Quan laughed, shook his head and wiped the bottom of the jar with his finger, tasted it carefully, his eyes sparkled.This taste is simply, simply, he really can't find words to describe it!

"This, really, is a good thing!"

"This is the chili sauce from Qingshan people, but it's the only one from this family..." He Tao said with a wicked smile.

Fuquan patted his leg: "So this is the business you want to talk about! I have to say that you are lucky, my niece and daughter-in-law. Let's collect this thing and sell it, maybe it will make more money than selling fur..."

"You don't need to take it over and sell it. Uncle Jin has already told me how to do it. We can do it ourselves in the future!"

"Good, good, good!" Fuquan said three good words again and again, and stood up excitedly.

"Second uncle, do you think this sauce is especially suitable for rich people!" He Tao continued.

Fu Quan looked at her without knowing why, and thought for a while, and finally realized: "It is indeed suitable for rich people! It should be specially sold to wealthy families. This color is beautiful, the taste is strong, spicy and sweet. , rich people just like this kind of thing!"

"By the way, that's it! Besides, this thing is only available in our family. If that's the case, how much silver do you think a jar should sell for?"

People in Qingshan definitely didn’t just pour out this thing today, maybe it’s their food tradition for thousands of years, but they’ve never heard of this hot sauce on the market—if there is, He Tao believes that it’s because of the sales of this thing. Xiangkou's reputation has long been spread all over the country, how can we wait until she comes to discover it!In other words, this is an exclusive sale, only this one has no other branch!
"Five hundred wen!" Fu Quan stretched out five fingers, thought for a while and stretched out another five fingers, and said to He Tao with both palms, "One tael!"

A tael of silver and a small pot of sincerity is not too little!He Tao bit her lip, but she still felt that the price was too low.She positioned this hot sauce as a high-end luxury product, that is to say, in addition to guaranteeing the taste, it also needs expensive packaging to match. A jar of silver can't match the positioning of "tall and superior"!

However, pricing requires consideration of many factors.

The first is its cost price.Although the old man Jin gave her a can at random, it cannot be concluded that the production of this product is easy and the original value is very low.

Secondly, we also need to consider the price of similar goods on the market, as well as the consumption level of Daqi dignitaries.The price should not only show the particularity of the hot sauce, but also not separate it from the sauce itself. The 250 taels of silver in "Yu Shi Ming Yan" is obviously impossible!
They don't have all this information, and it's inappropriate to set a price hastily.After thinking about it for a while, He Tao decided to put the pricing aside and learn about the original value of the hot sauce first.

"Let's not consider the price issue for now. Second uncle, can you go to the village of Qingshan people before the wheat harvest and buy a batch back. Let's sell a batch first to test the water, and then decide the future direction. As for the harvest You are a veteran, you can figure it out! The most important thing is to buy the raw materials. Although the old man Jin told me how to make it, but we don’t have the raw materials in our hands, it’s hard for a clever woman to cook without rice. As for the plants, one is that we try to grow them by ourselves at the foot of the mountain, and the other is that we can go up the mountain to find out if there are any wild ones in our free time. But these are things for another time! We want to start this business first If you wake up, you will still have to rely on Uncle Jin and the others to provide hot sauce for the first few times..."

"Okay, I also think I should go there." Fu Quan kept nodding: "You should think carefully about your nephew and daughter-in-law! I will go there as soon as possible in the next two days!"

"Second Uncle, I have to go with you!" Considering the many uncertain factors in the mountains, Fu Shi, who had been acting as the background, offered to be the bodyguard.

"Okay!" Fu Quan was naturally happy - although he had lived under Daqing Mountain for most of his life, he had never entered the deep mountain before. Even if Fu Shi didn't mention it, he would mention it himself.

"We don't know where the Qingshan people's village is, and no one can say how long it will take to search in the mountains. The two of us may not be enough. If we are tired, there is no one who can replace us. I think we have to bring two more Individual." Fu Shi said calmly: "Brother Lei and Brother Liang have both learned hunting from me, if they go together, it will save a lot of effort, let's take them both!"

Fu Quan was slightly taken aback.He was a little worried about whether He Youliang would leak the matter. After all, this matter is big or small, but since Fu Shi can use He Youliang without hesitation, it means that He Youliang should also be trustworthy, so he didn't say much. What to say, nodded and accepted Fu Shi's arrangement: "Okay, you can do as you see."

So the team to visit the Qingshanren Village was settled in this way. Fu Quan was the leader, responsible for the affairs after arriving at the Qingshanren Village, and Fu Shi was the head of the bodyguards, leading Fu Lei and He Youliang to be responsible for the safety along the way.

When He Youliang arrived in the wasteland, Fu Lei and Fu Shi had already prepared their bags.

Fu Shi regarded this trip as a march, so naturally he couldn't just consider comfort like he took He Tao to the mountains for vacation.Sleeping mats, quilts, etc. are all useless, not to mention taking up too much space and wasting energy. Everyone only needs to bring a set of clothes for a change of clothes.It is also unrealistic to stop to hunt and fill your stomach along the way, and it is a waste of time.Fu Shi asked He Tao and He Lian to bake a stack of solid big noodle cakes, one sheet would be enough to feed a person for a day, and each person would be able to solve the problem of eating by carrying a dozen sheets on their backs.Hunting equipment and medicines are also necessary. In addition to powders to prevent mosquitoes, I also went to the pharmacy to buy pills for common problems such as colds, diarrhea, and detoxification, just in case.

He Tao and He Lian rushed to make four large and strong backpacks overnight.The backpack is made according to the mountaineering bag in He Tao’s memory. It uses bamboo slices for back support, wide and thick belts are sewn on the waist and chest to minimize the pressure on the shoulders, and a side bag is sewn on each side. The feeding bottle filled with Dongzhi and Dongye without their knowledge was used as a guarantee of drinking water on the way.

He Youliang still doesn't know the real purpose of this trip, looking at the four backpacks, he couldn't help but wonder: "Brother-in-law, who else is going besides the three of us?"

"My father!" Fu Lei patted He Youliang on the shoulder.

"What?! Second Uncle Fu is going hunting too?" Isn't it too late for Second Uncle Fu to learn hunting at this age?

"It's not hunting. This time we're going to do business with people from Qingshan." Fu Shi said, putting on a fully equipped backpack, fastened his belt and chest belt, and nodded after walking a few steps: "I didn't expect this bag to be quite heavy, but it didn't feel heavy when I carried it on my back. It really saves effort!"

He Tao, who had a pair of big dark circles under his eyes, laughed triumphantly: "Of course, I don't want to see who did it!"

He Youliang didn't have the time to joke around.When He Lian went to call him, she just said that she was going into the mountains, which would take about half a month.The wheat harvest is about to be harvested, and one person who leaves will lose one labor force. If it weren't for the sake of exchanging the prey for silver, Da Zhou wouldn't have allowed him to go out for more than half a month!If it wasn't for hunting, where would he get the money to hand over to the public?
"It's not hunting..." He looked at He Tao bitterly.

"Little brother, what's the matter?"

After hearing He Youliang talk about his troubles with a bitter face, He Tao thought for a while and said, "Although I'm not going hunting, I'm also going to earn money. Don't worry, I'll have a share of your wages then! But where are you going?" , No one can say what to do, even our father! You can tell them that you can sell prey to earn money! This must be remembered, if you think you can’t do it, you don’t have to go.”

He Youliang nodded quickly: "No problem, I can do it!"

Fu Shi was stunned for a moment when he heard the conversation between He Tao and his brother, and then he remembered that for the sake of confidentiality, the best companions should be the other three cousins ​​of the second room, but they have not been trained under him. After going there, he can only serve as a labor force, and can't play a bigger role, so he is called He Youliang.

Fu Shi looked at He Tao with some embarrassment - daughter-in-law, I didn't think twice!
He Tao smiled at him and signaled that he didn't need to think about it. She hadn't thought about this problem before. We are all ordinary people, so how can we think about the problem so comprehensively!

Besides, the reason why Fu Shi mentioned He Youliang without hesitation was because he was her own younger brother. In other words, Fu Shi was willing to treat He Youliang as one of his own because of He Tao. Trust is the most precious thing.

However, He Youliang can't be made to work in vain just because of this - it's only natural to contribute to get money, not to mention that there is a big Zhou family in the middle.

(End of this chapter)