The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 219 Business
Ning Zhongshi is not a sloppy person. After a few pleasantries, he quickly changed the topic to his purpose of coming to Geshan Village today: "Today uncle is here to see you. The dried meat and dried meat floss you sent last time were originally I was afraid that the price would be too high to sell, but it was sold out within a few days after it was put on the shelves. Even the meat floss left for your grandpa and grandma was almost snatched away. These days people always come to ask, I don’t know if Duo Duo can To supply uncle?"

After hearing Ning Zhongshi's words, Su Yunduo was really surprised and happy. She asked Ning Zhongping to send the dried meat to Heishui Town. In order to prevent Ning Zhongshi from asking too low price, she specially raised the cost. She did not expect the market to be so good.

This is still in the relatively poor Heishui Town. Wouldn't it be more profitable if the dried meat floss was sold to Fucheng or even the capital?
"I don't know how much uncle sold it for?" Su Yunduo asked after pondering for a moment.

Although Ning Zhongshi has been in a small business for several years, he is still an honest person. He has to ask his selling price before discussing the supply issue.

Ning Zhongshi paused slightly and said: "Your uncle said that a pound of fresh meat without bones can only yield two taels of jerky at most, plus seasoning and artificial firewood. I estimated that the price for jerky is [-] Wen One or two."

Ning couldn't help but gasp when she heard that, the best pork on the market costs 25 renminbi a catty, even if a catty of fresh meat can only yield two taels of dried meat, the price is too high.

The pork that Su Yunduo used to make jerky and meat floss could not be the fatty meat that people love most in this era, but the lean meat that almost no one cares about. It is five to eight cents cheaper per catty than the fat and lean meat.

According to the ratio of fresh meat to jerky meat floss that Ning Zhongping told Ning Zhongshi, one catty of jerky needs almost five catties of fresh meat, which is similar to Su Yunduo's actual data.

Five catties of boneless and lean meat cost about 150 Wen. Even with seasoning and firewood, the cost of a catty of jerky meat floss would not exceed [-] Wen. With labor, the profit is simply too huge, huge profit, it is too huge!

I am afraid that imitation people will appear soon for such huge profits, and I am afraid that it will not be long before the streets are filled with all kinds of imitation jerky and floss. Of course, it is not easy to make Su Yunduo jerky and floss. thing.

Ning Zhongshi stared at Su Yunduo with burning eyes, hoping to see from Su Yunduo's expression whether his price was high or low, but after Su Yunduo heard his words, he just compared the cost and profit, and his face There is no superfluous expression, it seems that this price should have been.

"Duoduo, is the price set low?" Ning Zhongshi finally couldn't help asking after waiting for a long time without seeing Su Yunduo speak.

"It's okay!" Su Yunduo didn't intend to tell Ning Zhongshi the truth about the cost even if he was his own uncle.

After thinking for a while, he said, "I still have some dried meat and meat floss with different flavors here, because some high-quality medicinal materials are added in it, the price may be higher, uncle, do you want to try some?"

"Are there any original, five-spice, and spicy flavors?" Ning Zhongshi asked nervously after a slight pause.

"Even if there is no ready-made one at home, as long as uncle needs it, I will always grab the time to make it for uncle." Su Yunduo said with a hearty smile.

Ning Zhongshi was overjoyed when he heard it, rubbing his hands together and laughing so hard that he couldn't see his teeth.

Su Yunduo thought about it, and decided to confirm again. Ruoning Zhongshi still only wanted the third one, and she didn't force it: "Are you sure you only want the original, five-spice, and spicy flavors? There are still some of these at home, just in quantity. Not much, if Uncle wants more, give me a few days, and bring them over when I'm ready for my cousin to deliver the food."

Ning faithfully tasted the taste of the third one, and felt that it was already very good, and he happened to be the person who didn't like to add herbs to meat, so he was really reluctant to ask for other flavors, but Su Yunduo asked repeatedly, If he doesn't try new flavors, he seems to feel sorry for Su Yunduo.

After pondering for a while, Ning Zhongshi finally made up his mind and said, "How about trying to sell the other flavors with half a catty each?"

Su Yunduo secretly shook his head and pursed his lips and said with a smile: "How about this, uncle, come with me, I will let you try other flavors of jerky and meat floss first, if uncle thinks you like it, take it, and if you don't like it, forget it."

Su Yunduo brought Ning Zhongshi into the small warehouse specially opened for her at home. Dozens of pottery pots were placed neatly on the wooden shelves inside. Label to indicate what is inside.

"So many! Are you making jerky and meat floss?!" Ning Zhongshi was stunned by the clay pots that filled the room. If they were all full, how much would it cost?

"Well, here is jerky, and here is dried meat floss. Uncle, try this first." Su Yunduo took the chopsticks from Zisu, and took out a piece of jerky from the clay pot just opened, asking Ning to taste it faithfully. .

Ning Zhongshi glanced at the name of the two herbs for seasoning on the paper on the side of the clay pot, and frowned involuntarily. Would the jerky with these two herbs taste delicious?
But facing Su Yunduo's staring eyes, he couldn't say the words of rejection no matter what.

Well, then I can only risk my life to make my niece smile.

However, when the dried meat is in the mouth, although you can feel the smell of medicine, it seems that the smell of medicine is not unpleasant, but there is a unique fragrance that makes people want to stop.

Ning Zhongshi narrowed his eyes slightly, chewed carefully instinctively, and finally had to praise "wonderful"!
After the first attempt, Ning Zhongshi insisted on tasting them one by one, no matter how unbelievable the addition of seasonings indicated on the stickers. The final result naturally had tastes that he could accept and even admired, and some that he could not accept and had to reject. In the end, apart from the old three flavors of jerky and meat floss, I asked for ten catties each. In addition, I also ordered one catty each of grass flavor, light medicinal scent, sweet-scented osmanthus scent, and chrysanthemum flavor.

Herb-flavored, light medicinal, osmanthus-flavored, chrysanthemum-flavored jerky and meat floss are all ready-made. Su Yunduo still hasn’t told the truth to Ning Zhongshi. The cost price she gave to Ning Zhongshi is still higher than the actual cost price. She wanted to earn Ning Zhongshi's money, but she didn't want Ning Zhongshi to be burdened with the money. Su Yunduo also specially gave Ning Zhongshi a suggested retail price.

The third flavor of jerky and meat floss was much more expensive than Ning Zhongshi, so he took away all the existing goods in Su Yunduo's small warehouse, each of which only cost three catties.

Because Ning Zhongshi had much more goods, Su Yunduo was not polite to Ning Zhongshi, and charged an additional [-]% on top of her established cost price as a reward for the people around her.

Ning Zhongshi objected, he sold a catty of jerky meat floss for two taels of silver per catty, but Su Yunduo only charged him 250 Wen, the profit of which was too high for him to accept.

After all, Su Yunduo finally agreed to the price of [-] Wen per catty.

After all the calculations, Ning Zhongshi still felt guilty towards Su Yunduo. The profit he made was really considerable, but Su Yunduo refused to raise the price any more.

"Uncle, don't be polite to me anymore. You are my own uncle. It stands to reason that I shouldn't even mention these fifty cents. It's just that uncle has a heart. I also think that these dried meat and dried meat floss are not something I can do alone. For what they did, these fifty coins are only my reward for them." Su Yunduo said with some embarrassment.

After thinking for a while, he said, "If someone wants to wholesale jerky and meat floss, uncle can just accept it. As for the price, uncle only needs to add or decrease [-]% of the retail price."

Ning Zhongshi nodded repeatedly. Although he is honest, he is not a stick. A businessman who does not want to make money has nothing to feel guilty about.

Su Yunduo received an extra fifty coins from Ning Zhongshi as reward points and distributed them to Zisu who helped her make dried meat and meat floss, and the two cooks from Shenquan Villa. Several of them got extra rewards and worked more carefully.

Of course, Su Yunduo didn't do it for nothing, what she earned was the cost difference that was secretly concealed, which even Ning Shi didn't know about, but it was the result of her discussions with Ning Zhongping and the old doctor.

(End of this chapter)