Chapter 27 Pricing
"How to make money?"

This question stumped Li Xiaodao and the others.If they can make money, they will not be reduced to little beggars.

The four of them racked their brains and scratched their heads, but they couldn't come up with a good idea.

After a while.

"I thought about it."

Luo Pan had an idea and suggested, "I can sell wild vegetable dumplings at the pier in the town."

Compass and Li Xiaodao hang out at the pier all year round, so they know the situation there relatively well.

He leaned against Fat Miao'er and sat down next to Fat Miao'er. He analyzed, "There are a lot of coolies on the pier, who are dedicated to carrying goods for the merchants."

"They can earn eight to ten pennies a day."

Compass said and looked at Li Xiaodao, he had the most say in this matter.

"Not necessarily." Li Xiaodao shook his head.

"When you have a lot of work, you can earn at least ten pennies. When you do not work, you can only earn four or five pennies. Sometimes you can't even earn a penny. It depends on the situation."

"The handling work at the dock is also divided into low and high seasons. It is summer now, and there are many cargo ships coming and going, and there are many jobs. It's a pity..."

Li Xiaodao shook his head helplessly, he was only 13 years old, young, those merchants who were looking for someone to unload their goods didn't like to use him, they preferred a man in his 30s and [-]s, tall, big, and burly.

Li Xiaodao was dejected, with a look of loss.

Compass is often with him, understands why he is depressed, quickly took over the conversation, and continued: "These people stay on the pier for a whole day, some will bring their own food, and some take advantage of the free time at noon, Go to the town to buy food to fill your stomach."

"We can make wild vegetable dumplings and sell them."

In this way, the coolies don't have to go to the town to buy them, and they can earn hard money.

"I think this method is very good." Wei Shu and Liu Ye'er nodded one after another.

It is not difficult to make wild vegetable dumplings, but at most it is tiring and wastes some time.

What they lack most is time.

They are not afraid of being tired.

"It's really good!" Li Xiaodao agreed.

Finally, several people turned their heads to look at Fat Miao'er in unison.

Obviously, Fat Miao'er is already the backbone of this small group.

"Let's try first." Fat Miao'er agreed after a moment of pondering.

The excrement shoveler once said: Success comes from practice.

They can make the vegetable dumplings first, and sell them at the pier in the town. If they can't sell them, they can eat them by themselves, and they won't waste them anyway.

"Then how do we set the price?" Fat Miao'er looked at the four of them inquiringly.

The four moved their bodies again and surrounded the city.

"How about two for a penny?"

Liu Ye'er pinched her head, and said lightly: "When I was making vegetable dumplings a few days ago, I roughly calculated that one catty of cornmeal can make twelve vegetable dumplings. Wild vegetables do not need money, and cornmeal costs four cents per catty. If we lose it, we can earn..."

"Two coins!" Compass grinned, and added: "We can make a net profit of two coins by selling twelve dumplings, four coins by selling 24, and six coins by selling 36 dumplings."

Compass calculations are the most serious and the fastest.

"Too little." Fat Miao'er was not satisfied.

They need to dig wild vegetables, light fires, and pack things by hand, which is a waste of energy.

Obviously, giving is not proportional to getting.

"Is it less?"

Compass scratched his head. He didn't think it was too little. It was good to earn a few pennies a day.

"Few, very few!"

Fat Miao'er pouted her cheeks, and glanced at the compass faintly.

The 36 wild vegetable dumplings earn six pennies, and the average of the five of them is only a little over one penny each. This is simply the cheapest labor.

"Why don't we make the dumplings smaller and put more wild vegetables, so that there are fourteen wild vegetable dumplings per catty, so that we can earn an extra penny."

Liu Ye'er thought of a compromise.

Fat Miao'er was still dissatisfied, she frowned, her whole face was like a little bun.

Seeing this, Wei Shu said, "We can do the same, making the vegetable dumplings bigger and selling them for a penny."

"Will it be too expensive?" Liu Ye'er was worried.

"No, just sell them for a penny."

Fat Miao'er clapped her little hands and made a decision.

"Let's add another bowl of soup."

"Soup? What soup?" The four of you look at me, and I look at you.

Fat Miao'er raised the corners of his mouth and smiled slightly: "Big bone soup!"

……

After a while.

Fat Miao'er and the other five left the ruined temple and came to the town.Without stopping, he went directly to a pork shop on the corner of the street.

There were no customers in the shop, and the butcher was sharpening his knife.

"Uncle, do you have any bones?"

Fat Miao'er looked up at the butcher, and asked in a crisp and immature voice.

Hearing her words, the butcher stopped sharpening his knife, turned his head to look over, saw a few children, his eyes flashed surprise, he didn't think much, and said, "Yes, they are all just unloaded, divided into good ones. How many kinds, do you see which one you want?"

As the butcher said, he pulled out a large basket from under the case and pushed it down in front of Fat Miao'er and the others.

"so much?"

Liu Ye'er looked at the basket full of bones, and her eyes widened in surprise. She had never been to a butcher shop, and she never knew that there were so many kinds of bones in a pig.

"Fat Miao'er, which one do we want?" Liu Ye'er quietly tugged at Fat Miao'er's sleeve.

Fat Miao'er didn't answer, but asked the butcher, "Uncle, which bone is the cheapest?"

They have no money now, so they can naturally buy things at a lower price.

"This." The butcher bent down.

After digging through the basket twice, I found two bones that had been plucked so clean that not even meat residue could be found on the surface.

"These two bones only cost four pennies."

There was no meat, and the butcher didn't bother to weigh it, so he set the price directly.

Fat Miao'er stretched out two fingers, pulled the edge of the bone and lifted it up, it was very heavy!
The two bones, one big and one small, add up to about two catties.

"I bought it." After thinking for a moment, he agreed and paid four pennies happily.

The butcher found a straw rope, tied the two bones together and handed it over.

Li Xiaodao reached out to take it, and then they went to the grocery store, bought a few bowls, and then went back to the ruined temple.

……

the next day.

Just after dawn, several people woke up from their sleep.

The division of labor began, Liu Ye'er kneaded the noodles, Wei Shu took Fat Miao'er to pick and wash vegetables, and the compass fetched and boiled water.

Li Xiaodao cleaned the big bone he bought, and smashed it down with a stone.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Under the action of gravity, the big bone cracked, and Li Xiaodao gently broke it into several pieces.

It happened that the water in the compass boiled at this time, and he put the bone in it, and wrapped the other root and put it in a cool place for storage.

An hour later, the bone soup was almost boiled, and layers of oily flowers appeared on the tumbling boiling water.

"It's delicious!"

Li Xiaodao scooped up a little from the small wooden bowl, put it in his mouth after blowing it cool, and tasted it little by little.

"It's delicious, it's really delicious, something with oil and water is just extraordinary!"

"You guys come over and have a taste too." Li Xiaodao reached out to greet the four of them.

After they tasted it separately, Liu Ye'er chopped a handful of wild vegetables and sprinkled them in.

After staying up for a while, seeing that the time was almost up, Fat Miao'er said, "It's time for us to go to town."

(End of this chapter)

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