The vicious lady who wears books and becomes the villain

Chapter 39 Getting Started
As the sun goes down, a steady stream of bundled crabs arrives from the inn's warehouse.

Li Xiaoxiao started the cauldron, cleaned and processed the crabs, piled them upside down in the steamer, and steamed them, adding sliced ​​ginger and green onions every few layers.

Equipped with bags of oil paper chili seasoning.

In the end, they were all put into a large oiled paper bag, and Qi Yu, Gou Erwa, Dong Niangzi and Cuihua worked overtime together to catch up.

Fortunately, there were a lot of steamers in the kitchen that needed to steam steamed buns and dim sum. There were more than a dozen steamers, and several large stoves were used to steam them together.

In addition to the dozen or so mistresses and servants that Gu Lan recruited back, within three or four hours, hundreds of crabs had been steamed.

The steaming was almost done, Li Xiaoxiao asked Mrs. Dong and her servants to go to various restaurants, clearing buildings, and even set up temporary stalls in front of the gambling house to start selling. Every stall was sprinkled with, "Smother's private kitchen dishes" Every twenty crabs are two taels of silver, and each bag also comes with a small bottle of brewed wine.

A typical supper is priced at two taels of silver, which is simply sky-high. However, there are also set meals without alcohol, and twenty crabs only cost eight hundred yuan.

When the price was set, Gu Lan was very skeptical. There were not many wealthy villagers in this county, so how dare she bet that these people would be able to afford it.

Almost all the crabs in the town have been caught, and there are more than 1 crabs in several warehouses.

If this thing is sold, it will be a big loss, and it will rot in the warehouse without keeping it fresh.

Gu Lan shook his head, after all, he was too young.

However, unexpectedly, that night, there were a lot of people who bought crabs. In less than half an hour, all the simple carts that had been rolled out came back and asked for more goods.

Gu Lan was on the sidelines keeping records of income and expenditure, and cartloads of crabs were moved out.

Among them, the shopkeeper of Min Drugstore bought ten bags, and some restaurants began to sell them back one after another. Last time, Li Xiaoxiao's fish balls were also popular in the store. This time, I have to buy some for research.

More than a dozen taverns in Yunli County have bought it one after another, plus the nearby brothels and Xiaoqingguan, as well as the recent influx of many people to Yunli County.

That night, more than 500 bags were sold for a total of 1000 taels of silver, but there were only half of the crabs in the warehouse.

When it was midnight, he finally had time to rest. Gu Lan was so busy that he felt dizzy, feeling incredible.

"Madam Li, you are really amazing."

Li Xiaoxiao just smiled and said, "You find some people to steam these crabs overnight, pack them separately, then buy them in restaurants and other places, and sell them in Lincheng. here."

Gu Lan didn't dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly let his subordinates who had followed him continue to work overtime for more than ten hours.

I also invited some outsiders to help with the transportation and delivery. Fortunately, Lincheng is not far from here, and it can be arrived in two hours.

The villagers who helped repair Li's house before also helped to deliver them overtime. Everyone knows what kind of person Miss Li will be.

This new type of sales method uses oiled paper packaging to completely break the previous problems of cooked food and ingredients that are not easy to carry. However, these oiled papers are all made in advance by Li's family.

On the second day, Gu Lan was still waiting at the inn for the payment from the servants. It has to be said that the reputation of a shrewd lady can shake people's hearts, and most of the people who do things will obediently take back the money they earned.

A few people who were lucky enough to run away with the money after selling out were arrested by Gu Lan, beat them violently, took out all the money, and even wrote down the IOU.

On this day, Gu Lan remitted the remittance, and got a total of 1000 taels of silver, and there were four or five people short of it. They each ran away because they were greedy for six taels of silver.

These people were included in the list by Gu Lan, and at noon of the second day, the villagers frantically went to catch crabs, and the strange things in their eyes became very precious. This is a precious thing.

The so-called strange insect disasters died out without treatment.

After Gu Lan calculated the accounts, he planned to deliver the 2000 taels to Li Xiaoxiao himself.

At this time Li Xiaoxiao was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly. Qi Yu heard someone knocking on the door, walked out, closed the door, and said softly, "Just give me the money. The lady is tired and needs to sleep for a while. Don't bother too much."

(End of this chapter)