The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 26: On August [-]th, the whole family goes out to visit relatives!
On the way home, Song Yingkui chatted with his second uncle about business matters.For several market days in a row, the bean curd sticks brought from home can be sold almost.This shows that the market has begun to accept the new product of bean curd sticks. As far as the small market in Wuying Town is concerned, the early customer education has been completed, and the next step is to see when the market on the other side will open.

A catty of yuba can earn 250 to [-] Wen, and selling about [-] catties a day is about [-] Wen, plus the money earned from selling tofu, the income can be about [-] Wen per market day.There are nine market days in January, and the monthly income is around two taels of silver.For the Song family, who were still in abject poverty last year, it can be said that they have stepped up a big step.

"It would be great if there was a shop on the street, so that I could make money every day." Delong Wangshu, as soon as the second uncle's stall was successfully set up, he began to think about owning a shop.

"Let's set up a stall for a while to see the situation. If the business gets better, we will find a way to set up a shop. I don't know if it is expensive to set up a shop on Wuying Street?" When the business is done, we must open a shop, so that it is more convenient to do business with tenants.It's just that the family has just started to make money, and Song Yingkui finds it difficult to open a shop for the time being.

"When your second grandpa opened the shop, four or fifty taels of silver was built in the house. It is a big deal to open a shop on the street, and you have to pay for the rent every month. The shop is not easy to open." Hearing the conversation between the uncle and nephew, Song Tianshun, who was sitting in the ox cart, could not help but interrupt.He also has an obsession in his heart to open a shop on the street.In the past, the family didn't have the conditions to think about this at all.Now that the family has entered the business line, can they not feel angry?It's just that the cost of opening a shop is too high. With the current scale, it may take several years to save money to open a shop.

"We shouldn't spend as much money as Second Grandpa used to open the shop. He runs Dou Xing, which requires a lot of money in it. Our family can supply the goods ourselves, and we can open it with half the cost at most. As long as we work hard, in half a year, it is not difficult to open a shop on the street." Seeing that his grandfather was a little pessimistic about whether his family could open a shop, Song Yingkui spoke out to cheer him up.Things are on track. Is it that difficult to set up a store in a small town for a traveler?Other time travelers, I am afraid that they have achieved financial freedom in a year.

"Kui Wa, do you really think we can open a shop in half a year?" Song Tianshun was completely agitated by his grandson's words.

"Really! Our yuba business has just improved. I think within half a year, we can sell more than [-] catties per market day. In addition, I can also take on some carpentry work. It is not difficult to save enough money to open a shop."

"If you can buy more than a hundred catties of bean curd sticks on a market day, it will not be difficult to save money to open a shop."

The three of them chatted about their thoughts on the yuba business along the way, and the more they talked, the more hopeful they felt.Suddenly Song Tianshun said, "Since our yuba business can expand, why not buy some soybeans from other houses because the price is cheap during this period of food harvest? The soybeans collected by our family alone will be gone in the current situation, and they will be gone around the Chinese New Year."

Harvest soybeans while food prices are low?Song Yingkui also thought about this, but the family's capital was too small to collect much, and it was meaningless to overstock. "Grandpa, soybeans are really cheap now, but we don't have much money, so we can't get much cheaper by collecting a few stones of beans. It's better to keep the living money in our hands first, and buy soybeans as we use it."

"Kuiwa, are you stupid? We can order the grain first, and then pay him when the grain is actually pulled from other families. Unlike wheat, soybeans can be exchanged for money at any time. Sometimes they are pulled into the street, and no one can collect them. Let's order the beans. It will be convenient for them to come to fetch grain at that time." Song Tianshun opened his mouth to refute his grandson's ideas.

"Is it possible to do this? People are willing to keep the food for us?" Song Yingkui didn't understand the human relationship in the rural society, and always felt that everything had to be settled in cash.

"Why not? Just think about how many stone soybeans our family can crush. You say the number. After I go back, I will go door-to-door to find a solution."

"If you can make a reservation, let's set an order of thirty or fifty shi." In fact, Song Yingkui thought that it would be best to order more than a hundred shi of soybeans, but he was afraid of scaring his grandfather by telling him, so he said a conservative amount.

"Thirty or fifty stones are so many? Why don't you set thirty stones first to be safe."

"I'll set a price of [-] shi, and we'll make adjustments in time according to the next market situation. In short, at least enough soybeans for more than one month's supply should be pressed, so that we won't stop. Are you sure about ordering soybeans? If the grain we ordered is secretly sold by others, it may delay major events."

"There's nothing to worry about. All I'm looking for are real people. They can't do this."

Seeing that Song Tian said that he was very confident about ordering soybeans, Song Yingkui didn't say anything else.Anyway, whether it is reliable or not, let's try it first.The soybeans collected at home can still be used for a period of time, and it is okay to act when the stock is about to run out. At that time, the capital saved will be more.

Back home, the next day, the construction of the mountain road continued. It would be great if most of the road can be repaired in time for the autumn harvest.

In addition to building roads, manpower must be freed up to plow the wheat fields so that the fields can easily absorb the autumn rain and be sterilized by sunlight.I have just been busy for a few days, and on August [-]th, grandma stopped these things.A new task was arranged, and it was said that on August [-]th, the whole family had to go to visit relatives.

What is the situation?According to traditional customs, there is indeed a habit of visiting relatives on August [-]th.But there's no need to mobilize the whole family to do this, right?Usually on this day, only one or two real relatives who are close to each other will be transferred. After all, it is the busy farming season and it is not the Chinese New Year.

What is even more surprising is that the grandfather who has been yelling about rushing to the farm has no objection, saying that he wants to transfer two catties of bean curd sticks to his natal family?
Could it be that the family members want to show off their yuba business at relatives' homes?A catty of bean curd sticks costs more than a dozen Wen, is that enough?

It wasn't until at night that grandma took the trouble to explain to the person in charge who was about to split up and transfer to relatives what she had to say at the relatives' house, that Song Yingkui finally understood what grandma was trying to do.

Grandma insisted over and over again that when she arrived at the relatives' house, she must say that the family has started a business of selling tofu and bean curd sticks, and that a few more rooms will be built in the spring of next year.The most important thing is that it is the second uncle who goes to the street to do business, and the second uncle has not yet married.

The co-author is to mobilize relatives and friends to say goodbye to the 19-year-old leftover male second uncle.No wonder the whole family is mobilized to visit relatives.In this day and age, people who are close to each other mainly rely on the mutual introduction of relatives.After the introduction is almost ready, then we will find a matchmaker to come to the door formally to ask about the horoscope.In rural areas, there are no professional matchmakers either, and they spend their days idling around going from house to house to find matchmakers.

(End of this chapter)