Tuan Chong is five and a half years old and started his fortune from farming.

Chapter 24 The First Pot of Gold
  Fubao's accounting, considering the participation of parents, does not use a very complicated way to record the correct characters.

A straight number means five bowls were sold. Finally, by counting the number of straight words in a day, you will know how many bowls were sold in a day.

If you count the copper plates, you will know how many were bartered.

Review it every seven days and the accounts will be clear.

Calculate costs and expenses every month and you will know whether you are making money or losing money.

After being busy for a long time, the pot of braised food was all gone, and the number of folks who came outside to buy braised food gradually decreased.

However, there were still about ten people who did not buy.

"It takes two hours to wait for one pot. How about you come to my house later?"

Mrs. Xu was confused, and her daughter-in-law shook her head, indicating that the marinade in the pot was gone. She could only look at the dozen or so villagers apologetically.

"Two hours, okay, then I'll go home and tell my old lady that we'll have dinner later."

"Hey, Sister-in-law Xu, I can't wait any longer today. When I come back tomorrow, be sure to leave a bowl for me!"

"Okay, thank you for your understanding. I will build more stoves in my house someday, so I will be fully prepared~"

"Okay, let's go home first and come back later."

"Okay, okay, walk slowly~"

Old Mrs. Xu closed the courtyard door, with a tired smile on her face.

Bracing himself, he turned around and asked his granddaughter softly how many bowls of braised food he had sold.

"Milk, we just sold thirty-two bowls of braised food. I counted the copper coins, and there were ninety-two copper plates. It should be twenty-three bowls of braised food. We paid in cash."

There are countless treasures in the family, and they are counted one by one for her milk.

Mrs. Liu was confused after hearing this, so she simply went to the kitchen to wash the pot, re-heat the fire, and stew the pot again.

Old Mrs. Xu listened with great interest. The old fairy was really amazing. It was great to teach her granddaughter arithmetic.

Her daughter-in-law was busy in the kitchen, and Mrs. Xu was outside packing up the bartering items from the villagers.

I counted twenty-four eggs and three different portions of sweet potato slices, bean sprouts, and dried bamboo shoots.

Put the eggs in the kitchen closet and lock them, otherwise weasels or other beasts won't spoil them.

Sweet potato chips are given to the grandchildren and Brother Yu as snacks.

However, except Brother Chuan, the other two people don’t seem to like eating~
  I’m going to eat bean sprouts tonight. They are bright and good for your health.

What are you doing with the bamboo shoots? Hang them up first and soak them whenever you want to eat them.

Today's business, let alone talk about it, is really good.

When my son's dock is not busy, I will push a cart to the town to sell it. Business will be good!

It was dusk, and Jiang Changfa returned home just as it was getting dark.

"Knock knock knock~"

"Daughter-in-law, I'm back~"

Mrs. Liu had just lit the oil lamp. Hearing this, she took the oil lamp and went to open the courtyard door, saying with concern:

"Master, why did you come back just now? Is everything okay?"

"What can happen to me? No, something good happened to me. Let's go, close the door, and go back to the house to talk."

There was unconcealable joy in Jiang Changfa's tone, not to mention the way he nervously protected his bulging chest.

Old Mrs. Xu was serving vegetables. If her son didn't come back, she was ready to call the children for dinner.

"Wash your hands and talk while eating."

"Hey~"

After a while——

The family sat around the Eight Immortals table in the main room, each holding a meal and preparing to eat.

"Dad~"

Fu Bao had eaten braised meat before and was not hungry for the time being, so he was not in a hurry to eat.

Then the light of the oil lamp came on, and when she saw her father's appearance, she wondered if something good had happened to her father.

"Hey, my daughter~"

Jiang Changfa couldn't hide his excitement. He took out the money bag from his arms, placed it in front of his daughter, and motioned for her to open it and take a look.　　　　　　　　

Fu Bao opened the seal of the money bag and poured it all on the table.

Darling, in addition to the copper plates, there are also two broken pieces of silver!
  "Dad, what are you doing here? Where did you get the broken silver?"

Not only Fubao was confused, but also the old Xu family, Liu family, and Song Yu.

"Daughter, let me tell you, my father is working at the dock today."

"Have a break at noon. During lunch, I gave the braised food to your uncle Zhang."

"The foreman, your Uncle Bao, made friends with me because of this braised food and arranged easy work for dad~"

"These two scraps of silver are from your Uncle Bao's reservation for braised food. The other loose money is the money collected by people who have made reservations for our braised food tomorrow~"

"Dad has recorded the directory here. We will check the account later~"

After hearing her father's explanation, Fu Bao's eyes were bright, and she suddenly took some broken silver, wiped it, and took a bite~
  Teeth!

But there are small teeth marks!
  it is true!
  Hohoho~
  "Eat, eat, and after that we have something good to tell you."

Mrs. Xu smiled and rubbed the melon seeds on her granddaughter's head, telling her not to bite them. If her teeth were broken, it would not look good.

Dinner is still multi-grain rice, but the improvement is that it is no longer porridge.

In addition to a plate of braised food, there is also pork liver!

Pork liver is soaked in Baicao Shuang at the bottom of the pot, grilled over charcoal fire, then cut into thin slices, and eaten with dipping sauce.

This taste is simply amazing.

Although eating liver regularly is not good for your health, eating it once in a while has a unique flavor.

Chinese cabbage with oil residue and bean sprouts with vinegar.

These are all dishes that the villagers bartered for, and they were brought to the dinner table and complemented each other.

The Jiang family was very satisfied with their meal, and so was Song Yu.

No matter how good the delicacies of mountains and seas are, things are different and people are different.

Having a simple meal and being with important people is the ultimate happiness in the world.

Brother Chuan was still young and had eaten a lot of braised food. Now he wanted to eat pork liver. The adults only gave him a small piece to taste and didn't dare to let him eat more.

"bitter."

tastes bad!
  I just vomited right where I was suffering.

That's fine, don't feed him pig liver.

After dinner, Jiang Changfa felt sorry for his mother-in-law and I, so he insisted on washing the dishes by himself.

Mrs. Xu was responsible for watching over her grandchildren and preventing Brother Chuan from falling.

Mrs. Liu swept the floor, wiped the table, and tidied the kitchen. The couple quickly worked together to get everything done.

Back in the main room, Jiang Changfa took out the list of personal belongings.

Compared with the ninety copper plates he brought back, one portion of five copper plates is equal to eighteen portions of braised food.

The scraps of silver, which add up to eight qian, are equivalent to eight hundred copper plates, equivalent to one hundred and sixty servings of braised meat, and are supplied to the contractor.

The other party asked for two servings a day, which can probably last for eighty days!
  Currently, one pot can produce about 30 portions of braised meat. I bought a lot of pig meat today, and one and a half pots have already been produced. The remaining half pot can produce about 15 portions.

There is also the last portion of pig in the water and pot, about thirty portions.

In other words, there will be forty-five portions of braised food tomorrow.

According to the money dad has collected, thirty-four copies will be sent to the dock, and there are still about ten copies left.

Dad will have one portion for himself, and there are eight or nine others left. I’ll see if anyone else orders it then!

Jiang Changfa nodded, he understood and had no objection.

Fubao continued to calculate. Today, in order to have an excuse to get pig meat from the pork stall, he spent ten copper coins to buy pig liver, and then spent four copper coins to ride an ox cart home. The cost was considered to be fourteen copper coins.

The first pot of braised food today does not count as barter. Even if you get ninety-two copper plates, plus the second pot and half of the pot sold, it is sixty copper plates in cash. The total is...
  "One thousand and twenty-eight copper coins!"

Today I made my first pot of gold, one, two, and twenty-eight copper coins!

Foreman!
  Uncle Bao!
  With his own efforts, his family made a fortune today!
  (End of this chapter)