Pinellia pastoral

Chapter 76

Although Pinellia made them not need to work too hard, Su Youli and Li Shi, who had been accustomed to working hard, were full of fighting spirit at this moment, and they seemed to have inexhaustible strength.

Getting up when it was still dawn, Mrs. Li fried the fried tofu and put it in a bamboo basket, and handed it to Su Youli to sell.

This is also the first time after the family made this, they went to sell it for money. The other tofu was placed in front of the yard to press water, with big stones stacked on top.

I made a few more dumplings, served with white porridge, sour radish from the jar, a small piece of fermented bean curd, nodded with satisfaction, and then went to call Pinellia to get up.

Mrs. Zhou also yawned and left the house, and when she saw this thing in the yard, she snorted coldly, "Who is it! You are not afraid of being slapped in the face if you say it, whoever said that you will not sell tofu if you are poor, and now you are sneaking around. Don't be ashamed to sell it!"

Early in the morning, a faultfinder came.

Since the separation of the family, when Li Shi was angry, the bright line decreased, and she was originally a forgiving person, so she ignored her when she saw this.

"Are you so afraid that we will sell tofu? Is it because you are afraid that you will have no business? Or if we don't sell you, you won't have much business? Anyway, we won't sell that tofu. I really can't offend you. I just want to see, see Can you make a fortune selling tofu?" Ban Xia said with a teasing expression on her face.

Mrs. Zhou was a little jealous of Mrs. Li, who dared to hold a kitchen knife last time, and said that it would not be Pinellia, so her face turned red.

"Panxia is so unruly. What do you mean by what you said inside and outside? Why are you so mean at such a young age? You don't care about it, Third Aunt." A person came out from the main room, and he didn't wear a thick cotton-padded jacket even in winter. , but showed her waist, with a look of condescension.

If you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb.

This is Polygonatum, she always thinks she is a young lady, and usually shows off her chin, and only Shui Ping can curry favor with her.

Is it because these two people are relatively dark?Ban Xia secretly slandered in her heart and was mean.

This second sister Yu Zhu who always dresses up arrogantly is not one-tenth as beautiful as her elder sister Wu Mei, and her temperament is also annoying.

Ban Xia has never been very polite to her, "I don't mean anything, we just stopped making tofu, so as not to be cursed all day long, isn't this congratulations on making a fortune selling tofu, should we say it the other way around, Let your tofu not be sold? This is not very good, right?"

"You—" Yu Zhu was angry.

After Shui Ping saw Yu Zhu say something to you, she didn't say anything, thinking that she could be useful, "Sister Yu Zhu, let's not quarrel with this kind of people who don't know much, and the third aunt is really, how can I teach them."

Mrs. Li was really angry, "How I teach my children is my own business, and it is not up to a junior to worry about it. It was early in the morning, first the big ones quarreled, and after the big ones finished, the small ones quarreled. interesting!"

This round, because of Li Shi's toughness, Zhou Shi entered the kitchen in despair, and the other two also lowered their heads and gathered together not knowing what to say.

Not wanting these people to affect their mood, Banxia and Li moved the tofu to the back shed while talking, "Mother, just cut it into the same size as the deep-fried tofu you used to fry, and put them on the sieve piece by piece. It’s best not to stick it in between, wait for the mycelium to come out, wrap it with the seasoning in advance, put it in a jar, pour wine, seal it, and do it for 20 days.”

Once Mrs. Li is proficient, she can cut a few plates of tofu very quickly. Banxia carefully put the cut tofu pieces on the sieve, and listened to Mrs. Li's good words, "Banxia, ​​don't talk to them, wait After a while, we will have a better life, and mother doesn't want you to work."

What is the logic? "Mom, don't say that, let me stay like them all day, how annoying, just staring at my toes all day, we want to make money, this is a family matter, when we have money, let's go to the city to buy a house , They won’t be able to scold even if they want to, they have to take a long-term view.”

"Okay, big mansion."

Ban Xia also thinks that this goal is too big, and there is still a long way to go, but now it can be said that it is enough to move forward to a well-off life with enough food and clothing, just step by step.

"Mother, after Dad builds the stove, we can make bean curd sticks. I'm afraid it will be hard work, but bean curd sticks can be preserved for a long time."

The two mothers are here looking forward to the beautiful days in the future.

Before it was time for breakfast, Su Youli came back with two big jars and a bamboo basket, his face was numb.

Is it not going well?

He put the jars and baskets directly into the sundry shed, and his eyes seemed to be unable to move.

"Is it not easy to sell?" Li tried to ask, staring straight at the jar.

Ban Xia reached out and touched it in. It was empty and there was nothing there. She breathed a sigh of relief, "Father, is it too easy to sell?"

Su Youli finally came to his senses, took out the purse and handed it to Banxia, ​​"It's sold out."

From home to the town, and then back home from the town, it was nearly ten miles back and forth. Su Youli went there in the morning, and it was not time to eat, and these things were sold that had never been sold before, so it went smoothly. It was unexpected.

"Ban Xia, you are wrong, bean sprouts are more than 80 words!" Su Youli was very excited.

"Father, no one has eaten this food before, so it's so fast?" Ban Xia originally thought that such a thing as panic buying would only happen after someone had eaten it, so he didn't do much at first.

Su Youli put the bag down, "Yes, why not? When I went to put it on display, I hadn't had time to sell it. Someone recognized that I was selling fermented bean curd before, and it was snatched away immediately. Because the people from Jufenglou were there, I almost sold it. Baoyuan'er, five cents and two catties, if I hadn't thought about my eldest sister, I would have saved some for her anyway, and I am afraid that even the jar would be taken away."

After talking so much, Su Youli was very emotional, "Since when did business become so easy to do?"

Still joking?It seems that a person's temper has something to do with the situation in the end.

Mrs. Li glanced at him sideways, "With your virtue, it's not easy to do business. This is obviously the credit of Pinellia."

Su Youli didn't grab it either, he laughed, "I haven't cooked yet, I'm going to build the stove."

The wooden basin was used to grow bean sprouts again, this time the amount was more than enough, adding up to twelve catties of beans, Pinellia decided not to increase that much for now.

She counted 130 Wen in her purse, "Father, fried tofu is also easy to sell?"

"It's a good deal! Jufeng Building is all packed, and he said that he can send it to him in the future."

The second time I mentioned Jufenglou, Banxia always felt that this sounded very familiar, but I didn't know where I heard it before, thinking that the restaurants in the town were similar anyway, so I was relieved.

So, there are still long-term customers?
The confidence to do business has become full.

Ban Xia is counting with her fingers, there are more than 100 articles in this episode, the bean curd has not been sold in large quantities, and there is still a yuba that has not been released. If everything goes on the right track in the future, there is no need to worry up.

In the current situation, what to do is not as good as doing business to make money.

Ban Xia deliberately shook the purse, "Mother, listen, this money is all ours! I'll let my brother come in to keep the accounts!"

Yuan Guang came to keep the account, and only wrote a few words, but drew a few lines representing bean sprouts, and his face turned a little red, "Uncle Wu is not here."

"Brother, you haven't even studied yet. You can write so many characters. It's amazing. You don't have to wait for Uncle Wu. When the business starts, you can go to school with Yuan Chen. Today we earned more than 100 liters!" Ban Xia encouraged he.

"Really?!" Yuan Guang was also very surprised, and forgot some worries just now, "So, our family will be able to be rich in the future."

"Of course it's true. In the past, the whole family only earned such a little money. It's just that my father worked so hard to make blanks. It was only fifteen yuan a day. Now we can easily have so much, but we can If you can’t be satisfied, do this first, accumulate slowly, and then we will make bean curd sticks, which can be kept for a long time and sold far away!”

"Yeah!" Yuan Guang nodded vigorously.
After saying this, Yuan Guang went to water the bean sprouts again, and Mrs. Li finished her work and used the stove to cook.

Su Youli, on the other hand, had long thought of building a stove with earthen bricks. Watching him walking up and down the stove, he thought that the earthen stove used in the old stove was actually a big round pit surrounded by a smear. The stove, I heard it was the chimney that Su Youli modified later, otherwise it would be more able to smoke people to death.

Ban Xia followed her in, "Father, can the stove in our house be made better, and the top can be smoothed, and mother will not worry about it."

"Success! I've already dug the sand, and it will be smooth and smooth by then." Su Youli has always worked meticulously.

Ban Xia still circled around there, she didn't know much about this, but she knew how to save firewood and make the fire easier, "Father, I seem to have heard people say that if our stove is divided into two layers, it will be much easier to dig out the ashes in the future."

Su Youli stood still. He didn't know where Ban Xia's weird ideas came from, but craftsmen have a natural mentality of pursuing perfection, so he didn't wander around by himself first, "Can the stove have two layers?"

Ban Xia scratched her head, she had only seen it before!So he made gestures, and then drew the fire stick on the ground, "Father, the rest of the place is like this, just the hearth, if the fire is built on the top, and the ashes can leak out, wouldn't it be much better when we light the fire? It can also breathe freely and the fire is strong, and the two floors don’t need to be very high, and the firewood can lick the bottom of the pot when it burns a little, and we don’t have to look down at the fire all day long when we sit on the stool..."

Although Banxia said a lot, most of them were benefits, and there were few words about shape, and she didn't know how to describe it.

The father and daughter stared with wide eyes.

In the end, Yuanchen handed over a few pieces of bamboo strips, "Sister——"

Ban Xia took it and gave him a thumbs up, thinking about the little basket he made before, smart boy!

With this thing in place, Ban Xia made a few more rough sheets of paper, and the paste also came in handy, and finally made a hole in it after weaving it together, "Dad, look, here is the place to put the pot."

Talking about the model, it's really horrible, even Su Youli laughed out of shame, "That's what Dare love is, dad understands!"

(End of this chapter)