Chapter 12: A Duck's Business
Zhang Chunxi was a diligent person today, and in the middle of the afternoon, while his father and mother had not come back, he was fishing in the pond, picking melons in the field, and getting a table of hard vegetables.
A braised crucian carp, a meat foamed eggplant, a fatty cabbage, and a sour and spicy potato shredded with fatty meat made his father and mother confused, and the Chinese New Year's Eve meal at home was at most this scene.
"This kid, what's wrong today, which tendon is wrong?" his mother felt flattered, and asked him to cook a meal when he was busy with the farm in the past, and the boiled radish and cabbage were just the end of the table.
And his father looked at the problem more sharply, squinted his eyes and asked, "Where did this pork come from?"
Accountant Zhang estimated that just these four dishes can have three taels of meat, which will cost him several days' salary, but he doesn't remember giving his son so much money and letting him get a meat ticket.
"Dad, mother, you can eat boldly and boldly, this money was earned by your son and me. Zhang Chunxi was full of spring breeze, he had never been so proud in his life.
The son sells meat to honor Lao Tzu, which is estimated to be something that his father and mother will only think about in 20 years, but he will realize it today.
"Yes, Chunxi, hurry up and tell me what's going on, if you don't make it clear, the meat won't taste good in your mouth!" his mother frowned and asked, serious people have to act according to their conscience, and they don't dare to take ill-gotten gains.
"Okay, okay......" Zhang Chunxi had long expected this situation, but he didn't hide it, so he told the truth about himself and Li Yadong making tea eggs.
Your father and mother were stunned when they heard this, probably because they didn't expect their son to do so many things from them.
"Let me tell you, your son and I didn't have a son, just one day today, I sold the eggs of the eldest brother and the grandfather and their families, and the capital was returned to them, not to mention, and I made a net profit of two yuan!"
"Hiss......" His mother gasped, a little surprised by the feat of earning two dollars a day, and a little impressed by her son.
"Hmph!" and after his father heard this, his face turned cold, "You little bastard, let you stay at home and not stay, and now you actually do speculative things, do you think it's very honorable?"
Zhang Chunxi smiled, looking very calm, and sighed secretly that Xiaodong's guess was really accurate.
"Dad, you still haven't done a solid job in this revolutionary work, and you don't usually read newspapers in the village committee? The eight kings of Wenzhou have all been rehabilitated, so how can there be any speculation? The state is now encouraging the masses of the people to get rich themselves, what is that term called...... Oh yes, self-employed, and give them a license!"
Accountant Zhang heard it in a fog, he didn't think that his son could say this, and said with a soothing face: "These are all true?
Zhang Chunxi smiled, gave a thumbs up and said, "Otherwise, Xiaodong said that you are wise and martial, and you can guarantee that you can get through one point." ”
Accountant Zhang snorted lightly, and was made to cry and laugh by this sentence of "wise and powerful", "Eat first, and I'll go to the village chief's house later, if it's really like what you said, forget it, if not, see if I come back and don't clean you up!"
Zhang Chunxi smiled, knowing that this matter was completed, he suddenly thought of something, and did not forget to remind, "By the way, you have to keep this matter secret for the time being, don't let Aunt Hu know, Xiaodong is a dutiful son, and now he has been admitted to university, if his mother knows that he can't let him do it, if he can't do it, your son and my financial career will be cut off." ”
"Got it, got it. His mother agreed, and after hearing that this matter was not speculation, the smile on her face couldn't be hidden. I earn two yuan a day, but it's sixty yuan a month, can my son be happy if he can support the whole family alone?
Think about it, Xiaodong is a college student, can his brain go into the water to do illegal things?
After the matter was clear, this table of food was only called fragrant, and Accountant Zhang took two bites of a piece of fat meat, which seemed to be not enjoyable, and brought out a bottle of sorghum wine at the bottom of the box.
Good food with good wine, meat is still bought by his son, and when people reach middle age, there is nothing more comfortable than this.
The next morning, the first thing Zhang Chunxi did when he got up was to collect eggs in the village, and he asked him to collect more than 20 eggs, thinking that it would be just a day, but he would definitely go outside to collect them tomorrow.
"What do you think, it's up to you to be absent-minded in the morning, do you still collect eggs today? Why don't we take advantage of the early time and go to the next village to collect some of them? Anyway, the stove has been drying for a day, and it can be used today." The two of them were walking on the country road, Zhang Chunxi glanced at Li Yadong, who was walking with his head down and without saying a word, and asked.
"Don't accept it, dispose of the remaining eggs from yesterday today, and I won't do the trade of tea eggs tomorrow. ”
"What?" Zhang Chunxi stumbled under his feet, almost fell headlong, and hurriedly said: "Why didn't you do it suddenly, your mother knows?"
"Not really. Li Yadong shook his head, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I plan to get something else, and you will do the trading of tea eggs alone from tomorrow." ”
"Huh?" Zhang Chunxi was stunned again, feeling like someone had just kicked him off the cliff, and then pulled it back.
So Li Yadong didn't hide it, and told him about his preparation for roast duck, and the two happily reached an agreement. That is, Li Yadong gave up the sale of tea eggs with full authority, and let Zhang Chunxi do it alone in the future, and Zhang Chunxi would help him collect ducks by the way when collecting eggs, not too many, just a few a day.
All in all, it's a win-win situation.
After coming to Cai Xiaohui's house, Li Yadong taught Zhang Chunxi how to cook tea eggs by hand, including the control of heat and seasonings, which is not a complicated matter, and it will be enough to learn it once.
After the eggs were on the stove, Li Yadong came to the door and began to renovate the stove built yesterday, cooking eggs with an external fire, while roast duck with an internal fire, there is still a big difference. In addition, there must be some structure in the urn, so Li Yadong specially asked Cai Xiaohui for some wire and other things.
In these years, there is a shortage of materials, and there are some things that he can't buy if he wants to, so how simple is it, just make do with it.
This busy work is most of the day, and when he finishes it here, Zhang Chunxi's tea eggs are also sold out, and finally a general ledger is calculated, Li Yadong still has seventeen yuan and eight cents on hand, including ten yuan invested by his third brother's family.
On the way back for the two, Li Yadong left two yuan and eight cents, and the remaining fifteen yuan was all given to Zhang Chunxi, which was considered the cost of collecting ducks tomorrow. This year, duck meat is about two cents a catty, which is probably the cheapest among poultry, Li Yadong asked him to pick about three catties of duck as much as possible, not too big.
I really don't have any money in my pocket, otherwise I must collect a few more, and in that urn he made eight hooks, which can roast up to eight ducks at a time, and will probably only be able to supply them regularly and quantitatively in the future. However, according to the sales model expected by Li Yadong, it is enough to make a lot of money.
There was nothing to say all night, and this morning, when Li Yadong came to the entrance of the village, Zhang Chunxi was already waiting there, and there was a pair of baskets in the open space next to him. There is no way to do this, it is an egg and a duck, where can you get it with two hands alone?
"When did you get up?" asked Li Yadong with a smile.
"It gets up at dawn, why do you ask this?" Zhang Chunxi didn't feel hard at all, and the whole person got into the eyes of the money, full of energy.
"When I didn't ask. Li Yadong pursed his lips, saw a basket mouth covered with a nylon net, looked down, and said in surprise: "These ducks?"
"Eight!" Zhang Chunxi smiled, "Didn't you say that you can roast eight at a time?" I just thought about how wasteful it is to have empty seats, the ducks belong to the second dog family in Dajia Village, and that kid is now putting ducks at home, dozens of them, and he still owes him money for four, and he will give it tomorrow. ”
"Ergouzi has become a professional duck breeder?" Li Yadong's eyes widened, and the image of a black boy with missing front teeth appeared in his mind.
Ergouzi is a junior high school classmate of the two, and the relationship is good, but he dropped out of school in the second year of junior high school. In the last life, at the end of the nineties, Li Yadong had met when he returned to his hometown, and he remembered that the two dogs were mixing well at that time, and the family built a brick house and bought a kick, but he didn't think that he was a home that relied on raising ducks.
"Anyway, he said that if you want to get the ducks, you have to finish collecting his ducks first, and he is worried that he has not met the door-to-door dealer, so let you take care of it yourself. ”
"Okay, you tell him tomorrow that I've rounded up his ducks. Li Yadong laughed, there are few of these childhood friends who have an impression now, and it is not easy to bump into one.
The two of them were in a good mood all the way, and the two of them changed their baskets and arrived in the town before they knew it.
Zhang Chunxi made his own stove to cook tea and eggs, and Li Yadong didn't say hello, he had to let go when it was time to let go, and he was busy with his own affairs.
Cai Xiaohui is also idle anyway, just on the side, labor and baby are not wrong, Li Yadong has said before, don't want anything in the duck's belly, duck intestines and duck gizzard are good things, and the right is her hard work.
The two of them were bloodletting and tongs, and they were busy for a long time, and after the ducks were dealt with, Cai Xiaohui looked very surprised and asked: "Yadong, you used to do this before, why are your hands and feet so sharp?"
"I didn't ...... I usually learned it when I watched my mother's alley. ”
Cai Xiaohui sighed and said with emotion: "Can you be admitted to university? This person with a flexible brain is very good, and he can learn everything quickly." ”
Li Yadong's face turned red, and he hurriedly fled with a pot of ducks.
Due to the limited conditions, he didn't toss too much, and the steps of pouring oil and honey were directly saved, and after a simple pickle, the wire was passed through the duck's neck to make a hook, and then hung into the urn one by one.
There is a red-hot charcoal fire at the bottom of the urn, which is chestnut charcoal that Li Yadong specially asked Cai Xiaohui to help get, and also asked her to buy some flour, vegetables, and sugar and oil. This is all a matter discussed yesterday afternoon, and when I came over in the morning, I reconciled the accounts, and the remaining two yuan and eight cents yesterday were given to the third sister-in-law, and the remaining eight cents were obviously not enough, so I could only go back and make up for it.
After sealing the mouth of the urn with a broken door board, Li Yadong began to prepare other accessories: dough cakes, sweet pasta sauce, shredded cucumbers, and shredded green onions.
This is the sales model he envisioned, not to sell whole, but to sell piece by piece. A slice of duck meat is served with a sheet of bread, then smeared with sweet noodle sauce, rolled with shredded cucumber and green onions, which is a very standard way to eat northern roast duck.
In this way, we can undoubtedly maximize the profit of a roast duck, otherwise how much profit can we make if we sell the whole duck or half of it? The cost of a three-pound duck is only more than three yuan, and the eyes of the people are bright, and they will only sell it for four or five yuan if they die, and no one can accept more.
Besides, we have to take into account the purchasing power of this era, how many people can afford to eat several pieces of things at every turn?
With Li Yadong's knife work, a duck can produce up to 108 slices, and he envisions that with the addition of accessories, a roast duck roll will only sell for a dime.
In this way, not only is it affordable and affordable for everyone, but a duck can be sold for ten dollars and eight cents!
As for the profit, he also calculated the account, the average duck is calculated by three catties, and the cost of such a duck is three yuan and six cents. Chestnut charcoal is not valuable, cucumbers are not valuable, green onions are not valuable, batter is not valuable, and the value is oil and sugar, which are used to make sweet noodle sauce, and the amount is not large. In total, the cost of matching a roast duck is about one.
So that is to say, a single roast duck can have a net profit of about six yuan! This does not include the duck rack can also make a little money.
The same duck, different sales models, the profits brought are also completely different.