Chapter 21: A Good Start

On the day he picked up the car, Zhou Quan followed Jiang Xiaolin to the county seat. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The trolley is very good, exactly the same as Jiang Xiaolin thought, and it is very sturdy. Zhou Quan pushed the car to the train station, Xu Ming had already said hello, and Jiang Xiaolin was allowed to enter the platform after mentioning it slightly. The car is placed next to the platform, and the platform has a roof, so you don't have to worry about the sun and rain.

Jiang Xiaolin looked around the car, ran out to buy some paint, painted white paint on the iron plate on the front of the cart, and wrote "Convenient food truck, happy journey" in red paint after drying, which looked clean and eye-catching.

After the settlement was completed, some passengers waiting for the bus came curiously to ask what they were selling, and when they learned that they had not yet opened, they left disappointed.

Zhou Quan is very happy, it seems that this business is really done.

The uncle and nephew were excited, and went to the free market again, and bought white noodles and a few catties of pork, and the business will be done tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Jiang Xiaolin rode her uncle's 28 big bicycle and carried a large basket of steamed buns to the county seat. At first, Zhou Quan didn't dare to give her this bicycle to ride, but if she didn't ride, Jiang Xiaolin couldn't hold so many buns by herself, let alone a basket and an insulated quilt.

After riding for nearly an hour, Jiang Xiaolin arrived at the county station. As soon as I lit the stove and put the buns warm, the train came. Jiang Xiaolin hurriedly pushed the car closer to the platform so that the passengers could see it.

Sure enough, within a few minutes, a passenger on the train shouted at her: "Little girl, what are you selling?"

"There are meat buns, cabbage buns, and bean paste buns and brown sugar triangles...... The meat bun costs three cents and a tael, the vegetarian bun costs two cents and a tael, both of which are one, two or three, and the bean paste bun and the sugar triangle are both one dime and two cents. ”

In the early morning, people took the train all night, and they were tired of eating the dry food they brought with them, and they really wanted to eat something fresh and hot. At the moment, you buy two or two and I buy three or two, Jiang Xiaolin pushed the car along the platform, and almost every window had someone reaching out to buy buns.

Meat buns are the most popular, the first person to buy them, just tore open a bun, the hot air with the smell of meat diffused in the carriage, smelling the people all index fingers, and then stretched out several arms holding money in the window.

I have to say that although in these years, people have lived frugally. But when you go out, everyone knows a truth, that is, the poor are rich. Most of the people who work on the road carry some money with them, and they are willing to spend some money to eat comfortably.

Before the third train left the platform, the meat buns were sold out......

After two more trains, Jiang Xiaolin didn't have a bun left. It wasn't even noon, and she was already riding her bike back to the village.

When Jiang Xiaolin pushed the cart into the yard, Wang Xiulian thought that she was not selling well and was depressed, so she stayed for a long time and came back. She chuckled in her heart for a moment, and hurriedly chased after her to ask about the situation. When I learned that the twenty catties of buns I took away in the morning were sold out in less than four hours, I was so shocked that I couldn't say anything.

"Both...... Sold out, so many people are buying!"

"Yes, aunt, people who are away from home, it's not easy to eat something hot and delicious, so they are willing to buy it. Jiang Xiaolin said with a smile.

She took out the newly bought pork and eggs from the large basket tied to the back of the bicycle. She wanted to add a kind of steamed buns with three fresh fillings, and less steamed sweet bean paste buns and sugar triangles. Nowadays, there are still more men running around by train, and there are almost no women and children, so in general, salty food is more popular.

The three fresh fillings are actually divided into many kinds, Jiang Xiaolin thought about it when she was buying things in the market, she didn't have the conditions to buy shrimp, so she was ready to mix a kind of pork, eggs, and leeks with meat and vegetables with three fresh fillings, which is lower than the cost of pork buns, but the taste may be better.

Wang Xiulian slowly reacted and said happily:

"Okay, this business is done, let's go, let's go ahead. ”

The noodles are served, the leeks grown at home are picked, washed and chopped, and the pork needs several people to change their hands to chop the filling, which is the most tiring work in the whole process of making steamed buns.

The buns can't be steamed in advance, otherwise they won't be noisy when they are sold tomorrow. Today you can only prepare the filling and noodles, and tomorrow you can get up early and steam them.

Jiang Xiaolin went back to the house and began to take out a train timetable to study. She found that the county is worthy of being a big station in the province, and there are still a lot of cars passing by, and trains with twelve fixed lines will stop here every day. In addition to the three trains at night, she can actually do business with nine trains during the day, and the arrival time of the trains is relatively stable, so she can plan in advance.

Although there are many trains, the time is relatively scattered. Jiang Xiaolin had already noticed today that after three trains in the morning, there would be no more trains after an interval of two hours. She looked at the timetable and realized that between 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., there were no trains stopping at the platform.

Taking advantage of this time, she can steam steamed buns or make other foods on site, which can be made and sold on the spot. As long as you have an estimate in mind, you don't need to prepare too many things in advance, so that even if you can't sell them out, you won't have too many left.

After my uncle came back from the field, he was very happy when he heard about Jiang Xiaolin's "achievements" today.

Jiang Xiaolin took out the timetable and told everyone about her discovery, and said that she was going to change the filling of the steamed buns and the plan to steam the steamed buns on the spot.

My aunt said happily: "This is good, it seems that the book is really not in vain, seeing that Xiaolin uses so many brains to do business, the business can be good." ”

Jiang Xiaolin asked her uncle to help order an iron pan bell from the blacksmith in the village, the kind used for pancakes. She wants to make pies and steamed buns on the spot at the stall. In this way, you don't need to prepare more things, bring the same filling and good noodles, and you can make more kinds of food, giving other options to travelers who don't like to eat noodles.

Zhou Quan agreed, but he didn't have time to wait for dinner, so he ran to order it.

After dinner, Jiang Xiaolin called everyone to sit down and settle the score.

Her meat buns cost three yuan a catty, and after removing the cost of buying noodles and meat, she can earn more than one pound. The cost of vegetarian buns is lower, they are all home-grown vegetables, plus the price is cheap, and the sales are good, and you can earn a dollar a pound. The bean paste bun is a little worse than the sugar triangle, and the raw materials are not cheap, but fortunately she didn't prepare much, but there was nothing left, but she didn't make any money.

After only selling for half a day today, Jiang Xiaolin earned fifteen or six yuan in pure profit.

This profit left the whole family dumbfounded.

Zhou Hui, Zhou Ping, Zhou and the three of them don't talk about it, and the pocket money on them has never exceeded a dollar since they were young. Even Zhou Quan was a little dizzy...... In the past, he farmed all year round, worked hard to earn a share of his work, and at the end of the year, he would share seventy or eighty yuan. This year, the land he contracted by himself has grown well, and it is estimated that he will have more than 200 yuan by the end of the year. He is already very happy, feeling that the world is getting better and better, and his life is also promising......

Today, he was hit by his niece, and he dared to love him this year, which was not enough for people to sell steamed buns for a month.

Jiang Xiaolin saw that the family stopped talking, smiled embarrassedly, and said, "It is not necessarily that you will always have such an income, maybe everyone is eating something fresh now." ”

Zhou Quan came to his senses and hurriedly instructed his wife and children: "None of you are allowed to talk about earning money today, it's only the first day, and I don't know what will happen in the future, don't talk too much about it." ”

Jiang Xiaolin was secretly grateful to her uncle in her heart, she thought for a while and said, "Tomorrow, when I leave in the morning, I will first bring ten catties of meat buns, ten catties of three fresh, and then bring more white noodles and meat filling, which will be steamed and sold when the time comes." Uncle, let my cousin go with me tomorrow, give me a hand, and get acquainted with it first. ”

She had already thought that when she went to school, she could only rely on her aunt and cousin Zhou Hui to support the stall together.