In fact, after a month of Baiweitang's operation, Zhao Siniang discovered this problem, and she didn't think about lowering the application conditions. However, she made a rough count, there are not 1,000 but 800 old and young people in need of help in the shantytown, even if only two places are given to each household, it is estimated that there are four or five hundred people, which is far more than Baiweitang can afford.

It is true that according to Zhao Siniang's family background, expanding Baiwei Hall and providing food to four or five hundred more people every day, her family is not unable to afford it. It can be said that she can do it as long as she wants to.

But when Zhao Siniang thought of gathering nearly a thousand people twice a day, most of whom were still black households who didn't know the roots, she would be afraid from the bottom of her heart - this black pressure is too big! It's okay for a day or two, if it's like this every day, don't say that her family's ability is limited and can't hold it, even the imperial court that doesn't care about things will probably worry about turmoil and stop it!

After thinking about it a few times, Zhao Siniang decided to maintain the status quo. Even if the good people in the family took turns to persuade each other, she never let go of this matter.

However, although Baiweitang was not open to the majority of shantytowns, Zhao Siniang's family used another way to help the shantytowns. As her business continues to grow, her family is constantly building new shops and workshops, which requires a large number of people. Whenever this happens, her family will give priority to the shantytowns, and they have repeatedly asked people from the shantytowns to help. The work was not necessarily heavy and difficult, but it gave them the highest salary for selling their strength in Youdu, and also included three meals with plenty of oil and water. If there are many meals, they are allowed to take them home.

However, compared with the huge team of shantytowns, the number of people recruited by Zhao Siniang's family is extremely limited. It's just a drop in the bucket. When she saw that many of the shack dwellers were attracted by the aroma, they looked at the cauldron with their eyes blank, somehow. I felt a little sorry.

So after thinking about it, she set up another big pot behind Baiweitang, and after killing the second pig, she stewed another pot of whole pig soup. Then it was announced that regardless of men, women, and children, they only needed to bring their own containers and receive hot soup.

It's the third day, and the two huge cast-iron pots still make gurgling noises. A rich aroma wafts into the vicinity. If you look closely, you will find that the aroma coming out of the two pots is quite different.

The soup stewed in the pot in front of Baiweido has no sauce in it, and it is a milky white soup. The taste is mellow; The soup stewed in the pot behind Baiweitang is added with Zhao Siniang's special sauce and a few small red peppers, the sauce is fragrant, fresh and spicy.

People can choose different queues according to their tastes. And so it goes. The bustling flow of people is split in two. Plus with the experience of the first two days. There are a lot of people in the vicinity of Baiweitang, but it is not chaotic.

I saw people holding large bowls brought from home in their hands, lined up in an orderly manner. There were bursts of laughter and laughter in the team from time to time, although it was only the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, and it was not yet the first day of the New Year, but everyone was happier than in previous years, and everyone was beaming.

Although it was bustling outside with New Year's goods and free soup distribution, Baiweitang was still operating in an orderly manner. Just now. The 300 servings of staple food at noon were sold out, and today's business of Baiweitang is over.

Nine employees of Baiweitang after cleaning up the shop. Except for the three women who were in a hurry to go back to take care of the children and go first, the remaining six people all took the initiative to stay and help, including Chu Xiaolou's mother-in-law Zhou.

Now Chu Xiaolou's father is almost better, although he can't go out to do work, but he can take care of himself, so Zhou is not busy going home. At this time, she saw that although the New Year's goods distribution office was a little busy, there was originally Zhao Siniang and the guys transferred from all over the place, plus the new guys from Baiweitang, the manpower was more than enough. So she thought about it and went to the food shop to help make halva.

This Baishifang was built by Zhao Sanlang to house those children, and the green brick and grass roof is very unique, not far from Baiweitang.

Although Baishifang has the word "food", it is not a food shop like Baiweitang, to be precise, it should be a food processing workshop. Although there is a sign of "Baishifang" hanging on the door of the house, because as a workshop, it does not have to open to the public, and the inverted houses on both sides of the gate are not changed to the front face, but directly used as warehouses. The three main rooms at the back are dormitories for the homeless children. One of the two transepts serves as a kitchen and the other as a thatched hut. The workshop is located in the four wings of the courtyard.

I think that at the beginning, after Zhao Siniang took out seven coins of silver to help repair the roof, under Zhao Sanlang's bitter "begging", she reluctantly took out one or two pieces of silver to make capital for them.

If it is in Jinghai, it may be possible to use a tael of silver to do a small business, but in Youzhou, hehe, it is almost a fantasy. But seeing that Zhao Siniang's road was impassable, Zhao Sanlang was embarrassed to reach out to the rest of the family to ask for money. In desperation, he had to use the resources at home to buy a batch of caramel at cost price, and also took a lot of brine packets from Jiang's hand, planning to make some low-investment food.

So, after adding a little bit of simple belongings, a small workshop called Baishifang was started. The workshop is divided into two parts, one part makes cut sugar, which is in the east wing; The other part is made of lo-mei, which is in the west wing.

In the beginning, the children were busy in the workshop before dawn, and when the elaborate finished product was freshly baked, they set off with the first rays of morning light, regardless of the fact that the morning dew would wet their clothes. After arriving in the south of the city, the younger children walked in groups of two or three, carrying baskets through the streets; The larger ones carry their burdens and sell them along the streets.

The cut sugar produced by Baishifang is made from starch sugar, and there are many varieties such as sesame candy, peanut candy and walnut candy. Don't look at the fact that most of the cut sugar is very popular, basically other sugar shops sell it. But as long as you have eaten it, you will find that the taste of his house is sweet, compared to the cut sugar made of brown sugar or white sugar in other households, it has a different taste. Of course, some people like sweet tastes, and some people only love heavy sweet flavors, and this is all a matter of personal preference. Cut sugar made from starch syrup does not outperform traditional cut sugar in terms of taste. But Sugar Cutting has a huge advantage. That is, the price is low, and the price is only two-thirds of that of other cut sugar, which attracts many budget-conscious citizens in the south of the city. It didn't take long for Baishifang's reputation for cheap and high-quality food to gradually spread in the streets and alleys of the south of the city.

The business of cutting sugar is good, and the business of lo-mei is not bad. Because the cost was not enough at the beginning, the ingredients naturally could not afford chicken, duck and fish, so they could only choose worthless vegetarian dishes such as edamame, potatoes and dried tofu, and then there were the chicken water and chicken feet that Zhao Sanlang collected from his own shop. Although they are all "cheap", and the children are not allowed to heat it, Zhao Siniang's marinade is too outstanding. Even if the taste is slightly lacking, the unique taste with a long aftertaste still attracts a large number of repeat customers. While the children are singing a hawking tune, diners will come over at any time to ask for a serving. This has become a scene on the streets of the south of the city.

The business soon brought unexpected profits, and it didn't take long for the children who earned their first pot of gold to end their careers as sellers. Baishifang first rented two fixed stalls in the Chengnan Night Market, one selling cut sugar and the other selling lo-mei. Not long ago, I rented a small stall on Shiqiao Street and Jiashan Street in the south of the city. It is used to sell all kinds of sweets and lo-mei.

"Xiao Luzi. Why did you come back so soon? Zhou saw an eleven or twelve-year-old boy returning in a donkey cart, so he asked.

The young man's name is Lu Xiaotian, and he also has two friends, and the three of them are responsible for selling candy at the stall on Shiqiao Street. It stands to reason that the shop will not close until the evening, and it was only after noon that Lu Xiaotian hurriedly ran back, and Zhou was puzzled when he saw this.

"Aunt Chu, I'm here to get the goods. Just now, a passing merchant doxxed all our dragon beard candy. The shop was out of stock all of a sudden, but there were still many people who wanted to buy it. My eldest brother sent me back to pick up the goods. Lu Xiaotian replied with a smile.

"Oh, in the morning, the shopkeeper of Mingxianglou said that his family wanted to order 20 catties of peanut halva and sesame walnut cut candy, so that we could get out as soon as possible. We are all rushing to his family's list this morning, and the dragon beard candy has not had time to make it, and it is estimated that there are about ten catties left at home. Lu Jin, the only girl in this group of children, frowned.

"How good is that? I thought that after twenty-three, not many people would sell sugar, after all, every household has a lot of stove sugar! Who knew that the people of Fucheng liked to eat candy so much, and they kept buying it at this time. As he spoke, Lu Xiaotian had an idea and proposed, "Why don't I ask the West Chamber to stop making lo-mei, and come over to help make sugar?" ”

"Although it was cold at night, there were still many people who came out to visit the night market, and the business of braised chicken powder was still very prosperous. By the way, listening to the bragging from the West Chamber, many people have recently gone to order the whole braised chicken. When Lu Jin said this, his heart was slightly sour, and he pouted: "I don't know if it's true or not, anyway, the West Chamber is making braised chicken with all its might!" You go and shout in vain. ”

Zhao Sanlang is not the Zhao Siniang who picks the door, he can definitely be called "a good owner of Yan Country". He not only distributed the monthly money to the children on time, but also distributed most of the profits to the children in the form of bonuses, and even the remaining small part was used to buy household belongings for Baishifang, which was still used on the children. However, the amount of bonuses Zhao Saburo gave to the children varied. It turned out that he learned Zhao Siniang's method and distributed bonuses according to each child's performance.

In the beginning, the number of goods sold was not much, and the performance bonus did not make much difference. But with the growing growth of Baishifang, the difference is gradually emerging. In particular, after the business became bigger, in order to improve work efficiency, it was clearly divided into two departments, sugar production and halogen production, each in charge of a part of the children and assigned them fixed positions to perform their own responsibilities, and even the performance bonus followed the profits of their respective departments.

It was not until this time that many children suddenly discovered that the profit of the sugar department, that is, the east chamber, was much higher than that of the brine department, that is, the west chamber, and the children assigned to the east chamber were secretly happy. Soon, though, they couldn't get their hands dirty.

It turned out that Zhao Siyuan, the head of the West Chamber, had a lot of ideas, and as soon as he had cash in his hand, he began to think about how to use the money to make the business bigger and stronger. He thought about it in his heart, although his family's business of brine vegetarian dishes was good, it was far less profitable than brine chicken liver, brine chicken gizzard and brine chicken feet, and if he wanted to make the business bigger, he had to start from this aspect. These raw materials are all provided by Zhao Siniang's family for free, and the reason why her family has so many chickens and chicken feet is mostly because of the booming jar chicken business. But for some reason, her family seems to have no intention of expanding this business, even if the supply exceeds demand every day, and does not increase the number of jar chickens. As a result, the amount of chicken water and chicken feet that his family can get is quite limited, which limits the development of his family's business.

I can't get more raw materials from Zhao Siniang's family, so what about getting them from other families? Naturally, other families won't give it for free, so what about other families spending money to buy it? I guess I would say yes. So, he traveled between various restaurants in the south of the city, relying on the familiar face he had when he walked the streets and alleys before, and successfully purchased a lot of chicken from many restaurants at a low price. In this way, there is sufficient raw material guarantee, and the profit of the West Chamber's side is also rising.

Soon after, with more cash, he boldly proposed that the West Chamber's side buy whole chickens and come back to marinate. The high investment brought high returns to the West Chamber, and it didn't take long for the West Chambers to set up a stall on Jiashan Street.

Even the East Chamber's side worked very hard, and came up with the idea of making halva, and then set up a stall on Shiqiao Street. Helplessly, the gap is too big, and the horse can't catch up with the pace of the West Chamber. Naturally, the income of the east side is far less than that of the west side, which can't help but make Lu Jin and others pantothenic.

Although the little ones in the east chamber were a little blushing opposite the west chamber, and they were even more troubled because they didn't have enough inventory, they could see that they were full of happiness.

However, this sense of happiness has not infected the black-faced man who has been peeking outside the door for a long time, and he is worried - after this year, there will be a lot of fewer villagers around him, right?

Lu Jin once had to beg for a living outside in order to make a living, as a girl, even if there were people of the same clan around to take care of, she had to be very careful, and over time, she naturally formed a vigilance that was different from ordinary people. Lately, she has always felt that someone is hiding in the shadows to spy on her.

Just now, the forty catties of sugar ordered before were finally completed, and everyone planned to let Lu Xiaotian bring them over when he returned to the south of the city. At this time, Lu Jin was helping to load goods in the yard. (To be continued.) )