Li was still cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, and Xue Ru, Xue Jiao, and Jing Hao were helping to pour the unfinished leftovers into a large bowl and eat them hot at night.

Hearing this shout, they all stopped, thinking that they were looking for Chen Xiucai.

It's no wonder that I think so. In previous years, during the New Year's Festival, especially in the lunar month, it was common to come to Chen Xiucai to write a couplet and write a post for a treat.

Hearing this shout, Li and the children didn't care.

Now Chen Xiucai has recovered, the injuries on his body have healed, but his body bones are still weak, and his bones are sore on snowy days.

Chen Xiucai heard the shout, he was sitting at the table reading a book, calmly put down the book and walked out, and Li still shouted behind: "Put on the thick jacket, it's windy outside." ”

Chen Xiucai didn't have the time to go out for a cup of tea, and brought in two people.

As soon as he entered the door, he shouted at the Li family, sister-in-law, there are no such big rules in the township, even if Chen Xiucai's students usually come to the house, he has never done this, and the bluffing Li family was startled.

Xue Ru and Jing were so tender-faced, and they entered the room one step earlier, leaving only Xue Jiao, Qi An, and Qi Ping standing beside Li, staring at the two of them.

One of them was a middle-aged man, dressed in a dark silk cloth with a dense embroidered cloud pattern, a jade pendant hanging from his waist, a smile on his fat round face, and a black and blue mole under his eye. The young one dressed up as a little girl, carrying a four-colored fruit in his hand, and carefully packed it in a food box. Chen Xuejiao recognized the food box, which was the symbol of Xiangfu Building.

Li didn't know what to call it, saying that it was Chen Xiucai's student and not like it; In the past, Chen Xiucai traveled south and north with the horse team. I've never heard of anyone like that.

Without waiting for Chen Xiu to speak, the middle-aged man laughed twice, rubbed his hands and said, "I am Chen Wenyi, the shopkeeper of Qinglong Steamed Bun Shop in our town, I heard that your family pickled fresh salted duck eggs, and I want to buy a batch to add some tricks to breakfast." ”

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but be overjoyed. Hurry up and invite you to your seat, and Li personally made tea. This tea is not made from tea leaves. Rather, it is the newborn wheat at the beginning of summer, which has just been filled. Pick it, slowly dry it over a fire, fry it in a pot until it is fragrant, and put it in a clean paper bag. Commonly known as fried noodle tea. Brewed in tea can not only satisfy the stomach but also quench thirst, and the taste is stronger and more fragrant than ordinary tea. If there is an important guest in the house, it will be served with this fried noodle tea.

The shopkeeper Chen saw that it was fried noodle tea that was served, and thought to himself that Chen Xiucai's family really knew etiquette and affection as it was rumored outside, and gave fried noodles tea when he came to the door.

If it is more than silver than the family business, he is naturally much richer than Chen Xiucai; But Chen Xiucai is not good, and he is also a scholar, and he is inevitably inferior in terms of identity. Now that this fried noodle tea is on the table, Shopkeeper Chen has a little bit of a plan in his heart.

Chen Xuejiao was very happy. On his face, he didn't move, and only asked: "The buns in Qinglong Bun Shop didn't say, and the more important thing is to operate with integrity." People from all over the town love to buy a bowl of spicy soup and a basket of steamed buns. Dare to ask Shopkeeper Chen, how many steamed buns and spicy soup can we sell in a day, how many customers are at most, how many are at least, and how much is the average in a month? ”

Shopkeeper Chen was secretly surprised in his heart, and everyone outside said that Chen Xiucai's family's business was run by his daughter. He thought that the girl was already in time, but he didn't expect to be a little girl with double pigtails.

Just because she is a little girl, she doesn't dare to take it lightly.

So he smiled and asked, "What kind of detail does my niece want to know?" This is the secret of this steamed bun shop. ”

It's not an exaggeration to call my niece. His own surname is Chen, and he is a sectarian at his roots.

Chen Xuejiao smiled lightly and said: "It's not a secret, if the person who has a heart observes in front of the bun shop for a month, there will be results." ”

Shopkeeper Chen showed an imperceptible smile on his face.

Chen Xiucai and Li are not business materials, and they looked at Chen Xuejiao suspiciously, not knowing what kind of medicine she sold in her gourd. Chen Qi'an knew and nodded secretly.

Chen Xuejiao thought far, if he knew the traffic of Qinglong Bun Shop, he could estimate how many salted duck eggs he needed for this store in a month, there were many such shops in the entire Baitu Town, and even the entire Xuzhou Mansion There were so many such shops, if he figured it out, it would be much easier to do business in the future. Wouldn't it be better not to press the goods to the store, but also not to let the store pù run out of goods.

Shopkeeper Chen has been immersed in the business for a long time, so he doesn't know this truth.

Xuzhou Province borders Shandong, and since Pengzu, it has left a reputation for delicious food. Among them, the counties and towns are the most especially in Baitu Town. Generally, ordinary people have money, and they like to go to the restaurant tea shop to eat and drink, so there are many restaurants and tea shops in Baitu Town, one after another on the whole street, not including all kinds of mobile food stalls on the roadside.

Among the many hotels to eat, the best ones are Qingfeng Village and Qinglong Bun Shop. Seifuso does not do breakfast business, only banquet and accommodation business. Qinglong steamed bun shop just poured over, only doing breakfast business, the bun is a must, mixed with all kinds of fillings, fresh and sweet, a bite of the fairy has also melted, even the big families in Xuzhou Mansion are admiring the small guy to buy a home.

Chen Xuejiao understands tightly, salted duck eggs are easy to eat, and most of the people who go to Qinglong Bun Shop to eat are ordinary people in the town and ten miles and eight townships, or porters passing by. Two buns with a salted duck egg, or a white steamed bun with a salted duck egg, the profit of the day is very objective.

Shopkeeper Chen is also a person who sincerely wants to do business, if it weren't for sincerity, so many buns would have been opened and opened, how could his business still be booming. Chen's salted duck eggs were sent to Qingfengzhuang in the morning, and he hurriedly came to Chen Xiucai's house in the afternoon to talk about business.

Chen Xuejiao looked at him with burning eyes, and also picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea like an adult.

Shopkeeper Chen smiled when he saw her as a little person as an adult. It's not unusual to talk about business with a girl, it is said that the Queen Mother can manage the family at the age of nine, and there are many strange women in the world, not just Xuejiao.

"Qinglong's steamed bun shop business is to make a living" Shopkeeper Chen slowly spoke, putting out the daily sales and customer flow one by one, although in a humble tone, he still couldn't hide the words "You and I will not suffer a loss if you cooperate with me".

"This salted duck egg seems to have low profits, but this thing is not like that kind of expensive things, whether it is a rich family or a poor porter, it can be eaten, not to mention more, but my bun shop may not be enough for a proper hundred a day, how much is a hundred a day a month? How much in a year? The shopkeeper Chen told the story.

When Chen Xiucai was young, he followed the horse team to the north and south as a bookkeeper, not the kind of high-minded remarks that only had a high degree of study, and listened to the words of the shopkeeper Chen, and talked with him carefully.

Shopkeeper Chen saw that Chen Xiucai personally negotiated business with him, and he was reasonable, and he paid more attention to it.

Chen Xuejiao was a person in two lives, but there was a difference between this world and the world in her previous life, so she sat quietly and listened to Chen Xiucai and Chen's shopkeeper negotiate without opening her mouth.

After some conversation, the shopkeeper Chen ordered five jars first, and he originally ordered ten jars, but Chen Xiucai politely refused.

Shopkeeper Chen came to bring a big carriage this time, just to install the jar, he thought thoughtfully, and laid wheat straw in it early, saving the Chen family a lot of trouble.

When Chen Xuejiao saw this scene, she couldn't help but sigh at the carefulness of the shopkeeper Chen. Thinking about it carefully, not all businessmen have personally prepared a cart like Shopkeeper Chen, this business should be done for a long time, so as not to cause trouble to the people who buy things, and in the future, they will have to prepare a carriage and deliver it to the door in person.

The little guy pulled the carriage into the yard, and the children of the big house carried one jar after another under the leadership of the Li family, and the Li family was afraid that the road would be slippery and the carriage would be bumpy, so he tied each jar with hemp rope.

Shopkeeper Chen nodded secretly, and made up his mind to continue this business for a long time.

All fifty jars were carried to the carriage, and the shopkeeper Chen settled the silver on the spot. Because it was the first business to come to the door, Chen Xuejiao only asked for the same price as Qingfengzhuang, and she got a heavy tael of silver.

Shopkeeper Chen glanced at the north end of the vegetable garden, and found that a jar was placed inside, and there were not many of them, knowing that it would take time to marinate salted duck eggs, so he only told Chen Xuejiao when to pickle and when to tell him.

I earned two taels of silver a day, and the big house was happy or something, and it was happier than the New Year.

"Dad, the shopkeeper Chen asked for ten jars just now, why don't you want to?" Chen Xuejiao spit out the questions in her heart.

Chen Xiucai stroked his palms and laughed, but did not speak.

Chen Xuejiao thought about it and understood that it was much better for salted duck eggs to be sold in Qinglong Bun Shop than in Qingfeng Village. Qingfeng Zhuang only accepts big customer business, but Qinglong steamed bun shop is not, ordinary people can't afford to eat Qingfeng Zhuang but can eat Qinglong steamed buns, salted duck eggs will be passed on by word of mouth with the flow of people. Other shops, including itinerant vendors, will also want to get a piece of the pie, and if they sell all the salted duck eggs to one company to form a monopoly, it will be profitable for the time being, but it is not conducive to future plans.

"What the hell is going on?" Li asked.

Chen Xuejiao explained this meaning in detail, and Chen Xiucai nodded frequently after listening to it.

Sure enough, Chen Xiucai's guess was right, since the Qinglong steamed bun shop began to sell salted duck eggs for breakfast, other eateries followed suit and came to Chen's house in an endless stream to inquire about salted duck eggs.

Salted duck eggs can be drunk, can be satisfied, can be side dishes, can be seasoned, whether it is a restaurant tea shop or a mobile vendor can be sold, and the cost is low and the profit is not low, it has spread for a while.

In just three days, five hundred salted duck eggs have been emptied, and Chen Xuejiao has earned a net of fifteen taels of silver.

These fifteen taels of silver were Chen Xiucai's shackles the year before.

This is only in Baitu Town, if it is sold to the entire Xuzhou Mansion, the profit is needless to say considerable.

Chen Xuejiao wants to pickle a batch, but it is not so easy, the Chinese New Year is about to begin, and it is impossible to go to Shandong.

So I made up my mind to take advantage of the Spring Festival to go to the village to collect some scattered duck eggs, and take advantage of the Spring Festival to re-pickle a batch. (To be continued)