"Uncle Jiang, business is not bad today, and it was sold on the first day of opening, so you have been waiting for a long time." Li Qiushi pulled Li Yangqing onto the boat and sat down.

"Grandpa Jiang, our family has set up a food stall in the town to sell fried skewers, and the next time I play with the fish, I will also bring them to taste it."

"Your kindness Grandpa Jiang understands, it's not easy for everyone, it's something to sell for money, where can I let the little baby eat as much as he wants, just wait for the next time I bring fish to the town and sell it to him."

"Grandpa Jiang, you're welcome, I see that you have caught so many fish today, do you have to sell them?"

"I'm going to keep five fish to eat, and I'll sell the rest in town tomorrow."

"Grandpa Jiang, I have a request, our stall is just going to sell some fish for food, our family has neither the tools nor so much time to catch fish, or Grandpa Jiang, you will catch fish every few days and send it to our house, and our family will collect it, how about eight cents a pound according to the price in the town?" Li Yangde has always been thinking about the ingredients of the rich stall that Li Yangqing said.

When the old man Jiang heard that Li Tingyuan's family took care of himself so much, he said sincerely with emotion on his face: "And this good thing, then I will sell it to your family, but the price is only six yuan a catty, you don't refuse me immediately, you are a long-term recipient, this is a long-term business for the old man, I don't have to go so far to the town, spend a long time waiting for buyers, I also want to thank you, you just listen to me!" ”

"Then we'll listen to Uncle Jiang, but we're going to take advantage of your old one." Li Qiu was a little embarrassed.

"Folks, you are also taking care of the old man and me, and I will send this fish to your house with you later."

"Boss, you still need to buy some meat and ribs for setting up a stall tomorrow, you can get off the boat and go directly to Uncle Dao's house to buy it later, and also tell Brother Jiang the amount of food our family wants every day, and let Brother Jiang send it to our family every day in the future, so that the meat is fresh." Li Qiu's family sent fish from the old man Jiang and thought of buying meat every day.

"Okay! Mother. ”

The waterway is indeed much faster than walking, and the old man Jiang rowed fast, and he arrived at the entrance of the village at the end of the day.

"Grandma, father, uncle, sister-in-law, you're back!" Li Chenggang's ears were sensitive, and he heard the footsteps outside the courtyard from afar, and ran to open the door.

"Grandpa Jiang, you're here too." Li Chenggang said sweetly.

The rest of the family heard the noise in the yard and went out to gather around the few people who had returned from the town to help unload their things.

"Uncle Jiang, please sit down, Wen Qing, go and get some water for Uncle Jiang." Li Tingyuan saw that the old man Jiang was coming, so he warmly invited the old man to sit down, and Li Wenqing ran to the kitchen when he got the order.

"Don't be so polite, I'll leave in a moment, I'm here to deliver fish." Old Man Jiang put the bucket containing the fish on the ground and showed it to Li Tingyuan.

Seeing this, Li Qiu's explained to Li Tingyuan what was agreed upon on the boat, Li Yangqing found a basin and put it in the yard, and Jiang Laoye poured all the fish in the wooden barrel into the wooden basin, leaving only five for his grandson to eat.

"Tingyuan, I estimate that there are about five catties of fish in this pot, keep it carefully, it won't die in a few days, and I'll go back, my family is still waiting for me!" Old Man Jiang picked up the bucket on the ground and was about to say goodbye and go home, Li Qiu hurriedly took out forty-five yuan and handed it over to Old Man Jiang, including the return boat fare of fifteen yuan.

Li Tingyuan sent Old Man Jiang to the door, only to return to the courtyard, and when he saw that Li Yangde did not come back, he asked casually: "Boss, where have you gone?" ”

"Grandpa, the eldest brother went to Uncle Dao's house to buy meat for tomorrow's stall, and we are going to set a certain amount every day for Uncle Dao to send meat to our house, so we don't have to go to the town to buy it." Li Yangqing replied.

"This is a good solution, so how is your business today?" Hearing Old Man Li mention this problem, the rest of the family also turned their attention to Li Yangqing curiously.

"Business is going well today! Let's all go to the hall and settle the day's account as we talk. Li Qiu said to the nervous people in the courtyard.

"Sister-in-law, did you buy us a sugar gourd?" Li Chenggang and Li Chengqiang, the two little babies, have been thinking about sugar gourds all day long.

Li Yangqing looked at his nephews' greed with a smile, "Don't worry, you all have it." Li Yangqing ran to Li Qiu's side to take the basket, took out four sugar gourds, and gave them to Li Chenggang, Li Chengqiang, Li Wendong and Li Wenqiu one by one, and the children couldn't wait to eat them.

"Sister-in-law, why don't you have it, you can eat me!" The careful Li Wenqiu handed the sugar gourd in his hand to Yangqing's mouth.

When the other children heard this, they also handed the sugar gourd in their hands to Li Yangqing's mouth, and Li Yangqing had no choice but to eat one of each skewer, so he let them eat it themselves.

"I'm back." Li Yangde carried two catties of meat and two catties of pork ribs into the courtyard.

"Come in, Boss, we're getting ready to calculate today's income." Li Qiu beckoned Li Yangde into the hall.

Li Qiu took out the money bag and prepared to pour it all on the table, everyone stared at the money bag, watching more and more copper coins roll out, and the copper coins collided and made a "bang" sound, waiting for a large number of copper coins to be placed on the table, one by one, staring at the money on the table, for fear that they would fall.

"That's a lot of money! Grandma counts quickly. Li Wendong sighed.

Li Qiu put the money on the table together, counting them one by one, Li Yangming stringed money on the side, one hundred pieces in a string, and was stunned to string five large strings, Li Yangming reported the number, "There are a total of five hundred and thirty-four wen money here, we have a total of two hundred spice vegetarian skewers, one hundred ordinary vegetarian skewers, meat skewers and pork rib skewers, a total of one hundred skewers, seventy golden dumplings, and a bucket of chrysanthemum tea (sixty bowls), all of which are sold out is one thousand and forty yuan, that is, one tael of silver and forty yuan." ”

"Ahh So much money. ”

"I didn't expect the food stall to be so profitable."

"That's a lot of money! You can buy a lot of meat to eat. ”

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"So how much does it cost today? Yang Ming, you will do the math again. Li Ting saw that there was so much money and no one else was so excited, so he asked rationally.

"I'll tell you the cost of making skewers today, nearly ten catties of vegetables are counted as ten wen, meat, pork ribs, wheat flour, salt, lard, and round-trip travel expenses totaling two hundred and eight wen, in fact, salt and lard have not been used up, if you keep selling this amount every day, you can earn eight hundred and thirty-two wen, of course, today is the first day of opening, everyone eats fresh, and there is no guarantee that you can earn so much every day."

Li Yangming continued: "We sent a gift to Doctor Zheng, Lin Zhutou, and Wu Zhukuai in the town, and each of the meat and vegetables took ten strings plus four golden dumplings, a total of 162 Wen, and in the morning each person ate a golden group with a total of 36 Wen, and spent 136 Wen to buy steamed buns, sugar gourds, fish, meat, pork ribs, and wheat flour needed tomorrow, and spent 298 Wen today, and the 832 Wen earned minus today's expenses are still 534 Wen. "Li Yangming deserves to have a good material for reading, and he remembers the expenses of today's day clearly, and the accounts are also clear.

Li Tingyuan listened to Li Yangming's calculations, and from today's income, it seems that this business is a long-term good deal, "You have worked hard today, especially thanks to Yangqing for worrying about making money for this family at a young age, and others are also worthy of praise. ”

"That's also a lot of money, if you can guarantee an average of five hundred wen a day, it's close to fifteen taels of silver a month!" Li Sun's heart was so happy when he saw that he could earn so much money in one day, and he thought that his family would be able to live a good life in the future, so he smiled with his eyebrows.

"It seems that this business is still done, as long as we set up a stall every day, our family can have income, and when we make more money, grandma will make new clothes for everyone in the family for the New Year." Li Qiu has money in his hands and is also a generous person.

"There's new clothes, it's time to wear new clothes." Li Chenggang and Li Chengqiang happily ran to the courtyard and called.

"Come back quickly, what are you yelling at night, come here." Li Sun ran to the courtyard and forcibly pulled the two shouting brothers into the house and sat down.

"Cheng Gang, Cheng Qiang, what the family said just now, you can't go to the village to talk nonsense, otherwise you won't have new clothes to wear." Li Yangwu was worried that the child's mouth was not tight, and he was talking nonsense everywhere.

"Dad, we don't dare, we won't talk nonsense, I like new clothes." The two brothers nodded in fright, like quails.

"Okay, okay, it's time for dinner tonight, and we'll have to skewer tomorrow when we're done eating!" Li Yangqing reminded.

The women in the house quickly got up and went to the kitchen to serve food, and the other children followed to the kitchen to help, and after a while the food was on the table, and there was a bowl of steamed eggs, leek soup, cold radish shreds, and thick corn porridge.

"Wow! There are eggs to eat tonight. Li Yangqing couldn't help but sigh when he saw that today's food was so good.

"This is what my mother explained before she left this morning, saying that everyone has worked hard, eat something good." Li Wenshi explained.

Looking at the delicious food on the table, the family happily ate a dinner, and the dishes on the plate were all eaten cleanly, Li Yangqing couldn't help but think that it was so easy to be satisfied with a good meal now, and he must make more money in the future and eat meat at once.

After the family finished eating, Li Yangde picked up the knife and made bamboo skewers again, Li Wenshi and Li Sun were responsible for cutting vegetables, Li Wenqiu and Li Yangqing cleaned the meat in the kitchen, Li Qiu's wheat flour, salt and water, stirred quickly with chopsticks, and then brought a basin of batter to the hall, and waited for the rest of the vegetables to be used to make the word vegetable ball.

Boss Li sharpened the bamboo skewers, and the family skewered them around the table.

"Mother, now you can make vegetable balls." Li Wenshi also brought the remaining vegetables to the table and put them away, waiting for Li Qiu's to do it.

"Okay, the vegetable dumplings are made quickly, tomorrow is the old family's going to the town, you all rest early, I'm doing it fast." Li Qiu asked everyone else in the family to rest, and finally prepared to take care of this bit of work by himself.

"Mother, I'll accompany you to do it, I don't need to go to town tomorrow." Li Yangqing wanted to help.

"Okay then! You squeeze this gnocchi tighter. Li Qiu's hand was not empty, and he turned his head to Li Yangqing and instructed.

The two mothers and daughters spent two moments planting and finally made the vegetable balls to be sold tomorrow, packed up the things and put them in the kitchen, Li Qiu's took Li Yangqing into the inner room to rest with the oil lamp, Li Qiu's watched Li Yangqing lie down on the bed, tucked the quilt corners for her, turned around and went into the house and blew out the oil lamp, and suddenly the house was dark, and only the sound of insects and dogs barking in the countryside could be heard, and gradually fell asleep.

The east wants to dawn, the morning fog is filled, the eldest of the Li family has already packed up their things early, and they have already set off to the town in the morning light, and they can vaguely hear the sound of Li Qiu's busy work.