Chapter 20: The Selling Six
Zhou Heng shook his head, took Zhu Dayong, and stepped into the courtyard, the sweet fragrance of osmanthus could be smelled as soon as he came in.
Boss Xue held a huge basin and walked out of the small kitchen, which was full of glutinous rice lotus, and when he saw Zhou Heng coming in, he showed a silly smile to Zhou Heng, wiped his hands and followed Zhou Heng to the side room.
"After you have finished your treatment, Zhu Changli asked someone to prepare bath water for you, you can eat after bathing, I will go to tidy up the tools, and take things out of the city early tomorrow morning!"
Seeing Boss Xue so suddenly enthusiastic, Zhou Heng shook his body and couldn't help but take a step back towards the wing.
"There are so many things, just call someone to come and sell them, and after selling them, according to the daily sales, then decide how much to do every day, gradually increase, and waste if you do more, so glutinous rice and honey are expensive!"
Boss Xue kept nodding, "You can rest assured, Hu Laosan in the village has a horse shop in the west of the city, the patriarch has already explained, tomorrow there will be a few clever people in the row, waiting for news in Hu Laosan's horse shop, and then send me some lotus roots, I will let them sell it first and try it when the time comes, and then go back to the village to teach the aunts how to make it." ”
When Zhou Heng heard this, he was completely worried, this product was really a simple and responsible face, and his stomach was full of intestines.
"How many sticks, count, how much honey we can make should also be according to the amount, not wasted and not lacking, so that the taste will be different, as for the price, just according to five cents a string, twelve cents a piece."
Boss Xue counted with his fingers, and kept muttering in his mouth.
"Leave ten sticks for Zhu Gongzi, and there are two hundred and twenty glutinous rice lotus roots in the basin, just according to the twelve wen, these can be sold for two thousand six hundred and forty wen, and one thousand wen is one tael of silver......
The more Boss Xue calculated, the more frightened he became, and hurriedly looked at the door, and saw that the door was closed tightly, so he walked to Zhou Heng and lowered his voice.
"Can you sell it for so much money?"
Zhou Hengbai glanced at him, "Making it is a step, the key is to sell it, you have thought about how to sell it?" ”
Boss Xue shook his head weakly, "I don't know!" ”
"Taste!"
Boss Xue didn't say anything when he saw Zhou Heng say these two words, blinked his eyes, and after a little thought, he seemed to understand Zhou Heng's intentions.
"You mean, it's like in a small kitchen, you cut the lotus root into small pieces, give it to people to taste, and as long as you eat it, you will buy it?"
Zhou Heng nodded, "Don't be too stingy, cut it into small pieces and eat it for nothing, once you taste half a slice or a large slice for others, and he is embarrassed not to buy it or buy less after eating it?" ”
Boss Xue stared at Zhou Heng with bright eyes, this theory was novel, but if he had tasted such a delicious taste, he would have paid for it.
Besides, the price is so low, a glutinous rice lotus root costs 12 yuan, it is really not expensive, the last time I brought back a pack of small snacks to Mingyu, it cost 22 yuan, and the key is that this glutinous rice root is not delicious.
Zhou Heng continued: "Tomorrow, no matter whether you can sell it out or not, all the people who sell it will be withdrawn before the end of the day, and the same will be true on the second day, which makes people feel that this thing will be gone if they don't buy it." In addition, how much each person has sent and how much money he has sold, it is necessary to count it, and the salary after that will be distributed according to the sales volume, and the more people who sell and make more money, so as not to have people who are indiscriminate, can you write it down? ”
Boss Xue nodded, frowned slightly and looked at Zhou Heng with a bitter gourd look on his face.
"Why don't you write it down for me?"
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The next morning, the market was bustling with people.
A lot of people gathered in a courtyard of the horse market on West Street, and Xue Boss, who was standing in the middle, held a plate with lotus leaves on it, and a few glutinous rice roots had been cut into several pieces, carrying the sparkling osmanthus nectar on it, and the fragrance was overflowing in an instant.
"Don't shout, listen to me, I have written down what I said just now, there are six of you, each of you can divide thirty-four sticks, this one is sold normally, and the other two are for tasting. If you sell them all, you will naturally make more money than those who can't sell them, if there is one that can't be sold, we will replace them tomorrow, don't talk nonsense, you use bamboo sticks to insert them, taste them yourself! ”
Boss Xue had a loud voice, so everyone pricked up their ears and listened carefully, seeing that there was still a amount of tasting, they all stared at the plate in Boss Xue's hand, and he said while holding the fat man in one hand.
"Look carefully, this glutinous rice lotus root is very soft and glutinous, don't think about using a bamboo stick to insert it, then it will fall off without waiting for the bite, it's okay to fall on the ground, this glutinous rice lotus has medicinal herbs in it, if it falls on the brocade clothes, it can't be washed, don't eat and don't sell it, but lose money. See that there are no two sticks poked diagonally, come to the second dog, this is for you! ”
The kid, who was called Ergouzi, reached out and rubbed it on the placket of his waist, and then took the glutinous rice lotus handed over by Boss Xue, opened his mouth and took a small bite.
The smell instantly exploded in his mouth, and the second dog looked at Boss Xue with wide eyes.
"Brother Xue, this is what you made, this is also too delicious!"
The remaining five people all got a share, and seeing the sweetness of the two dogs, they all tasted it carefully, and sure enough, the taste was not blown, and they kept giving their thumbs up.
An older man sighed with emotion and said:
"I didn't expect that our Lingshan Village actually relied on the silly grandson of Uncle Zhou's family to help him, this lotus root has grown in the lake for generations, who of us has touched it, a hand full of black mud, who dares to eat it, but it can be made into glutinous rice lotus root is so delicious, this is God's eye-opening, this fire burns well, burns well!"
The second dog also grinned, "What is that called fire and prosperity!" ”
Boss Xue's face darkened, and he kicked the two of them on the buttocks.
"Don't talk cool here, our barn and wing room have not yet been built and repaired, and they are still burning prosperous, you should hurry up and sell them, remember to go back to the horse shop to calculate the money, and then allocate the number of production and manpower for tomorrow."
The six of them received their own shares, wearing lotus leaves as hats on their heads and handfuls of lotus leaves on their backs, and they all pushed carts or carried baskets away.
Boss Xue didn't delay, drove the donkey cart out of the city quickly, and returned to Lingshan Village to tell the Xue family patriarch what happened in Qingping County.
The confrontation in the court was not ignored, and the Xue family patriarch had a new understanding of Zhou Heng.
As for the revenue share from selling glutinous rice lotus, the head of the Xue family didn't care much, this was originally someone helping the people in the village, and the principal was all from the family, except for the cost, it was very reasonable to have five minutes, and seeing that the patriarch agreed, Boss Xue breathed a sigh of relief.
After that, the head of the Xue family instructed Boss Xue to open a stove in the good hall of the ancestral house, so that the women in the village could learn how to make osmanthus glutinous rice lotus together.
Of course, the osmanthus nectar is prepared, and all they need to learn is all the processes and the heat.
Two hours later, the first pot came out, and compared with the glutinous rice lotus brought back by Boss Xue, there was no problem with the taste at all, so Boss Xue asked everyone to stop.
"Patriarch Grandpa, Zhou Xiaolangjun said, this glutinous rice root is best made the night before, and sold early the next morning, cold and sweet, so the taste is better, I left the first batch of materials, as for the osmanthus nectar, I will regularly let people bring it back, and there is more coarse and round lotus root, so that it can be poured into the glutinous rice."
Speaking of this, Boss Xue paused for a moment and took out a drawing, on which a young man carrying a basket was drawn, the apron and the cloth on the basket were embroidered with words, and the edge was white moire, simple and generous, which was painted by Zhou Heng temporarily.
"This is the style of the headscarf and apron, Zhou Xiaolangjun said, the people who go out in our village had better wear it uniformly, embroidered with the five words of Lingshan glutinous rice lotus, so as not to be imitated by others, as for the lotus leaves and lotus flowers to carry directly when they set off in the morning, with this thing to follow, the lotus root will be extremely easy to sell."
The head of the Xue family had no objection, and hurriedly ordered everyone to perform their duties, put away the accessories, and all the personnel went to collect lotus roots, and those who were inconvenient to move went to prepare the blue cloth on the map, and began to cut and embroider.
Boss Xue saw that it was almost dark, and hurried back to the horse shop.
At this time, there were still two moments before the end of the day, and as soon as he jumped off the donkey cart and entered the courtyard, he saw six people in a group.
Boss Xue was shocked, could something have happened?