"Wuguan, little brother, you Zhang wants one person to go out of five pipes, and we have twenty-four people, one hundred and twenty guan, so we must talk about what to do first."

Liu Pan heard that he needed to pay five times, and he was stunned, five times is five thousand, and it was good to save two times a year in the past, but now everyone has a few dozen times in their hands, but five times is by no means a small amount.

Zhang Xiaobao said: "Yes, I actually want to take you to make cold powder." ”

"Little brother, I'm just making jelly, and I don't need the amount of money you said." Gui'er began to wonder if the other party was a liar, how much did he have to make for 120 yuan to make cold powder?

"Sister-in-law Gui'er, how much does it cost you to sell for two cents?" Zhang Xiaobao asked.

"Money? I use broad beans and mung beans to make cold powder, usually half a catty of mung beans plus one and a half catties of broad beans, four catties of cold powder, you have to filter out a lot of dregs, sell two lumps a day, a lump of thirty catties, a piece of cold powder is about three taels or so, that is, scrape out....."

"Two hundred, the materials are seven and a half catties of mung beans and twenty-two and a half catties of broad beans, according to the current price of grain in Yizhou, a pound of good mung beans costs five yuan, and a pound of normal broad beans is about two and a half yuan, that is to say, about ninety-four yuan for beans, and you only earn three hundred and six yuan a day on bean money."

Zhang Xiaobao saw that the other party was slow, and opened his mouth to say it.

Gui'er nodded again and again: "But I didn't make that much." ”

"Of course, because you also have to serve sesame sauce, garlic juice, plus sweet and sour soup cooked with big ingredients, especially the price of sesame sauce and sugar is not low, after a few days the cucumber comes down, I don't know if you put it in it, and if you put it, you will have to increase the cost. But the price can't go up.

If the price is too high, you can't sell 200 copies, you just use a higher cost than others to attract customers. In addition to this money, you don't spend the water, they will pay for you, and you won't spend the firewood money, but they will send it to you directly. ”

Zhang Xiaobao analyzed and summarized some situations.

Liu Pan had been frightened by Zhang Xiaobao's analysis before, and now he was still very frightened, and asked, "How do you know that firewood doesn't cost money?" ”

"Because there are a lot of goods coming from the dock that are packed with wooden boards, and some goods have to be covered with wooden planks all the time. Some of them are dismantled directly on the spot, and the contents are taken out, and the board is useless.

When the time comes, some of you will take it home for your family, and most of it will be given to Gui'er's sister-in-law to make cold powder. And it's cleaner than drinking raw water.

Oh, the cost is not right. Because Gui'er's sister-in-law always scrapes a few more times when she sells you, not a three-tael, but Gui'er's sister-in-law doesn't need to worry about selling things at the dock, you will solve it if someone is looking for something, and at the same time you don't have to pay any fees. ”

Zhang Xiaobao said all the things in it as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

"You...... Little brother, are you engaged in intelligence? Liu Pan asked with wide eyes.

Wang Juan chuckled: "No, we have to care about this kind of seemingly small thing, for ordinary people. We must not only know the approximate total income, average income, but also understand how ordinary people live, each small family, together to form a big family, which is different from money. It's not just a matter of numbers.

Anxious about what the people are anxious about and thinking about what the people think, it is not a verbal joke, I don't know the price of oil and salt, how to reassure the people? The two of us seem to come from wealthy families. But they care more about trivial things than you do. ”

Liu Pan and the others were stunned when they heard this, and they really couldn't figure out why the two people from rich and noble families knew a lot of things that had nothing to do with wealth.

Listening to the tone of this girl's speech, there is a kind of condescending meaning, as if talking to an official, the difference is that it is more realistic than what the official said, as if the life of himself and others has a lot to do with him.

"Brother, since you know, let's make jelly? Gui'er can't sell it alone, so we can't help her sell it. Liu Pan brought up the cold powder again.

Zhang Xiaobao nodded: "Of course, sister-in-law Gui'er, you can directly say how much profit you make in a day, that is, you will make a net profit by removing all the other money." ”

Gui'er snapped her fingers, lowered her head and said: "Probably, there are about one hundred and twenty texts, mainly sugar, vinegar, and sesame sauce are expensive, but there is not much salt, eat too much salt, and the ingredients can be used many times, I am boiling them in a gauze bag."

They work and sweat, and if I don't put the soup, they have to drink other water, and since they have all been released, they will sell it, and the number of people who eat it will increase anyway. ”

Zhang Xiaobao clicked his mouth twice: "The sesame sauce is expensive because of the low yield of sesame seeds, what does Sinong Temple think?" Think it's just about increasing food production? As the people's living standards improved, so did the demand for other goods...... Forget it, get down to business.

Gui'er's sister-in-law, the cost is really high, Brother Liu, they have to help you carry water, help you transport the soup over, and be responsible for helping you split the plank, they only need to take in for two quarters of an hour every day, then it is eleven and five hours, or they are divided into allocations to help.

That is to say, basically what you pay every day is the full work of two people, and this is because the court helps you bear part of raising children, because your status gives you the part of exempting you from any taxes, which is equivalent to one person earning sixty yuan.

It's a lot of normal income, but you have the convenience of coming and going from the wharf, just for this money? There are a lot of other snacks sold at the wharf, what a good location, what a good opportunity, if I let me do it myself, I will integrate the trading of the entire wharf within half a year, and I feel that I will lose money if I don't earn 600 yuan a day. ”

"If you make it, you lose it." Wang Juan interjected, let Xiaobao waste so much time, only earn 600 yuan a day, to what extent is the waste of talent?

Liu Pan More than 20 people were stunned again, what kind of person, it's too crazy, and they still want to integrate the trading of the wharf, do you know how deep the water in the wharf is? Six hundred times a day, it may be okay to dream, and when you wake up, you will be startled.

Liars, definitely liars.

Liu Pan's eyes changed when he looked at Zhang Xiaobao, and he looked like he was going to catch the other party at any time, and when he saw through it later, the other party would run. It must be caught, and the wages of the people who harm themselves will be much less.

Zhang Xiaobao swept it casually, saw the other party's thoughts, took out the 200 yuan banknote from his arms, and slapped it at Liu Pan's hand: "I will give 200 yuan, cooperate with you, and wait for you to make enough money, and pay me back this amount." ”

"Uh~ you don't want interest?" Liu Pan didn't believe it.

"Don't, see if the money is real or fake." Zhang Xiaobao waved his hand.

"You don't take a stake?" Liu Pan vigorously observed the money, really. And the money is still very new, gently rubbing, crackling.

Zhang Xiaobao shook his head: "No." ”

"And what are you trying to do?" Liu Pan now does not treat Zhang Xiaobao as a liar, but as a fool.

"I really don't lack this money, I'll help you, I'm kind-hearted, okay? I do good deeds and accumulate virtue, okay? I'll leave a good name, okay? Zhang Xiaobao asked continuously.

"Okay. OK, OK. Liu Panben kept shaking his head up and down when he asked: "That." Now to start making jelly? ”

"Prepare the ingredients first, plus your one hundred and twenty yuan, a total of three hundred and twenty yuan, go and buy a large number of broad beans, just buy a little bit of mung beans, borrow a taste, barley has it, right?" Zhang Xiaobao asked the barley.

"Yes, now feed the livestock, and only those who go too far northwest will eat. Something else there is not good to grow, very cheap, buy? Liu Pan asked in confusion.

"Buy, grind also have to change one, the small grind is too slow, there are bean cakes, go buy. At this time, there are Yamanashi eggs on the mountain, buy them, change them to a cauldron. Build a big stove, the rest of the people do carpenter work, make a cart, just roll the wood, buy the beans and soak them first, and we will come back at noon in two days. ”

After Zhang Xiaobao finished speaking, he planned to leave.

Liu Pan stopped: "Little brother, where do you live, if you don't come then, how can we find you?" ”

"Don't look for me, I promise to come, unless there is a special accident, then I will let someone tell you, don't worry, I will take in two hundred times, I don't care if you ask for a note, it is me who really does not come to compensate, how can you sell things."

Zhang Xiaobao naturally couldn't leave them an address, and his identity would be exposed.

After speaking, he walked out of the door with Wang Juan, the sky was already dark, only a little crescent moon of the third year was hanging in the air, and it couldn't be illuminated at all.

Liu Pan and a group of people sent Zhang Xiaobao and the others out with all kinds of different thoughts, and followed the two people to the avenue outside.

Zhang Xiaobao took out a small flashlight, opened it with a snap, looked at the ground in front of him, and said smugly: "Thanks to my preparation." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a flashlight covered the ground in front of him, and people who came out of various places guarded him and Wang Juan.

As soon as he turned off his flashlight, Zhang Xiaobao smiled twice at Wang Juan: "Thanks to the group of guards I prepared, as soon as the flashlight signal was issued, the road became brighter." ”

"Did you just use the flashlight to send a signal?" Wang Juan asked with a smile.

"Absolutely." Zhang Xiaobao nodded with a serious face, and under the gaze of Wang Juan, he finally couldn't help laughing: "Okay, I actually want to experience the tranquility of the night with you, okay, I don't actually want to experience any tranquility, I am more prepared than me for the guards, give some face, others will watch it." ”

"Who watched it?" Wang Juan asked.

The road, suddenly darkened, and there was not even a wheeze around.

"Tomorrow we will do a weight-bearing pull." Zhang Xiaobao's angry voice sounded in the night sky.

******

Liu Pan and his group sent a few people back to their homes to report that they would go back later, and that torches were lit in the courtyard, and the rest of the people sat around the 200 yuan.

"I'm still like a dream, you said that you are a good person, you have to come up with money for us to buy things, and you don't want any benefits, what does he think?" Liu Pan seemed to say to others, and seemed to be talking to himself.

Without waiting for others to speak, he said again: "Could it be that Jiān from another country broke into the dock of Yizhou and wanted to buy through us, and now he is asking us to lower our guard and lead us to rebel in the end?" ”

"Brother Liu, don't be foolish." Gui'er spoke up: "How can there be jiān fine? Xiaobao, Juan Juan, and Xiaobei are all in Yizhou, will they let Jiān live finely? Didn't you see that there were a lot of outsiders at the docks, I guess they were all intelligence officers sent by them, and there were the most at noon today, and I always felt that they were surrounding us.

I don't think that person is bad, maybe there is money in the family, and he is idle to find something to do, especially that girl, who knows that she is a kind person by looking at her eyes, maybe she is afraid of seeing someone else kill a chicken, and her hands are tender and can pinch out the water, how can it be jiān thin? ”

Liu Pan still had a hard time convincing himself. patted it lightly on his leg with his hand: "That kid said that he sold me a set of the best cosmetics in Datang for a few hundred yuan, what is the internal price, the original price is more than 700 yuan, do you believe it?" ”

"What do you buy cosmetics for?" Gui'er grasped the point and asked.

"I ...... I ......" Liu Pan was speechless for a while.

"Sister-in-law Gui'er, do you still need to ask? Of course I bought it for you, Brother Liu is alone, what kind of makeup is it, the best, wait for it to be used when the time comes, I have to ask Brother Zhang Xiaobao. Next time, let him get me a set too, buy a few hundred yuan, cheap, and go back to my mother-in-law to use. ”

There were people in the crowd who spoke loudly, and there was no lack of banter in their words.

"Go, go, fool, Gui'er, don't listen to his nonsense, I'...... I'm just looking at you......"

"Brother Liu. Just buy it, just don't be scammed. Gui'er blushed. Bow your head, but the light of the torch will make everyone's face red.

The scene became awkward, and Liu Pan couldn't speak.

"Mother, mother, we're back." At this moment, the voice of a girl came from outside, and as soon as the courtyard door opened, a girl and a little boy ran in hand with each other.

"It's hilarious." When the little girl saw a group of usual uncles and uncles, she screamed happily. The little boy also showed excitement, and it would be good if there were more people.

"Late tonight?" Liu Pan finally found a chance to speak.

"Today Xiaobei and they came, and they ate a lot of canned food at night, and then Xiaobei and they also sang, and it didn't take long for her to end, she sent someone to send us outside, and one person gave three canned food. A fish, fish from the sea, a lamb chop, and a braised pork. ”

The little girl said happily. Take the canned food out of the schoolbag of two people, three for each person, a total of six, and put it in a row.

"Xiaobei, it's not easy for them to make some money, you still care about what they want, it's her who gives it, their family will never make this money, their money is of great use." Gui'er said a word about her child.

The little girl pouted: "I didn't want it, someone said it was delicious, so she gave it, and said that it was the most correct thing to spend money on us, and they didn't have to spend money at home." ”

"Yes, the girl is right." Liu Pan hurriedly protected it, pulled the little girl to his side, wrapped it around him with one arm, and said, "Take it if you give it, remember to study hard, and repay them in the future." ”

"Dad, how do you repay it." The little boy ran over and leaned on the other side of Liu Pan and asked.

Everyone directly ignored the little boy's name for Liu Pan, and talked about it one by one, some said that he would be rewarded as an official after learning well, some said that he would go to the Ministry of Engineering, and some said that he would be a teacher in other schools, and there were countless of them, and the courtyard was lively again.

Liu Pan concluded: "Anyway, you two have to study hard, what you need to do in the future, you follow suit, don't think that Xiaobei is stupid, give you things for nothing, they are good to you, you have to repay the favor, otherwise how can there be fools to others...... He said his name was Zhang Xiaobao? ”

Liu Pan, who was educating the children, figured out a lot of things in an instant, and the whole person was stunned.

"Brother Liu, what Zhang Xiaobao?" Gui'er asked.

"That's it, it's the two people who came to the house, the man's name is ...... Zhang Xiaobao. Liu Pan swallowed his saliva vigorously and replied softly.

"Isn't it called Zhang Xiaoyu?"

"Yes, no, I just asked him, he said that his surname was Zhang Xiaobao, I didn't believe it, so he changed it to Zhang Xiaoyu again, when I was eating cold noodles, Gui'er You just said that there were suddenly a lot of people on the dock at noon, as if they were surrounding us? He took out 200 yuan at random and threw it away, he said that he had cosmetics with internal prices, and he said that he could make us rich. ”

Liu Pan began to summarize everything.

"Big brother, do you mean ......" Liu Pan's brother asked, and he couldn't go on after only half of the question.

The other continued: "Didn't Sister-in-law Gui'er say that sister-in-law had kind eyes?" ”

Liu Pan nodded: "No wonder his hands are so strong, it is said that he is very capable of fighting, yes, kind, yes, of course Juan Juan looks at us kindly, I felt wrong when I heard them speak before, it seems that no matter what, he can manage everything, and it is the people's livelihood and the people's."

Oh my God, what a big pie fell and fell on our heads, quick, go back and rest immediately, get up early tomorrow morning and do what he says, let me buy whatever I want, Gui'er, we have met a great thing. ”

"You met, Brother Liu is the lucky one, did Xiaobao ask you anything else?" Gui'er's eyes lit up, and she felt that the air in the night was so comfortable to breathe.

Liu Pan hugged the two children vigorously: "Don't ask, Xiaobao guesses directly." said that I squatted there to eat, one was to give up the position, indicating that we had a good relationship, and the other was to look at you from the side, you were the most beautiful at that time, and said that I liked you, and he was sure of it, which is amazing. ”

"It's amazing, and so is my big brother." Someone started shouting again, and others followed suit.

"Go. A bunch of stinky men, I won't tell you, come girl, let's go back to the house, ignore them, and read a good book at night, but don't be too tired. ”

Gui'er stood up and pulled her daughter towards the house.

Liu Pan only had one child by his side, and glared at him: "Go back." Ming'er has to get up early, and whoever dares to be lazy will clean up whoever is clean. ”

"Big brother. You're not coming home? It was late and the road was dark. A man ran two steps to the gate of the courtyard and shouted back.

"Return, I'll follow you back to your house." Liu Pan got up and chased, and a group of people laughed and walked out.

"Let's go, I'll take you into the house, and I'll come over early tomorrow morning." Liu Pan said to the boy in his arms.

"Dad, everyone else has a father, you stay. Send me and my sister to school tomorrow, and I'll have it. "The little boy is indeed more sensible because he was born in this era.

Liu Pan hesitated, shook his head, and said, "Wait for a few days, wait for Xiaobao to make more money, and then send you to the school." ”

******

Two days passed quickly.

While Liu Pan and others were waiting, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan came as promised in the afternoon.

Both men brought something. Zhang Xiaobao carried two grinding discs in one hand, the grinding discs were not big, one was about 30 pounds, and ordinary people were tired of carrying it. No problem for him.

Wang Juan held several gears and V-belts, as well as the shaft of the grinding disc.

"It's all here, let's get you something, in fact, you can do it yourself, I'm afraid of wasting time, I'll let the inner courtyard of the house be done, and there are a few parts, wood, you have to fight, build an assembly, two fine grinders can be stepped on by manpower."

As soon as Zhang Xiaobao met, he smiled first and said.

Wang Juan smiled and said, "Come on two men, the gears in my hands are very heavy, and my eyes are so kind, are you embarrassed to let me suffer?" Be careful of suddenly becoming unkind. ”

Liu Pan and the others' first reaction was to look around, and sure enough, on a tree more than 30 meters away from the courtyard, they found a person waving there, and there was a mirror-like reflection on the eaves of someone else's house more than 50 meters, and they instantly guessed what it was.

Immediately, someone ran to Wang Juan and Zhang Xiaobao, stretched out his hand with a restrained expression, and took the thing.

"Compared to your children, you are far behind, they will definitely not be afraid of Xiaobei." Wang Juan said again with a smile.

Liu Pan slapped his thigh vigorously: "Yes, what are you afraid of, don't do anything wrong, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, Xiaobao Juan wants to see it in her dreams, who is afraid of it in her heart, Brother Xiaobao, I didn't expect it to be you that day, and then I figured it out, everything is ready, and the ones that should be soaked are also soaked, waiting for you to take us to make a fortune." ”

"Okay, get rich first, and then get married, how can you do it well, it's not Brother Liu." Zhang Xiaobao patted the ash on his hand and said.

"Yes." Liu Pan said in a firm tone.

Then everyone began to get busy, especially the new wood accessories, which were all ready after an hour, waiting for Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan to assemble them.

The two of them quickly installed two small mills with gears, and then began to let the crowd grind the soaked broad beans, mung beans, and barley.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were responsible for grinding the sesame seeds they brought, the small mill rotated rapidly, and the sesame seeds were ground into a fine powder, that is, a mixture of sesame paste and sesame oil.

The steamed bean cake is also ground into a powder and mixed with sesame sauce and sesame oil in a certain proportion.

"Xiaobao, are you cheating?" Liu Pan couldn't help but ask.

"What are you going to be for? The soybean flour is also very delicious, and sesame oil is added to it, which is higher than the normal sesame sauce, I am reducing the cost when improving the nutrition and taste, how much does it cost to put the sesame sauce in it? If you don't believe it, it tastes better, and there is nothing poisonous about it. ”

Zhang Xiaobao explained.

"What about barley?" Liu Pan asked again, barley is cheap, very cheap.

"There is also starch in barley, and it doesn't taste good, because the taste is too slippery, but the jelly is already slippery, I want to use rice, it's too expensive, who stipulates that jelly can only be mung beans and broad beans? In the future, I will make different kinds of jelly, and use whatever is cheap in the local area as an ingredient. ”

Zhang Xiaobao still has to explain, otherwise it is easy to make people suspect him of cutting corners, information asymmetry, of course, making less money, the principle of cold powder is starch molding, and a little bit of alum is added if it is not well formed.

Liu Pan smiled like a teacher, looked around, and asked, "Is it that the cold noodles we make in the future are delicious and cheap?" ”

"Absolutely, can I lie to you? What about the mountain pear, boiled, so that there is no need to put sugar and vinegar, sweet and sour, why spend so much money. "Zhang Xiaobao didn't see the Yamanashi eggs, afraid that they wouldn't buy them.

"Piled up in the backyard, who knew it could replace vinegar and sugar, thinking it was for something else." Liu Pan waved his hand, and immediately two people ran to the back to carry the basket of pears.

Zhang Xiaobao was satisfied and said: "Very good, you will find that the soup made with pears is better than the sweet and sour mixture, not that I said that you should use your brains more." ”

"How can we have you, no wonder you dare to say that you can integrate the trading of the dock, earn at least six hundred yuan a day, you really can, even if you don't show your identity, we believe that you can, you are Zhang Xiaobao, we all think that six hundred yuan is less, it does not match your identity."

Liu Pan said very seriously, he is not a sycophant, the opposite person is not someone else, he is a legendary figure, is six hundred yuan money for others?

"Okay, then I have to show my skills, when I did it before, there was a lot of dregs, and it was all wasted to throw it away, and today I will tell you how to reduce the scum." Zhang Xiaobao accepted the flattery very calmly and began to carry out 'deep' processing of the raw materials.