Chapter Twenty-Four: The First Pot of Gold
Wang Dong knows that the package he launched will definitely be welcomed, regardless of men, women and children. After all, fried dough sticks and bean curd have been tested in China for nearly a thousand years, and they are eaten in both the north and the south.
It's just that Wang Dong obviously has a low point in the ability of the people of the Tang Dynasty to accept new things, and on the first day, just the first day, there was already a long queue before his stall.
Such a popularity was something that Wang Dong and Jiugong had never imagined.
"I'm really sorry, everyone, but today's fritters are sold out, if you want to eat them, please be early tomorrow." Wang Dong said to the still long line.
"Alas, I ate it once just now, and I specially planned to buy some for a few babies in my family."
"Yes, my wife has a bad mouth, and today I finally have her delicious food."
"Forget it, forget it, just come and line up early tomorrow."
"Hey, Xiao Langjun, I have to come on time tomorrow."
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So, in the midst of people's lamentation, the flow of people began to disperse.
From the start of the sale to the sale of the sale, Wang Dong experienced a busy dawn, and he was already sweating. Just now he was busy frying fritters, Wang Dong didn't feel it, but now when he stopped, Wang Dong only felt that his arms were sore.
"Wang Lang, guess how much income we have today?" The lady of the Zhang family, her eyes were bent into a crescent moon, and she said happily while holding the money box.
Wang Dong said weakly: "How much? ”
"That's about a penny." The little lady calculated, "In less than an hour, I have made so much money, if it wasn't for the lack of dough, how could I sell it for a few dollars." ”
Gold, silver, jewelry, and other things are irresistible to most people.
"I had to die and live in the morning, and I made more than a penny." Wang Dong almost collapsed from exhaustion.
Hearing Wang Dong say this, the little lady of the Zhang family covered her mouth and said, "You are too little for a penny?" Do you know that it takes me seven or eight days to sell for this money? She looked at Wang Dong like a monster.
Jiu Gong said on the side: "Hmph! Look at what you kid can! ”
Wang Dong didn't bother to argue with Jiugong, he couldn't imagine that it would be so hard to make money. The reason why Wang Dong has this idea is because he doesn't know that other people make money and work harder. Let's just say that those woodcutters, the firewood they cut a day, transported to the city from more than a dozen miles away by starry night, and they only sold it for a few pennies.
"Jiugong, Wang Lang, you are also very tired, why don't you put these things in my house for the time being and take a rest." The little lady of the Zhang family mentions yì.
Wang Dong nodded hurriedly: "Okay, okay." ”
There are indeed a lot of fried fritters, and if you toss these things back to the wine store and ship them tomorrow, it will be a waste of effort. Fortunately, the home of the little lady of the Zhang family is in the east of this city, and her mention is naturally the best choice.
So the three of them began to load fried fritters and tools for holding bean curd on the car, Jiugong and Wang Dong pushed the car in front, and the little lady hummed a song behind them, turning around and turning, and finally stopped in the depths of a very remote alley.
"Wait a minute, both of you."
The little lady bowed slightly, then took the key from her pocket and opened a dilapidated fence gate.
The fence gate is dilapidated, but fortunately wide enough to allow a wooden car to pass through the guò. Wang Dong and Jiugong pushed the wooden cart into the courtyard and put it down, and then they breathed a long sigh of relief.
"It's finally here." Wang Dong was tired of crying and grabbing the ground.
"The two of you are at your own convenience." As she spoke, the little lady walked into the low, dilapidated adobe house.
"Qianniang, are you back?" In the adobe house, an old woman's voice was heard.
"Well, mother, I'm back."
The lady of the Zhang family walked into the room, Wang Dong and Jiugong were in the courtyard and found a place to rest.
Sitting on a seat that looked like a stone bench in the courtyard, Wang Dong began to look at the little lady's "home".
The low, three-room adobe thatched hut looks old, with weathered foundations below. The thatch on the roof also looks like no one has saved some thoughts, and there are still a few big holes in the dilapidated windows.
In the courtyard, there is nothing but an even more dilapidated thatched hut and a few bamboo poles for drying clothes.
"It seems that the little lady of the Zhang family is also a poor family." Wang Dong sighed.
Jiugong glanced at Wang Dong with disdain on the side: "Being able to have a home in Jinyang City is already much better than those displaced victims." ”
Wang Dong was stunned for a moment, looking at Jiugong, like looking at a strange person.
"What do you do to me with such eyes?"
Wang Dong said with a smile: "Unexpectedly, compared with the usual, Jiugong today is like a different person. ”
"It's not the same, what's changed."
Jiugong did not admit it, and Wang Dong did not debunk it. He remembered that before yesterday, Jiugong was drunk all day long, looking like a drunkard. However, since he helped, it was like a different person, from an alcoholic to a hardworking laborer.
"Two, please drink water." The little lady of the Zhang family smiled, "There have been no guests at home for a long time, and there is no tea." ”
"It's okay, it's okay." Wang Dong smiled, "If you sweat, white water is better." ”
The lady of the Zhang family smiled gratefully at Wang Dong, then returned to the wooden car, took off the money box on the car, and then walked to Wang Dong and Jiugong, and sat down quietly.
Opening the money box, the little lady said while packing up the copper coins inside: "Today, we share about 3 buckets of noodles, 45 yuan, plus other materials, the cost is about 65 yuan, and today's total income is ...... 124 Wen, net income of more than 50 Wen. ”
When the lady of the Zhang family planned to make a profit today, she suddenly became excited, blushed, looked at the two of them and said, "This morning, I actually made 50 yuan." ”
Wang Dong shook his head, took out a stack of copper coins that the little lady had placed, and said, "The little lady forgot to forget it, the cost is still your bean curd." ”
"That's right," the lady of the Zhang family suddenly realized, "However, the cost of my bean curd is very low, only 10 yuan." ”
"Therefore, this money is earned by everyone together, and they all work hard." As he spoke, nearly half of Wang Dong's copper coins were pushed in front of the Zhang family's lady, "This is yours." ”
"Wang Lang, no, I'll take 15 Wen, it's enough, don't use so much, don't use so much." The lady of the Zhang family waved her hand again and again.
Wang Dong said with a straight face: "Then you are wrong, these days, you have accompanied me to develop fritters, so hard, this money is what you deserve, besides, my fritters and your bean curd are golden partners, without anyone, business will not be so good." ”
"No, no, there are too many of these, I can't ask for them." Unexpectedly, the lady of the Zhang family was resolute, shook her head, and just didn't accept it.
Two people pushed the copper coin over and sent it over, one insisted on giving it, and the other resolutely didn't, and Jiugong, who was watching, was a little anxious.
"I think you two are brainless too." Jiu Gong suddenly opened his mouth and said, "The business of the two of you is not just a day of cooperation, it is better to use this money as capital first, and if you make more money in the future, it will not be too late to divide it." ”
Jiugong's words made the two people who drilled the horns of the bull wake up.
Wang Dong smiled and said: "Jiang is old and spicy, or what Jiugong said makes sense, so in this way, it is not convenient to bring this money to me, so I will put it here with the little lady first, as the capital of our partnership." ”
"This ......" the Zhang family lady hesitated for a while.
Wang Dong frowned and said, "Why, it's not like this, it's not okay." ”
"Okay, I'll keep the money here for the time being."
"That's right." Wang Dong smiled.