Chapter 61: It's worth it to be tired
The two of them had already chatted. Dong Xiaoying said: The foundation of the house has been laid, and it will take half a month to build it, and the land is busy clearing the wasteland, and it will be ready to be released in the next two days.
Sister Zhang said that there have been a lot of people who have moved recently, and you don't know if you are far away, there are many foreign masters and relatives who are officials in the capital. It's really lively, the wasteland outside the city, now the yamen costs one or two silver per acre.
My business is up, don't care what kind of lord, miss, always have to dress. There is a limit to those who have silver to wear silk and satin, and servants cannot wear silk and satin are not. No, my daughter came to help me.
Dong Xiaoying took a look, I'll go! The round-faced fat girl that Aunt Zhao has been talking about is standing here!
"Our daughter's real pomp, very handsome, with a blessed face, little girl, hurry up and bring a cake for my sister to eat."
The two held hands and twisted twice, but in the end, Sister Zhang still couldn't stop the chick, and four mushroom-like cakes were placed on the counter.
"Give it to the child, don't talk to me, let people see the joke." Dong Xiaoying pulled Sister Zhang back and asked in a low voice, "How old is my daughter?" Have you seen anyone else? ”
Sister Zhang shook her head and said: "I have grown a big man, in fact, I am just fourteen, I am thinking about next year, and I will start to see each other after the New Year, we are women, we are not in a hurry, we have to hold the shelf, and we can't let the man feel that we are in a hurry." ”
Ning boy, your daughter-in-law is here!
Seeing that they had been chatting for a long time and had not done anything serious, Mrs. Niu was a little anxious.
Dong Xiaoying and Sister Zhang muttered for a while, and Sister Zhang pulled Dong Xiaoying away.
Bracket, bum? It's talking about it! What are you two going to do? Still selling cakes or not?
In front of the three-story restaurant, Sister Zhang straightened her clothes, Dong Xiaoying brushed her hair and straightened her daughter's clothes, and the old lady was also busy patting the dust on her body.
"The treasurer's wealth is wide!" Sister Zhang greeted her with a smile when she entered the door.
Fang Yue followed, "The financial resources are extensive, and the money is advancing every day." ”
The shopkeeper looked up, and a smile appeared on his face, "This is not the sister-in-law of the Cui family, why did the wind blow you?" ”
Fang Yue stared at the shopkeeper for three seconds, "Ah! It's you, uncle, it's me! I, the carbon chick in Fenggu Town. ”
The shopkeeper smiled, he ordered 3,000 catties of charcoal, and only spent half the price of charcoal every year, he remembered this child.
"You're here to buy charcoal?"
Dong Xiaoying took out the cake, "This is the mushroom cake we made, you taste it, it's not delicious and doesn't cost money, you think it's done, let's talk about the next thing." ”
Sister Zhang smiled and said: "Since you all know each other, I won't say more, Shopkeeper Tao, this is my sister-in-law, I have moved to Fenggu Town, come to you to send some fresh food, you can see if you can match it, there is something in my store, you can talk." ”
The shopkeeper sniffed his nose, what kind of smell is this, fragrant, really fragrant! After tasting it, the shopkeeper squinted at Dong Xiaoying, "It tastes good, new dim sum, if it is a seller, I can ...... it."
Dong Xiaoying shook her head and said with a smile: "I just bought you the recipe and taught you the master by hand, I dare to say that no one can do it without me!" ”
The shopkeeper raised his eyebrows, "Oh? ”
Mrs. Niu said in her heart, what are you? I still want to buy my family's secret recipe, all for you, what money do we get?
"Let's get straight to the point! I want to cooperate with the shopkeeper, you have also tasted this cake, and it is all good. You just say, can you cooperate with me here, no, Baiweilou is still waiting for me! ”
The shopkeeper squinted his eyes and smiled, "How do you say to cooperate?" ”
"I'm a pound of ninety wen, a pound can have nine, you sell as much silver as you want, I will supply you and don't go to other restaurants, but the kind of teahouse has nothing to do with your industry, I still have to deliver to people."
Rest assured, it won't be too much, we are now in a small workshop, and there is not much supply. Dong Xiaoying has opened a supermarket for half her life, and she has her own routine for talking about things.
The shopkeeper inquired with a smile, "I don't know where your number is?" Is there a shop in town? ”
"There is no shop, we are still a small workshop now, in Fenggu Town." Dong Xiaoying said.
In fact, the restaurant has a fixed dim sum supplier, and there are not many customers who come to the restaurant to eat dim sum. You can enter the private room, eat a table of noodles, and the restaurant will serve a few snacks.
Generally, guests who have booked a private room have to wait for other guests when they come in. First serve the dim sum and tea, put the table on the table, and finally serve a dim sum, which are all counted in the wine and dishes, counting the sweet soup given in the store, and collect three dim sum money.
However, three dim sum is at most five dollars of silver, and this cake costs 90 yuan per catty......
The shopkeeper pulled the abacus and totaled it, four on one table, less than a pound on two tables, and the roll cake, cut it thinner, cut out more than a dozen pieces is not a problem, a plate is at most three, and more plates can't be placed.
Well! There is a profit, and it is freshly eaten, and the rich don't care about an extra dollar or two of silver.
The shopkeeper looked at the bamboo basket, "Bring a few catties and keep them!" I will send it every day in the future...... Ten pounds? The one in the volume is also set to ten, so for the time being, it's no problem to increase the amount! ”
Dong Xiaoying thought for a while, "Ten catties is no problem, you sell this first to try the market, I have other new pastries, I call them pastries."
When the workshop stabilizes in the future, there will be many tricks! The shopkeeper doesn't have to think about a half prescription, it's not interesting to lose a big one. ”
The shopkeeper made a decision on the spot, and the writing was tentatively scheduled for a month's goods, starting from the day after tomorrow, ten catties per day.
Only five catties can be left today, and two are left in the cream cake roll. Why, we don't have many goods, and we want to sell them to other places.
The shopkeeper squinted and smiled, "Let's talk about other restaurants, we can't go, Leping City can only have this in my Shunhe Building...... Pastry. However, I will introduce you to a teahouse, and you said that I introduced you to it, and I have kept it here. ”
"Thank you so much." Dong Xiaoying smiled and thanked her.
Shopkeeper Tao smiled and nodded, "Go ahead!" Mingxiang Teahouse, the shopkeeper's surname is Chen, and they all call him Chen Fatzi. Oh! Don't forget to mention that you and the Cui family's daughter-in-law are sisters. ”
Well? Does Sister Zhang still have an invisible identity?
Go out to find someone to inquire, Mingxiang Tea House is very easy to find, the door face is a two-story small building, there is a large garden-like yard at the back, the carriage can be parked in, many people enter from the side door, go directly to the pavilions and pavilions in the garden to taste tea, there is a faint sound of bamboo.
When Fat Chen heard that the shopkeeper Tao introduced him, he didn't ask much, he tried the mushroom cake and brioche and enjoyed it with his eyes squinted.
It's delicious, fragrant, and just right for eating with tea.
Dong Xiaoying said with a smile: "My sister also said that she came with me to help talk about it, the store was busy, and she didn't follow, and the shopkeeper didn't know it, it was Zhang's from the Erdao Street Cloth Shop." ”
Fat Chen nodded vigorously and said, "Cui Tou'er, who can not know?" You said it was Cui Touer's relative! Okay, the dim sum is good, and Cui Touer doesn't have to say it, tentatively set twenty catties of this mushroom, twenty rolls of this. ”
"I'm out today, I may not do much at home, the goods that Shopkeeper Chen wants, we will send them the day after tomorrow, okay?" Dong Xiaoying pondered, now go back and hurry up, the oven will not stop for 24 hours, and the day after tomorrow should be able to rush out the order.
The main problem is in the egg beating, it takes time to bake, and it takes more time to beat the egg, now there are only two sisters-in-law to help, if there are many people, the oven is enough, this amount is nothing at all.
Fat Chen smiled and nodded, "Okay!" How many more are brought? Leave it all for me! ”
Come on, the ones brought for people to try were also left in the teahouse.
Mrs. Niu was like a dream, and she received a half or two halves of silver after turning around! How can this money be made so well?
"Why do you start delivering the day after tomorrow? Ordered so much, isn't it? "After walking a long way, Mrs. Niu dared to ask.
In her heart, it is too easy to collect one or two halves of silver a day, no matter how much one or two halves of silver can be earned, she comes to collect this money every day, and she is happy to earn ten or eight cents!
Dong Xiaoying hugged her daughter and said with a smile: "It's a lot, so much that my sister-in-law's arm is tired and swollen." Let's just have two ovens, and one pot comes out in half an hour, and my sister-in-law and I work in shifts, and we can barely get out the day after tomorrow. ”
You can't tell the old lady that you can beat the eggs while waiting for them to be baked, and you can't let the old lady know that they can still make this amount if they work hard. Otherwise, the old lady would not let anyone ask for help.
bought a pound of flatbread and meat for Sister Zhang, and the two held hands and thanked each other, very reluctant to part, not enough! When I go back to my house, I will sit down, if it weren't for the fact that the two of them didn't have time, they would have to go to Sister Zhang's house to chat.
Back in Fenggu Town, the field was burning wild grass, just cut down the wild grass that had not been dried, and the smoke was very big, and the smoked people couldn't stop coughing.
Dong Xiaoying was glad that she bought clear paper for the baking room, which was the most translucent paper in ancient times. I heard that the flower houses of large families use this kind of paper.
It is the paper used to buckle the greenhouse in ancient times! is expensive, and a knife costs twenty-five wen.
Paste the window paper, beat the eggs with three of them, bake the old cake first, and take into account the cream layering and save butter cubes.
The oven is preheated, and two drawers of old cakes are sent to the oven. Dong Xiaoying looked at the oven, still busy making needlework in her hands.
She was going to make a sleeve for the old lady, a pair of gloves, and overalls, and replace them with a modern version of a lace apron. We can't stretch out our hands to give people food, and let people look at the pickled sleeves and hands like dead tree bark.
Beat a small bucket of eggs and add flour to make it enough for four pots of mushroom cake. Zhang shook his sore arm, squatted down to shake the milk placed yesterday, and said in his mouth: "Brother and sister, don't be busy, I'll make it for my mother when I go back." ”
"Sister-in-law, don't worry about me, I can't get tired from needlework, and it's not enough to save cream and butter, so I have to save it quickly." Dong Xiaoying looked at her sister-in-law's trembling hands, and felt very sorry in her heart, the old lady didn't let her pay for her salary, and it was a bit too much to call people for nothing.
Zhao was still busy beating eggs, and when the eggs came out, the sister-in-law shook the milk and fished out a lump of milk, and she had to help light the fire for the small stove and boil the milk out of butter through the water.
Zhang came out of the baking room and called someone to help carry the milk bucket, and after the milk bucket was shaken, the coagulation was taken out, and the rest was skim milk, which could not be wasted.
Mrs. Niu shouted outside the baking room: "Little girl, come and drink milk!" Your father said that you need to drink more milk to grow taller. ”
Fang Yue hid in the shack, covered her mouth and nose with a wet handkerchief, regretting that she didn't go out with her brother, it was too choking to stay at home, and she didn't want to drink milk.
There are guards around the field, and you can't let Mars fly up the mountain, and then burn the mountain, then it will be bad.
In the barracks, the first floor of the first row of houses has begun to go up to the beams, and the foundation is busy digging next to the baking room.
The baking house can make money, make a lot of money, send a few baskets of pastries a day, and you can get back seven dollars of silver, seven taels a day, a month...... Emma, you can't use all your toes.
Mingyuan's daughter-in-law said, the baking room is covered, and the daughters-in-law in the village should be taught the craftsmanship, the craftsmanship of baking fragrant dim sum cakes, and the craftsmanship of cashiering money every day! Mingyuan's daughter-in-law is benevolent!
Mrs. Niu sat on the brick stack, her eyes on the daughters-in-law who were cooking, "The fourth daughter-in-law of my family said, when the baking room is covered and the oven is enough, I will teach one of you the same, and one of you will have a set of unique skills!"
Whoever you choose to learn! The fourth daughter-in-law is not familiar with you, let me choose someone, you all listened well, you were selected, study hard, don't be tired.
If you can't choose, don't blame me, if you can't choose this time, it's your turn next time, don't talk behind your back, let me know, I don't want you at any time. ”
Dong Xiaoying listened to Mrs. Niu speak, lowered her head and secretly laughed, don't say, the old lady is quite a leader.
"That's right, let's try on sleeves and gloves." Holding Mrs. Niu to jump off the blue brick stack, Dong Xiaoying discussed with her in a whisper, "Mingyuan asked me to do this, just so that the big guy can make money." Look at the eldest sister-in-law, the second sister-in-law, she is really tired, her arms are swollen, and if she continues to do it, she will probably be tired. ”
"What do you want to say?" Mrs. Niu said in her heart, this is to take back the money, let the silver burn your hands, why do you want to give it out! Don't hit it in your pocket?
"Every family in the village is the same, or not, the little family money is given to us, and the house is built, and we can't buy anything?" Dong Xiaoying began to explain the situation from the actual situation.
Mrs. Niu crooked her mouth and snorted, "How much do you want to give out?" ”
Look, the old lady understands everything, but she is reluctant to give money to her family?
"Beat a pot of eggs and give five cents, what's the matter?" Dong Xiaoying asked.
Mrs. Niu glared at her and whispered, "How can you be tired from beating an egg?" Who hasn't scrambled eggs, what's the work of beating eggs? If you give two pennies, she can be happy. ”
You just say that the price is appropriate!
"In it, two pieces of eggs in a pot, and two pieces of milk in a pot. There is also the matter of delivery, men are busy, besides, men are not hit, our thing is soft, men are not serious, don't be scattered!
I can't leave in the future, there are a lot of things at home, and Mingyuan can't always follow him to the city, it's a long time to come and go, and everything at home is waiting for him to make an idea, which is too delaying.
Let the chick accompany you to deliver the goods once, and then you choose someone to follow you, don't walk, and pull it with an ox cart. ”
Dong Xiaoying doesn't plan to teach the people in the village how to make butter, so she keeps one hand for everything, so as not to be sold in the future, and we don't have anything left in our hands.
Mrs. Niu said in her heart, the next step is to farm, and no cattle can be used in the field! I'm pulling away to catch the car, what should I do in the field?
"I pondered, when we are busy for the past few days, let the money strings follow, and several nearby counties will run, don't let the daughters-in-law run, you will always lead the team, and choose the old ladies Zhang Luo.
First, the old ladies are not afraid of encountering problems when they go out, and the girls and daughters-in-law are afraid of meeting indecent people when they go out! Second, you are old, experienced, and close to people. ”
Dong Xiaoying tried on the sleeves, put the gloves on the old lady, put the apron on the old lady, and tied a bow on the wide band in the back, looked at it and nodded with satisfaction.
Mrs. Niu didn't say much, let her wear it when she gave pastries to others, and we would wear it, and we would look clean and tidy when selling food.
As for the arrangements of the old ladies, she didn't ask much, and when Chang'an came back, she asked the eldest grandson how good it was, and the eldest grandson wouldn't laugh at grandma and didn't understand anything.
Dong Xiaoying continued: "Go out to deliver the goods, in the rain and snow, send these two now, give ten cents back and forth, do you say you won't win?" ”
"Wuwen!" Mrs. Niu bargained as soon as she opened her mouth.
Dong Xiaoying is as good as a stream, "I don't understand this, I listen to you." However, the cake of the cream flower, we make a lot of money, and we give ten cents to the delivery of silver. There are also big cakes to be sold out, 60 wen for 6 inches, 90 wen for 9 inches, and ...... for two layers."
Mrs. Niu held down Dong Xiaoying, opened her mouth and gave out a lot of money, you want to be angry with me!
"Old lady, what's going on?" I don't remember that the old lady had an asthma-like condition!
Mrs. Niu opened her mouth to pant, trying her best to suppress the anger of her heartache, and stared at Dong Xiaoying with her eyes, what's wrong with me? I feel sorry for the money, I'm anxious that you don't take the money seriously!
After a while, he calmed down: "Don't mention it, what's sixty?" Ninety went! You...... You tell me, honestly, how much can you earn? ”