Cattle are the most important farming labor, and the price of a cow is between fifteen taels and twenty taels.

The third grandfather and Gu Dashan also remembered the cow, saw the two children talking, walked out of the house, and said to Gu Jinli: "Let's go with San Lang to return the cow, you go to the house first." ”

Xiaoyu and San Lang are both half-grown children, and adults still have to follow them to pay compensation to the cow.

Gu Jinli nodded and said, "Eh, the third grandfather, you go to return the cow, and I will cook with my mother, and wait for you to come back to eat." ”

Gu Dashan had money on her body, so she put away the one or two pieces of silver in her hand and put it back in the cloth bag.

When she went to the county seat during the day, she and Gu Dashan carried a cloth bag, which contained most of the family's silver, and there was still a surplus of the silver, and at night they had to count all the silver deposited and hide it again.

"Okay, you go into the house, I'll be back soon with your third grandfather." Gu Dashan took the soybean oil lamp in her hand and walked in front to illuminate the road.

The third grandfather followed behind Gu Dashan, Qin Sanlang led the cow, took the remaining Jinchuang medicine, and the three of them left the Gu family's courtyard and went to the village chief's house.

After the three of them left, several families gathered in Gu Jinli's house also went home separately.

After Cui took the title deed back to the house and hid it, he called Gu Jinxiu, and the two went to the kitchen to cook.

Gu Jinli was about to follow, but was stopped by the two.

Cui Shi said: "Just cook a meal, your sister and I will be able to do it soon, you and your brother will rest first." ”

"Okay, then I'll sit and wait for the meal to eat." Gu Jinli did not insist, but sat down on the stool.

Brother Cheng sat next to Gu Jinli, looked up at her, and asked her what was there in the county?

Gu Jinli picked up what he saw and told him.

Gu Jinan took advantage of the dim light to practice calligraphy on the table with a brush dipped in water, while listening to their conversation, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily curved.

The third grandmother was afraid that Gu Jinli and Gu Jinan would be hungry, so she went to the kitchen and took two bean dregs cakes and two bowls of soy milk for them: "Eat some to cushion your stomach first, and when your father and they come back, we will have dinner." ”

"Huh." Gu Jinli and Gu Jinan took the bean dregs cake, ate the bean dregs cake with soy milk, and ate the bean dregs cake in a few bites.

After a short time, Cui Shi and Gu Jinxiu cooked the meal and brought it to the hall on a wooden tray, and the family waited around the table for about a quarter of an hour before the third grandfather and Gu Dashan came back.

The two stood outside the door, rubbed the mud off their feet before entering the door, and said after sitting down: "The cow is returned, Village Chief He said that it was okay, and accepted one or two of our silver, and the matter is over." ”

Village Chief He was thinking about the tofu business, and he didn't want the one or two pieces of silver, but the third grandfather said that he accepted it because he had to settle the accounts clearly.

"Just take it, let's eat, it's all a day." The third grandmother urged, and served sweet potato and aged rice porridge to everyone.

Now their family's life is much better, but they are still reluctant to eat white rice, which is expensive.

"Okay, let's stop talking, eat quickly." The third grandfather spoke, and the family sat down to eat.

After eating, several families came to Gu Jinli's house again and began to settle the accounts of the day, which was what they had to do every day and the happiest moment of their day. After all, everyone likes to count money and divide money.

Gu Jinan reported to them: "The tofu stall in the town earned 9200 wen today, the white tofu at home sold 900 catties today, the seasoning spices sold 9 catties, and the gross profit was 222600 wen." After deducting the cost and the reserved two taels of silver, the net profit is eighteen taels or six hundred wen. ”

His family accounts for forty percent, and can get seven two three hundred and sixty wen. The other six, each of which can be divided into one or two eight hundred and seventy wen, nearly two taels of silver, is more than double the amount they made by selling tofu at their previous stalls.

When Chen heard this, he folded his hands together happily and bowed to the door: "Thank God, you will continue to bless, and when we make a lot of money, we will pay tribute to your old man on the fifteenth day of the new year." ”

After thanking God, he praised Gu Jinli again: "It's still a good way to be a small fish, if we don't sell a large amount of tofu to Liang Zhuzi and them, and let them pick it up and sell it, we won't be able to earn so much silver in a day." ”

Now just selling Liang Zhuzi and He Dacang their white tofu and seasoning spices will make more money than if they go to the town to set up a stall.

Gu Jinli said: "This is the power of many people. We have limited manpower, if we just rely on us to sell tofu, it is impossible to make so much money, only by dividing the tofu and letting others help us sell it, we can make more money. ”

The adults of several families nodded: "We didn't understand it before, but after looking at the accounts of this day, we will understand." ”

When Xiaoyu said that he wanted to sell tofu to Liang Zhuzi and they sold it, they were still worried, for fear that Liang Zhuzi would steal their business. Now it seems that Liang Zhuzi and He Dacang are helping them to work, and they are the most profitable.

Gu Jinli said again: "Today is twenty-four, and five days will be the end of the month, at the end of the month, we have to take stock of this month's accounts once, daily, monthly, and at the end of the year, we must calculate the accounts again, and we must make the accounts clear." ”

Chen said: "This is also troublesome, and it will be counted once a day." ”

Qin Lao shook his head: "I used to do work for people in Longshan Mansion, the shops in the city are every day, every month, and every year, and we started the tofu business during the Lantern Festival, and it has been more than a month since then, and we have only calculated the accounts once a day, and we have not calculated the monthly accounts." It stands to reason that on February 15, we should have settled the monthly accounts. ”

"I wanted to talk about it at that time, but I thought it was the middle of February, and it was not good to take stock, so I wanted to wait until the end of the month to tell you about it, and now that Xiaoyu has brought it up, we should do it, otherwise we don't even know how much money this tofu makes a month."

The third grandfather also agreed: "Qin Lao is right with Xiaoyu, this monthly account must be discontinued, and the monthly account must be calculated on the last day of every month in the future, but you can't be lazy, otherwise this account will be messed up." ”

Gu Jinan patted the account book and said with a smile: "Don't worry, uncles and aunts, I have to settle the accounts, you only need to come an hour in advance at the end of the month to listen to my account." ’

Several families were relieved when they heard this, and Chen said: "With Brother An'er's words, we are relieved." ”

Although Chen likes money, she doesn't know how to settle accounts, she has a headache when she hears those numbers, and with Gu Jinan's words, she is a hundred in favor of calculating monthly accounts. Anyway, it's not her who counts, and the few of them can still know how much money they make in a month, which is very beneficial to them.

Chen was happy, but Gu Dexing, who was sitting behind her, had a bad face, he hesitated for a long time, and after all, he didn't say what he thought in front of him.

After settling the accounts and dividing the money, the families went home.

Gu Dexing lowered his head and followed Gu Dafu and them home.

Gu Jinan saw Gu Dexing's expression in his eyes and couldn't help but shake his head. Mr. is right, Brother Dexing is still not frank enough, obviously dissatisfied with him settling accounts alone, and wants to settle accounts with him, but he is unwilling to speak.

There are some things, you don't have to hold back, it's better to say it.

Gu Jinli also saw that Gu Dexing's face was not very good, she didn't care about Gu Dexing, and only reminded Gu Jin'an: "Brother, be careful of him in the future, if he can't figure it out, or if he doesn't change his temper, don't play with him." ”。

Gu Jinan smiled: "Okay, big brother remembers." ”