Chapter 12 The Prototype of Ancient Takeaways
I have been selling pot helmets for about half a month, and the business is becoming more and more stable.
Merchants who walk on this road all year round are also happy to eat something good here.
The tea shed, which was originally small, has now extended a lot. This bamboo forest originally belonged to his family, and under the guidance of Wei Jin, two small rooms were built separately for the caravan stewards to take a nap and change their clothes.
Since the caravan stopped here a lot, the villagers also saw the opportunity and set up a few small stalls opposite to sell some pancakes and buns.
These pancake buns are different from pot helmets, directly the vegetable leaves are chopped and mixed with water together, the noodles should be thinner, scooped up with a bamboo spoon and poured into a small pot, swaying around, and a pancake bun is ready. You can just eat it like that, or you can eat it with some vegetables dipped in the miso and some vegetables.
The variety of food is also a good attraction for more tourists to stop. Originally, Erhua thought that those people grabbing business would reduce their income, but they didn't expect that there would be more people and more people would sell their own money. There are even people who come to take it out, one is more than a dozen, the vegetables and meat are packed separately, and they can be eaten directly after they go back.
Wei Jin's brain is active, and in addition to choosing more kinds of vegetables, she has also developed a precedent for sandwiching cold noodles and sandwiching cold powder.
Cold noodles can be sold alone, merchants buy a cold noodles and noodles, and buy a bowl of porridge and vegetables in the tea shop. Because the weather is hot, it seems a little irritable to always eat pancakes and pancakes, and cold noodle porridge can be said to be a perfect match. Even Wei Jin specially asked the craftsmen in the village to customize a lot of bamboo tubes, which were polished smooth inside and out. The long tube is filled with cold noodles, and the short tube is thicker with porridge, and after being plugged tightly with a stopper, the two bamboo tubes are tied up, the fine hemp rope is tied, and a pair of sharpened bamboo chopsticks are matched, and the food on the road can also be solved.
Uncle Lu, the owner of the tea shop, planted a large piece of bamboo at home, and his father-in-law is a craftsman, and most of the bamboo tubes are made by him, and Wei Jin's set meal also uses porridge boiled by the Lu family's tea shop.
"Tell me how Sanhua'er's head grows." At night, after shaking with the man, the mother-in-law of the Lu family lay on the bed and sighed, "Earlier, those long-tongued women were still laughing at people behind their backs, look at now, who in the village does not envy Sanhua'er's cleverness." I've heard that many families are inquiring about Sanhua's family. There is no one of the right age in our family, otherwise Sanhuaer would be how good it would be to be our daughter-in-law. ”
"Come on." Uncle Lu shook his fan and lay on his back, "Sanhua'er will definitely marry in the city in the future, don't think about it." Speaking of which, Sanhuaer plans to send Dabao to school, do you say that we should send the old and the young too? ”
The mother-in-law of the Lu family frowned: "There is a lot of money for tuition." Although we have earned some this month, but in the end, the three children in the family, the eldest and the second are all married, and the eldest daughter-in-law is now afraid that she has already carried it in her stomach, and the old is still young, so it is impossible to say whether she can read it. If he is allowed to go to school, he is afraid that the eldest and second child will not be happy. ”
"Why aren't you happy?" Lao Lu turned over and lay on his side, looking at his mother-in-law, "I think Sanhua'er said it well, read more books and know Braille, even if you can't get into the show, you can also ask someone to find an apprentice or something, if you can be a bookkeeper like her eldest brother-in-law, at least the descendants of the old and young don't have to work hard to eat in the ground." ”
"Ming'er again, you have to think about this matter clearly, don't make trouble at home."
This. At night, the two members of the Lu family didn't sleep steadily, thinking about this in their hearts, weighing the pros and cons over and over again in their minds, and always felt that it was not easy to do anything.
"Three girls." A young man came from the caravan, smiling at Wei Jin with a red face, "We won't stop today, the steward said to pack twenty servings of meat and vegetable pot helmets, and then twenty servings of cold noodles and gruel." This is the money for running errands, and I asked the third girl to find someone to help send it to the post station outside the city. We have a delivery today, and the time is too tight. ”
The post station outside the city is ten or twenty miles away from them, and it takes a long time to walk, and it is faster to find someone to ride a donkey to deliver food.
Wei Jin took the deposit, took out an inch-long piece of wood from the apron pocket around his waist, and gently broke it, and the piece of wood split in half.
"Okay, you take it here, and when the time comes, you will receive the money with the wooden block."
The person who delivered the goods also had to bring back the money, which made it clear that others could not be allowed to run away. Their eldest treasure was young, and there were no donkeys at home, so Wei Jin thought of Uncle Zhang's son next door.
Uncle Zhang's family doesn't have a donkey either, but his eldest brother's family does, so it's definitely no problem to borrow it. Moreover, Uncle Zhang's family is honest and responsible, and their son is also a sincere person, Wei Jin would rather give them this money to earn it than cheapen others.
asked Dabao to find the third son of Uncle Zhang's family, explained to him, and gave him the errand fee given by the caravan without leaving a penny.
"It's your money for running errands, and you've taken it. You'll also have to help me settle the bill, and I'll pay you a penny for the errands when the time comes. ”
Twenty pots and helmets and twenty bamboo tube suits on her side are eight yuan, which is not counting the fifteen wen errand fees given by the caravan, more than twenty wen for one trip, if you can have two or three trips a day, this income is also very good.
But this business does not happen every day, and so far, she has received two home deliveries. The last time her second brother-in-law was here, it was the second brother-in-law who sent it, and she didn't ask for the cost of running errands.
When the junior of the Zhang family went to deliver food, Wei Jin suddenly thought of a way. She can advertise on the stall, although most people are illiterate, can she also draw pictures, just write that you can deliver food to your door, and the running fee is determined by the distance and the number, the lowest is three at a time, and the highest is ten at a time. Of course, the amount of ten cents needs to be limited, and if it is exceeded, she will not provide food delivery here, and the other party will pick it up or find someone who is willing to run errands.
You can try this method, and the person who cooperates will choose the Zhang family next door. If she can, she will customize a vest with the sign of her pot helmet shop, and the delivery menu and the pair of cards are also customized.
The third brother of the Zhang family can take advantage of the opportunity of delivery to write an order note for the guests who are willing to place an order and leave a pair of cards, and she will give priority to making after receiving the deposit, and then send it over by the third brother Zhang according to the agreed time.
This is the ancient version of the takeaway, but I don't know if it can work, and she doesn't know what problems will be encountered in it yet, so she can only take one step at a time.
While making pot helmets, Wei Jin used his brains to find ways to develop the customer market, and on the other hand, the Zhang family Xiaosan rode a donkey to deliver the meal to the merchant post station outside the city on time.
The cards can be matched, and the steward gave him the rest of the money after checking the number. Because the junior of the Zhang family has always carried the basket containing food on his body, it has not been broken, which makes the steward very happy, and he also rewarded him with ten cents.
This time, he just ran errands, and without any effort, he earned thirty-three Wen, which is a huge amount of money for the junior of the Zhang family.
He excitedly collected the money, and after informing the steward of what Wei Jin had explained to him, he was about to go back when he heard someone next to him stop him.