As he spoke, Xu Yan took out all the silver in the jar, and the amount shocked Yuan Junxian.

"Okay, I'm not going to the docks." Yuan Junxian doesn't feel ashamed of being a big man to sell fat powder, as long as he can feed this family, what is face, can he eat or drink?

Then Yuan Junxian recuperated at home, and after lying down for three days, he was finally able to go to the ground.

The fat aunt and Xu Yan were basking in rice milk in the yard, Yuan Junxian was lying down empty-handed to rest, and Yuan Xiu was running around beside him, and he was the only one who didn't know what to do.

Yuan Junxian couldn't be idle, so he found a piece of wood and a carving knife, half lying in the courtyard and began to carve. He kept working on his hands, and looked up at his wife and children from time to time.

The years are quiet, and there is no disturbance in the world.

After a busy day, Xu Yan brought the food to the table, and the objects in Yuan Junxian's hands were also carved.

He gently blew away the sawdust and put the box in front of Xu Yan: "Give it to you." ”

Xu Yan looked at the handicrafts in front of him, and his eyes widened: "You did this?" ”

Yuan Junxian carved a box, square, carved from a single log. The wooden lid has a well-veined hibiscus flower, and when it is opened, it is divided into three small long lattices in equal parts.

Yuan Junxian was about to say something, when he heard Xu Yan's next sentence: "This must be sold for a lot of money, you have to sell it for five dollars of silver, no, one or two pieces of silver!" ”

Yuan Junxian silently took the box back and hid it behind his back: "This is for you, not for sale." ”

His daughter-in-law is simply in the eyes of money.

Xu Yan looked up at him with bright eyes, and said coquettishly: "I know that I gave this to me, and I don't sell it." ”

Hearing Xu Yan say this, Yuan Junxian put the box back and rubbed it on Xu Yan's head.

Yuan Xiu, who was silently gnawing meat and bones next to him, also learned to touch the top of his head, and he didn't understand why his father only picked his own hair now, but now he touches his mother's hair all day long.

Is it because he has less hair?

"After the lacquer is applied, it can be used for jewelry and rouge." Yuan Junxian paused for a moment, and then said as promised, "I will buy you a lot of jewelry in the future and fill the box." ”

Xu Yan solemnly placed the box in front of the dresser: "Well, I'm waiting for you to buy it for me." ”

After discovering that Yuan Junxian still had carpentry skills, Xu Yan made up his mind: "Brother Yuan, can you carve some flowers on the box, the hollow kind." ”

Yuan Junxian also found out that his knife work was good on a whim, he took the thin wooden board and tried it, and nodded: "Yes, but this knife is not good, and the blade should be a little smaller." ”

"I'll ask Uncle Fat to come back with a set of carved knives later." Xu Yan clapped his hands and looked forward to the future, the whole person exuded a dazzling brilliance, "When the time comes, Brother Yuan, can you carve a batch of such boxes, I think if you push it out, it will definitely be very popular." ”

Yuan Junxian also thought about it carefully, he can only carve during the day, if the pattern is not complicated, he can carve one a day, as long as it can be sold at a starting price, it is also a good way to make money.

"Brother Yuan, you make a few first, and I'll try to sell them first." Xu Yan's eyes rolled, and the small abacus was very fine, "If it's easy to sell, carve more." If it doesn't sell well, it will save you a lot of effort. ”

And the point is, scarcity is expensive. If she makes too many of these boxes, she won't be able to sell them for a price. Isn't a well-known case of hunger marketing in the 21st century a successful use of this principle? She came to try it too.

There is only one market day in the town once a month, but Xu Yan and the fat aunt can't only do this business once a month.

So the two of them summed up and simply went to the town to rent a stall, and it was the fat aunt's son who helped.

There was a couple who sold noodles who had rented a stall that was too big and wanted to find someone to share it. The noodle stall is expensive and the noodle stall is empty most of the time, except for the meal, so the couple wants to rent out half of the noodle stall by the hour.

It was difficult to find tenants under such harsh conditions, but it happened to fall into Xu Yan's hands.

She and her fat aunt make makeup powder, and the output is not high, so she simply only goes to the stall in the afternoon, so that the rent is reduced by half, and she can take care of the family's affairs.

On this day, after closing the stall, Xu Yan was about to go to the shop to buy some snacks to take back, and he saw a group in front of him, and some people applauded from time to time.

Xu Yan leaned over and got ahead with his petite body.

In the center of the circle, there is an acrobatic troupe performing arts.

Xu Yan watched as a child stepped on the sharp gun with one foot, and an urn larger than her head was on her head.