After selling ice powder for three days in a row, the business in the town is getting better and better, but the three sisters of the Liu family are completely tired, not to mention going up the mountain to pick and wash fruits every day, it is the step of kneading the fruit pulp that can make their tired fingers sore and arms numb.

"No, people are going to get tired if they do this, I need to find a few helpers."

Liu Guiyuan poured a pot of kneaded wild loquat pulp into the pigsty, looking at the two newly grown piglets, running over to eat with her nose moving, she felt that she was this little pig at the moment, only caring about the small interests in front of her, and almost missed the whole forest.

Liu Guiyuan said to the eldest sister and the second sister, and went to Liu Jindi's house with a small basket, which contained three bowls of ice powder with different flavors, just for them to taste.

"You want to ask me and Jin Di to be helpers, ten cents a day?"

Liu Daquan's daughter-in-law Gu Shi was surprised, Liu Guiyuan thought she was too little, and hurriedly said that the salary could be negotiated again, who expected that before the words were finished, Gu slapped the table and said neatly: "Do ten yuan a day, where to find such a good job." ”

In Gu's opinion, Liu Daquan is begging for food outside to make money, which is easier said than done, which of those silver coins is not saved hard, now

With such an easy job, just sitting at the door of the house and scrubbing the fruits, why don't you do it? Don't do it for nothing, don't do it!

"Then the eldest aunt and Sister Jin Di agreed?" Liu Guiyuan looked at his cousin Liu Jindi, who was only interested in eating ice powder, Gu saw a slap on her back, and said half angrily: "You know how capable your sister Guiyuan is?" Come with me tomorrow, you know? ”

Liu Jindi took a sip of fruit ice powder, wiped her mouth and said: "Mother, then I can't help it, it's not that I haven't picked wild loquat to eat in previous years, and I never thought of using it to make ice powder, it's only to blame you for making me too stupid, if only I had half of the longan." ”

A few people laughed when they said this, and Liu Guiyuan reminded them with a smile: "By the way, auntie, Sister Jin Di, don't spread the craft of making ice powder for the time being, if everyone in the village knows, my family won't be able to make money." ”

"That's nature."

There are many ways to make ice powder, and the more standard method is to use the seeds of the lily fruit, but there is no need, they are full of wild loquats, of course, they are made of local materials. However, the disadvantages of using wild loquat to make ice powder are also obvious, its steps are simple, easy to learn, in order to make more money, of course she has to cover the secret recipe.

To tell the truth, this method of making ice powder can be sold for a summer at most, and it can be found by people with a heart, and she will naturally have to do a big ticket while there is no competition now.

"Little Jinbao, I have a favor I want to ask you to help, as long as you can do it, you can eat enough ice powder from our family in the future."

"Really? You say, as long as I can do it, I'll keep it. Liu Jinbao patted his chest and assured, obviously he bought Liu Guiyuan or ice powder.

"If you ask the children in our village to publicize it, they will say that my family will collect the wild loquat in the back mountain, pick ten catties and give a penny, how much you want, but the premise is that the fruit cannot be unripe or rotten."

Ten catties of wild loquat only gave a penny, this is really not Liu Guiyuan's black heart, it is really the landlord's family has no surplus grain. First, she doesn't have so much money in her hands to help the poor, and second, no one really wants the wild loquat in the mountains.

"Hey!" As soon as five-year-old Liu Jinbao heard about this, he ran out of the door with a sting, and when he ran to the door, he didn't forget to shout to her sister: "Sister, you are not allowed to move my share, otherwise I will tell my mother!" ”

After Liu Jinbao came out with the news, there were children in the village who came to verify one after another, and after hearing that her family really collected wild loquats, they went home to take bamboo poles and find cloth bags, and groups of three or five went to the back mountain to pick wild fruits.

The children of the countryside can't eat snacks when they see the sky, and their parents don't give any pocket money, and when they hear that they can pick wild fruits on the mountain and sell them for money, it's like a gluttonous cat seeing a fishy fish, how can they not be excited. As for the adults in the village, most of them shook their heads when they heard that ten catties were only given a penny, and it was better to go to the field to pick grass when they had this time, but there were also people who were particularly good at it, and the adults and children went up the mountain to pick it together.

"Why do you say that you are so fine, such a good method can make you think of it." Liu Hongzao carried a small bench to sit under the wall, beating her back and praising her for being smart.

"Isn't it? We are asked to do all these jobs, and we are all lying down before we earn the money, and we are tired! Liu Huahua was mixing pigweed on the ground, and she had to feed the chickens and pigs for a while, in short, she couldn't stop for a day, but she was happy.

"Well, I'm smart." Liu Guiyuan steamed a bowl of tender egg custard, and when it was cool, he planned to feed the lotus seeds, and the lotus seeds can now eat supplementary food, egg custard, batter paste, and rice cereal paste are eaten in turn.

"Hey, but your family collects wild loquats, do you want these?" A child in the village came over with half a pocket of wild loquat on his back, and he was alone, picking up the tree for a while and picking it up from the tree for a while.

"Yes, I'll take a look." Liu Guiyuan walked over, picked up the cloth bag and poured out the loquat, and looked at it one by one, two children picked loquat in the morning, and there were many bad ones in it, so she found it, and this time she checked it carefully.

"Okay, you wait, I'll weigh it." Liu Guiyuan weighed it with the large piece of rice brought by Liu Jindi's family, about nine catties and four taels, which was a little worse, but it was not easy for children to pick fruits, and he looked at how dirty his body was, so he said: "It's exactly ten catties, and I'll give you a penny." ”

The child happily spun around in place, and after receiving a penny, he handed it back to Liu Guiyuan after thinking about it for a long time, saying that he wanted to buy a bowl of ice powder to try. Well, the money is back. There was no way, Liu Guiyuan entered the hall, scooped him a bowl full of ice powder with a rice spoon, added sand sugar water and glutinous rice cakes, and served it to him and said, "Do you want to eat here or take it home?" If you bring it home, return the bowl to me as soon as you finish eating. ”

The child nodded, holding the small bowl and running home. In the past two days, there have been many children like him who have exchanged money to buy ice powder and take it home to taste, and many of them are spitting on themselves when they are serving ice powder, how can they squeeze child labor so much, they are still children. Alas, it seems that he is not destined to be a cold-blooded capitalist.

In the evening, Liu Guiyuan's family was about to have dinner, and Tian Rubai, who had not been seen for a long time, came, and he was followed by several children, both older and younger, all of whom belonged to their Tian family.

The last time I met Tian Rubai was when I was harvesting wheat, he was on vacation from the field, wearing a straw hat and cutting wheat in the field with his father, everyone was busy with their own work, and they didn't have time to say hello and talk.

"Brother Bai, why are you free? Is it a holiday today? Liu Guiyuan couldn't help but ask him.

"No, the field vacation is a month, there are still six or seven days left, I heard that the master is sick, it is estimated that this time the field vacation will be very long."

Tian Rubai smiled slightly, revealing two white tiger teeth, but thinking that it was not a good thing for his master to be sick, he immediately pursed his lips, poured two bags full of wild loquat on the ground, and said, "This is what I picked today, how much money do you weigh." ”

Liu Guiyuan did as he said, a total of fifty catties, high, handed him five cents, and then weighed the fruit for others to give money, Tian Rubai saw that she was busy alone, so he reached out to help for a while.

After finishing his work, Tian Rubai clapped his hands and planned to go home, looking at the piles of wild loquat in the open space, he was really curious, and asked her: "Have you collected so much and sold it?" It's so profitable. ”

He knew that Liu Guiyuan's family collected so many wild loquat to make ice powder and send it to the town to sell for money, and every morning the dog baby would drive a car with several buckets of ice powder to the town, and he was not blind.

"What, you want to sell ice powder?" Liu Guiyuan squinted at him, thinking that you little boy has ideas.

"Can you let us sell it, no, I mean you'd like to ask me to sell ice powder too?"

Tian Rubai was a little excited, he just asked casually, but he didn't expect that there would be a drama.

"You can sell it if you want to, but it's not the same as Brother Dog's selling method, if you can accept it, let's talk.

Liu Guiyuan's idea is that now that the raw materials are available, and the helpers for processing ice powder are available, there is no need to worry about the market, and the rest is to improve the sales performance, but the dog baby alone can't be withdrawn, and she can't pull away, so it's better to ask Tian Rubai to help, see that he is quite reliable, anyway, everyone earns money together.

"Hey, Xiaobai, you can't leave yet, I'm waiting to go home for dinner, and I'm hungry." A brother of the same clan was impatient to wait, and urged him vigorously.

Tian Rubai didn't reply, and waved his hand at them, which means that I have something, you should go home and go home, don't wait for him.

"Let's go, don't wait for him, I don't know what he has to talk to a girl." One of the companions muttered and followed the others away.

"It's very simple, you see that my bucket of ice powder can hold one hundred and fifty bowls out, and it will cost one hundred and fifty yuan to sell out, but there is no sugar water, fruit miscellaneous and sesame seeds, pure ice powder is sold to you, one hundred yuan, you can sell it wherever you want, the town and the countryside can do it, after selling out one hundred yuan to me, the remaining fifty yuan will belong to you?"

In this way, she Liu Guiyuan can earn money, and she Tian Rubai can also earn money, but she earns a large amount, and Tian Rubai earns fifty wen to deduct the cost of sand sugar water and fruit miscellaneous ingredients.

Tian Rubai lowered his head and thought for a while, this business can be done, he can sell it in the countryside, and the ingredients are boiled red beans, mung beans and wild fruits in the mountains, and then mixed with a little sand sugar water, even so, he has earned fifty yuan.

"Okay, I've done this deal, but I don't have a hundred yuan for you for the time being, will I give it to you after the sale?"

"Okay, you and I can give it for free, if someone else buys it, you have to give me a bag of grain as collateral."

She doesn't know much about the people in the village, but Tian Rubai is still familiar with it, and I heard the eldest sister say that the Tian family has always been heirloom with poetry and book etiquette, and no matter how poor the family is, they have to send their children to read and write, so the reputation is still okay.

"Someone else can do it too?"

"yes, if you don't mind helping me spread the word, but they have to be reliable."

"Okay!"

The next day, Tian Rubai really came over and asked for a bucket of ice powder, which was moved from the cellar of the fourth grandmother's house, and he was accompanied by a helper, who was Tian Rusong, the son of his third uncle Tian Youli, who was one year older than him.

"Where do you think we're going to sell it first?" Tian Rusong is a villain, lying on the back of the cart and looking at the barrel not to fall down.

"Let's go to Lijiazhuang next door first, not to mention the closeness, there are still many children in the village, and it will definitely sell quickly."

"Do they have any money in their kids? I think it's better to go to town. ”

Tian Rusong advocated going to the town to sell, and the townspeople were so generous that they would spend a lot of money when they made a sale.

"You're stupid and won't tell them to exchange their newly harvested wheat?"

Tian Rubai has already thought about this, and now every household has received new wheat, not only adults are willing to give children some snacks, they are also willing to buy something to try, a small handful of wheat for a bowl of ice powder, it is worth it! Cousin Tian Rusongguang wanted to sell it in the town, but he never thought that the people in the town would be able to look at their ice powder made with red beans, mung beans and wild fruits.

"yes."

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