Chapter 88

Gu Xinxin imitated him and sneered, "They have money but they don't make it, so they leave it to you? Are you really that close?"

Gu Daniu said stubbornly: "Friendship between men sometimes only requires one sentence."

Gu Xinxin waved her hand: "If you really want to do this business, don't you have money yourself? Go ahead and do it yourself, but I want to remind you that if you lose money, it's your problem. I won't make it up to you."

Gu Daniu was also a little puzzled. He and the Liu family were just friends in name only. He sold mountain products and he bought them. That was all. Since the Liu family had a way to make money, why didn't they give it to their own relatives and friends, but to him, a person with whom they only had a superficial relationship?

Besides, he knew Gu Xinxin's personality. She had one money-making idea after another. Ever since she got her mother's advice, she had never lost money in business. Could someone like her really make money from something she wasn't optimistic about?

Mr. Liu said there is a cloth shop in the county town, right?

Gu Daniu rolled his eyes and went to find Gu Xinxin: "I'll deliver the goods to the county town myself tomorrow."

Gu Xinxin could probably guess what he was up to, so she didn't object. "Okay, if you want to give it to me, then go ahead. Also, take the money they make from the sale and bring it back. I calculated, and the total they've sold these past few days is... 38 taels of silver."

In six days, she made a trip around the capital and returned.

This is equivalent to earning six taels a day. If you separate the two snack carts, each cart will earn one tael a day.

The speed at which she makes money is still very fast. Because before she had a workshop, she only sold small fried dough twists every day, and she could only make this profit in the beginning. Although there is no huge profit now, the speed at which she makes money is very average, that is, the amount on the first day is about the same on the second day, and the amount is basically maintained at a very average level for these six days.

Gu Xinxin deduced the sales situation from the goods delivered to the county town every day, and specifically instructed Gu Daniu, "You can also ask Shuanzhu if he has any clever brothers or sisters who want to bring out to sell things together. That's fine. I just asked Carpenter Wang to make a few more snack carts. In addition, they should each receive 360 ​​copper coins. You can tell them and settle the bill at the end of the month."

Gu Daniu agreed.

Gu Xinxin went to find Carpenter Wang. She wanted ten in total.

Four were delivered to the county town, and the other six were delivered to nearby towns. In the past, there were also young people from the village who carried their loads and walked around. It was definitely profitable, but because the amount of goods was small, it took a lot of time to travel on the road, so Gu Xinxin planned to make a few more snack carts. Each person would have a cart, and the cart could be temporarily entrusted to someone's family - as long as they paid, the ox cart could deliver more goods every day.

Time is money.

If someone wants to buy something but you don’t have it, wouldn’t that be a waste of time?

Carpenter Wang could not finish so much work, and Gu Xinxin required the delivery within ten days, so Carpenter Wang planned to ask his fellow apprentices to help him.

Gu Xinxin didn't care who he looked for. As long as she had so many cars to take when the time came, it would be fine.

After leaving Carpenter Wang's house, Gu Xinxin saw the village chief hurriedly heading towards the village entrance. She was curious and asked, "Village chief, what are you doing?"

"There is a family in Dakaner Village that raises five or six pigs. It's time to slaughter them. Doesn't our village need more pork? I plan to go and ask." The village chief said with a smile. It was mainly because Gu Xinxin was generous with money. Secondly, if everyone in his village made money, wouldn't they respect him as the village chief more?

How to say it, when people have no money, they think about making money. When they have money, they think about other things, fame and fortune. These two words are connected. If you have profit, you will be famous.

With Gu Xinxin painting a rosy picture for the village chief, the village chief is now full of enthusiasm.

Gu Xinxin smiled and said, "Really? I really have to thank you very much, Village Chief. If you hadn't noticed this, I wouldn't have known about it. When we buy a pig and the pig's offal, Village Chief, you'll decide and we'll have a pig-killing feast for the whole village."

The meaning of letting the village chief make the decision is very simple. When holding a banquet, you can't just have pork, you also have to have rice and flour. As long as it involves purchasing, there will be profit.

The village chief agreed with a smile.

As Gu Xinxin headed home, she began to think about raising chickens. Meat floss requires meat—pork, fish, or chicken are all fine. Fish is relatively cheap, chicken is about the same, and pork is the most expensive. However, fish is difficult to prepare and takes more time. Furthermore, a single fish contains much less meat than chicken.

In the long run, chicken is more cost-effective than pork. So if you want to make more profit in the meat floss business, it is best to replace pork with chicken.

Moreover, the chicken offal can be eaten at home, the chicken feet can be made into lemon chicken feet, and the chicken necks can be used to make braised dishes...killing two birds with one stone.

After careful planning, it was clear that buying chickens was not as good as raising them. Raising chickens was easy, and a family could raise more than a dozen, and even a child could manage the whole process. She actually had more experience raising pigs than raising them.

Thinking of Gu Xinxin, she couldn't help but cough lightly. She was actually bragging when she said she had experience. Her so-called experience was just free-range farming. Feeding more earthworms would make the worms lay more eggs - yes, eggs are also very useful. They can be used to make small fried dough twists, braised eggs, and are also very nutritious when eaten at home.

Salted egg yolks can also be used to make many snacks. As for the snacks on the market that say they have a salted egg yolk flavor, nine out of ten of them are actually egg yolks, not duck egg yolks.

After all, eggs cost three or four yuan per pound, and duck eggs cost seven or eight yuan per pound.

She went home and first went to see Gu Chenshi: "Go to the village and tell them that we want to buy chickens, no matter whether they are big, small or old. We will pay whatever the market price is. Then you can hire a few people to come to our house to slaughter chickens."

She couldn't just step in and join the villagers in raising chickens. After all, raising chickens wasn't easy. Things like chicken plague would not only lead to a total loss of harvest, but also a loss of capital. So she could only lead the way, using her own family as an example to show everyone that raising chickens was profitable.

If your family is willing to support you, then you can do so. If they are not willing, then forget it. No one will force or coerce you. If you make money, it is yours. If you don't make money... it is still yours.

Gu Chen was surprised: "We can't eat that much at home, right?"

Gu Xinxin smiled and said, "It's not for eating, it can be used to make meat floss and chicken essence... Forget it, as long as you know it can be used, our family will not lose money."

Anyway, the eggs in the village are all purchased by ourselves, so there is no need to buy more chickens.

Gu Chen pursed her lips, and Gu Xinxin held out her hand: "I'll pay for the chickens, and as for the chickens, I'll give you two copper coins for each one you kill. You can find someone outside, and I won't ask how much you give them."

Gu Chen's eyes lit up and she clapped her hands: "Okay, leave it to me."

Gu Xinxin asked, "If you're busy killing chickens, will you be unable to take care of cooking at home?"

Gu Chen was stunned for a moment and nodded. Yes, then who will cook?

"I'll go back and ask who in the village has someone who can cook delicious food." Gu Xinxin said, waving at Gu Chenshi: "You go ahead and do your work."

She planned to replace Gu Chenshi in the cooking job.

As I said, anything involving cooking and buying groceries must be lucrative. She had previously tolerated Gu Chenshi's embezzlement because she herself really didn't have time to cook, but she couldn't help but eat.

Now, after sending Gu Chen away, I can take back the matter and give it to someone I trust, such as Second Aunt.

Gu Chenshi can make money from butchering chickens now, but that job doesn't happen every day. Furthermore, the money she earns from butchering chickens is public, and if she has it, she has to spend it. Gu Daniu will also know about it, and then she won't be able to find another excuse to ask for money.

Gu Xinxin happily climbed onto the wall and called out to Second Auntie, "My stepmother has other things to do, so there's no one to cook at home. I'd like to ask Second Auntie to come to my house and help with the cooking. It'll be thirty copper coins a day, covering three meals a day. My eldest cousin and his family are busy outside, so why don't you just eat at my house?"

Second Auntie didn't want any money: "I just helped to cook the meal. We are going to eat at your house. Why should I ask you for money?"

"It's not just one or two days of help. If it was just one or two days, I definitely wouldn't mention the money. I could just buy you two kilograms of snacks. This is a matter of one or two years." Gu Xinxin said with a smile, winking, "Second Aunt and I are close. If I don't give you money, how can it be kept for my stepmother to spend? I'll give it to you, just take it, and consider it my filial piety money."

The second aunt laughed and said, "Okay, since you are so filial, I will go and cook for you."

Thirty copper coins a day is almost one or two taels of silver a month, and I don’t have to cook at home. This job is worth doing.

As for the workshop, they had to eat separately from the Gu family. It wasn't a good idea for the two sides to be mixed up for a long time. Therefore, the workshop needed to find another cook. This was easier to find—Mrs. Gu was also home, so she could just make lunch when she had time. Her own work could be done in the mornings and evenings, and besides, wouldn't the afternoon be free after lunch?

Because the workshop only made one meal, Gu Xinxin only paid them twenty copper coins as wages - there were many people and the workload was heavy.

With this arrangement, the work of killing chickens officially began.

Gu Chen was a stingy person, so the chicken offal and the like would never be withheld or embezzled. She would bring back a large basin of them every day. Gu Xinxin simply built a stove in the yard to make braised food - the longer the braising liquid was braised, the more flavorful it would be, so there was no need to worry about it going bad.

So there will be one more thing on the snack cart, braised chicken offal and braised chicken feet, as well as spicy chicken necks.

Gu Xinxin wanted to make lemon chicken feet, but there were no lemons. She couldn't find them unless she went south.

Because braised food does not last long, and the quantity is not large, excluding the food kept by the Gu family for themselves, there are only about ten pounds a day, so it is only sold in the town and the county for the time being, and it is not available anywhere else.