Chapter 17: Trial Sales

When the prepared jelly was placed in front of them, the other people did not move.

Qin Huiyin urged: "Try it!"

Li Taohua picked up one and put it into her mouth tentatively.

"How is it?" Qin Huiyin looked at Li Taohua expectantly.

Li Taohua's eyes were full of surprise: "It's delicious."

The jelly was chilled in well water, so it was icy cold, and paired with the seasonings she prepared, it was so delicious.

Qin Huiyin was not surprised by such comments. She picked up a piece of pig ear and gave it to Li Taohua, saying, "Try this one."

The pig intestines and ears are cut into thin strips and then mixed evenly with the jelly seasoning. It is so fragrant that you will want to swallow it.

“It’s delicious. It’s really delicious.”

"You guys try it too." Qin Huiyin said to the two people next to her.

Tang Luwu and Tang Yixiao picked up their chopsticks and started eating.

Like Li Taohua, they also tried the flavor carefully first, and only believed what Li Taohua said after tasting it.

It’s not that they didn’t believe Li Taohua’s judgment, but Li Taohua doted on her daughter too much, and they thought she was exaggerating to give her face.

"Uncle Tang, what do you think?" Qin Huiyin shouted inside.

Tang Dafu was chewing a pig's ear. After hearing what Qin Huiyin said, he said vaguely, "It's delicious."

"Then you have to eat more, I'll need your help later!"

Li Taohua asked, "He can't even get out of bed, how can he help you?"

"I want to take these things to town and sell them. What do you think, mother?"

"How do you plan to sell it?" Li Taohua did not answer her immediately, but asked about her plan.

"It's half the size of ours, three cents a bowl. If you want to add braised meat, you have to pay extra. I need Uncle Tang to help me cut some wooden sticks to use as chopsticks. They are disposable, so they don't have to be the same as the chopsticks we usually use. They just need to be cut into two thin strips so that we can pick up the jelly and eat it."

"Where's the bowl for the jelly?"

"We don't need bowls because it takes too much time and effort to make them. We can cut some bamboo buckets to use. Bamboo is everywhere on this mountain and it's very convenient to use."

"Okay, I'll go up the mountain with you later."

"I mean..." Qin Huiyin was embarrassed. "Let's all go up the mountain. There's strength in numbers!"

Li Taohua looked at the Tang siblings and asked, "Are you willing to help?"

Qin Huiyin said, "How about I pay you for your work instead of helping you for free?"

Tang Luwu waved her hands and said anxiously, "No money required. We are a family and we should help each other."

Tang Yi smiled in silence, lowering his head to eat the jelly.

He has to spend a large sum of money on medicine every month. It's good enough that the mother and daughter don't dislike him for being a burden to the family. How dare they ask for wages?

Tang Dafu had been a useless person for so long, and was suddenly told that he was useful. He was so excited that he repeatedly promised that he would carve out useful disposable chopsticks.

Li Taohua and her daughter went up the mountain with the Tang siblings, and the villagers gathered together to discuss what they wanted to do.

"Li Taohua bought some meat, and my dog was so greedy that he started crying. This woman is so stingy that Ergou waited at her doorstep for so long, but he didn't even get a taste of the meat."

"His aunt, it's a good thing your Ergou didn't eat it, otherwise he might get into trouble. The Tang family is in such a state, and she still has money to buy meat. I don't know if the money comes from clean sources."

"Didn't you say you sold your clothes to buy the meat?"

"She would rather sell her clothes to buy meat. Is this something a normal person would do? Who knows which man that vixen is trying to hook up with. You guys better keep a close eye on the men at home. If they dare to stay out and not come back, they might be seduced by that vixen."

"Isn't Li Taohua too nice to the Tang siblings? When she married Song the Hunter, she wasn't so nice to that little monster Song Ruize."

"What's so strange about this? The Tang family has Tang Yichen, who is the best scholar here. Song Ruize has a weird temper and is a coffin-wielding man. Who wouldn't find him unlucky?"

"This Song Ruize is so pitiful."

"You pity him? He can kill a wild deer with one punch. Can you?"

Everyone: “…”

After the death of Hunter Song, Li Taohua took advantage of the fact that Song Ruize was looking for Hunter Song's body in the mountains and sold the land to Hunter Song's brother at a low price. When Song Ruize came back, he didn't make a big fuss, but just drove the mother and daughter out. He was a 14-year-old boy, taller than his father, and from then on he was even more alone and had no popularity.

Qin Huiyin took her family to the mountains to cut bamboo and carve bamboo barrels.

She was an adult woman, but she had never done any rough work before and she couldn't stand it after just a few strokes.

The remaining three were all half-grown children. They did work, but such hard work was too tiring for them and was very strenuous.

Qin Huiyin wanted to give up. She saw large leaves in the mountains, which could be used if they were washed, but they would not be as beautiful.

So she decided to cut only fifty bamboo buckets, pick the leaves and wash them for later use. If she ran out of bamboo buckets, she could use the leaves as an emergency measure.

It was already late when they came back from the mountains.

Originally, the family had prepared an oil lamp, one for Li Taohua to use, and the other for Tang Yichen to use sometimes. However, they had been trying to save as much as possible during this period, and they would rest when it got dark, and they had not touched the oil lamp again. Today, Li Taohua took it out and used it, and when the last bit of lamp oil was used up, they finally prepared everything they needed for tomorrow.

On the first day of trial sales, Qin Huiyin only used one pound of pea flour to make the jelly, then put it in a water tank to freeze it, and would take it directly to the town to sell the next day.

One pound of pea flour can make six or seven pounds of jelly. She didn't weigh it, so she couldn't calculate the exact amount. However, if she put it in the bamboo bucket she prepared, she should be able to sell fifty bowls. As for the braised meat, it can be added to the jelly or sold separately. This amount is not large, but it can still make a small profit.

Qin Huiyin lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

In modern times, she only had to do live broadcasts on the Internet and had never tried to run a business. Now she is starting over again with another identity, and she is also nervous and excited.

Tang Luwu didn't fall asleep either.

Qin Huiyin just said that everyone would go to the town to sell jelly tomorrow and she would pay everyone. Although she had never thought about asking for wages, she was still a little uneasy about doing business for the first time.

"Sister Luwu, do you think we will succeed tomorrow?"

"The jelly made by Sister Yin is so delicious, it will definitely be popular."

The next day, Qin Huiyin was awakened by the noise outside and quickly got up.

I had insomnia last night, so I slept so deeply today that I didn’t notice that Tang Luwu had already woken up.

Li Taohua had already prepared breakfast. Seeing that she was awake, she said, "Are you still sleepy? You can sleep in the car later. Now wash your face and get ready to go."

Qin Huiyin took a look at the clothes on Tang Yixiao and secretly decided to buy him two new sets of clothes when she had money. Even if the material was poor, it was better than those covered with patches.

Now, Tang Yixiao is the only one in the family whose clothes are patched up. Tang Dafu used to work outside, so he was well dressed. Needless to say, Tang Yichen was the master's darling, and the master's wife had to make new clothes for him every season. Tang Luwu was now wearing clothes that Qin Huiyin had altered to be smaller, which was also quite elegant.

After spending these few days together, Qin Huiyin felt that Tang Yixiao had begun to change his opinion of her. He would do what she arranged and no longer say unpleasant words to make her angry. Since he was so obedient, she had to reward him so that he would continue to cooperate with her work in the future.