Li Yan first affirmed the other party's point of view, and then suggested: "Uncle, this idea is indeed very good, but there is a prerequisite for selling it this way, that is, the other party does not need this bottle of soy sauce. What if the customer only wants this small bottle? Wouldn't that be a missed opportunity to make money!"

After hearing what Li Yan said, Li Awang suddenly came to his senses. How could he only consider his own convenience when selling goods while ignoring the needs of customers?

Seeing that he understood, Li Yan continued, "Uncle, this idea is indeed good. I'm just offering a suggestion. You can carry some small bottles on your way to sell soy sauce. If you meet a customer who needs bottles, you won't lose the sale!"

Li Awang nodded repeatedly after hearing this, "Yes, yes, uncle, your girl is indeed educated, she is even smarter than the rest of us!"

When Mr. Li heard people praising his granddaughter, he straightened his back proudly, looking like he was very proud!

Thinking that the remaining small bottles at home would not be used for a few days, Li Yan said, "Master, please help me go to Yaokou Village again tomorrow and order some more small bottles! I will give you the quantity later!"

Mr. Li nodded, this was not a big deal.

Seeing that Grandpa agreed, Li Yan immediately said to the three of them, "If Uncle Wang goes tomorrow, he can take Grandpa's mule cart!"

"That's great, thank you for your help, uncle!" Li Awang said to Grandpa Li in surprise. It takes nearly half a day to get to Yaokou Village from here. It would be great if they could take a mule cart!

Mr. Li waved his hand and said, "We are all from the same village, it's no big deal!" After that, he continued to work on his work.

The three of them were taken care of by the Li family and were not in a hurry to leave. To express their gratitude, they helped Mr. Li build a temporary stove. With three more people helping, the process went much faster.

After a pot of soy sauce is cooked, the two makeshift stoves are also ready.

After cleaning the new pot she had just bought, she placed it on the makeshift stove and nodded with satisfaction. Now she didn't have to toss the pot back and forth, and she could make nearly 50 kilograms of soy sauce at a time, saving a lot of time and firewood!

"Now that the weather is good, this open-air stove can still be used. If it rains, I'm afraid it won't work!" said Mr. Li as he looked at the built stove.

This is just a temporary measure now.

Li Yan returned to her room, took out five taels of silver, and gave it to Old Master Li. "Grandpa, please help me find some people to expand the tofu workshop into two more rooms and build four more stoves!"

The expansion was thus decided!

In the evening, the Zhao family father and son brought the slaughtered chicken to Li Yan: "Miss, I have processed it according to your instructions. Do you think this is okay?"

All forty chickens were decapitated and their internal organs cleaned. Li Yan smiled and said, "Thank you, Uncle Zhao. This will do!"

After seeing off the Zhao father and son, Li Yan first picked some onions and garlic, washed them, tied them into knots and threw them into a ceramic pot filled with water. She then added some ginger slices, star anise, bay leaves, cardamom and other spices, and then put chicken feet, chicken gizzards and chicken liver into the ceramic pot to boil.

While Li Yan was busy making the marinade, Li Xiaomei started to marinate the whole chicken according to the marinade prepared by her niece. She opened the back of the chicken and smeared the marinade all over the body. The key to whether the fried chicken is delicious lies in the marinating process. Every inch of the chicken must be soaked with flavor!

While the aunt and niece were busy, Lin cooked the meals. When Li Erlang brought Jianmin back, he saw the three of them busying around.

Li Yan saw her cousin and asked hurriedly, "Cousin, how's business been since we left? Did you sell out of the soy sauce?"

"They're all sold out! You don't know, not long after you left, someone came to buy all the soy sauce in the shop. Fortunately, you told me that it was sold in limited quantities, otherwise people who came later might not be able to buy it!" Li Erlang said excitedly.

"It's okay. I still have over 100 kilograms of soy sauce. We'll limit the sales tomorrow, but if it's not enough, we can still pre-sell it! We'll also have to wait a day or two, and the fermented black beans will be ready to use!"

Hearing his cousin say this, Li Jianmin felt relieved!

He handed the bag to his sister and said, "Here is a total of 1,968 wen, including 80 one-jin bottles of soy sauce, 44 half-jin bottles of soy sauce, and one small bottle for customers to sample!"

"Thank you, big brother. Tomorrow is market day, I'm afraid you'll have to work hard again!"

"We are all family, why be polite? Okay, I'll go back first. We'll set off early tomorrow!" After saying that, he hurried home.

After seeing her cousin off, Li Yan began to count the money she had earned from selling fried chickens her grandmother had given her in the morning. She had sold a total of 28 chickens and earned 840 coins. Adding the money from selling soy sauce, she earned a total of 2,808 coins, which was about 2.8 taels.

Lin looked at the pile of copper coins on the table and said with a smile, "This business is good!"

Li Yan shook her head: "The preparations were a bit hasty. After deducting the costs, we didn't make much money."

Li Yan then carefully deducted the cost item by item and calculated it for everyone: "Because the chickens were discounted, the purchase price of each chicken, breeding costs, seasoning, etc., only made about five cents. The net profit from twenty-eight chickens was one hundred and forty cents.

In addition, we sold 124 bottles of soy sauce. After deducting all costs, we made a net profit of four cents per bottle, which is 496 cents. The total profit is about 6 cents of silver."

Little Sister Li looked at her somewhat discouraged daughter and said with a smile, "This kid, earning six coins a day is not enough. From what I hear, your preparations were rushed. Just get on the right track and everything will be fine!"

Li Yan naturally knew about this, but she was not well prepared and felt it was a pity. She should have been able to earn more!