Chapter 149 You Can Also Burn Charcoal
Gu Xiaoxi and others came to the kitchen. Because there were so many people in the family, she designed the kitchen to be particularly large. Now it was spacious enough to accommodate three large tables.
Seeing Xiaoxi and the others come in, Chai poured them a cup of hot tea with brown sugar in it.
Gu Xiaoxi took two sips and felt much warmer.
"Have you eaten? If not, how about I make you some baked rice cakes?" Xue asked.
"Mrs. Gu, we've eaten, but I still want to try the glutinous rice cake, hehe..." Ma Weiwei said with a smile.
"It's easy to eat. Just put it on a grill and roast it." Xue said as she walked to the nearby vat, fished out a few glutinous rice cakes, and turned around to ask, "Who wants some? Sign up."
"I want one too." Gu Xiaoxi couldn't help wanting to eat it either.
As soon as Gu Xiaoxi opened her mouth, several more mouths opened.
Xue picked up the glutinous rice cakes, washed them with clean water, and then roasted them on the charcoal fire.
Gu Xiaoxi looked at the charcoal and asked curiously, "Where does this charcoal come from?"
"Your father bought it in town this afternoon after they came back. It's okay to use firewood for cooking, but if you sit in the house and burn firewood, you won't be able to open your eyes." Chai replied.
Gu Xiaoxi asked about the price and felt that it was not cheap.
This winter, the family is quite busy, and there are patients. I guess a lot of charcoal will be used. She thought for a while and said, "Uncle, how about we burn the charcoal ourselves?"
"You can also make charcoal?" Gu An was completely dumbfounded when he heard that.
What kind of lucky girl is this niece? She really knows everything.
Gu Xiaoxi found an excuse and said, "My master lives in the mountains all year round and can't survive without a fire in the winter."
"Your master is really amazing. He taught you everything." Xue couldn't help but envy her sister-in-law.
hehe……
Gu Xiaoxi smiled foolishly and turned the glutinous rice cake over.
"Be careful not to burn your hands when using chopsticks." Chai glared at her daughter.
"It's okay, Mom, I'm not afraid of the heat." Gu Xiaoxi retracted her hand and told everyone about the wheelchair.
Gu Dongming and his friends didn't expect that the wheelchair could be sold at such a price, and they all found it unbelievable.
"Why, such a good thing is not worth the money?" Gu Xiaoxi asked back.
"It's valuable, it's valuable. Everything my sister makes must be valuable." Gu Nanming echoed.
After hearing what her sister-in-law said, Xue felt a little disgusted with her tofu business.
"Xiaoxi, since making wheelchairs is so profitable, why don't we stop selling dried tofu and help our uncle make wheelchairs?" She expressed what the two brothers were thinking.
"How do I put this?" Gu Xiaoxi felt that what her sister-in-law said made sense.
but……
She thought about it and said, "Although this thing can be sold for a lot of silver, there is also a problem. Not many people in the city can afford it. I guess it will sell better if it is just put on the market.
By the time everyone I want is bought, I might not be able to sell a single one for several months.”
Gu He thought about it and nodded in agreement, "Xiaoxi is right. This price is not cheap after all. We have already paid Doctor Luo twenty-five taels. He must be making money."
"That's right, he offered at least a hundred taels." Gu Xiaoxi continued.
"Over a hundred taels!" Xue stood up excitedly upon hearing the price, and then said, "Since it can be sold for so much silver, why don't we sell it ourselves?"
Gu Dongming asked in return: "Did we sell it before when we put it in front of the academy?"
After hearing this, Xue sat down in frustration, feeling a tightness in her chest.
Gu Xiaoxi knew that everyone would be jealous of the seller after hearing this, but she didn't think much of it.
Wholesalers make money by volume, and sellers make money by the price difference. This is only natural.
"Actually, you don't need to be too envious. Doctor Luo wants to sell it for 100 taels because the product is really good and he has customers who need it.
Moreover, his network of contacts was not accumulated in a day or two. In addition, our wheelchair is not repairable, so he can only replace it for the customer himself.
He'll agree to allow the customer to change it once, so that's double the price, so it's normal for him to make double the profit." She analyzed the price carefully with everyone.
After hearing this analysis, Xue and the others felt a little more balanced.
Gu An waited for Xiaoxi to finish speaking before saying, "How about this? Come back early at noon and I'll teach you how to make it. If you make it, you three can split the money. What do you think?"
"How can this be possible? Xiaoxi said that this business is for you." Gu He was the first to disagree.
Seeing that Dad was so dissatisfied, Gu Dongming and the others understood that Dad was thinking about his past debt to his uncle. Gu Dongming quickly said, "Dad is right. It's not like we're not making money now."
Seeing that her brother and sister-in-law understood, Gu Xiaoxi said with a smile, "There's no need to argue about these things. Big brother, sister-in-law, and third brother, even though the tofu business doesn't make much money now, it's a long-term business.
As long as you keep doing it, your income will increase step by step.
Besides, dried tofu is heavy, unlike sugar-roasted chestnuts, which are worth very little if you carry a large basket of them to sell."
After hearing this, Xue calculated the income from selling dried tofu these days. For the same few baskets of goods, the money she earned was several times more than that from selling sugar-roasted chestnuts.
"Xiaoxi is right. This makes more money than sugar-roasted chestnuts," she agreed.
"Let's start the business first. If it's successful, we can discuss it with Mrs. Tan and the others and rent a shop next door so we can do business together.
In addition, you can also make it at home and sell it to Mrs. Tan so that everyone can get rich together.
Also, after renting a shop, you can hire two waiters to help in the store. You can take turns to go to the store every day, and the others can make tofu at home.
Anyway, there are many ways to make money, but we have to be down-to-earth.
Besides, you don't have to pay me for the dried tofu in the future. You three can divide it among yourself. Dad and Mom will help with the work, and you can just pay them their wages." Gu Xiaoxi simply threw herself out. She planned to go out to see patients, or go up the mountain to dig herbs. Anyway, she could make money.
"That won't do. You gave me the recipe, how can you not share the money?" Xue was the first to disagree.
She felt that her sister-in-law was finding ways for them to make money, and she couldn't let her sister-in-law down.
Moreover, we don’t know how long this tofu business can last. My sister-in-law has a lot of ideas and can give them some guidance in the future. We can’t just leave her out in the cold.
"Yes, we have to share the money." Gu Nanming also felt the same way.
Chai also disagreed with this distribution method: "If it wasn't the business you came up with, they wouldn't make any money. I don't agree with this method either."
Gu Xiaoxi looked at everyone with a bit of depression and said casually, "Then give me 10%."
"No, 10% is too little." Xue objected.
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