The porcelain looks good, but the weight is also "good-looking".
The celadon that Su Qingluan chose was quite cost-effective, but it was still far inferior to those high-quality porcelains with a light texture. Of course, the most important thing was that the budget was limited. If these porcelain jars were bought separately, they would cost a full one or two taels of silver each.
However, because Su Qingluan bought thirty at once, and six of them were given as gifts, although she still charged thirty taels of silver, it was actually a price reduction in disguise.
But seeing Su Qingluan readily take out the banknote to pay, the four people following behind her almost dropped their jaws: Thirty taels! A full thirty taels of silver!
This is more than an astronomical figure for the villagers of Huaxi Village.
Thirty taels, even if a family has enough food and drink, it only costs a few taels of silver. If these thirty taels are used sparingly, it is enough for many families of five to use for five or six years!
Su Qingluan just wanted to buy a few jars - although they also admitted that the jars looked beautiful.
In short, the moment Su Qingluan paid, the four people following behind her gasped and closed their eyes. In short, they all saw the three words "heartache for money" in each other's eyes.
Su Qingluan did not fail to notice the looks of the three people, but she did not need to explain. Sometimes, although the quality of the product itself is important, the outer packaging is equally important.
"Don't just stand there in a daze," Su Qingluan decided to ignore the looks from the four people and the team, "Time to get down to business! You better be careful, these things are not light."
There were thirty-six jars in total, and the porcelain shop had straw ropes to tie them together. Su Qingluan looked and saw that four people could each take nine, so she asked the shop assistant to help carefully weave the ropes into "cages" to put the porcelain inside.
The soft, dry hay has a strong cushioning effect when piled up, and it can also be used to string porcelain together, making it convenient to take out in large quantities.
"Madam Su, you asked the four of us to come with you just to get this little stuff?" One of them laughed. "It's just a small amount, only about 20 or 30 kilograms at most. It's enough for one person, right?"
Su Qingluan led them out of the porcelain shop: "We've only just started. There are still many things we haven't bought yet."
As expected, Su Qingluan turned around and went to another carpenter's shop: "Boss, I ordered thirty wooden boxes here before..."
The wooden box is made of common pine wood. Although the texture is not top-notch, Su Qingluan spent some time on the pattern on the box, making the box look like a kaleidoscope from different angles, producing different effects.
But of course she didn't say it explicitly - this feeling of hiding an "easter egg" without saying it explicitly will give buyers an unexpected surprise.
Su Qingluan believed that there must be someone in the entire capital who could see through these "easter eggs".
The person who made the wooden boxes also gave away three free replacements in case there were any quality defects. Although these wooden boxes are not as heavy as porcelain, there are more than 30 of them and they weigh about ten pounds.
"How is it? I should still be able to carry some things, right?" Su Qingluan looked behind her, "I need to buy some food later to feed those who are working overtime tonight."
"work overtime……?"
"What does Madam Su mean?"
The four people behind looked at each other, and a bad feeling emerged in their hearts.
Then Su Qingluan nodded mercilessly: "That's right, just like yesterday, today's overtime is indispensable. But if you work overtime today, you will also get double the salary, okay?"
The four followers, who already had dark circles under their eyes, suddenly felt that they would not be able to relax until all the work was completed.
Then Su Qingluan used practical actions to tell them: You are absolutely right!
Originally, Su Qingluan imagined that although she might need to be busy these few days, she might only need to work overtime occasionally.
As a result, when we actually organized a group of people to work, we found that there is indeed strength in numbers, but everyone is a flexible individual and there is no unified organization, so it is very difficult to concentrate this scattered strength together.
Moreover, there are many situations when there are so many people. Every day, there are incidents such as a fight between two groups on the first day. Not only are there frictions between different groups due to competition, but people with different personalities in the same group also quarrel.
Su Qingluan sometimes couldn't help but wonder whether she was hiring workers or opening a large kindergarten.
However, Su Qingluan felt that watching everyone finish a lot of work together was still a very fulfilling thing. Although another name for the sense of accomplishment is "very tired".
As expected, Su Qingluan stayed in the town to "work overtime" that night, and because everyone did receive double wages immediately yesterday, it was equivalent to working a day shift plus a double-paid night shift, which was equivalent to receiving three times the wages in one day!
This made quite a number of people who had originally gone home yesterday regret it so much - if they had known that they could get double pay for the night shift and didn't even have to work all night, only a fool would not stay to work!
After all, during the busy farming season, they do have to work day and night!
So the next day, except for a few people, most people chose to stay and work the night shift.
With more people working, the progress will naturally move forward.
That night, Su Qingluan asked half of the people to wash the freshly picked fruits and boil them for the first time; the rest of the people used a floor scale to weigh the total weight of the fruit jam that had been boiled yesterday. Su Qingluan added salt, sugar and a small amount of spices according to the proportion.
The salt and sugar added are in a certain ratio, but the total amount of these two things is determined based on the batch of jam.
However, only Su Qingluan herself knew the specific ratios of sugar, salt and other spices. When adding spices, sugar and salt, only Liu Yunniang was there to help, and the others only helped to stir later.
It wasn't that Su Qingluan was judging others by her own standards, but she truly needed to be on guard. After spending some time with Liu Yunniang, she could naturally trust her to a certain degree, but Su Qingluan hadn't yet reached the level of family trust.
What's more, there are dozens of people coming to help. Even if they may not have the subjective intention of harming herself or the Su family, Su Qingluan cannot be sure whether these people will reveal the formula unintentionally or under coercion or inducement if they know the formula.
Jam is, after all, a food. The ingredients used in this type of food are quite common, so the only way to achieve a surprising taste is to use novel seasoning combinations.
Su Qingluan didn't think her recipe's advantages could last forever, after all, there was no such thing as intellectual property these days. However, if she could prolong this "specialness," Su Ji's jam would become even more irreplaceable, and would have a better chance of becoming bigger and stronger.
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