Chapter 059: Since ancient times, women are incompatible with each other
In the evening, Su Wan thought carefully about how to set the price of shaqi ma. Considering the money spent on buying raw materials, he calculated that the flour he bought was enough to make a lot of shaqi ma.
Is it more profitable to buy by the kilogram or to sell by the portion?
The final conclusion was to sell by portion. A portion of mung bean cake from Liufangzhai costs fifteen cents, a small piece with eight pieces inside. So her shaqi ma is also fifteen cents per portion, with eight pieces stacked inside.
It is bigger and more delicious than mung bean cake. Liufangzhai’s prices are high because they have to make back the money they made from the store. There are many differences between selling many things in the store and outside.
Su Wan sold it outside and only needed to make back the money he spent on the raw materials. The current market price of flour was five cents per catty, so fifty catties was two taels of silver and fifty cents. Sugar was a scarce commodity and sold at a high price, costing twenty cents per catty. Last time he bought ten catties at once, it cost another two taels of silver. Malt sugar was cheap, so he didn't spend much money.
Add the oil for frying noodles, and a pot of oil can be reused several times as long as it is not dirty.
Based on the price of eight yuan per pack of Shaqima, I estimate that fifty kilograms of flour can make at least three hundred packs, which is still a small number.
If all were sold, I would get 45 taels of silver, which means a net profit of more than 30 taels.
This is indeed a good deal, a sure win.
At least at the market, she had absolute confidence that she could sell well.
As for going to the villages, the sales volume may be smaller. For rural families, they still have to be careful and feel the pinch when buying a snack for fifteen cents.
But there are always a few wealthy families in every village, right?
After sorting out these things, Su Wan gradually fell asleep. The next morning, he got up and told Su Yun and the others the price.
They did the math themselves and found that the profits were simply too high.
Especially Su Yun, he thought that if this was the case, it would not take long before he could save enough money to open a restaurant.
Opening a restaurant in Qinghe County would cost about one hundred taels at most.
Su Wan had a new way to make money, so he couldn't give up the soap business. The brothers and sisters used the remaining soapberries to make fifty bars of hair soap.
These fifty bars of soap are worth fifteen taels of silver. Soap is the most profitable product, but the demand for daily necessities is not as great as that for food, so they cannot be compared.
Su Wan also agreed to make a new mask for Jiang Yu, but she was troubled by not being able to find good fabric.
I rummaged through the drawers at home and found a few pieces of unused black fabric. I thought of stuffing some cotton in it to shape it, and then sewing it up.
The shaqi ma will be made in the afternoon. Everyone will work together to make and pack the shaqi ma, and then it can be sold early tomorrow morning. Then, as originally agreed, we will split into three groups.
But at the same time, the Su family didn't know that guests were coming to their home.
At the entrance of the village, a carriage suddenly appeared. It was Gu Yue who had returned. This time, the scene was quite grand, with four servants and a personal maid accompanying him.
When passing by the well in the village, many women were gossiping there. The carriage stopped and the maid beside Gu Yue went over with a few packets of snacks.
Everyone was whispering to each other.
"My young lady is treating the villagers to some snacks. We have pea yellow from Liufangzhai, and sweet-scented osmanthus cake. My young lady said she grew up here and remembers everyone's friendship. I hope you will accept it!"
The maid who came to deliver the message held her head high and raised the corners of her eyes when she spoke. If you didn't know, you would think she was here to get rid of a beggar.
Everyone puts on a show in front of others, knowing that they are looked down upon.
"Who is your daughter?" Some people don't understand why she came without announcing her name.
"Which other family in our village has a daughter? The one from the old Su family, and now it's Miss Gu!"
"Oh, then we won't be polite. Miss Gu was raised by us. Now she is the daughter of the richest man. How can she still remember us?"
The lady who was speaking also had a sarcastic tone.
"Of course I remember. Our young lady is not someone who forgets her roots!" the maid replied, still looking arrogant.
Everyone opened the snacks, but didn't put any of them into their own mouths. Most of them wanted to take them home to feed their children.
After the carriage drove away, everyone couldn't help but complain.
"Bah, who are you looking down on? She's just a maid. A lowly woman. We are good people. You think you are a maid in the richest man's family and you are so arrogant. Then the maids in the palace will be arrogant too..."
"That's right. Gu Yue keeps saying that she remembers us country folks, but why doesn't she come out and say it herself? She's still sitting in the carriage putting on airs. She's doing a great job on the surface, but deep down she looks down on us country folk."
"Tsk tsk tsk, what a great show! He came back to show off his wealth.
If you ask me, her behavior is really not as good as that of someone else's own daughter!"
Everyone saw it with their own eyes. Although Su Wan used to be a rich lady, after she came back, she did everything from washing clothes to cooking, and she did it very efficiently.
She can make money on her own, and during the days she has been here, she has been very kind to the people in the village. There is no auntie washing clothes by the river who doesn't like to chat with her.
She can get in and talk to anyone.
Compared to Gu Yue, she was spoiled at home. All the housework was done by her brothers, and she slept until noon every day and couldn't even cook.
To be honest, a country girl needs to be more diligent so that it will be easier to find a husband.
No wonder, he was born to be rich and it doesn't matter where he grows up.
When Gu Yue arrived, Su Wan was in the yard with Su Yun, and the brother and sister were discussing whether to make soup with the uneaten rooster or stir-fry it with soy sauce.
When Jiang Yu saw someone coming with the same attitude, he went back to his room without saying a word.
Su Wan didn't say anything when he saw it, because he knew that he didn't want too many people to see him.
As soon as he knew that Gu Yue had returned, Su Wan could no longer maintain the smile on her face.
If you don’t like it, you don’t like it. There’s no need to pretend that you like it. Everyone knows it, and it saves trouble!
Since ancient times, the relationship between a single woman and a second woman has been incompatible.
The maid helped Gu Yue down, who was wearing a pink and purple chest-length skirt. The daffodils on the clothes were embroidered brightly, and the thread used was the best.
A crabapple hairpin on her head swayed gently with her movements. It had been a long time since I last saw her, and her skin had become better and whiter.
She is also a little fatter than before, with more flesh on her face. As the saying goes, clothes make the man, and if she dresses up carefully and applies the rules she has learned recently, her temperament will be revealed.
Plus, she herself is not a low-key person.
As expected of the heroine, she still has some attractive temperament, which Su Wan generously admitted.
In comparison, she looked so poor. She was wearing Gu Yue's old clothes, which were dusty and had no decoration on her head. She didn't know how to comb her hair into a bun, so she just wore a long braid.
The identity has been changed back, everything has been changed back, Su Wan did not feel any sense of gap, everyone returned to their respective positions, isn't it good.
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