Chapter 38 Gift
About ten minutes later, Mu Chenze came back to Chu Xuan jogging, carrying a snakeskin bag.
"Chu Xuan, your grilled fish fillet workshop is finally open. As a good friend, I'll give you a gift to celebrate!"
He opened the snakeskin bag, took out a new scale and handed it to Chu Xuan.
Chu Xuan felt warm in his heart and took it. "Since it's a gift from a good friend, I won't be polite."
Take it and carefully observe the scale bar and the connection between the scale hook and the scale. The quality is good. It comes with two weights, one large and one small.
Just then, the bus back to town came.
Chu Xuan put the scale into the backpack and placed the dozen or so steamed buns in Mu Chenze's hands.
After more than twenty minutes, we got off the bus in town.
Mu Chenze scratched his head and said, "I have something else to do, so I won't go with you."
He turned to leave, but Chu Xuan stopped him.
"Wait a minute. Let's settle the bill and I'll give you the money."
Mu Chenze paid for hiring the truck, Chu Xuan paid for the return trip, and Mu Chenze paid for renting the stall in the city.
Mu Chenze looked nonchalant. "I just paid you for the stall. It's just a few cents. You have the nerve to give it to me, but I'm too embarrassed to ask for it! I don't even want a fraction of the usual dividends, let alone this! You should hurry up and take the carriage home to rest! You have dark circles under your eyes!"
Chu Xuan still refused to let him go. "Brothers should settle accounts clearly. I'll give you the remainder of the dividends from fishing. Otherwise, it will be hard to explain later."
Mu Chenze looked unhappy. "What's the point of being so unclear? I discovered this great place for sea fishing, so you have to listen to me! Otherwise, I'll change my partner! It's just a small amount of money, and you're still giving it to me. You're making me angry!"
Chu Xuan was helpless with him. He refused to accept the money. What a fool!
"Okay, okay! I'll listen to you! I'll treat you to more meals in the future."
A smile immediately appeared on Mu Chenze's face, "That's pretty good."
Watched Chu Xuan leave with the backpack on his back.
Mu Chenze took out a steamed bun from the paper bag, took a bite, and it tasted really good.
Chu Xuan did not help Feng Chunhua to harm the Mu family, so he didn't mind helping her a little more.
But these things cannot be known by my family.
At 8:30 in the morning, Chu Xuan arrived outside his home and put down his backpack.
The gate is locked.
Strange, why isn’t my younger brother at home?
Luckily she had the key with her.
Just opened the lock, pushed open the gate and put down the backpack.
I heard my younger brother's voice from behind me.
"Sister, you're back so soon! Did you sell everything..."
"That's right."
Chu Xuan turned around and saw Widow Niu pulling a cart, with Chu Feng and Liu Zhaodi supporting her on the side.
There were an estimated 1,000 kilograms of skinned fish on the cart.
Chu Xuan stepped forward to help, and soon, a thousand kilograms of fish were unloaded onto the cement floor of the yard.
Before she could ask, Chu Feng took the initiative to explain, "Sister, I thought you wouldn't be back until the afternoon and couldn't delay the killing of the fish, so I took Aunt Niu and Zhaodi to Li Tong to get the fish. I paid for it. The fish is cheaper today. It's one thousand kilograms, and Li Tong charged forty-two yuan."
Chu Xuan was very pleased. "Well done. Wash your hands, and I'll give you some steamed buns!"
After washing their hands, Widow Niu and Liu Zhaodi each received two, and the rest was given to the younger brother.
Before coming back, Chu Xuan wanted to give one to Widow Niu. After all, there were only two people in her family, and there were four people in Liu Zhaodi's family. But now he thought that he couldn't divide it like this.
They are all my employees, so it is okay to have different division of labor and different salaries, but the benefits must be the same.
After receiving the meat steamed buns, Widow Niu and Liu Zhaodi did not eat them. They wanted to send the buns home first, but they were too embarrassed to say it.
Chu Xuan saw through it and allowed them to go back. He also sent a cart to Li Tong and went to Wang's house to call someone to kill the fish.
The two of them left in response.
Chu Feng didn't rush to eat the steamed buns, but went into the kitchen to heat up the Chinese medicine.
It was cooked early in the morning, but the temperature is not high enough now. It needs to be heated up a little.
While Chu Xuan was washing her hands in the toilet, the Chinese medicine had already heated up.
Chu Feng handed over the bowl of Chinese medicine. Chu Xuan took it with a happy look on his face and drank it in one breath.
After taking a few more sips of warm water, he reminded her, "When Grandma Gao comes, remember to return the scale to her. We have a new scale at home."
Chu Feng was very excited, "Is there a new scale? Let me see it."
"It's in the backpack. Be careful with the weight, don't hit your feet."
As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Feng had already rushed to the backpack and reached out to take the new scale.
He touched it carefully and even took out a handkerchief from his pocket to wipe the scale bar...
Chu Xuan felt sleepy, said goodbye, and went back to the bedroom to catch up on some sleep.
Chu Xuan woke up around two o'clock in the afternoon.
A thousand pounds of skinned fish have been cleaned, marinated, and a quarter of it has been roasted.
The fish heads were drying in the yard, and the fish livers were salted and put into the tank.
The fish skin was not wasted and was placed separately.
Gao Meijuan mentioned this unintentionally. If someone buys fish heads, who knows, maybe someone will buy fish skins too.
They decided to keep the fish skin.
After seeing this, Chu Xuan did not object, because she suddenly thought that fish skin could be made into wallets after special processing, and maybe someone would really buy it.
Upon asking, I found out that they were so busy that they didn't even have lunch.
Chu Xuan was about to go cook, but was stopped by Gao Meijuan.
"Don't worry, there's food ready! Xiao Feng just steamed some mixed flour buns and made some mung bean soup. Let's have some spicy grilled fish with them. It's going to be delicious!"
That's a good suggestion.
That's it.
Soon, lunch was arranged.
Everyone enjoyed the meal.
Chu Xuan can't drink mung bean soup with Chinese medicine. Xiao Feng wanted to make her a cup of malted milk, but she declined on the grounds that she can't drink malted milk with this Chinese medicine.
Drinking water is also good. As for the spicy grilled fish fillet, she can't eat it for the time being because she is taking traditional Chinese medicine. The mixed flour buns with pickles are also delicious.
Widow Wang took a bite of her steamed bun and a bite of the spicy grilled fish fillet and couldn't help but exclaim, "I'm not exaggerating! Our grilled fish fillet is definitely the best in the country!"
Everyone agreed, "That's right! It's the best!"
This made Chu Xuan more confident that he would sell the grilled fish fillets outside the province and across the country in the future!
After lunch, Liu Zhaodi, Miao Dacui and Wang Shasha went home to rest and came back around five in the afternoon.
Gao Meijuan stayed behind to watch the oven while Widow Wang chopped firewood.
Chu Xuan talked to Gao Meijuan and Widow Wang separately.
From now on, Gao Meijuan will be given one dollar for every two batches of bread she bakes.
Gao Meijuan did a rough calculation and found that she had to bake at least 12 batches of bread every day, which was 6 yuan.
Adding the wages from her family slaughtering fish, she earns more than 10 yuan a day, which means at least 300 yuan a month.
"Xiao Xuan, the wages are too much! I feel embarrassed to come and help you..."
Chu Xuan explained with a smile, "Grandma Gao, I don't have the ability to clone myself. I have to go to the market to sell goods and grill fish to buy fish. I can't handle it all. Xiaofeng will start school in September, and I will be even more tired then. If you help me share some of the burden, I will earn less and my body will get some rest, so that I can have better development in the future. If you are tired, let Aunt Da Cui take your place and we can take turns. Anyway, the job of grilling fish is left to you two."
Having said that, Gao Meijuan no longer refused.
But she also didn't forget to joke, "You're such a big shot, you've never hidden anything from me. You even told me the marinating recipe and how to control the fire. Aren't you afraid that I'll open a separate grilled fish workshop?"
(End of this chapter)
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