Chapter 72 Moving into a New House: Bao Beiyuan and Jiang Liu Are Not Suitable...
Speaking of firewood, given the amount of firewood the Ye family uses these days, Ye Li would definitely not be at ease if he didn't pile up firewood all over the base of the courtyard wall.
Moreover, some firewood can be stored in the two workshop sheds to prevent it from getting damp and difficult to burn after snowfall.
We also need to buy some coal.
Compared to firewood, coal has its own advantages; with coal and a stove, hot water is always available.
That way, when guests come over, they can quickly have hot tea.
With Yeli's current financial resources, they can still afford to burn coal.
So he thought of building another shed along the two workshop sheds, specifically for storing coal.
He didn't buy much; he'd just buy two thousand catties first.
After listening to his plan, Jiang Ji supported it, but suggested that he first promote the tofu puffs.
This expense is outrageous!
They're going to empty their pockets.
Selling tofu puffs was simple; Ye Li's initial plan was for him to personally go into the city to sell them.
However, when Boss Yue came to buy preserved eggs last time, the villagers tasted the preserved egg and lean meat porridge. When they delivered preserved eggs to restaurants in the county town, they told these small business owners to come to Yezaopo to learn how to make porridge when they had time.
But at the time, cold preserved egg salad sold very well, so no one came to learn how to make porridge.
A few days ago, Ye Li and Jiang Fuzheng were talking about the workshop, and Jiang Fuzheng immediately thought of this.
Anyway, these small business owners have to come here to learn how to make porridge, so we can take advantage of their learning time to sell tofu puffs, which will save Ye Li from having to go to the county town again.
This method is excellent, and Ye Li no longer wants to go into the city to do sales.
Perfect timing! With the temperature dropping, these small business owners should learn how to make braised egg and lean pork congee.
Gong Lisheng was the first to arrive.
He arrived the afternoon after the rain stopped.
Since autumn began, the business of stir-fried mung bean jelly has gradually recovered, but the sales of cold preserved egg have not dropped much. Therefore, Gong Lisheng is quite busy. Even though he knew about the famous preserved egg and lean pork porridge, he had never learned how to make it.
I don't have time to do it!
Until it rained a couple of days ago, the sales of cold preserved egg salad plummeted, so he came as soon as the rain stopped.
Now, he has rented a detached house near the jelly shop and settled his parents, child, and two younger brothers there.
When he first started selling cold preserved eggs, he paid his two younger brothers wages.
Later, his two younger brothers started working independently.
But he's the eldest brother and he inherited the cold noodle shop. Besides, given the current momentum, he could buy a courtyard house in a few years, so he's the one paying the rent.
He was anxious because the business of buying a courtyard house was not doing well! That's why he was the fastest to run away.
He also bought a whole pig's hind leg, which weighed about 20 jin (10 catties).
Seeing that he had carried such a large hind leg into the yard, Ye Li hurriedly said, "Brother Sheng, you could have just bought a couple of pounds of meat. Why did you buy so much?"
Gong Lisheng chuckled and said, "It's not much, it'll be gone in a quick stew."
He had already amassed a fortune of several dozen taels of silver just by selling eggs, and now that he wanted to learn how to make porridge, he was too embarrassed to bring two pounds of meat with him.
"Alright then, you sit down first. I'll go call my older brother to fry some tofu puffs, and I'll make some porridge."
Knowing that Gong Lisheng was busy, Ye Li didn't stand on ceremony with him.
Gong Lisheng nodded and followed him to the west side of the courtyard.
Five new houses have been built.
The greenhouse construction is almost finished, and Jiang Jizheng and the Ye family father and sons are building the roof.
Jiang Dahe and Jiang Tong went into town to buy stone mills and iron pots.
Upon seeing him arrive, the group greeted him.
Afterwards, Ye Liang came down from the shed and prepared to fry tofu puffs.
Ye Li, on the other hand, rolled up her sleeves and brought out a small stove to make porridge.
He hurried back to the kitchen to lend a hand, as this was the important matter.
He also brought news of Bao Beiyuan.
Half a month has passed since Bao Beiyuan left last time. During this time, Ye Li and Jiang Ji were busy building houses and couldn't find him. They could only ask Gong Lisheng to keep an eye on him.
When Bao Beiyuan returned to the county town last time, he first went to the cold noodle shop to greet Gong Lisheng.
Gong Lisheng happened to have gone to see him the night before, but couldn't find him. He was getting anxious when he learned that Gong Lisheng had been sick, which made him both surprised and frightened.
From then on, Gong Lisheng instructed him that whenever he set up his stall, he had to come to the cold noodles shop every day to make sure he was safe and sound.
He responded readily, without any perfunctory attitude.
After that, he hired a quick-handed aunt to help him. As the weather turned cooler, his beverage business remained booming. He delivered drinks to his regular customers every day, which allowed him to sell more than half of his beverages.
The rest can be sold out quickly by wandering around the jelly shop.
Upon learning that Bao Beiyuan's life was back on track, Ye Li and Ye Liang, who was standing nearby, were relieved.
As they were talking, the rice porridge in the small iron pot began to boil.
Ye Li stood by the stove, stirring the pot back and forth with a spoon. He added too little water, afraid of burning it.
Remembering Bao Beiyuan's plan to get married, he asked Gong Lisheng, "Brother Sheng, has Xiaoyuan told you that he wants to get married?"
"He's getting married?"
Gong Lisheng, who was sitting in front of the stove and in charge of tending the fire, was taken aback.
Ye Li then explained with a smile, "He was quite ill that day... so he asked me to keep an eye out for him. I don't know many people, Brother Sheng, could you also keep an eye out for him?"
"Great!" Gong Lisheng slapped his thigh with delight.
That's good once the kid figures it out!
"He's educated and has a good temperament. Although he doesn't own a house or land, he has savings and can earn several taels a month selling drinks!"
"I will definitely find him a suitable match!"
“Jiang Ji and I think so too. Actually, his conditions are not bad.”
Ye Li nodded.
In fact, after Bao Beiyuan asked him to keep an eye out for suitable candidates, he had considered bringing Bao Beiyuan and Jiang Liu together.
Although Jiang Liu was illiterate, she perfectly met Bao Beiyuan's requirements: diligent, capable, and virtuous.
However, the reason why Bao Beiyuan had the idea of getting married was to let his father rest in peace in the afterlife. He wanted to observe mourning for his father for three years, and only half a year had passed.
It's really hard to say what will happen two years from now.
So he didn't mention it to Jiang Ji.
Now that they've learned Jiang Liu is looking for a son-in-law, if Bao Beiyuan becomes a live-in son-in-law, wouldn't that make Bao's father furious?
Therefore, let's leave it at that and let Bao Beiyuan search slowly.
After discussing Bao Beiyuan's matter, Ye Li brought up tofu puffs again.
Since Gong Lisheng had come to his door, he was bound to try to sell him something.
Although Gong Lisheng doesn't cook stir-fries or stews, he could learn from Ye Liang and sell pancakes with fillings.
The griddle used for stir-frying mung bean jelly is perfect for making pancakes.
Of course, if you're really too busy, you can make spicy tofu puff skewers so that customers can eat them with stir-fried mung bean jelly or porridge.
After listening to Ye Li's words, Gong Lisheng hesitated for a moment before nodding: "Okay, I'll buy a few pounds to try it out."
He also knew that Ye Liang's business was doing well.
"Alright, once the workshop is up and running, I'll deliver the goods over."
Ye Li was very happy.
With the current manpower in the workshop, making two to three hundred catties of tofu puffs a day is the limit.
In such a large market as Beiyang County, each of the small restaurants selling preserved eggs could easily sell three to five kilograms a day, enough to fill their daily production quota.
Just as Ye Li had predicted, the sales of cold preserved egg salad plummeted, and these small business owners panicked. They quickly came to Yezaopo to learn how to make porridge.
Ye Li took the opportunity to promote tofu puffs to them.
These small restaurants offer a wide variety of food, and Ye Li recommends a recipe for tofu puffs based on what they sell.
If you're selling stir-fries, then sell stir-fried tofu puffs; everything can be stir-fried with tofu puffs.
The vendor selling noodles or steamed buns always recommends stuffed pancakes with vegetables.
These small business owners are willing to buy three to five pounds to test the waters, because of the preserved eggs. Even if they can't sell them all, they can consume them themselves.
So, by the time Ye Li had set up the stone mill and stove, he had already promised a share of over a hundred catties.
This relieved everyone in the Jiang family.
We found a buyer before we even started construction, which immediately relieved most of the pressure.
Before the workshop started, Ye Lijiangji moved into the new house with Jiang Mai and Jiang Ya.
After the kang (heated brick bed) was built, because the house was newly built and the humidity was high, the kang was heated for a few days first.
Now that Father Ye is coming, we moved to make room for him.
The new house is several square meters larger than the room that Jiang's father built back then.
The ground was paved with two layers of bricks, the base of the walls showed no signs of erosion from wind and rain, the corners were clean and free of spiders or other small insects, and there was no shade from the east room once inside.
The house was spacious, bright, warm, and clean, which Jiang Mai and Jiang Ya loved. Even though the desk and wardrobe that Ye Li had promised them were not yet in place, the two of them stayed in the new house and did not want to go out.
Jiang Mai even neglected the slingshot.
He insisted on sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed) and reciting the Three Character Classic that Jiang Ji had taught him.
However, Jiang Ya is young and currently does not want to sleep separately from Jiang Mai, so Ye Li let them stay in Jiang Mai's room for the time being.
As for Ye Li and Jiang Ji's new house, the two of them also liked it quite a bit.
Upon entering, there was a small living room with a high table and stools under the window. The two moved the table and stools from the west room over.
A five-drawer chest from the west room was placed to the side, containing daily necessities and money.
The wardrobe was left in the west room.
Go further in, and through another door, you'll find their bedroom.
The bedroom is small, and the kang (a heated brick bed) takes up most of the space.
There were no windows on the back wall, so Ye Li only carved out a window between the living room and the bedroom. As a result, the bedroom was rather dark, only suitable for sleeping, not for doing anything that strained the eyes.
Due to time constraints, Ye Li had not yet had time to purchase furniture such as a kang table, kang cabinet, and bedside table.
But this is his and Jiang Ji's new house.
A truly new house.
Therefore, on his first night there, he brought out rice wine and wanted to drink a toast with Jiang Ji.
His reasoning was quite valid: the wedding night was too rushed, so he was making up for it now.
Jiang Ji felt incredibly happy upon hearing this reason. Of course!
His first night with Ye Li, though wonderful, was not perfect.
It absolutely needs to be added!
So, even after brushing their teeth, the two still drank the nuptial wine.
After finishing their drink, the two went to bed on the kang (a heated brick bed).
Given the current weather, it wasn't the right time to heat the kang (a traditional heated brick bed), but the new house was damp, so they still heated the kang for dinner.
As soon as they got on the kang (a heated brick bed), they stripped each other of their clothes and then got into bed.
The temperature in the blankets was just right, and they both sighed comfortably. Looking at each other's faces so close, they laughed and then their lips met in a kiss.
Ye Li was incredibly excited. Taking advantage of the fact that it wasn't too cold indoors, he tried several positions, such as navel orange and alcohol-infused positions, which provoked Jiang Ji to also become fierce, holding him in his arms and making love to him vigorously.
The immense pleasure made him even more excited, and this positive cycle led him to stay in bed late the next day.
Fortunately, the workshop will only start work tomorrow, and Father Ye only came over this afternoon.
When Father Ye arrived in the afternoon, he carried the package directly into the east room, and from now on, Father Ye would live in the east room.
In the evening, before making dinner, Ye Li soaked the beans.
After the weather gets cold, the beans need to be soaked for a longer time.
On the first day of work, we must not be rash.
Based on the order quantities from each customer, he planned to produce 160 jin (approximately 80 kg) of goods.
That night, knowing the workshop would be starting work the next day, the two didn't fool around anymore and went straight to bed after washing up.
Early the next morning, Jiang Dahe arrived and knocked on the door right on time.
The tofu puff workshop has officially opened for business.
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