When I got up the next day, it didn't rain, but it was snowing lightly.
Chunxiao looked outside and worried, "It's snowing again at the beginning of the new year. I wonder if I'll get wet when I get back."
"The snow isn't heavy, and it won't turn white for half a day, so there's no need to worry. But I don't know how long it will snow. What should I do with the remaining meat? Should I braise it or not?"
"Of course we have to braise it." Chunxiao looked at Zhou, "Braise it and put it there. We can eat it ourselves."
In the morning, Chunxiao only burned 5 stoves of charcoal, and Yan Bingfa helped Zhou watch the fire in the kitchen.
The snow kept falling lightly and didn't get heavier. At noon, Zhou looked towards the entrance of the yard and saw no one, so she asked Yan Bingfa to go back and call the children to come for dinner.
In the afternoon, around 5 p.m., a few people returned. Judging from their gait, they must have sold out.
"Come into the house quickly and check if your clothes are wet." Zhou looked at the people. They all brought straw raincoats today, but Shuwen didn't wear one. His clothes were a little wet, so Zhou quickly pulled him to the stove to warm himself by the fire.
Everyone sat together by the stove, and several children lay at their parents' feet.
"Isn't today going well?" Yan Bing asked
"It went smoothly. Dashan and his charcoal sold out first, and we bought the meat at noon. But something delayed us for a while today." Seeing that everyone in the family was looking at her, Tian didn't keep them in suspense. "The guy from the restaurant yesterday came again today. He said he wanted to buy our recipe and kept us there for a long time. I thought my little sister would be the one to make the decision on this matter, so I had to get to know the other party clearly no matter what, so I followed him to the restaurant to take a look."
"She is a cautious person and is always afraid that others will cheat her." Yan Dashan smiled while warming himself by the fire.
"I have to know if he's deliberately deceiving me." Tian was a little embarrassed. "I went to check, and the man was indeed the manager of the restaurant in town. He said their restaurant was the largest in town, called Juxian Restaurant. Later, I told him that I was doing business for someone else, and he asked me to tell the owner of this recipe to come to the restaurant when he has time."
"What's so good about sitting here? Are you planning to treat me to a meal?"
"What they want is to meet and discuss the recipe. If we have a pleasant conversation, it's not impossible."
Everyone in the family looked at Chunxiao.
Chunxiao understood what they meant. "I won't sell this recipe." This one-of-a-kind business isn't easy to find. If it works well, it could be very profitable in the future. Selling it would be a shame. "But it's not off-limits," Chunxiao smiled. "When the weather's good, I'll go with my sister-in-law and the others to see how this can be handled."
At first, the Tian family was a little worried about her selling the house. After all, if the recipe was sold, they would have nothing to do. Now that they knew Chunxiao wouldn't sell the house, they felt much more at ease. Then, when they heard her say she wanted to discuss business, they wondered how they could negotiate if she didn't sell the recipe. Although curious, they knew they couldn't get any answers. "It's snowing lightly today, I wonder what the weather will be like tomorrow. If it snows heavily, I'm afraid we won't be able to open the stall."
Zhang also frowned and looked outside.
"If we can't go out, then we can't go out. It's better to take a rest when it rains heavily. We are human beings, not mules. How can we keep wasting our time without resting our spirits? We should take the opportunity to rest more at home. Brothers and sisters-in-law, wait for me. I will go into the house to count the money for the past few days. It will take some time to calculate the money with so many miscellaneous items. It will be better for me to make an account book in the future. Let's do whatever is convenient for now." Chunxiao went into the house and counted with a piece of paper for more than ten minutes before coming out with the money.
"Aunt is dividing the money again."
"Mom, let me help you count the copper coins."
"Dad, I'll help you count the coppers too."
The adults didn't react enthusiastically yet, but the children were already happy.
"After aunt divides the money, you all come and count the copper coins." Chunxiao spread out the paper with a smile, "Three days' charcoal money will be 1,280 coins each for the eldest and second brothers. Three days' meat money will be 2,587 coins each for the eldest and second sisters-in-law." Chunxiao poured out the money in the jar and asked the four people to count the money.
Tian and Zhang were both smiling happily.
Chunxiao had just calculated in the room not only the silver and money they would share in the next few days, but also the average daily income based on the earnings of the previous two times minus the costs. If it was about 100 jin a day, the sisters-in-law would earn about 900 wen a day, and hers would be around one liang and one wen. If they continued to earn money in this way every day, they would have more money in the future. She had never expected that Tanzu could earn so much money from the food he made.
Chunxiao counted the money and pushed it in front of the four people. The children immediately started counting the coins.
"It feels so good to get money every day." Tian felt very relieved when she saw Shufeng and Yanqi counting their money.
"It's not comfortable to carry such heavy things and walk such long distances every day. I'm so tired." Fortunately, she was not allowed to go.
"It's tiring, sure. My sister-in-law and I sometimes complain about how heavy our things are when we're walking down the street. But when we get paid, it's all worth it. Think about it, other men working all day in town only get 25 coins, but we can earn hundreds of coins a day! What can we exchange for that?"
"What my sister-in-law said is true. It's worth it no matter how tired I am."
"You guys are all hardworking. You are not afraid of any hard work as long as you can get paid." Zhou showed some heartache.
Chunxiao gave Zhou Shi another 600 coins. "This is the cost of the eggs and the profit. Keep it safe, mother."
"They gave me a separate portion of the eggs. That's good. I'll have to collect more in the future."
Chunxiao deposited another two taels of silver with Yan Bingfa, asking him to keep it for future meat purchases so that he wouldn't have to pay in advance.
The snow continued even after they left. In the afternoon, Zhou and her family finished braising the remaining meat, leaving them with about 130 kilograms of meat and over 100 eggs. That night, Zhou sat on her bed, sewing shoe soles.
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