Chapter 60 Determine the Order Price
"Little Second Brother, the jar of oyster sauce that my mother sold to the shopkeeper today was made yesterday. We only made a little bit today. It will take about two hours to finish making it all. Do you want to wait?"
"Two hours?! That's so long..."
Yu Ming was a little confused, because it would be dark in two hours. There would be almost no ships going out to sea at this time, and oxcarts would not take so long to go to the city.
If I can't go back to the city, my family will be worried to death.
I still have to go back first and come back to get it early tomorrow morning.
"Doctor Yin, could you please sell me the oyster sauce you made so I can take it home and report back? I'll come back tomorrow morning to get the rest."
"Of course, I'll borrow a scale first."
We can’t just sell them one by one in the future, we still have to set a specific unit price.
Yin Huaixi borrowed a scale from the village, and when he got home, he weighed the jar with oyster sauce, and it was two and a half kilograms. He also weighed an empty jar, and it was just over two kilograms. In other words, there was half a kilogram of oyster sauce in it.
"I sold you a little over a pound of Fengweilou this morning and charged you 350 coins. I guess the shopkeeper Yu told you about this?"
Yu Ming nodded and listened quietly to what was said next.
"The price of one jin is 200 wen. There is only half a jin here. You can take 100 wen. Remember to return the jar tomorrow morning."
This price sounds staggering.
Yu Ming was sure that no seasoning in the kitchen was so expensive. But since his uncle was so anxious to ask him to buy it, he must be able to make money from this oyster sauce.
One hundred wen is one hundred wen, since it was my cousin who negotiated the price himself.
He readily took out a string of copper coins, and Jiang Wan counted them in a few snaps.
"Little Brother, I'm short of a penny~"
"ah?"
"A penny short? No way?"
He received this directly from the cashier, and counted out a hundred coins when he received it.
"Count it, I haven't untied this rope yet."
Jiang Wan handed the copper money to Yu Ming, who counted it carefully twice and found that there was indeed a penny missing.
He couldn't remember where he had lost the coin for a while, so he had to pay the difference himself.
After receiving the money, Yin Huaixi directly gave him the jar and let him take it away.
Today, I sold 150 wen of spicy snails in sauce, and 450 wen of oyster sauce in total, making more than 500 wen in one day!
By now the house had been repaired and there were no outsiders in the yard. Jiang Wan quickly closed the door, and the whole family gathered together to count the densely packed copper plates.
"Four hundred and forty-one, four hundred and forty-two... There are four hundred and forty-two copper plates here!"
After hearing the numbers counted by the two little girls, Yin Huaixi calculated silently. Excluding the round-trip boat fare for himself and his daughter and the cost of entering the city, and the herbs and tools he bought, it was about this amount of money.
She gave her the share of the wages that belonged to the snail meat, and after thinking about the remaining money, she took out another thirty cents and gave it to her sister-in-law.
"Little sister, what are you doing?! The remaining money is from the oyster sauce that Wanwan made herself and sold. We can't share it."
"Wanwan made the oyster sauce, but didn't we all pry the oyster meat together? Look at your hands, they are all red and swollen. It will be worse tomorrow. You all have to use the ointment I prepared later."
Yin Huaixi divided the thirty cents into three parts and gave them to his elder brother, his wife and his niece.
"Take it. It's a good omen. My eldest brother is going to be a teacher soon. Aning's embroidery can also make money. Sister-in-law, you manage the house so well. Our life is getting better and better."
Song Wenhui certainly liked to hear nice words, she smiled and looked at her daughter. Yin Ning obediently gave all the copper plates to her mother for safekeeping.
"Mother, only take five cents. You can keep the rest for yourself. If you need money in the future, you can take it out."
Then she looked at her husband again.
Yin Huaishan gave the ten cents to his wife awkwardly, and was waiting for her to say something, but he saw his wife put the money into her purse and then put it in her arms.
???
Why not leave five cents for yourself?
His expression amused the whole family. Song Wenhui said unhappily, "You can't go out now. Why do you keep money with you at home every day? What if you lose it?"
Her reason was very reasonable. Yin Huaishan had no way to refute it. He could only sit back in disappointment and continue to pick the shells from the oyster meat.
Because oyster sauce can make money, the whole family focuses on it.
By the evening, all the oyster meat was finally cooked, making half a jar of oyster sauce and a pile of cooked oyster meat.
These were left over from yesterday, and Jiang Wan wanted to use her cooking skills to make something delicious. However, the oyster meat was not in its prime yet, so the texture wasn't right and the taste wasn't that good.
So in the end, Jiang Wan gave all the oyster meat to the neighbors to feed the ducks.
Now that the wall of my uncle's house has been repaired, I can go buy some ducks. They can not only provide me with oyster meat, but also lay some eggs to supplement the family.
As soon as Jiang Wan said this, everyone in the family nodded in agreement.
Song Wenhui remembered something.
"When I asked my neighbors about news in the village, they said that if you want to raise chickens and ducks, you can go to the village's Little Money Grandma to buy them. They said that the chickens and ducks raised by Little Money Grandma are healthier and easier to raise."
"Grandma Xiaoqian? Where does she live in the village?"
The two sisters have been walking around the village frequently recently but have never heard of this person.
"It's easy to find where she lives. It's Xiao Yuanzi's grandmother. You can find out by asking anyone."
Jiang Wan nodded and took note of it. After a while, she and her cousin went out carrying half a basket of oysters.
They first sent oyster meat to the neighbors who lived close to their home, and then went to Xiao Qian's grandmother's house.
When the two of them arrived outside the yard, they just happened to hear the voice of an old man scolding his grandson.
"Once, twice, three times, you hid every time, afraid that your cousin wouldn't see that you were boring, right? You're so old, you little brat, why don't you take it seriously?"
"Grandma, I'm afraid that if I marry someone with a bad temper, he will bully you and Xiao Yuanzi..."
"Stop it! Don't use me and Xiao Yuanzi as shields."
The voices of the grandfather and grandson became louder and louder, and suddenly there was a creak and the door opened.
For a moment, there was a hint of awkwardness in the air.
Lian Yue's grandmother reacted quickly and asked the two people's purpose with a smile. Jiang Wan answered while staring at the cage in Lian Yue's hand without blinking.
This cage doesn't look as sophisticated as the ones she has seen in modern times, but the principle is similar. This is a cage for catching fish and crabs...
Where did Lian Yue put the cage?