She sold fresh chicken wing worms yesterday because she wanted to attract customers to her shop by tearing up the worms.
But there's no need for that today, so I'll just make the semi-finished product at home in advance, which is more convenient.
Pei Yao and Pei Yichen were in charge of a small area of the barbecue stall. Once Pei Yao finished grilling, she would have Pei Yichen deliver it to her for packaging.
The whole family was busy as bees.
Pei Yao was grilling sea urchins on the stove. After delivering the barbecue, Pei Yichen took scissors and cleaned the sea urchins, then handed them to Pei Yao.
Sea urchins can be eaten raw, so they cook very quickly and release their aroma in no time.
Immediately, those with keen noses could smell the aroma of horse dung and sea urchin.
But they had never eaten this dark, prickly thing before, and didn't know what it was called, yet it smelled so sweet.
It makes you want to try it.
Lin Shaoqing: "Miss Pei, what is that dark thing?"
Pei Yao glanced at the horse manure sea urchin and blurted out, "Horse manure..."
Then she immediately shut up and changed her tune: "This is grilled sea urchin." She couldn't say it was some kind of horse dung sea urchin.
I'm afraid that mentioning horse manure might kill the guests' appetite and scare them away.
"This thing is quite novel. How much does it cost?" Lin Shaoqing had never eaten this before, but he had seen it when he went to the beach.
He loves to travel, so he has seen many strange and unusual things.
He had seen this thing called a sea urchin before, but he had been stung and his hand hurt for a while back then.
I never expected that this spiky thing could be eaten.
"Ten coins per serving, five per serving." The sea urchins are large and have a lot of roe. Five is quite a lot, so ten coins per serving isn't expensive.
Lin Shaoqing didn't hesitate: "Then I'll take five portions, plus five bowls of spicy snails and ten skewers of grilled chicken wings and insects."
We brought chicken wing worms home yesterday. His mother doesn't like eating worms, but his father does. However, they ate too many yesterday, so we bought fewer chicken wing worms today.
However, this dark sea urchin is worth taking home and trying; the bright yellow flesh inside looks quite appealing.
"Young Master Lin, that's seventy coins in total."
Pei Yao sweetly quoted a price, and Da Shao counted out seventy copper coins for Pei Yao. His young master had specially asked him to exchange these copper coins early in the morning, so that it would be convenient to buy this food.
Pei Yao quickly put away the money and packed it up for him. This young master Lin is really a VIP; he always buys so many things, big and small.
Not only that, he's also a living advertisement for their store; whenever he buys something, others will follow suit.
Just like how internet celebrities and stars promote products in modern society, the effect is very good.
After Young Master Lin made the first move by buying sea urchins, everyone else started buying them too.
The three buckets of spicy snails were quickly emptied, and the sea urchins and chicken wing worms were also sold out.
Only a small portion of the crowd remained without being able to buy anything.
Pei Yao and Chen Fang had no choice but to apologize to those people and promise to prepare more tomorrow.
Those people were actually quite understanding and didn't make a fuss or insist on her selling it, as Pei Yao had imagined.
Seeing the two men's sincere apology, and knowing that none of them were savages, they told them to come back tomorrow and then went home.
After everyone had left, Pei Yao and Chen Fang found a corner to hide in and started counting their money.
After counting, I found that I would earn 200 more coins today than yesterday because I added more horse manure and sea urchins today.
Sea urchins have a high unit price, so the profit is also high.
The total came to 668 coins, which is a really good profit to be honest.
In this dynasty, an ordinary farmer might only earn a few hundred coins a month, and some might not even earn that much. Pei Yao and her group earned in a single day what would normally be a farmer's monthly income.
After all, it's not easy for poor people to make money.
Pei Yao pulled Chen Fang aside to secretly discuss something, and after they reached an agreement, Pei Yao came over.
Because he was too busy today, Niu Qingshan was helping him the whole time. Pei Yao gave him thirty coins as payment for his work and another ten coins as his travel expenses back home.
This is the result of their discussion just now.
Upon hearing this, Niu Qingshan immediately refused, only accepting ten coins for the carriage fare, and absolutely refusing to accept the thirty coins for the helper's fee.
"Sister Yao, I wasn't of much help, so there's no need to be so polite."
In his spare time, he would go to town to help out, working as a helper in those restaurants. After a day of helping out, standing for more than ten hours until his legs were numb, he would only earn fifteen coins.
Moreover, the long-term laborers and shop assistants in the town, even if they worked a full month without rest, only earned a little over four hundred coins, which averaged out to about fourteen coins per day.
He said that he only brings the sea fish he catches to sell when he goes to the market on weekdays. When business is good, he can sell a few dozen coins, but sometimes he can't sell them at all.
Now, he had only helped Pei Yao with such a simple packing and collected the money, but they wanted to give him thirty coins. How could Niu Qingshan dare to accept so much?
Moreover, she now earns twenty coins a day pulling Pei Yao's cart, which he is quite satisfied with.
But Pei Yao had her own plans. She thought Niu Qingshan was a strong farmer with great strength, and he seemed very honest after getting to know him.
He's not the kind of person who tries to cheat or be cunning.
She also plans to expand and strengthen her spicy snail business, and she will definitely need Niu Qingshan's help in this endeavor.
Also, Pei Yao's family now consists of several women who are in charge.
At this time, if they go out to do business in the public eye, they are likely to attract attention and cause trouble. However, if they have Niu Qingshan's help, things will be much better for them.
Pei Yao placed the thirty coins in Niu Qingshan's hand: "Brother Qingshan, we'll need your help to make this business bigger and stronger in the future. We haven't made much money yet, so we can only give you thirty coins a day. We'll give you more when we've made more money."
Pei Yao never expected that she would one day have to use the capitalists' empty promises.
However, one difference is that Pei Yao meant what she said.
Chen Fang also persuaded him to accept it, saying that they could help each other and make money together in the future.
When Yao Yatou discussed the idea of giving Niu Qingshan the money, she immediately agreed.
In any case, in this day and age, having a tall and strong man by your side when doing business will save you a lot of trouble.
This doesn't mean anything else, it just means that this is how the times are; everyone looks down on women and likes to bully them.
But they dared not bully a tall, strong man.
Hearing this, Niu Qingshan didn't refuse anymore, but sincerely thanked Pei Yao.
However, when he looked at Pei Yao again, in addition to the initial sense of difference, there was now more admiration. He wasn't stupid; he could see that this young girl was very capable.
She's better than all of them. Just the fact that she can make such delicious spicy snails and knows that sea urchins are edible is already quite impressive for someone from out of town.
Their local fishermen don't dare to try many strange and unusual seafood.
Firstly, people generally value their lives and will not easily try seafood they have never eaten before unless they are starving.
After all, there are people who die every year from food poisoning after trying unfamiliar seafood.
Pei Yao was well aware of this, and it was precisely because of this that she wanted to make good use of this information gap to earn money.
After all, this era lacks high-tech devices like mobile phones and computers that can rapidly disseminate information, resulting in a significant information gap.
It's like someone accidentally discovering that sea urchins are edible, but that news might not spread. Even if it does, it will only spread within their own village or nearby town, and it's unlikely to reach any further.
This situation is very advantageous for Pei Yao, as she can use this method to research and create many delicacies that they have never tasted before.
Because of their lack of access to information, they didn't know, but Pei Yao, who had lived in the 21st century for over twenty years, did.
Perhaps this is God's way of compensating her for being transported to this unfamiliar place.
After all, which transmigrated woman could be as miserable as her? Not only was she penniless, but she was also a real exile. She didn't have the lucky charm or cheat codes that transmigrated women of all generations had, and she didn't even have the space that a female protagonist in a farming novel would have.
It was a truly disastrous start, but fortunately, she had a good amount of knowledge and was also a food vlogger, which meant that she not only didn't go hungry when she arrived at this place, but also ate a lot of large, plump seafood.
Life was actually pretty good, and she now felt that it might even get better.
Achieving financial freedom was not achieved in the 21st century, but it seems that it may be possible in this era.
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