Sure enough, Chen Fang came out with an empty bowl after a short while. She asked Chunlin to take another bowl to put the empty bowl in, and then took her own bowl back with her.
After all, there weren't many bowls at home, and they were all chipped, so we had to be careful when eating, afraid of cutting our mouths.
Liu Yu delivered the buckets directly back to the Pei family, because both buckets were still full of snails and sea urchins.
Their family saw that Yunniang had been picking these things every day for the past two days, so they helped her pick a lot, and they just happened to bring them over along with the buckets.
When they arrived at the Pei family's house, Chen Fang wanted Liu Yu to stay for dinner, but since they had already prepared their own meal, she declined.
After all, these days, no one's food comes easily; if they eat an extra bowl at someone else's house, the other person will have one less.
Chen Fang did not insist.
The family then began to eat. The stir-fried pork intestines were a big hit with everyone, especially Pei Yichen, who ate until he was completely full before stopping.
After finishing her meal, Pei Yao continued to squat in the yard, studying her barbecue grill.
I plan to make the remaining barbecue grill racks as well.
The method was simple, and Pei Yao quickly made two mesh trays that fit the two newly made barbecue grills.
Because it was made to size, it fits perfectly.
The wire mesh frame can be removed to easily add charcoal, which couldn't be more convenient.
Pei Yao also made an extra barbecue grill, which she placed on the barbecue grill in front of the kitchen stove, making it convenient to grill seafood at home next time.
Chen Fang came over and talked to him about the bucket.
Although it was just a matter of a bucket, Chen Fang didn't know why she always felt like she wanted to report everything to this little girl.
Even though she was the elder in name, Pei Yao gave her a sense of being the pillar of support.
"I offered them the money for those two buckets from last time, but they refused to accept it. Chunlin said that they were made by Liu Yu of their family as practice, and they didn't look very nice, so they weren't worth the money and should be given to us as a gift."
They only charged me for these two buckets this time, but I figured our business would definitely grow bigger and bigger in the future, so I ordered a few more from them..."
Chen Fang told Pei Yao everything that happened at the Liu family's house today, including how many copper coins she spent.
After listening, Pei Yao wiped the sweat from her forehead, smiled at her, revealing two sharp little tiger teeth: "Auntie, you can make these decisions."
Chen Fang responded and went to help Yunniang tidy up, preparing things for their stall the next day.
Pei Xuan and Pei Yichen carried baskets up the mountain to look for kudzu root worms, hoping to pick as many as possible before dark.
When Pei Yichen and Pei Xuan left, Chen Fang repeatedly told him to take good care of Pei Xuan, to be home before dark, and not to go into the mountains. She told him to just look for her among the kudzu vines on the slope.
Kudzu worms are at their peak growing season, so they're easy to find; they can be found in almost every pile of kudzu vines.
With the snails and sea urchins donated by the other two families, the whole yard was piled high with them.
There are probably several barrels of it.
There's enough for tomorrow, but that's all we'll have for tomorrow.
There are also wooden buckets. Originally there were three buckets, plus the two buckets Liu Yu made today, so now there are five buckets in total. They can make five more tomorrow, but it probably still won't be enough to sell, because she has new ideas for tomorrow, but there really aren't any more buckets at home.
She ran to the kitchen and found every usable container in the house.
Just then, Niu Qingshan arrived, carrying two wooden buckets filled with snails and some sea urchins.
"Brother Qingshan, what's wrong with you...?" Pei Yao looked at the wooden bucket and its contents with some surprise.
Niu Qingshan put down the bucket and scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly: "I've been following you guys around town every day these past two days, selling snails and sea urchins. I know you must be really short of these snails and sea urchins right now."
"This bucket was also made by Grandpa himself, but he never had a chance to use it. I thought you would definitely need it, so I brought it along to save you the trouble of going to town to buy one."
Pei Yao was grateful and took the two buckets handed to her by Niu Qingshan: "Brother Qingshan, these are exactly what we need. I didn't expect Uncle Niu to have such amazing skills."
The wooden buckets that Niu Qingshan brought were clearly made much more exquisitely than those made by Liu Yu; they were obviously made by a master craftsman.
Niu Qingshan smiled and said, "Yaomei, don't be so polite. Just let me know if you need anything in the future. I'm going home now. My mother needs me to talk to her."
Pei Yao nodded, accepting his kindness. She quite liked this kind of reciprocal gesture, which made her feel warm.
Yunniang had just finished cleaning up in the kitchen when she saw the extra bucket in the yard and was puzzled.
"Yao'er, where did this come from?"
Pei Yao briefly explained that Niu Qingshan had delivered it. Seeing that everyone had finished tidying up, Pei Yao called a few people together to hold a small meeting while it was still light.
The group of people were in the courtyard, preparing some materials and discussing tomorrow's plans.
Pei Yao thought for a moment and stopped cutting the chili rings: "Auntie, I asked Brother Qingshan about the restaurants in town today. Brother Qingshan has an acquaintance at Deyun Restaurant. I plan to visit Manager Qian before lunchtime when I go to town tomorrow."
Pei Yao thought she could continue running the stall, but she didn't want to lose other sales channels.
If we could sell the spicy snails to the restaurants in town, that would be a huge order.
"So tomorrow, only my aunt and cousin will be in the bunk, which means we won't have enough people."
Pei Yao voiced her concerns.
Yunniang thought for a moment and said, "I can go with you tomorrow too."
Chen Fang disagreed with this idea: "But if you go too, no one will be collecting snails tomorrow, and I'm afraid there won't be any snails to sell the day after tomorrow."
Everyone fell into a brief silence after Chen Fang said this.
Indeed, the current division of labor in the family is that Pei Yao, Chen Fang, and Pei Yichen are all responsible for external affairs; the three of them go to town to sell snails.
Yunniang was a stay-at-home mom, cooking, collecting snails, and doing housework.
Moreover, collecting snails is quite tiring because the snails are heavy and they use a lot of them every day.
Yunniang, a woman, had to carry so many snails back from the seaside every day; it must have been very tiring.
Fortunately, the Liu family and Aunt Qiaohui helped carry the items back every day; otherwise, Yunniang would have been even more exhausted.
This was clearly not going to work, she thought quickly.
After all, you can't just rely on brute force to do business well. If you ruin your family's health in the end, then it will be a loss.
This is definitely not what Pei Yao wanted to see.
So she quickly came up with an idea, but she didn't know if Yunniang and Chen Fang would agree: "Mother, Aunt, I have an idea. We can collect fresh snails from the villagers in the village. If the villagers collect snails, they can bring them to our house, and we will buy them at the market price. This way, we can save the manpower to go to the beach to collect snails."
Pei Yao paused for a moment after speaking and then continued, "But we can't all devote ourselves to setting up stalls in town, because I feel that if everyone goes to set up stalls, there will be no one left in the family."
After Pei Yao finished explaining her thoughts, the entire courtyard fell silent once again.
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