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Zhou Erlang also left two dishes and soup for the two officials and asked Zhou Wulang to take them to them, whispering, "Say something nice."
Friday Lang responded.
As soon as Zhou Wulang left, Zhou Erlang poured the remaining food into Manbao's bowl, carried her to Lao San and let her eat.
Manbao invited Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang to join him.
Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang had been playing for a while and were feeling hungry. They ran over to take a look and said, "There's meat in our lunch boxes too!"
Zhou Erlang smiled and heated up the food for them, and then the three children gathered together to eat.
Zhou Erlang fished out four large bones from the cauldron, the kind with a lot of meat on them, and gave one to each of the three children, and then gave one to the third child.
Zhou Erlang carefully avoided the crowd and said to the third brother, "There are still a few pieces of meat in there. We won't cook for dinner. You can eat the meat and bones with water as dry food."
Zhou Sanlang agreed and asked, "Will you come again tomorrow?"
"Come, if I don't come, Lao Wu and the others will come too." Zhou Lao Er whispered: "I originally thought that everyone's family is not rich and this business is not easy to do, but who knows it's not bad."
Zhou Sanlang whispered, "The workload has been heavy these past two days, and everyone's hungry. The higher-ups are pushing us hard, so even I, if I had a few coins, would buy some food, not to mention them."
Zhou Erlang nodded and whispered to Zhou Sanlang, "That's why I say that there shouldn't be only you guys making money. I want to go back and talk to my parents. Tomorrow I'll take your second sister-in-law to try out laborers in other sections, and leave this to Lao Wu and the others. There are still twenty days before the end of the service. If we can earn two hundred coins a day, two groups of people will make four hundred coins, and in ten days that will be four thousand coins. Then in twenty days..."
Zhou Erlang was a little confused about the calculation, and Bai Shanbao said quickly, "Eight thousand coins."
Manbao was a step behind, but he also exclaimed, "Our family has made a fortune."
Zhou Erlang couldn't help but smile, "I hope we can have such good business every day."
Zhou Sanlang's heart was also burning with anger. He said, "Then don't stay here this afternoon. Let's go back and discuss it."
"No need. You've already promised someone something, so you have to do it. Otherwise, who will drink your soup and eat your dishes next time?"
Zhou Erlang only ate a piece of dry food with hot soup, and did not eat any meat.
He took out all the bones with meat and stewed them in a small pot, leaving them for Zhou Sanlang to eat in dinner, while he also added water to the large pot and simmered it slowly.
When it was time for dinner, he gave everyone a bowl of boiled water with a little oil in it for free and then packed up and went home.
He didn't count the money, but he knew that he earned more today than yesterday.
He warned Zhou Wulang, "Don't make too much of this dish. Just make this amount in the future. Not all the Laoding people are willing to eat vegetables every day."
"Excluding the portions for Third Brother and the officials, we only sold about twenty servings. There are about a hundred of them. How can this amount of food be enough?"
Zhou Erlang insisted, "That's enough. Listen to me. Anything is worthless if it's in excess."
Manbao also nodded. "Meat and vegetables are too expensive. Just now, an older brother said that it's so hard for his family to save money."
"So you gave him the meat to eat?" Zhou Wulang got angry when he mentioned this. "I didn't even have anything to eat."
"I didn't give you meat, I gave you radish." Manbao turned his head to look at Zhou Liulang in accusation, "The meat was eaten by Sixth Brother."
Zhou Erlang patted Lao Liu on the head and said, "You are still trying to eat Xiao Mei's meat."
Zhou Liulang muttered, "She gave it to me. I didn't steal it."
"You're drooling over her bowl, how can she not give it to you?"
Manbao sucked his saliva and said, "Second brother, let's go back from the market and buy some meat to eat at home."
"Why buy meat? Didn't you eat it today? If you want more, go with your fifth brother tomorrow and I'll give you more."
"Then mom doesn't have any, dad doesn't have any, and my sisters-in-law and nephews and nieces don't have any to eat. We need to buy some to take home and eat together," Manbao said, "Mom needs some to nourish her body."
Zhou Wulang was also a little greedy and suggested, "How about, Second Brother, let's buy some to take back."
Zhou Erlang looked at him and asked, "You're paying?"
Zhou Wulang was reluctant to give it up and said, "Didn't we make money today?"
"You have to take it back to mother to record the account. You earn so much money, but you are reluctant to spend money on a meal of meat."
Zhou Wulang was reluctant to part with it, because except for the money he deposited with Manbao, all the money he had left on him had been taken away by his father.
The same is true for Zhou Liulang.
Manbao rummaged through her pockets, actually taking out the money from Koko, and said happily, "I'll pay!"
Zhou Erlang thought this girl was too stupid and advised: "Manbao, in the future, if you meet someone who asks you to pay money outside, they must be a bad person. You can't be so stupid as to pay money, understand?"
"So, is my second brother a bad guy?"
Zhou Erlang: "Of course Second Brother is not a bad person."
"Then second brother, you pay!" Manbao took back his own money.
Zhou Erlang choked a little, but he still nodded, turned and went to the market to buy some meat.
Not pork, but lamb.
Manbao was very happy. She thought mutton was better than pork.
Zhou Erlang felt that his sister was getting older and smarter, and many words could no longer fool her. Given her current pampered condition, it seemed that he would have to make more money to support her.
So when they got home, Qian saw the meat and before she could say anything, Zhou Erlang said, "Mother, I plan to separate from Lao Wu tomorrow and take Er Ya's mother to find another job in this business."
Qian frowned, "Why, you can't do it with Lao Wu?"
"No, Mom, we sold all the soup and vegetables we cooked today. I thought, if we can sell them here, there's no reason why we can't sell them elsewhere. If we split them up, wouldn't we make double the money that way?"
Qian thought for a moment and understood. She frowned and asked, "Have you found out the location?"
"I've found out. I asked the officers in charge of Lao San, and they said there's another one about ten miles from their section. The number of people is about the same as here, but it's even further from Baimaquan Town and not close to the county seat. They eat cold steamed buns and drink cold water, just like Lao San and his men. Looking at the whole section, these two groups are the ones suffering the most."
Qian nodded. "Now that you've found out, go give it a try. However, there are only so many cauldrons in the house. How are you going to divide them up? And the village chief is the only one with a cart. How are you going to get there?"
Zhou Erlang had never thought of this and was distressed for a moment.
Manbao shouted from the side: "Let's buy a big cauldron and a cart."
Qian glanced at her daughter and said, "This business hasn't even started yet, and you're spending so much money..."
Manbao said, "Not much, not much. Sharpening the knife doesn't delay the chopping of wood. My second brother has calculated that we can earn 8,000 coins."
Qian couldn't help but laugh, "Silly child, how can you predict the future? What if something goes wrong? What if business goes bad? How can you calculate the future income based on today's income?"
(End of this chapter)
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