Chapter 85 Chapter 85-Two-in-one signing contract
The man thought so and registered it, stamped it and gave him the deed.
Chai Xingyu took the deed and looked at the big words "Chai's Sauce Market" on it, and smiled happily!
He personally took Sanbao and the others to make the plaque, and then went back to write a new deed. By the time he finished, it was already afternoon, and Lin Chuntao and the others had already closed their stall and gone home.
After lunch, Chai Xingyu took his writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone, as well as three treasures, and drove a mule cart to find Lin Chuntao to sign the contract.
As long as this deed is signed, half of the work is done!
Lin Chuntao was still a little surprised when Chai Xingyu came.
"Sister, I'm here to sign the contract with you."
Lin Chuntao looked at Chai Xingyu at the gate of the courtyard and hurriedly called him in.
"So soon?"
Chai Xingyu said, "I rented the shop yesterday, and went to register and get the deed this morning." As he spoke, he took out the deed he got from the government. Lin Chuntao took a look at it and found it was quite similar to a modern business license.
After reading it, she folded it and returned it to Chai Xingyu.
"You have to keep this thing."
Chai Xingyu nodded, "Don't worry."
The service was quite efficient, but I wasn't sure if I'd been ripped off. Thinking of Lin Chuntao, I still asked about the rent. Chai Xingyu said, "I hang out a lot and hear shopkeepers say the rent has gone up or down. I bargained, and it was the market price. I wasn't ripped off."
Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "That's good. Let's sign the contract then."
Because Chai Xingyu decided to pay the advance payment at the beginning of the month, Lin Chuntao also accepted the consignment model. The two of them split the profits: Lin Chuntao took 80%, Chai Xingyu took 20%, and the rest was the price of the sauce.
The most expensive item in the Chai family is the fragrant bean sauce, which costs twenty-two cents per pound, but not many people buy it. Most ordinary people only buy a dozen or so cents. Lin Chuntao's sauce is well-known because of its soup noodles, and her main customers are ordinary people. The price must be within their acceptable range, but she cannot lose money.
Lin Chuntao did the math and finally decided on a retail price of eighteen cents per catty. Since it is often used in restaurants and hotels, it can be sold at sixteen cents.
Chai Xingyu thought for a moment and asked Lin Chuntao, "What if the peddler takes the baskets to sell in the countryside? Can we give them fifteen?"
Lin Chuntao nodded, "Okay."
They agreed on some detailed terms and conditions and wrote them down in the deed. Then the two of them signed and put their fingerprints on the contract. Pei Ying, Lin Chunxing and others stood by and watched.
After the contract was signed, Chai Xingyu gave Lin Chuntao the first advance payment of fifty taels.
Lin Chuntao took the money, borrowed his paper and pen, and wrote a receipt for him.
After this was done, Chai Xingyu couldn't wait to ask, "Sister, when are we going to open?"
"Let's check the almanac. Any day after eighteen days will do."
Chai Xingyu felt a little excited. Lin Chuntao looked at him and smiled, "It's settled now, why don't you tell your family?"
Chai Xingyu smiled and said, "Wait a few more days."
"Well, you can handle it yourself. The sauce isn't ready yet. You've asked someone to pick out a date for the opening, so you can make a sign. If you open a shop, you're definitely not going to sell just my sauce. You need to put up a sign first, so that people who make good sauces will come to you with theirs. What kind of sauce is it? How can it be eaten? How does it taste? You need to have some people taste test it and evaluate it, then decide which sauces to sell in the shop. If they taste good, you'll set a price and sign a contract. You'll also need to consider the hygiene of the sauce makers, etc."
"If there's anything I can help you with, just ask."
Lin Chuntao gave a long list of instructions, and Chai Xingyu smiled and nodded.
"good."
The shop is his, and it is his business whether he makes money or loses money. It is rare that Lin Chuntao still cares about him, and he is very grateful from the bottom of his heart.
He has to prepare for the opening, and Lin Chuntao also has to prepare to make sauce, and Lin Chuntao's things will be more numerous and trivial.
"Sister, you're going to need a lot of salt, right? The salt in the shop is expensive. Tomorrow I'll introduce you to someone who can buy salt for you at a much lower price."
Lin Chuntao knew that this person must be a salt dealer, so she asked curiously, "How much is a pound?"
Chai Xingyu pointed with two fingers, and Lin Chuntao was stunned. "Cut it in half."
"Um."
"Then I'll buy more tomorrow."
Chai Xingyu came in the afternoon and was busy doing things. Lin Chuntao invited him to dinner, but he ran away without even trying.
After he left, Lin Chuntao also had to get busy. A jar of sauce weighed about 400 kilograms, so she had to make at least three jars and keep them aside.
I have to buy a few more sauce jars. Soybeans and dried chilies are not enough, so I have to buy more of those. The winnowing baskets and scoops at home are not enough, so I have to buy a few more wooden basins and barrels.
Yesterday, Lin Jiahui went to the county town and looked at the prices of beans and chili peppers. Today was his first day, he went to other villages and didn’t know how much he would buy.
Pei Ying thought about the large amount of work she had to do, so she asked, "Do you need some more racks to hold the dustpans?"
"Well, we need at least two or three more."
Pei Ying said, "Then I'll go chop some bamboo and make a few more."
After Pei Ying went out with the sickle, Sun and Aunt Guizhi came with earthenware jars.
"Chun Tao, your great-grandmother and I are here to help you scoop some sauce."
Lin Chuntao greeted them with a smile and brought over two stools.
"I was just about to go find you guys."
Aunt Guizhi smiled and said, "That's a coincidence."
"It saves me a trip."
As they were talking, Lin Chuntao brought out two stools for them to sit on. After they sat down, Lin Chuntao said that she was going to make sauce recently and needed four people to help pick beans, remove the stems of peppers, pound the peppers, and pound the beans.
When Sun heard that four people were needed, she immediately asked, "Are you going to make a lot?"
"Well, we need to make a few cylinders and sell them."
"For now, we'll have four people. Each person will get 20 cents a day, and we'll finish by dinner time."
After Lin Chuntao finished speaking, Mrs. Sun and Aunt Guizhi were a little shocked. They thought it was just a small favor, but they didn't expect Lin Chuntao to do the job for money. They had never worked for others before, and it was difficult for women to find work in the city. If they wanted to make money, they could only save eggs. If they had some needlework skills, they could make some embroidery to sell. However, most of the villagers did not have this skill.
Even people like Aunt Guizhi who grow some vegetables and sell them are a minority.
Picking beans and picking chili pepper stems, all done sitting down, only 20 wen for a day? It's a lot of money, but the villagers are helping each other, so it seems a bit strange to charge them money.
Sun said, "Let's help each other, you help me, I won't charge you any money. I'll ask your second aunt and the others to come and help you."
Listening to what Sun said, Lin Chuntao said, "Grandma, it's not like that. It's not like you help me with the crops for a few days and I help you for a few days. I will do this all the time in the future. I will need people for a long time, and I need them to be more regular. They can come when I need help with the work. You can think of it as earning some pocket money in the village."
Now, Mrs. Sun and Aunt Guizhi also understood that Lin Chuntao was looking for work, but this was not just about making some pocket money. It was more like a pie in the sky that happened to fall in their village and hit them.
Sun looked at Aunt Guizhi and said, "Then your Aunt Guizhi and I will send two people."
Aunt Guizhi has a small family, her husband has to weave utensils, Lin Shuilian is still in confinement after giving birth, and the old lady has to take care of the two children. Only Aunt Guizhi can take care of everything inside and outside the house.
She thought that she couldn't delay Lin Chuntao's business, so she hurriedly said, "Aunt, I'm the only one in my family who can come. Please ask my sister-in-law and the other sisters-in-law to come."
Sun said, "Why don't you ask Grandma Shuilian to come over and do it?"
"Shuilian is still a little weak. Her grandmother has to cook some food at home. We can talk about it after Shuilian gets better."
Sun knew it in her heart, but Lin Chuntao had only said it to the two of them, so it would not be good if her family had to take up three people.
Lin Chuntao looked at Aunt Guizhi and smiled, "Then Aunt, please come tomorrow morning. Let Sixth Aunt take care of Sister Shuilian first. After a while, when Sister Shuilian is well, let her come to help me. And Grandma, please bring my aunt and the others tomorrow morning."
Both of them agreed with a smile, and Aunt Guizhi felt a warm feeling in her heart. Shuilian couldn't speak, had divorced her husband, and had two children. It was not easy for her to support herself. If she could do something with Lin Chuntao, she wouldn't have to worry too much.
After hearing what Lin Chuntao said, Mrs. Sun looked at her with approval.
"Chun Tao, you made so much sauce, have you found a buyer?" asked Sun.
"I'm not really a buyer, I'm collaborating with him. I make the sauce and then I sell it to him."
After Lin Chuntao finished speaking, Aunt Guizhi asked, "Is it the one who came here today with the mule cart?"
Lin Chuntao nodded, "Yes, that's him."
Sun pursed her lips, still a little worried that Lin Chuntao had been cheated. Seeing Sun's hesitation, Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "He gave me some money first."
Sun said, "It's more reassuring to have the money in hand. Will you sell this sauce in the county town from now on?"
"Yes, it's sold at Chai's Sauce Market, 18 wen per pound."
Both of them widened their eyes at the price.
Lin Chuntao said, "That person helped me sell it, so I had to share some of the money, so I didn't make much."
Sun said, "It's such a shame that the money was taken away for nothing."
Lin Chuntao smiled and before she could say anything, Aunt Guizhi took over the conversation, "Actually, this is a good thing. Otherwise, Chuntao would have to make sauce and sell it at the same time. How could she take care of all these things?"
This is the first reason. The second reason is that if Chai Xingyu can make this first shop successful, then according to his idea, he will definitely open branches in other states and counties. She only needs to supply the sauce and doesn't have to worry about too much else.
Sun thought about how busy Lin Chuntao had been in and out of the office in the past few months, and she was indeed very busy and tired.
"That's true. It's not worth it if it's too tiring and hurts your body."
The two sat and chatted for a while before preparing to go back. Lin Chuntao scooped up some sauce for them.
Both Mrs. Sun and Aunt Guizhi took the money. Lin Chuntao was not going to accept it at first, but the two of them pushed it back and forth, and Lin Chuntao finally accepted the cost of the beans and peppers.
On the way back, the two men looked at the earthenware jar, thought of the eighteen cents per pound, and then smiled at each other.
"If Chuntao hadn't made it, we wouldn't have dared to buy it when we saw it in the county town." After Sun finished speaking, Aunt Guizhi also laughed, "That's right."
Aunt Guizhi paused after she finished speaking, "If Chuntao keeps making this sauce, we can plant more peppers and soybeans, and then we can make sauce for her."
Sun said, "It seems that just our two families are not enough. Let's ask Chuntao tomorrow if she has any ideas."
When the two returned home, they told their family members about their idea of calling Lin Chuntao to do some work.
Aunt Guizhi's family had no objection. Uncle Lin Shan even gestured to Aunt Guizhi and said that Lin Chuntao had helped them a lot and they should not take her money. Aunt Guizhi ignored him. Lin Chuntao's help to them was not a favor that could be repaid without asking for money. It was not the same thing. If she really didn't ask for money, Lin Chuntao would be embarrassed to ask her for anything in the future.
She only asked Lin Shan to make some winnowing baskets that Lin Chuntao needed and told her the style.
At Muramasa's home, when Sun brought back the news, the whole family was shocked.
Lin Jiahui helped to buy beans and peppers, and her family could also send three more people to work, earning twenty cents a day, which would make sixty cents.
Sun looked at the people in the house and heard from Lin Chuntao that a woman was needed to do this job.
If she goes, she will want her two daughters-in-law to go with her.
At this time, the three of them were looking at her. Sun's eyes swept over their faces. Chen Dongniang also wanted to go, but Lin Jiahui had already gone there, so Sun thought of letting the second and third sons do it.
She said it directly. Chen Dongniang felt a little disappointed. Sun said, "It's still the same as before. Half of the money you earn will be handed over to the government, and the other half will be kept by yourself."
If he kept half for himself, he would still have ten cents left. The second and third sons' families were all happy to hear this.
Sun saw Chen Dongniang's mood and said with a smile, "Boss, please don't think I'm biased."
Chen Dongniang said, "I don't know what you are talking about."
Sun said, "Your Jiahui has already gone, so let them go first. You can work harder at home. I think Chuntao's matter may require a lot of work in the future."
Chen Dongniang nodded. Lin Jiahui earned even more in a day, so she couldn't be too greedy.
All the money earned is handed over to the government.
She comforted herself that the matter was over. Besides, Lin Jiahui came back tired after a day and needed her as his mother to make something to eat for him. Thinking of this, the sense of loss in her heart disappeared in an instant.
"Don't worry, mother. Leave the household affairs to me."
After hearing what Chen Dongniang said, the second and third families also breathed a sigh of relief.
The relationship between the sisters-in-law is pretty good, but they don't want to have any rift because of this matter.
At this time, Lin Chunxing and the others felt inexplicably anxious, thinking that five people would have to earn more than a hundred coins a day working.
Lin Chuntao looked at them and smiled: "What's the matter? Are you reluctant to spend this money?"
Several people nodded in unison.
"Over a hundred wen a day, that's a lot to spend in a month!"
Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "Only if we make more and sell more can we make more. Just a few of us can't make so many."
Lin Duoer is too young to take care of many things, but Lin Chunxing and Lin Chunhe each have to take care of some things. Taking this opportunity, Lin Chuntao made a clear division of labor.
"Chun Xing, you will be primarily responsible for the noodle stall from now on, including purchasing. Chun He will take care of household affairs. Jia Hui goes out to the village to buy things, and you will give him money. When he comes back, you will also have to check the items, weigh them, and reconcile the accounts. You will also have to supervise the people who come to help with chores at home in the future, and pay everyone in the evening."
Lin Chunxing heard that this was not an easy task. She looked at Lin Chunhe, who nodded calmly.
"Sister, I understand."
Lin Chunxing pursed her lips. In fact, she really wanted to ask Lin Chunhe, can it be done?
But then she thought about how she was the older sister and why she wasn’t as calm as her younger sister, so she felt a little embarrassed to ask.
"I'm going to make this batch of sauce first, and then I'm going to get busy building the house, so you two have to work hard and tell me if anything happens."
When they heard that a house was going to be built, the three sisters' eyes were full of anticipation.
Lin Duo'er, who was standing next to her, was not assigned any tasks. She looked at Lin Chuntao and said, "Sister, then I will take care of the pigs and chickens at home?"
Lin Chuntao nodded and said, "Sure. When you have time, you can go check on the corn in our field."
"good!"
The sisters had just finished talking when Pei Ying came back from cutting bamboo.
He still remembered the day she first arrived, when Lin Chuntao said she wanted to bring her younger sisters with her.
He had seen older sisters and brothers taking care of their younger siblings, but this was the first time he had seen them dividing the work.
Lin Jiahui made two trips today. He went out early and came back at noon, and went out again in the afternoon and came back in the evening. Today he went out with the family mule cart and bought more than two stone of soybeans and sixty or seventy kilograms of chili peppers, spending more than eight hundred coins.
Including what I bought yesterday, I already have three or four hundred kilograms of soybeans, but there are still not enough peppers.
Lin Chuntao asked, "Jiahui, is there not enough dried chili peppers?"
Lin Jiahui nodded. He said it wasn't too little, but dried chilies didn't count. A bunch of them from a family only weighed two or three pounds. "Chilies don't count. Most of them are dried at home for consumption. We take some out to sell, so it's not much."
Lin Chuntao nodded slightly and told Lin Jiahui to talk to the people in each village and ask them to plant more peppers and soybeans, and we would go to harvest them next year.
After Lin Jiahui left, she weighed all of these and confirmed the weight. She would prepare these first when Aunt Guizhi and the others came tomorrow. She also had to go to the county town to buy two stone mills, a few vats, and two large wooden barrels to soak the beans. She also needed to buy gauze. Since she wanted to make a lot of sauce, she actually needed two large steamers and two large pots.
Lin Chuntao made a list of things to buy tomorrow. She also had to buy some paper and pen. Things like iron pots were very expensive, so she planned to exchange them through the system. After exchanging the seedlings yesterday, she still had more than 20,000 points left.
She looked at the big iron pot in the living area. It only cost 80 points, so she would redeem two tomorrow.
After Chai Xingyu returned from Lin Chuntao's place, he did not go directly back to the Chai family.
He had no idea that the magistrate and the county magistrate had already come to his house.
As soon as they entered the mansion, they began to congratulate Chai Songchuan on opening a new shop, which made Chai Songchuan look completely bewildered. He only heard the county magistrate say, "Young Master Chai personally handled the deed. The name is well chosen, Chai's Sauce Market. It sounds like Shopkeeper Chai is going to make a lot of money."
Chai Xingyu went to do it personally. Chai Songchuan and Guo Jixiang were stunned for a moment, and Chai Jiao next to them frowned slightly.
Zhixiao and the county magistrate saw Chai Jiao and greeted her with a smile.
Everyone knew that Chai Jiao had married a Tongpan, and now the Tongpan was here with the prefect, so they went to try their luck.
Chai Xingyu was not at home, so Chai Songchuan and Guo Jixiang entertained the two.
It was almost dusk when they sent the people away. Guo Jixiang and the others continued as usual. How could the officials who came to visit not take something away?
This time they refused for a long time, and it was only after Chai Jiao spoke up and said some polite words that the two were sent away.
As soon as the two men left, Chai Xingyu came back from the back door.
Guo Jixiang immediately sent someone to call the person over.
Chai Xingyu was in a very good mood today. Looking at his parents and sister, who looked solemn, he asked lightly, "What's wrong with you? Why do you look so serious?"
"What kind of sauce market is this? You run it?"
Chai Xingyu's expression froze, and he asked, "How did you know?"
Chai Jiao laughed, and Chai Xingyu raised his eyebrows slightly, "Did the government say that?"
Guo Jixiang said, "The magistrate and the county magistrate just arrived, and they just left." As soon as Guo Jixiang finished speaking, Chai Songchuan, who was standing next to him, asked, "Why are you getting the deed? To open a shop?"
Chai Xingyu replied, "Yes, I've already rented the shop and got the deed halfway through. Mom, do you want someone to help me pick a date for the opening?"
Guo Jixiang took a deep breath and asked, "What do you sell in your shop?"
"Of course I'll still be selling sauces. I don't know what else I'll be adding to the shop in the future."
After these words were spoken, what was there that people present did not understand?
Chai Songchuan took a deep breath and asked, "You want to open a shop and sell sauce to that Lin?"
Hearing what the old man said, Chai Xingyu also said frankly: "I opened the shop to make money, not for anyone else. You can also go to my shop to buy our sauce, but I have to take a portion of the sales money."
Chai Songchuan pinched his brows and looked at Chai Xingyu, thinking that Lin Chuntao must have put a curse on him.
Someone who has had no interest in doing business for so many years suddenly has to open his own shop.
Guo Jixiang patted Chai Songchuan and said softly to Chai Xingyu, "Sure, wait until your shop opens."
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