Business is booming and Su Yan is really too busy to handle it all by herself. She has to take out the braised dishes and cut them. Some of them need to be mixed with cold dishes, while others do not.
If they don't want the dish served cold, they ask for the chopped green onion, garlic, coriander and chili oil to be packed, and some even use bags to make the marinade in a large iron bucket.
Su Yan wouldn't say anything if someone gave her a spoonful of marinade. Some people would give her several spoonfuls in a row to take advantage of the situation. Su Yan could only smile and explain to them that there was not enough marinade at home and she could only give her one spoonful at most.
In less than two hours, the two large buckets of braised meat were sold out, and someone even asked her if she would come tomorrow.
"Comrade, will you come to set up the stall again tomorrow?"
"Come on, as long as I'm not sick or have something going on at home, I'll come here to set up the stall every day."
When the braised food business really took off, she set up a counter at home to sell braised food, opened the window of the back house facing the street and started doing business. She could sell braised food at home all day long.
Of course, we still have to do business in the morning market. At most, it will be a little harder. We can go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning.
"Comrade, would you like to get some solid tofu and pickled mustard greens for the stew?"
"Sure, I plan to get some vegetables to sell tomorrow."
Su Yan put away the tricycle and went to the tofu stall to buy some dried tofu and solid tofu. She then went to the breakfast stall to buy two fried dough sticks. She rode the tricycle back to her parents' home and told Jiang Lingling about selling braised dishes.
"Mom, I'm too busy making braised dishes by myself. Can you come over and help me? I'll pay you."
"I have to cook for them at noon, so I'll be free in the afternoon."
"Then come over after lunch. Next time, I'll ask Lu Ting to bring over the old bicycle from home for you to ride."
"Yan Yan, is the braised food business doing well? No one is coming to arrest us, right?"
"No one's arrested, so business is booming. Mom, let me tell you in secret, the profit from braised food is at least half."
In fact, the profit is more than half. Although it looks easy to make money, it is actually very hard work. Not only do you have to get up early in the freezing cold, but processing the meat every day is also time-consuming and laborious.
To make braised chicken, you need to boil water, kill the chicken, and pluck the feathers. Ten braised chickens in one morning are not enough to sell. It takes a lot of time to pluck the feathers of ten chickens, and there is also other meat.
Jiang Lingling was shocked when she heard that the profit could be split in half. She didn't know that she could make so much money from a small business. However, she felt very distressed when she thought about her daughter having to process so much meat in a day.
"Yan Yan, you've worked so hard. I'll come help you this afternoon after I've prepared dinner for them."
"Thank you, Mom. I'll go back first."
She had to go back to prepare lunch for the children and prepare the meat to sell tomorrow.
As soon as she got home, she took out the pig hearts, pig tongues, pig feet, pig tripes and pig intestines of the two pigs, and also took out half a pig, fifteen chickens, ten ducks, and a hundred eggs.
She boiled the eggs first, and made them into braised eggs that cost five cents each and sold them for ten cents each.
She can earn five yuan from one hundred eggs, two and a half yuan from a chicken, and pork ribs... these have at least a 60% profit. Even if the cost is deducted, it is absolutely no problem to make a hundred yuan a day, not to mention that there is no need to pay the cost for the time being, because the raw materials for the braised dishes all come from the space.
After all, there is limited space for livestock. Even if we raise more, they cannot grow up all at once.
The braised food business will only get better and better in the future. If the braised food is not enough to sell, she will still have to go to the countryside to collect some eggs, chickens and ducks, and go to the slaughterhouse to buy pork for processing.
Soak the boiled eggs in cold water, peel them quickly, and then put them in a wooden basin.
After processing the eggs, we will process the pig's internal organs and half a pig. Boil them with cooking wine, ginger slices and green onions to remove the fishy smell, then remove them and soak them in cold water for the afternoon.
The chickens and ducks would wait for her mother to come and deal with them in the afternoon. It was getting late and she had to prepare lunch for the children.
I had just finished preparing lunch and the children came back before I had even cleaned up the kitchen.
Lu Yiming thought about his mother's first day selling braised dishes, so he naturally came back to inquire about the market.
"Mom, are all the braised meats we made yesterday sold out?"
“It’s sold out, but it’s still not enough?”
"Really? That's so good, it makes me not want to go to college anymore."
Su Yan glared at Lu Yiming fiercely and lectured him, "Study hard and strive for an exchange student spot in the United States, then go and make money from foreigners.
It’s always good to read more. If you go to work in the financial district, you might earn more in an hour than I do in a month.”
"Mom, is it really that easy to make money abroad?"
"Well, it should be very profitable, but I still hope that you can return after completing your studies and lead the Chinese people to make a lot of money."
"Mom, I must study hard and strive to study abroad. I will first earn money from foreigners, and then return to China to lead the Chinese people to make a lot of money."
"Hurry up and eat. Don't come back at noon. Sleep for an hour in the school dormitory."
Lu Yining sighed, "It's a pity that our elementary school doesn't have a dormitory, otherwise I wouldn't have to go back at noon."
Su Yan sneered and said, "If you want to eat cold rice and cold dishes, you don't have to come back at noon. I'll ask your brother to prepare a lunch box for you in the morning."
"Forget it. I'm afraid the food will solidify and give me diarrhea."
"Stop talking nonsense and wash your hands and eat."
Lu Yiming knew that his mother worked very hard every day, so he assigned his younger brothers and sisters to do the chores of washing dishes and sweeping the floor. He took the initiative to go to the kitchen to help his mother boil water and kill chickens.
Su Yan didn't let him do it and advised: "Yiming, you should ride your bike back to school early. I will ask your grandmother to kill the chickens and ducks. Your grandmother promised me that she would come to help every afternoon."
"Isn't grandpa supposed to cook and take care of the children for my uncles?"
"The older ones are all in school, and your great-grandfather will help look after the younger ones. Your grandmother only comes for half a day every day."
As for how much salary to pay, Su Yan still needs to think about how much she can earn in a month. The more she earns, the more she will be paid. Even if she only works half a day a day, she will still have to pay thirty or forty yuan a month.
After eating and cleaning, the triplets walked to school, while Lu Yiming rode his new bicycle to school. Jiang Lingling came as soon as they left.
She looked at the large pots of white meat in the kitchen and her heart trembled. She never thought that her daughter would braise so much meat in a day.
"Yan Yan, are you stewing tofu?"
"Well, I'm braising tofu, eggs, and kelp knots. Next time I go to the market, I'll see if there's any lotus root. If there is, I'll buy some and braise it. I'll sell both meat and vegetables. If you can't afford braised meat, you can try braised vegetables."
“I never thought vegetarian dishes could be braised!”
"I'll let you try the stew. If it's good, take some back to your brother."
"You keep it and sell it for money!"
"You are my mother. As long as you like to eat it, I will buy it for you even if I don't make it."
Jiang Lingling smiled. Her daughter was the most considerate. She had been subsidizing her parents' family over the years, and they hadn't been able to help her in any way.
In the afternoon, Su Yan took Jiang Lingling home to make braised dishes. They were busy until five o'clock and then let her mother go home.
Jiang Lingling looked at the braised chicken, ten braised eggs, half a pound of braised kelp knots and tofu, and two pounds of braised meat in the bag, and her palms felt hot.
She took it today for the first time. Next time she comes to help, she can’t bring back braised dishes. Otherwise, her daughter will have to stop doing this business. Even if her daughter really pays her a salary in the future, she doesn’t plan to accept it.
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