When Hu's mother heard the question about rice wine, her face lit up with a smile. She looked around and, still a little worried, lowered her voice and said, "It's fine!"
Let's go inside and talk."
Hu Wenhua helped drive the oxcart into the yard.
He was strong, and with a sack in each hand, he easily carried the flour and rice from the cart into the house.
Fearing he might be too rough, Hu's mother carried the eggs into the house alone.
Fan Jin first carried the fish to the kitchen, then turned around and went back to the yard to feed the cattle.
Shuiqing followed Hu's mother into the house.
Hu's mother and Hu Wenhua looked extremely happy. Hu Wenhua excitedly said, "Sister, rice wine makes more money than we thought!"
"How much can you earn in a day now?" Shui Qing asked, relieved after hearing the good news.
Mother Hu's wrinkles deepened with her smile as she began to calculate, "I originally thought that it would be quite good to have an income of one or two taels of silver a month."
"But... I never imagined that on a good day I could earn an ounce or two of silver! Even on a bad day, I could still make four or five coins."
Although earning one tael of silver a day is not common, most people earn seven or eight qian a day, and a few earn four or five qian a day, this is much, much higher than expected!
Shuiqing thought about how her family earned three or four taels of silver a day, and how her mother and younger brother earned four or five coins to one tael of silver a day in Niutou Town, which was considered quite good.
She affirmed, "Not bad, quite good."
Mrs. Hu said with a smile, "It's not just good, it's absolutely wonderful."
"Qing'er, you don't know, your brother and I only sold rice wine for twenty-five days, and last night I calculated that after deducting the cost of the rice, we still made fourteen taels of silver!"
Fourteen taels of silver, and it's only been less than a month.
She and Wenhua actually earned fourteen taels of silver, something they would never have dared to dream of before.
No, she's still feeling unreal, like she's floating on air.
Hu Wenhua also felt it was unreal.
"Sister, I used to do odd jobs, carrying grain sacks, and I only earned forty-three coins a day from morning till night. Now, my mother and I have earned fourteen taels of silver in just over twenty days. It's like a dream!"
When the father heard about the money they had earned, he was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth.
Seeing the joy of the two earning money, Shui Qing comforted them, "There's still more than a month until the New Year. The total amount before the New Year is estimated to exceed thirty taels."
Hu's mother was not greedy and said to Shang Shuiqing, "Our business is currently stable, mainly because of the connections your brother found. However, he said he also learned from He'er, so it all depends on you."
Mother thought that after the New Year, there would be many New Year's greetings and banquets in the first month, so she should be able to sell a lot more. By the second month, sales would be less, but with these three or four months, she could save about forty or fifty taels of silver.
With these forty or fifty taels of silver, plus what we've saved before, our family now has some savings. If we encounter any disaster or chaos in the future, we won't be caught off guard.
With money, one feels at ease.
She had originally planned to buy some land and houses, but remembering what her son-in-law had said about a possible disaster, she decided to wait and see.
Shui Qing looked at Hu Wenhua curiously when she heard that he had found the way.
Hu Wenhua stood up straight with a stiff physique, scratched his head and explained embarrassedly: "I followed Dahe's example, first running around all the restaurants in town, and then going to various wealthy people's mansions to deliver samples."
"It's all thanks to my mother's excellent cooking skills; her brews are so delicious that they've become regular customers."
Shui Qing: .....It was worth it for her to teach Fan He and let her younger brother go to the site to learn as well.
However, it was also because Hu Wenhua himself proved himself capable; otherwise, no amount of good mud could be put up.
He's resourceful and hardworking; making money is just a matter of time.
Shuiqing was very pleased that her mother and younger brother had earned some money through hard work and study.
Although they won't be able to make money from brewing wine for at least the next four or five years, this money will at least ensure the livelihood of their parents and younger brother.
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