"Okay, sure!" Hu Wenhua replied readily.
With many people busy, everyone worked for a while, and dawn was just beginning to break on the horizon.
Over there, Mrs. Hu had already ladled out the corn porridge, cooled it to a palatable temperature, and called out, "Dinner's ready!"
Everyone rushed to the kitchen.
The refreshing corn porridge, paired with crisp pickled radishes and salty, crunchy pickled mustard greens, left everyone full and satisfied.
After breakfast, Shuiqing started brewing the wine.
If rice wine is not cooked, it will continue to ferment rapidly, and its taste will change in a short time.
However, if it is cooked completely, the flavor and taste of the wine will be much worse.
The best way to achieve the best taste, according to the women of the Jiangnan water towns, is to boil half of the rice wine and leave the other half uncooked, then mix them together. This way, the rice wine retains its flavor and doesn't continue to ferment.
Once everything was ready, Fan Jin drove the oxcart in front, Hu Wenhua followed beside it, and Fan He sat on the cart waving to his family.
"Wenhua, your brother-in-law is a scholar, so remember to speak up more when you're hawking your wares," Hu's mother reminded her again, still worried.
"Mother, don't worry! I used to help Father run the pork stall, so I know how to attract customers!" Hu Wenhua turned around and shouted with a smile.
While bracing the wooden barrels to prevent them from shaking, Fan He replied to his grandmother, "And I'm here too! With such good wine brewed by my eldest sister, I guarantee it will sell!"
Not only do we need to sell the wine, but we also need to sell these bamboo tubes!
Two coins each, and all the bamboo on the mountain, how much money could you make?
The problem is that a large batch of bamboo shoots will sprout next spring, but no one will eat them. The bamboo shoots will also be useless, as the bamboo roots are already spreading to other hills.
Hu's mother simply smiled reassuringly at what Fan He said, neither believing nor disbelieving it.
An eight-year-old child is just going along to join in the fun; how can you expect a child to sell alcohol?
She looked at her son, still somewhat worried, and asked her daughter with concern, "Your son-in-law is a scholar, he's shy, and your brother isn't very clever either. Do you think they can sell him?"
Today was the first time I sold rice wine, so I didn't dare make too much and didn't bring much with me. The filtered rice wine weighed about fifty jin (25 kg).
Shui Qing was quite relieved. Fan He was not shy and had a strong desire to learn. In addition, she had taught him several techniques in the past few days, so he could sell several dozen kilograms of rice wine.
"Yan Qiu's brew is delicious, so it will definitely sell well."
Mrs. Hu was still worried, muttering, "May God bless us, may we sell them all."
Fifty catties of rice wine! If it were all sold, the price in the prefectural city would be twenty wen per catty, and a thousand wen would be a tael of silver in profit!
After deducting the cost of 25 catties of rice, there was still 775 coins in the account.
As for the two-copper bamboo tubes from Fanhe Lane, Mother Hu didn't care at all. Who would spend two copper coins to buy a bamboo tube to hold wine? Bringing one from home would save two copper coins.
After just two days of hard work, they earned more than seven hundred coins. Mother Hu felt that the amount of money was too much to be real.
Shui Qing has a very good mindset.
After all, they used to make much more money selling He Shou Wu (Polygonum multiflorum) and calligraphy brushes through the online store.
However, since this was the first time she had earned money using her own skills, she was still very eager to know how well it would go.
Today is the first time I've sold rice wine. I only brought fifty catties, which, after deducting costs, amounted to less than one tael of silver.
But if it sells well and Fanhe opens up sales channels as she suggested, then large quantities can be supplied later, and the income will be more than just one or two taels of silver.
Yan Qiuxing and her four children were unaware that their mother had even bigger worries, and like Hu's mother, they were also extremely anxious.
Can we sell over 50 kilograms of rice wine?
Is 20 coins per catty too high?
As for the bamboo tubes, I might sell two or three, but not many, since they cost two coins each...
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