Chapter 441 443: Selling for money
After Yang Chunyan weighed the truffle plates at home, she took her basket and went to the vegetable garden outside.
The flowers, grasses and reeds scattered in the woods have all grown, and their tender green leaves look lush and green.
She picked some flowers and plants, and a handful of garlic sprouts, planning to stir-fry some salted meat and cook a bowl of soup.
After the rice is cooked, slice the pork belly and add some shredded ginger, sweet potato starch and bean paste. Stir-fry until almost cooked, then add the garlic sprouts and stir-fry for a few times and serve.
Clean the pot, scoop a small piece of lard with a spatula and put it into the pot to heat it, add salt and shredded ginger, stir-fry for a few times, add half a ladle of water in the pot and bring it to a boil, put the flowers and plants in, boil and remove from the pot.
"What a nice smell!" Zhou Huaian walked into the kitchen with a smile, "What delicious food are you making?"
"Garlic and salt fried meat, flower and herb soup."
"Great!" Zhou Huaian helped to bring the food to the table. "Secretary Xu and Uncle Datian's family are willing to invest, and they have given me the money for the investment."
"The eldest and second sisters-in-law went to their parents' home after dinner to report the news. You can find time to bring back another truckload of coal."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Yan'er, how much money do you have at home? If it's more, give me two thousand later. I'll go to Hengshan to find my brother after dinner. We can't take the dividends for nothing this time. We have to invest two thousand yuan to share the dividends."
Yang Chunyan calculated, "There are still more than 5,200, so it's no problem to take 2,000. My sister-in-law and I have already weighed the truffle plates at home, and the semi-dry goods and wet goods total 156 kilograms."
"First-class dry goods weigh 70 kilograms, second-class goods weigh exactly 120 kilograms, third-class goods weigh 160 kilograms, and there are 30 kilograms of special-class goods. My sister-in-law and her friends mean that these should be divided among our families according to their shares, and the ones collected after weighing will be counted separately."
"Okay! Those in front will do as they say! Someone will deliver truffles this afternoon, and we will have to separate the accounts then."
Zhou Huai paused for a moment, "Then I'll go to Ning'an to deliver the goods first, and on my way back I'll go to Hengshan. I want to buy a cotton coat and big-toed boots for my father-in-law, and a pair for my mother-in-law as well."
Yang Chunyan looked at him with a smile, "Thank you!"
Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes at her in dissatisfaction, "Why are you still telling me these things?"
"Okay, I won't say anything more!" Yang Chunyan smiled and put a piece of salt-fried meat in his bowl, "I'll make you something delicious."
"They are delicious!" Zhou Huaian thought of something. "We searched the entire pine forest to find these truffles. If everyone in the village went to dig, all the truffle forests around the village would be dug up in no time."
"Don't worry, as long as there's money to be made, they'll go anywhere, no matter how far away. I have to tell everyone that making money is important, but safety is also important. Don't go to the old forest just to dig truffles. If something goes wrong, it won't be worth it."
"That's right, we must make this clear to everyone." Zhou Huaian said, thinking of what Wang Zhen said about soaking wine, "Doctor Xiao Wang said... I want to ask my father-in-law to help me buy some sorghum wine and bring it back to soak some truffle wine."
Yang Chunyan thought that the grain wine of this era was not only cheap, but also a genuine good wine. Other things could not be stored, but wine would become more mellow the longer it was stored.
"That's fine. We have a lot of empty rooms at home. You can buy a few hundred kilograms or even a thousand kilograms of it. And what are you going to do with it?"
"You and I have the same idea. We won't make truffle wine with Secretary Xu and the others. We can just work together as a partnership." Zhou Huaian looked at her happily. "I plan to charge 10 cents per pound for the small truffles used for making wine. What do you think?"
"You can also use the small ones, or the ones that have been picked out and have had their worm holes removed." Yang Chunyan put down the bowl, "I'll get you the money."
Zhou Huaian patted his waist bag and said, "I have a thousand dollars here, and another thousand will be enough."
Yang Chunyan thought for a moment and looked at him with a smile, "Silly boy, you don't need to take the money. You can make money by selling the truffles in the city!"
"Oh! You haven't figured it out yet." Zhou Huaian put down the bowl and wiped his mouth. "I'll go get the truffles and go into town right away."
"That's fine!" Yang Chunyan thought about it and felt a little worried. "I'd better go with you and go back to see my mom and my husband!"
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian walked towards the baking room.
Yang Chunyan packed up the pots and stove, and he moved all the things onto the tractor.
He gave the key to the courtyard gate to Li Qiuyue and drove the tractor out of Funiusi Village.
When passing by Yang Xiaoxue's house, Yang Chunyan called Zhou Huaian, got off the tractor, walked forward and pushed open the gate, and saw her picking pea tips in the vegetable field alone.
Yang Xiaoxue looked up and saw her, and said with a smile: "Rare guest, please come in and sit for a while!"
"Huaian is still waiting outside!" Yang Chunyan stepped forward and said, "You ask Brother-in-law Fang to go up the mountain to dig truffles..."
Yang Xiaoxue held her hand in surprise and said, "Great, I'll go to the field and call your brother-in-law now!"
"Well! Remember to fill the soil you dug up, otherwise you won't make any money in the future."
Yang Xiaoxue nodded repeatedly, "Don't worry about this!"
"Then I'm leaving."
When the two arrived in Ning'an, Wang Zhen was very satisfied after checking the truffles. "You guys are very careful in doing things. Every time you deliver something, whether it's herbs or something else, I don't have to worry about it at all."
Zhou Huaian joked, "You are the God of Wealth. How dare you not prepare the gifts for the God of Wealth before sending them to him?"
Wang Zhen smiled and waved his hands, "I don't deserve to be the God of Wealth. We all benefit from each other. I called to ask about the special truffles, and they said they would determine the price after checking the quality. I'll send these over first, and I'll settle the bill next time."
"That's right!"
The weight after weighing was almost the same as the weight measured by Yang Chunyan's sisters-in-law. 70 kilograms of first-grade goods were sold for 700 yuan, 120 kilograms of second-grade goods were sold for 840 yuan, and 165 kilograms of third-grade goods were sold for 825 yuan.
Wang Zhen went back to the house and took out the money. "The total is 2365. Who's going to take the money?"
Zhou Huaian smiled so hard that his teeth were exposed. "I am just a farmhand in my family. Money can only make money if it is saved for the boss."
Yang Chunyan glared at him in reproach, "Aren't you afraid that Doctor Xiao Wang will laugh at you?"
Wang Zhen looked at the two of them with a smile on his face, "Brother Zhou is right, in addition to having a pair of hands to make money, you also need a pair of money baskets!"
Zhou Huaian gave him a thumbs up, "Right!"
Yang Chunyan was very happy when she took the money handed to her by Wang Zhen.
More than two thousand yuan, although in the previous life it was only the wholesale price for two kilograms of high-quality goods.
But these days, country people have few ways to make money. They have to go to the coal mines to carry coal. A few strong laborers go out early in the morning in the cold winter and return home when it is almost dark. They can only earn fifty or sixty yuan in ten days.
But now, with the same amount of labor put in every day, the income is ten or even a hundred times that of doing manual labor!
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After saying goodbye, the two men came out and first cut a few meters of oilcloth and bought a scale. Then they went to the department store to buy a brush, an account book, a cotton coat and shoes. They also weighed some wool yarn and knitted two sweaters for the two elderly people.
It was already past three in the afternoon when we left Ning'an and arrived at Yangjiapingzi.
Zhou Huaian and Brother Yang went to see the oven, and Yang Chunyan gave the things she bought to Yang's mother.
She looked at those things distressedly, "Your husband and I already have cotton-padded clothes and shoes, why are we buying more clothes? Look at all the wool yarn, how expensive it is!"
Yang Chunyan knew that she was not only worried about the money, but also worried that Zhou's mother and others would gossip about it. "My father-in-law, mother-in-law, and grandfather all bought it, so you can wear it with confidence. No one will gossip about it."
Mrs. Yang smiled and tried to smooth things over, "Mom, if Chunyan and her husband want to honor you, just take it!"
Mother Yang glared at the two of them in reproach and said, "If you buy it this time, don't buy it during the New Year."
"We'll talk about it later!" Yang Chunyan thought of the wine brewing, "Mom, go to Brother Weidong's house later and tell him to keep the wine and not sell it in small quantities. I want it all."
Mother Yang looked at her in surprise, "His family brewed a lot of wine this year, what do you want so much for?"
“Truffle wine!”
"That thing is very convenient. Who are you going to sell it to?"
"Doctor Xiao Wang is sending it to the provincial capital to sell!"
"That's easy. They just released the wine yesterday. You guys came here on a tractor. I'll go and ask them to send a few cylinders over."
Yang Chunyan stood up and said, "Well! I'll go see if Huai'an has talked to Big Brother. If they have, we'll go back."
Mother Yang looked at her reluctantly, "You're leaving without even having a meal?"
“During the New Year, we were still busy going back to harvest truffles!”
After hearing this, Yang's mother hurriedly said, "Making money is important. I'll go and work for the boss right away."
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Zhou Huaian told Brother Yang about his requirements for buying and selling truffles. Before even talking about partnership, he proposed that each family would do half of the business.
"I have this plan, but I can't give it half to each family!" Zhou Huaian took off his waist bag with a smile, "I will take 40% of the 2,000 yuan in dividends. Remember to deduct the wages! Otherwise, I will take advantage of you!"
"Okay!" Brother Yang took the money he counted out and said, "Masons and carpenters only make two dollars a day. It's hard work to wash things in cold weather. Women don't smoke or drink tea, so I'll pay them two dollars and a half a day. What do you think?"
"Yes! I'll give it to you as you say."
The two men agreed that when they came out of the oven, they met Yang Chunyan who turned into the backyard. They then went around the oven and then returned to the front yard to discuss some details.
About half an hour later, Yang's mother brought Yang Weidong into the yard pulling a cart.
It was a very cold day, but Yang Weidong wore a cotton sweater. He had a square face and a short flat head with a shiny red forehead. Because they were cousins from the same family, he looked a bit like Yang Weiguo.
Zhou Huaian smiled and walked up to him and handed him a cigarette. The three of them exchanged pleasantries for a while and then took the wine off the cart.
Yang Weidong said embarrassedly, "Chunyan, if you want to soak truffles, the alcohol content cannot be too high. There are many people using alcohol to soak truffles these days. I only have two jars of 50-proof sorghum wine left at home. I will have another batch in two days and I will send it to you then."
"That's great!" Yang Chunyan thought for a moment, "Some people also like to drink high-proof truffle wine. If you still have some, send two more jars over so we can take them back."
Yang Weidong nodded happily, "Okay! I'll go back and get you two cylinders of 60-degree alcohol." He walked a few steps and turned back to say, "The 50-degree one will cost you 70 cents a pound, and the 60-degree one will cost 85 cents a pound!"
Yang Chunyan smiled and nodded, "Just don't lose money!"
"No, the family will earn a little less." Yang Weidong happily pulled the cart away.
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