The 25th day of the first lunar month is a market day.
At noon, Liu Mang and his wife Liu Zhuang drove an ox cart to Yukou Village.
Today, Liu Yuhan also accompanied his father to send Liu Guang and others to school in town.
Liu Shinan is responsible for picking up these children from school every day. If he doesn't have time to pick them up, they will walk back by themselves.
When they arrived at the town, the market had already begun and was bustling with activity. Father and daughter parked the carriage at the town gate, where oxen and horse carriages were watched. They first sent Liu Guang and the others to school.
The father and daughter walked towards the vegetable market. When they arrived at the entrance of the market, they saw people carrying loads on their shoulders, pushing carts, and carrying baskets. Some were selling vegetables, some were selling fish, some were selling chickens and ducks, some were selling hairpins, some were selling candied haws, some were selling buns, some were selling flatbreads, and some were selling all kinds of small items. The shouts came one after another, and it was really lively and full of life.
The father and daughter squeezed into the crowd and saw Liu Mang and others in a corner.
There were quite a few people around them, and everyone was obviously very interested in this unfamiliar food. Yan put the tofu for tasting on a small bamboo stick and handed it to the guests who wanted to try it.
Although the tofu was a little cold, the flavor was still there. Yan used a little more oil and fried both sides until they were slightly golden brown, which made them very fragrant.
Liu Yuhan stepped forward and said to everyone, "Welcome everyone to taste the new food my uncle and aunt have made. It's called tofu. Tofu can be boiled or fried, or even made into soup. It's not only delicious, but also very nutritious and good for your health. It's also not expensive. A large piece like this only costs five cents per pound, enough to make a whole dish. Everyone should give it a try. Bean curd cakes are also delicious. They're made with eggs and flour, and they taste delicious..."
Most people who have tasted tofu bought one or two pounds. Those who have not tasted tofu can also try one and half pounds. Half a pound is weighed high and costs three cents.
Xiao Li was responsible for packing the tofu for them with clean leaves, and Liu Mang was in charge of the cashier. Many people came to buy while it was busy, and they were too busy to handle it, so Liu Yuhan and his daughter also helped.
40 kilograms of soybeans were used to make more than 160 kilograms of tofu and bean dregs cakes, which were sold out in less than an hour.
Ten catties of soybeans yielded about 15 catties of dregs. Forty catties of soybeans yielded 60 catties of dregs. These 60 catties of dregs, combined with a small amount of flour and eggs, produced about 65 catties of dregs cakes. Each catty of dregs cakes sold for four wen. My total earnings were 260 wen, and my tofu 800 wen, for a total of 960 wen for the morning!
After deducting the cost of soybeans (200), the cost of eggs and flour (63 wen), and then deducting the salt and oil used to make the eggs, the total is 690 wen!
There are nine market days a month, and just selling on market days alone would earn them six taels of silver! That's 72 taels a year. If they sold even more... I can't even imagine, I can't even calculate.
Liu Mang was excited. Even if he gave half of it to his uncle's family, he could earn dozens of taels a year, which was pretty good.
If I could sell it every day, I would make over 10 taels a month! I can’t even imagine it. I can’t even imagine it…
The wages of the four of them were nothing. They just had to get up early and work harder, and for rural people, that wasn't a big deal as long as they could earn some silver.
Seeing how happy they were, Liu Yuhan reminded them to stock up on soybeans and ask for a bullock cart to go to the county town to check. Maybe if they bought more, the price would be cheaper.
When you make money in the future, you can buy a donkey, and the donkey can pull the stone mill. Even if you don’t go to the market tomorrow, you can make a little and sell it in the town in the morning. After all, the market in the town is open every day, but there are fewer people on non-market days. There are also local residents in the town, and they also need food and drink.
There are also a few smaller restaurants, and you can recommend tofu dishes to them. When the business grows, you can sell it to the county town.
Find more people to help make tofu. After all, tofu is not particularly difficult to make. You just need to master the market first and make your first profit quickly. Once you have enough capital, make dried tofu and sell it.
Liu Mang sat in Liu Shinan's carriage, listening to Liu Yuhan's words, when an idea suddenly struck him. Yes, just like his niece said, they could become bigger and stronger, and go further, rather than just being limited to Yukou Town.
If it is done well, it can also encourage the villagers to grow more soybeans and make more tofu.
They all fled the famine together, and since his eldest niece gave them this opportunity, he must seize it.
Liu Mang told the father and daughter that he would give them 50% of the profits, but they waved their hands and refused. Liu Mang didn't say much, and just gave the money to the old man directly when he made money.
On the second day, Liu Mang and others only produced 20 kilograms of soybeans and about 90 kilograms of tofu, and sold 50 kilograms in the town.
Liu Mang and others took the remaining 40 kilograms directly to the county town to sell. It just so happened that they wanted to go to the county town to buy more soybeans and order another large stone mill.
There were many people in the county town, so they didn't do any tasting and the tofu was sold out in a short time.
With the 10 taels of silver lent by Liu Shinan, Liu Mang bought 1,000 jin of soybeans, paying four cents more per jin, spending four taels. The stone mill cost two taels, and the two families contributed some money to buy a donkey for six taels.
After shopping, I rushed back to Fulai Village.
Liu Xiaoman was surprised to see that they had bought so many things in just two days of selling tofu! It seemed that the business provided by his eldest brother was quite good.
The family needed a lot of firewood, so he took his wife and several children to chop firewood. The eldest son also said that the remaining sandy fields could be used to grow soybeans.
They can grow soybeans, and they have grown them in the north, planting them for ten days a year, but the harvest was small so people gradually stopped growing them.
Now that soybeans can be used to make money, they must be grown well.
From that day on, Liu Mang and others began their career of making tofu from dawn to dusk every day. If there were not enough stoves, they would build a few more.
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