Over the next two or three days, Jiang Yue received dumplings from the old house, her in-laws, and Aunt Qin.
It's actually just zongzi (sticky rice dumplings), but perhaps due to different times and places, the legends have changed.
The Jiaoshu Festival here is a prayer for the people to have enough to eat and wear.
Glutinous rice is wrapped around red beans or mung beans. When not in use, it is hung in a well. When needed, it is scooped out, heated in a pot, and then eaten.
Da Niu and Er Gou sell over a hundred bowls of cold noodles every day.
They can sell about twenty bowls of kudzu root powder every day. And the nannies of wealthy families have asked them if they have any left. After eating kudzu root powder, their skin has become much smoother and more delicate. When the ladies and young misses of the family saw this, they clamored to eat some too.
This gave Jiang Yue a new idea: it wasn't that kudzu root powder didn't sell, but that the target audience she had previously identified was wrong!
So she asked Da Niu to buy a batch of ceramic jars in town, and then she burned Wu's Linglong powder on the jars.
After filling the can with kudzu root powder, affix the words "Produced by Wujia Village" to the lid. Each can costs three copper coins and can hold two kilograms of kudzu root powder. Calculate the labor and time costs.
Finally, the price was two hundred copper coins per can, and if you drank it sparingly, one can would last for more than a month.
At first, some people complained about the price, but those who persisted in drinking kudzu root powder saw visible changes.
Soon, the first batch of sixty jars sold out, and the first batch of kudzu root powder was also used up!
Jiang Yue calculated that she had earned about twelve or thirteen taels of silver from selling kudzu root powder during this period. After deducting costs, her net profit was eleven or twelve taels.
Sure enough, nutritional supplements are incredibly profitable!
This money wasn't just her family's; the old house contributed the majority of the labor involved in digging and drying the kudzu roots.
Therefore, she asked her two sons for their opinions.
“Mother, without the help of my eldest and second uncles to dig up kudzu roots, we wouldn’t have been able to earn this money. It’s hard-earned money, and I think half of it should go to the old house.”
During this period, Da Niu has been working long hours and has gotten quite tanned. At the same time, through dealing with all sorts of people and doing business, he has come to understand many things he didn't understand before.
He looks much more mature now.
The same goes for Er Gou; he has become much more energetic and less short-sighted than before.
“Mother, I agree with what my eldest brother said. We should give half of the profits to the old house. Our family needs to find sales channels and bear the risks. Giving up half of the profits is not much, but it is not a small amount either.”
Compared to his older brother, Er Gou was quicker-witted and could offer different perspectives.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Yue looked at her two sons and thought to herself, "Indeed, practice is the most effective way to train people!"
He then counted out six strings of cash, and took out two hundred loose copper coins, which he gave to his two sons, saying:
“You’re both grown up now. If I think what you two brothers have discussed is right, then I will support you. Take this money to the old house later and hand it to your grandparents in person so they can accept it without worry.”
Then, she took her two sons and counted the money they had made from selling cold noodles recently, recording it in the accounts.
Good heavens! In just five days, the account has increased by 2,222, which is more than two taels of silver. If we calculate it this way, the family can earn 12 to 13 taels of silver a month just from the cold noodles business!
Fearing her sons wouldn't be able to figure it out, Jiang Yue even did the calculation for them.
Da Niu and Er Gou were both very excited after hearing this.
Even after deducting expenses such as buying rice, flour, cooking oil, and other ingredients, the two brothers could still earn at least ten taels of silver a month!
Over a year, that's more than 120 taels!
It's out!
Seeing her two sons getting too excited, Jiang Yue resisted the urge to pour cold water on them. No matter how good the cold noodle business was, it could only last until the end of October. After the weather got cold, who would want to eat cold noodles?
Let them be happy for a while, then we'll dampen their spirits later!
"How do you two want to divide the money? I'd like to hear your thoughts."
Jiang Yue is never stingy when it comes to money.
Of course, she doesn't believe in the idea of raising children to provide for old age, nor is she being kind to her daughter for the sake of providing for her in her old age.
Relying on yourself is worse than relying on anyone else; anyway, she'll leave herself a way out.
“Mother, I need money for my engagement and the wedding. Please don’t spend all the money you have on your son. I don’t want to separate the family now, and I don’t want to divide the money. Just give the money to you for safekeeping. If I need it later, I will ask you.”
Da Niu shook his head. He figured his mother probably didn't have much money left. His second brother was getting engaged, and his mother said she would treat everyone equally, so he guessed it would be at least twenty taels of silver as a betrothal gift!
When he got married, he and his second brother both had to spend money. As the eldest brother and the eldest son, no matter how much money Liangpi made, it was all for their mother's sake. He earned this money for his mother and had no face to share it!
“Mother, my eldest brother and I think the same way. We don’t need to divide the money. You can manage it. I don’t have any expenses, but there are many other expenses in the family. I don’t lack anything and don’t need a lot of money.”
Er Gou was telling the truth. He admitted that he was confused and didn't understand things before. When his mother was in a coma, he still had the absurd thought that his mother couldn't die, otherwise who would find him a wife!
In the past few months, my mother has changed a lot. She not only bought them new clothes and built them a new house, but also put getting married on the agenda!
He was certain that if he hadn't taken a liking to Fangfang that day, his mother would probably have asked a matchmaker to find him a girl from the village!
He never broke a word his mother said; like his older brother, he only wanted to be a dutiful son from now on...
Jiang Yue smiled gently, gesturing for her two sons to listen to her:
"I can feel your filial piety, but you all need to get married, have your own wives, and have your own children in the future. As the head of the family, you can't be without money!"
"In that case, I'll follow the way your grandparents managed the household. Half of the money our family's business makes will go into the common fund for household expenses, and the other half will be split equally between you two brothers. I'll give you money at the end of each month, so you two should keep it hidden and not let anyone else know."
"Let me be frank with you, Mother. This money from the public treasury means that a portion of it will go to your younger siblings. Qingyun's education will cost money, and Cao'er's marriage will require a dowry. You have no objections to this, right?"
The two brothers, Da Niu and Er Ge, exchanged a smile and shook their heads together.
"Mother, we'll do as you say."
"Mother, I have no objection at all."
Jiang Yue was relieved. After discussing everything openly and honestly, the family rules were established.
If the whole family works together to earn money, how can they not make a living?
"Woof woof woof~"
Xiao Bai's voice rang out in the yard, and Jiang Yue knew immediately that her daughter had come home from digging for wild vegetables.
"Mother~"
"Xiaoxue and I dug up so many wild vegetables~"
Sure enough, Cao'er's cheerful voice rang out, and Jiang Yue got up and carried the account book and the jar containing the money into the room.
Actually, she lingered in the room for a while, storing everything in her system space...
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