Chapter 86
The village chief wanted to refuse, but Gu Xinxin ran away. The village chief chased her for two steps but failed to catch up, so he had to stop. But after a moment, a smile appeared on her face again. This girl from the Gu family is quite sensible.
After all, it is not an easy task to notify every household. He also has to spend time explaining to everyone what a confidentiality agreement is and then explain to them how this business is done so that they all know that Gu Xinxin did not take advantage of them. In the entire village, no one except him can do this job.
The amount of silver that Gu Xinxin gave was not small, five taels.
Normally, it would take a family a year to earn this much money. So, since this girl is sensible and capable, she should also earn money.
Gu Xinxin bought a pig when passing by the county town. Gu Daniu was dismantling it in the workshop. Since only lean meat was needed for meat floss, the fat had to be removed so as not to waste it. It was just right for making oil in the workshop.
The bones are distributed to the people in the workshop, which can be regarded as a work benefit in the workshop.
When Gu Xinxin arrived, Gu Daniu had already dismantled half of the pig. The pig's blood and internal organs were placed in a wooden basin, and Gu Chen was squatting on the side watching.
"Stepmother, divide the pig's blood between the eldest and second eldest aunt's families, keep the pig's intestines, and make the rest of the offal into braised meat." Gu Xinxin called out to Gu Chen: "Braise the pig's head too."
Gu Chen quickly agreed. Although the family had become more affluent in the past six months and they ate meat quite often, most of the time they only had half a pound of meat per meal, stir-fried into minced or shredded meat. Like today, a huge pile of meat... Even if it was offal, it was still meat. A pig only had one set of offal.
She took care of Gu Qiuhe and helped carry the basin. Although the pig intestine had to be kept, according to Gu Xinxin's personality, it still had to be cleaned.
Gu Xinxin waited for about half an hour before the women from the village came over one by one. Perhaps because cooking was a woman's job, none of the women who came were men.
Gu Xinxin borrowed two stoves in the workshop. She planned to teach twice, and it would be faster to cook in two pots together.
"Don't cook it too long, or the meat will become tough and hard to stir-fry." Gu Xinxin asked them to come forward one by one to check the heat. "The best condition is when the water is boiling. It can't be too high or too low. If it's too low, it won't be cooked through and won't be stir-fried. Others will make the meat soft as cotton, but you'll make it into rocks."
Then comes the stir-fry. When stir-frying the pork floss, you need to keep turning it over: "You can't stop. If you stop, the pan will get burnt. I don't want burnt ones. I only want good quality ones. Otherwise, it will ruin my reputation. So you should pay more attention when you learn now, and pay more attention when you cook. Don't think that I will take it back no matter what. I'm covering for you. I've told you in advance that if it's not done well, I won't want it. You can keep it for yourself."
It's better to say it out loud in advance, so that if she doesn't want it later, these people won't make a fuss.
"You also know that I went to the provincial capital a few days ago. The time I spent on the round trip, the dry food on the road, and the dealings with those shopkeepers, all of these are my capital, so don't think that the price I bought from you is low. The higher the price I sold you, the more money I made." People should not be too exposed. If everyone only has ten copper coins, but you have a hundred taels of silver, then you are not sociable.
Either you leave on your own initiative, or everyone will make you sociable.
Gu Xinxin fried all the lean meat of the whole pig. One pound of pork cost more than ten copper coins, and one pound could produce half a pound of meat floss. She sold meat floss by the pound, so there was still profit in it.
Each family has to buy pork themselves, but Gu Xinxin can provide the five-spice packets.
Moreover, she added five spices according to the weight of three pounds of meat. Each family can fry three pounds of pork every day, and the maximum amount produced by that time is estimated to be two pounds of meat floss.
There are more than 130 households, and at most 250 kilograms.
She signed contracts with ten grocery stores in the provincial capital, and the supply volume in the county town is 30 kilograms per day. Adding the supply to various towns and surrounding counties, the total volume is about 100 kilograms.
If you calculate it this way, it should still be sellable.
Gu Xinxin finally breathed a sigh of relief after figuring it out. As long as there wasn't an oversupply, business would be fine. Her biggest fear was that she'd make so many and no one would buy them.
Thinking of this, she slapped her head and quickly called Gu Daniu: "Is there anyone in our town who can make clay pots? I need to order a batch of clay pots."
When delivering meat floss to the provincial capital, it must be sealed and opened as each jar is sold, so as to maximize the shelf life of the meat floss. If other products go bad before they are sold, and then people eat them and get sick, it will be a bad thing for our reputation.
Gu Daniu replied, "There is one. When you were making fried dough twists, you bought the clay pot from them. One clay pot cost three copper coins. It came with a lid and yellow mud."
It’s not expensive, but not cheap either, because the clay pot itself is not big and can only hold about two or three pounds of meat floss.
Gu Xinxin handed the matter over to Gu Daniu: "You go buy it, but be careful when buying it. Choose a good clay pot. Otherwise, if our meat floss goes bad, we will lose money. The profit margin of meat floss is not high."
At most, you can earn a few dozen copper coins per pound.
Gu Daniu was impatient: "How can I not even do this? How many should I buy?"
"Two hundred for now. More won't go bad. Who knows when they'll be useful again," Gu Xinxin instructed. Gu Daniu said nothing, turned around and drove the mule cart away. Gu Xinxin shouted, "Let's go to the livestock market and see if there are any horses for sale. Horse-drawn carts are faster, after all. If there are, we can buy two."
Gu Daniu immediately turned around and said, "No one in our village knows how to drive a horse-drawn carriage."
Gu Xinxin looked at him and said, "If you learn it, I'll give you the carriage later."
Gu Daniu wanted to be reserved, but couldn't suppress the smile: "I don't want to run on the road all day."
Gu Xinxin's mouth twitched, and she held out her hand: "I'll give you twenty copper coins for your hard-earned money for making this trip."
Gu Daniu bargained: "One hundred."
Gu Xinxin turned back to the yard. Gu Daniu snorted coldly and drove the ox cart to the town first. After all, Gu Xinxin was his daughter, so he wouldn't have the time to bargain. But when it came to buying a carriage, he had to choose carefully. It was a horse carriage. Not to mention Xiaokaner Village, even in the whole of Dafeng Town, how many families had horse carriages?
He takes care of his family and Danniu, so he needs a carriage.
Gu Daniu was in a good mood, humming a little tune as he drove his mule cart. As soon as he arrived in town, someone saw him and came over to greet him: "Isn't this the master of the Gu family? Why are you here in town instead of enjoying yourself at home?"
He was someone Gu Daniu knew. His family was rich in the past, so whenever Gu Daniu got something rare while hunting, this person would buy it.
But a few years ago, this man's family fell into poverty, and he became a lazy person, wandering the streets all day long - perhaps he was also like this before, but he was rich, so he didn't look like a lazy person.
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