The old man got the answer he wanted and quickly agreed with a smile. He then stopped buying things and hurried home, afraid that Xu Han and the others wouldn't accept the package if he was too slow.
Xu Han watched the old man run away and smiled, but then the pressure came: could she eat all those sweet potatoes?
Who cares! Let's just take it first. It won't cost much anyway. Even if we can't sell it, it's fine. It's just a matter of spending some money and manpower. It's not a big loss.
We can just keep it all for ourselves; with our family's consumption capacity, we won't be able to drink this much sweet potato wine for many years.
Well, it will take ten or twenty years, after all, you can't eat sweet potato wine as a meal.
After a while, Han Qi arrived with the others.
Xu Han glared at him when she saw him, and Lu Chuan then looked at him as well. However, now wasn't the time to settle scores; there were too many people, so they should focus on harvesting the sweet potatoes first!
Han Qi felt a chill run down his spine under the couple's gaze, so he touched his nose and quickly joined the fray. The entire morning passed with extreme caution, constantly fearing that he hadn't done a good job and would be caught by the couple.
Upon seeing the people arrive, Xu Han quickly began assigning them tasks, while Ju Xiang took over the job of settling accounts. Xu Han was responsible for overall management and personnel allocation.
The sweet potatoes have already been harvested, and we can't delay any longer. Besides, we don't need that many people to harvest sweet potatoes, so Xu Han directly arranged for the remaining people to wash and cook the sweet potatoes.
We need to start making sweet potato wine as soon as possible, otherwise it won't be ready for the big sales during the Chinese New Year.
Fortunately, this shop was originally intended to be a restaurant, and since the shop was large, the backyard space was naturally quite spacious.
Of course, the restaurant's kitchen was also incredibly large, which is why Xu Han chose to use it as a temporary sweet potato wine workshop.
The servants washed the sweet potatoes in the yard and then took them to the kitchen to steam them. The tools for steaming the sweet potatoes were brought from the mountains, but they were not enough.
When Lu Chuan first arrived, he ordered some new ones, which are almost ready now. If they are not enough, he will ask Han Qi to go and see how many are ready so that they can be brought back for use in the meantime.
There were eight stoves in the large kitchen, of various sizes. The group started by steaming the large ones. Zhang Yi then led the others to set up a few more large stoves nearby. They used the two large iron pots from their home, and the newly purchased large iron pots would be ready in the afternoon.
The firewood was also brought from the mountains by Han Qi and his group. The Taoist priest knew that making sweet potato wine required a lot of firewood, so he specially asked them to bring it to save them the trouble of buying it.
Don't underestimate the amount of firewood needed. Making so much sweet potato wine requires a lot of money if you were to buy the firewood for the whole process.
In those days, a bundle of firewood cost two coins, and just keeping several large stoves burning and cooking all day would cost more than a hundred coins.
The main reason is that the firewood we bought didn't burn as well as the firewood we chopped ourselves. Since there was plenty of firewood in the mountains and it didn't cost any money, we naturally chose to bring it directly from home.
This way, she could save a lot of money, so Xu Han certainly wouldn't be foolish enough to buy firewood.
So everyone pitched in, and they were so busy they didn't even have time for lunch.
Xu Han looked at the endless stream of people delivering sweet potatoes and the yard piled high with them, and she was immediately overwhelmed with worry.
I didn't expect them all to arrive at the same time. In just one morning, the once empty shop was piled high with sweet potatoes.
Everyone couldn't just keep working like this. The lunch that was delivered was about to get cold, so Xu Han quickly called out to everyone, "Stop working for now. You guys take turns eating. The food gets cold quickly in this cold weather, so you should eat it while it's hot. Leave a few people to harvest the sweet potatoes, and the rest of you should stop and eat first."
After Xu Han finished speaking, the others quickly divided up the tasks and then took turns eating.
After a morning of hard work, everyone had a bountiful harvest; the steamed sweet potatoes were plentiful in the restaurant.
Xu Han looked at Granny Li who had come to deliver the food and said, "When you go back, call everyone in the house to come and help. Don't worry about cleaning the house for now; focus on the work here first."
This afternoon, you and the people in the house should quickly clean upstairs. If you don't make room, there won't be any place to put the cooked sweet potatoes.
Granny Li responded and, without waiting for everyone to finish their meal, immediately turned around and went back to her house.
She's not blind. The lady and master have already started working. If she stays here, won't she just be asking for a scolding?
We'd better hurry back and call for help; we can't delay the master's affairs.
Lu Chuan and Han Qi ate lunch first, and after lunch they went to get the tools they needed to steam sweet potatoes.
Xu Han hadn't finished her lunch when the person delivering the wine jars arrived.
These wine jars were specially ordered by Lu Chuan from a ceramic jar-making shop when he came down the mountain. He also specifically told Lu Chuan to work overtime to make them so that the family would have a limited supply.
With such a large order coming in all at once, Manager Liu naturally dared not neglect it. He worked day and night to produce the goods, and as soon as a batch was finished, he delivered it over.
When Xu Han saw the person who came to deliver the wine jars, she was a little surprised. "Manager Liu, it's been a long time! You guys are really fast. I thought it would take at least two more days to deliver them!"
Manager Liu had met Xu Han before and knew she was a capable person, so he smiled and took over the conversation, "Hello, Madam Lu. I thought you needed it urgently, so I found some people to help with the work, which made it faster."
Some were delivered today; the rest will take two more days.
Xu Han looked at the quantity delivered and waved her hand, "There's no rush to make the rest. What we received today is enough for us to use for a few days."
However, you should also start preparing to make the small wine jars; we'll need them in about a month.
Upon hearing this, Manager Liu brought over a sample of the wine jar that had been fired in advance. "This is a wine jar made according to the drawings you provided. Do you think it's acceptable? If it is, we will fire it according to this in the future."
Xu Han took the wine jar and examined it carefully. The shape and pattern were made according to the drawings she had given her.
In addition, we had previously collaborated on ceramic jars, and this wine jar looks just as good in terms of both workmanship and quality.
Seeing this, she smiled and nodded in satisfaction. "I trust you to handle things. Just do it this way from now on."
However, even though we're ordering more custom-made items now, you still need to be able to guarantee the quality.
Otherwise, if the quality can't be maintained at the same level as before, I'll have to consider replacing the person.
Upon hearing this, Manager Liu understood what Xu Han meant and quickly assured her that there would be absolutely no quality problems.
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