When the mule cart stopped in front of the door, Li Yan didn't bother to go home first. She just said, "Master, please put the mule cart away first. I'll go down the mountain!" After that, she hurried down the mountain.
After Li Yan rushed to the foot of the mountain, she directly asked the Zhao father and son to kill forty chickens. By the way, she also instructed a few people to chop up the cleaned chicken feet and chicken heads. As for the chicken heads, she left it to them to deal with.
After giving instructions on how to deal with the chickens, Li Yan told the three women to take turns coming to her house to help her aunt in the future, and they agreed without hesitation.
After giving instructions to a few people, Li Yan returned home without stopping.
"You're back just in time. I made some dried tofu. Take a look. It's what you wanted!"
The method of making dried tofu is actually not complicated. You just need to cut the prepared tofu into blocks, then put it in a pot and steam it for half a quarter of an hour. After steaming, place the tofu almost flat on the table, stack it up layer by layer, then cover it with gauze, and finally cover it with a heavy object. It will be done in about two hours!
Li Yan picked up a piece of dried tofu, shook it, and saw that it was very tough. This kind of dried tofu is the best, not easy to be cooked, and it is very chewy after being braised. It is perfect for drinking!
"It's done like this. Thank you for your hard work today, auntie!"
"As long as it's useful, we're all family, why should we be polite?" Li Xiaomei said indifferently.
Besides, my niece is a disguised way of helping me make money. What's so hard about making money?
Now that the tofu was ready, Li Yan asked her aunt to help boil the eggs while she started to make the soy sauce. However, the pot was obviously much bigger than the stove, so Li Yan had no choice but to call Grandpa Li and use the leftover adobe bricks from the last time she built the tofu workshop to temporarily build two stoves.
It was inevitable that I would be a little hesitant when opening a store for the first time. The main reason was my lack of experience. I had no idea how much goods the store could consume in a day, and I didn't have any fresh-keeping or freezing measures, so I was just crossing the river by feeling the stones.
While Grandpa Li was busy building a temporary stove, Li Yan also worked non-stop, boiling food in the pot in the kitchen.
When the three villagers learned that the Li family had arrived home, they couldn't wait to come to the Li family. Before they stepped into the yard, they smelled a rich fragrance.
The three of them stood in front of the Li family's door and looked around for a moment. They saw Old Man Li squatting in the yard busying himself. One of them asked, "Uncle Li, what are you busy with?"
Hearing the voice, Mr. Li looked up and saw Li Awang and his two younger brothers. He smiled and said, "They are setting up two temporary stoves!"
The three of them walked forward enthusiastically, picked up the adobe bricks on the ground and wanted to help: "Uncle, I am most skilled in this job, I will help you!"
Mr. Li was suddenly pushed aside by the others. Looking at the three people's enthusiastic expressions, Mr. Li said helplessly: "Awang, if you have something to say, just say it. Why do this?"
Asked by Mr. Li, the man named Awang didn't hesitate to tell us the purpose of his visit. "Uncle, could you sell us all your soy sauce? We want to take some to other towns to sell!"
Soy sauce is so cheap now, and the nearby towns may not have heard the news yet. If I carry some to other towns to sell, it will definitely be a good money-making business.
When the villager named Awang came back, he told his brothers about his idea. The three brothers hit it off immediately. After the Li family returned home, they couldn't wait to ask if they could sell the soy sauce to them.
Li Yan had been keeping an eye on the three people when they entered the courtyard. When she heard this, she walked up to them and said with a smile, "Uncles, if you want to sell me some soy sauce, that's fine. I'll sell it to you at fourteen cents per pound, but the container for the soy sauce won't be included."
Li Awang didn't expect the Li family to be so easy to talk to. He happily agreed and said, "Of course. Uncle also knows that this equipment also costs money. I can't let you pay for it!"
Li Yan nodded and continued, "It's just that this shop has just opened, and there are many things we can't do. Uncles, can you give us a couple of days? During these two days, uncles can go to Yaokou Village and order containers. We have to find something to store the soy sauce, right?"
Li Awang was a bit clever, and said with a smile, "It's not a problem if it's a day or two late. Although the small bottle is good, we don't plan to use it to store it."
They had already thought about it and realized that there was no need for that small bottle, which not only increased the cost but was also inconvenient to carry.
All they need to do is find a clay pot as big as a wine jar, and use bamboo joints to make something similar to a wine ladle to measure soy sauce!
He told the Li family about his idea, and Li Yan nodded after hearing it. There were also some farmers at that time who had quick minds.
At first glance, this is indeed a good idea, but he only considered the issue from the perspective of his own sales convenience, and seemed to have never thought about the needs of the other party's customers.
What if the other party wants the soy sauce but has nothing to hold it in, or wants to buy it as a gift?
So what should they do?
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