Chapter 61 Chapter 61 "Mom, you said...
"Mom, what do you think about us making more mooncakes and having Uncle Zeng sell them in the nearby town?" Su Li asked casually. In fact, she had already thought about this matter in her mind, including how to divide the profits and how to sell them, where to sell them, etc. She went over it in her mind one by one before asking.
"What?" Chen thought she had misheard, stopped washing her hands and looked at Su Li.
Su Li then spoke out the idea that she had been thinking about for a long time, including the various advantages and disadvantages of this matter. The advantage is of course that the more you sell, the more you earn, and you don’t have to sell it everywhere yourself, saving a lot of time and labor, so you can concentrate on making food. The disadvantage is that you earn less, and you have to sell at a low price but high volume.
Putting aside other things, the first thing that came to Chen's mind was, "Can he do it?"
"Whether you are willing or not, you can only know after asking Uncle Zeng." Before doing something, Su Li never thought about whether it would work. Whether it would work or not is like Schrödinger's cat. You will only know after you try it.
However, Su Li felt that as long as Uncle Zeng wanted to make money, he would agree. After all, the mooncakes had been sold for so many days, and Uncle Zeng knew best whether they could be sold or not.
"Forget it." Chen wasn't one for taking risks. She felt that with a few hundred coins a day and enough money to eat meat every two or three days, life was already pretty good. There was no need to dwell on the extraneous matters. If they made money, that would be great. But what if they couldn't sell the meat and lost money? They'd end up blaming you, which was a completely thankless task.
Su Li naturally knew what her mother Chen was worried about, but Su Li thought differently from her, even completely the opposite.
Especially since Uncle Zeng has a mule cart, it is convenient for him to travel back and forth between the town and the county. Uncle Zeng also has two sons who are learning a craft in the county, and they can help sell the goods at ordinary times, so there is no problem at all.
But her mother Chen disagreed, and Su Li didn't mention it for the time being. After a while, when Zeng Lao Er came to pick up Chen and the others to go to the dock to sell food, Su Li came over and told them about it. Chen was moving things nearby and heard it. She glared at Su Li, but she could do nothing.
There is nothing I can do. My daughter is growing up and her ideas are becoming more and more outrageous.
"My niece, are you telling the truth?!"
Zeng Lao Er exclaimed happily. He had never thought that such a good thing would happen to him. In the past two days, he had been thinking about what to do after the Su family bought a mule and no longer needed his family to help carry meals. Wouldn't that mean they would lose a lot of money? He didn't expect to hear such good news today.
As for making a loss, Zeng Lao Er didn't think it was possible at all. Not to mention that the mooncakes made by the Su family tasted better than those in the shop, he had to seize this opportunity for the sake of the future relationship between the two families.
After all, people may remember you the first time, the second time, but they may not remember you the third time.
Zeng Laoer had a very accurate understanding of himself. Unlike his elder brother, he was not willing to endure hardships. He learned a skill easily when he was young and could make a living by his skill. He was lazy since he was a child and did not like to work. He grew up big in vain, but he was very tired doing farm work. Later, he married Lu, who was the same as him. Both husband and wife did not like to work. So after the family split up, the couple hit it off and sold the land they got from the split up, bought a mule, and started a business of transporting people back and forth between the county and the town. This job was easy and could make money. Zeng Laoer was very happy with his job. From time to time, he would take Lu to the county to shop and eat. The couple was so happy and lived a comfortable life for many years. Of course, after they had two sons, they were not so comfortable, and they became more and more uncomfortable as the sons grew older.
Now they are even more worried about their two sons getting married. Sometimes they are so worried that they can't sleep all night long.
So when Su Li mentioned this, Zeng Laoer agreed without thinking.
"Of course it's true." Su Li said.
"Okay, I'll do it." Zeng Laoer grinned and agreed without even hearing the details of how to sell it.
Chen on the side quickly said:
"Well, Brother Zeng, do you want to go back and discuss this with Madam Lu?"
Discuss it with your wife?
"It's okay, no need." Zeng Laoer knew without even asking that his wife would definitely agree, and might even praise him for being smart!
Chen was speechless at the sight of this. She even suspected her daughter had drugged the man. Otherwise, how could she agree so readily? Was she not afraid of losing money at all?
However, Su Li had already considered this issue, so after Uncle Zeng agreed, she explained the interests involved.
"Uncle Zeng, let's be honest. Mooncakes are food and can't be kept for long. If they can't be sold, they won't be returned."
Mentioning this, Zeng Lao Er also became serious, "As you should."
Zeng Lao Er then paused for a moment and thought, "I'll just take 20 yuan today."
20 yuan, according to the price given by Su Li, the sweet ones are one cent each and the salty ones are 3 cents for two. The cost is not high. Even if they cannot be sold, they can be eaten at home. Zeng Laoer thought about giving it a try first, so he sent someone to the county today. He can then carry the basket and ask around to see if he can sell them.
Su Li naturally agreed, but Chen was the only one who looked worried. Even before she left, she tried to beat around the bush and ask Zeng Lao Er to go home and ask Lu for her opinion.
However, Zeng Lao Er didn't listen at all. His mind was full of how to explain to others what kind of mooncake it was and what flavor it was.
After all the Su family's belongings were loaded onto the bare car, Chen no longer had time to talk about these things. She took her eldest daughter and set off to the dock to sell food.
Only Su Tao was left at home to help Su Li make mooncakes and play with Lian Gu. Of course, no one knew who was playing.
Just as Su Li turned around, Su Tao somehow offended Lian Gu, and the little girl came running to her crying to complain.
"Wuwuwuwuwu Fourth Aunt is so bad!!!"
"What's wrong?" Su Li picked up Lian Gu, whose face was covered with tears, and wiped her tears.
However, no matter how Su Li asked, Lian Gu did not say anything, but just kept saying,
"Wow, Fourth Aunt is bad!"
Su Li had no choice but to carry the little girl to find her fourth sister Su Tao to see how she bullied them.
Just then, she ran into Su Tao in the yard, holding a white gauze net. Su Tao was relieved to see Lian Gu here, but after seeing the little girl crying, she was also a little confused and asked Su Li, "Why is she crying?"
What do you call this? The thief crying "stop thief"?
Su Li looked at her fourth sister and said quietly, "Aunt Lian came over and said you were bad."
Su Tao:? ?
How did she break down? She even cut up the mosquito net to make a butterfly net to take the little girl to catch butterflies. How did she break down?
Seeing her fourth sister Su Tao like this, Su Li was also a little curious about why Lian Gu said that.
Lian Gu sobbed for a long time before pointing at Su Tao and saying,
"Fourth Auntie catches butterflies, and the butterflies hurt."
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Butterfly pains?
Su Tao said her heart ached. She had made this butterfly net to catch this butterfly, and her mother had even pulled her ears and scolded her. Her little niece had actually called her a bad girl!
So angry!
Su Li, who was standing by, couldn't help but find it a little funny when she saw this, but then she remembered reading somewhere that children have a period called the "animist period". During this period, children will feel that all things are alive and have feelings just like themselves, and generally do not need special treatment, and it will get better slowly. Of course, some people will even be like this when they grow up, as long as it doesn't affect their lives.
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"Okay, Lian Gu, stop crying. Fourth Auntie won't catch you anymore, okay?" Su Tao was helpless, but it was impossible for her to argue with a child. Seeing that Lian Gu kept crying, she could only open the butterfly net and let the pink cabbage butterflies inside go.
Seeing that the butterfly really flew away, Lian Gu became happy. She raised her head and looked at the butterfly dancing under the blue sky, and her sight followed the butterfly higher and higher.
"The butterfly flew away!"
"Now you're happy, right?"
"Um!"
"Is Fourth Aunt still bad?"
"Not bad, good evening, Fourth Aunt!"
The two of them reconciled and agreed to go together to pick flowers to make wreaths.
Su Li also watched the butterfly gradually fly away, and the breeze brushed her cheek. Su Li didn't know why, but suddenly she thought of her father and her elder and second brothers who had passed away. She didn't know where the three of them were now, and whether everything was going well for them.
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At this time, outside Yongchuan County, a hundred miles away, the Su family, father and son, who were marching north with the main force, were setting up camp and cooking.
Although they said they were cooking, in reality, all they got was a bowl of thin soup and a pancake. The pancake was harder than the sole of a shoe and could only be swallowed with water. Fortunately, the three members of the Su family had not finished eating the pancakes they brought with them, so they were much happier these days than their companions.
Look, each of the three of them took a pot cake, put some mushroom and meat sauce in the middle, and had a bowl of porridge, and they ate it with great joy.
Speaking of it, I don’t know how this Guokui is made. Even after so long, it doesn’t taste hard at all, unlike the steamed buns above, which are really like stones. And the mushroom meat sauce is spicy and tasty, with a unique mushroom flavor. It tastes especially good when you put some of it in the Guokui.
The three of them ate and sighed as they finished a whole pot cake. Su Qingshan ate the fastest and took another one to eat after he finished it. Su Qinghe was the most frugal. He only ate half a pot cake a day and the rest of the time he filled his stomach with the big flatbreads given out, so he had the most left on him. Seeing that his second brother was still eating after he finished his meal, he silently hugged his bag and said nothing.
When the other people in the group saw the three of them like this, they couldn't help swallowing their saliva, but no one came forward to ask for anything. After all, everyone had brought food from home, but they just ate it all and didn't give any to others. How could they have the nerve to ask for anything?
Only Li Shugen and Li Shitou, father and son, felt quite indignant.
"Dad, the Su family is too stingy." Li Shitou bit the pancake in his hand, looking unhappy. In the past, his family's food was distributed to the three members of the Su family. Now that their family's food was finished, they wanted to ask for some more from the Su family, but the other party refused to give it to them. It was really heartless.
Li Shugen's face was gloomy. "Eat yours."
But he felt the same way in his heart, thinking that the Su family was too much. Didn't he apologize? Last time, it was his wife Liu who stopped him from going, not that he didn't want to go. Why couldn't they forgive him?
Even though they had saved him and his son, they had tried their best to repay him over the years. Why did they suddenly turn against him?
Sure enough, just as his wife said, they were all a bunch of mean-spirited people who flattered the powerful and looked down on the weak. They were ungrateful people. He was blind and wrongly trusted them.
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