Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

The people who came to Li Yu this time were businessmen from other towns in Jiangyang County. They wanted to buy a large amount of braised meat and snacks from her. Of course, if Li Yu was willing to sell her house, they would be more willing to buy it.

After all, Li Yu's craftsmanship was recognized by Princess Jianing. As long as they bought the things back or asked the family to make them, they would have no trouble selling them.

"We will only sell in our respective towns and will never set foot in Huangmei Town. This will not affect your business, Mr. Li." The businessman from Huangye Town assured Li Yu.

Li Yu was silent and pondered.

In the past few days, Princess Jianing took her around everywhere, and her name spread throughout Jiangyang County. She had expected this scene to happen today. But she was busy and had not yet decided how to deal with this matter.

"Boss Li, do you have any concerns?" The businessman from Huangzhu Town asked anxiously when he saw that Li Yu was slow to respond.

Seeing that everyone was a little anxious, Li Yu stopped thinking and said directly: "I haven't made a plan yet. Can you all go back today? Come back at this time tomorrow, and I will give you a clear answer."

Two of them hoped that Li Yu would respond right away, but seeing that no one else objected, they had to swallow their words.

They all heard what Princess Jianing said before she left, and no one dared to offend Li Yu.

*

After seeing them off, Li Yu returned to the main room to rest for a while, then called Han Xiaomei out.

Han Xiaomei heard what those people said just now, and took the initiative to ask: "Second sister-in-law, should we sell the braised meat and snacks to them?"

Li Yu did not answer, but asked her: "What do you think?"

Han Xiaomei looked at her and said seriously, "I think it can be sold."

Li Yu nodded: "Have you ever thought about how to sell it? Should we sell them prepared snacks and braised meat, or sell the house directly?"

Han Xiaomei thought for a moment and said, "The recipes for braised pork, jelly and glutinous rice and date cakes cannot be sold, but the recipe for rice cakes can be sold."

Li Yu sat up straight and looked at her with a smile: "Why?"

"The braised meat recipe is valuable. It's not appropriate to sell it at a low price. If it's sold at a high price, even if someone buys it, there's a high chance that they will frame my second sister-in-law. It's better not to sell it. As for the jelly recipe, jelly has a low cost and is easy to make. You can keep it and let the aunts and sisters-in-law earn more money.

Rice cakes are easy to make, and there are several families in town who are learning how to make them, so we might as well just sell them. The recipe for glutinous rice and jujube cakes can actually be sold, but now, in addition to jelly, there are only two other snacks: rice cakes and glutinous rice and jujube cakes. If we sell all the recipes, my aunts and sisters-in-law will inevitably be anxious.

Li Yu was very satisfied with her answer. "It's not easy for you to think of so many things."

Her idea was similar to hers. Now she had to go and talk to Aunt Wu and the others. She could decide on the braised meat herself, but she still had to discuss the dim sum recipe with them.

*

I don't know who spread the news, but Aunt Wu and her friends have already received the news that someone wants to buy snacks and snack recipes.

As soon as Li Yu sat down in the courtyard, several people put down their work and asked her what she was planning.

Knowing that everyone subconsciously regarded her as the backbone when encountering problems, Li Yu did not say anything else and said directly: "My opinion is to sell the rice cake recipe, and keep the recipes for glutinous rice and date cake and jelly."

After that, no one said anything for a long time.

Finally, the village head's wife spoke first, "Xiu Wen's wife, we have been selling more jelly and glutinous rice and date cakes recently, and not much rice cakes. But if we really make it, we can make a lot of money from rice cakes every day. If we just sell the recipe like this..."

She didn't finish the rest of the sentence, but Li Yu understood what she meant.

Taking a deep breath, she said, "When people outside learned how to make rice cakes from us in the beginning, the taste was far different from ours, and since we kept coming up with new ways to make rice cakes, they were no match for us. But after so long, those who still insist on selling rice cakes have also learned many new ways from us, and some have even made rice cakes that taste pretty good. Although our taste is still better than theirs, when the difference between the two is not that big, our advantage is weakened."

After saying that, Li Yu asked everyone to wait, then stood up and walked outside, calling back Pei Mingzhu who was wandering outside the yard.

Pei Mingzhu was a smart person. When Li Yu came just now, she saw several people gathering and immediately hid away.

"Mingzhu." Li Yu called her, "Tell everyone about the recent situation of rice cakes."

Pei Mingzhu hummed, went into the house, took out the account book, quickly flipped to the most recent part and read: "On June 24, rice cakes were made for 120 yuan and sold for 100 yuan. The cost was 86 wen, and the sale was 200 wen, making a profit of 114 wen. On June 25, rice cakes were made for 110 yuan and sold for 95 yuan. The cost was 80 wen, and the sale was 170 wen, making a profit of 90 wen..."

Pei Mingzhu kept reading until yesterday. Yesterday, the rice cake was reduced to 80 yuan, with a profit of only more than 70 wen.

"The net profit of rice cakes has decreased. One reason is that we make less rice cakes, so the net profit is less. But why do we keep reducing the quantity?"

After a while, Han's mother said, "Because the sales are not as fast as before, although we can sell out every day, there are always people who say that our rice cakes are expensive."

"Some people are learning how to make glutinous rice date cake, but none of them are as delicious as we make, so our date cakes have always sold out quickly and well. If we didn't also have to sell jelly, we would sell even more date cakes," Zhou Qinghe added.

"Sister Qinghe is right." Pei Mingzhu flipped through the account book, "The daily net profit of glutinous rice and date cakes is at least 30% more than that of date cakes."

"Then I'll listen to you and sell the rice cake recipe." Liu Guilan said.

"That's fine, let's sell it." Li Xiangyun asked the village head's wife, "Sister-in-law, what do you think?"

The village head's wife changed her mind when Li Yu asked Pei Mingzhu to read the numbers. She waved her hand and said, "Sell it. We will concentrate on making date cakes and jelly."

Aunt Wu was the only one left, and everyone turned to look at her.

Aunt Wu was amused by everyone and said, "I have the same idea as everyone else, let's sell it."

*

So far, the first problem has been solved. Now comes the second problem.

Li Yu took a sip of tea to slow down, then continued, "People from other towns want to buy a lot of glutinous rice and date cakes and jelly from us. I think we can sell them."

After the trial of jelly, everyone is willing to buy it. Although the price of selling in bulk is cheaper than selling in retail, the net profit is still considerable if more products are sold.

"But we don't have enough people. We can't do much with just a few of us." The village chief's wife said, "Xiu Wen, should we hire a few people to help?"

Li Yu: "Yes. We need to hire someone."

Li Xiangyun was a little worried, "If we let others in, wouldn't our recipe be leaked?"

Li Yu shook her head: "No, when the time comes, I will only let the hired people make snacks and not let them do the preliminary work."

Aunt Wu: "That's a good idea, but who should we hire?"

Apart from anything else, four or five people have recently approached her, saying they wanted to work with her and asked her to help find opportunities.

Now there is a chance, but it is impossible for her to have all five, so who should she choose?