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

In order to earn some money, Aunt Wu and her five friends squeezed out time to make rice cakes every day during the spring ploughing season. Now they can make them deliciously.

Li Yu plans to make some and sell them this afternoon.

The rice was soaked last night and can be used directly now. When they arrived at the courtyard, Li Yu saw that all the materials were ready, so he said, "Today is our first day of business, I will be generous and arrange everyone's work for today. If anyone is not satisfied with the arrangement, you can raise it and we will discuss it again."

"Xiu Wen's wife, you proposed this business, so you decide it." The village chief's wife said, "Although we are older than you, we know nothing about business, so whatever you say is what we believe."

"That's right, Xiuwen wife, we will all listen to you." said Han's mother.

Seeing that no one else had any objections, Li Yu began to make arrangements: Aunt Wu and Zhou Qinghe would grind the rice milk, the village head's wife and she would knead the dough, Liu Guilan and Han's mother would make rice cakes after the dough was fermented, and Li Xiangyun would light the fire.

Although she said she would not take care of the production and sales, the new business had just started and she couldn't just sit back and do nothing.

It was mid-morning, and after Li Yu had made her arrangements, Aunt Wu and Zhou Qinghe immediately started grinding rice paste. Li Xiangyun, Liu Guilan, and Han's mother were temporarily free, so Li Yu asked them to go home and rest.

"Since we have divided the work, we should follow the division of labor and do our own work, so as to avoid rifts due to trivial matters in the future."

Several people agreed with it and did as Li Yu said.

*

The amount of rice soaked on the first day was not much, and Aunt Wu and Zhou Qinghe had ground the rice in just half an hour. Li Yu and the village head's wife took the rice slurry and immediately mixed it with flour and yeast to knead the dough for proofing.

At the end of the afternoon, the rice flour had finished rising, and Liu Guilan and Han's mother began to make rice cakes.

Liu Guilan kneaded the rice flour and pulled it into dough of similar size, while Han's mother put the rice dough into a mold to shape it.

While the two were busy, Li Xiangyun moved a small stool and sat in front of the stove to boil water.

Several people worked according to their division of labor and there was no chaos at all.

At around 4:00 p.m., the first pot of rice cakes came out. The moment the lid of the steamer was opened, the huge kitchen was filled with the aroma of rice, noodles and osmanthus.

"It smells so good." Li Xiangyun took a deep breath, "The rice and noodles taste really good."

"Everyone try it first." Li Yu took out three pieces of rice cakes, cut them into six small pieces and gave them to everyone.

After everyone had eaten, he asked, "How was it?"

"It's delicious." Liu Guilan gave a thumbs up.

"It has more sugar, so it's sweeter than what I make."

"It's really delicious, so how do we sell it?" Han's mother asked the most important question.

Li Yu had been prepared. He took out a piece of paper that he had written in advance and pointed at the words on it and said, "One catty of rice, two taels of flour, and two taels of sugar can make a little over two catties of rice cake. Rice and flour are of course expensive, but sugar is more expensive. One tael of sugar costs about four cents, plus the money for firewood, so the cost of one catty of rice cake is about seven cents.

In this case, if we want to make money, we can’t sell the rice cake by pound, but by piece.”

After saying that, Li Yu put a piece of rice cake on the scale she had brought in advance, "This piece of rice cake is a little over one tael, we will sell it directly for two cents."

Two texts?

Is it a bit too expensive?

The village head's wife grabbed the handkerchief and asked hesitantly, "Is there anyone who wants to buy it for two cents?"

Others were also a little hesitant. Three cents could buy a pound of brown rice, and two cents for a rice cake was really expensive.

"I think two cents is just right. We just started selling it anyway, so let's give it a try. If no one buys, we can adjust the price." Knowing that everyone had no confidence, Li Yu didn't say anything big. She decided to use practice to prove that her decision was correct.

A few people thought about it and nodded in agreement.

Today they made more than six kilograms of rice cakes.

Li Yu took out a brand new small bamboo basket, put a clean white cloth at the bottom, and then placed the rice cakes on it one by one.

After the show, she stood up and said, "I'm going to sell rice cakes today, Aunt Wu, come with me!"

Aunt Wu naturally agreed. They would have to sell the rice cakes themselves in the future, and she could take this opportunity to learn from Li Yu.

The other five people also wanted to go, but Li Yu stopped them. "Don't worry, I'll be helping sell rice cakes recently, so everyone can learn. Let Aunt Wu come today, and then let others come tomorrow. If you have nothing to do, clean up the kitchen and you can go home later, or you can wait here for us to come back."

The village head's wife looked at Zhou Qinghe, then at Liu Guilan, and said, "Let's clean up the kitchen first."

Li Yu nodded, put on the bamboo basket, and left with Aunt Wu.

*

Li Yu carried the rice cakes directly to the town: "Let's sell them from street to street today and see how they work."

Aunt Wu listened to her completely and nodded heavily when she heard it.

It was mid-afternoon and almost every household was occupied. There were also some women playing with their children on the roadside. After Li Yu called out four or five times, some people came to the stall to ask about the situation.

"What is rice cake and how much is it?" asked a woman holding her child.

Li Yu lifted the cloth, revealing the plump, fragrant and soft rice cake inside. "We made this with rice. It's delicious. Two cents a piece. Would you like one?"

When the woman heard the price of two cents, she frowned and said, "Two cents is too expensive. Can you give me a discount? One cent, I'll buy three pieces."

Li Yu smiled gently, "There is a lot of sugar in our rice cakes. You should know how expensive sugar is. If it costs one penny per piece, we will lose money."

When the woman heard about candy, her brows relaxed slightly. After hesitating for a while, she took out two coins and said, "Give me one, then."

Li Yu immediately took out the cut paper, wrapped a corner of the rice cake and handed it to her.

The child in the woman's arms had already been greedy. He grabbed the woman's hand and took a bite of the rice cake.

The woman didn't bother to talk to Li Yu anymore and laughed and scolded him for being greedy.

"Mom, it's delicious." The child giggled.

The wrinkles on the woman's brow disappeared completely. She wiped the child's mouth and said, "Two cents a piece, how can it not be delicious?!"

The mother and son gradually walked away. Li Yu retracted his gaze and asked the others gathered around the stall with a smile, "Do you want to have some?"

Three women with children immediately took out money and said, "Give us one piece."

"We want two."

"I bought one for ten cents. Can you give me one?"

*

When we came out of the first alley, one and a half kilograms of the six kilograms of rice cakes had been lost.

Li Yu has been doing business for a long time and didn't think this was a big deal, but Aunt Wu was very excited.

"It turns out that two cents can really sell it."

Li Yu smiled and said, "Of course they can be sold. The snacks in the snack shop are much more expensive than ours. If the people in the town can accept the prices of the snack shop, they can naturally accept our prices."

Aunt Wu nodded heavily.

*

In order to help Aunt Wu get the goods as soon as possible, Li Yu asked Aunt Wu to carry the remaining four pounds of rice cakes and sell them while she accompanied her.

Aunt Wu was reserved at first, but after selling two or three orders, she became bolder.

In less than an hour, all six kilograms of rice cakes were sold out.

Aunt Wu was so overjoyed that she couldn't stop smiling when she returned to the courtyard. "

*

The success of the first day boosted everyone’s confidence, and in the following days, everyone worked very hard.

Li Yu accompanied each of them to sell rice cakes once. After each session, she asked them if they had any questions and helped them solve any problems she could.

Seven days later, seeing that everyone could handle it, she officially handed over the business to the six people and focused on making her own braised meat and dishes.

Now she hired Lin, the daughter-in-law of the vegetable seller Wang Laotai, to help wash vegetables and meat. Although Lin's surname is also Lin, she has nothing to do with Han Jiang's wife Lin Chunniang. She has a good temper and works quickly. She is a good person. The other one is Han Xiaocao. The Han family now gives all the firewood selling work to Han Sheng. Anyway, he only works for Li Yu every afternoon, so it doesn't matter if he is busy in the morning.

Li Yu lived her life as usual. One day, she was chatting with Boss Hu, a loyal fan of braised pork, when Aunt Wu suddenly rushed into the store in a panic.