A time-travelling peasant girl becomes a wealthy woman

After He Hui Niang and the third son Huang Xilin finished their work, they sat in the yard waiting for someone to come back.

Huang Xilin was still a little nervous. He stared at the end of the path outside the gate and didn't even pay attention to the dust on the pages of the book he had opened.

"came back!"

After a while, Huang Xilin saw several figures in the distance.

He Hui Niang, who was embroidering a handkerchief, raised her head and seemed to see the little girl being held in her arms. The family looked relaxed and at ease.

I feel relieved.

After cleaning the buckets and basins, everyone went into the house to settle accounts.

Pork belly costs 15 wen per pound (because it can be used to refine oil and eat the meat, it is a few wen more expensive than pure lean meat). I bought 10 pounds and spent 150 wen.

Brown rice costs five cents a pound. I cooked twenty-five pounds and it cost one hundred and twenty-five cents.

Lean pork costs twelve cents a pound. I bought three pounds and spent thirty-six cents.

Potatoes, carrots and rapeseed were all bought from villagers at a cheap price, roughly thirty cents in total.

The ginger, garlic, pepper, bay leaves, etc. used were worth forty cents.

The round trip ride cost eleven cents. On the return trip, because the buckets and basins were all empty, Mo Laowu's ox cart did not charge any extra money.

I had meat buns for lunch which cost me twelve cents, and the stall rent was five cents.

Total expenditure was 409 wen, income was 530 wen, and surplus was 121 wen.

Huang Haolin calculated rapidly, and when the final number came out, everyone except Huang Mulin couldn't contain their excitement.

One hundred and twenty-one coins! That’s a day’s earnings!

This is the money that He Hui Niang can earn by working hard for a month every day to embroider handkerchiefs!

At this moment, everyone felt that there was hope in their future.

Soon everyone in Xiushan Village knew that Huang Bo’s business was booming because Huang Bo started the second round of vegetable purchases.

Tang San came over before the guys got off work. This time he didn't order brown rice, but brought a clay pot and cooked white rice in his rest room.

Today's meat dish is twice-cooked pork, the mixed dish is salted fish, eggplant, celery and shredded pork, and the vegetable dish is cabbage.

Because Tang San didn't order brown rice, Huang Haolin gave Tang San half a spoonful of twice-cooked pork.

Tang San nodded secretly. This kid was a man who knew how to deal with things and was good at speaking. His opinion of the Huang family was getting better and better.

Soon, the dock workers got off work and rushed to Huang Mulin’s stall, fearing that they would have nothing to eat if they were too slow.

The guys who had boxed lunches yesterday all had greasy mouths and round bellies, and they were really full.

They go to work after noon, and have endless energy after eating. They don't even feel hungry after work in the evening. Usually, they would be exhausted by this time.

Brown rice is indeed filling and can keep you full!

These ten cents are worth it!

The other stall owners saw that the guys walking in the front bypassed their stalls and went straight to the back. Although they felt a little resentful, they also knew that the portions over there were not large and the people coming later would also come to their side to buy food.

There is not much interest involved, and everything is peaceful.

After three days of busy sales, Huang Mulin thought about solving the problem of bowls and chopsticks, including buying a stove and finding a place to store them when the weather gets cold.

When they arrived in town that day, Huang Mulin and his family went directly to Yang Lijun's embroidery shop. After filling a bowl with food, she started talking shamelessly.

"Aunt, can I rent a little space from you to put the dishes and stove?"

"Sure." Yang Lijun replied nonchalantly, "There's an empty side room in the backyard, and there's also a well, so we can use it for cleaning and storage."

Huang Mulin happily hugged Yang Lijun's thighs, waved for her to squat down, and gave her two kisses on both sides. Yang Lijun was so happy that she also gave her two kisses in return.

She doesn't have children. Although she once longed to have one, she has experienced a lot and has become indifferent to many things. She just really likes Huang Mulin.

Huang Bo also hurriedly thanked him and said that he would give three copper coins a day as rental fee.

Yang Lijun waved her hand: "Don't be so polite, as long as you can bring me a meal occasionally."

She looked at Huang Jinlin and said approvingly, "Even the famous chefs in the city may not be able to cook better than your kid."

It is not easy to make simple home-cooked dishes so delicious.

The main thing is that the child is only seven years old!

The future is limitless!

Huang Jinlin blushed when he was praised and thanked him happily.

Huang Mulin, however, agreed with what Yang Lijun said.

After solving the problem of storing the items, they headed to the dock.

Business was as brisk as ever, and all fifty meals were sold out in a short while. After packing up, they took the buckets and basins and temporarily stored them in the backyard of the embroidery shop, and then went to East Street.

I picked out fifty-two sets of bowls and chopsticks so that I could have replacements in case any of them were broken.

I ordered the simplest style, one bowl for one cent, and ten pairs of chopsticks for three cents. The store treated the extra two pairs of chopsticks as free gifts, so I spent sixty-seven cents.

I also bought two long benches for twelve cents. I bought the benches so that I could put the wooden bucket and basin on them, so that I didn't have to bend down every time to scoop food, and I could sit for a while when I was really tired.

After bringing the dishes and chopsticks back to the embroidery shop, Huang Bo asked his sons to go to the backyard to wash them and put them away, and then bring out the buckets and basins. As a man outsider, it was not appropriate for him to go to the backyard of a woman living alone, so he let his sons do these chores.

Yang Lijun was amazed at Huang Bo's politeness and the good upbringing of this family.

Although they are just ordinary farmers, their family not only has the honesty and diligence of farmers, but also does better than many children from wealthy families in other aspects.

This is also the reason why she is willing to provide convenience.

On the day when the lunch box business had been running for a full month, Huang Haolin did some calculations. After deducting the money spent on buying bowls, chopsticks, and benches, as well as the cost of occasionally sending some meals to Yang Lijun, his total income was 3,428 wen.

More than three taels of silver. Most ordinary farmers cannot earn three taels of silver in a year.

Huang Mulin and others were extremely happy. The business of boxed lunches alone was enough to support her four brothers' studies, not to mention that she now had other ideas for making money.

On this day, a new customer came to the stall, Song Jiaguang, the manager of the Song family.

Song Jiaguang is not an easy person to get along with.

He is a bit cruel, cautious and afraid of death, and looks down on people of lower status.

Fortunately, he still had some self-awareness and did not do anything particularly out of line, otherwise the Tang family would not tolerate him, and the Song family would not confront the Tang family for a servant. Song Jiaguang could see this clearly.

"Give me a box lunch."

Song Jiaguang was arranged to help out in a farm in the county this month. The five foremen at the dock each managed their own people, and he only rushed back last night.

When he came to work in the morning, he heard that a new stall had been set up here, and the lunch boxes they made were very delicious. If he came too late, he wouldn't be able to buy them, so he came over before the guys got off work.

"Okay."

"Ten cents."

"What? This meal costs money?" Song Jiaguang's face changed.