Honglouchun

At the intersection near Qingta Temple, there were three wooden tables and twelve wooden stools around a small stall. Aunt Chun yelled loudly while helping Zhang Luo with the skewers.

Although people in Beijing are not as receptive to new things as people in the south, the rich aroma of kebabs is really attractive.

Moreover, the price of twelve coins has just stepped on the threshold of the hearts of the common people.

In the current peaceful and prosperous times, a catty of rice costs only ten Wen, a catty of sugar costs one hundred Wen, and a string of kebabs that have never been seen before costs twelve Wen. It is a bit expensive, but not too expensive.

It's not something that is often eaten, and it's still affordable to eat meat occasionally and have a toothpaste.

So from the beginning of not being around, to the first person to eat barbecue, and then to that person calling friends, one pass two, two pass four, it only took a whole morning. The lost heart is finally let go, and the only thing left is happiness and fatigue.

Liu Laoshi never thought that one day he would also experience the joy of making money!

From noon to the end of the afternoon, it took only an hour and a half, and the mutton skewers prepared last night were sold out!

When Liu Laoshi, Tieniu, and Aunt Chun tidied up and returned home, all three of them were in a state of high excitement.

It's too profitable, it's a huge profit!

A catty of mutton is only 73 Wen, and you can skewer 25 skewers. If you have a black heart, you can skewer 35 skewers without any problem.

Even if it is counted by 25 strings, one string is worth only three pennies.

Even if the spices are a bit more expensive, they can't cost more than a penny in a bunch.

Dayan can't help doing business, and the merchants are not cheap, so the spices that were comparable to the price of gold in the previous dynasty have already entered the dining halls of common people.

It's just used more for cooking meat, and less for other times...

In this way, a bunch of kebabs can earn eight cents!

You can earn two hundred Wen for a catty, and today you sold ten catties of mutton for two thousand Wen!

Twice!

It sounds like the whole family has been exhausted for a long time, and the business is so booming that they only earn less than two taels of silver.

But even if it is a bearer in front of the official, the sum of work, food, moon and silver is only one tael of silver, or fifteen or six hundred dollars.

"Qiang'er, this is only half a day! This is only half a day!"

"By the way, today is not a temple fair. Wait a few days until the first day of August. There will be a small temple fair in Qingta Temple. There will be more people. By the fifteenth day, those people will be gone! I bet, by the fifteenth day, there will be a small temple fair." That day, let alone ten catties, even three sheep can be sold out!"

Aunt Chun's excited spittle stars flew around, almost forming a rainbow under the sunshine.

Liu Laoshi, who usually doesn't talk much, was very happy today, and nodded in agreement: "Yes, your aunt is right."

Tie Niu also grinned, nodded repeatedly with a black face.

Standing in front of the hanging flower door, Jia Qiang smiled and said: "Business is good, of course, but uncle and aunt still need to pay attention to their health, don't be in a hurry. There are only a few of us now, just sell as much as you can, it's good to work hard to make money , but you can’t make big money by working hard.”

Aunt Chun was not happy to hear these words, and said: "Qiang'er, you are used to being rich and honored, and you don't know how ordinary people live. Is this also called coolie? Your uncle and your brother-in-law were called coolies before, and before dawn, they would be in the dark Get up, walk more than ten miles to the pier, and carry it on your shoulders until dark before returning home. How much effort is required! Compared with that time, it is also called suffering? How can you make money if you don’t endure hardship? It's good to read your book, don't think I'm a bad woman and don't know, you are more tired than us doing this idea! Little people like you don't cry tired, they dare to call tired, old lady I can't beat them to death!"

Liu Laoshi laughed and said, "I'm not tired."

Tie Niu smiled more foolishly: "I still want to go in the afternoon and sell until night."

Jia Qiang waved her hand and said, "The ingredients can't match so much, it's too late. We're so busy right now, and after a while, we can make a lot of money just by selling the ingredients."

Tieniu went in without knowing, and Liu Laoshi couldn't figure it out. Liu Daniu wondered: "Qiang'er, who will eat only the ingredients?"

On the contrary, Aunt Chun, who had been selling cooking cakes on the pier for decades, vaguely reacted, and said, "Brother Qiang, you mean, you want others to sell this too?"

Jia Qiang nodded and smiled and said, "People in the world are chasing profit, and gather wherever it is profitable. Since barbecue is so profitable, they have no reason not to follow suit. However, there is no secret recipe for seasoning specially prepared. If they can't make the taste, they can't sell it." Well, of course they will come to find us."

Aunt Chun said anxiously: "They come looking for us, we are not afraid of them, why teach them?"

Jia Qiang said softly: "Auntie, with our current identities, we can't control too much wealth. Most of the time, if we don't have enough roots, too much money will only lead to disaster. This is the so-called virtue not worthy , there will be disasters. But don’t be afraid, for now, earning a thousand taels of silver is far from that.”

Aunt Chun, who had her heart in her throat, panted heavily when she heard the words, patted her chest and said, "I was scared to death... Brother Qiang, your heart is bigger than mine, I was thinking about earning two or three hundred taels of silver." That’s not bad, you’ve already spent thousands of taels of silver! This second-entry house is only a little over 300 taels of silver, right?”

This second-entry house does cost about 2000 taels, but this price is already a figure that most people in the world dare not even think about.

It seems that housing prices in the capital have been expensive since ancient times and are not like ordinary people...

After solving this "false alarm", the days will repeat day by day.

Jia Qiang reads at home every day and prepares ingredients in her spare time. Uncle Liu Laoshi's family runs a grill, and the business is booming every day near Qingta Temple.

From the first ten catties of mutton a day, in less than ten days, it became three sheep a day.

On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, at the Qingta Temple Fair, eight sheep were sold in one day!

In addition to roast lamb, roast lamb kidneys are also sold very well.

Aunt Chun even sold offal such as sheep's head, sheep's feet, and sheep's intestines. In just ten days, the family who were originally in dire straits had accumulated a huge sum of 50 taels of silver!

Although Liu honestly insisted that the money belonged to Jia Qiang, Jia Qiang thought that they were all in the same family, so why bother about it, so basically ignored the matter, and it was only reasonable to expand the business first.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, after Liu Laoshi, Aunt Chun and Tieniu returned from a tiring day, Aunt Chun made a request to Jia Qiang...

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Chapter 23 Jia Yun

"hiring?"

Jia Qiang didn't expect Aunt Chun to have such a career-mindedness. He thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "It's natural to recruit people, but right now is not the time."

Aunt Chun was puzzled and said, "Now is not the time? Why?"

Jia Qiang just smiled and repeated: "It's not the time yet." But she didn't explain the reason.

Naturally, he couldn't say that with his uncle's management ability, he really couldn't take care of several branches, and there would inevitably be disputes.

You can't make a lot of money and cause a lot of trouble, so it's better not to open for a while.

He invited Jia Yun to join the gang earlier, not out of a moment of charity...

Aunt Chun anxiously said: "Then is the time, the business is so good right now, if you don't strike while the iron is hot, be careful that you won't even be able to eat hot shit in the future!"

Hearing such simple words, Jia Qiang silently put down her chopsticks, paused, and said softly: "I mainly don't want to make my uncle and aunt too tired. The good days will be long in the future. There are many opportunities for you to sit and collect cash. If you were tired early and ruined your body, wouldn’t it be a small loss? It’s good that you have enough money right now. Don’t worry, we will be able to recruit people soon.”

Aunt Chun saw Jia Qiang's handsome face full of seriousness, and her pair of calm and steady red phoenix eyes. For some reason, she lost all her energy in cursing people in the usual days. A little discouraged, he said in a bad mood: "Okay, left and right are your business, you are not in a hurry, and we are not in a hurry, we are in a hurry."

Da Niu Liu reproached: "Mother, what are you talking about? Qiang'er is filial, he knows that you are tired, and today he specially asked me to go to the Li's cloth shop to pull a few feet of good cloth for each of the family, and make two bodies for each person. Nice clothes."