Great Tang Idyll - Chapter 1221

[Chapter 866]

“Wu Guan, little brother, you want to pay five pipes by yourself. We are twenty-four people, and we have written one hundred and twenty books together. It’s better to talk about what to do first.”

Liu Pan heard that he needed to pay five pipes. I was stunned for a moment, the five kans are 5,000 yuan, and the people who saved two kans from the previous year were considered pretty good. Now everyone has dozens of kans in their hands, but the five kans are by no means a small amount.

Zhang Xiaobao nodded and said, “Yes, I actually want to make jelly with you.”

“Little brother, I just make jelly, and I don’t need the money you said.” Gui’er began to wonder if the other party was a liar. How much does it take to make jelly for 20 yuan?

“Sister-in-law Gui’er, how much are you selling for two cents?” Zhang Xiaobao asked.

“Cost? I use broad beans and mung beans to make jelly, usually half a catty of mung beans and one and a half catties of broad beans. The jelly is four catties. I have to filter out a lot of dregs. I sell two lumps a day, and a lump of 30 pounds. A piece of jelly is about scraping. It takes about three or two to scrape out…”

“200 servings, the ingredients are 7.5 catties of mung beans and 22.5 catties of broad beans. A normal pound of broad beans is about two and a half cents, which means that the money for beans is about ninety-four cents, and you can only earn three hundred and six cents a day from the money of beans.”

Zhang Xiaobao saw that the other party was slow, and opened his mouth to say it.

Gui’er nodded again and again: “But I didn’t earn that much.”

“Of course, because you also have to serve sesame sauce, garlic juice, and soup made with sweet and sour sauce and aniseed, especially the price of sesame sauce and sugar are not low. A few days later, the cucumbers will come down. I don’t know if you can put them in. If you put them in, you will have to pay more. But the price won’t go up.

If the price is too high, you can’t sell 200 servings. Other people’s costs are used to attract customers. Apart from this money, you don’t spend the water, but Brother Liu and the others will pay for you, and you don’t spend the firewood

. Happening.

Liu Pan had been frightened by Zhang Xiaobao’s analysis before, but he still looked very frightened and asked, “How do you know that firewood doesn’t cost money?”

“Because a lot of goods at the terminal are packed with wooden boards, some goods must always be covered with boards. Some of them are directly disassembled on the spot, and the contents inside are taken out, and the boards are useless. You help others to remove the boards for free. I will leave it to you, of course.

At that time, some of you will take it home for home use, and most of it will be given to Sister-in-law Gui’er to make jelly. Others sell jelly without soup, and Sister-in-law Gui’er deliberately adds soup to quench your thirst. Drink raw water clean.

Oh, this cost is wrong. Because Sister-in-law Guier always scrapes a few more times when she sells you, it’s not a three or two, but Sister-in-law Guier doesn’t need to worry about selling things at the dock. , and at the same time do not pay any fees.”

Zhang Xiaobao told the whole story as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

“You… little brother, are you engaged in intelligence?” Liu Pan asked with wide eyes.

Wang Juan chuckled: “No, we have to care about this seemingly small thing, for ordinary people. Every needle and thread is precious. We need to know the approximate total income and average income, and at the same time, we must Understand how ordinary people live, every small family together to form a big family, which is not the same as money. It cannot be expressed only with numbers.

Urgent people’s urgency and people’s thoughts are not just words . If you are playing, how do you keep the people safe without knowing the price of oil and salt? The two of us seem to be from a

wealthy

family, but we care more about trivial matters than you.”

Why do two people from rich families know a lot of things that have nothing to do with wealth.

Listening to the girl’s tone of voice, there is a kind of high-level meaning, like talking to an official, the difference is

that it is more realistic than the official’s words, as if the life of himself and others has nothing to do with him.

“Brother, since you know, let us make jelly? Gui’er can’t sell it alone, we can’t help her sell it.” Liu Pan reiterated the jelly.

Zhang Xiaobao nodded: “Of course, Sister-in-law Gui’er, you can directly say how much profit you make in a day, that is, if you eliminate all other money, you will make a net profit.”

Gui’er snapped her fingers, lowered her head and said, “Probably, there are about one hundred and twenty letters, mainly sugar, vinegar, and sesame paste are expensive, but there is not much salt, if you eat too much salt, the aniseed can be used many times. , I cook it in a gauze bag.

They sweat when they work, and they have to drink other water if I don’t put the soup. Since it’s all put, let’s sell it. Anyway, the number of people who eat it will also increase.”

Zhang Xiaobao barked twice Xiazui: “The sesame sauce is expensive because the production of sesame seeds is low, what did Sinong Temple think? Thinking that it is enough to increase the grain production

?

Sister-in-law Gui’er, the cost is too high. Brother Liu, they have to help you carry the water, transport the soup for you, and split the wood for you. As long as they put it in for two quarters of an hour every day, it will be ten 1.5 hours, or they are allocated to help.

That is to say, basically you pay the full work of two people every day, and this is because the imperial court helped you take part in raising the children, because your identity gave you Exempting any tax, it is equivalent to earning 60 cents

per person. The normal income is indeed quite a lot, but you have the convenience of going to and from the wharf, so you want to make this money? There are many other snacks in the wharf. , what a great location, what a great opportunity, if you let me do it myself, within half a year, I will integrate the business of the entire terminal, and if I don’t make 600 yuan a day, I feel that I will lose.”

“I will lose if I make it.” Wang Juan interjected, let Xiaobao waste so much time, only earning 600 yuan a day, how much talent is wasted?

More than 20 people from Liu Pan were stunned again. Who are you? They are so crazy. They still want to integrate the business of the dock. Do you know how deep the water is in the dock?

Six hundred a day, maybe it’s okay to dream, and it will startle yourself when you wake up.

Liar, definitely a liar.

Liu Pan’s eyes changed when he looked at Zhang Xiaobao, as if he wanted to catch the other party at any time. When he saw through it later, if the other party ran away.

It must be caught, and it will hurt myself and others much less wages.

Zhang Xiaobao swept it casually, saw the other party’s mind, took out two hundred bills from his arms, and slapped Liu Pan’s hand: “I will give out two hundred and cooperate with you. When you make enough money, pay me back this amount. ”

Uh~ you don’t want interest?” Liu Pan didn’t believe it.

“No, let’s see if the money is real or not.” Zhang Xiaobao waved his hand.

“Aren’t you going to be a shareholder?” Liu Pan watched the money hard, really.

And the money is still very new, gently rubbing, snapping.

Zhang Xiaobao shook his head: “I don’t want to enter.”

“Then what are you trying to do?” Now Liu Pan doesn’t think of Zhang Xiaobao as a liar, but a fool.

“I really don’t lack this money. Let me help you. I have a good heart, okay? I do good deeds and accumulate virtue, okay? I’ll leave a good reputation, okay?” Zhang Xiaobao asked continuously.

“Okay. Okay, okay.” Liu Panben kept shaking his head up and down as he asked: “Then. Let’s start making jelly now?”

“Prepare the ingredients first, plus your one hundred and twenty kang, a total of three hundred and twenty kang, and go buy a lot. Buy broad beans, mung beans, just a little, borrow a taste, do you have highland barley?” Zhang Xiaobao asked the barley.

“Yes, now the animals are fed, and they are only eaten in places far to the northwest. There are other things that don’t grow well and are very cheap. Can you buy them?” Liu Pan asked in confusion.

“Buy and grind another one. The small grinder is too slow. There is a bean cake seller, so go buy it. At this time of the season, there are yam pear eggs on the mountain. Buy it and replace it with a large pot. Build a large stove, and the rest do the carpentry work and make Trolleys, wooden ones will do, soak the beans first when you buy them, and we’ll come back at noon two days later, when you’re almost ready, don’t set out to sell them yet.”

Zhang Xiaobao finished his instructions and planned to leave.

Liu Pan stopped him: “Little brother, where do you live? If you don’t come, how will we find you?”

“You don’t need to find me, I promise to come, unless there is a special accident, then I will let someone come. Let me tell you, don’t worry, I’ll take 200 passes, and I haven’t even bothered you to ask for receipts, it’s me who won’t pay, you can sell things no matter what.”

Zhang Xiaobao naturally couldn’t leave them addresses and identities. will be exposed.

After he finished speaking, he walked out the door with Wang Juan, the sky was already dark, and only the crescent moon of the third day of the third year was hanging in the air, which could not be illuminated at all.

Liu Pan and a group of people sent Zhang Xiaobao and the two out with various thoughts, and followed them to the avenue outside. When they saw the yamen patrolling the street, Fang turned and went back.

Zhang Xiaobao took out a small flashlight, turned it on with a snap, pointed at the ground in front, and said proudly, “Thanks to my preparation.” As

soon as he finished speaking, a flashlight covered the ground in front of him, and people came out from various places. The guards were beside him and Wang Juan.

Turning off his flashlight, Zhang Xiaobao laughed twice at Wang Juan: “Thanks to the fact that I prepared a group of guards, when the flashlight signal

was sent, the road became brighter.” “Just now, did you use the flashlight to signal?” Wang Juan asked with a smile .

“Absolutely.” Zhang Xiaobao nodded solemnly, and under Wang Juan’s gaze, he finally couldn’t help laughing: “Okay, I actually want to experience the tranquility of the next night with you alone, okay? , I don’t actually want to experience any tranquility, I’m going to the guards to prepare more than me, to save face, others will watch.”

“Who watched?” Wang Juan asked.

The road suddenly became dark, and there was not even a sound of breathing around.

“We will do weight-bearing training tomorrow.” Zhang Xiaobao’s angry voice sounded in the night sky.

******

Liu Pan’s group sent a few back to each home to report, saying that they would go back later, torches were lit in the yard, and the rest of the people sat around the two hundred coins.

“I’m still in a dream. You said that you are a good person, and you have to give us money to buy things, and you don’t want any benefits. What does he think?”

Without waiting for others to speak, he said: “Could it be that someone from another country broke into the dock in Yizhou and wanted to buy it through us. Now let’s lower our guard and lead us to rebel in the end?”

“Brother Liu, don’t think about it blindly.” Gui’er said aloud: “How can there be a little? Xiaobao, Juanjuan, and Xiaobei are all in Yizhou, so they will keep him alive? Didn’t you see a lot of outsiders at the pier? , I guess they are all the intelligence officers sent by them. It was the most at noon today, and I always felt that they were surrounding us.

I don’t think that person is bad. Maybe he has money at home and is looking for something to do when he is idle, especially that girl. I know that he is a kind person, maybe he is afraid to see others kill a chicken, how can he be so delicate?”

Liu Pan was still unable to convince himself.

He patted his legs gently with his hands: “That kid said that he would sell me a set of the best cosmetics in Datang for a few hundred dollars. What is the internal price? The original price is more than 700 yuan. Do you believe it?”

“You buy cosmetics .

What are you doing?” Gui’er grasped the point and asked.

“I…I…” Liu Pan was at a loss for words.

“Sister Gui’er, do you still need to ask? Of course, I bought it for you. Brother Liu is alone. What kind of makeup is the best one? Wait for the time to use it. I have to ask Brother Zhang Xiaobao. Next time, let him Get me a set, too, buy a few hundred pieces for a few hundred dollars, it’s cheap, and give it back to my mother-in-law.”

Someone in the crowd spoke loudly, and there was a lot of joking in their words.

“Go, go, make a fool of yourself, Gui’er, don’t listen to his nonsense, I…I just look at you…”

“Big Brother Liu. Just buy it, just buy it if you don’t get cheated.” Gui’er blushed.

He lowered his head, fortunately, the light of the torches made anyone’s face red.

The scene was embarrassed, and Liu Pan couldn’t speak.

“Mother, mother, we’re back.” At this moment, a girl’s voice came from outside. As soon as the courtyard door opened, a girl and a little boy ran in holding hands.

“It’s so lively.” The little girl cried happily when she saw a group of usual uncles and uncles.

The little boy also showed excitement, as many people as possible.

“Is it late today?” Liu Pan finally found a chance to speak.

“Today, Xiaobei and the others came, and they ate a lot of canned food at night. Then Xiaobei and the others sang a song, and it didn’t take long. She sent someone to take us outside, and gave three canned food to one person. , fish in the sea, a lamb chop, and a braised pork.” The

little girl said happily.

Take the cans out of the schoolbags of two people, three for each person, six in total, and display them in a row.

“It’s not easy for Xiaobei and the others to make some money. You don’t care if they want it. She said it. Their family will never give this money. Their money is of great use.” Gui’er said something about her child.

The little girl pouted: “I don’t want it, someone said it was delicious, she gave it, and said that it is the most correct to spend the money on us, and they don’t have to spend it at home.”

“Yes, the girl is right. Liu Pan hurriedly protected him, pulled the little girl to his side, wrapped one arm around him, and said, “Just take what you give, remember to study hard, and repay them in the future.”

“Father, how to repay.” The little boy ran over and leaned on Asked on the other side of Liu Pan.

Everyone directly ignored the little boy’s name for Liu Pan, and they talked about it one by one, some said that he had learned to be an official, some said that he would go to the Ministry of Industry, and some that he would be a teacher in other schools. Lively again.

Liu Pan concluded: “Anyway, the two of you should study hard. What you need to do in the future, you should follow suit. Don’t think that Xiaobei and the others are stupid and give you things for nothing. They are good to you, and you have to repay your kindness, otherwise there will be no fools to give you anything. Others…he said his name is Zhang Xiaobao?”

Liu Pan, who was educating children, figured out a lot of things in an instant, and the whole person was stunned.

“Brother Liu, what Zhang Xiaobao?” Gui’er asked.

“Just, the two people who came to the house, the man’s name is… Zhang Xiaobao.” Liu Pan swallowed hard and replied softly.

“Isn’t it called Zhang Xiaoyu?”

“Yes, no, I asked him at the beginning, he said that the surname was Zhang Xiaobao, I didn’t believe it, so I changed it to Zhang Xiaoyu. When I was eating jelly, Gui’er, you just said that there were suddenly more piers at noon. There are a lot of people, it seems that they are surrounding us? He took out 200 yuan at will and left it behind. He said that he had cosmetics with an internal price, and he said that he could make us rich.”

Liu Pan began to summarize everything.

“Brother, you mean…” asked one of Liu Pan’s brothers, and he couldn’t go on after only half of the question.

The other continued: “Sister-in-law Gui’er said that the girl’s eyes are kind.”

Liu Pan nodded: “No wonder his hands are so strong, it is said that he is very good at hitting, yes, kind, yes, cuckoo sees us of course kind. , I felt wrong when I heard them talk before. It seems that no matter what, it is all-powerful, and it is the livelihood of the people and the people.

Oh my God, what a big pie fell and hit us on the head, hurry up, go back to rest immediately, tomorrow morning Get up and do what he said, buy whatever you want, Gui Er, we have met a great thing.”

“It was you who met him, Brother Liu is the lucky one, did Xiaobao ask? What else do you do?” Gui’er’s eyes lit up, and she felt that the air in the night was so comfortable to breathe.

Liu Pan hugged the two children hard: “Don’t ask, Xiaobao guessed it directly. Saying that I squatted there to eat, one is to give up my seat, which shows that we have a good relationship, and the other is to see you from the side, you at that time The most beautiful, he said that I like you, and he said it right. It’s amazing.”

“It’s amazing, so is my eldest brother.” Someone started shouting again, but others followed suit.

“Go. A bunch of stinky men, I won’t tell you, come girl, let’s go back to the house, ignore them, and read a good book at night, but don’t be too tired.”

Gui’er stood up, pulled her daughter and walked into the house.

With only one child left, Liu Pan stared at him: “Go back. I have to get up early tomorrow. I will clean up whoever dares to be lazy

.” The man ran two steps to the gate of the courtyard and turned back to shout.

“Go back, I’ll follow you back to your house.” Liu Pan got up and chased after him, and a group of people laughed and walked out.

“Let’s go, I’ll take you into the house, I’ll come over tomorrow morning.” Liu Pan said to the boy in his arms.

“Father, everyone else has a father. You stay here. Send me and my sister to school tomorrow, and I will have one too.” The little boy was indeed more sensible because he was born in this era.

Liu Pan hesitated for a moment, shook his head, and said, “Wait for a few days, wait until you make more money with Xiaobao, and then send you to the school.”

******

Two days passed quickly.

While Liu Pan and others were waiting, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan came by appointment in the afternoon.

Both of them brought something.

Zhang Xiaobao carried two grinding discs in one hand. The grinding discs were not big, and one weighed about 30 pounds. Most people were tired of carrying them.

No problem for him.

Wang Juan is holding several gears and V-belts, as well as the shaft of the grinding wheel.

“It’s all here, let’s get you something, in fact, you can do it yourself. I’m afraid of wasting time, so I’ll let the inner courtyard of my house do it. There are still a few parts, wooden ones. You have to fight and build a After assembly, two fine grinders can be stepped on and turned manually.”

Zhang Xiaobao said with a smile when they met.

Wang Juan followed with a smile and said: “Come on two men, the gears in my hands are heavy, and my eyes are so kind, you are so embarrassed to make me suffer? Be careful that you suddenly become unkind.”

Liu Pan and others are the first The reaction was to look around. Sure enough, they found a person waving on a tree more than 30 meters away from the courtyard, and there was a mirror-like reflection on the eaves of someone else’s house more than 50 meters away. Guess what it is.

Immediately, someone ran up to Wang Juan and Zhang Xiaobao, stretched out their hands cautiously, and took the things.

“Compared to your children, you are far behind. They will never be afraid of Xiaobei.” Wang Juan added with a smile.

Liu Pan slapped his thigh vigorously: “Yes, what are you afraid of, don’t do bad things, don’t be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, Xiao Baojuanjuan wants to see it in her dreams, whoever feels ashamed in her heart is afraid, Xiaobao brothers, I didn’t expect it was you that day, I figured it out later, everything is ready, and the ones that should be soaked are also soaked, waiting for you to bring us to make a fortune.”

“Okay, let’s make a fortune first, and then get married, why do we have to do it well, isn’t it big brother Liu? .” Zhang Xiaobao clapped the ash on his hands and said.

“Yes.” Liu Pan said firmly.

Then everyone started to get busy, especially the new wood accessories, which were all ready in an hour, waiting for Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan to assemble.

The two quickly installed two small mills with gears, and then began to let everyone grind the soaked broad beans, mung beans and highland barley.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are responsible for grinding the sesame they brought. The small mill rotates quickly, and the sesame is ground into a fine powder, that is, the mixture of sesame paste and sesame oil. After waiting for a while, the top layer is sesame oil, and the bottom layer is precipitated. It’s sesame sauce.

The steamed bean cakes are also ground into powder and mixed with sesame oil and sesame oil in a certain proportion.

“Xiaobao, are you cheating?” Liu Pan couldn’t help asking.

“What’s wrong? Soybean flour is also delicious, and with sesame oil in it, it is more nutritious than normal sesame sauce. I am trying to reduce the cost while improving nutrition and taste. How much does it cost to put all sesame sauce? If you don’t believe me, try it. , the taste is better, and there is no poisonous thing.”

Zhang Xiaobao explained.

“What about highland barley?” Liu Pan asked again, highland barley is cheap, very cheap.

“The highland barley also has starch in it, and it doesn’t taste good because the taste is too slippery. UU reading www.sonicmtl.com But the jelly is already slippery, I want to use rice, it’s too expensive, who stipulates that the jelly can only be mung bean and Broad beans? I will make different kinds of jelly in the future, and use whatever is cheap locally as the raw material.”

Zhang Xiaobao has to explain, otherwise it will easily make people suspect that he is cutting corners, information is asymmetric, and of course less money will be made. The principle of jelly is starch molding. , A little bit of alum is added if it is not easy to form.

Liu Pan smiled like a lesson, looked around, and asked again: “Is the jelly we make delicious and cheap in the future?”

“Absolutely, can I lie to you? As for Yamanashi, it is cooked so that it doesn’t need to be cooked. Put sugar and vinegar, sour and sweet, why spend so much money.” Zhang Xiaobao didn’t see the sorbet egg, so he was afraid they wouldn’t buy it.

“It was piled up in the backyard. Who knew that it could be used as a substitute for vinegar and sugar. I thought it was for other purposes.” Liu Pan waved his hand, and two people immediately ran to the back to carry the pear basket.

satisfied

_ Dare to say that you can earn at least 600 kuai every day in the business of integrating the terminal. Even if you don’t reveal your identity, we believe that you can. You are Zhang Xiaobao

. Pan said very seriously, he is not flattering, the opposite is not someone else, he is a legendary figure, is 600 Guan a money to others?

“Okay, then I have to show my skills. When I used to make it, there was a lot of dregs, and it was a waste to throw it away. Today I will tell you how to reduce the dregs.” Zhang Xiaobao accepted the flattery calmly and began to ‘deep’ processing of the raw materials. .

[End of this Chapter]