Chapter 46 The Joy of Counting Money
Seeing that it was already noon, the number of people in the market was reduced by half. One brother and sister, Pomegranate and Li Rongzong, carried an empty basket and the other an empty wooden frame, walking briskly. Go in the direction of Jikou.
Passing by the bun shop in Jikou, Pomegranate turned on her toes and walked towards him, "Uncle! Please give me twenty meat buns!"
The boss of the bun stall heard that it was a big business. He was also smiling from ear to ear, and he took out the parchment paper, opened the steamer, wrapped twenty meat buns in two batches, and handed them to the pomegranate.
A big meat bun costs two cents, and twenty big meat buns are equivalent to forty cents. Li Rongzong couldn’t help baring his teeth and whispered to Pomegranate that it was too expensive. Forty cents can buy two kilograms of meat. Went back.
Pomegranate just smiled: "We have all worked hard today, and my stomach is growling with hunger, so I'll treat myself as a reward!"
As he said this, he gave two to Li Rongzong, and he also took them. Each one bit off half of it in one bite.
The brother and sister went home while eating delicious big meat buns.
As soon as we left the market, we met Chen Qicai squatting on the roadside.
When he saw the brother and sister coming, he stood up and walked closer, "Brother Brown! Girl Pomegranate!"
Shiliu still remembered that day when she grabbed kudzu and pushed her second brother to the ground. When she saw Chen Qicai smiling, she didn't want to talk to him and just turned her face to one side.
Li Rongzong, on the other hand, saw that he was from the same village and couldn't help but ignore him, so he responded.
Chen Qicai didn't care whether the pomegranate answered or not, as long as someone answered, he caught up with his footsteps and walked forward with the brothers and sisters, saying: "The orange fructose you sell at the market is made from Is it made from kudzu powder? Let me tell you, no one buys this kudzu root powder at the store. Your family sells kudzu root. You can’t sell it to make powder, so it turns out that there is another business.”
He has been paying attention to the pomegranate family’s making of kudzu powder, so naturally he knew about it, so he also followed suit and asked his sister to dig up kudzu root and send it to him! I made the powder, and I thought it would be collected by Chase Warehouse, but unfortunately the person who sent it to me didn’t want it at all.
He couldn't help but wonder that the pomegranate family couldn't make kudzu powder for fun, right? He kept staring at their home.
No, today I saw four members of their family leaving the village early in the morning, heading towards Huangkou Town and towards Dafengji.
He followed the Pomegranate brothers and sisters all the way and saw them selling fructose with his own eyes! Good guy, a pack of candy sells for thirty cents! There are really many people buying it!
Pomegranate family is about to make a fortune!
Kudzu powder, oranges, and he thought he might be able to make this candy, so he waited at Jikou specifically to test the taste of the brother and sister and see if there was nothing else added besides these two.
Chen Qicai was watching from the sidelines, and Pomegranate had noticed it a long time ago. She was mentally prepared for it. Since their family wanted to sell this candy, how could they not be seen and known by the villagers?
And since their family has been making so much kudzu powder lately, you don’t have to think twice to know that the sugar must be related to kudzu powder.
To be honest, she is not afraid of others following her example.
If you want to learn, just learn, don’t do any sabotage and trickery, everyone makes money based on their skills, no problem!
When Li Rongzong heard Chen Qicai mention two raw materials at once, he felt anxious and looked at the pomegranate.
Pomegranate listened to Chen Qicai’s test, and she smiled and said: "How much kudzu powder did Uncle Cripple make? No one is buying it at the market, so you can sell it to my family! We are all from the same village, and the price is high My family won’t trick you.”
Chen Qicai naturally never thought that the pomegranate brothers and sisters could be so stupid as to tell him how to make orange fructose, but when he heard that Pomegranate wanted to buy his kudzu powder, he also snorted, "You sell fructose for thirty cents, how much do you plan to pay for kudzu root?" "Powder?"
The price of pomegranate is really calculated, it is really not a lie, "Selling kudzu root for a penny." Two kilograms, one hundred kilograms is fifty cents, and one hundred kilograms of kudzu root can make almost ten kilograms of kudzu root powder. Taking into account the effort, our family can pay up to eight kilograms of kudzu root powder per kilogram. . ”
When Chen Qicai heard eight cents, he curled his lips and thought: You sell a pack of candy for thirty cents, how much is that pack? How many thumb-sized pieces of sugar can be made from a pound of kudzu powder? Even though her fellow villagers don’t cheat on others, this little girl has such a dark heart!
"Then I won't sell it to you!" He sighed, turned around and went back to the collection. There was someone selling oranges at the market. He saw it first, but there were still some who hadn't sold out yet. He stepped forward and asked the price, "What? Five cents a pound?"
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He had never bought oranges before, so he didn't know they were so expensive!
Chen Qicai turned around and left. He should go to the mountains to find wild orange trees! It costs nothing, no money!
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The Pomegranate brothers and sisters walked quickly until they reached the stone bridge at the entrance of their village, and then they breathed a sigh of relief.
You have money hidden on you. You can rest assured only when you are on familiar territory.
Sitting down on the spot, the brother and sister immediately looked in the direction to the right.
We agreed to get up early, and those who come back first will wait here.
The two of them waited for nearly half an hour. They first waited for Li Rongzhang, who was sent by the worried Song family to see the situation. The three of them met and chatted for a long time. Li Rongzhang was also thrown into the trap. After feeding a meat bun, my mouth was full of oil, and then I saw Li Jihe and his son who were walking in a hurry.
The two of them walked so fast that they thought there was a dog chasing them behind them.
It wasn’t until they saw the three pomegranates under the stone bridge that the father and son slowed down a bit and gasped for air.
When the two sides met, Li Rongyu was about to report their success to his eldest brother and Shiliu. Shiliu said hurriedly: "Let's go home first. Mom is impatient. We'll talk about it when we get home!"
"Hey! We'll talk about it when we get home!" ! ”
In the new house, an empty room with no furniture, a family of seven sat on straw mats, all seven pairs of eyes staring directly at the basket in the middle. In that basket, there seemed to be countless things. copper plate.
“Everything sold today is here!” Li Jihe said.
"How much does this cost!" Mrs. Song opened her mouth wide.
"You'll know after you count them!" Li Jihe said.
“Count!”
The family immediately started counting and tying them up ten by one.
Actually, there is no need to count them one by one. Pomegranate knows that all their candies have been sold out today, so she can figure it out with just a mental calculation.
But counting money is a happy thing, and counting money together as a family is even more happy!
After a long while, the copper plates in the basket were all strung into strings. The pomegranates started to string ten strings into big strings, and then they counted the big strings under the eyes of the family, "One string, two strings, three strings. Ten." Sixteen skewers.”
“It’s all counted! A total of six coins and seventy-seven yuan!”
Forty big bags, thirty-five small bags, all sold out! A drop of seven coins and twenty-five cents.
But Pomegranate spent 40 Wen to buy meat buns, and Pomegranate and the others had three small packs here that were divided into half packs and sold in half packs. Li Jihe and the others also had five packs sold like this. Yes, it cost eight cents less.
Listening to the number reported by Pomegranate, the whole family took a deep breath.
"Mom! How much did it cost to sell a hanging in one day?"
This is too unthinkable!
But it was indeed the case. After confirming that all this was not a dream, the whole family cheered happily, and then ate the cold meat buns. They all felt that this was the most delicious thing in the world!
(End of this chapter)