Joe's Farming

"A meat dish is 10 cents per portion, and a vegetarian dish is 5 cents per portion. If you want it hot, it can be heated for you." Qiao Yu cut each piece of vegetable a little thicker this time, and the price was generally a little more expensive than before. After all, the time cost is higher, and the purchasing power of people here is also higher.

When Zhang Wu heard this, he didn't know how much a serving was, so he just ordered one portion first and asked for it to be heated up. He was eating noodles in the next room and asked him to bring it over.

The marinade hadn't boiled yet, so Qiao Yu took advantage of this opportunity to fold the four edges of the marinade to make it easier to serve. When the soup was hot, Qiao Yu quickly heated it up and served it to the customer.

The customer saw that the portion was not too much but not too little, so he paid the bill without hesitation. He specifically ordered a plain noodle today, and wanted to eat it with the braised dish. A plain noodle was only 3 cents, and he could eat well and be full for 18 cents, so he was very satisfied.

After the first customer, there was a second one. The smell of the pot spread with the hot marinade and spread far away. You can also try it for free. However, most of the buyers are sailors and cargo merchants, and then locals who come to the dock to buy. The porters who have the most at the dock buy the least.

Workers could earn 20 to 40 wen a day for moving goods, depending on how much they moved. Most of them were from nearby villages. To save money, most of them brought their own dry food. If they were really hungry, they would buy a few steamed buns or two bowls of plain noodles, or a bowl of wontons with meat filling. However, there were still a few who spent 10 wen to buy a portion of braised meat at Qiao Yu's place. Most of them thought it tasted good and wanted to take it back for their families to try. One of them wanted to eat it in his own steamed bun.

His co-workers saw this and also thought about bringing steamed buns tomorrow and buying some meat to eat.

After Zhang Wu finished his noodles, he saw that Qiao Yu's stewed dishes were half sold out, and the kid next to him was collecting money and making change with a serious face. He had no idea that the more nervous Qiao Xing was, the less he showed it on his face. Anyway, he was full and had nothing to do, so he studied the soap on Qiao Yu's stall.

"Boss, what is this?"

Qiao Yu gathered all the dishes the customer had ordered and handed them to the customer, while saying loudly, "This is the soap I made myself. It's a craft passed down from my ancestors. It can be used to wash hands, clothes, baths, and hair. It's better than bath beans, and it's not as expensive as bath beans."

The people around me were interested when they heard this. When working at the dock, clothes are most likely to get dirty. The more particular people use soap nuts to wash, while the less particular people just use plant ash. The more you wash the clothes, the darker the color becomes. No matter how much you wash, the clothes will still be dirty. Pig pancreas smells bad, and the washing effect is just so-so. Bath beans are only affordable by the rich, and they are only good for bathing. It is a waste to wash clothes.

Of course, not only the dock workers are interested, but also the husbands and wives who come to shop, as most of the clothes in the house are washed by them.

Seeing that everyone was gathering around him, Qiao Yu was not afraid. He asked the owner of the noodle shop next door for his rag. The owner was also a clean person and kept wiping the stove with a rag. Although it was not greasy, it still looked dirty after wiping the ash and soy sauce. He asked the owner for a small basin of water.

Qiao Xing was the best at washing things. He immediately soaked the rag in water, then used the most common soap to create rich foam, rubbed it vigorously for a few times, and then rinsed it with water. Everyone saw that the rag that was just dirty had become clean.

Everyone was in an uproar, asking how much the soap was for. The people who were buying stewed food were pushed aside, and Qiao Yu hurriedly told them to stop pushing, and he would sell the food first. Then he asked Qiao Xing to go over and quote the price, as he had already taught him on the way here.

Qiao Xing tried to raise the corners of his mouth. This was also what Qiao Yu asked him to do. He had to smile when doing business. He quoted the price loudly: "The soap I just used is 5 cents a piece. These patterned ones are 10 cents a piece."

When everyone heard that pig pancreas cost 2 cents, they thought this one was more expensive, but it could clean more cleanly, so they thought it was acceptable. They all paid for it, and Qiao Yu asked them to line up first: "Everyone, please line up, thank you, there is still a lot of soap, don't worry."

Then he let Qiao Xing be responsible for selling soaps, while he continued to be responsible for selling braised dishes. After all, the soaps were already packaged, so he just had to collect the money directly from the customers.

Ordinary soaps were almost sold out, but the fancy ones with patterns were in less demand, mostly women and young men. There were also some like Zhang Wu, who could tell at a glance that they were good stuff, so he bought a piece of ordinary soap for his daily use. He bought two of each of the patterned ones, and brought them back home as gifts for the New Year.

In the end, all the braised dishes and ordinary soap were sold out, and only about half of the patterned soap was left.

Qiao Yu saw that it was almost time and Qiao Xing was probably hungry, so he started to pack up the stall.

Seeing that there were still so many soaps left to sell, Qiao Xing hurriedly asked, "Mom, are you not going to sell them anymore?"

"Come back tomorrow to sell it. I'll take you to dinner first. What do you want to eat?"

Qiao Xing looked at the wonton stand not far away and said, "I want to eat wontons."

Qiao Yu also likes to eat noodles: "Okay, go and order first. I'll ask the owner of the noodle shop if I can put the table in his shop."

"Okay." Qiao Xing took the order and went to the wonton stall to order wontons.

The noodle shop owner also bought a piece of soap from Qiao Yu's stall today. Qiao Yu went over and asked him if he could keep the table, and he immediately agreed. Qiao Yu gave him a pink round soap, which made the boss like this guy even more. He asked Qiao Yu to put the stove in his shop, so that he could save a seat for him tomorrow.

After Qiao Yu thanked him, she went to find Qiao Xing. Qiao Xing ordered two large bowls. Qiao Yu ate a lot for breakfast, so she picked some for Qiao Xing. Qiao Xing was afraid that Qiao Yu would think she was wasting money: "Mom, I won't order so much next time."

Qiao Yu smiled and said, "Be good, you are growing, eat more. I ate too much this morning." Then, Qiao Yu took out twenty copper coins, put them on the table, and pushed them to Qiao Xing: "This is what you earned today, take it."

Qiao Xing opened his eyes wide in surprise: "Mom, don't give me money, I don't want money, Mom has already given me a lot of things."

Qiao Yu pretended to be angry and said, "This is what you deserve. I paid your brother Wen for working for me. You didn't do as much work as he did, so I only gave you this much. You can't work for others for free in the future, understand?" Qiao Yu paused, "Of course, except for your future wife."

Only then did Qiao Xing accept the money and put it in his arms carefully.

After eating wontons, I went to a nearby restaurant to pick up the lightning and carriage that were stored there. Then I returned to Qingyuan Town.

First, he went to the grocery store to check the sales of soap. The 1 pieces of ordinary soap that he put out last time were all sold. Qiao Yu also put all the remaining patterned soaps in the store. The price was the same, but the share given to the boss was increased to wen per piece. Then he told the boss that he would not accept orders for braised meat in the future. He mainly went to Taoyuan Town to sell now. To apologize, he gave each old customer who could not order a piece of ordinary soap and brought it over tomorrow.

After leaving the grocery store, I went to the carpenter's shop to pick up the mold I had ordered last time and paid the balance.

Finally, go home.