Reborn Ugly Girl Farming to Support the Family

Cao Jun couldn't help laughing when looking at the smart little girl opposite him. This really wouldn't let him suffer any loss at all.

He didn't really care about this, so he said cheerfully, "Okay, let's do as you say. But you have to give me more of these vermicelli, so I can keep them for myself."

Of course there was no problem with this, so Zheng Xiaoman agreed readily.

Mr. Fang resigned himself to his fate and wrote two contracts for the two people, one for the hot pot base recipe and the other for sweet potatoes.

Zheng Xiaoman first gave Cao Jun 3,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes as the first batch. Once he found a sales channel, she would increase the supply later.

Cao Jun put away his copy of the contract and said, "I will arrange for the steward to come and pack the sweet potatoes tomorrow. Do you have any other questions?"

Zheng Xiaoman shook his head. "There's no problem for now. If there's anything later, I'll go find Manager Cao."

Cao Jun nodded, "Okay, I'll go first. Little girl, if you have anything delicious in the future, you must think of me first."

Zheng Xiaoman smiled and said, "Of course. If there is anything delicious in the future, I will immediately send someone to send it to Uncle Cao."

"Hahaha, okay, then I'll wait."

Zheng Xiaoman and his family sent the two of them to the door and watched them walk away before returning.

Zheng Dashan said happily: "I didn't expect that our sweet potatoes would find a market so quickly. I was still thinking about what to do with them."

Most of the sweet potatoes harvested this year will be saved as seeds for next year. He had originally planned that if he couldn't sell any, his family would buy more land to plant them.

Zhou Chunfeng said: "I don't know what the price of these sweet potatoes will be. Do you think they will be more expensive than flour?"

Zheng Xiaoman smiled and said, "Sweet potatoes are a new food, so they must be more expensive than flour."

What she didn't say was that she felt Cao Jun would definitely not sell this first batch of sweet potatoes to ordinary people.

While sweet potatoes are scarce, why doesn't he hurry up and take advantage of the rich?

Rich people don’t lack money, what they lack is new and interesting things.

She had a feeling that the price of the sweet potatoes would give them a surprise in the end.

Zheng Xiaoman suddenly thought of a few dishes made with sweet potatoes. With these recipes, the price of sweet potatoes should be able to increase further.

When she returned to her room at night, she immediately took out a pen and paper and wrote down the prescription.

The most famous dish here is probably the candied sweet potato. When she was a chef in a restaurant, many people ordered this dish every day.

She herself also likes to eat this dish. Well, I must make one for my family tomorrow.

The second is sweet potato sesame balls. Mash the sweet potatoes into a paste and then add glutinous rice flour to mix into dough.

You can also add red bean paste filling inside, and then roll the dough in a layer of sesame seeds.

In the past, the orphanage would make this dish every Chinese New Year, and it was one of the few sweets they could eat.

She also wrote about how to make roasted sweet potatoes and a sweet potato steamed cake.

Zheng Xiaoman picked up the written paper and blew it dry. These few recipes should be enough.

Early the next morning, the family went to the cellar to move the sweet potatoes out and weigh them. When Manager Cao came over with the cart, three thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes had already been placed in the yard.

Manager Cao asked the workers who came with him to weigh the goods and load them onto the truck after checking that there were no problems.

After all the sweet potatoes were packed, Manager Cao gave Zheng Xiaoman a loading slip.

There is the date and the weight of the sweet potatoes taken away this time.

Zheng Xiaoman took a quick look and found nothing wrong, so he put the note away.

"Manager Cao, I have a few more recipes here. I'd like to trouble you to bring them to Uncle Cao."

Manager Cao was stunned for a moment because he didn't hear his master ask for a menu.

But he didn't refuse, and accepted the recipes with a smile, "Don't worry, young lady, I will definitely hand these recipes over to our master."

When they returned to the town, Manager Cao handed the recipe to Cao Jun.

Cao Jun was also a little surprised. When he took it and looked at it, he found that these recipes were all related to sweet potatoes.

He immediately understood Zheng Xiaoman's intention and laughed out loud while holding the recipe.

This little girl is really a good candidate for business.

It’s a pity that it’s a girl, otherwise he would definitely keep her by his side and teach her well.

Zheng Xiaoman, who was standing nearby, had no idea what Cao Jun was thinking. At this moment, the family was considering how much more land to buy.

There is no more contiguous land in the village, so if they want to buy more, they can only buy land near other villages.

Zheng Dashan pondered for a while and said, "In fact, we can still open up more than ten acres of land near our home. Why don't we buy this piece of land first?

In this way, we bought more than 30 acres of land near the village.

Then if we buy another 200 acres of mountain land, that should be enough."

The investment her family made this time was not small; just buying the land cost more than five hundred taels of silver.

Zhou Chunfeng felt a little painful when she thought about spending so much money to buy land.

Zheng Xiaoman smiled and held her hand, "Mom, don't feel bad about the money. It's not like you're wasting it. It's all been exchanged for land.

And believe me, once our sweet potatoes are sold, we will be able to earn back the money we spent on buying the land."

Zhou Chunfeng hesitated and said, "But if we plant sweet potatoes again next year, won't we tell everyone about them? Then why did we buy so much land this year?

Now we have 20 mu of land in the village and 40 mu of mountain land, which is enough, right?"

Zheng Xiaoman shook her head. "Mom, you can't think like that. We are going to tell everyone about the sweet potatoes next year, but we are also going to give everyone some seeds.

And I never planned to make money directly from sweet potatoes. The sweet potato leaves were just something no one had seen in the first year, so they seemed quite rare.

People spend money to buy sweet potatoes just to try them for their freshness.

But sweet potatoes are too common and there is nothing special about them.

After people have tasted it once, they will definitely not buy it at a high price again the next year.

So what I mainly sell now is vermicelli made from sweet potatoes.”

Zhou Chunfeng suddenly realized, "Is it the vermicelli we ate yesterday?"

Zheng Xiaoman nodded, "Yes, this vermicelli can be stewed, stir-fried, or eaten cold.

Not only that, it can also be processed into many foods.

As long as we master the method of making vermicelli, selling vermicelli will be much more suitable than selling sweet potatoes.

We will plant more sweet potatoes next year and then sell the sweet potato seeds to everyone to plant. We will then collect the sweet potatoes they grow and make them into vermicelli to sell.

But in order to prevent them from raising prices and blackmailing us, we must plant more ourselves.”

When Zhou Chunfeng heard her daughter say this, she understood.

"Then our family really needs to buy more land. Growing sweet potatoes ourselves is definitely cheaper than buying them from others."

Zheng Xiaoman smiled and nodded, "Yes, that's right. These initial investments are necessary.

Besides, even if we don’t grow sweet potatoes anymore, we won’t lose out if we rent out the land to others to grow.”

Zhou Chunfeng smiled and nodded, "That's true, don't the wealthy landlords rent their land to tenants to grow crops?

Oh, if you think about it this way, aren't we almost the same as those landlords?"